[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 43, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 43CFR3.17]

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                    TITLE 43--PUBLIC LANDS: INTERIOR
 
PART 3--PRESERVATION OF AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 3.17  Preservation of collection.

    Every collection made under the authority of the act and of this 
part shall be preserved in the public museum designated in the permit 
and shall be accessible to the public. No such collection shall be 
removed from such public museum without the written authority of the 
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and then only to another 
public museum, where it shall be accessible to the public; and when any 
public museum, which is a depository of any collection made under the 
provisions of the act and this part, shall cease to exist, every such 
collection in such public museum shall thereupon revert to the national 
collections and be placed in the proper national depository.