§3196 — Title 16 Conservation | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary can set up administrative sites and visitor facilities to help protect and manage conservation units. These sites can be inside a unit if they match the unit’s purpose and the Act’s rules, or they can be outside the unit but nearby. To do this, the Secretary can make agreements with other federal agencies to use federal land. The Secretary can also lease or get non‑federal property, offices, housing, and other needed facilities by purchase, donation, exchange, or any other method except condemnation, on terms the Secretary finds reasonable. The Secretary can build, run, and maintain permanent or temporary buildings on land he is allowed to use, but cannot start building on non‑federal land until the owner signs an agreement that guarantees the facilities will be used for the Act’s purposes.

Title 16, §3196

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(a)In conformity with the conservation and management plans prepared for each unit and the purposes of assuring the preservation, protection, and proper management of any conservation system unit, the Secretary may establish sites and visitor facilities—

(1)within the unit, if compatible with the purposes for which the unit is established, expanded, or designated by this Act, and the other provisions of this Act, or

(2)outside the boundaries of, and in the vicinity of, the unit.

(b)For the purpose of establishing administrative sites and visitor facilities under subsection (a)—

(1)the Secretary and the head of the Federal agency having primary authority over the administration of any Federal land which the Secretary determines is suitable for use in carrying out such purpose may enter into agreements permitting the Secretary to use such land for such purposes;

(2)notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary, under such terms and conditions as he determines are reasonable, may lease or acquire by purchase, donation, exchange, or any other method (except condemnation) real property (other than Federal land), office space, housing, and other necessary facilities which the Secretary determines to be suitable for carrying out such purposes; and

(3)the Secretary may construct, operate, and maintain such permanent and temporary buildings and facilities as he deems appropriate on land which is within, or in the vicinity of, any conservation system unit and with respect to which the Secretary has acquired authority under this subsection to use the property for the purpose of establishing an administrative site or visitor facility under subsection (a), except that the Secretary may not begin construction of buildings and facilities on land not owned by the United States until the owner of such land has entered into an agreement with the Secretary, the terms of which assure the continued use of such buildings and facilities in furtherance of the purposes of this Act.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1) and (b)(3), is Pub. L. 96–487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, known as the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.

§3196 Administrative Sites and Visitor Facilities