---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 305304"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "305304"
heading: "Preservation grants"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/305304"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division A — Historic Preservation"
  - "Subdivision 4 — Other Organizations and Programs"
  - "Chapter 3053 — National Center for Preservation Technology and Training"
---

# §305304. Preservation grants

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1), in consultation with the [Board](/usc/54/305301.md?p=1), shall provide preservation technology and training grants to eligible applicants with a demonstrated institutional capability and commitment to the purposes of the [Center](/usc/54/305301.md?p=2), in order to ensure an effective and efficient [system](/usc/54/100102.md?p=5) of research, information distribution, and skills training in all the related [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation fields.
- (b) **Grant Requirements.—**
  - (1) **Allocation.—** Grants provided under this section shall be allocated in such a fashion as to reflect the diversity of the [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation fields and shall be geographically distributed.
  - (2) **Limit on amount a recipient may receive.—** No grant recipient may receive more than 10 percent of the grants allocated under this section within any year.
  - (3) **Limit on administrative costs.—** The total administrative costs, direct and indirect, charged for carrying out grants under this section may not exceed 25 percent of the aggregate costs.
- (c) **Eligible Applicants.—** Eligible applicants may include—
  - (1) Federal and non-Federal laboratories;
  - (2) accredited museums;
  - (3) universities;
  - (4) nonprofit organizations;
  - (5) [System units](/usc/54/100102.md?p=6) and offices and Cooperative Park Study Units of the [System](/usc/54/100102.md?p=5);
  - (6) State [Historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) Preservation Offices;
  - (7) tribal preservation offices; and
  - (8) Native Hawaiian organizations.
- (d) **Standards and Methods.—** Grants shall be awarded in accordance with accepted professional standards and methods, including peer review of projects.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3222.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 305304 | 16 U.S.C. 470x–4. | Pub. L. 89–665, title IV, § 405, as added Pub. L. 102–575, title XL, § 4022, Oct. 30, 1992, 106 Stat. 4767. |

The text of 16 U.S.C. 470x–4(e) is omitted as unnecessary.