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 95 STAT. 1016 Meetings.

Functions.

Policy committees, establishment.

Report to President.

PUBLIC LAW 97-63—OCT. 16, 1981

"(2) The Council shall conduct its first meeting not later than ninety days after the date of enactment of this section. Thereafter the Council shall meet not less than four times each year. "(d)(1) The Council shall coordinate policies, programs, and issues relating to tourism, recreation, or national heritage resources involving Federal departments, agencies, or other entities. Among other things, the Council shall— "(A) coordinate the policies and programs of member agencies that have a significant effect on tourism, recreation, and national heritage preservation; "(B) develoj) areas of cooperative program activity; "(C) assist in resolving interagency program and policy conflicts; and "(D) seek and receive concerns and views of State and local governments and the Travel and Tourism Advisory Board with respect to Federal programs and policies deemed to conflict with the orderly growth and development of tourism. "(2) To enable the Council to carry out its functions— "(A) the Council may request directly from any Federal department or agency such personnel, information, services, or facilities, on a compensated or uncompensated basis, as he determines necessary to carry out the functions of the Council; "(B) each Federal department or agency shall furnish the Council with such information, services, and facilities as it may request to the extent permitted by law and within the limits of available funds; and "(C) Federal agencies and departments may, in their discretion, detail to temporary duty with the Council, such personnel as the Council may request for carrying out the functions of the Council, each such detail to be without loss of seniority, pay, or other employee status. "(3) The Administrator of the General Services Administration shall provide administrative support services for the Council on a reimbursable basis. "(e) The Council shall establish such policy committees as it considers necessary and appropriate, each of which shall be comprised of any or all of the members of the Council and representatives from Federal departments, agencies, and instrumentalities not represented on the Council. Each such policy committee shall be designed— "(1) to monitor a specific area of Federal Government activity, such as transportation, energy and natural resources, economic development, or other such activities related to tourism; and "(2) to review and evaluate the relation of the policies and activities of the Federal Government in that specific area to tourism, recreation, and national heritage conservation in the United States. "(f) The Council shall submit an annual report for the preceding fiscal year to the President for transmittal to Congress on or before the thirty-first day of December of each year. The report shall include— "(1) a comprehensive and detailed report of the activities and accomplishments of the Council and its policy committees; "(2) the results of Council efforts to coordinate the policies and programs of member agencies that have a significant effect on tourism, recreation, and national heritage preservation, resolve interagency conflicts, and develop areas of cooperative program activity;

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