§804. Interpretive transportation services; Federal areas

The Secretary is directed to utilize the authority under sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of title 16, as amended and supplemented, to provide interpretive transportation services between or in Federal areas within the District of Columbia and environs, including, but not limited to, transportation of visitors on, among, and between the Mall, the Ellipse, the National Visitor Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and East and West Potomac Park, and such other visitor facilities as may be established pursuant to this chapter, and, with the concurrence of the Architect of the Capitol, to provide such services on, among, and between such areas and the United States Capitol Grounds. The Secretary shall determine that such services are desirable to facilitate visitation and to insure proper management and protection of such areas. Such interpretive transportation services shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, be deemed transportation by the United States and shall be under the sole and exclusive charge and control of the Secretary.

( Pub. L. 90–264, title I, §105, Mar. 12, 1968, 82 Stat. 44 ; Pub. L. 93–62, §2, July 6, 1973, 87 Stat. 146 .)

Amendments

1973-Pub. L. 93–62 substituted provisions for interpretive transportation services between or in Federal areas, for former provisions respecting parking facility, transfer of property for vehicular access to public roads and highways, and alteration of traffic pattern in Union Station Plaza after consultation with Architect of Capitol.

Report to Congress

Section 104 of Pub. L. 90–264 provided that the Secretary report to Congress, on or before Apr. 15, 1968, the results of the study concerning the problems of transporting visitors along the Mall, on the United States Capitol Grounds, and to and from the National Visitor Center, which report was to include types of transportation to be utilized, the operation of any transportation system, the feasibility of providing free transportation, and any proposed legislation to carry out his recommendations.