---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 230c"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "230c"
heading: "Cooperative agreements; specific provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/230c"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXV — Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve"
  - "Part A — Generally"
---

# §230c. Cooperative agreements; specific provisions


In furtherance of the purposes of this part, and after consultation with the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) created by [section 230f of this title](/usc/16/230f.md), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to enter into cooperative agreements with the [owners](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of properties of natural, historical, or cultural significance, including but not limited to the resources described in paragraphs (1) through (5)[^1] of [section 230 of this title](/usc/16/230.md), pursuant to which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may mark, interpret, restore and/or provide technical assistance for the preservation and interpretation of such properties, and pursuant to which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may provide assistance including management services, program implementation, and incremental financial assistance in furtherance of the standards for administration of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) pursuant to [section 230e of this title](/usc/16/230e.md). Such agreements shall contain, but need not be limited to, provisions that the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), through the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, shall have the right of access at all reasonable times to all public portions of the property covered by such agreement for the purpose of conducting visitors through such properties and interpreting them to the public, and that no changes or alterations shall be made in such properties except by mutual agreement between the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) and the other parties to such agreements. The agreements may contain specific provisions which outline in detail the extent of the participation by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) in the restoration, preservation, interpretation, and maintenance of such properties.


## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–625, title IX, § 904, Nov. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 3536; Pub. L. 96–87, title IV, § 401(q)(2), Oct. 12, 1979, 93 Stat. 666.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

Paragraphs (4) and (5) of section 230 of this title, included within the reference in text to paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 230 of this title, were redesignated paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively, of section 230 of this title, and a new paragraph (4) was added, by Pub. L. 100–250, § 1(a), Feb. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 16.

### Amendments

1979—Pub. L. 96–87 substituted reference to “section 907 of this title” for reference to “section 7 of this title” in the original. Since “section 7 of this title” had already been translated as “section 230f of this title” as the probable intent of Congress the substitution of “907” for “7” required no change in text as set out in this section.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### “Secretary” Defined

Secretary means the Secretary of the Interior, see section 2 of Pub. L. 95–625, set out as a note under section 45f of this title.