§6552 Application of Certain Laws

Summary

Controls what rules and money rules apply when the United States Information Agency’s public diplomacy work moves into the State Department. Older rules do not cover the State Department’s public affairs work done before the transfer. Those rules do still cover the USIA public diplomacy programs as they existed before the transfer. Money specifically meant for public diplomacy, shown as such in Congress documents, or reprogrammed for those purposes must not be used to influence public opinion inside the United States, and materials made with those funds must not be distributed in the United States, except as allowed by certain other rules. The rule allows sharing administrative resources and occasional non-public-diplomacy tasks if overall public diplomacy funding is not reduced and does not change reprogramming rules. A required report must explain how USIA’s public diplomacy mission will be preserved inside State and must give best estimates of amounts spent by State and by USIA in fiscal year 1998 and the amounts to be allocated in the transfer year. From fiscal year 2000 on, State’s Congressional budget documents must show total spending and staff for these programs, explain their goals, and list funds and positions, including any new bureaus.