§ 1153. — Underground Railroad educational and cultural program.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC1153]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 28--HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCES AND STUDENT ASSISTANCE
SUBCHAPTER VIII--MISCELLANEOUS
Sec. 1153. Underground Railroad educational and cultural program
(a) Program established
The Secretary of Education, in consultation and cooperation with the
Secretary of the Interior, is authorized to make grants to 1 or more
nonprofit educational organizations that are established to research,
display, interpret, and collect artifacts relating to the history of the
Underground Railroad.
(b) Grant agreement
Each nonprofit educational organization awarded a grant under this
section shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Education.
Each such agreement shall require the organization--
(1) to establish a facility to house, display, and interpret the
artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad, and to
make the interpretive efforts available to institutions of higher
education that award a baccalaureate or graduate degree;
(2) to demonstrate substantial private support for the facility
through the implementation of a public-private partnership between a
State or local public entity and a private entity for the support of
the facility, which private entity shall provide matching funds for
the support of the facility in an amount equal to 4 times the amount
of the contribution of the State or local public entity, except that
not more than 20 percent of the matching funds may be provided by
the Federal Government;
(3) to create an endowment to fund any and all shortfalls in the
costs of the on-going operations of the facility;
(4) to establish a network of satellite centers throughout the
United States to help disseminate information regarding the
Underground Railroad throughout the United States, if such satellite
centers raise 80 percent of the funds required to establish the
satellite centers from non-Federal public and private sources;
(5) to establish the capability to electronically link the
facility with other local and regional facilities that have
collections and programs which interpret the history of the
Underground Railroad; and
(6) to submit, for each fiscal year for which the organization
receives funding under this section, a report to the Secretary of
Education that contains--
(A) a description of the programs and activities supported
by the funding;
(B) the audited financial statement of the organization for
the preceding fiscal year;
(C) a plan for the programs and activities to be supported
by the funding as the Secretary may require; and
(D) an evaluation of the programs and activities supported
by the funding as the Secretary may require.
(c) Authorization of appropriations
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section
$6,000,000 for fiscal year 1999, $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2000,
$6,000,000 for fiscal year 2001, $3,000,000 for fiscal year 2002, and
$3,000,000 for fiscal year 2003.
(Pub. L. 105-244, title VIII, Sec. 841, Oct. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1820.)
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Higher Education Amendments of
1998, and not as part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 which
comprises this chapter.
