---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 308604"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "308604"
heading: "Cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/308604"
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"
---

# §308604. Cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding


The [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) may enter into cooperative agreements and memoranda of understanding with, and provide technical assistance to, the heads of other Federal agencies, States, units of local government, Tribal governments, regional governmental bodies, nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and private entities—

- (1) to achieve the purposes of this chapter; and
- (2) to ensure effective coordination of the Federal elements and non-Federal elements provided a grant or other assistance under the [Program](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3) with [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) and [programs](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3) of the [Service](/usc/54/100102.md?p=4).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 117–328, div. DD, title VI, § 643(a), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 5614.)