22 U.S.C. § 4412: Grants to the Endowment

Summary

The Director of the United States Information Agency must give the Endowment an annual grant. The money can come from funds set aside for grants to the Endowment or from the Agency’s "Salaries and Expenses" account. A grant contract must say the money can only be used for the purposes listed in section 4411(b), that the Endowment will follow the money-allocation rule in subsection (e), and that the Endowment will obey the rules in this part. The contract cannot add extra requirements beyond those rules. The grant money can be used for the Endowment’s stated purposes, and ordinary limits on how the Agency spends money do not apply to these grants. The Endowment is not a U.S. government agency, and its board members and staff are not U.S. government officers or employees. Congress may oversee the Endowment and its grantees. For fiscal years 1984 and 1985, at least $13,800,000 must go to the Free Trade Union Institute and at least $2,500,000 must go to the National Chamber Foundation. The Endowment may also give grants to independent labor unions.

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(a)Authorization; funding; grant agreement

The Director of the United States Information Agency shall make an annual grant to the Endowment to enable the Endowment to carry out its purposes as specified in section 4411(b) of this title. Such grants shall be made with funds specifically appropriated for grants to the Endowment or with funds appropriated to the Agency for the “Salaries and Expenses” account. Such grants shall be made pursuant to a grant agreement between the Director and the Endowment which requires that grant funds will only be used for activities which the Board of Directors of the Endowment determines are consistent with the purposes described in section 4411(b) of this title, that the Endowment will allocate funds in accordance with subsection (e) of this section, and that the Endowment will otherwise comply with the requirements of this subchapter. The grant agreement may not require the Endowment to comply with requirements other than those specified in this subchapter.

(b)Implementation of purposes

Funds so granted may be used by the Endowment to carry out the purposes described in section 4411(b) of this title, and otherwise applicable limitations on the purposes for which funds appropriated to the United States Information Agency may be used shall not apply to funds granted to the Endowment.

(c)Status of Endowment

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to make the Endowment an agency or establishment of the United States Government or to make the members of the Board of Directors of the Endowment, or the officers or employees of the Endowment, officers or employees of the United States.

(d)Oversight procedures applicable

The Endowment and its grantees shall be subject to the appropriate oversight procedures of the Congress.

(e)Amounts to Free Trade Union Institute and National Chamber Foundation

Of the amounts made available to the Endowment for each of the fiscal years 1984 and 1985 to carry out programs in furtherance of the purposes of this Act—

(1)not less than $13,800,000 shall be for the Free Trade Union Institute; and

(2)not less than $2,500,000 shall be to support private enterprise development programs of the National Chamber Foundation.

(f)Independent labor unions

Nothing in this subchapter shall preclude the Endowment from making grants to independent labor unions.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in subsec. (e), is Pub. L. 98–164, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1017. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Amendments

1987—Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 100–204 added subsec. (f).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

United States Information Agency (other than Broadcasting Board of Governors and International Broadcasting Bureau) abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of State, see section 6531 and 6532 of this title.

§4412 Grants to the Endowment