§80q–13 Grants by Secretary of the Interior to assist Indian organizations with respect to renovation and repair of museum facilities and exhibit facilities

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior can give grants to Indian groups — like tribes, museums, cultural centers, schools, libraries, and archives — to fix up museum or exhibit spaces so they can show artifacts borrowed from the Smithsonian or other places. Those grants must come only from a special account called the Tribal Museum Endowment Fund. The Secretary may require the group getting the grant to pay up to 50% of the repair cost in cash or services, but that share cannot come from the Fund. The Tribal Museum Endowment Fund is a Treasury fund made up of non‑Federal donations, earnings from investments, and any money Congress adds. The Interior can accept private donations. The Treasury can invest the Fund in U.S. government interest‑bearing securities, buy or sell them, and work with Interior on timing to meet grant needs. Interest and sale proceeds can be spent if appropriated; the Fund’s principal cannot be spent. Congress authorized $2,000,000 a year to the Fund starting in fiscal year 1992.