---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410yy–7"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410yy–7"
heading: "Financial and technical assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410yy-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–W — Keweenaw National Historical Park"
---

# §410yy–7. Financial and technical assistance

- (a) **In general—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=3) may provide to any [owner](/usc/16/429b–3.md?p=4) of property within the [park](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=2) containing nationally significant historic or cultural resources, in accordance with cooperative agreements or grant agreements, as appropriate, such financial and technical assistance to mark, interpret, and restore non-Federal properties within the [park](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=2) as the [Secretary](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=3) determines appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter, provided that—
  - (1) the [Secretary](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=3), acting through the National [Park](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=2) Service, shall have right of access at reasonable times to 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
  - (2) no changes or alterations shall be made in such properties except by mutual agreement between the [Secretary](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=3) and the other parties to the agreements.
- (b) **Matching funds—** Funds authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=3) for the purposes of this section shall be expended in the ratio of $1 of Federal funds for each $1 of funds contributed by non-Federal sources. For the purposes of this subsection, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410yy–1.md?p=3) is authorized to accept from non-Federal sources, and to utilize for purposes of this subchapter, any money so contributed. Donations of land, or interests in land, by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Michigan may be considered as a contribution from non-Federal sources for the purposes of this subsection.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 102–543, § 8, Oct. 27, 1992, 106 Stat. 3571; Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, § 7101(b), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1190.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2009—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 111–11 substituted “each $1 of funds” for “each $4 of funds”.