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 PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2659

INDEPENDENCE AND LIMITATIONS

SEC. 1709. (a) Nothing in this title may be construed as limiting the authority of the Office of Management and Budget to review and submit comments on the Institute's budget request at the time it is transmitted to the Congress. (b) No political test or political qualification may be used in selecting, appointing, promoting, or taking any other personnel action with respect to any officer, employee, agent, or recipient of Institute funds or services or in selecting or monitoring any grantee, contractor, person, or entity receiving financial assistance under this title.

22 USC 4608.

FUNDING

SEC. 1710. (a) For the purpose of carrying out this title (except for 22 USC 4609. paragraph (9) of section 1705(b)), there are authorized to be appropriated $6,000,000 for the fiscal year 1985 and $10,000,000 for the fiscal year 1986. Moneys appropriated for the fiscal year 1985 shall remain available to the Institute through the fiscal year 1986. (b) The Board of Directors may transfer to the legal entity authorized to be established under section 1704(c) any funds not obligated or expended from appropriations to the Institute for a fiscal year, and such funds shall remain available for obligation or expenditure for the purposes of such legal entity without regard to fiscal year limitations. Any use by such legal entity of appropriated funds shall Report. be reported to each House of the Congress and to the President of the United States. (c) Any authority provided by this title to enter into contracts contracts. shall be effective for a fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts. DISSOLUTION OR UQUIDATION

SEC. 1711. Upon dissolution or final liquidation of the Institute or of any legal entity created pursuant to this title, all income and assets of the Institute or other legal entity shall revert to the United States Treasury.

22 USC 4610.

REPORTING REQUIREMENT AND REQUIREMENT TO HOLD HEARINGS

SEC. 1712. Beginning two years after the date of enactment of this 22 USC 46ii. title, and at intervals of two years thereafter, the Chairman of the Board shall prepare and transmit to the Congress and the President a report detailing the progress the Institute has made in carrying out the purposes of this title during the preceding two-year period. The President shall prepare and transmit to the Congress within a President of U.S. reasonable time after the receipt of such report the written comments and recommendations of the appropriate agencies of the United States with respect to the contents of such report and their recommendations with respect to any legislation which may be required concerning the Institute. After receipt of such report by the Congress. Congress, the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on

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