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in the activities of the International Centre for the Study of the Preserva-
tion and Restoration of Cultural Property on behalf of the United States. 
The Secretary of State shall appoint the members of the official delegation 
from the persons recommended to the Secretary of State by the Council. 
§ 204107. Transmittal of legislative recommendations, testi-
mony, or comments to any officer or agency of the 
United States prior to submission to Congress 
No officer or agency of the United States shall have any authority to re-
quire the Council to submit its legislative recommendations, or testimony, 
or comments on legislation to any officer or agency of the United States 
for approval, comments, or review, prior to the submission of the rec-
ommendations, testimony, or comments to Congress. When the Council vol-
untarily seeks to obtain the comments or review of any officer or agency 
of the United States, the Council shall include a description of the actions 
in its legislative recommendations, testimony, or comments on legislation 
that it transmits to Congress. 
§ 204108. Regulations, procedures, and guidelines 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Council may promulgate regulations as it con-
siders necessary to govern the implementation of section 205302 of this 
title. 
(b) PARTICIPATION BY LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.—The Council shall by reg-
ulation establish such procedures as may be necessary to provide for partici-
pation by local governments in proceedings and other actions taken by the 
Council with respect to undertakings referred to in section 205302 of this 
title that affect the local governments. 
(c) EXEMPTION
FOR FEDERAL PROGRAMS
OR UNDERTAKINGS.—The 
Council, with the concurrence of the Secretary, shall promulgate regulations 
or guidelines, as appropriate, under which Federal programs or under-
takings may be exempted from any or all of the requirements of this divi-
sion when the exemption is determined to be consistent with the purposes 
of this division, taking into consideration the magnitude of the exempted un-
dertaking or program and the likelihood of impairment of historic prop-
erties. 
§ 204109. Budget submission 
(a) TIME AND MANNER OF SUBMISSION.—The Council shall submit its 
budget annually as a related agency of the Department of the Interior. 
(b) TRANSMITTAL OF COPIES TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.—When-
ever the Council submits any budget estimate or request to the President 
or the Office of Management and Budget, it shall concurrently transmit 
copies of that estimate or request to the Committee on Natural Resources 
and Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
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Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate. 
§ 204110. Report by Secretary to Council 
To assist the Council in discharging its responsibilities under this divi-
sion, the Secretary at the request of the Chairman shall provide a report 
to the Council detailing the significance of any historic property, describing 
the effects of any proposed undertaking on the affected property, and rec-
ommending measures to avoid, minimize, or mitigate adverse effects. 
§ 204111. Reimbursements from State and local agencies 
Subject to applicable conflict of interest laws, the Council may receive re-
imbursements from State and local agencies and others pursuant to agree-
ments executed in furtherance of this division. 
§ 204112. Effectiveness of Federal grant and assistance pro-
grams 
(a) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS.—The Council may enter into a coopera-
tive agreement with any Federal agency that administers a grant or assist-
ance program for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of the adminis-
tration of the program in meeting the purposes and policies of this division. 
The cooperative agreement may include provisions that modify the selection 
criteria for a grant or assistance program to further the purposes of this 
division or that allow the Council to participate in the selection of recipients, 
if those provisions are not inconsistent with the grant or assistance pro-
gram’s statutory authorization and purpose. 
(b) REVIEW
OF GRANT
AND ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS.—The Council 
may— 
(1) review the operation of any Federal grant or assistance program 
to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in meeting the purposes 
and policies of this division; 
(2) make recommendations to the head of any Federal agency that 
administers the program to further the consistency of the program with 
the purposes and policies of this division and to improve its effective-
ness in carrying out those purposes and policies; and 
(3) make recommendations to the President and Congress regarding 
the effectiveness of Federal grant and assistance programs in meeting 
the purposes and policies of this division, including recommendations 
with regard to appropriate funding levels. 
§ 204113. Authorization of appropriations 
There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as are necessary 
to carry out this chapter. 
