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(F) maintenance of approximately 2.25 miles of roads comprising the 
portions of the Fresno-Kings Canyon approach road, Park Ridge Look-
out Road, and Ash Mountain-Advance truck trail necessary to the ad-
ministration and protection of Sequoia National Park and Kings Can-
yon National Park; 
(G) maintenance of the roads in the national forests leading out of 
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana; 
(H) maintenance of the road in the Stanislaus National Forest con-
necting the Tioga Road with the Hetch Hetchy Road near Mather Sta-
tion, Yosemite National Park, California; 
(I) maintenance and repair of the approach road to the Little Big-
horn Battlefield National Monument and the road connecting that 
monument with the Reno Monument site, Montana; and 
(J) repair and maintenance of the class C road lying between the 
terminus of F.A. 383 at the east boundary of Coronado National For-
est and the point where that class C road enters Coronado National 
Memorial in the vicinity of Montezuma Pass, approximately 5.3 miles; 
(2) administration, protection, improvement, and maintenance of 
areas, under the jurisdiction of other Federal agencies, that are devoted 
to recreational use pursuant to cooperative agreements; 
(3) necessary local transportation and subsistence in kind of individ-
uals selected for employment or as cooperators, serving without other 
compensation, while attending fire protection training camps; 
(4) administration, protection, maintenance, and improvement of the 
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal; 
(5) educational lectures in or in the vicinity of and with respect to 
System units, and services of field employees in cooperation with such 
nonprofit scientific and historical societies engaged in educational work 
in System units as the Secretary may designate; 
(6) travel expenses of employees attending— 
(A) Federal Government camps for training in forest fire pre-
vention and suppression; 
(B) the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Police Acad-
emy; and 
(C) Federal, State, or municipal schools for training in building 
fire prevention and suppression; 
(7) investigation and establishment of water rights in accordance 
with local custom, laws, and decisions of courts, including the acquisi-
tion of water rights or of land or interests in land or rights-of-way for 
use and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in the admin-
istration and public use of System units; 
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(8) acquisition of rights-of-way and construction and maintenance of 
a water supply line partly outside the boundaries of Mesa Verde Na-
tional Park; 
(9) official telephone service in the field in the case of official tele-
phones installed in private houses when authorized under regulations 
established by the Secretary; and 
(10) provision of transportation for children in nearby communities 
to and from any System unit used in connection with organized recre-
ation and interpretive programs of the Service. 
§ 1035.03. Amounts provided by private entities for utility 
services 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts provided to the 
Service by private entities for utility services shall be credited to the appro-
priate account and remain available until expended. 
§ 1035.04. Recovery of costs associated with special use per-
mits 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Service may recover all 
costs of providing necessary services associated with special use permits. 
The reimbursements shall be credited to the appropriation current at that 
time. 
CHAPTER 1037—NATIONAL MILITARY PARKS 
Sec. 
1037.01.
Military maneuvers. 
1037.02.
Camps for military instruction. 
1037.03.
Performance of duties of commissions. 
1037.04.
Recovery of land withheld. 
1037.05.
Travel expenses incident to study of battlefields. 
1037.06.
Studies. 
1307.07.
Criminal penalties. 
§ 1037.01. Military maneuvers 
To obtain practical benefits of great value to the country from the es-
tablishment of national military parks, the parks and their approaches are 
declared to be national fields for military maneuvers for the Regular Army 
or Regular Air Force and the National Guard or militia of the States. Na-
tional military parks shall be opened for those purposes only in the discre-
tion of the Secretary, and under such regulations as the Secretary may pre-
scribe. 
§ 1037.02. Camps for military instruction 
(a) ASSEMBLING OF FORCES AND DETAILING OF INSTRUCTORS.—The 
Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force, within the limits of 
appropriations that may be available for that purpose, may assemble in 
camp at such season of the year and for such period as the Secretary of 
the Army or Secretary of the Air Force may designate, at the field of mili-
tary maneuvers, such portions of the military forces of the United States 
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as the Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air Force may think best, 
to receive military instruction there. The Secretary of the Army of Secretary 
of the Air Force may detail instructors from the Regular Army or Regular 
Air Force, respectively, for those forces during their exercises. 
