---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 47–5"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "47–5"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/47-5"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter VI — Sequoia and Yosemite National Parks"
---

# §47–5. Regulations


After October 27, 1986, no lease may be issued for the purpose of providing housing or other facilities in the El Portal administrative site except in accordance with regulations promulgated by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior. Such regulations shall establish the qualifications of natural [persons](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=b) and corporations who may be eligible to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) a lease and a sublease, the process to be used in establishing fees for such leases and subleases, and they shall set forth the circumstances under which the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) may elect to [acquire](/usc/16/620e.md?p=1) any unexpired lease or sublease. Such regulations shall become effective only after sixty calendar days from the day on which they have been submitted to the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–409, § 4, as added Pub. L. 99–542, § 1(5), Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3038; amended Pub. L. 103–437, § 6(d)(6), Nov. 2, 1994, 108 Stat. 4583.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Natural Resources” for “Interior and Insular Affairs” after “Committee on”.