---
kind: "section"
citation: "54 U.S.C. § 308501"
title: "54"
title_heading: "National Park Service and Related Programs"
number: "308501"
heading: "National women’s rights history project national registry"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/54/308501"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — National Preservation Programs"
  - "Division B — Organizations and Programs"
  - "Subdivision 1 — Administered by National Park Service"
  - "Chapter 3085 — National Women’s Rights History Project"
---

# §308501. National women’s rights history project national registry

- (a) **In General.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) may make annual grants to State [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation offices for not more than 5 years to assist the State [historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) preservation offices in surveying, evaluating, and nominating to the National Register of [Historic](/usc/54/308601.md?p=2) Places women’s rights history properties.
- (b) **Eligibility.—** In making grants under [subsection (a)](#a), the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) shall give priority to grants relating to properties associated with the multiple facets of the women’s rights movement, such as politics, economics, education, religion, and social and family rights.
- (c) **Updates.—** The [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) shall ensure that the National Register travel itinerary website entitled “Places Where Women Made History” is updated to contain—
  - (1) the results of the inventory conducted under [subsection (a)](#a); and
  - (2) any links to websites related to places on the inventory.
- (d) **Cost-Sharing Requirement.—** The Federal share of the cost of any activity carried out using any assistance made available under this section shall be 50 percent.
- (e) **Authorization of Appropriations.—** There is authorized to be appropriated to the [Secretary](/usc/54/308101.md?p=1) to carry out this section $1,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2012 and 2013.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–287, § 3, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3236.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 308501 | 16 U.S.C. 469m(b). | Pub. L. 111–11, title VII, subtitle B, § 7111(b), Mar. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 1200. |

In subsection (e), reference to fiscal years 2009 to 2011 is omitted as obsolete.