An Act to facilitate the management of the National Park System and miscellaneous areas administered in connection with that system, and for other purposes
PL 83-230 (H.R.1524), enacted 08/08/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 280-AUG. 8, 1953 
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Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assemhled^ That until June 30, 1954, 
all executive, legislative, and judicial authority necessary for the 
civil administration of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall 
continue to be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised 
in such manner and through such agency or agencies as the President 
of the United States may direct or authorize. 
SEC. 2. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated fcr a period 
not to exceed one year such sums, not to exceed $7,500,000, as may be 
necessary to carry out the provisions of this joint resolution: Pro-
vided^ however, That no new activity requiring expenditures of Fed-
eral funds shall be initiated without specific prior approval of the 
Congress. 
SEC. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of the Interior Department 
Appropriation Act, 1953 (Public Law 470, Eighty-second Congress, 
second session, 66 Stat. 445), the Island Trading Company of Micro-
nesia shall not have succession after December 31, 1954. 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
T r u s t Territory 
of Pacific Islands. 
Civil 
g o v e r n -
ment. 
Appropriation. 
I s l a n d Trading: 
Company of Micro-
nesia, 
Public Law 230 
CHAPTER 384 
AN ACT 
To facilitate the management of the National Park System and miscellaneous 
areas administered in connection with that system, and for other purposes. 
August 8, 1953 
[H. R. 1524] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to 
facilitate the administration of the National Park System and miscel-
laneous areas administered in connection therewith, the Secretary of 
the Interior is hereby authorized to carry out the following activities, 
and he may use applicable appropriations for the aforesaid system 
and miscellaneous areas for the following purposes: 
1. Eendering of emergency rescue, fire fighting, and cooperative 
assistance to nearby law enforcement and fire prevention agencies and 
for related purposes outside of the National Park System and miscel-
laneous areas. 
2. The erection and maintenance of fire protection facilities, water 
lines, telephone lines, electric lines, and other utility facilities adjacent 
to any area of the said National Park System and miscellaneous areas, 
where necessary, to provide service in such area. 
3. Transportation to and from work, outside of regular working 
hours, of employees of Carlsbad Caverns National Park, residing in or 
near the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico, such transportation to be 
between the park and the city, or intervening points, at reasonable 
rates to be determined by the Secretary of the Interior taking into 
consideration, among other factors, comparable rates charged by trans-
portation companies in the locality for similar services, the amounts 
collected for such transportation to be credited to the appropriation 
current at the time payment is received: Provided, That if adequate 
transportation facilities are available, or shall be available by any 
common carrier, at reasonable rates, then and in that event the facili-
ties contemplated by this paragraph shall not be offered. 
4. Furnishing, on a reimbursement of appropriation basis, all types 
of utility services to concessioners, contractors, permittees, or other 
users of such services, within the National Park System and miscel-
laneous areas: Provided, That reimbursements for cost of such utility 
services may be credited to the appropriation current at the time reim-
bursements are received. 
N a t i o n a l Park 
System. 
Administration. 
Emergency 
as-
sistance. 
Utility facilities. 
C a r l s b ad Cav-
e r n s 
Na^-ional 
Park. 
Transp o r t a tion 
of employees. 
Utility 
services 
for concessioners, 
etc. 
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PUBLIC LAW 230-AUG. 8, 1953 
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S u p p l i e s a n d 
r e n t a l of equip-
ment. 
C o n t r a c t s for 
utility facilities. 
Rights-of-way. 
Motor equipment, 
etc. 
R e n t a l of fire-
control equipment. 
Definitions. 
16 u s e 1-4. 
Appropriations. 
16 u s e 17J-2. 
5. Furnishing, on a reimbursement of appropriation basis, supplies, 
and the rental of equipment to persons and agencies that in coopera-
tion with, and subject to the approval of, the Secretary of the Interior, 
render services or perform functions that facilitate or supplement the 
activities of the Department of the Interior in the administration of 
the National Park System and miscellaneous areas: Provided^ That 
reimbursements hereunder may be credited to the appropriation cur-
rent at the time reimbursements are received. 
6. Contracting, under such terms and conditions as the said Secre-
tary considers to be in the interest of the Federal Government, for the 
sale, operation, maintenance, repair, or relocation of Government-
owned electric and telephone lines and other utility facilities used for 
the administration and protection of the National Park System and 
miscellaneous areas, regardless of whether such lines and facilities 
are located within or outside said system and areas. 
7. Acquiring such rights-of-way as may be necessary to construct, 
improve, and maintain roads within the authorized boundaries of any 
area of the said National Park System and miscellaneous areas, and 
the acquisition also of land and interests in land adjacent to such 
rights-of-way, w^hen deemed necessary by the Secretary, to provide 
adequate protection of natural features or to avoid traffic and other 
hazards resulting from private road access connections, or when the 
acquisition of adjacent residual tracts, which otherwise would remain 
after acquiring such rights-of-way, would be in the public interest. 
8. The operation, repair, maintenance, and replacement of motor 
and other equipment on a reimbursable basis when such equipment 
is used on Federal projects of the said National Park System and 
miscellaneous areas, chargeable to other appropriations, or on work of 
other Federal agencies, when requested by such agencies. Reimburse-
ment shall be made from appropriations applicable to the work on 
which the equipment is used at rental rates established by the Secre-
tary, based on actual or estimated cost of operation, repair, mainte-
nance, depreciation, and equipment management control, and credited 
to appropriations currently available at the time adjustment is 
effected, and the Secretary may also rent equipment for fire control 
purposes to State, county, private, or other non-Federal agencies that 
cooperate with the Secretary in the administration of the said National 
Park System and other areas in fire control, such rental to be under 
the terms of written cooperative agreements, the amount collected for 
such rentals to be credited to appropriations currently available at the 
time payment is received. 
SEC. 2. (a) The term "National Park System" means all federally 
owned or controlled lands which are administered under the direction 
of the Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the provisions of 
the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), as amended, and which are 
grouped into the following descriptive categories: (1) National parks, 
(2) national monuments, (3) national historical parks, (4) national 
memorials, (5) national parkways, and (6) national capital parks. 
(b) The term "miscellaneous areas" includes lands under the ad-
ministrative jurisdiction of another Federal agency, or lands in pri-
vate ownership, and over w^hich the National Park Service, under the 
direction of the Secretary of the Interior, pursuant to cooperative 
agreement, exercises supervision for recreational, historical, or other 
related purposes, and also any lands under the care and custody of the 
National Park Service other than those heretofore described in this 
section. 
SEC. 3. Hereafter applicable appropriations of the National Park 
Service shall be available for the objects and purposes specified in the 
Act of August T, 1946 (60 Stat. 885). 
Approved August 8, 1953.