---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410hhhh–1"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410hhhh–1"
heading: "Jimmy Carter National Preservation District"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410hhhh-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–FFF — Jimmy Carter National Historical Park"
---

# §410hhhh–1. Jimmy Carter National Preservation District

- (a) **Jimmy Carter National Preservation District—** In order to [preserve](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=7) and interpret the life of James Earl Carter, Jr. and the rural southern town of Plains, Georgia, including the 20th century south and the roles of agriculture and the agricultural economy there is hereby established the Jimmy Carter National [Preservation District](/usc/16/410hhhh–5.md?p=1), which shall consist of the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) identified on the [map](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=3) referred to in [section 410hhhh(b)(1) of this title](/usc/16/410hhhh.md?p=b-1) as “[Preservation District](/usc/16/410hhhh–5.md?p=1)”. The [preservation district](/usc/16/410hhhh–5.md?p=1) shall include the Plains Historic District as listed in the National Register of Historic Places on June 28, 1984, and those [agricultural lands](/usc/16/544.md?p=b) not to exceed 650 acres and that portion of Bond Street as depicted on such [map](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=3).
- (b) **Preservation easements—**
  - (1) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=9) may obtain by donation or purchase preservation easements on historically or culturally significant (as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=9)) buildings and [open spaces](/usc/16/544.md?p=l) located within the [preservation district](/usc/16/410hhhh–5.md?p=1). Each preservation easement shall contain (but need not be limited to) provisions that the [Secretary](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=9) shall have the right of access at reasonable times to the portions of the property covered by that easement for interpretive or other purposes, and that no changes or alterations shall be made to such portions of the property except by mutual agreement.
  - (2) The [Secretary](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=9) may mark, interpret, and provide technical assistance to properties within the [preservation district](/usc/16/410hhhh–5.md?p=1) in accordance with the [Secretary](/usc/16/410hhh–1.md?p=9) of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation [Projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 100–206, § 2, Dec. 23, 1987, 101 Stat. 1435.)