{"identifier":"/us/usc/t16/s273d","title":16,"num":"\u00a7\u202f273d.","heading":"Administration, protection, and development","text":"\u00a7\u202f273d.\nAdministration, protection, and development\n(a)\nAuthority of Secretary\nThe National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary, shall administer, protect, and develop the park, subject to the provisions of the Act entitled \u201cAn Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes\u201d, approved\nAugust 25, 1916\n39 Stat. 535\n16 U.S.C. 1\u20134\n1\n1 See References in Text note below.\n(b)\nEasements and rights-of-way\nThe Secretary shall grant easements and rights-of-way on a nondiscriminatory basis upon, over, under, across, or along any component of the park area unless he finds that the route of such easements and rights-of-way would have significant adverse effects on the administration of the park.\n(c)\nReport by Secretary\nWithin three years from\nDecember 18, 1971\n16 U.S.C. 1132\n16 U.S.C. 1131","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t16/s273d.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t16/s273d","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f273d."},{"t":"heading","text":"Administration, protection, and development"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t16/s273d/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Authority of Secretary"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The National Park Service, under the direction of the Secretary, shall administer, protect, and develop the park, subject to the provisions of the Act entitled \u201cAn Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes\u201d, approved ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"August 25, 1916","tail":" ("},{"t":"ref","text":"39 Stat. 535","href":"/us/stat/39/535","tail":") as amended and supplemented ("},{"t":"ref","text":"16 U.S.C. 1\u20134","href":"/us/usc/t16/s1\u20134","tail":")."},{"t":"ref","text":"1"},{"t":"num","text":"1","tail":"\u202fSee References in Text note below."},{"t":"text","text":"\u202fSee References in Text note below."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t16/s273d/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Easements and rights-of-way"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"The Secretary shall grant easements and rights-of-way on a nondiscriminatory basis upon, over, under, across, or along any component of the park area unless he finds that the route of such easements and rights-of-way would have significant adverse effects on the administration of the park.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t16/s273d/c","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(c)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Report by Secretary"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Within three years from ","children":[{"t":"text","text":"December 18, 1971","tail":", the Secretary of the Interior shall report to the President, in accordance with subsections 3(c) and 3(d) of the Wilderness Act ["},{"t":"ref","text":"16 U.S.C. 1132","href":"/us/usc/t16/s1132","tail":" (c) and (d)], his recommendations as to the suitability or nonsuitability of any area within the park for preservation as wilderness, and any designation of any such area as a wilderness shall be in accordance with said Wilderness Act ["},{"t":"ref","text":"16 U.S.C. 1131","href":"/us/usc/t16/s1131","tail":" et seq.]."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}