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[CITE: 16USC407p]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
          SUBCHAPTER LI--INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 407p. Establishment of advisory commission; composition, 
        appointment, and duties
        
    The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, to 
establish a suitable advisory commission of not to exceed eleven 
members. The members of the advisory commission shall be appointed by 
the Secretary of the Interior, with three members to be recommended by 
the Governor of Pennsylvania, three by the mayor of Philadelphia, and 
one each by the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia and the Independence 
Hall Association.
    The functions of the advisory commission shall be to render advice 
to the Secretary of the Interior, from time to time, upon matters which 
the Secretary of the Interior may refer to them for consideration.

(June 28, 1948, ch. 687, Sec. 4, 62 Stat. 1062.)


                   Termination of Advisory Commissions

    Advisory commissions in existence on Jan. 5, 1973, to terminate not 
later than the expiration of the 2-year period following Jan. 5, 1973, 
unless, in the case of a commission established by the President or an 
officer of the Federal Government, such commission is renewed by 
appropriate action prior to the expiration of such 2-year period, or in 
the case of a commission established by the Congress, its duration is 
otherwise provided for by law. See sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. L. 92-
463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 
5, Government Organization and Employees.
