---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410y–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410y–2"
heading: "Consideration by Secretary of comprehensive local or State development, land use, or recreational plans"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410y-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LVI — Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park"
---

# §410y–2. Consideration by Secretary of comprehensive local or State development, land use, or recreational plans


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410y.md?p=c) shall [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) into account comprehensive local or [State](/usc/16/410y.md?p=d) development, land use, or recreational plans affecting or relating to [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the vicinity of the [canal](/usc/16/410y.md?p=b), and shall, wherever practicable, consistent with the purposes of this subchapter, exercise the authority granted by this subchapter, in a manner which he finds will not conflict with such local or [State](/usc/16/410y.md?p=d) plans.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–664, § 4, Jan. 8, 1971, 84 Stat. 1979.)