PUBLIC LAW 105-127 —DEC. 1, 1997 111 STAT. 2545 (18) It is appropriate for the Federal Government to share in the cost of constructing the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center because Congress recognizes that the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center has the potential to be a premier facility for performing arts and a national repository for Hispanic arts and culture. (b) DEFINITIONS.— In this section: (1) CENTER.— The term "Center" means the Center for Performing Arts, within the complex known as the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center, which Center for the Performing Arts is a central facility in Phase II of the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center complex. (2) HISPANIC CULTURAL DIVISION. —The term "Hispanic Cultural Division" means the Hispanic Cultural Division of the Office of Cultural Affairs of the State of New Mexico. (3) SECRETARY. —The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior. (c) CONSTRUCTION OF CENTER.— The Secretary shall award a grant to New Mexico to pay for the Federal share of the costs of the design, construction, furnishing, and equipping of the Center for Performing Arts that will be located at a site to be determined by the Hispanic Cultural Division, within the complex known as the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center. (d) GRANT REQUIREMENTS.— (1) IN GENERAL.—In order to receive a grant awarded under subsection (c). New Mexico, acting through the Director of the Hispanic Cultural Division— (A) shall submit to the Secretary, within 30 days of the date of enactment of this section, a copy of the New Mexico Hispanic Cultural Center Program document dated January 1996; and (B) shall exercise due diligence to expeditiously execute, in a period not to exceed 90 days after the date of enactment of this section, the memorandum of understanding under paragraph (2) recognizing that time is of the essence for the construction of the Center because 1998 marks the 400th anniversary of the first permanent Spanish settlement in New Mexico. (2) MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING. — The memorandum of understanding described in paragraph (1) shall provide— (A) the date of completion of the construction of the Center; (B) that Antoine Predock, an internationaly recognized architect, shall be the supervising architect for the construction of the Center or any other architect subsequently named by the State; (C) that the Director of the Hispanic Cultural Division shall award the contract for architectural engineering and design services in accordance with the New Mexico Procurement Code; and (D) that the contract for the construction of the Center— (i) shall be awarded pursuant to a competitive bidding process; and (ii) shall be awarded not later than 3 months sifter the solicitation for bids for the construction of the Center.
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