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    16 USC Sec. 470w-5                                          01/08/2008

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1A - HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
    SUBCHAPTER II - NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
    Part C - General and Miscellaneous

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    Sec. 470w-5. National Museum for the Building Arts

STATUTE

    (a) Cooperative agreement between Secretary, Administrator of
      General Services Administration and Committee for National Museum
      of the Building Arts; purposes
       In order to provide a national center to commemorate and
    encourage the building arts and to preserve and maintain a
    nationally significant building which exemplifies the great
    achievements of the building arts in the United States, the
    Secretary and the Administrator of the General Services
    Administration are authorized and directed to enter into a
    cooperative agreement with the Committee for a National Museum of
    the Building Arts, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation organized
    and existing under the laws of the District of Columbia, or its
    successor, for the operation of a National Museum for the Building
    Arts in the Federal Building located in the block bounded by Fourth
    Street, Fifth Street, F Street, and G Street, Northwest in
    Washington, District of Columbia. Such museum shall -
        (1) collect and disseminate information concerning the building
      arts, including the establishment of a national reference center
      for current and historic documents, publications, and research
      relating to the building arts;
        (2) foster educational programs relating to the history,
      practice and contribution to society of the building arts,
      including promotion of imaginative educational approaches to
      enhance understanding and appreciation of all facets of the
      building arts;
        (3) publicly display temporary and permanent exhibits
      illustrating, interpreting and demonstrating the building arts;
        (4) sponsor or conduct research and study into the history of
      the building arts and their role in shaping our civilization; and
        (5) encourage contributions to the building arts.
    (b) Provisions of cooperative agreement
      The cooperative agreement referred to in subsection (a) of this
    section shall include provisions which -
        (1) make the site available to the Committee referred to in
      subsection (a) of this section without charge;
        (2) provide, subject to available appropriations, such
      maintenance, security, information, janitorial and other services
      as may be necessary to assure the preservation and operation of
      the site; and
        (3) prescribe reasonable terms and conditions by which the
      Committee can fulfill its responsibilities under this subchapter.
    (c) Matching grants-in-aid to Committee; limitation on amounts
      The Secretary is authorized and directed to provide matching
    grants-in-aid to the Committee referred to in subsection (a) of
    this section for its programs related to historic preservation. The
    Committee shall match such grants-in-aid in a manner and with such
    funds and services as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary,
    except that no more than $500,000 may be provided to the Committee
    in any one fiscal year.
    (d) Renovation of site
      The renovation of the site shall be carried out by the
    Administrator with the advice of the Secretary. Such renovation
    shall, as far as practicable -
        (1) be commenced immediately,
        (2) preserve, enhance, and restore the distinctive and
      historically authentic architectural character of the site
      consistent with the needs of a national museum of the building
      arts and other compatible use, and
        (3) retain the availability of the central court of the
      building, or portions thereof, for appropriate public activities.
    (e) Annual Committee report to Secretary and Administrator
      The Committee shall submit an annual report to the Secretary and
    the Administrator concerning its activities under this section and
    shall provide the Secretary and the Administrator with such other
    information as the Secretary may, from time to time, deem necessary
    or advisable.
    (f) "Building arts" defined
      For purposes of this section, the term "building arts" includes,
    but shall not be limited to, all practical and scholarly aspects of
    prehistoric, historic, and contemporary architecture, archaeology,
    construction, building technology and skills, landscape
    architecture, preservation and conservation, building and
    construction, engineering, urban and community design and renewal,
    city and regional planning, and related professions, skills,
    trades, and crafts.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 89-665, title III, Sec. 306, as added Pub. L. 96-515,
    title V, Sec. 501, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3002.)