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§407n Cooperative Agreements Between Secretary of the Interior and City of Philadelphia; Contents

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LI — INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 407n

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

To carry out the law's goals, the Secretary of the Interior may make cooperative agreements with the City of Philadelphia to help preserve and explain Independence Hall National Historic Site, and with the Carpenters’ Company to help preserve and explain Carpenters’ Hall as part of Independence National Historical Park. The agreements must let the National Park Service enter public areas at reasonable times to lead tours and explain the places. They must also say that no changes to the sites or buildings can be made unless the Secretary and the other groups in the agreement both agree.

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Title 16, §407n

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In furtherance of the general purposes of this subchapter as prescribed in section 407m of this title, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the city of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of the property known as the Independence Hall National Historic Site and with the Carpenters’ Company of Philadelphia to assist in the preservation and interpretation of Carpenters’ Hall, in connection with the Independence National Historical Park. Such agreements shall contain, but shall not be limited to, provisions that the Secretary of the Interior, through the National Park Service, shall have right of access at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property now within Independence Hall National Historic Site and to Carpenters’ Hall for the purpose of conducting visitors through such buildings and grounds and interpreting them to the public, that no changes or alterations shall be made in the property within the Independence Hall National Historic Site, including its buildings and grounds, or in Carpenters’ Hall, except by mutual agreement between the Secretary of the Interior and the other parties to the contracts.

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of other officers, employees, and agencies of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, §§ 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 407n

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102