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A BILL

TO AUTHORIZE THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION 
TO PLAN MUSEUM SUPPORT FACILITIES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, The Regents of the Smithsonian Institution are authorized to prepare plans for museum support facilities for the care, curation, conservation^[[,]] deposit, preparation and study of the national collections of scientific, historic, and artistic objects, specimens, and artifacts; for the related documentation of such collections of the Smithsonian Institution; and for the training of museum conservators.

Sec. 2. The museum support facilities referred to in section 1 shall be located on federally owned land within the metropolitan area of Washington, District of Columbia. Any federal agency is authorized to transfer land under its jurisdiction to the Smithsonian Institution for such purposes without reimbursement. 

Sec. 3. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Smithsonian Institution such sums as may be necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act.