[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR73.3]

[Page 411-412]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
      CHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 73_WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 73.3  Definitions.

    Cultural Heritage-- Article 1 of the Convention defines ``Cultural 
Heritage'' as:

    Monuments: architectural works, works of monumental sculpture and 
painting, elements or structures of an archaeological nature, 
inscriptions, cave dwellings, and combinations of features, which are of 
outstanding universal value from the point of view of history, art, or 
science;
    Groups of buildings: groups of separate or connected buildings 
which, because of their architecture, their homogeneity or their place 
in the landscape, are of outstanding universal value from the point of 
view of history, art, or science; and
    Sites: works of man or the combined works of nature and of man, and 
areas including archaeological sites which are of outstanding universal 
value from the historical, aesthetic, ethnological, or anthropological 
points of view.

    Natural Heritage-- Article 2 of the Convention defines ``Natural 
Heritage'' as:

    Natural features, consisting of physical and biological formations 
or groups of such formations, which are of outstanding universal value 
from the aesthetic or scientific point of view;
    Geological and physiographical formations and precisely delineated 
areas which constitute the habitat of threatened species of animals and 
plants of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science 
or conservation; and
    Natural sites or precisely delineated natural areas of outstanding 
universal value from the point of view of science, conservation, or 
natural beauty.

    Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of the World Cultural 
and Natural Heritage, or World Heritage Committee, means the Committee 
established by Article 8 of the Convention and assisted by the United 
Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It 
is composed

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of 21 nations participating in the Convention, and is responsible for 
implementing the Convention at the international level. Countries 
represented on the Committee are elected by participating nations and 
serve for three sessions of the UNESCO General Conference (six years). 
The Committee establishes criteria which properties must satisfy for 
inclusion on the World Heritage List, sets policy and procedures, and 
approves properties for inclusion on the World Heritage List.
    World Heritage Convention, or Convention, means the Convention 
Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 
ratified by the U.S. Senate on October 26, 1973.
    World Heritage List, means the List established by Article 11 of the 
Convention which includes those cultural and natural properties judged 
to possess outstanding universal value for mankind.
    UNESCO, means the United Nations Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Organization, which provides staff support for the Convention 
and its implementation.
    Assistant Secretary, means the Assistant Secretary for Fish and 
Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior, or the designee 
authorized to carry out the Assistant Secretary's responsibilities.
    Department, means the U.S. Department of the Interior.
    Federal Interagency Panel for World Heritage, or Panel, means the 
Panel consisting of representatives from the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary, the National Park Service, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service within the Department of the Interior; the President's Council 
on Environmental Quality; the Smithsonian Institution; the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation; the Department of Commerce; and the 
Department of State.
    Owner, means the individual(s) or organization(s) of record that own 
private land that is being nominated for World Heritage status, or the 
head of the public agency, or subordinate to whom such authority has 
been delegated, responsible for administering public land that is being 
nominated for World Heritage status.
    Owner concurrence, means the concurrence of all owners of any 
property interest that is part of the World Heritage nomination.

[47 FR 23397, May 27, 1982, as amended at 62 FR 30235, June 3, 1997]