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 PUBLIC LAW 96-88—OCT. 17, 1979

93 STAT. 679

(7) any advisory committee of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare giving advice or making recommendations that primarily concern education functions transferred by this section. (c) There are transferred to the Secretary all functions of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the Assistant Secretary for Education, or the Commissioner of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, as the case may be, with respect to— (1) the Education Division of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; (2) the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education, including the National Center for Education Statistics; and (3) any advisory committee in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare giving advice and making recommendations principally concerning education functions transferred by this section. (d) Nothing in the provisions of this section or in the provisions of this Act shall authorize the transfer of functions under part A of title V of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, relating to Project Head 42 USC 2928. Start, from the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to the Secretary. TRANSFERS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

SEC. 302. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 601 of this Act, at such time not later than three years after the effective date of this Act, and in such manner, as the President may designate, there shall be transferred to the Secretary all functions of the Secretary of Defense and of the Department of Defense (or any officer or component thereof) relating to the operation of overseas schools for dependents of the Department of Defense and all functions of the Secretary of Defense and of the Department of Defense (or any officer or component thereof) under the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978. There shall be transferred to the Department the offices established by such Act. (b) In addition to any other authority available to the Secretary under this or any other Act, the authority of the Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments under the Defense Department Overseas Teachers Pay and Personnel Practices Act shall be available to the Secretary with respect to the functions transferred under subsection (a). (c) Not later than one year after the effective date of this Act, the Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall transmit to the Congress a plan for effecting the transfer of functions under this section and administering those functions. In designing the plan, the Secretary shall also consult with representatives of organizations of parents of students enrolled in overseas dependents' schools and representatives of professional employee organizations and administrators of such schools. The plan shall contain recommendations for increasing the participation of parents, teachers, students, school administrators, and members of the Armed Forces in the administration and operation of the schools transferred under this section. (d) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give the Secretary authority to operate overseas institutions of higher education.

20 USC 3442.

92 Stat. 2365. 20 USC 921.

20 USC 901 notes. Transfer of functions plan, transmittal to Congress.

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