National Park Service Organic Act establishes the National Park Service within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Service is responsible for promoting and regulating the use of federal areas designated as national seashores, parks, monuments, and reservations. This foundational legislation originates from the Year of the Ocean Discussion Papers in 1998.
Use Cases
- Analyze the legislative mandate and regulatory scope of the National Park Service based on the Organic Act text.
- Study the categorization of federal protected areas (national seashores, parks, monuments, reservations) as defined by Congress.
- Examine the historical context of public lands management using the 1998 Year of the Ocean Discussion Papers as a source.
Strengths
- Provides the foundational legal text establishing the National Park Service.
- Explicitly defines the four categories of federal areas managed by the Service.
Limitations
- Dataset scope is limited to the text of the Organic Act without operational data.
- No quantitative data, row counts, or time-series information is provided.
Provenance
- Source
- Year of the Ocean Discussion Papers, 1998.
- Collection Method
- Legislative documentation and policy discussion papers.
- Time Range
- 1998
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United States federal lands.