 
      CHAPTER 28--HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE
 
                     SUBCHAPTER VIII--MISCELLANEOUS
 
Sec. 1153. Underground Railroad educational and cultural program


(a) Program established

    The Secretary of Education, in consultation and cooperation with the 
Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to make grants to 1 or more 
nonprofit educational organizations that are established to research, 
display, interpret, and collect artifacts relating to the history of the 
Underground Railroad.

(b) Grant agreement

    Each nonprofit educational organization awarded a grant under this 
section shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Education. 
Each such agreement shall require the organization--
        (1) to establish a facility to house, display, and interpret the 
    artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad, and to 
    make the interpretive efforts available to institutions of higher 
    education that award a baccalaureate or graduate degree;
        (2) to demonstrate substantial private support for the facility 
    through the implementation of a public-private partnership between a 
    State or local public entity and a private entity for the support of 
    the facility, which private entity shall provide matching funds for 
    the support of the facility in an amount equal to 4 times the amount 
    of the contribution of the State or local public entity, except that 
    not more than 20 percent of the matching funds may be provided by 
    the Federal Government;
        (3) to create an endowment to fund any and all shortfalls in the 
    costs of the on-going operations of the facility;
        (4) to establish a network of satellite centers throughout the 
    United States to help disseminate information regarding the 
    Underground Railroad throughout the United States, if such satellite 
    centers raise 80 percent of the funds required to establish the 
    satellite centers from non-Federal public and private sources;
        (5) to establish the capability to electronically link the 
    facility with other local and regional facilities that have 
    collections and programs which interpret the history of the 
    Underground Railroad; and
        (6) to submit, for each fiscal year for which the organization 
    receives funding under this section, a report to the Secretary of 
    Education that contains--
            (A) a description of the programs and activities supported 
        by the funding;
            (B) the audited financial statement of the organization for 
        the preceding fiscal year;
            (C) a plan for the programs and activities to be supported 
        by the funding as the Secretary may require; and
            (D) an evaluation of the programs and activities supported 
        by the funding as the Secretary may require.

(c) Authorization of appropriations

    There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
$6,000,000 for fiscal year 1999, $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2000, 
$6,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and 
$3,000,000 for fiscal year 2003.

(Pub. L. 105-244, title VIII, Sec. 841, Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1820.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Higher Education Amendments of 
1998, and not as part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 which 
comprises this chapter.
