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[CITE: 16USC469a-3]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 1A--HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 469a-3. Progress reports by Secretary of the Interior on 
        surveys and work undertaken as result of surveys; disposition of 
        relics and specimens recovered; coordination of survey and 
        recovery activities; annual report
        

(a) Progress reports to funding or licensing agency

    The Secretary shall keep the agency responsible for funding or 
licensing the project notified at all times of the progress of any 
survey made under sections 469 to 469c of this title or of any work 
undertaken as a result of such survey, in order that there will be as 
little disruption or delay as possible in the carrying out of the 
functions of such agency and the survey and recovery programs shall 
terminate at a time mutually agreed upon by the Secretary and the head 
of such agency unless extended by mutual agreement.

(b) Disposition of relics and specimens

    The Secretary shall consult with any interested Federal and State 
agencies, educational and scientific organizations, and private 
institutions and qualified individuals, with a view to determining the 
ownership of and the most appropriate repository for any relics and 
specimens recovered as a result of any work performed as provided for in 
this section.

(c) Coordination of activities; annual report

    The Secretary shall coordinate all Federal survey and recovery 
activities authorized under sections 469 to 469c-1 of this title.

(Pub. L. 86-523, Sec. 5, formerly Sec. 2(c), (e), June 27, 1960, 74 
Stat. 220, renumbered and amended Pub. L. 93-291, Sec. 1(4), (6), (7), 
May 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 175; Pub. L. 96-205, title VI, Sec. 608(b)(1), 
Mar. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 92; Pub. L. 103-437, Sec. 6(d)(27), Nov. 2, 
1994, 108 Stat. 4584; Pub. L. 104-333, div. I, title VIII, 
Sec. 814(d)(2)(B), Nov. 12, 1996, 110 Stat. 4196.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-333 inserted period after ``469c-1 of 
this title'' and struck out at end ``and shall submit an annual report 
at the end of each fiscal year to the Committee on Natural Resources of 
the House of Representatives and Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate indicating the scope and effectiveness of the 
program, the specific projects surveyed and the results produced, and 
the costs incurred by the Federal Government as a result thereof.''
    1994--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' 
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.
    1980--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 96-205 substituted references to the 
House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and Senate Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources, for reference to Interior and Insular 
Affairs Committees of the Congress.
    1974--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93-291, Sec. 1(4), (6), redesignated 
subsec. (c) of section 469a of this title as subsec. (a) of this section 
and substituted ``agency responsible for funding or licensing the 
project'' for ``instigating agency'' and ``agency and the survey and 
recovery programs shall terminate at a time mutually agreed upon by the 
Secretary and the head of such agency unless extended by mutual 
agreement'' for ``agency''.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-291, Sec. 1(6), redesignated subsec. (e) of 
section 469a of this title as subsec. (b) of this section.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93-291, Sec. 1(7), added subsec. (c).

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of certain enforcement functions of Secretary or other 
official in Department of the Interior and Secretary or other official 
in Department of Agriculture to Federal Inspector, Office of Federal 
Inspector for Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System, and subsequent 
transfer to Secretary of Energy, see note set out under section 469a of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 469, 469b, 469c, 469c-1, 
470a, 470dd, 470hh, 470ll of this title; title 42 section 5320; title 43 
section 377b.
