of the United States, including the objective mentioned in sections 413(b)(4)(A) and 413(b)(4)(G) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954,89 as amended.

(b) 90 The Director is authorized to assume the obligation of not to exceed $28,000,000 of the notes authorized to be issued pursuant to subsection 111(c)(2) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1509(c)(2)), together with the interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and to obtain advances from time to time from the Secretary of the Treasury up to such amount, less amounts previously advanced on such notes, as provided for in said notes. Such advances shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury available for payments under informational media guaranties.

(c) 90 The Director is authorized to make informational media guaranties without regard to the limitations of time contained in subsection 413(b)(4) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1933(b)(4)), but the total of such guaranties outstanding at any one time shall not exceed the sum of the face amount of the notes assumed by the Director less the amounts previously advanced on such notes by the Secretary of the Treasury plus the amount of the funds in the special account referred to in subsection (b).

(d) 90 Foreign currencies available after June 30, 1955, from conversions made pursuant to the obligation of informational media guaranties may be sold, in accordance with Treasury Department regulations, for dollars which shall be deposited in the special account and shall be available for payments under new guaranties. Such currencies shall be available, as may be provided for by the Congress in appropriation Acts, for use of educational, scientific, and cultural purposes which are in the national interest of the United States, and for such other purposes of mutual interest as may be agreed to by the governments of the United States and the country from which the currencies derive.

(e) 90 Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph 413(b)(4)(E) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1933(b)(4)(E), (1) fees collected for the issuance of informational media guaranties shall be deposited in the special account and shall be available for payments under informational media guaranties; and (2) the Director may require the payment of a minimum charge of up to fifty dollars for issuance of guaranty contracts, or amendments thereto.

(f) 90 The Director is further authorized, under such terms as he may prescribe, to make advance payments under informational media guaranties: Provided, That currencies receivable from holders of such guaranties on account of such advance payments shall be paid to the United States within nine months from the date of the advance payment and that appropriate security to assure such payments is required before any advance payment is made.

(g) 90 As soon as feasible after the enactment of this subsection, all assets, liabilities, income, expenses, and charges of whatever kind pertaining to informational media guaranties, including any charges against the authority to issue notes provided in section.

90 Subsecs. (b) through (g) were added by sec. 11(g) of the Mutual Security Act of 1956 (70 Stat.

111(c)(2) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended, cumulative from the enactment of that Act, shall be accounted for separately from other guaranties issued pursuant to subsection 413(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended (22 U.S.C. 1933(b)): Provided, That there shall be transferred from the special account established pursuant to subsection (b), into the account available for payments under guaranties other than informational media guaranties, an amount equal to the total of the fees received for the issuance of guaranties other than informational media guaranties, and used to make payments under informational media guaranties.

(h) 91 (1) There is authorized to be appropriated annually an amount to restore in whole or in part any realized impairment to the capital used in carrying on the authority to make informational media guaranties, as provided in subsection (c), through the end of the last completed fiscal year.

(2) Such impairment shall consist of the amount by which the losses incurred and interest accrued on notes exceed the revenue earned and any previous appropriations made for the restoration of impairment. Losses shall include the dollar losses on foreign currencies sold, and the dollar cost of foreign currencies which (a) the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Director, has determined to be unavailable for, in excess of, requirements of the United States, or (b) have been transferred to other accounts without reimbursement to the special account.

(3) Dollars appropriated pursuant to this section shall be applied to the payment of interest and in satisfaction of notes issued or assumed hereunder, and to the extent of such application to the principal of the notes, the Director is authorized to issue notes to the Secretary of the Treasury which will bear interest at a rate to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average market yields of outstanding marketable obligations of the United States having maturities comparable to the guaranties. The currencies determined to be unavailable for, or in excess of requirements of the United States as provided above shall be transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury to be held until disposed of, and any dollar proceeds realized from such disposition shall be deposited in miscellaneous receipts.

(4) 92 Section 701(a) of this Act shall not apply with respect to any amounts appropriated under this section for the purpose of liquidating the notes (and any accrued interest thereon) which were assumed in the operation of the informational media guaranty program under this section and which were outstanding on the date of enactment of this paragraph.

91 Subsec. (h) was added by sec. 502(i) of the Mutual Security Act of 1958 (72 Stat. 274). 92 Paragraph (4) was added by sec. 304(f) of Public Law 97-241 (96 Stat. 293).

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b. United States Information Agency Authorization, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

Partial text of Public Law 102-138 [Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993; H.R. 1415], 105 Stat. 647 at 691, approved October 28, 1991

NOTE.-Sections of this title amend State Department, USIA, and other foreign affairs legislation and are incorporated in the appropriate Acts.

AN ACT To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 1992 and 1993 for the
Department of State, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

TITLE II-UNITED STATES INFORMATIONAL,
EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS

PART A-UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated for the United States Information Agency (other than for the Voice of America) to carry out international information, educational, cultural, and exchange programs under the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, Reorganization Plan Number 2 of 1977, and to carry out other authorities in law consistent with such purposes:

(1) SALARIES AND EXPENSES.-For "Salaries and Expenses", $423,827,500 for the fiscal year 1992 and $451,294,000 for the fiscal year 1993.

