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16 USC SECTION 17j-2
TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1 - NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND
SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER I - NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Appropriations for the National Park Service are authorized for -
(a) Necessary protection of the area of federally owned land in
the custody of the National Park Service known as the Ocean Strip
and Queets Corridor, adjacent to Olympic National Park, Washington;
necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through
the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the various points in the
boundary line of Glacier National Park, Montana, and the
international boundary; repair and maintenance of approximately two
and seventy-seven one-hundredths miles of road leading from United
States Highway 187 to the north entrance of Grand Teton National
Park, Wyoming; maintenance of approach roads through the Lassen
National Forest leading to Lassen Volcanic National Park,
California; maintenance and repair of the Generals Highway between
the boundaries of Sequoia National Park, California, and the Grant
Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park, California;
maintenance of approximately two and one-fourth miles of roads
comprising those portions of the Fresno-Kings Canyon approach road,
Park Ridge Lookout Road, and Ash Mountain-Advance truck trail,
necessary to the administration and protection of the Sequoia and
Kings Canyon National Parks; maintenance of the roads in the
national forests leading out of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming,
Idaho, and Montana; maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus
National Forest connecting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy
Road near Mather Station, Yosemite National Park, California; and
maintenance and repair of the approach road to the Little Bighorn
Battlefield National Monument and the road connecting the said
monument with the Reno Monument site, Montana; repair and
maintenance of the class ''C'' road lying between the terminus of
F.A. 383 at the east boundary of Coronado National Forest and the
point where said class ''C'' road enters Coronado National Memorial
in the vicinity of Montezuma Pass, approximately 5.3 miles.
(b) Administration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of
areas, under the jurisdiction of other agencies of the Government,
devoted to recreational use pursuant to cooperative agreements.
(c) Necessary local transportation and subsistence in kind of
persons selected for employment or as cooperators, serving without
other compensation, while attending fire-protection training camps.
(d) Administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.
(e) Educational lectures in or in the vicinity of and with
respect to the national parks, national monuments, and other
reservations under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service;
and services of field employees in cooperation with such nonprofit
scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work in
the various parks and monuments as the Secretary of the Interior
may designate.
(f) Travel expenses of employees attending Government camps for
training in forest-fire prevention and suppression and the Federal
Bureau of Investigation National Police Academy, and attending
Federal, State, or municipal schools for training in building fire
prevention and suppression.
(g) Investigation and establishment of water rights in accordance
with local custom, laws, and decisions of courts, including the
acquisition of water rights or of lands or interests in lands or
rights-of-way for use and protection of water rights necessary or
beneficial in the administration and public use of the national
parks and monuments.
(h) Acquisition of rights-of-way and construction and maintenance
of a water supply line partly outside the boundaries of Mesa Verde
National Park.
(i) Official telephone service in the field in the case of
official telephones installed in private houses when authorized
under regulations established by the Secretary.
(j) Provide transportation for children in nearby communities to
and from any unit of the National Park System used in connection
with organized recreation and interpretive programs of the National
Park Service.
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