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 PUBLIC LAW 100-478—OCT. 7, 1988

102 STAT. 2317

total elephant numbers and population trends, or annual reproduction and mortality; or (2) assisting efforts— (A) to ensure that any taking of African elephants in the country is effectively controlled and monitored; (B) to implement conservation programs to provide for healthy, sustainable African elephant populations; or (C) to enhance compliance with the CITES Ivory Control Ivory. System. (e) PROJECT REPORTING.—Each entity that receives assistance under this section shall provide such periodic reports to the Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as the Director considers relevant and appropriate. Each report shall include all information requested by the Director for evaluating the progress and success of the project. SEC. 2102. AFRICAN ELEPHANT CONSERVATION FUND. 16 USC 4212. (a) EIsTABUSHMENT.—There is established in the general fund of the Treasury a separate account to be known as the "African Elephant Conservation Fund", which shall consist of amounts deposited into the Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury under subsection (b). (b) DEPOSITS INTO FUND.—The Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit into the Fund— (1) subject to appropriations, all amounts received by the United States in the form of penalties under section 2204 which are not used to pay rewards under section 2205; (2) amounts received by the Secretary of the Interior in the form of donations under subsection (d); and (3) other amounts appropriated to the Fund to carry out this part. (c) USE.—

(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), amounts in the Fund may be used by the Secretary, without further appropriation, to provide assistance under this part. (2) ADMINISTRATION.—Not more than three percent of amounts appropriated to the Fund for a fiscal year may be used by the Secretary to administer the Fund for that fiscal year. (d) ACX:EPTANCE AND U S E OF DONATIONS.—The Secretary

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accept and use donations of funds to provide assistance under this part. Amounts received by the Secretary in the form of such donations shall be transferred by the Secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury for deposit into the Fund. SEC. 2103. ANNUAL REPORTS.

The Secretary shall submit an annual report to the Congress not later than January 31 of each year regarding the Fund and the status of the African elephant. Each such report shall include with respect to the year for which the report is submitted a description of— (1) the total amounts deposited into and expended from the Fund; (2) the costs associated with the administration of the Fund; (3) a summary of the projects for which the Secretary has provided assistance under this part and an evaluation of those projects; and

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