§182 — Title 2 The Congress | U.S. Code

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Creates a revolving fund in the U.S. Treasury called the Cooperative Acquisitions Program Revolving Fund, effective October 1, 1997. The Librarian of Congress may use the fund, with no year limit, to run a program that buys foreign publications and research materials for participating institutions and charges them enough to cover the program’s costs. The fund includes any money appropriated by law for it, certain payments held by the Library on October 1 or October 7, 1997, and the net value of the program’s assets minus its liabilities. The Librarian must set prices to recover full direct and indirect costs over a reasonable time. Any unused money the Librarian finds is more than needed to run the program must be returned to the Treasury. “Needed” covers buying, shipping, binding, supplies, equipment, salaries and benefits, overhead, and travel. The Comptroller General may audit the fund.

Title 2, §182

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(a)Effective October 1, 1997, there is established in the Treasury of the United States a revolving fund to be known as the Cooperative Acquisitions Program Revolving Fund (in this section referred to as the “revolving fund”). Moneys in the revolving fund shall be available to the Librarian of Congress, without fiscal year limitation, for financing the cooperative acquisitions program (in this section referred to as the “program”) under which the Library acquires foreign publications and research materials on behalf of participating institutions on a cost-recovery basis. Obligations under the revolving fund are limited to amounts specified in the appropriations Act for that purpose for any fiscal year.

(b)The revolving fund shall consist of—

(1)any amounts appropriated by law for the purposes of the revolving fund;

(2)any amounts held by the Librarian as of October 1, 1997 or October 7, 1997, whichever is later, that were collected as payment for the Library’s indirect costs of the program; and

(3)the difference between (A) the total value of the supplies, equipment, gift fund balances, and other assets of the program, and (B) the total value of the liabilities (including unfunded liabilities such as the value of accrued annual leave of employees) of the program.

(c)The revolving fund shall be credited with all advances and amounts received as payment for purchases under the program and services and supplies furnished to program participants, at rates estimated by the Librarian to be adequate to recover the full direct and indirect costs of the program to the Library over a reasonable period of time.

(d)Any unobligated and unexpended balances in the revolving fund that the Librarian determines to be in excess of amounts needed for activities financed by the revolving fund, shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Amounts needed for activities financed by the revolving fund means the direct and indirect costs of the program, including the costs of purchasing, shipping, binding of books and other library materials; supplies, materials, equipment and services needed in support of the program; salaries and benefits; general overhead; and travel.

(e)The revolving fund shall be subject to audit by the Comptroller General at the Comptroller General’s discretion.

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2007—Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 110–161 amended heading and text of subsec. (e) generally. Prior to amendment, text read as follows: “Not later than March 31 of each year, the Librarian of Congress shall prepare and submit to Congress an audited financial statement for the revolving fund for the preceding fiscal year. The audit shall be conducted in accordance with Government Auditing Standards for financial audits issued by the Comptroller General of the United States.”

§182 Cooperative Acquisitions Program Revolving Fund

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Title 2, §182

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