§5603 Establishment of Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation

Summary

Creates the Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation as an independent part of the executive branch. The Foundation is run by a 13-member Board of Trustees. Eleven members vote. The President appoints most trustees, and those appointees must be approved by the Senate. Two trustees are chosen after the President considers a recommendation from the Speaker of the House, who consults the House Minority Leader. Two are chosen after the President considers a recommendation from the President pro tempore of the Senate, who consults the Senate Majority and Minority Leaders. Five are appointed by the President (no more than three from the same political party) and must have leadership or interest in either the environment or in improving health and self-governance for Native American and Alaska Native communities (examples: leaders of major environmental foundations or tribal health and policy leaders). The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Education (or their designees) are voting members by virtue of their jobs but cannot be chair. The President of the University of Arizona and the chair of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality are nonvoting members by virtue of their jobs and cannot be chair. Trustees serve six-year terms. For the first group of trustees, the President will assign staggered terms of two, four, or six years as laid out by the law. A person appointed to fill a vacancy serves the rest of that term and is chosen the same way as the original appointee. Trustees get no salary but are paid back for travel, lodging, and other necessary expenses. The Foundation is located in Tucson, Arizona, and in Washington, D.C. The Board hires an Executive Director to run the Foundation. The Executive Director is the chief executive, follows the Board’s direction, and is paid at a rate the Board sets under section 5383 of title 5.