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 PUBLIC LAW 101-121 —OCT. 23, 1989 103 STAT. 741 tures are a matter of public record and available for public inspec- tion, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation under this Act shall be available to the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture for use for any sale hereafter made of unprocessed timber from Federal lands west of the 100th meridian in the contiguous 48 States which will be exported from the United States, or which will be used as a substitute for timber from private lands which is exported by the purchaser: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to specific quantities of grades and species of timber which said Secretaries determine are surplus to domestic lumber and plywood manufactur- ing needs. SEC. 303. No part of any appropriation under this Act shall be available to the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agri- culture for the leasing of oil and natural gas by noncompetitive bidding on publicly owned lands within the boundaries of the Shaw- nee National Forest, Illinois: Provided, That nothing herein is intended to inhibit or otherwise affect the sale, lease, or right to access to minerals owned by private individuals. SEC. 304. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any activity or the publication or distribution of literature that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal on which congressional action is not complete: Provided, That— 20 USC 954 note. (a) None of the funds authorized to be appropriated for the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities may be used to promote, disseminate, or produce materials which in the judgment of the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities may be consid- ered obscene, including but not limited to, depictions of sadomasochism, homoeroticism, the sexual exploitation of children, or individuals engaged in sex acts and which, when taken as a whole, do not have serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (b) It is the sense of the Congress: (1) That under the present procedures employed for awarding National Endowment for the Arts grants, although the National Endowment for the Arts has had an excellent record over the years, it is possible for projects to be funded without adequate review of the artistic content or value of the work. (2) That recently works have been funded which are without artistic value but which are criticized as pornographic and shocking by any standards. (3) That censorship inhibits and stultifies the full expression of art. (4) That free inquiry and expression is reaffirmed. Therefore, be it resolved: (A) That all artistic works do not have artistic or human- istic excellence and an application can include works that possess both nonexcellent and excellent portions. (B) That the Chairman of the National Endowment for the arts has the responsibility to determine whether such an application should be funded. (C) That the National Endowment for the Arts must find a better method to seek out those works that have artistic excellence and to exclude those works which are without 29-194 O—91—Part 1 7R:OI.3

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