---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 450aa–2"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "450aa–2"
heading: "Maintenance of museum; construction of roads and use of markers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/450aa-2"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LXI — National and International Monuments and Memorials"
---

# §450aa–2. Maintenance of museum; construction of roads and use of markers


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of[^1] Interior is authorized to—

- (1) Maintain, either in an existing structure acquired under the provisions of [section 450aa of this title](/usc/16/450aa.md) or in a building constructed by him for the purpose, a museum for relics and records pertaining to George Washington Carver, and for other articles of national and patriotic interest, and to accept, on behalf of the United States, for installation in such museum, articles which may be offered as [additions](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-2) to the museum; and
- (2) Construct roads and mark with monuments, tablets, or otherwise, points of interest within the boundaries of the George Washington Carver National Monument.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “of the”.

## Source credit

(July 14, 1943, ch. 238, § 3, 57 Stat. 564.)