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PUBLIC LAW 100-382—AUG. 8, 1988

102 STAT. 901

(5) the Secretary of Education; and (6) the Librarian of Congress. The President, the President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Chairman of the Commission shall, after consultation, assure that members of the Advisory Committee are broadly representative of all areas of the United States. (b) FUNCTION.—The advisory committee shall assist and advise the Commission in planning and conducting the Conference. (c) ADMINISTRATION.—(1) The Chairman of the Commission shall serve as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee shall elect the Chair of the Advisory Committee from among its members, who are not full-time Federal employees. The Advisory Committee shall select the Chair of the Conference. (2) The Chairman of the Advisory Committee is authorized to establish, prescribe functions for, and appoint members to, such advisory and technical committees and staff as may be necessary to assist and advise the Conference in carrying out its functions. (d) COMPENSATION.—Members of any committee established under this section who are not regular full-time officers or employees of the United States shall, while attending to the business of the Conference, be entitled to receive compensation therefor at a rate fixed by the President but not exceeding the rate of pay specified at the time of such service for grade GS-18 in section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, including traveltime. Such members, may, while away from their homes or regular places of business, be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as may be authorized under section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. SEC 6. GIFTS AND TITLE TO CERTAIN PROPERTY.

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(a) GIFTS.—The Commission shall have authority to accept, on Grants. behalf of the Conference, in the name of the United States, grants, gifts, or bequests of money for immediate disbursement by the Commission in furtherance of the Conference. Such grants, gifts, or bequests offered the Commission, shall be paid by the donor or his representative into the Treasury of the United States, whose receipts shall enter such grants, gifts, and bequests in a special account to the credit of the Commission for the purposes of this joint resolution. 03) REVERSION OF CERTAIN EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL.—Materials

and equipment acquired by the White House Conference shall revert to the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science after the close of the White House Conference. SEC. 7. DEFINITIONS.

For the purpose of this joint resolution— (1) the term "Commission" means the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science; (2) The term "Conference" means White House Conference on Library and Information Services; and (3) the term "State" includes the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the

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