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title_name: "NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND RELATED PROGRAMS"
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# 54 U.S.C. § 100752 - Destruction of animals and plant life

## Text

The Secretary may provide for the destruction of such animals and plant life as may be detrimental to the use of any System unit.

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3111.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 10075216 U.S.C. 3 (3d sentence). Aug. 25, 1916, ch. 408, § 3 (3d sentence), 39 Stat. 535.