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[CITE: 16USC1a-7]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 1a-7. National Park System development program


(a) Omitted

(b) General management plans; preparation and revision by Director of 
        National Park Service; list to Congress; contents

    General management plans for the preservation and use of each unit 
of the National Park System, including areas within the national capital 
area, shall be prepared and revised in a timely manner by the Director 
of the National Park Service. On January 1 of each year, the Secretary 
shall submit to the Congress a list indicating the current status of 
completion or revision of general management plans for each unit of the 
National Park System. General management plans for each unit shall 
include, but not be limited to:
        (1) measures for the preservation of the area's resources;
        (2) indications of types and general intensities of development 
    (including visitor circulation and transportation patterns, systems 
    and modes) associated with public enjoyment and use of the area, 
    including general locations, timing of implementation, and 
    anticipated costs;
        (3) identification of and implementation commitments for visitor 
    carrying capacities for all areas of the unit; and
        (4) indications of potential modifications to the external 
    boundaries of the unit, and the reasons therefor.

(Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 12, as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1976, 
90 Stat. 1942; amended Pub. L. 95-625, title VI, Sec. 604(3), (4), Nov. 
10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3518, 3519; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(c), Nov. 2, 1994, 
108 Stat. 4583; Pub. L. 105-391, title IV, Sec. 415(b)(2), Nov. 13, 
1998, 112 Stat. 3515.)

                          Codification

    Subsection (a), which required the Secretary of the Interior to 
transmit to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate 
and the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives a 
detailed program for the development of facilities, structures, or 
buildings for each unit of the National Park System consistent with the 
general management plans required in subsection (b) of this section, 
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 110 of House Document No. 103-7.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-391 struck out subsec. (c) which read 
as follows: ``The Secretary of the Interior shall hereafter transmit to 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the 
Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives all 
proposed awards of concession leases and contracts involving a gross 
annual business of $100,000 or more, or of five years or more in 
duration (including renewals thereof), and all proposed rules and 
regulations relating thereto, sixty days before such awards are made or 
such rules and regulations are promulgated.''
    1994--Subsecs. (a), (c). 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''.
    1978--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 95-625, Sec. 604(3), in revising text, 
substituted provisions for preservation and use of units of the National 
Park Service for prior provision for development of the units and for 
submission of an annual list to Congress on January 1 for prior 
provision for transmission of the plans to the Committees on Interior 
and Insular Affairs, provided for revision of the plans in a timely 
manner, inserted items (1) to (4) and struck out prior items covering 
(1) the facilities which the Director found necessary to accommodate the 
health, safety, and recreation needs of the visiting public, including 
provision of appropriate facilities under Act Oct. 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 969 
[Pub. L. 89-249]; (2) the location and estimated cost of all the 
facilities; and (3) the projected need for any additional facilities 
required for the unit.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 95-625, Sec. 604(4), substituted ``or of five 
years or more'' for ``or exceeding five years''.


                  Termination of Reporting Requirements

    For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in subsec. 
(b) of this section relating to submitting to Congress, on January 1 
each year, a list indicating the current status of general management 
plans, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note 
under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 110 of House 
Document No. 103-7.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 284h, 410ff-3, 410gg-4, 
410ii-5, 410oo-3, 410qq-2, 410ww-2, 410yy-5, 410ddd, 410ggg-1 of this 
title.
