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 PUBLIC LAW 103-433—OCT. 31, 1994 108 STAT. 4515 resentatives of 25 museum groups participated, and conducted case studies of 12 museum facilities around the Nation; (3) on the basis of this assessment, the Institute of Museum Services issued a report in September, 1992, entitled, "National Needs Assessment of Small, Emerging, Minority and Rural Museums in the United States" (hereinafter "National Needs Assessment") which found that small, emerging, minority, and rural museums provide valuable educational and cultural resources for their communities and contain a reservoir of the Nation's material, cultural and historical heritage, but due to inadequate resources are unable to meet their full potential or the demands of the surrounding communities; (4) the needs of these institutions are not being met through existing Federal programs; (5) fewer than half of the participants in the survey had applied for Federal assistance in the past two years and that many small, emerging, minority and rural museums believe existing Federal programs do not meet their needs; (6) based on the National Needs Assessment, that funding agencies should increase support available to small, emerging, minority, and rural museums and make specific recommendations for increasing technical assistance in order to identify such institutions and provide assistance to facilitate their participation in Federal programs; (7) the Delta Initiatives Report made specific recommendations for the creation and development of centers for the preservation of the cultural, historical, and literary heritage of the Delta Region, including recommendations for the establishment of a Delta Region Native American Heritage and Cultural Center and a Delta Region African American Heritage and Cultural Center with additional satellite centers or museums linked throughout the Delta Region; (8) the Delta Initiatives Report stated that new ways of coordinating, preserving, and promoting the Delta Region's literature, art, and music should be established including the creation of a network to promote the Delta Region's literary, artistic, and musical heritage; and (9) wholesale destruction and attrition of archeological sites and structures has eliminated a significant portion of Native American heritage as well as the interpretive potential of the Delta Region's parks and museums. Furthermore, site and structure destruction is so severe that an ambitious program of site and structure acquisition in the Delta Region is necessary. (b) IN GENERAL. —The Secretary, in consultation with the States of the Delta Region, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Director of the Smithsonian Institution, the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Center, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and appropriate African American, Native American and other relevant institutions or organizations in the Delta Region, is further directed to prepare and transmit to the Congress a plan outlining specific recommendations, including recommendations for necessary funding, for the establishment of a Delta Region Native American Heritage Corridor and Heritage and Cultural Center and a Delta Region African American Heritage Corridor and

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