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[CITE: 16USC470x-4]

 
                         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
 
Sec. 470x-4. Preservation grants


(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.

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

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 470x-2 of this title.
