[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6050 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6050

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, and in cooperation with the 
   Koshare Indian Museum, to assist in the expansion of the Museum's 
  storage facility in La Junta, Colorado, to house the collection of 
   Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site and collections from other 
                      National Park Service units.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 30, 2010

    Ms. Markey of Colorado introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior, and in cooperation with the 
   Koshare Indian Museum, to assist in the expansion of the Museum's 
  storage facility in La Junta, Colorado, to house the collection of 
   Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site and collections from other 
                      National Park Service units.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bent's Old Fort Museum Collections 
Facility Act of 2010''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act:
            (1) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary 
        of the Interior.
            (2) Museum.--The term ``Museum'' means the Koshare Indian 
        Museum.
            (3) NPS.--The term ``NPS'' means the National Park Service.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) the Museum, a long-established museum on the Otero 
        Junior College campus in La Junta, Colorado, houses a world-
        class collection of Plains Indian and other Native American 
        material culture;
            (2) the Museum is planning an expansion of its collections' 
        storage facility;
            (3) the Museum and Otero Junior College have developed 
        architectural plans for the new facility;
            (4) the expanded collections storage facility could house 
        the collections of Bent's Old Fort, Sand Creek Massacre, and 
        possibly collections from other National Park System units; and
            (5) NPS staff assigned to the storage facility could manage 
        the NPS collections to NPS standards and assist in the curation 
        of the Museum's collections.

SEC. 4. AGREEMENT.

    (a) Authorization.--The Secretary may enter into a cooperative 
agreement with the Museum to--
            (1) assist in the construction and furnishing of an 
        addition to the museum for use as a curatorial center to house 
        the museum collections from Bent's Old Fort, Sand Creek 
        Massacre, and other units of the National Park System;
            (2) provide no more than $6,000,000 for the construction 
        and furnishing of the addition to the Museum subject to 
        available appropriations; and
            (3) house those portions of the collections of Bent's Old 
        Fort, Sand Creek Massacre, and Washita Battlefield National 
        Historic Sites, and possibly collections from other units of 
        the National Park System, that the Director of the NPS 
        determines appropriate for the facility.
    (b) Funding.--Federal funding provided under subsection (a) shall 
be matched on a 1:1 Federal to non-Federal basis, and the non-Federal 
contribution may be in the form of in-kind contributions of goods or 
services fairly valued.
    (c) Other Conditions.--The curatorial addition authorized by this 
Act shall remain part of the Museum and the Museum shall be responsible 
for maintenance and operational costs associated with the Museum 
including the curatorial addition.

SEC. 5. USE OF STAFF.

    The Secretary may assign NPS staff to--
            (1) provide curatorial services for the NPS museum objects 
        housed at the Museum; and
            (2) to assist with the curation of other objects housed at 
        the Museum.
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