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 92 STAT. 2408

PUBLIC LAW 95-567—NOV. 2, 1978 Unexpended funds transferred pursuant to this paragraph shall be used only for the purposes for which the funds originally were authorized and appropriated. (3) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, shall— (A) make such determinations as may be necessary with regard to the transfer of the functions transferred to the Secretary of Commerce from the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare by paragraph (1); and (B) make such additional incidental dispositions of personnel, assets, liabilities, contracts, property, records, and unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds employed, held, used, arising from, available for, or to be made available for, or in connection with, the functions described in subparagraph (A); as the Director may deem necessary to accomplish the purposes of this Act and the amendments made by this Act. CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL AND EXPENDITURES BY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE

47 USC 393.

SEC. 104. Section 393 of the Communications Act of 1934 is amended to read as follows: "CRITERIA FOR APPROVAL AND EXPENDITURES BY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE

Grants.

Ante, p. 2405.

Noncommercial radio broadcast station facilities.

"SEC. 393. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with the Corporation, public telecommunications entities, and as appropriate with others, shall establish criteria for making construction and planning grants. Such criteria shall be consistent with the objectives and provisions set forth in this subpart, and shall be made available to interested parties upon request. "(b) The Secretary shall base determinations of whether to approve applications for grants under this subpart, any the amount of such grants, on criteria developed pursuant to subsection (a) and designed to achieve— "(1) the provision of new telecommunications facilities to extend service to areas currently not receiving public telecommunications services; " (2) the expansion of the service areas of existing public telecommunications entities; "(3) the development of public telecommunications facilities owned by, operated by, and available to minorities and women; and "(4) the improvement of the capabilities of existing public broadcast stations to provide public telecommunications services. "(c) Of the funds appropriated pursuant to section 391 for any fiscal year, not less than 75 percent shall be available to extend delivery of public telecommunications services to areas not receiving such services through grants for facilities of new and existing public telecommunications entities, and preoperational expenses associated with such facilities. In choosing among applicants for grants, the Secretary shall compare the advantages of alternate technologies on the basis of costs and benefits. "(d) Of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 391 for any fiscal year, a substantial amount shall be available for the expansion and development of noncommercial radio broadcast station facilities.".

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