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 96 STAT. 1876

42 USC 2996c. 42 USC 2996c note.

42 USC 2996d "°*®-

PUBLIC LAW 97-377—DEC. 21, 1982 appropriated in this Act for the Legal Services Corporation shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited by or contrary to section 11 of H.R. 3480, as passed the House of Representatives on June 18, 1981: Provided further. That notwithstanding any regulation, guideline, or rule of the Corporation, the funds appropriated in this Act for the Legal Services Corporation shall be used by the Corporation in making grants or entering into contracts under section 1006(a)(1) and (3) so as to insure that funding for each such current grantee and contractor is maintained in 1983 at the annualized level at which each such grantee and contractor was funded in 1982, or in the same proportion which total appropriations to the Corporation in fiscal year 1983 bear to the total appropriations to the Corporation in fiscal year 1982, until action is taken by directors of the Corporation who have been confirmed in accordance with Section 1004(a) of the Legal Services Corporation Act: Provided further, That no member of the Board of Directors of the Legal Services Corporation shall be compensated for his services to the Corporation except for the payment of an attendance fee at meetings of the Board at a rate not to exceed the highest daily rate for grade fifteen (15) of the General Schedule and necessary travel expenses to attend Board meetings in accordance with the Standard Government Travel Regulations: Provided further. That no officer or employee of the Legal Services Corporation or a recipient program shall be reimbursed for membership in a private club, or be paid severance pay in excess of what would be paid a Federal employee for comparable service. DEPARTMENT OF STATE ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the Foreign Service, not otherwise provided for, including obligations of the United States abroad pursuant to treaties, international agreements, and binational contracts (including obligations assumed in Germany on or after June 5, 1945); expenses authorized by section 9 of the Act of August 31, 1964, as amended (31 U.S.C. 240 et seq.), and section 2 of the Act of August 1, 1956, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2669); telecommunications; expenses necessary to provide maximum physical security in Government-owned and leased properties and vehicles abroad; permanent representation to certain international organizations in which the United States participates pursuant to treaties, conventions, or specific Acts of Congress; acquisition by exchange or purchase of vehicles as authorized by law, except that special requirement vehicles may be purchased without regard to any price limitation otherwise established by law; $995,000,000, of which $25,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 1984. REOPENING CONSULATES

For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the Foreign Service for reopening and operating certain United States

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