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary of the Army or Secretary of the Air 
Force may prescribe regulations governing the assembling of the National 
Guard or militia of the States on the maneuvering grounds. 
§ 1037.03. Performance of duties of commissions 
The duties of commissions in charge of national military parks shall be 
performed under the direction of the Secretary. 
§ 1037.04. Recovery of land withheld 
(a) CIVIL ACTION.—The United States may bring a civil action in the 
courts of the United States against a person to whom land lying within a 
national military park has been leased that refuses to give up possession of 
the land to the United States after the termination of the lease, and after 
possession has been demanded for the United States by the park super-
intendent, or against a person retaining possession of land lying within the 
boundary of a national military park that the person has sold to the United 
States for park purposes and received payment therefor, after possession of 
the land has been demanded for the United States by the park super-
intendent, to recover possession of the land withheld. The civil action shall 
be brought according to the statutes of the State in which the national mili-
tary park is situated. 
(b) TRESPASS.—A person described in subsection (a) shall be guilty of 
trespass. 
§ 1037.05. Travel expenses incident to study of battlefields 
Mileage of officers of the Army and actual expenses of civilian employees 
traveling on duty in connection with the studies, surveys, and field investiga-
tions of battlefields shall be paid from the appropriations made to meet ex-
penses for those purposes. 
§ 1037.06. Studies 
(a) STUDY OF BATTLEFIELDS FOR COMMEMORATIVE PURPOSES.—The 
Secretary of the Army may have made studies and investigations and, where 
necessary, surveys of all battlefields within the continental limits of the 
United States on which troops of the United States or of the original 13 
colonies have been engaged against a common enemy, with a view to pre-
paring a general plan and such detailed projects as may be required for 
properly commemorating such battlefields or other adjacent points of his-
toric and military interest. 
(b) INCLUSION OF ESTIMATE OF COST OF PROJECTED SURVEYS IN AP-
PROPRIATION ESTIMATES.—The Secretary shall include annually in the De-
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partment of the Interior appropriation estimates a list of the battlefields for 
which surveys or other field investigations are planned for the fiscal year 
in question, with the estimated cost of making each survey or other field 
investigation. 
(c) PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE FOR NATIONAL MILITARY PARK PUR-
POSES.—No real estate shall be purchased for national military park pur-
poses by the Federal Government unless a report on the real estate has been 
made by the Secretary through the President to Congress under subsection 
(d). 
(d) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Secretary annually shall submit 
through the President to Congress a detailed report of progress made under 
this subchapter, with recommendations for further operations. 
§ 1037.07. Criminal penalties 
(a) OFFENSES RELATING TO STRUCTURES AND VEGETATION.—A person 
that willfully destroys, mutilates, defaces, injures, or removes any monu-
ment, statue, marker, guidepost, or other structure, or that willfully de-
stroys, cuts, breaks, injures, or removes any tree, shrub, or plant within a 
national military park shall be fined under title 18 but not less than $10 
for each monument, statue, marker, guidepost, or other structure, tree, 
shrub, or plant destroyed, defaced, injured, cut, or removed, imprisoned for 
not less than 15 days nor more than one year, or both. 
(b) TRESPASSING
IN
A NATIONAL MILITARY PARK TO HUNT
OR 
SHOOT.—An individual who trespasses in a national military park to hunt 
or shoot, or hunts game of any kind in a national military park with a gun 
or dog, or sets a trap or net or other device in a national military park 
to hunt or catch game of any kind, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned 
not less than 5 nor more than 30 days, or both. 
CHAPTER 1039—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 
1039.01.
National Capital region arts and cultural affairs. 
1039.02.
National Park System Advisory Board. 
1039.03.
National Park Service Advisory Council. 
1039.04.
Protecting the right of individuals to bear arms. 
1039.05.
Limitation on extension or establishment of national parks in Wyoming. 
1039.06.
Donations of land near or adjacent to national forest in North Carolina for System 
unit purposes. 
§ 1039.01. National Capital region arts and cultural affairs 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is under the direction of the Service a pro-
gram to support and enhance artistic and cultural activities in the National 
Capital region. 
(b) GRANT ELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) ELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS.—Eligibility for grants shall be lim-
ited to organizations— 
(A) that are of demonstrated national significance; and 
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