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any provision of law that those proceeds shall be credited to miscellaneous 
receipts of the Treasury. 
(c) USE AND AVAILABILITY.—Amounts in the Historic Preservation Fund 
shall be used only to carry out this division and shall be available for ex-
penditure only when appropriated by Congress. Any amount not appro-
priated shall remain available in the Historic Preservation Fund until ap-
propriated for those purposes. Appropriations made pursuant to this section 
may be made without fiscal year limitation. 
§ 205512. Acceptance by Secretary of privately donated 
funds 
(a) PROJECTS FOR WHICH FUNDS MAY BE USED.—In furtherance of the 
purposes of this division, the Secretary may accept the donation of funds 
that may be expended by the Secretary for projects to acquire, restore, pre-
serve, or recover data from any property included on the National Register, 
as long as the project is owned by a State, any unit of local government, 
or any nonprofit entity. 
(b) CONSIDERATION
OF
FACTORS
RESPECTING
EXPENDITURE
OF 
FUNDS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—In expending the funds, the Secretary shall give 
due consideration to— 
(A) the national significance of the project; 
(B) its historical value to the community; 
(C) the imminence of its destruction or loss; and 
(D) the expressed intentions of the donor. 
(2) FUNDS AVAILABLE WITHOUT REGARD TO MATCHING REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Funds expended under this subsection shall be made available 
without regard to the matching requirements established by section 
205501 of this title, but the recipient of the funds shall be permitted 
to utilize them to match any grants from the Historic Preservation 
Fund. 
(c) TRANSFER OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS.—The Secretary may transfer 
unobligated funds previously donated to the Secretary for the purposes of 
the Service, with the consent of the donor, and any funds so transferred 
shall be used or expended in accordance with this division. 
Subdivision 5—Miscellaneous 
CHAPTER 2061—MISCELLANEOUS 
Sec. 
206101.
World Heritage Convention. 
206102.
National Building Museum. 
206103.
Effective date of regulations. 
206104.
White House, Supreme Court building, and United States Capitol not included in 
program for preservation of historic properties. 
206105.
Attorney’s fees and costs to prevailing parties in civil actions. 
206106.
Authorization for expenditure of appropriated funds. 
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206107.
Donations and bequests of money, personal property, and less than fee interests in 
historic property. 
§ 206101. World Heritage Convention 
(a) PARTICIPATION BY UNITED STATES.—The Secretary shall direct and 
coordinate participation by the United States in the World Heritage Con-
vention in cooperation with the Secretary of State, the Smithsonian Institu-
tion, and the Council. Whenever possible, expenditures incurred in carrying 
out activities in cooperation with other nations and international organiza-
tions shall be paid for in such excess currency of the country or area where 
the expense is incurred as may be available to the United States. 
(b) NOMINATION OF PROPERTY TO WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE.— 
The Secretary shall periodically nominate properties that the Secretary de-
termines are of international significance to the World Heritage Committee 
on behalf of the United States. No property may be nominated unless it has 
previously been determined to be of national significance. Each nomination 
shall include evidence of such legal protections as may be necessary to en-
sure preservation of the property and its environment (including restrictive 
covenants, easements, or other forms of protection). Before making any 
nomination, the Secretary shall notify the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate. 
(c) NOMINATION OF NON-FEDERAL PROPERTY TO WORLD HERITAGE 
COMMITTEE REQUIRES WRITTEN CONCURRENCE
OF OWNER.—No non- 
Federal property may be nominated by the Secretary to the World Heritage 
Committee for inclusion on the World Heritage List unless the owner of the 
property concurs in the nomination in writing. 
§ 206102. National Building Museum 
(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
(1) BUILDING ARTS.—The term ‘‘building arts’’ includes all practical 
and scholarly aspects of prehistoric, historic, and contemporary archi-
tecture, archaeology, construction, building technology and skills, land-
scape architecture, preservation and conservation, building and con-
struction, engineering, urban and community design and renewal, city 
and regional planning, and related professions, skills, trades, and 
crafts. 
(2) COMMITTEE.—The term ‘‘Committee’’ means the Committee for 
a National Museum of the Building Arts, Incorporated, a nonprofit cor-
poration organized and existing under the laws of the District of Co-
lumbia, or its successor. 
