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 PUBLIC LAW 100-202—DEC. 22, 1987

101 STAT. 1329-38

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY

The United States Information Agency and the Voice of America shall pursue all relevant information relating to the availability of transmitters and antennas, spare parts, and other technical equipment to determine whether such items can be procured at reasonable prices and in a timely manner under all foreseeable circumstances. The agency and the Voice of America shall purchase American-manufactured equipment and materials to the fullest extent reasonably possible under the law in carrying out the facilities modernization program. This provision shall apply to all funds which are obligated for the facilities modernization program during fiscal year 1988. Where a foreign bidder receives any governmental subsidy, the price bid of each foreign bidder shall be increased by the amount of that subsidy as determined by the Department of Commerce for purposes of this procurement. GENERAL PROVISIONS—RELATED AGENCIES

Funds appropriated to the United States Information Agency for radio construction and to the Board for International Broadcasting for facility modernization, including for both agencies balances available from prior years, may be transferred between the two agencies to meet priority broadcasting facility improvement needs as mutually agreed to by the Director of the United States Information Agency and the Chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting: Provided, That such transfers will be subject to the approval of the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the United States Senate pursuant to the reprogramming provisions of section 608 of this Act. TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the Congress. SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 604. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected thereby. SEC. 605. None of the funds appropriated in titles II and V of this Act may be used for any activity to alter the per se prohibition on resale price maintenance in effect under Federal antitrust laws: Provided, That nothing in this provision shall prohibit any employee of a department or agency for which funds are provided in titles II and V of this Act from presenting testimony on this matter before appropriate committees of the House and Senate.

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