§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. It is run by a Board of Trustees of 13 people, 11 of whom can vote. The President appoints two trustees after considering the Speaker of the House’s recommendation with the House Minority Leader. The President also appoints two trustees after considering the President pro tempore of the Senate’s recommendation with Senate leaders. The President appoints five more trustees (no more than three from the same party) who have shown leadership in conservation or in improving Native American and Alaska Native health and tribal self-governance. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Education (or their designees) are voting ex officio members but cannot be chair. The President of the University of Arizona and the chair of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality are nonvoting ex officio members and cannot be chair. Trustees serve six-year terms. At the start, the President will designate some trustees to serve shorter terms so terms are staggered: one from the Senate-appointed group and two from the five-person group serve two years; one from the House-appointed group and two from the five-person group serve four years; and one from the House-appointed group, one from the Senate-appointed group, and one from the five-person group serve six years. A person appointed to fill a vacancy serves the rest of that term and is chosen the same way as the original appointment. Trustees are unpaid but are reimbursed for travel and necessary expenses. The Foundation is based in Tucson, Arizona, and Washington, D.C. The Board hires an Executive Director to run the Foundation, and the Board sets the director’s pay under section 5383 of title 5.