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[CITE: 16USC18]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 18. Promotion of tourist travel

    The Secretary of Commerce shall encourage, promote, and develop 
travel within the United States, including any Commonwealth, territory, 
and possession thereof, through activities which are in the public 
interest and which do not compete with activities of any State, city, or 
private agency.

(July 19, 1940, ch. 642, Sec. 1, 54 Stat. 773; Pub. L. 93-193, Sec. 2, 
Dec. 19, 1973, 87 Stat. 765; Pub. L. 94-55, Sec. 2(b), July 9, 1975, 89 
Stat. 262.)


                               Amendments

    1975--Pub. L. 94-55 substituted ``shall encourage, promote, and 
develop travel within the United States, including any Commonwealth, 
territory, and possession thereof, through activities which are in the 
public interest and which do not compete with activities of any State, 
city, or private agency'' for ``is authorized and directed to encourage, 
promote, and develop travel within the United States, its Territories 
and possessions, providing such activities do not compete with the 
activities of private agencies; and to administer all existing travel 
promotion functions of the Department of Commerce''.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 93-193, Dec. 19, 1973, 87 Stat. 765, provided 
that:
    ``(a) There are hereby transferred to and vested in the Secretary of 
Commerce all functions, powers, and duties of the Secretary of the 
Interior and other offices and officers of the Department of the 
Interior under the Act of July 19, 1940 (54 Stat. 773; 16 U.S.C. 18-
18d).
    ``(b) The assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, 
authorizations, and allocations, employed, held, used, rising from, 
available or to be made available in connection with the functions, 
powers, and duties transferred by subsection (a) of this section are 
hereby transferred to the Secretary of Commerce.''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 18a to 18d of this title.
