• The National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970 is an amendment to the National Park Service Organic Act of 1916. The amendment included the...
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    Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA) National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970 National Park Service Organic Act of 1916 National Wild and Scenic...
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    General Authorities Act of 1970. Additional challenges during the 1970s required that Congress again clarify the mission of the National Park Service...
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  • The Redwood Act (also Redwood amendment) is a 1978 amendment to the US National Park Service General Authorities Act of 1970. The amendment is particularly...
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    statutory authority which gave it parity with national park authorities but with special responsibilities for navigation. The Broads Authority Act 2009 introduced...
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    Congress specified in the 1970 General Authorities Act and the 1978 Redwood Act that all units of the National Park System are to be treated on equal...
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    National Park Service Law Enforcement Rangers are uniformed federal law enforcement officers with broad authority to enforce federal and state laws within...
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    oldest legally protected areas. Parks Canada, established on May 19, 1911, became the world's first national park service. An international organization...
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    Aadhaar (Targeted Delivery of Financial and other Subsidies, benefits and services) Act, 2016. Aadhaar is the world's largest biometric ID system. World Bank...
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    national system rather than a system operated by local authorities. He proposed that each resident of the UK would be signed up to a specific General...
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    National Park Service rangers are among the uniformed employees charged with protecting and preserving areas set aside in the National Park System by...
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    civil parishes, local authorities, and regional authorities. Every part of England is governed by at least one local authority, but parish councils and...
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    The National Park System of the United States is the collection of physical properties owned or administered by the National Park Service. The collection...
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    with these bodies, the local authorities, English Nature and other interested parties. The designated area of the National Park covers 566 km2 (219 sq mi)...
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    The National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is a directorate of the New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment and responsible for managing...
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    MR: Chung’angchŏngpopu), during the rule of general Park Chung Hee’s military Supreme Council for National Reconstruction, which displaced the Second Republic...
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    parks have two additional aims (3 and 4 above). The general purpose of the National Park Authority, as defined in the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000...
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    Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India. The park, which hosts two-thirds of the world's...
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    The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burke–Wadsworth Act, Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 76–783, 54 Stat. 885,...
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    Forest and on the northwest by Stanislaus National Forest. The park is managed by the National Park Service and covers 759,620 acres (1,187 sq mi; 3,074 km2)...
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    historic, and recreational lands, the General Authorities Act of 1970 made all areas equal within the National Park System; separate policy manuals for...
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    Elias National Park and Preserve is an American national park and preserve managed by the National Park Service in south central Alaska. The park and preserve...
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    Exmoor was designated a National Park in 1954, under the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act. The Exmoor National Park is primarily an upland...
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    The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee...
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    From the Reclamation Act of 1902 to the formation of the United States Forest Service in 1905, the General Revision Act of 1891 acted as a critical first...
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    2023. "Peak District National Park Authority". Derbyshire Record Office. Retrieved 29 February 2024. "The National Park Authorities (England) Order 2015...
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    A public service or service of general (economic) interest is any service intended to address specific needs pertaining to the aggregate members of a community...
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    enforcement agency with responsibilities and jurisdiction in those National Park Service areas primarily located in the Washington, D.C., San Francisco,...
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  • The National Park Foundation (NPF) is the official charity of the National Park Service (NPS) and its national park sites. The NPF was chartered by Congress...
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    Banff National Park is Canada's oldest national park, established in 1885 as Rocky Mountains Park. Located in Alberta's Rocky Mountains, 110–180 kilometres...
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