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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5282 

To provide funds to the Army Corps of Engineers to hire veterans and 

members of the Armed Forces to assist the Corps with curation and 

historic preservation activities, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 12, 2010 

Mr. BARROW introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To provide funds to the Army Corps of Engineers to hire 

veterans and members of the Armed Forces to assist 

the Corps with curation and historic preservation activities, and for other purposes. 

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

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress finds the following: 

5 (1) The Army Corps of Engineers and other 

6 Federal agencies are required to preserve and cata7 logue artifacts and other items of national historical 


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1 significance that are uncovered during the course of 

2 their work. 

3 (2) Uncatalogued artifacts within the care of 

4 Federal agencies are stored in hundreds of reposi5 tories and museums across the country. 

6 (3) In October of 2009, the Army Corps of En7 gineers, Center of Expertise for Curation and Man8 agement of Archeological Collections, used 

9 $3,500,000 in temporary funds from the American 

10 Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to begin the 

11 Veterans’ Curation Program to employ and train 

12 Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in archaeological 

13 processing. 

14 (4) The Veterans’ Curation Program employs 

15 veterans and members of the Armed Forces in the 

16 sorting, cleaning, and cataloguing of artifacts man17 aged by the Army Corps of Engineers. 

18 (5) Employees of the Veterans’ Curation Pro19 gram gain valuable work skills, including computer 

20 database management, records management, photo21 graphic and scanning techniques, computer software 

22 proficiency, vocabulary and writing skills, and inter23 personal communication skills, as well as knowledge 

24 and training in archaeology and history. 


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1 (6) Experience in archaeological curation 

2 gained through the Veterans’ Curation Program is 

3 valuable training and experience for the museum, 

4 forensics, administrative, records management, and 

5 other fields. 

6 (7) Veterans’ Curation Program participants 

7 may assist the Army Corps of Engineers to develop 

8 a more efficient and comprehensive collections man9 agement program and also may provide the work10 force to meet the records management needs at 

11 other agencies and departments, including the De12 partment of Veterans Affairs. 

13 SEC. 2. TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETERANS AND 

14 MEMBERS OF THE ARMED SERVICES IN 

15 CURATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION. 

16 (a) TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.—The Chief of the 

17 Army Corps of Engineers shall develop a Veterans’ 

18 Curation Program to hire veterans and members of the 

19 Armed Forces to assist the Corps with its curation and 

20 historic preservation activities. 

21 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.—Begin22 ning in fiscal year 2010, there is authorized to be appro23 priated to carry out this Act $10,000,000 for each fiscal 

24 year. 

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