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Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-110

§1724 Conservation Centers and Program Support

Title 16 › CHAPTER 37 — YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS AND PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › SUBCHAPTER II — PUBLIC LANDS CORPS › § 1724

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can set up and run conservation centers for use by the Public Lands Corps and for doing conservation projects. The Secretary can supply those centers with services, buildings, equipment, and supplies needed to operate. The Secretary must set and enforce basic rules for health, food, cleanliness, and safety at every center. The Secretary can hire a state or local agency or a private group to manage a center. The Secretary can arrange with the Secretary of Defense for the Armed Forces to help with logistics, such as temporary tents, transportation, and residential supervision. The Secretary can also arrange to use military and National Guard sites for training or housing after consulting state National Guard leaders. The Secretary may provide other services, technical help, oversight, monitoring, evaluations, and transportation for Corps participants who live at home to get to project sites.

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Title 16, §1724

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(a)Establishment and use
(1)In general
The Secretary may establish and use conservation centers owned and operated by the Secretary for— (A)
(B)the conduct of appropriate conservation projects under this subchapter.
(2)Assistance for conservation centers
The Secretary may provide to a conservation center established under paragraph (1) any services, facilities, equipment, and supplies that the Secretary determines to be necessary for the conservation center.
(3)Standards for conservation centers
The Secretary shall—
(A)establish basic standards of health, nutrition, sanitation, and safety for all conservation centers established under paragraph (1); and
(B)ensure that the standards established under subparagraph (A) are enforced.
(4)Management
As the Secretary determines to be appropriate, the Secretary may enter into a contract or other appropriate arrangement with a State or local government agency or private organization to provide for the management of a conservation center.
(b)Logistical support
The Secretary may make arrangements with the Secretary of Defense to have logistical support provided by the Armed Forces to the Corps and any conservation center established under this section, where feasible. Logistical support may include the provision of temporary tent shelters where needed, transportation, and residential supervision.
(c)Use of military installations
The Secretary may make arrangements with the Secretary of Defense to identify military installations and other facilities of the Department of Defense and, in consultation with the adjutant generals of the State National Guards, National Guard facilities that may be used, in whole or in part, by the Corps for training or housing Corps participants.
(d)Assistance
The Secretary may provide any services, facilities, equipment, supplies, technical assistance, oversight, monitoring, or evaluations that are appropriate to carry out this subchapter.
(e)Transportation
The Secretary may provide to Corps participants who reside in their own homes transportation to and from appropriate conservation project sites.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2019—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 116–9 added subsec. (e). 2005—Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(d)(1), inserted “and program support” after “Conservation centers” in section catchline. Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(d)(2), added subsec. (a) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (a). Text read as follows: “The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture are each authorized to provide such quarters, board, medical care, transportation, and other services, facilities, supplies, and equipment as such Secretary deems necessary in connection with the Public Lands Corps and appropriate conservation projects carried out under this subchapter and to establish and use conservation centers owned and operated by such Secretary for purposes of the Corps and such projects. The Secretaries shall establish basic standards of health, nutrition, sanitation, and safety for all conservation centers established under this section and shall assure that such standards are enforced. Where necessary or appropriate, the Secretaries may enter into contracts and other appropriate arrangements with State and local government agencies and private organizations for the management of such conservation centers.” Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(2)(A), substituted “Secretary may” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may”. Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(g)(2)(B), substituted “Secretary may” for “Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture may”. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 109–154, § 2(d)(3), added subsec. (d).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective Oct. 1, 1993, see section 123 of Pub. L. 103–82, set out as an

Effective Date

of 1993 Amendment note under section 1701 of this title.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 1724

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110