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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores

§ 425n. Interpretation

Statutory text

In administering the park, the Secretary shall take such action as is necessary and appropriate to interpret, for the benefit of visitors to the park and the general public, the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and the Wilderness in the larger context of the Civil War and American history, including the causes and consequences of the Civil War and including the effects of the war on all the American people, especially on the American South.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park Expansion Act of 1989

    Pub. L. 101–214 § 5 · 103 Stat. 1849

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 425n

    (Pub. L. 101–214, § 5, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1851.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 101–214, § 5, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1851.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 5. INTERPRETATION. In administering the park, the Secretary shall take such action as is necessary and appropriate to interpret, for the benefit of visitors to the park and the general public, the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Spotsylvania Courthouse, and the Wilderness in the larger context of the Civil War and American history, including the causes and consequences of the Civil War and including the effects of the war on all the American people, especially on the American South.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Pub. L. 101–214, § 5, , 103 Stat. 1851.)

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