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type: "LegalText"
title: "54 U.S.C. § 305502"
description: "Cooperative agreement to operate museum"
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title_number: 54
title_name: "NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND RELATED PROGRAMS"
chapter_number: "3055"
chapter_name: "NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM"
section: "305502"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 305502"
status: "current"
release_point: "119-100"
release_date: "2026-06-26"
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# 54 U.S.C. § 305502 - Cooperative agreement to operate museum

## Text

To provide a national center to commemorate and encourage the building arts and to preserve and maintain a nationally significant building that exemplifies the 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 Museum 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. The cooperative agreement 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 Committee can fulfill its responsibilities under this division.

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3223.)

## Notes

Historical and Revision Notes RevisedSectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 30550216 U.S.C. 470w–5(a) (1st sentence), (b).Pub. L. 89–665, title III, § 306(a) (1st sentence), (b), as added Pub. L. 96–515, title V, § 501, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 3002, 3003. The words “Administrator of General Services” are substituted for “Administrator of the General Services Administration” to use the correct title of the Administrator.