---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 40a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "40a"
heading: "Educational facilities for dependents of employees; payments to school districts; limitation on amount"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/40a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter V — Yellowstone National Park"
---

# §40a. Educational facilities for dependents of employees; payments to school districts; limitation on amount


Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, payments may be made, as provided in sections 40a to [40c](/usc/16/40c.md) of this title, in advance or otherwise, from any revenues received by the United States from visitors to Yellowstone National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), to the appropriate school district or districts serving that [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), as reimbursement for educational facilities (including, where appropriate, transportation to and from school) furnished by the said district or districts to pupils who are dependents of [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) engaged in the administration, operation, and maintenance of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), and living at or near the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) upon real property of the United States not subject to taxation by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) or local agencies and upon which payments in lieu of taxes are not made by the United States: Provided, That the payments for any school year for the aforesaid purpose shall not exceed that part of the cost of operating and maintaining such facilities which the number of pupils, in average daily attendance during that year, bears to the whole number of pupils in average daily attendance at those schools for that year.


## Source credit

(June 4, 1948, ch. 417, § 1, 62 Stat. 338.)