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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 6050 

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, and in cooperation with the 

Koshare Indian Museum, to assist in the expansion of the Museum’s 

storage facility in La Junta, Colorado, to house the collection of Bent’s 

Old Fort National Historic Site and collections from other National 

Park Service units. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 30, 2010 

Ms. MARKEY of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, and in cooperation 

with the Koshare Indian Museum, to assist in the expansion of the Museum’s storage facility in La Junta, Colorado, to house the collection of Bent’s Old Fort National 

Historic Site and collections from other National Park 

Service units. 

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bent’s Old Fort Mu5 seum Collections Facility Act of 2010’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

2 In this Act: 

3 (1) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 

4 the Secretary of the Interior. 

5 (2) MUSEUM.—The term ‘‘Museum’’ means the 

6 Koshare Indian Museum. 

7 (3) NPS.—The term ‘‘NPS’’ means the Na8 tional Park Service. 

9 SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 

10 Congress finds that— 

11 (1) the Museum, a long-established museum on 

12 the Otero Junior College campus in La Junta, Colo13 rado, houses a world-class collection of Plains Indian 

14 and other Native American material culture; 

15 (2) the Museum is planning an expansion of its 

16 collections’ storage facility; 

17 (3) the Museum and Otero Junior College have 

18 developed architectural plans for the new facility; 

19 (4) the expanded collections storage facility 

20 could house the collections of Bent’s Old Fort, Sand 

21 Creek Massacre, and possibly collections from other 

22 National Park System units; and 

23 (5) NPS staff assigned to the storage facility 

24 could manage the NPS collections to NPS standards 

25 and assist in the curation of the Museum’s collec26 tions. 


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1 SEC. 4. AGREEMENT. 

2 (a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary may enter into 

3 a cooperative agreement with the Museum to— 

4 (1) assist in the construction and furnishing of 

5 an addition to the museum for use as a curatorial 

6 center to house the museum collections from Bent’s 

7 Old Fort, Sand Creek Massacre, and other units of 

8 the National Park System; 

9 (2) provide no more than $6,000,000 for the 

10 construction and furnishing of the addition to the 

11 Museum subject to available appropriations; and 

12 (3) house those portions of the collections of 

13 Bent’s Old Fort, Sand Creek Massacre, and Washita 

14 Battlefield National Historic Sites, and possibly col15 lections from other units of the National Park Sys16 tem, that the Director of the NPS determines appro17 priate for the facility. 

18 (b) FUNDING.—Federal funding provided under sub19 section (a) shall be matched on a 1:1 Federal to non-Fed20 eral basis, and the non-Federal contribution may be in the 

21 form of in-kind contributions of goods or services fairly 

22 valued. 

23 (c) OTHER CONDITIONS.—The curatorial addition 

24 authorized by this Act shall remain part of the Museum 

25 and the Museum shall be responsible for maintenance and 


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1 operational costs associated with the Museum including 

2 the curatorial addition. 

3 SEC. 5. USE OF STAFF. 

4 The Secretary may assign NPS staff to— 

5 (1) provide curatorial services for the NPS mu6 seum objects housed at the Museum; and 

7 (2) to assist with the curation of other objects 

8 housed at the Museum. 

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