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[CITE: 16USC410y-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
   SUBCHAPTER LVI--CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
 
Sec. 410y-1. Purposes; establishment; boundaries; acquisition of 
        lands; procedure for acquisition; time of acquisition
        
    (a) In order to preserve and interpret the historic and scenic 
features of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and to develop the potential 
of the canal for public recreation, including such restoration as may be 
needed, there is hereby established the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
National Historical Park, in the States of Maryland and West Virginia 
and in the District of Columbia. The park as initially established shall 
comprise those particular properties in Federal ownership, containing 
approximately five thousand two hundred and fifty acres, including those 
properties along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal in the State 
of Maryland and appurtenances in the State of West Virginia designated 
as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Monument, and those properties 
along the line of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal between Rock Creek in 
the District of Columbia and the terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio 
Canal National Monument near the mouth of Seneca Creek in the State of 
Maryland. The boundaries of the park shall be as generally depicted on 
the drawing entitled ``Boundary Map, Proposed Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 
National Historical Park,'' in five sheets, numbered CHOH 91,000, and 
dated October 1969, which is on file and available for public inspection 
in the offices of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior: 
Provided, That no lands owned by any State shall be included in the 
boundaries of the park--
        (1) unless they are donated to the United States, or
        (2) until a written cooperative agreement is negotiated by the 
    Secretary which assures the administration of such lands in 
    accordance with established administrative policies for national 
    parks, and
        (3) until the terms and conditions of such donation or 
    cooperative agreement have been forwarded to the Committee on Energy 
    and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Committee on Natural 
    Resources of the House of Representatives at least sixty days prior 
    to being executed.

The exact boundaries of the park shall be established, published, and 
otherwise publicized within eighteen months after January 8, 1971, and 
the owners of property other than property lying between the canal and 
the Potomac River shall be notified within said period as to the extent 
of their property included in the park.
    (b) Within the boundaries of the park, the Secretary is authorized 
to acquire lands and interests therein by donation, purchase with 
donated or appropriated funds, or exchange, but he shall refrain from 
acquiring, for two years from January 8, 1971, any lands designated on 
the boundary map for acquisition by any State if he has negotiated and 
consummated a written cooperative agreement with such State pursuant to 
subsection (a) of this section.

(Pub. L. 91-664, Sec. 3, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1978; Pub. L. 103-437, 
Sec. 6(g), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4585.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (a)(3). 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 of the United States House of Representatives and 
Senate''.

                         Change of Name

    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.
