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[CITE: 16USC17k]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 17k. Park, parkway and recreational-area programs; study by 
        National Park Service; consent of States; purpose; cooperation 
        of government agencies
        
    The Secretary of the Interior (hereinafter referred to as the 
``Secretary'') is authorized and directed to cause the National Park 
Service to make a comprehensive study, other than on lands under the 
jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture, of the public park, 
parkway, and recreational-area programs of the United States, and of the 
several States and political subdivisions thereof, and of the lands 
throughout the United States which are or may be chiefly valuable as 
such areas, but no such study shall be made in any State without the 
consent and approval of the State officials, boards, or departments 
having jurisdiction over such lands and park areas. The said study shall 
be such as, in the judgment of the Secretary, will provide data helpful 
in developing a plan for coordinated and adequate public park, parkway, 
and recreational-area facilities for the people of the United States. In 
making the said study and in accomplishing any of the purposes of this 
section and sections 17l to 17n of this title, the Secretary is 
authorized and directed, through the National Park Service, to seek and 
accept the cooperation and assistance of Federal departments or agencies 
having jurisdiction of lands belonging to the United States, and may 
cooperate and make agreements with and seek and accept the assistance of 
other Federal agencies and instrumentalities, and of States and 
political subdivisions thereof and the agencies and instrumentalities of 
either of them.

(June 23, 1936, ch. 735, Sec. 1, 49 Stat. 1894.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions 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, 
Secs. 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.


         National Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission

    Pub. L. 85-470, June 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 238, as amended by Pub. L. 
86-6, Mar. 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 14; Pub. L. 87-12, Mar. 29, 1961, 75 Stat. 
19, created a bipartisan Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission.
    The Commission was directed to proceed as soon as practicable to set 
in motion a nationwide inventory and evaluation of outdoor recreation 
resources and opportunities, directly and through the Federal agencies, 
the States, and private organizations and groups, utilizing to the 
fullest extent possible such studies, data, and reports previously 
prepared or concurrently in process by Federal agencies, States, private 
organizations, groups, and others, and to compile such data and in the 
light of the data so compiled and of information available concerning 
trends in population, leisure, transportation, and other factors shall 
determine the amount, kind, quality, and location of such outdoor 
recreation resources and opportunities as will be required by the year 
1976 and the year 2000, and shall recommend what policies should best be 
adopted and what programs be initiated, at each level of government and 
by private organizations and other citizen groups and interests, to meet 
such future requirements.
    The Commission was required to present not later than January 31, 
1962, a report of its review, a compilation of its data, and its 
recommendations on a State by State, region by region, and national 
basis to the President and to the Congress, and ceased to exist not 
later than September 1, 1962.


                       Outdoor Recreation Programs

    Coordination and development of programs relating to outdoor 
recreation, see sections 460l to 460l-3 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 17n of this title.
