IIB 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 5282 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and 

Public Works 

AN ACT 

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, 


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1 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) The Corps of Engineers and other Federal 

4 agencies are required to preserve and catalogue arti5 facts and other items of national historical signifi6 cance that are uncovered during the course of their 

7 work. 

8 (2) Uncatalogued artifacts within the care of 

9 Federal agencies are stored in hundreds of reposi10 tories and museums across the Nation. 

11 (3) In October 2009, the Corps of Engineers, 

12 Center of Expertise for Curation and Management 

13 of Archeological Collections, used $3,500,000 in 

14 temporary funds made available in the American Re15 covery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 

16 111–5) to begin the Veterans’ Curation Program to 

17 employ and train Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in 

18 archaeological processing. 

19 (4) The Veterans’ Curation Program employs 

20 veterans and members of the Armed Forces in the 

21 sorting, cleaning, and cataloguing of artifacts man22 aged by the Corps of Engineers. 

23 (5) Employees of the Veterans’ Curation Pro24 gram gain valuable work skills, including computer 

25 database management, records management, photo26 graphic and scanning techniques, computer software 


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1 proficiency, vocabulary and writing skills, and inter2 personal communication skills, as well as knowledge 

3 and training in archaeology and history. 

4 (6) Experience in archaeological curation 

5 gained through the Veterans’ Curation Program is 

6 valuable training and experience for the museum, 

7 forensics, administrative, records management, and 

8 other fields. 

9 (7) Veterans’ Curation Program participants 

10 may assist the Corps of Engineers in developing a 

11 more efficient and comprehensive collections man12 agement program and also may provide the work13 force to meet the records management needs at 

14 other agencies and departments, including the De15 partment of Veterans Affairs. 

16 SEC. 2. TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETERANS AND 

17 MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES IN CURATION 

18 AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION. 

19 (a) TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.—The Secretary of 

20 the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall 

21 develop a Veterans’ Curation Program to hire veterans 

22 and members of the Armed Forces to assist the Secretary 

23 in carrying out curation and historic preservation activi24 ties. 


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1 (b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION.—There is 

2 authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section— 

3 (1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2011; 

4 (2) $6,000,000 for fiscal year 2012; 

5 (3) $7,000,000 for fiscal year 2013; 

6 (4) $8,000,000 for fiscal year 2014; and 

7 (5) $9,000,000 for fiscal year 2015. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 15, 

2010. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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