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§308501 National Women’s Rights History Project National Registry

Title 54 › Subtitle Subtitle III— National Preservation Programs › Chapter 3085— NATIONAL WOMEN’S RIGHTS HISTORY PROJECT › § 308501

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary can give yearly grants to State historic preservation offices for up to 5 years to help them survey, evaluate, and nominate women's rights history places to the National Register of Historic Places. Grants should be given first to sites that show many parts of the movement (politics, economics, education, religion, and social and family rights). The Secretary must update the "Places Where Women Made History" travel website with the inventory results and any related links. The federal share of project costs is 50 percent. There is $1,000,000 authorized for the Secretary for each of fiscal years 2012 and 2013 to carry out this work.

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Title 54, §308501

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(a)The Secretary may make annual grants to State historic preservation offices for not more than 5 years to assist the State historic preservation offices in surveying, evaluating, and nominating to the National Register of Historic Places women’s rights history properties.
(b)In making grants under subsection (a), the Secretary shall give priority to grants relating to properties associated with the multiple facets of the women’s rights movement, such as politics, economics, education, religion, and social and family rights.
(c)The Secretary shall ensure that the National Register travel itinerary website entitled “Places Where Women Made History” is updated to contain—
(1)the results of the inventory conducted under subsection (a); and
(2)any links to websites related to places on the inventory.
(d)The Federal share of the cost of any activity carried out using any assistance made available under this section shall be 50 percent.
(e)There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 and 2013.

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Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30850116 U.S.C. 469m(b).Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, subtitle B, § 7111(b), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1200. In subsection (e), reference to fiscal years 2009 to 2011 is omitted as obsolete.

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54 U.S.C. § 308501

Title 54 — National Park Service and Related Programs

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60