§100724 — Title 54 National Park Service and Related Programs | U.S. Code

Summary

Money recovered for damage, loss, or harm to a System unit goes to the Secretary and can be used right away without more approval from Congress. The money may only be used to pay back cleanup and damage-assessment costs for the Secretary or other federal agencies, and to restore, replace, or buy equivalent System unit resources that were harmed and to monitor and study them. The funds cannot buy land, water, or rights in land or water unless an Appropriations Act specifically approves the purchase in advance, and any limits in the law that created the System unit still apply. Any money left after those uses must be deposited in the Treasury.

Title 54, §100724

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(a)Response costs and damages recovered by the Secretary under this subchapter or amounts recovered by the Federal Government under any Federal, State, or local law or regulation or otherwise as a result of destruction, loss of, or injury to any System unit resource shall be available to the Secretary and without further Congressional action may be used only as follows:

(1)To reimburse response costs and damage assessments by the Secretary or other Federal agencies as the Secretary considers appropriate.

(2)To restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of System unit resources that were the subject of the action and to monitor and study those System unit resources. The funds may not be used to acquire any land or water, interest in land or water, or right to land or water unless the acquisition is specifically approved in advance in appropriations Acts. The acquisition shall be subject to any limitations contained in the legislation establishing the System unit.

(b)Any amounts remaining after expenditures pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) shall be deposited in the Treasury.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10072416 U.S.C. 19jj–3.Pub. L. 101–337, § 4, July 27, 1990, 104 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(d)(3), Nov. 12, 1994, 108 Stat. 4583. section 4(d) of the Act of July 27, 1990 (Public Law 101–337, 104 Stat. 380), is omitted as obsolete. See section 3003 of the Federal Reports Elimination and Sunset Act of 1995 (Public Land 104–66, 31 U.S.C. 1113 note) and page 111 of House Document No. 103–7. In subsection (a), before paragraph (1), the words “destruction, loss, or injury to” are substituted for “damage to” for consistency in the new chapter and to distinguish destruction, loss, or injury from damages recovered in a civil action. In subsection (b), the words “the General Fund of the United States” are omitted as unnecessary.

§100724 Use of recovered amounts

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Title 54, §100724

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