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[CITE: 16USC3196]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 51--ALASKA NATIONAL INTEREST LANDS CONSERVATION
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3196. Administrative sites and visitor facilities


(a) Establishment

    In conformity with the conservation and management plans prepared 
for each unit and the purposes of assuring the preservation, protection, 
and proper management of any conservation system unit, the Secretary may 
establish sites and visitor facilities--
        (1) within the unit, if compatible with the purposes for which 
    the unit is established, expanded, or designated by this Act, and 
    the other provisions of this Act, or
        (2) outside the boundaries of, and in the vicinity of, the unit.

To the extent practicable and desirable, the Secretary shall attempt to 
locate such sites and facilities on Native lands in the vicinity of the 
unit.

(b) Authorities of Secretary

    For the purpose of establishing administrative sites and visitor 
facilities under subsection (a) of this section--
        (1) the Secretary and the head of the Federal agency having 
    primary authority over the administration of any Federal land which 
    the Secretary determines is suitable for use in carrying out such 
    purpose may enter into agreements permitting the Secretary to use 
    such land for such purposes;
        (2) notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary, 
    under such terms and conditions as he determines are reasonable, may 
    lease or acquire by purchase, donation, exchange, or any other 
    method (except condemnation) real property (other than Federal 
    land), office space, housing, and other necessary facilities which 
    the Secretary determines to be suitable for carrying out such 
    purposes; and
        (3) the Secretary may construct, operate, and maintain such 
    permanent and temporary buildings and facilities as he deems 
    appropriate on land which is within, or in the vicinity of, any 
    conservation system unit and with respect to which the Secretary has 
    acquired authority under this subsection to use the property for the 
    purpose of establishing an administrative site or visitor facility 
    under subsection (a) of this section, except that the Secretary may 
    not begin construction of buildings and facilities on land not owned 
    by the United States until the owner of such land has entered into 
    an agreement with the Secretary, the terms of which assure the 
    continued use of such buildings and facilities in furtherance of the 
    purposes of this Act.

(Pub. L. 96-487, title XIII, Sec. 1306, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2479.)

                       References in Text

    This Act, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1) and (b)(3), is Pub. L. 96-
487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, as amended, known as the Alaska 
National Interest Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3101 of 
this title and Tables.
