---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 103502"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "103502"
heading: "Signature projects and programs"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/103502"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — National Park System"
  - "Division A — Establishment and General Administration"
  - "Chapter 1035 — National Park Centennial Challenge Fund"
---

# §103502. Signature projects and programs

- (a) **List.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) shall—
  - (1) develop a list of signature projects and programs eligible for funding from the National Park Centennial Challenge Fund;
  - (2) submit the list developed pursuant to [paragraph (1)](#a-1) to the Committees on Appropriations and Energy and Natural Resources in the United States Senate, and to the Committees on Appropriations and Natural Resources in the House of Representatives; and
  - (3) prioritize deferred maintenance projects, physical improvements to visitor [services](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4) facilities and trail maintenance.
- (b) **Updates.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) may, from time to time, as the [Secretary](/usc/54/100102.md?p=3) finds appropriate, add any signature project or program to the list and provide notice of such addition as required by [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 114–289, title I, § 101(a), Dec. 16, 2016, 130 Stat. 1484.)