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 PUBLIC LAW 97-257—SEPT. 10, 1982

96 STAT. 873

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

"Salaries and expenses", $2,700,000; "Salaries and expenses, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars", $25,000; UNITED STATES TAX COURT

"Salaries and expenses", $381,000. TITLE III GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall Restriction. remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein. SEC. 302. Except where specifically increased or decreased elsewhere in this Act, the restrictions contained within appropriations, or provisions affecting appropriations or other funds, available during the fiscal year 1982, limiting the amount which may be expended for personal services, or for purposes involving personal services, or amounts which may be transferred between appropriations or authorizations available for or involving such services, are hereby increased to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law. SEC. 303. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds provided to the Department of Energy by this Act or any other Act for any fiscal year shall be used to maintain not less than the number of full-time permanent Federal employees specified herein for each of the following offices, agencies, or categories of activity: (1) the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Conservation and Renewables, 352 employees, of which not less than 154 employees shall be assigned to conservation research and development activities, and not less than 180 employees shall be assigned to State and local conservation activities; (2) the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, 754 employees, of which not less than 150 employees shall be assigned to activities of the headquarters organization, not less than 280 employees shall be assigned to the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center, and not less than 250 employees shall be assigned to the Morgantown Energy Technology Center; (3) the Economic Regulatory Administration, 450 employees, of which not less than 40 employees shall be assigned to the Office of Fuels Conversion; and (4) the Energy Information Administration, 490 employees: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case in which the President proposes to rescind, reserve, or defer funds which are available to maintain the Federal personnel levels required by this section, the President shall continue to obligate such funds in order to maintain such levels until a period of 45 days of continuous session of Congress has expired after the President has transmitted to the Congress a special message with respect to such rescission, reservation, or deferral under section 1012 or 1013 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, as the case may be: Provided 31 USC 1402, further, That if, within such 45-day period, the Congress passes a l^^^rescission bill with respect to any such rescission or reservation or fails to pass an impoundment resolution with respect to any such reservation, the President may withhold from obligation the funds

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