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[CITE: 16USC47-2]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
           SUBCHAPTER VI--SEQUOIA AND YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARKS
 
Sec. 47-2. Leases for employee housing, community facilities, 
        administrative offices, maintenance facilities, and commercial 
        services at or on administrative site
        
    In furtherance of the purposes of section 47-1 of this title, the 
Secretary of the Interior is authorized, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, to lease lands within the El Portal administrative 
site for periods of not to exceed ninety-nine years to any individual, 
including an employee of the United States Government, to any operator 
of concession facilities in the park, or the administrative site, or its 
successor, or to any public or private corporation or organization 
(including a nonprofit corporation) for purposes of providing employee 
housing, community facilities, administrative offices, maintenance 
facilities, and commercial services. Such leases shall provide that if 
the lessee is a concessioner, corporation, or other organization 
(including a nonprofit corporation) such lessee may sublease the 
property to its employees, employees of the United States Government, or 
other individuals whose residence on the leased premises is solely in 
support of Yosemite National Park or the El Portal administrative site 
for terms not to exceed the remaining terms of such leases, and they 
shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the 
Interior may require to assure appropriate administration, protection, 
and development of the land for purposes incident to the provisions of 
facilities and services required in the operation and administration of 
the park: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall grant such 
leases in consideration of payment to the United States of the fair 
rental value of the leased lands, as determined by him.

(Pub. L. 90-409, Sec. 1, July 21, 1968, 82 Stat. 393; Pub. L. 99-542, 
Sec. 1(1)-(3), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3037.)

                          Codification

    Section formerly consisted of subsecs. (a) and (b) which were based 
on sections 1 and 2, respectively, of Pub. L. 90-409. Section 2 was 
renumbered section 3 of Pub. L. 90-409 and is classified to section 47-4 
of this title. A new section 2 of Pub. L. 90-409 was added and is 
classified to section 47-3 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1986--Pub. L. 99-542 substituted ``not to exceed ninety-nine years 
to any individual, including an employee of the United States 
Government, to any operator of concession facilities in the park, or the 
administrative site, or its successor, or to any public or private 
corporation or organization (including a nonprofit corporation) for 
purposes of providing employee housing, community facilities, 
administrative offices, maintenance facilities, and commercial 
services'' for ``fifty-five years to any operator of concession 
facilities in the park, or its successor, for purposes of providing 
employee housing'', substituted ``if the lessee is a concessioner, 
corporation, or other organization (including a nonprofit corporation) 
such lessee may sublease the property to its employees, employees of the 
United States Government, or other individuals whose residence on the 
leased premises is solely in support of Yosemite National Park or the El 
Portal administrative site'' for ``the concessioner may sublease the 
property to its employees'', struck out ``an annual'' before ``payment'' 
in proviso, and substituted a period for ``at the beginning of each 
calendar year'' after ``him''.


                  Limitation on New Spending Authority

    Section 2 of Pub. L. 99-542 provided that: ``Any new spending 
authority (within the meaning of section 401 of the Congressional Budget 
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 [2 U.S.C. 651]) which is provided 
under this Act [enacting sections 47-3 to 47-6 of this title and 
amending section 47-2 of this title] shall be effective for any fiscal 
year only to the extent or in such amounts as provided in appropriation 
Acts or to the extent that proceeds are available from any leases issued 
by the Secretary pursuant to the first section of this Act [probably 
means section 1 of Pub. L. 90-409, 16 U.S.C. 47-2].''

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 47-3, 47-4, 47-6 of this 
title.
