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 PUBLIC LAW 95-424—OCT. 6, 1978

92 STAT. 956

REPORT

Report to Congress. 22 USC 2151 note.

SEC. 303. The President shall report to the Congress not later- than February 1, 1979, on the steps he has taken to implement this title and on any further legislation which may be needed to achieve the objectives of this title.

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Regulations. Publication in Federal Register. 22 USC 2385a. 22 USC 2151.

TITLE IV—UNIFIED PERSONNEL SYSTEM ESTABLISHMENT OF A U N I F I E D PERSONNEL SYSTEM

SEC. 401. (a) Not later than March 15, 1979, the President shall submit to the Congress, and publish in the Federal Register, regulations establishing a unified personnel system for all employees of the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. In preparing such regulations, the President shall keep the appropriate committees of the Congress fully and currently informed, and shall consult with them on a regular basis, concerning the nature of the unified personnel system to be established. (b) The regulations submitted to the Congress pursuant to subsection (a) — (1) may not become effective until after the end of the 90-day period beginning on the date of such submission in order to provide the appropriate committees of the Congress an opportunity to review them; and (2) shall not become effective then if, during such 90-day period, either House of Congress adopts a resolution stating in substance that it disapproves the personnel system proposed to be established by the regulations. (c) Regulations which take effect pursuant to this section shall have the force and effect of law and shall apply with respect to the personnel of the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, notwithstanding and inconsistent provision of law unless that provision of law specifically states that it supersedes regulations issued under this section. TITLE V—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS USE OF COMPETITIVE SELECTION PROCEDURES

Contract awards.

22 USC 2351.

Report to Congress.

SEC. 501. Section 601 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended by adding the following new subsection at the end thereof: "(e)(1) The Congress finds that significantly greater effort must be made in carrying out programs under part I of this Act to award contracts on the basis of competitive selection procedures. All such contracts should be let on the basis of competitive selection procedures except in those limited cases in which the procurement regulations governing the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of this Act allow noncompetitive procedures to be used. "(2) In order to provide the Congress with information to assist it in assessing the efforts of the agency primarily responsible for administering part I of this Act to make the maximum possible use of competitive selection procedures, the Administrator of that agency— "(A) when submitting the congressional presentation materials the Congress a report identifying and describing each contract
 * for developing assistance for fiscal year 1980, shall also submit to

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