(2) 2 OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL.-For "Office of the Inspector General" $4,206,000 for the fiscal year 1992 and $4,420,000 for the fiscal year 1993.

(3) 3 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY.-For "National Endowment for Democracy", $25,000,000 for the fiscal year 1992 and $31,250,000 for the fiscal year 1993.

'The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (title V of Public Law 102-140; 105 Stat. 821), provided $691,725,000, for salaries and expenses, with several provisos. See page 843.

2 The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (title V of Public Law 102-140; 105 Stat. 822), provided $4,206,000, for Office of Inspector General.

3 The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (title V of Public Law 102-140; 105 Stat. 823), provided $27,500,000 for USIA grants to the National Endowment for Democracy.

(4)4 CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN EAST AND WEST.-For "Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West", $24,500,000 for the fiscal year 1992 and $26,000,000 for the fiscal year 1993.

(b) AUTHORIZATION WITHIN "SALARIES AND EXPENSES" ACCOUNT. Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by subsection (a)(1), $284,000 is authorized for the fiscal year 1992 for the establishment and operation of a United States Information Agency office in Vientiane, Laos, pursuant to section 216 of this Act, and $307,000 is authorized for fiscal year 1993 for the continued operation of such office.

SEC. 206.5 USIA POSTS AND PERSONNEL OVERSEAS. * *

(b) 6 REDUCTIONS IN AMERICAN EMPLOYEES.-Reductions may not be made in the number of positions filled by American employees of the United States Information Agency stationed abroad until the number of such employees is the same percentage of the total number of American employees of the Agency as the number of American employees of the Agency stationed abroad in 1981 was to the total number of American employees at the Agency at the same time in 1981.

(c) REPEAL.-Section 204 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (22 U.S.C. 1461 note) is repealed."

SEC. 207.8 IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIRUT AGREEMENT. * **

SEC. 208. CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH. *

SEC. 210.10 CLAUDE AND MILDRED PEPPER SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM.

(a) PURPOSE.-It is the purpose of this section to provide Federal financial assistance to facilitate a program to enable high school and college students from emerging democracies, who are visiting the United States, to spend from one to two weeks in Washington, District of Columbia, observing and studying the workings and operations of the democratic form of government of the United States.

(b) GRANTS.-The Director of the United States Information Agency is authorized to make grants to the Claude and Mildred Pepper Scholarship Program of the Washington Workshops Foundation to carry out the purpose specified in subsection (a).

* The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (title V of Public Law 102-140; 105 Stat. 823), provided $24,500,000, for USIA grants to the East-West Center. 5 Sec. 206(a) added a new sec. 812 to the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1475g). For text, see page 787.

622 U.S.C. 1475g note.

7 Sec. 204 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (Public Law 100-204), relating to USIA posts and personnel overseas, was waived during fiscal years 1988 and 1989 by sec. 305 of the Department of State Appropriations Act, 1988 (sec. 101(a) of Public Law 100-202; 101 Stat. 1329).

8 Sec. 207 amended Public Law 89-634 (80 Stat. 879). For text, see page 926.

22 U.S.C. 2075. For text of sec. 208, the "North/South Center Act of 1991", see page 916. 10 22 U.S.C. 2452 note.

(c) 11 AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-There are authorized to be appropriated $1,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 to carry out this section, of which not more than $500,000 is authorized to be available for obligation or expenditure during that fiscal year. Amounts appropriated pursuant to this subsection are authorized to be available until expended.

SEC. 211. PROGRAM REVIEW OF NED.

(a) ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.-In addition to amounts authorized to be appropriated under section 201(3), after the submission of the report under subsection (b), there are authorized to be appropriated for the National Endowment for Democracy $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1992.

(b) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.-The National Endowment for Democracy shall submit to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a comprehensive report concerning the actions of the National Endowment for Democracy and certain grantees (the Free Trade Union Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the National Republican Institute for International Affairs, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs) to comply with the recommendations of the General Accounting Office report of March 1991, entitled "Promoting Democracy: National Endowment for Democracy's Management of Grants Needs Improvement".

(c) GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE REPORT.-Not more than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General of the United States shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives an evaluation of the actions taken by the National Endowment for Democracy and certain grantees to comply with the General Accounting Office report of March 1991. (d) ANNUAL AUDIT.-Section 504(g) of the National Endowment for Democracy Act (22 U.S.C. 4413) is amended by striking out "may also" and inserting in lieu thereof "shall".

(e) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON PRIVATE DONATIONS.-It is the sense of the Congress that the National Endowment for Democracy should make every effort to solicit private contributions to realize the purposes of the Endowment as set forth in section 502(b) of the National Endowment for Democracy Act.

SEC. 212.12 USIA GRANTS.

(a) COMPETITIVE GRANT PROCEDURES.-Except as provided in subsection (b), the United States Information Agency shall work to achieve full and open competition in the award of grants.

(b) EXCEPTIONS.-The United States Information Agency may award a grant under procedures other than competitive procedures when

(1) a grant is made under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (commonly known as the Ful

11 The Department of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 (title V of Public Law 102-140; 105 Stat. 822), provided under educational and cultural exchange programs, that "$1,000,000 shall be available for the Claude and Mildred Pepper Scholarship Program of the Washington Workshops Foundation".

12 22 U.S.C. 1475h.