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[CITE: 16USC407aa]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
              SUBCHAPTER LI-A--NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER
 
Sec. 407aa. Findings and purposes


(a) Findings

    Congress finds that:
        (1) 1987 was the bicentennial of the signing of the United 
    States Constitution;
        (2) commemoration of the Constitution's bicentennial included 
    various events conducted by the Federal Commission on the 
    Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, and State and local 
    bicentennial commissions;
        (3) bicentennial activities included important educational and 
    instructional programs to heighten public awareness of the 
    Constitution and the democratic process;
        (4) educational programs for the Constitution should continue 
    after the bicentennial to document its profound impact on the 
    political, economic and social development of this Nation, and in 
    order to recognize those Americans instrumental in the history of 
    the Constitution; and
        (5) units of the National Park System preserve and interpret key 
    historic sites that document the history of the origins, subsequent 
    development, and effects of the United States Constitution on this 
    Nation.

(b) Purposes

    It is therefore the policy of the Congress to provide each of the 
following:
        (1) the necessary resources to develop a national resource 
    center to undertake, on an ongoing basis, educational programs on 
    the Constitution;
        (2) exhibits of, and an archives for, programs on or related to 
    the recent bicentennial of the United States Constitution; and
        (3) interpretation of the United States Constitution at those 
    units of the National Park System particularly relevant to its 
    history.

(Pub. L. 100-433, Sec. 2, Sept. 16, 1988, 102 Stat. 1640.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 100-433 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this subchapter] may be cited as the `Constitution Heritage Act of 
1988'.''
