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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1932

To designate the diplomacy center of the Department of State as the Colin 

Powell Center for American Diplomacy and to provide for appropriate 

museum visitor and educational outreach services at the center. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 1, 2003

Mr. LEACH introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 

on International Relations 

A BILL

To designate the diplomacy center of the Department of 

State as the Colin Powell Center for American Diplomacy and to provide for appropriate museum visitor and 

educational outreach services at the center.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. THE COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN 

4 DIPLOMACY. 

5 Title I of the State Department Basic Authorities Act 

6 of 1956 is amended by adding after section 58 (22 U.S.C. 

7 2730) the following new section: 
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1 ‘‘SEC. 59. COLIN POWELL CENTER FOR AMERICAN DIPLO2 MACY. 

3 ‘‘(a) DESIGNATION.—The diplomacy center of the 

4 Department of State, located in the Harry S Truman 

5 building, is hereby designated as the ‘Colin Powell Center 

6 for American Diplomacy’ (hereinafter in this section re7 ferred to as the ‘Center’). 

8 ‘‘(b) ACTIVITIES.—

9 ‘‘(1) SUPPORT AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of 

10 State is authorized to provide by contract, grant, or 

11 otherwise, for the performance of appropriate mu12 seum visitor and educational outreach services, in13 cluding organizing conference activities, museum 

14 shop services, and food services, in the public exhibit 

15 and related space utilized by the Center. 

16 ‘‘(2) PAYMENT OF EXPENSES.—The Secretary 

17 may pay all reasonable expenses of conference activi18 ties conducted by the Center, including refreshments 

19 and reimbursement of travel expenses incurred by 

20 participants. 

21 ‘‘(3) RECOVERY OF COSTS.—Any revenues gen22 erated under the authority of paragraph (1) for vis23 itor services may be retained, as a recovery of the 

24 costs of operating the Center, and credited to any 

25 Department of State appropriation. 
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1 ‘‘(c) DISPOSITION OF CENTER ARTIFACTS AND MA2 TERIALS.—

3 ‘‘(1) PROPERTY OF SECRETARY.—All historic 

4 documents, artifacts, or other articles permanently 

5 acquired by the Department of State and deter6 mined by the Secretary to be suitable for display in 

7 the Center shall be considered to be the property of 

8 the Secretary in the Secretary’s official capacity and 

9 shall be subject to disposition solely in accordance 

10 with this subsection. 

11 ‘‘(2) SALE OR TRADE.—Whenever the Secretary 

12 makes the determination under paragraph (3) with 

13 respect to an item, the Secretary may sell at fair 

14 market value, trade, or transfer the item, without re15 gard to the requirements of subtitle I of title 40, 

16 United States Code. The proceeds of any such sale 

17 may be used solely for the advancement of the Cen18 ter’s mission and may not be used for any purpose 

19 other than the acquisition and direct care of collec20 tions. 

21 ‘‘(3) DETERMINATIONS PRIOR TO SALE OR

22 TRADE.—The determination referred to in para23 graph (2), with respect to an item, is a determina24 tion that—
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1 ‘‘(A) the item no longer serves to further 

2 the purposes of the Center established in the 

3 collections management policy of the Center; or 

4 ‘‘(B) in order to maintain the standards of 

5 the collections of the Center, the sale or ex6 change of the item would be a better use of the 

7 item. 

8 ‘‘(4) LOANS.—The Secretary may also lend 

9 items covered by paragraph (1), when not needed for 

10 use or display in the Center, to the Smithsonian In11 stitution or a similar institution for repair, study, or 

12 exhibition.’’.

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