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Funds, availability.

Transfer of funds, limitation.

Report to Congress.

Payments to convicted criminals, prohibition.

PUBLIC LAW 93-96-AUG. 16, 1973

[87 STAT.

section (a) of this section, not less than $13,000,000 shall be available for the purpose of "Graduate Student Support"; and (5) of the total amount authorized under section 1 and subsection (a) of this section, not less than $67,500,000 shall be available for the purpose of "Science Education Improvement". SEC. 3. Appropriations made pursuant to this Act may be used, but not to exceed $5,000, for official consultation, representation, or other extraordinary expenses upon the approval or authority of the Director of the National Science Foundation, and his determination shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the Government. SEC. 4. In addition to such sums as are authorized by the pi'eceding provisions of this Act, not to exceed $3,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, for expenses of the National Science Foundation incurred outside the Tnited States to be paid in foreign currencies which the Treasury Department determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the United States. SEC. 5. Appropriations made pursuant to authority provided in sections 1, 3, and 4, shall remain available for obligation, for expenditure, or for obligation and expenditure, for such period or periods as may be specified in Acts making such appropriations. SEC. 6. No funds may be transferred from any particular category listed in section 1 to any other category or categories listed in such section if the total of the funds so transferred from that particular category would exceed 10 per centum thereof, and no funds may be transferred to any particular category listed in section 1 from any other category or categories listed in such section if the total of the funds so transferred to that particular category would exceed 10 per centum thereof, unless— (A) a period of thirty legislative days (or forty-five calendar days, when Congress is in adjournment sine die) has passed after" the Director or his designee has transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Pi-esident of the Senate and to the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the House of Representatives and to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning the nature of the transfer and the reason therefor, or (B) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Director written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the proposed action. SEC. 7. (a) If an institution of higher education determines, after affording notice and opportunity for hearing to an individual attending, or employed by, such institution, that such individual has been convicted by any court of record of any crime which was committed after the date of enactment of this Act and which involved the use of (or assistance to others in the use of) force, disruption, or the seizure of property under control of any institution of higher education to prevent officials or students in such institutions from engaging in their duties or pursuing their studies, and that such crime was of a serious nature and contributed to a substantial disruption of the administration of the institution with respect to which such crime was committed, then the institution which such individual attends, or is employed by. shall deny for a period of two years any further payment to, for the direct benefit of, such individual under any of the programs specified in subsection (c). If an institution denies an individual assistance

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