---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 470mm"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "470mm"
heading: "Surveying of lands; reporting of violations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/470mm"
units:
  - "Chapter 1B — Archaeological Resources Protection"
---

# §470mm. Surveying of lands; reporting of violations


The [Secretaries](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior, Agriculture, and Defense and the Chairman of the Board of the Tennessee Valley Authority shall—

- (a) develop plans for surveying lands under their control to determine the nature and extent of archeological resources on those lands;
- (b) prepare a schedule for surveying lands that are likely to contain the most scientifically valuable archeological resources; and
- (c) develop documents for the reporting of suspected [violations](/usc/16/620e.md?p=11) of this chapter and establish when and how those documents are to be completed by officers, employees, and agents of their respective agencies.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–95, § 14, as added Pub. L. 100–555, Oct. 28, 1988, 102 Stat. 2778.)