---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 308601"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "308601"
heading: "Definitions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/308601"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division B — Organizations and Programs"
  - "Subdivision 1 — Administered by National Park Service"
  - "Chapter 3086 — United States African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Program"
---

# §308601. Definitions


In this chapter:

- (1) **Burial ground.—** The term “burial ground” means any natural or prepared physical location, whether originally below, on, or above the surface of the earth, into which human remains are deposited as a part of the death rite or ceremony of a culture.
- (2) **Historic.—** The term “historic”, with respect to a property, means a property that can reasonably be considered to date back at least 50 years.
- (3) **Program.—** The term “Program” means the United States African-American [Burial Grounds](#1) Preservation Program established under [section 308602(a)](/usc/54/308602.md?p=a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. DD, title VI, § 643(a), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5613.)