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[CITE: 40USC804]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
     CHAPTER 18--NATIONAL VISITOR CENTER FACILITIES; UNION STATION 
                  REDEVELOPMENT; CAPITOL GUIDE SERVICE
 
                       SUBCHAPTER I--UNION STATION
 
                     Part A--National Visitor Center
 
Sec. 804. Interpretive transportation services; Federal areas

    The Secretary is directed to utilize the authority under sections 1, 
2, 3, and 4 of title 16, as amended and supplemented, to provide 
interpretive transportation services between or in Federal areas within 
the District of Columbia and environs, including, but not limited to, 
transportation of visitors on, among, and between the Mall, the Ellipse, 
the National Visitor Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing 
Arts, and East and West Potomac Park, and such other visitor facilities 
as may be established pursuant to this chapter, and, with the 
concurrence of the Architect of the Capitol, to provide such services 
on, among, and between such areas and the United States Capitol Grounds. 
The Secretary shall determine that such services are desirable to 
facilitate visitation and to insure proper management and protection of 
such areas. Such interpretive transportation services shall, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, be deemed 
transportation by the United States and shall be under the sole and 
exclusive charge and control of the Secretary.

(Pub. L. 90-264, title I, Sec. 105, Mar. 12, 1968, 82 Stat. 44; Pub. L. 
93-62, Sec. 2, July 6, 1973, 87 Stat. 146.)


                               Amendments

    1973--Pub. L. 93-62 substituted provisions for interpretive 
transportation services between or in Federal areas, for former 
provisions respecting parking facility, transfer of property for 
vehicular access to public roads and highways, and alteration of traffic 
pattern in Union Station Plaza after consultation with Architect of 
Capitol.


                           Report to Congress

    Section 104 of Pub. L. 90-264 provided that the Secretary report to 
Congress, on or before Apr. 15, 1968, the results of the study 
concerning the problems of transporting visitors along the Mall, on the 
United States Capitol Grounds, and to and from the National Visitor 
Center, which report was to include types of transportation to be 
utilized, the operation of any transportation system, the feasibility of 
providing free transportation, and any proposed legislation to carry out 
his recommendations.
