---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 303903"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "303903"
heading: "Preservation education and training program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/303903"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 2 — Historic Preservation Program"
  - "Chapter 3039 — Miscellaneous"
---

# §303903. Preservation education and training program


The [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Council](/usc/54/311101.md?p=1) and other appropriate Federal, tribal, Native Hawaiian, and non-Federal organizations, shall develop and implement a comprehensive preservation education and training [program](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3). The [program](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3) shall include—

- (1) standards and increased preservation training opportunities for Federal workers involved in preservation-related functions;
- (2) preservation training opportunities for other Federal, State, tribal and local government workers, and students;
- (3) technical or financial assistance, or both, to historically black colleges and universities, to tribal colleges, and to colleges with a high enrollment of Native Americans or Native Hawaiians, to establish preservation training and degree [programs](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3); and
- (4) where appropriate, coordination with the National [Center](/usc/54/305301.md?p=2) for Preservation Technology and Training of—
  - (A) distribution of information on preservation technologies;
  - (B) provision of training and skill development in trades, crafts, and disciplines related to [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation in Federal training and development [programs](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3); and
  - (C) support for research, analysis, conservation, curation, interpretation, and display related to preservation.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3208.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 303903 | 16 U.S.C. 470a(j). | Pub. L. 89–665, title I, § 101(j), as added Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4008, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4758. |

In paragraph (1), the word “new” is omitted as unnecessary.

In paragraph (2), the word “increased” is omitted as unnecessary.