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[CITE: 16USC1a-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 1a-3. Legislative jurisdiction; relinquishment by 
        Secretary; submittal of proposed agreement to Congressional 
        committees; concurrent legislative jurisdiction
        
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the 
Interior may relinquish to a State, or to a Commonwealth, territory, or 
possession of the United States, part of the legislative jurisdiction of 
the United States over National Park System lands or interests therein 
in that State, Commonwealth, territory, or possession: Provided, That 
prior to consummating any such relinquishment, the Secretary shall 
submit the proposed agreement to the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives, and shall not finalize such agreement until 
sixty calendar days after such submission shall have elapsed. 
Relinquishment of legislative jurisdiction under this section may be 
accomplished (1) by filing with the Governor (or, if none exists, with 
the chief executive officer) of the State, Commonwealth, territory, or 
possession concerned a notice of relinquishment to take effect upon 
acceptance thereof, or (2) as the laws of the State, Commonwealth, 
territory, or possession may otherwise provide. The Secretary shall 
diligently pursue the consummation of arrangements with each State, 
Commonwealth, territory, or possession within which a unit of the 
National Park System is located to the end that insofar as practicable 
the United States shall exercise concurrent legislative jurisdiction 
within units of the National Park System.

(Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 6, as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1976, 
90 Stat. 1939; amended Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(a)(1), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 
Stat. 4583.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives'' for ``Committees on Interior and Insular 
Affairs of the United States Congress''.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Natural Resources of House of Representatives treated 
as referring to Committee on Resources of House of Representatives by 
section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a note preceding section 21 
of Title 2, The Congress.
