---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 470jj"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "470jj"
heading: "Cooperation with private individuals"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/470jj"
units:
  - "Chapter 1B — Archaeological Resources Protection"
---

# §470jj. Cooperation with private individuals


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall [take](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) such action as may be necessary, consistent with the purposes of this chapter, to foster and improve the communication, cooperation, and exchange of information between—

- (1) private individuals having collections of [archaeological resources](/usc/16/470bb.md?p=1) and data which were obtained before the date of the enactment of this chapter, and
- (2) Federal authorities responsible for the protection of [archaeological resources](/usc/16/470bb.md?p=1) on the [public lands](/usc/16/470bb.md?p=3) and [Indian lands](/usc/16/470bb.md?p=4) and professional archaeologists and associations of professional archaeologists.

In carrying out this section, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) shall, to the extent practicable and consistent with the provisions of this chapter, make efforts to expand the archaeological data base for the [archaeological resources](/usc/16/470bb.md?p=1) of the United States through increased cooperation between private individuals referred to in [paragraph (1)](#1) and professional archaeologists and archaeological organizations.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–95, § 11, Oct. 31, 1979, 93 Stat. 727.)