---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 101921"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "101921"
heading: "Multiple contracts within a System unit"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/101921"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1019 — Concessions and Commercial Use Authorizations"
  - "Subchapter II — Commercial Visitor Services"
---

# §101921. Multiple contracts within a System unit


If multiple concession contracts are awarded to authorize concessioners to provide the same or similar outfitting, guiding, river running, or other similar [services](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) at the same approximate location or resource within a [System unit](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6), the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) shall establish a comparable franchise fee structure for those contracts or similar contracts, except that the terms and conditions of any existing concession contract shall not be subject to modification or open to renegotiation by the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) because of an award of a new contract at the same approximate location or resource.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3149.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 101921 | 16 U.S.C. 5960. | Pub. L. 105–391, title IV, § 411, Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3514. |