An Act to improve the administration of the national park system by the Secretary of the Interior, and to clarify the authorities applicable to the system, and for other purposes
PL 91-383 (H.R.14114), enacted 08/18/1970

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PUBLIC LAW 91-383-AUG. 18, 1970 
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Service Act of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1136(9), 1136(11) 
and 1157(a), respectively); and under regulations prescribed by the 
Comptroller General of the United States, rental of living quarters in 
foreign countries and travel benefits comparable with those which are 
now or hereafter may be granted single employees of the Agency for 
International Development, including single Foreign Service person-
nel assigned to A.I.D. projects, by the Administrator of the Agency for 
International Development—or his designee—under the authority of 
Section 636(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (Public Law 
87-195, 22 U.S.C. 2396(b)), $74,020,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used 
for the maintenance or care of private vehicles. 
SEC. 103. Whenever any office or position not specifically established 
by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein or when-
ever the rate of compensation or designation of any position appro-
priated for herein is different from that specifically established for 
such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designa-
tion of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided herein, 
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided^ That the 
provisions herein for the various items of official expenses of Mem-
bers, officers, and committees of the Senate and House, and clerk hire 
for Senators and Members shall be the permanent law with respect 
thereto: Provided further^ That the provisions relating to positions 
and salaries thereof carried in House Resolutions 644 and 865, Ninety-
first Congress, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto. 
SEC. 104. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appropriation 
Act, 1971". 
Approved August 18, 1970. 
75 Stat. 464; 
81 Stat. 671. 
75 Stat. 458. 
46 Stat. 32. 
2 u s e 60a note. 
Short title. 
Public Law 91-383 
AN ACT 
August 18, 1970 
To improve the adininistration of the national park system by the Secretary of 
[H. R. 14114] 
the Interior, and to clarify the autliorities applicable to the system, and for 
other purposes. 
National park 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Vmted 
States of America 
in Congress assembled., That Congress ^ ^^^^ 
declares tliat the national park system, which began with establish- 
Administration; 
ment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, has since grown to include authority ciari-
superlative natural, historic, and recreation areas in every major ^'le use 21. 
region of the United States, its territories and island possessions; that 
these areas, though distinct in character, are united through their 
inter-related purposes and resources into one national park system 
as cumulative expressions of a single national heritage; that, individ-
ually and collectively, these areas derive increased national dignity 
and recognition of their superb environmental quality through their 
inclusion jointly with each other in one national park system pre-
served and managed for the benefit and inspiration of all the people 
of the United States; and that it is the purpose of this Act to include 
all such areas in the System and to clarify the authorities applicable 
to the system. 
46 Stat. 1053. 
70 Stat. 908. 
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SEC. 2. (a) Section 1 of the Act of August 8, 1953 (67 Stat. 496; 
16 U.S.C. lb), is amended by deleting "and miscellaneous areas admin-
istered in connection therewith'" and "and miscellaneous areas" wher-
ever they appear. 
(b) Section 2 of the Act of August 8,1953 (67 Stat. 496; 16 U.S.C. 
Ic), is amended to read as follows: 
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"SEC. 2. (a) The 'national park system' shall include any area of 
land and water now or hereafter administered by the Secretary of 
the Interior through the National Park Service for park, monument, 
historic, parkway, recreational, or other purposes. 
Authorities, 
"(jj) Eacli area within the national park system shall be adminis-
cabi°i^.^^^^^' 
tered in accordance with the provisions of any statute made specifically 
applicable to that area. In addition, the provisions of this Act, and the 
\arious authorities relating to the administration and protection of 
•areas under the administration of the Secretary of the Interior through 
the National Park Service, including but not limited to the Act of 
Augiist 25,1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1, 2-4), the Act 
66 Stat. 95. 
of March 4, 1911 (36 Stat. 1253), as amended (16 U.S.C. 5) relating 
to rights-of-way, the Act of June 5, 1920 (41 Stat. 917), as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 6), relating to donation of land and money, sections 1, 4, 5, 
and 6 of the Act of April 9,1924 (43 Stat. 90), as amended (16 U.S.C. 
8 and 8a-8c), relating to roads and trails, the Act of March 4,1931 (46 
Stat. 1570; 16 U.S.C. 8d) relating to approach roads to national monu-
ments, the Act of June 3, 1948 (62 Stat. 334), as amended (16 U.S.C. 
