§305101 — Title 54 National Park Service and Related Programs | U.S. Code

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Defines key words used in the chapter. Administrator is the head of the General Services Administration. Eligible entity means federal, state, local, nonprofit, educational, or community development groups that agree to follow and record the conditions in section 305104 and can pay to keep the light station up under those conditions. Federal aid to navigation means U.S.-operated devices outside a vessel or aircraft that help navigation or warn dangers, and the related equipment. Historic light station means the lighthouse, keeper’s house, nearby buildings, piers, walkways, the land, and other related structures.

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In this chapter:

(1)The term “Administrator” means the Administrator of General Services.

(2)The term “eligible entity” means—

(A)any department or agency of the Federal Government; or

(B)any department or agency of the State in which a historic light station is located, the local government of the community in which a historic light station is located, a nonprofit corporation, an educational agency, or a community development organization that—

(i)has agreed to comply with the conditions set forth in section 305104 of this title and to have the conditions recorded with the deed of title to the historic light station; and

(ii)is financially able to maintain the historic light station in accordance with the conditions set forth in section 305104 of this title.

(3)(A)The term “Federal aid to navigation” means any device, operated and maintained by the United States, external to a vessel or aircraft, intended to assist a navigator to determine position or safe course, or to warn of dangers or obstructions to navigation.

(B)The term “Federal aid to navigation” includes a light, lens, lantern, antenna, sound signal, camera, sensor, piece of electronic navigation equipment, power source, or other piece of equipment associated with a device described in subparagraph (A).

(4)The term “historic light station” includes the light tower, lighthouse, keeper’s dwelling, garages, storage sheds, oil house, fog signal building, boat house, barn, pumphouse, tramhouse support structures, piers, walkways, underlying and appurtenant land and related real property and improvements associated with a historic light station that is a historic property.

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Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30510116 U.S.C. 470w–7(e).Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 308(e), as added Pub. L. 106–355, § 2, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1388. The text of 16 U.S.C. 470w–7(e)(5) is omitted as unnecessary. In paragraph (3)(A), the words “that is a historic property” are substituted for “provided that the ‘historic light station’ shall be included in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places” because of the definition of “historic property” in section 300308 of the new title.

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