ASSESSMENT OF CERTAIN MUSEUMS.

SEC. 205. ASSESSMENT OF CERTAIN MUSEUMS. The Museum Services Act (20 U.S.C. 961–968) is amended by adding at the end the following: “assessment of certain museums “Sec. 211. The Director, subject to the policy direction of the Board and in consulation with appropriate representatives of the museum and cultural communities shall undertake an assessment of the needs of small, emerging, minority, and rural museums. The assessment, to be completed and presented to Congress within two years of enactment, shall include but not necessarily be limited to, the following subjects: “(1) The need for resources to identify, collect, document, research, preserve and interpret tangible and nontangible 104 STAT. 1976 collections and to communicate with and involve their own communities and the general public. “(2) The personnel staffing and training needs for small, emerging, minority, and rural museums, including needs for professional positions and for the community persons employed or utilized by museums who are expert in the history, culture, customs, and other human resources of the communities. “(3) The building and construction needs, including impediments to accessing Federal and non-Federal funds for this purpose. “(4) The maintenance, operation and repair needs, including impediments to accessing Federal and non-Federal funds for these purposes. “(5) The status of the museums’ current collections and the museums’ interest in accessing, through gift, purchase, repatriation or borrowing, objects now held privately or in public collections. “(b) As used in this subsection— “(1) the term ‘small, emerging, minority, and rural museums’ includes tribal museums and museums of other ethnic and cultural groups; and “(2) the term ‘Indian tribe’ has the meaning given in the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(b)).”. (b) Authorization of Appropriations.— Section 209 of the Museum Services Act (20 U.S.C. 967) is amended by adding at the end the following: “(e) (1) Subject to paragraph (2), there are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for each of two fiscal years to carry out section 211. “(2) Paragraph (1) shall not be effective for any fiscal year for which the amount appropriated under subsection (a) is less than $24,000,000.”.