---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 306103"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "306103"
heading: "Recordation of historic property prior to alteration or demolition"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/306103"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 5 — Federal Agency Historic Preservation Responsibilities"
  - "Chapter 3061 — Program Responsibilities and Authorities"
  - "Subchapter I — In General"
---

# §306103. Recordation of historic property prior to alteration or demolition


Each Federal agency shall initiate measures to ensure that where, as a result of Federal action or assistance carried out by the agency, a [historic property](/usc/54/308901.md?p=3) is to be substantially altered or demolished—

- (1) timely steps are taken to make or have made appropriate records; and
- (2) the records are deposited, in accordance with [section 302107 of this title](/usc/54/302107.md), in the Library of Congress or with such other appropriate agency as the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) may designate, for future use and reference.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3226.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 306103 | 16 U.S.C. 470h–2(b). | Pub. L. 89–665, title I, § 110(b), as added Pub. L. 96–515, title II, § 206, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2996. |