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[CITE: 16USC5958]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
              CHAPTER 79--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE MANAGEMENT
 
      SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE CONCESSIONS MANAGEMENT
 
Sec. 5958. National Park Service Concessions Management Advisory 
        Board
        

(a) Establishment

    There is hereby established a National Park Service Concessions 
Management Advisory Board (in this subchapter referred to as the 
``Advisory Board'') whose purpose shall be to advise the Secretary and 
National Park Service on matters relating to management of concessions 
in the National Park System.

(b) Duties

                             (1) Advice

        The Advisory Board shall advise on each of the following:
            (A) Policies and procedures intended to assure that services 
        and facilities provided by concessioners are necessary and 
        appropriate, meet acceptable standards at reasonable rates with 
        a minimum of impact on park resources and values, and provide 
        the concessioners with a reasonable opportunity to make a 
        profit.
            (B) Ways to make National Park Service concessions programs 
        and procedures more cost effective, more process efficient, less 
        burdensome, and timelier.

                         (2) Recommendations

        The Advisory Board shall make recommendations to the Secretary 
    regarding each of the following:
            (A) National Park Service contracting with the private 
        sector to conduct appropriate elements of concessions management 
        and providing recommendations to make more efficient, less 
        burdensome, and timelier the review or approval of concessioner 
        rates and charges to the public.
            (B) The nature and scope of products which qualify as 
        Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian handicrafts within 
        this \1\ meaning of this subchapter.
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            (C) The allocation of concession fees.

    The initial recommendations under subparagraph (A) relating to rates 
    and charges shall be submitted to the Secretary not later than one 
    year after the first meeting of the Board.

                          (3) Annual report

        The Advisory Board, commencing with the first anniversary of its 
    initial meeting, shall provide an annual report on its activities to 
    the Committee on Resources of the United States House of 
    Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
    the United States Senate.

(c) Advisory Board membership

    Members of the Advisory Board shall be appointed on a staggered 
basis by the Secretary for a term not to exceed 4 years and shall serve 
at the pleasure of the Secretary. The Advisory Board shall be comprised 
of not more than seven individuals appointed from among citizens of the 
United States not in the employment of the Federal Government and not in 
the employment of or having an interest in a National Park Service 
concession. Of the seven members of the Advisory Board--
        (1) one member shall be privately employed in the hospitality 
    industry and have both broad knowledge of hotel or food service 
    management and experience in the parks and recreation concessions 
    business;
        (2) one member shall be privately employed in the tourism 
    industry;
        (3) one member shall be privately employed in the accounting 
    industry;
        (4) one member shall be privately employed in the outfitting and 
    guide industry;
        (5) one member shall be a State government employee with 
    expertise in park concession management;
        (6) one member shall be active in promotion of traditional arts 
    and crafts; and
        (7) one member shall be active in a nonprofit conservation 
    organization involved in parks and recreation programs.

(d) Termination

    The Advisory Board shall continue to exist until December 31, 2008. 
In all other respects, it shall be subject to the provisions of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act.

(e) Service on Advisory Board

    Service of an individual as a member of the Advisory Board shall not 
be considered as service or employment bringing such individual within 
the provisions of any Federal law relating to conflicts of interest or 
otherwise imposing restrictions, requirements, or penalties in relation 
to the employment of persons, the performance of services, or the 
payment or receipt of compensation in connection with claims, 
proceedings, or matters involving the United States. Service as a member 
of the Advisory Board shall not be considered service in an appointive 
or elective position in the Government for purposes of section 8344 of 
title 5 or other comparable provisions of Federal law.

(Pub. L. 105-391, title IV, Sec. 409, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3512.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Advisory Committee Act, referred to in subsec. (d), is 
Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, as amended, which is set out 
in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5955 of this title.
