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PUBLIC LAW 94-98—SEPT. 19, 1975

Public Law 94-98 94th Congress An Act Sept. 19, 1975 [S. 907] Smithsonian Institution. Museum support facilities, plans. 20 USC 50 note.

Land transfer.

Appropriation authorization.

To authorize the Smithsonian Institution to plan museum support facilities.

Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to prepare plans for museum support facilities to be used for (1) the care, curation, conservation, deposit, preparation, and study of the national collections of scientific, historic, and artistic objects, specimens, and artifacts; (2) the related documentation of such collections of the Smithsonian Institution; and (3) the training of museum conservators. SEC. 2. The museum support facilities referred to in section 1 shall be located on federally owned land within the metropolitan area of Washington, District of Columbia. Any Federal agency is authorized to transfer land under its jurisdiction to the Smithsonian Institution for such purposes without reimbursement. SEC. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution such sums as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act. Approved September 19, 1975.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-258 accompanying H.R. 5328 (Coram, on House Administration). SENATE REPORT No. 94-298 (Coram, on Rules and Administration). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 121 (1975): July 25, considered and passed Senate Sept. 3, considered and passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 5328. Sept. 8, Senate concurred in House amendment. WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 11, No. 39: Sept. 20, Presidential statement.

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