---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 308102"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "308102"
heading: "Preservation assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/308102"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division B — Organizations and Programs"
  - "Subdivision 1 — Administered by National Park Service"
  - "Chapter 3081 — American Battlefield Protection Program"
---

# §308102. Preservation assistance

- (a) **In General.—** Using the established national [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation [program](/usc/54/308601.md?p=3) to the extent practicable, the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) shall encourage, support, assist, recognize, and work in partnership with citizens, Federal agencies, States, Tribes, local governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations in identifying, researching, evaluating, interpreting, and protecting [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) battlefields and associated sites on a national, State, and local level.
- (b) **Financial Assistance.—** To carry out [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) may use a cooperative agreement, grant, contract, or other generally adopted means of providing financial assistance.
- (c) **Authorization of Appropriations.—** There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section $3,000,000 for each fiscal year, to remain available until expended.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3233; Pub. L. 118–234, title I, § 157(b), Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2879.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 308102 | 16 U.S.C. 469k–1(b). | Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, subtitle D, § 7301(b), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1213. |

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2025—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 118–234 substituted “Federal agencies, States, Tribes, local governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and nonprofit organizations” for “Federal, State, local, and tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and private nonprofit organizations”.