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[CITE: 16USC797a]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
         CHAPTER 12--FEDERAL REGULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF POWER
 
SUBCHAPTER I--REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATER POWER AND RESOURCES
 
Sec. 797a. Congressional authorization for permits, licenses, 
        leases, or authorizations for dams, conduits, reservoirs, etc., 
        within national parks or monuments
        
    On and after March 3, 1921, no permit, license, lease, or 
authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission 
lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the 
development, transmission, or utilization of power within the limits as 
constituted, March 3, 1921, of any national park or national monument 
shall be granted or made without specific authority of Congress.

(Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 129, 41 Stat. 1353.)

                          Codification

    Provisions repealing so much of this chapter ``as authorizes 
licensing such uses of existing national parks and national monuments by 
the Federal Power Commission'' have been omitted.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Power Act which 
generally comprises this chapter.
    Section 212 of act Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, 49 Stat. 847, 
provided that nothing in this chapter, as amended should be construed to 
repeal or amend the provisions of the act approved Mar. 3, 1921 (41 
Stat. 1353) [16 U.S.C. 797a] or the provisions of any other Act relating 
to national parks and national monuments.
