---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 300301"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "300301"
heading: "Agency"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/300301"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 1 — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 3003 — Definitions"
---

# §300301. Agency


In this division, the term “agency” has the meaning given the term in [section 551 of title 5](/usc/5/551.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3188.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 300301 | 16 U.S.C. 470w(1). | Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 301(1), as added Pub. L. 96–515, title V, § 501, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3001; Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4019(a)(1), Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4763; Pub. L. 106–208, § 5(a)(10), May 26, 2000, 114 Stat. 319. |