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    16 USC Sec. 470x-4                                          01/08/2008

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    TITLE 16 - CONSERVATION
    CHAPTER 1A - HISTORIC SITES, BUILDINGS, OBJECTS, AND ANTIQUITIES
    SUBCHAPTER II - NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION
    Part D - National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

HEAD

    Sec. 470x-4. Preservation grants

STATUTE

    (a) In general
      The Secretary, in consultation with the Board, shall provide
    preservation technology and training grants to eligible applicants
    with a demonstrated institutional capability and commitment to the
    purposes of the Center, in order to ensure an effective and
    efficient system of research, information distribution and skills
    training in all the related historic preservation fields.
    (b) Grant requirements
      (1) Grants provided under this section shall be allocated in such
    a fashion to reflect the diversity of the historic preservation
    fields and shall be geographically distributed.
      (2) No grant recipient may receive more than 10 percent of the
    grants allocated under this section within any year.
      (3) The total administrative costs, direct and indirect, charged
    for carrying out grants under this section may not exceed 25
    percent of the aggregate costs.
    (c) Eligible applicants
      Eligible applicants may include Federal and non-Federal
    laboratories, accredited museums, universities, nonprofit
    organizations; offices, units, and Cooperative Park Study Units of
    the National Park System, State Historic Preservation Offices,
    tribal preservation offices, and Native Hawaiian organizations.
    (d) Standards
      All such grants shall be awarded in accordance with accepted
    professional standards and methods, including peer review of
    projects.
    (e) Authorization of appropriations
      There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
    such sums as may be necessary.

SOURCE

    (Pub. L. 89-665, title IV, Sec. 405, as added Pub. L. 102-575,
    title XL, Sec. 4022, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4767.)