§ 49.1 What does this part do?
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Title 43—Public Lands: Interior > Subtitle A—Office of the Secretary of the Interior > PART 49—PALEONTOLOGICAL RESOURCES PRESERVATION > Subpart A—Preserving, Managing, and Protecting Paleontological Resources
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(a) Directs the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NPS) (collectively referred to as “the bureaus”) to preserve, manage, and protect paleontological resources on Federal land using scientific principles and expertise;
(b) Coordinates paleontological resources management among the bureaus;
(c) Promotes public awareness; provides for collection under permit; clarifies that paleontological resources cannot be collected from Federal land for sale or purchase; establishes civil and criminal penalties; sets curation standards; and
(d) Authorizes casual collecting of common invertebrate and plant paleontological resources from certain BLM-administered land and certain Reclamation-administered land.
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