Title 54, National Park Service and Related ProgramsRelease 119-110

§308501 National Women’s Rights History Project National Registry

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

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary may give yearly grants to State historic preservation offices for up to 5 years. The money is to help find, study, and nominate places important to women’s rights for the National Register. Priority goes to sites tied to many parts of the movement, like politics, economics, education, religion, and social and family life. The Secretary must update the National Register travel website "Places Where Women Made History" with the inventory results and related links. The federal share of costs is 50 percent. Up to $1,000,000 may be appropriated for each of fiscal years 2012 and 2013.

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Title 54, §308501

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(a)In General.—
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)Eligibility.—
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)Updates.—
The Secretary shall ensure that the National Register travel itinerary website entitled “Places Where Women Made History” is updated to contain— (1)
(2)any links to websites related to places on the inventory.
(d)Cost-Sharing Requirement.—
The Federal share of the cost of any activity carried out using any assistance made available under this section shall be 50 percent.
(e)Authorization of Appropriations.—
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

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110