---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460l–15"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460l–15"
heading: "Lease of facilities and lands to non-Federal public bodies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460l-15"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXIX — Outdoor Recreation Programs"
  - "Part C — Water Resources Projects"
---

# §460l–15. Lease of facilities and lands to non-Federal public bodies


At [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), the construction of which has commenced or been completed as of July 9, 1965, where non-Federal public bodies agree to administer [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) land and water [areas](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) for recreation and [fish and wildlife](/usc/16/3102.md?p=17) enhancement purposes and to bear the[^1] not less than one-half the costs of operation, maintenance, and replacement of existing facilities serving those purposes, such facilities and appropriate [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) lands may be leased to non-Federal public bodies.


## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. The word “the” probably should not appear.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–72, § 4, July 9, 1965, 79 Stat. 215; Pub. L. 102–575, title XXVIII, § 2804(c), Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4691.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–575 substituted “not less than one-half the costs of operation” for “costs of operation”.