8e-8f), relating to conveyance of roads to States, the Act of August 31, 
1954 (68 Stat. 1037), as amended (16 U.S.C. 452a), relating to acquisi-
tions of inholdings, section 1 of the Act of July 3,1926 (44 Stat. 900), 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 12), relating to aid to visitors in emergencies, 
the Act of March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. 873; 16 U.S.C. 10), relating to 
arrests, sections 3,4, 5, and 6 of the Act of May 26,1930 (46 Stat. 381), 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 17b, I7c, 17d, and I7e), relating to services or 
other accommodations for the public, emergency supplies and services 
to concessioners, acceptability of travelers checks, care and removal 
of indigents, the Act of October 9, 1965 (79 Stat. 696; 16 U.S.C. 
79 Stat. 969. 
20-20g), relating to concessions, tlie Land and AVater Conservation 
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^ amended, and the Act of July 15, 1968 (82 Stat. 
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355), shall, to the extent such provisions are not in conflict with any 
such specific provision, be applicable to all areas within the national 
park system and any reference in such Act to national parks, monu-
ments, recreation areas, historic monuments, or parkways shall here-
inafter not be construed as limiting such Acts to those areas." 
int^eMo^^authorit 
^^^" ^- ^^ Order to facilitate the administration of the national park 
system, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, under such terms 
and conditions as he may deem advisable, to carry out the following 
activities: 
(a) provide transportation of employees located at isolated 
areas of the national park system and to members of their families, 
w'here (1) such areas are not adequately served by commercial 
transportation, and (2) such transportation is incidental to official 
transportation services; 
(b) provide recreation facilities, equipment, and services for 
use by employees and their families located at isolated areas of the 
national park system; 
(c) appoint and establish such advisory committees in regard 
to the functions of the National Park Service as he may deem 
advisable, members of w^hich shall receive no compensation for 
their services as such but who shall be allowed necessary travel 
expenses as authorized by section 5 of the Administrative Expenses 
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(d) purchase field and special purpose equipment required by 
employees for the performance of assigned functions which shall 
be regarded and listed as park equipment; 
(e) enter into contracts which provide for the sale or lease 
to persons, States, or their political subdivisions, of services, 
resources, or water available within an area of the national park 
system, if such person. State, or its political subdivision— 
(1) provides public accommodations or services within 
the immediate vicinity of an area of the national park system 
to persons visiting the area; and 
(2) has demonstrated to the Secretary that there are no 
reasonable alternatives by which to acquire or perform the 
necessary services, resources, or water; 
(f) acquire, and have installed, air-conditioning units for any 
Government-owned passenger motor vehicles used by the National 
Park Service, where assigned duties necessitate long periods in 
automobiles or in regions of the United States where high tem-
peratures and humidity are common and prolonged; 
(g) sell at fair market value without regard to the require-
ments of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 1949, as amended, products and services produced in the con-
duct of living exhibits and interpretive demonstrations in areas 
of the national park system, to enter into contracts including 
cooi^erative arrangements wdth respect to such living exhibits and 
interpretive demonstrations and park programs, and to credit the 
proceeds therefrom to the appropriation bearing the cost of such 
exhibits and demonstrations. 
SEC. 4. The Act of March 17, IMS (62 Stat. 81), is amended by 
deleting from section 1 thereof the words "over which the TTnited 
States has, or hereafter acquires, exclusive or concurrent criminal 
jurisdiction," and changing section 3 to read as follows: 
"SEC. '^. For the purposes of this Act, the environs of the District of 
Columbia are lierel)y defined as embracing Arlington, Fairfax, Lou-
doun, Prince William, and Stafford Counties and the city of Alex-
andria in Virginia, and Prince Georges, Charles, Anne Arundel, and 
Montgomery Counties in Maryland." 
Approved August 18, 1970. 
63 Stat. 377. 
40 u s e 471 
note. 
U.S. Park 
Police, jurisdic-
tion in D.C. 
environs. 
Definition. 
Public Law 91-384 
AN ACT 
To amend the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1987 to authorize 
marketing agreements providing for the advertising of papayas. 
August 18, 1970 
[S.2484] 
Be it encu'ted by the Senate and Hou>ie of Repremntatives 
of the 
United States of America in CongreHH aasemhled^ 
SECTION 1. The proviso at the end of section 8c(6) (1) of the Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act (as reenacted by the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1987, and as subsequently amended (7 U.S.C. 608c 
(6) ( I ) ) , is amended by inserting "papayas," immediately after 
"applicable to cherries,". 
Approved August 18, 1970. 
Papayaj. 
Marketing agree-
ments. 
76 Stat, 632; 
79 Stat. 1270.