---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 300302"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "300302"
heading: "Certified local government"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/300302"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 1 — General Provisions"
  - "Chapter 3003 — Definitions"
---

# §300302. Certified local government


In this division, the term “certified local government” means a local government whose local [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation [program](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3) is certified pursuant to [chapter 3025](/usc/54/chstIII/dA/sd2/ch3025.md) of this title.


## 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) |
| 300302 | 16 U.S.C. 470w(15). | Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 301(15), as added Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4019(a)(12), Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4764. |