CITE

    16 USC Sec. 470r                                            01/08/2008

EXPCITE

    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1A - HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
    SUBCHAPTER II - NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
    Part B - Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

HEAD

    Sec. 470r. Transmittal of legislative recommendations, or
      testimony, or comments, to any officer or agency of the United
      States prior to submission thereof to Congress; prohibition

STATUTE

      No officer or agency of the United States shall have any
    authority to require the Council to submit its legislative
    recommendations, or testimony, or comments on legislation to any
    officer or agency of the United States for approval, comments, or
    review, prior to the submission of such recommendations, testimony,
    or comments to the Congress. In instances in which the Council
    voluntarily seeks to obtain the comments or review of any officer
    or agency of the United States, the Council shall include a
    description of such actions in its legislative recommendations,
    testimony, or comments on legislation which it transmits to the
    Congress.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 89-665, title II, Sec. 210, as added Pub. L. 94-422, title
    II, Sec. 201(9), Sept. 28, 1976, 90 Stat. 1322; amended Pub. L. 96-
    515, title III, Sec. 301(k), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2999.)

AMENDMENTS

      1980 - Pub. L. 96-515 struck out provision requiring the Council,
    whenever it transmits any legislative recommendations, or
    testimony, or comments on legislation to the President or Office of
    Management and Budget, to concurrently transmit copies thereof to
    the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and the Senate
    Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.