Title 16 — Conservation
Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power
§ 797a. Congressional authorization for permits, licenses, leases, or authorizations for dams, conduits, reservoirs, etc., within national parks or monuments
Statutory text
On and after , no permit, license, lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the development, transmission, or utilization of power within the limits as constituted, , of any national park or national monument shall be granted or made without specific authority of Congress.
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.
An Act to create a Federal Power Commission; to provide for the improvement of navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public lands in relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, ap-proved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes
Pub. L. 66–129 · 41 Stat. 1353
Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 797a
(Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 129, 41 Stat. 1353.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 129, 41 Stat. 1353.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Provisions repealing so much of this chapter “as authorizes licensing such uses of existing national parks and national monuments by the Federal Power Commission” have been omitted.
Section was not enacted as part of the Federal Power Act which generally comprises this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Construction
Act Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 212, 49 Stat. 847, provided that nothing in this chapter should be construed to repeal or amend the provisions of the act approved (41 Stat. 1353) [16 U.S.C. 797a] or the provisions of any other Act relating to national parks and national monuments. See note preceding section 791 of this title.
Credits
(Mar. 3, 1921, ch. 129, 41 Stat. 1353.)