54 U.S.C. § 103102: Appropriations authorized…

Summary

Money is approved for eight specific uses for the Service. These include running, protecting, improving, and keeping up areas managed with other federal agencies; paying local travel and food in kind for people chosen for jobs or unpaid helpers attending fire-protection training camps; and caring for and improving the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Funds also pay for educational talks near System units and work with nonprofit scientific or historical groups the Secretary names; employee travel to certain training (federal forest-fire camps, the FBI National Police Academy, and fire-prevention schools); finding and securing water rights under local custom, law, and court decisions (including buying water rights, land, or access); official field telephones in private homes when the Secretary allows; and transportation for nearby children to and from System units used for organized recreation and interpretive programs.

Title 54, §103102

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Appropriations for the Service are authorized and are available for— (1)

(2)necessary local transportation and subsistence in kind of individuals selected for employment or as cooperators, serving without other compensation, while attending fire protection training camps;

(3)administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal;

(4)educational lectures in or in the vicinity of and with respect to System units, and services of field employees in cooperation with such nonprofit scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work in System units as the Secretary may designate;

(5)travel expenses of employees attending—

(A)Federal Government camps for training in forest fire prevention and suppression;

(B)the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Police Academy; and

(C)Federal, State, or municipal schools for training in building fire prevention and suppression;

(6)investigation and establishment of water rights in accordance with local custom, laws, and decisions of courts, including the acquisition of water rights or of land or interests in land or rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in the administration and public use of System units;

(7)official telephone service in the field in the case of official telephones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary; and

(8)provision of transportation for children in nearby communities to and from any System unit used in connection with organized recreation and interpretive programs of the Service.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10310216 U.S.C. 1d.Aug. 8, 1953, ch. 384, § 3, 67 Stat. 496. 16 U.S.C. 17j–2(b) through (g), (i), (j). Aug. 7, 1946, ch. 788, (b) through (g), (i), (j), 60 Stat. 885, 886; Pub. L. 104–333, div. I, title VIII, § 802, Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4186. Before paragraph (1), the words “On and after August 8, 1953” in 16 U.S.C. 1d are omitted as obsolete.

§103102 Appropriations Authorized and Available for Certain Purposes

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Title 54, §103102

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