---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 469h"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "469h"
heading: "Comprehensive plan for Reserve Development"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/469h"
units:
  - "Chapter 1A — Historic Sites, Buildings, Objects, and Antiquities"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# §469h. Comprehensive plan for Reserve Development

- (a) **Technical assistance—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to provide technical assistance to the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Wisconsin for planning and development of the reserve in accordance with the comprehensive plan.
- (b) **Additional grants—** In [addition](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to grants made pursuant to the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965,[^1] the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) is authorized to make grants of not to exceed 25 per centum of the actual cost of each development [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) within the reserve in accordance with the comprehensive plan: Provided, That the maximum amount of such grants for all [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) shall not exceed $2,500,000.
- (c) **Costs of maintenance—** The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1), pursuant to an agreement with the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Wisconsin, may pay up to 50 per centum of the annual cost of management, protection, maintenance, and rehabilitation of the reserve.
- (d) **Termination of Federal contributions—** Whenever the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) determines that appropriate management and protection set down in the comprehensive plan are not being afforded the nationally significant values within the reserve or that funds are not being provided on the prescribed matching basis by the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Wisconsin or other non-Federal sources, he may terminate contributions under sections [469d](/usc/16/469d.md) to [469i](/usc/16/469i.md) of this title.

## Footnotes

[^1]: See References in Text note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–655, § 5, Oct. 13, 1964, 78 Stat. 1088; Pub. L. 91–483, § 1(3), Oct. 21, 1970, 84 Stat. 1083; Pub. L. 96–199, title I, § 109, Mar. 5, 1980, 94 Stat. 69.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, referred to in subsec. (b), is Pub. L. 88–578, Sept. 3, 1964, 78 Stat. 897, which was classified principally to part B (§ 460l–4 et seq.) of subchapter LXIX of chapter 1 of this title. Sections 2, 3, 4(i)(1)(C), (j) to (n), 5 to 10, and 201 of the Act were repealed and restated as sections 100506(c) and 100904 and chapter 2003 of Title 54, National Park Service and Related Programs, by Pub. L. 113–287, §§ 3, 7, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3094, 3272. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables. For disposition of former sections of this title, see Disposition Table preceding section 100101 of Title 54.

### Amendments

1980—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96–199 substituted “$2,500,000” for “$425,000”.

1970—Pub. L. 91–483 substituted provisions authorizing the Secretary to provide technical assistance and financial grants in addition to those under the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, not exceeding 25 percent of the actual cost of each development project and up to a maximum of $425,000 and to share equally the annual costs of management, protection, maintenance and rehabilitation of the reserve for provisions for part recovery of the funds granted in case of conversion, and use or disposal contrary to the purposes of the establishment of the Ice Age National Scientific Reserve, and reenacted provisions for the termination of the grants.