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[CITE: 16USC222]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
               SUBCHAPTER XXIV--GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK
 
Sec. 222. Administration, concessions, and privileges; contracts 
        for sale of water
        
    The administration, protection, and promotion of Grand Canyon 
National Park shall be exercised under the direction of the Secretary of 
the Interior, by the National Park Service, subject to the provisions of 
sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of this title. All concessions for hotels, 
camps, transportation, and other privileges of every kind and nature for 
the accommodation or entertainment of visitors shall be let at public 
bidding to the best and most responsible bidder. Under such terms and 
conditions as he deems advisable and consistent with the requirements of 
section 9701 of title 31, the Secretary is authorized, without 
derogation of any of the water rights of the United States and 
notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, to sell by 
contract water located within Grand Canyon National Park for the use of 
customers within Tusayan, Arizona, to a nonprofit entity authorized to 
receive and distribute water within Tusayan, Arizona by the laws of the 
State of Arizona, upon his determination that such sale is not 
detrimental to the protection of the resources of Grand Canyon National 
Park or its visitors and that appropriate measures to provide for such 
protection, including a right of immediate termination, are included in 
the transaction.

(Feb. 26, 1919, ch. 44, Sec. 2, 40 Stat. 1177; Pub. L. 95-586, title 
XII, Nov. 3, 1978, 92 Stat. 2495.)

                          Codification

    ``Section 9701 of title 31'' substituted in text for ``section 483a 
of title 31'' on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 
96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and 
Finance.


                               Amendments

    1978--Pub. L. 95-586 inserted provisions authorizing the Secretary 
to contract for the sale of water located within the park for use of 
customers within Tusayan, Arizona.

                          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.


  Special United States Magistrate Judge for Grand Canyon National Park

    Appointment by United States District Court for the District of 
Arizona of a special commissioner [now United States magistrate judge] 
for the Grand Canyon National Park, see Pub. L. 86-258, Sept. 14, 1959, 
73 Stat. 546, as amended, formerly set out as a note under section 631 
of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 221b of this title.
