Sec. 202. Encouraging public-private cooperative management
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Section 101703 of title 54, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: In this section, the term State means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, and each territory of the United States. The Secretary, in accordance with the laws generally applicable to System units and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate, may enter into a cooperative management agreement with a State, Indian Tribe, or local government with park land adjacent to a System unit, if the agreement would provide for more effective and efficient management of a System unit and the adjacent non-Federal park land.
The Secretary may not transfer administration responsibilities for any System unit under this subsection. The Secretary may provide or acquire goods and services on a reimbursable basis as part of a cooperative management agreement entered into under subsection (b). The Secretary may retain and expend any funds received under this section without further appropriation. The Secretary and a State, Indian Tribe, or local government may co-locate in offices or facilities owned or leased by either party as part of a cooperative management agreement entered into under subsection (b).
The Secretary may arrange an assignment under section 3372 of title 5 of a Federal employee or an employee of a State, Indian Tribe, or local government, as mutually agreed on, for work, on the applicable Federal, State, local, or Tribal park land covered by the cooperative management agreement. An assignment under paragraph
(1)may be extended if the Secretary and the State, Indian Tribe, or local government determine the extension to be mutually beneficial. .