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[CITE: 16USC410ii-6]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
        SUBCHAPTER LIX-G--CHACO CULTURE NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 410ii-6. Research and data gathering


(a) Plan for continued operational program; submittal to Congress

    Consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes of the Division 
of Cultural Research of the Southwest Cultural Resources Center, 
operated by the National Park Service, the Secretary shall continue such 
research and data gathering activities as may be appropriate to further 
the purposes of this subchapter and knowledge of the Chaco culture. The 
Secretary shall submit in writing within six months of the effective 
date of this section, to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs 
of the United States House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, a plan for the 
continued operational program of the Division. The Secretary is 
authorized and encouraged to establish a committee composed of 
professional archeologists and others with related professional 
expertise including the designee of the Governor of the State of New 
Mexico to advise the Secretary in matters related to the surveying, 
excavation, curation, interpretation, protection, and management of the 
cultural resources of the historical park and archeological protection 
sites.

(b) Computer-generated data base; furnishing of information to Federal 
        and private groups

    The Secretary shall, through the Division of Cultural Research of 
the Southwest Cultural Resources Center of the National Park Service, be 
responsible for the development of a computer-generated data base of the 
San Juan Basin, and make such information available to Federal and 
private groups when to do so will assist such groups in the 
preservation, management, and development of the resources of the basin.

(c) Opportunity for Secretary to comment on proposed expenditures and 
        permits

    The head of any Federal agency having direct or indirect 
jurisdiction over a proposed Federal or federally assisted undertaking 
with respect to the lands and waters in the archeological protection 
sites, and the head of any Federal agency having authority to license or 
permit any undertaking with respect to such lands and waters, shall 
prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds on such 
undertaking, or prior to the issuance of any license or permit, as the 
case may be, afford the Secretary a reasonable opportunity to comment in 
writing with regard to such undertaking and its effect upon such sites, 
and shall give due consideration to any comments made by the Secretary 
and to the effect of such undertaking on the purposes for which such 
sites are established.

(Pub. L. 96-550, title V, Sec. 507, Dec. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 3230.)

                       References in Text

    The effective date of this section, referred to in subsec. (a), 
probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 96-550, which was 
approved Dec. 19, 1980.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of 
Representatives changed to Committee on Natural Resources of the House 
of Representatives on Jan. 5, 1993, by House Resolution No. 5, One 
Hundred Third Congress. 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.