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CHAPTER 2043—HISTORIC LIGHT STATION 
PRESERVATION 
Sec. 
204301.
Definitions. 
204302.
Duties of Secretary in providing a national historic light station program. 
204303.
Selection of eligible entity and conveyance of historic light stations. 
204304.
Terms of conveyance. 
204305.
Description of property. 
204306.
Historic light station sales. 
§ 204301. Definitions 
In this chapter: 
(1) ADMINISTRATOR.—The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Admin-
istrator of General Services. 
(2) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘‘eligible entity’’ means— 
(A) any department or agency of the Federal Government; or 
(B) any department or agency of the State in which a historic 
light station is located, the local government of the community in 
which a historic light station is located, a nonprofit corporation, 
an educational agency, or a community development organization 
that— 
(i) has agreed to comply with the conditions set forth in 
section 204304 of this title and to have the conditions re-
corded with the deed of title to the historic light station; and 
(ii) is financially able to maintain the historic light station 
in accordance with the conditions set forth in section 204304 
of this title. 
(3) FEDERAL AID TO NAVIGATION.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘Federal aid to navigation’’ means 
any device, operated and maintained by the United States, exter-
nal to a vessel or aircraft, intended to assist a navigator to deter-
mine position or safe course, or to warn of dangers or obstructions 
to navigation. 
(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘Federal aid to navigation’’ in-
cludes a light, lens, lantern, antenna, sound signal, camera, sen-
sor, piece of electronic navigation equipment, power source, or 
other piece of equipment associated with a device described in sub-
paragraph (A). 
(4) HISTORIC LIGHT STATION.—The term ‘‘historic light station’’ in-
cludes the light tower, lighthouse, keeper’s dwelling, garages, storage 
sheds, oil house, fog signal building, boat house, barn, pumphouse, 
tramhouse support structures, piers, walkways, underlying and appur-
tenant land and related real property and improvements associated 
with a historic light station that is a historic property. 
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§ 204302. Duties of Secretary in providing a national his-
toric light station program 
To provide a national historic light station program, the Secretary shall— 
(1) collect and disseminate information concerning historic light sta-
tions; 
(2) foster educational programs relating to the history, practice, and 
contribution to society of historic light stations; 
(3) sponsor or conduct research and study into the history of light 
stations; 
(4) maintain a listing of historic light stations; and 
(5) assess the effectiveness of the program established by this chap-
ter regarding the conveyance of historic light stations. 
§ 204303. Selection of eligible entity and conveyance of his-
toric light stations 
(a) PROCESS AND POLICIES.—The Secretary and the Administrator shall 
maintain a process and policies for identifying, and selecting, an eligible en-
tity to which a historic light station could be conveyed for education, park, 
recreation, cultural, or historic preservation purposes, and to monitor the 
use of the light station by the eligible entity. 
(b) APPLICATION REVIEW.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall— 
(A) review all applications for the conveyance of a historic light 
station, when the agency with administrative jurisdiction over the 
historic light station has determined the property to be excess 
property (as that term is defined in section 102 of title 40); and 
(B) forward to the Administrator a single approved application 
for the conveyance of the historic light station. 
(2) CONSULTATION.—When selecting an eligible entity, the Secretary 
shall consult with the State Historic Preservation Officer of the State 
in which the historic light station is located. 
(c) CONVEYANCE OR SALE OF HISTORIC LIGHT STATIONS.— 
(1) CONVEYANCE BY ADMINISTRATOR.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), after the Secretary’s selection of an eligible entity, the Ad-
ministrator shall convey, by quitclaim deed, without consideration, all 
right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a historic light 
station, subject to the conditions set forth in section 204304 of this 
title. The conveyance of a historic light station under this chapter shall 
not be subject to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11301 et seq.) or section 416(d) of the Coast Guard Authoriza-
tion Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–383, 14 U.S.C. 93 note). 
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