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54 U.S.C. § 101511 — Authority of Secretary
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**(a) Roads and Trails in System Units.—** The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, and improve roads and trails, including bridges, in System units.
**(b) Approach Roads.—**
(1) **In general.—**
(A) *Designation.—* — When the Secretary determines it to be in the public interest, the Secretary may designate, as System unit approach roads, roads whose primary value is to carry System unit travel and that lead across land at least 90 percent owned by the Federal Government and that will connect the highways within a System unit with a convenient point on or leading to the National Highway System.
(B) *Limit on length of approach roads.—*
(i) *In general.—* — A designated approach road shall not exceed—
(I) 60 miles in length between a System unit gateway and a point on or leading to the nearest convenient National Highway System road; or
(II) 30 miles in length if the approach road is on the National Highway System.
(ii) *County limit.—* — Not to exceed 40 miles of any one approach road shall be designated in any one county.
(C) *Supplementary part of system unit highway system.—* — An approach road designated for a System unit shall be treated as a supplementary part of the highway system of the System unit.
(2) **Construction, reconstruction, and improvement.—**
(A) *In general.—* — The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, and improve approach roads designated under paragraph (1) (including bridges) and enter into agreements for the maintenance of the approach roads by State or county authorities or to maintain the approach roads when otherwise necessary.
(B) *Annual allocation.—* — Not more than $1,500,000 shall be allocated annually for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of System unit approach roads.
(3) **A
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**(a) Roads and Trails in System Units.—** The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, and improve roads and trails, including bridges, in System units.
**(b) Approach Roads.—**
(1) **In general.—**
(A) *Designation.—* — When the Secretary determines it to be in the public interest, the Secretary may designate, as System unit approach roads, roads whose primary value is to carry System unit travel and that lead across land at least 90 percent owned by the Federal Government and that will connect the highways within a System unit with a convenient point on or leading to the National Highway System.
(B) *Limit on length of approach roads.—*
(i) *In general.—* — A designated approach road shall not exceed—
(I) 60 miles in length between a System unit gateway and a point on or leading to the nearest convenient National Highway System road; or
(II) 30 miles in length if the approach road is on the National Highway System.
(ii) *County limit.—* — Not to exceed 40 miles of any one approach road shall be designated in any one county.
(C) *Supplementary part of system unit highway system.—* — An approach road designated for a System unit shall be treated as a supplementary part of the highway system of the System unit.
(2) **Construction, reconstruction, and improvement.—**
(A) *In general.—* — The Secretary may construct, reconstruct, and improve approach roads designated under paragraph (1) (including bridges) and enter into agreements for the maintenance of the approach roads by State or county authorities or to maintain the approach roads when otherwise necessary.
(B) *Annual allocation.—* — Not more than $1,500,000 shall be allocated annually for the construction, reconstruction, and improvement of System unit approach roads.
(3) **Approval of secretary of agriculture required.—** — When an approach road is proposed under this section across or within any national forest, the Secretary shall secure the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture before construction begins.
**(c) Agreement With Secretary of Transportation.—** Under agreement with the Secretary, the Secretary of Transportation may carry out any provision of this section.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Apr. 9, 1924, ch. 86, § 5, as added Jan. 31, 1931, ch. 79, 46 Stat. 1053; amended 1939 Reorg. Plan No. I, §§ 301, 302, eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2727, 53 Stat. 1426; June 29, 1948, ch. 732, § 4(a), 62 Stat. 1107; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, § 103, 63 Stat. 380; 1949 Reorg. Plan No. 7, § 2, eff. Aug. 10, 1949, 14 F.R. 5228, 63 Stat. 1070, related to national-park approach roads and roads and trails within national parks and national monuments; construction, improvement, and maintenance; appropriation. See section 101511(a), (b)(2), (c) of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Apr. 9, 1924, ch. 86, § 1, 43 Stat. 90, related to roads and trails in national parks and monuments; construction, etc. See [section 101511(a) of Title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section101511/a&num=0&edition=prelim), National Park Service and Related Programs.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Apr. 9, 1924, ch. 86, § 4, as added Jan. 31, 1931, ch. 79, 46 Stat. 1053, related to designation of national-park approach roads. See [section 101511(b)(1) of Title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section101511/b/1&num=0&edition=prelim), National Park Service and Related Programs.
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act Apr. 9, 1924, ch. 86, § 6, as added Jan. 31, 1931, ch. 79, 46 Stat. 1054, related to national-park approach roads across or within national forests; approval of Secretary of Agriculture. See [section 101511(b)(3) of Title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section101511/b/3&num=0&edition=prelim), National Park Service and Related Programs.
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**(a) In general** The lakeshore shall be administered, protected, and developed in accordance with this section and the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535; [16 U.S.C. 1](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section1&num=0&edition=prelim), 2–4),11 See References in Text note below. as amended and supplemented; and [section 101511 of title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section101511&num=0&edition=prelim), except that any other statutory authority available to the Secretary for the conservation and management of natural resources may be utilized to the extent he finds such authority will further the purposes of this subchapter.
**(b) Federal use** Notwithstanding subsection (c) of [section 460w of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section460w&num=0&edition=prelim)—
(1) the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating may operate, maintain, keep, locate, inspect, repair, and replace any Federal aid to navigation located at the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light for as long as such aid is needed for navigational purposes; and
(2) in carrying out the activities described in paragraph (1), such Secretary may enter, at any time, the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light or any Federal aid to navigation at the Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, for as long as such aid is needed for navigational purposes, without notice to the extent that it is not possible to provide advance notice.
**(c) Clarification of authority** Pursuant to existing authorities, the Secretary may enter into agreements with the City of Ashland, County of Ashland, and County of Bayfield, Wisconsin, for the purpose of cooperative law enforcement and emerge
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TITLE 54—NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND RELATED PROGRAMS
§ 101511
SUBCHAPTER I—AIRPORTS
§ 101501. Airports in or near System units
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section, the terms
‘‘airport’’, ‘‘project’’, ‘‘project costs’’, ‘‘public
agency’’, and ‘‘sponsor’’ have the meanings
given the terms in section 47102 of title 49.
(b) ACQUISITION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE
OF AIRPORTS.—
(1)
AUTHORIZATION.—The
Secretary
may
plan, acquire, establish, construct, enlarge,
improve, maintain, equip, operate, regulate,
and protect airports in the continental United
States in, or in close proximity to, System
units, when the Secretary determines that the
airports are necessary to the proper perform-
ance of the functions of the Department of the
Interior.
(2) INCLUSION
IN
NATIONAL
PLAN.—The Sec-
retary shall not acquire, establish, or con-
struct an airport under this section unless the
airport is included in the national plan of inte-
grated airport systems formulated by the Sec-
retary of Transportation pursuant to section
47103 of title 49.
(3) OPERATION
AND
MAINTENANCE
MUST
AC-
CORD
WITH
STANDARDS
AND
REGULATIONS
OF
SECRETARY
OF
TRANSPORTATION.—The oper-
ation and maintenance of airports under this
section shall be in accordance with the stand-
ards and regulations prescribed by the Sec-
retary of Transportation.
(c) AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—To carry out this section,
the Secretary may—
(A) acquire necessary land and interests in
or over land;
(B) contract for the construction, improve-
ment, operation, and maintenance of air-
ports and incidental facilities;
(C) enter into agreements with other pub-
lic agencies providing for the construction,
operation, or maintenance of airports by
those agencies or jointly by the Secretary
and those a
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