Title 16 › Chapter 1— NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › Subchapter LIX–H— KALAUPAPA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK › § 410jj–4
The Secretary must run the park under the laws passed on August 25, 1916, and August 21, 1935, and under this Act. With an owner’s permission, the Secretary may do emergency or critical repairs to utilities and historic buildings, set up temporary offices, and offer short-term visitor services on private property inside the park. The Secretary should seek long cooperative agreements with property owners to preserve, protect, maintain, build or rebuild, improve, and explain important historic, natural, architectural, and cultural places. These agreements must last at least 20 years, can be extended or changed by both sides, must give the Secretary reasonable access to public parts of the property for interpretation, and require both parties to agree before making changes. If an owner ends an agreement early, the owner must pay the United States the fair market value of any capital improvements as of the end date, or the Secretary may remove those improvements within a reasonable time. When an agreement ends normally, the improvements become the owner’s unless the United States chooses to remove them and restore the land. Except for the emergency, temporary, and interim actions above, money from this Act cannot be spent on private property unless there is a cooperative agreement. The Secretary may only repair religious or sectarian buildings if they are a major, integral part of the Kalaupapa settlement’s history and only to the extent needed to explain the settlement’s nationally significant history to the public.
Full Legal Text
Conservation, Source: USLM XML via OLRC
Legislative History
Reference
Citation
16 U.S.C. § 410jj–4
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 5, 2026
Release point: 119-73not60