---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 101321"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "101321"
heading: "Service employee training"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/101321"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1013 — Employees"
  - "Subchapter II — Service Career Development, Training, and Management"
---

# §101321. Service employee training


The [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) shall develop a comprehensive training program for employees in all professional careers in the workforce of the [Service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) for the purpose of ensuring that the workforce has available the best up-to-date knowledge, skills, and abilities with which to manage, interpret, and protect the resources of the [System](/usc/54/100102.md?p=5).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3125.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 101321 | 16 U.S.C. 5912. | Pub. L. 105–391, title I, § 102, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3498. |
