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[CITE: 16USC19jj-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
            SUBCHAPTER III-B--PARK SYSTEM RESOURCE PROTECTION
 
Sec. 19jj-3. Use of recovered amounts

    Response costs and damages recovered by the Secretary under the 
provisions of this subchapter or amounts recovered by the Federal 
Government under any Federal, State, or local law or regulation or 
otherwise as a result of damage to any living or nonliving resource 
located within a unit of the National Park System, except for damage to 
resources owned by a non-Federal entity, shall be available to the 
Secretary and without further congressional action may be used only as 
follows:

              (a) Response costs and damage assessments

        To reimburse response costs and damage assessments by the 
    Secretary or other Federal agencies as the Secretary deems 
    appropriate.

                   (b) Restoration and replacement

        To restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of resources 
    which were the subject of the action and to monitor and study such 
    resources: Provided, That no such funds may be used to acquire any 
    lands or waters or interests therein or rights thereto unless such 
    acquisition is specifically approved in advance in appropriations 
    Acts and any such acquisition shall be subject to any limitations 
    contained in the organic legislation for such park unit.

                          (c) Excess funds

        Any amounts remaining after expenditures pursuant to subsections 
    (a) and (b) of this section shall be deposited into the General Fund 
    of the United States Treasury.

(Pub. L. 101-337, Sec. 4, July 27, 1990, 104 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 6(d)(3), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4583.)

                          Codification

    Subsection (d), which required the Secretary to report annually to 
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on 
Appropriations and the Committee on Natural Resources of the United 
States House of Representatives on funds expended pursuant to this 
subchapter, terminated, effective May 15, 2000, pursuant to section 3003 
of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of 
Title 31, Money and Finance. See, also, page 111 of House Document No. 
103-7.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' 
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.