(b) COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT TO OPERATE MUSEUM.—To provide a 
national center to commemorate and encourage the building arts and to pre-
serve and maintain a nationally significant building that exemplifies the 
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great achievements of the building arts in the United States, the Secretary 
and the Administrator of General Services shall enter into a cooperative 
agreement with the Committee for the operation of a National Building Mu-
seum in the Federal building located in the block bounded by Fourth Street, 
Fifth Street, F Street, and G Street, Northwest in Washington, District of 
Columbia. 
(c) PURPOSES OF MUSEUM.—The National Building Museum shall— 
(1) collect and disseminate information concerning the building arts, 
including the establishment of a national reference center for current 
and historic documents, publications, and research relating to the 
building arts; 
(2) foster educational programs relating to the history, practice, and 
contribution to society of the building arts, including promotion of 
imaginative educational approaches to enhance understanding and ap-
preciation of all facets of the building arts; 
(3) publicly display temporary and permanent exhibits illustrating, 
interpreting and demonstrating the building arts; 
(4) sponsor or conduct research and study into the history of the 
building arts and their role in shaping our civilization; and 
(5) encourage contributions to the building arts. 
(d) PROVISIONS OF COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT.—The cooperative agree-
ment referred to in subsection (b) shall include provisions that— 
(1) make the site available to the Committee without charge; 
(2) provide, subject to available appropriations, such maintenance, 
security, information, janitorial, and other services as may be necessary 
to ensure the preservation and operation of the site; and 
(3) prescribe reasonable terms and conditions by which the Com-
mittee can fulfill its responsibilities under this division. 
(e) MATCHING GRANTS TO COMMITTEE.—The Secretary shall provide 
matching grants to the Committee for its programs related to historic pres-
ervation. The Committee shall match the grants in such a manner and with 
such funds and services as shall be satisfactory to the Secretary, except that 
not more than $500,000 may be provided to the Committee in any one fiscal 
year. 
(f) ANNUAL
COMMITTEE
REPORT
TO
SECRETARY
AND
ADMINIS-
TRATOR.—The Committee shall submit an annual report to the Secretary 
and the Administrator of General Services concerning its activities under 
this section and shall provide the Secretary and the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services with such other information as the Secretary may consider 
necessary or advisable. 
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§ 206103. Effective date of regulations 
(a) PUBLICATION IN FEDERAL REGISTER.—No final regulation of the 
Secretary shall become effective prior to the expiration of 30 calendar days 
after it is published in the Federal Register during which either or both 
Houses of Congress are in session. 
(b) DISAPPROVAL OF REGULATION BY RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS.—The 
regulation shall not become effective if, within 90 calendar days of contin-
uous session of Congress after the date of promulgation, both Houses of 
Congress adopt a concurrent resolution, the matter after the resolving 
clause of which is as follows: ‘‘That Congress disapproves the regulation 
promulgated by the Secretary dealing with the matter of 
, which 
regulation was transmitted to Congress on 
, ’’ the blank spaces 
in the resolution being appropriately filled. 
(c) FAILURE OF CONGRESS TO ADOPT RESOLUTION OF DISAPPROVAL OF 
REGULATION.—If at the end of 60 calendar days of continuous session of 
Congress after the date of promulgation of a regulation, no committee of 
either House of Congress has reported or been discharged from further con-
sideration of a concurrent resolution disapproving the regulation, and nei-
ther House has adopted such a resolution, the regulation may go into effect 
immediately. If, within the 60 calendar days, a committee has reported or 
been discharged from further consideration of such a resolution, the regula-
tion may go into effect not sooner than 90 calendar days of continuous ses-
sion of Congress after its promulgation unless disapproved as provided for. 
(d) SESSIONS OF CONGRESS.—For purposes of this section— 
(1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment sine die; 
and 
(2) the days on which either House is not in session because of an 
adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain are excluded in the 
computation of 60 and 90 calendar days of continuous session of Con-
gress. 
(e) CONGRESSIONAL INACTION OR REJECTION OF RESOLUTION OF DIS-
APPROVAL NOT DEEMED APPROVAL OF REGULATION.—Congressional inac-
tion on or rejection of a resolution of disapproval shall not be deemed an 
expression of approval of the regulation. 
§ 206104. White House, Supreme Court building, and United 
States Capitol not included in program for preser-
vation of historic properties 
Nothing in this division shall be construed to be applicable to the White 
House and its grounds, the Supreme Court building and its grounds, or the 
United States Capitol and its related buildings and grounds. 
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