The mission of the Veterans Curation Project (VCP) is to provide wounded veterans with job training through the rehabilitation and preservation of archaeological collections owned or administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) and which are considered to be part of our Nation’s patrimony. Most of these collections were excavated during the construction of reservoirs and other associated water control programs from 1947 to 1985. The goal of the VCP is to provide vocational training and temporary employment to disabled veterans, while simultaneously providing the Corps a viable means of rehabilitating a portion of its archaeological collections up to the standards required by the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the Archaeological Resources Protection Act (ARPA), 36 CFR Part 79 (Curation of Federally-owned and Administered Archaeological Collections), and Engineer Regulation (ER) 1130-2-540.
