I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION H. R. 10553 
To amend title 54, United States Code, to increase amounts deposited in 
the Historic Preservation Fund, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 20, 2024 
Ms. LEGER FERNANDEZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee 
on the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title 54, United States Code, to increase amounts 
deposited in the Historic Preservation Fund, and for 
other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Historic Preservation 
Enhancement Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS TO HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND 
PROVISIONS. 
(a) FUNDING.—Section 303102 of title 54, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘For each’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) 
IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection (b), 
for each’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘of fiscal years 2012 to 2023’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fiscal year’’; 
(3) by striking ‘‘$150,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$300,000,000’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) DEPOSITS.—Unless otherwise provided by law, 
if the revenues described in subsection (a) are not suffi-
cient to cover the amount to be deposited into each of the 
funds such revenues are directed under other Federal 
laws, the difference between the shortfall in the revenues 
and the amount to be deposited into the Historic Preserva-
tion Fund under subsection (a) shall be deposited from 
amounts in the general fund of the Treasury.’’. 
(b) USE AND AVAILABILITY.—Section 303103 of title 
54, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘§ 303103. Use and availability 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Any amounts deposited in the 
Historic Preservation Fund under section 303102 for fis-
cal year 2025 and each fiscal year thereafter shall be made 
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available for expenditure for fiscal year 2026 and each fis-
cal year thereafter, without further appropriation or fiscal 
year limitation, to carry out this division (including pro-
grams made available from the Historic Preservation 
Fund). 
‘‘(b) ALLOCATION AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) MINIMUM
ALLOCATION
FOR
STATE
AND 
TRIBAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law and subject to subpara-
graph (B), of the amounts made available from 
the Fund for each fiscal year under subsection 
(a)— 
‘‘(i) not less than 40 percent shall be 
allocated to State Historic Preservation 
Offices; and 
‘‘(ii) not less than 20 percent shall be 
allocated to Tribal Historic Preservation 
Offices. 
‘‘(B) ADJUSTMENT.—The annual alloca-
tion to Tribal Historic Preservation Offices 
under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be increased 
as necessary to reflect any annual increase in 
the number of Tribal Historic Preservation Of-
fices. 
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‘‘(2) SUBMISSION
OF
COST
ESTIMATES.—The 
President shall submit to Congress proposed alloca-
tions to State Historic Preservation Offices (ex-
pressed as the total amount proposed to be allocated 
to all such Offices), Tribal Historic Preservation Of-
fices (expressed as the total amount proposed to be 
allocated to all such Offices), grant programs de-
scribed in the item relating to the Historic Preserva-
tion Fund in title I of division G of the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2023 (Public Law 117–328), 
and any other relevant programs (as determined by 
the President or a designee of the President), of the 
full amount made available under subsection (a)— 
‘‘(A) for fiscal year 2026, not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of the 
Historic Preservation Enhancement Act; and 
‘‘(B) for each fiscal year thereafter, as 
part of the annual budget submission of the 
President. 
‘‘(3) ALTERNATE ALLOCATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Appropriations Acts 
may provide for alternate allocation of amounts 
made available under subsection (a), including 
allocations by program. 
‘‘(B) ALLOCATION BY PRESIDENT.— 
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‘‘(i) NO ALTERNATE ALLOCATIONS.— 
If Congress has not enacted legislation es-
tablishing alternate allocations by the date 
on which the Act making full-year appro-
priations for the Department of the Inte-
rior, Environment, and Related Agencies 
for the applicable fiscal year is enacted 
into law, amounts made available under 
subsection (a) shall be allocated by the 
President. 
‘‘(ii) INSUFFICIENT
ALTERNATE
AL-
LOCATION.—If Congress enacts legislation 
establishing 
alternate 
allocations 
for 
amounts made available under subsection 
(a) that are less than the full amount ap-
propriated under such subsection, the dif-
ference between the amount appropriated 
and the alternate allocation shall be allo-
cated by the President. 
‘‘(4) CONTINUING
RESOLUTION.—If the De-
partment of the Interior or the National Park Serv-
ice is operating under a continuing resolution during 
any period in a fiscal year, the President may dis-
tribute funds made available under subsection (a) to 
State Historic Preservation Offices and Tribal His-
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toric Preservation Offices during such period at the 
rate of operations provided for such Offices under 
such subsection during the immediately preceding 
fiscal year. 
‘‘(5) ANNUAL
REPORT.—The President shall 
submit to Congress an annual report that describes 
the final allocation, by program, of amounts made 
available under subsection (a).’’. 
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF HISTORIC PRESERVATION 
FUND PROGRAMS. 
Subject to the availability of appropriations, amounts 
are authorized to be made available from the Historic 
Preservation Fund to the following programs: 
(1) African American Civil Rights Movement 
Initiative & Grants. 
(2) History of Equal Rights Grants (formerly 
known as ‘‘Civil Rights Grants for All Americans’’). 
(3) Survey Grants for Underrepresented Com-
munities. 
(4) Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants. 
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