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[Laws in effect as of January 23, 2000]
[Document affected by Public Law 106-410]
[CITE: 44USC2504]

 
                 TITLE 44--PUBLIC PRINTING AND DOCUMENTS
 
   CHAPTER 25--NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS COMMISSION
 
Sec. 2504. Duties; authorization of grants for historical 
        publications and records programs; authorization for 
        appropriations
        
    (a) The Commission shall make plans, estimates, and recommendations 
for historical works and collections of sources it considers appropriate 
for preserving, publishing or otherwise recording at the public expense. 
The Chairman of the Commission shall transmit to the President and the 
Congress from time to time, and at least biennially, the plans, 
estimates, and recommendations developed and approved by the Commission.
    (b) The Commission shall cooperate with, assist and encourage 
appropriate Federal, State, and local agencies and nongovernmental 
institutions, societies, and individuals in collecting and preserving 
and, when it considers it desirable, in editing and publishing papers of 
outstanding citizens of the United States, and other documents as may be 
important for an understanding and appreciation of the history of the 
United States.
    (c) The Commission may conduct institutes, training and educational 
programs, and recommend candidates for fellowships related to the 
activities of the Commission and may disseminate information about 
documentary sources through guides, directories, and other technical 
publications.
    (d) The Commission may recommend the expenditure of appropriated or 
donated funds for the collecting, describing, preserving, compiling and 
publishing (including microfilming and other forms of reproduction) of 
documentary sources significant to the history of the United States and 
for the activities described in subsection (c).
    (e) The Archivist of the United States may, within the limits of 
available appropriated and donated funds, make grants to State and local 
agencies and to nonprofit organizations, institutions, and individuals, 
for those activities in subsection (d) after considering the advice and 
recommendations of the Commission.
    (f)(1) For the purposes specified in this section, there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated to the National Historical Publications 
and Records Commission--
        (A) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1989;
        (B) $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1990;
        (C) $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 1991, 1992, and 
    1993;
        (D) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 1994;
        (E) $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1995;
        (F) $8,000,000 for fiscal year 1996;
        (G) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1997;
        (H) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1998;
        (I) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 1999;
        (J) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2000; and
        (K) $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2001.

    (2) Amounts appropriated under this subsection shall be available 
until expended when so provided in appropriation Acts.

(Pub. L. 90-620, Oct. 22, 1968, 82 Stat. 1294; Pub. L. 92-546, 
Sec. 1(c), Oct. 25, 1972, 86 Stat. 1155; Pub. L. 93-536, Sec. 1(c), Dec. 
22, 1974, 88 Stat. 1735; Pub. L. 96-98, Sec. 1, Nov. 1, 1979, 93 Stat. 
731; Pub. L. 98-189, Nov. 30, 1983, 97 Stat. 1323; Pub. L. 98-497, title 
I, Sec. 107(b)(10), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 2287; Pub. L. 100-365, 
Sec. 4, July 13, 1988, 102 Stat. 824; Pub. L. 103-262, Sec. 1, May 31, 
1994, 108 Stat. 706; Pub. L. 104-274, Sec. 1, Oct. 9, 1996, 110 Stat. 
3321.)


                      Historical and Revision Notes

    Based on 44 U.S. Code, 1964 ed., Sec. 393(d) (June 30, 1949, ch. 
288, title V, Sec. 503(d), as added Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Sec. 6(d), 
64 Stat. 583, and amended July 28, 1964, Pub. L. 88-383, 78 Stat. 335).


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (f)(1)(H) to (K). Pub. L. 104-274 added subpars. (H) 
to (K).
    1994--Subsec. (f)(1)(D) to (G). Pub. L. 103-262 added subpars. (D) 
to (G).
    1988--Pub. L. 100-365 substituted current section catchline for 
``Duties; authorization of grants for collection, reproduction, and 
publication of documentary historical source material'', and amended 
text generally, revising and restating as subsecs. (a) to (f) provisions 
of former subsecs. (a) and (b).
    1984--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 98-497, Sec. 107(b)(10)(A)-(D), 
substituted ``Archivist of the United States'' for ``Administrator of 
General Services'' in third sentence, substituted ``Archivist'' for 
``Administrator'' in fourth sentence, inserted ``and Records'' after 
``Historical Preservation'' in fourth sentence, and substituted 
``transmit to the President and the Congress'' for ``transmit to the 
Administrator'' in last sentence.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-497, Sec. 107(b)(10)(E), substituted 
``National Archives and Records Administration'' for ``General Services 
Administration''.
    1983--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-189 substituted provisions authorizing 
appropriations for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1984, and for each of 
the four succeeding fiscal years, for provisions authorizing 
appropriations for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1981.
    1979--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 96-98 substituted provisions authorizing 
appropriations for fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1981, for provisions 
authorizing appropriations for fiscal year ending June 30, 1975, and for 
each of four succeeding fiscal years.
    1974--Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93-536 substituted ``1975'' for ``1973'' 
and ``$4,000,000'' for ``$2,000,000''.
    1972--Pub. L. 92-546 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) 
and added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1984 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 98-497 effective Apr. 1, 1985, see section 301 
of Pub. L. 98-497, set out as a note under section 2102 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2506, 3102 of this title.
