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[CITE: 16USC470a-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 1A--HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
 
                            Part A--Programs
 
Sec. 470a-1. World Heritage Convention


(a) United States participation

    The Secretary of the Interior shall direct and coordinate United 
States participation in the Convention Concerning the Protection of the 
World Cultural and Natural Heritage, approved by the Senate on October 
26, 1973, in cooperation with the Secretary of State, the Smithsonian 
Institution, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Whenever 
possible, expenditures incurred in carrying out activities in 
cooperation with other nations and international organizations shall be 
paid for in such excess currency of the country or area where the 
expense is incurred as may be available to the United States.

(b) Nomination of property to World Heritage Committee

    The Secretary of the Interior shall periodically nominate properties 
he determines are of international significance to the World Heritage 
Committee on behalf of the United States. No property may be so 
nominated unless it has previously been determined to be of national 
significance. Each such nomination shall include evidence of such legal 
protections as may be necessary to ensure preservation of the property 
and its environment (including restrictive covenants, easements, or 
other forms of protection). Before making any such nomination, the 
Secretary shall notify 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.

(c) Nomination of non-Federal property to World Heritage Committee

    No non-Federal property may be nominated by the Secretary of the 
Interior to the World Heritage Committee for inclusion on the World 
Heritage List unless the owner of the property concurs in writing to 
such nomination.

(Pub. L. 96-515, title IV, Sec. 401, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3000; Pub. 
L. 103-437, Sec. 6(d)(28), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4584.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Historic Preservation 
Act Amendments of 1980, and not as part of the National Historic 
Preservation Act, Pub. L. 89-665, which is classified generally to this 
subchapter.


                               Amendments

    1994--Subsec. (b). 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.
