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[CITE: 16USC469c-2]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 1A--HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 469c-2. Costs for identification, surveys, evaluation and 
        data recovery with respect to historic properties
        
    Notwithstanding section 469c(a) of this title, or any other 
provision of law to the contrary--
        (1) identification, surveys, and evaluation carried out with 
    respect to historic properties within project areas may be treated 
    for purposes of any law or rule of law as planning costs of the 
    project and not as costs of mitigation;
        (2) reasonable costs for identification, surveys, evaluation, 
    and data recovery carried out with respect to historic properties 
    within project areas may be charged to Federal licensees and 
    permittees as a condition to the issuance of such license or permit; 
    and
        (3) Federal agencies, with the concurrence of the Secretary and 
    after notification of the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
    United States House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy 
    and Natural Resources of the United States Senate, are authorized to 
    waive, in appropriate cases, the 1 per centum limitation contained 
    in section 469c(a) of this title.

(Pub. L. 96-515, title II, Sec. 208, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2997; Pub. 
L. 103-437, Sec. 6(d)(28), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)


                               Amendments

    1994--Par. (3). Pub. L. 103-437 substituted ``Natural Resources'' 
for ``Interior and Insular Affairs'' after ``Committee on''.

                         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.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 43 section 377b.
