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[CITE: 16USC470a-2]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
     CHAPTER 1A--HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
 
              SUBCHAPTER II--NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
 
                            Part A--Programs
 
Sec. 470a-2. Federal undertakings outside United States; 
        mitigation of adverse effects
        
    Prior to the approval of any Federal undertaking outside the United 
States which may directly and adversely affect a property which is on 
the World Heritage List or on the applicable country's equivalent of the 
National Register, the head of a Federal agency having direct or 
indirect jurisdiction over such undertaking shall take into account the 
effect of the undertaking on such property for purposes of avoiding or 
mitigating any adverse effects.

(Pub. L. 96-515, title IV, Sec. 402, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3000.)

                          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.
