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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 87A — Modernizing Access to Public Land

§ 6855. Cooperation and coordination

Statutory text

(a)

Third-party providers

The Secretaries may enter into an agreement with a third party to carry out any provision of this chapter.

(b)

US Geological Survey

The Secretaries shall work with the Director of the United States Geological Survey to collect, aggregate, digitize, standardize, or publish data on behalf of the Secretaries to meet the requirements of this chapter.

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. Modernizing Access to Our Public Land Act

    Pub. L. 117–114 § 6 · 136 Stat. 1175

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 6855

    Pub. L. 117–114, § 6, Apr. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 1177

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 117–114, § 6, Apr. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 1177

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 6. COOPERATION AND COORDINATION. (a) Third-party Providers.— Contracts. The Secretaries may enter into an agreement with a third party to carry out any provision of this Act. (b) US Geological Survey.— The Secretaries may work with the Director of the United States Geological Survey to collect, aggregate, digitize, standardize, or publish data on behalf of the Secretary of the Interior to meet the requirements of this Act.

  2. Pub. L. 118–234 title III § 354(3) · 138 Stat. 2917

    1. Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 6855(b)

      Pub. L. 118–234 substituted “shall” for “may”

    2. Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 6855(b)

      Pub. L. 118–234 substituted “the Secretaries” for “the Secretary of the Interior”

    Unresolved: Pub. L. 118–234 was not found in the local Statutes at Large index.

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 118–234 substituted “shall” for “may” and “the Secretaries” for “the Secretary of the Interior”.

1 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 2 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Amendments

2025—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 118–234 substituted “shall” for “may” and “the Secretaries” for “the Secretary of the Interior”.

Credits

2022–2025 · 2 acts
  1. 2022Pub. L. 117–114, § 6, , 136 Stat. 1177
  2. 2025Pub. L. 118–234, title III, § 354(3), , 138 Stat. 2917.
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(Pub. L. 117–114, § 6, , 136 Stat. 1177; Pub. L. 118–234, title III, § 354(3), , 138 Stat. 2917.)

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