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 activi-
ties, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Corps of Engineers and other Federal 
agencies are required to preserve and catalogue arti-
facts and other items of national historical signifi-
cance that are uncovered during the course of their 
work. 
(2) Uncatalogued artifacts within the care of 
Federal agencies are stored in hundreds of reposi-
tories and museums across the Nation. 
(3) In October 2009, the Corps of Engineers, 
Center of Expertise for Curation and Management 
of Archeological Collections, used $3,500,000 in 
temporary funds made available in the American Re-
covery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 
111–5) to begin the Veterans’ Curation Program to 
employ and train Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in 
archaeological processing. 
(4) The Veterans’ Curation Program employs 
veterans and members of the Armed Forces in the 
sorting, cleaning, and cataloguing of artifacts man-
aged by the Corps of Engineers. 
(5) Employees of the Veterans’ Curation Pro-
gram gain valuable work skills, including computer 
database management, records management, photo-
graphic and scanning techniques, computer software 
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proficiency, vocabulary and writing skills, and inter-
personal communication skills, as well as knowledge 
and training in archaeology and history. 
(6) 
Experience 
in 
archaeological 
curation 
gained through the Veterans’ Curation Program is 
valuable training and experience for the museum, 
forensics, administrative, records management, and 
other fields. 
(7) Veterans’ Curation Program participants 
may assist the Corps of Engineers in developing a 
more efficient and comprehensive collections man-
agement program and also may provide the work-
force to meet the records management needs at 
other agencies and departments, including the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs. 
SEC. 2. TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT FOR VETERANS AND 
MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES IN CURATION 
AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION. 
(a) TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT.—The Secretary of 
the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, shall 
develop a Veterans’ Curation Program to hire veterans 
and members of the Armed Forces to assist the Secretary 
in carrying out curation and historic preservation activi-
ties. 
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