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[CITE: 36USC152103]

 
     TITLE 36--PATRIOTIC AND NATIONAL OBSERVANCES, CEREMONIES, AND 
                              ORGANIZATIONS
 
            Subtitle II--Patriotic and National Organizations
 
                          Part B--Organizations
 
          CHAPTER 1521--NATIONAL MINING HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM
 
Sec. 152103. Purposes

    The purposes of the corporation are as provided in its articles of 
incorporation and include--
        (1) honoring citizens, mining leaders, miners, prospectors, 
    teachers, scientists, engineers, inventors, governmental leaders, 
    and other individuals, who have helped to make this country great by 
    their outstanding contributions to the establishment, development, 
    advancement, or improvement of mining in the United States;
        (2) perpetuating the memory of those individuals and recording 
    their contributions and achievements by the erection and maintenance 
    of buildings, monuments, and edifices considered appropriate as a 
    lasting memorial;
        (3) fostering, promoting, and encouraging a better understanding 
    of the origins and growth of mining, especially in the United 
    States, and the part mining has played in changing the economic, 
    social, and scientific aspects of our country;
        (4) establishing and maintaining a library and museum for 
    collecting and preserving for posterity, the history of those 
    honored by the corporation, together with a documentation of their 
    accomplishments and contributions to mining, including such items as 
    mining pictures, paintings, books, papers, documents, scientific 
    data, relics, mementos, artifacts, and things relating to those 
    items;
        (5) cooperating with other mining organizations that are 
    actively engaged and interested in similar projects; and
        (6) engaging in any other activity necessary or proper to 
    accomplish any of the purposes in this section.

(Pub. L. 105-225, Aug. 12, 1998, 112 Stat. 1410.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised  Section                    Source (U.S. Code)              
 Source (Statutes at Large)
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152103................................  36:4103.                         Nov. 1
4, 1988, Pub. L. 100-655, Sec.
                                                                          103, 
102 Stat. 3850.
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    Before clause (1), the word ``objects'' is omitted as unnecessary.
    In clause (1), the word ``country'' is substituted for ``Nation'', 
and the words ``of America'' are omitted, for consistency in the revised 
title.
    In clause (2), the word ``considered'' is substituted for ``as may 
be deemed'' for consistency in the revised title and to eliminate 
unnecessary words.
    In clause (6), the words ``any other activity'' are substituted for 
``any and all activities'', and the words ``necessary or proper'' are 
substituted for ``incidental thereto or necessary, suitable, or 
proper'', for consistency and to eliminate unnecessary words.
