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16 U.S.C. § 407dd — Directives to Secretary
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**(a) Independence National Historical Park and other units** The Secretary shall interpret the origins, subsequent development, and effects of the United States Constitution on this country at Independence National Historical Park and at such other units of the National Park System as are closely associated with the Constitution. The Secretary shall select not less than 12 units of the National Park System for such interpretation, including Independence National Historical Park.
**(b) Memorial** The Secretary is authorized to establish and maintain at Independence National Historical Park an appropriate memorial to the United States Constitution as a key document in our Nation’s history.
**(c) Public materials** In coordination with the National Constitution Center, the Secretary shall develop and make available to the public interpretive and educational materials related to sites within the National Park System as referred to in subsection (a).
**(d) Cooperative agreements** The Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the owners or administrators of historic sites closely associated with the Constitution, pursuant to which the Secretary may provide technical assistance in the preservation and interpretation of such sites.
**(e) Research and education** The Secretary shall contract with the National Constitution Center and other qualified institutions of higher learning for research and other activities including the distribution of interpretive and educational materials as appropriate in order to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.
**(f) Maintenance of historic integrity** Nothing in this section may be construed to alter or waive the requirement that the Secretary maintain the historic integrity of units of the National Park System, includi
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**(a) Independence National Historical Park and other units** The Secretary shall interpret the origins, subsequent development, and effects of the United States Constitution on this country at Independence National Historical Park and at such other units of the National Park System as are closely associated with the Constitution. The Secretary shall select not less than 12 units of the National Park System for such interpretation, including Independence National Historical Park.
**(b) Memorial** The Secretary is authorized to establish and maintain at Independence National Historical Park an appropriate memorial to the United States Constitution as a key document in our Nation’s history.
**(c) Public materials** In coordination with the National Constitution Center, the Secretary shall develop and make available to the public interpretive and educational materials related to sites within the National Park System as referred to in subsection (a).
**(d) Cooperative agreements** The Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements with the owners or administrators of historic sites closely associated with the Constitution, pursuant to which the Secretary may provide technical assistance in the preservation and interpretation of such sites.
**(e) Research and education** The Secretary shall contract with the National Constitution Center and other qualified institutions of higher learning for research and other activities including the distribution of interpretive and educational materials as appropriate in order to carry out the provisions of this subchapter.
**(f) Maintenance of historic integrity** Nothing in this section may be construed to alter or waive the requirement that the Secretary maintain the historic integrity of units of the National Park System, including compliance with [section 306108 of title 54](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title54-section306108&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The head of any Federal agency having direct or indirect jurisdiction over a proposed Federal or federally assisted undertaking in any State and the head of any Federal department or independent agency having authority to license any undertaking, prior to the approval of the expenditure of any Federal funds on the undertaking or prior to the issuance of any license, shall take into account the effect of the undertaking on any historic property. The head of the Federal agency shall afford the Council a reasonable opportunity to comment with regard to the undertaking.
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TITLE 16—CONSERVATION
§ 407dd
corporations, or persons, upon such terms and
conditions as he deems to be appropriate in car-
rying out the purposes of this subchapter.
(June 28, 1948, ch. 687, § 7, as added Oct. 26, 1951,
ch. 574, 65 Stat. 644.)
SUBCHAPTER LI–A—NATIONAL
CONSTITUTION CENTER
§ 407aa. Findings and purposes
(a) Findings
Congress finds that:
(1) 1987 was the bicentennial of the signing of
the United States Constitution;
(2) commemoration of the Constitution’s bi-
centennial included various events conducted
by the Federal Commission on the Bicenten-
nial of the United States Constitution, and
State and local bicentennial commissions;
(3) bicentennial activities included impor-
tant educational and instructional programs
to heighten public awareness of the Constitu-
tion and the democratic process;
(4) educational programs for the Constitu-
tion should continue after the bicentennial to
document its profound impact on the political,
economic and social development of this Na-
tion, and in order to recognize those Ameri-
cans instrumental in the history of the Con-
stitution; and
(5) units of the National Park System pre-
serve and interpret key historic sites that doc-
ument the history of the origins, subsequent
development, and effects of the United States
Constitution on this Nation.
(b) Purposes
It is therefore the policy of the Congress to
provide each of the following:
(1) the necessary resources to develop a na-
tional resource center to undertake, on an on-
going basis, educational programs on the Con-
stitution;
(2) exhibits of, and an archives for, programs
on or related to the recent bicentennial of the
United States Constitution; and
(3) interpretation of the United States Con-
stitution at those units of the
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