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[CITE: 22USC1431]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
 CHAPTER 18--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AND EDUCATIONAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 1431. Congressional declaration of objectives

    The Congress declares that the objectives of this chapter are to 
enable the Government of the United States to promote a better 
understanding of the United States in other countries, and to increase 
mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the 
people of other countries. Among the means to be used in achieving these 
objectives are--
        (1) an information service to disseminate abroad information 
    about the United States, its people, and policies promulgated by the 
    Congress, the President, the Secretary of State and other 
    responsible officials of Government having to do with matters 
    affecting foreign affairs;
        (2) Repealed. Pub. L. 87-256, Sec. 111(a)(2), Sept. 21, 1961, 75 
    Stat. 538.

(Jan. 27, 1948, ch. 36, title I, Sec. 2, 62 Stat. 6; Pub. L. 87-256, 
Sec. 111(a)(2), Sept. 21, 1961, 75 Stat. 538.)


                               Amendments

    1961--Pub. L. 87-256 repealed par. (2) which authorized an 
educational exchange service to cooperate with other nations in the 
interchange of persons, knowledge, and skills, in the rendering of 
technical and other services, and in the interchange of developments in 
the field of education, the arts, and sciences. See section 2451 et seq. 
of this title.


                         Termination of Chapter

    Section 1006 of act Jan. 27, 1948, provided that: ``The authority 
granted under this Act [this chapter] shall terminate whenever such 
termination is directed by concurrent resolution of the two Houses of 
the Congress.''


                      Short Title of 1983 Amendment

    For short title of Pub. L. 98-111, which enacted subchapter V-A of 
this chapter, as the ``Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act'', see section 1 
of Pub. L. 98-111, set out as a Short Title note under section 1465 of 
this title.


                      Short Title of 1973 Amendment

    Pub. L. 93-168, Sec. 1, Nov. 29, 1973, 87 Stat. 688, provided: 
``That this Act [amending former section 1476 of this title] may be 
cited as the `United States Information Agency Appropriations 
Authorization Act of 1973'.''


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of act Jan. 27, 1948, provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this chapter] may be cited as the `United States Information and 
Educational Exchange Act of 1948'.''


                              Separability

    Section 1010 of act Jan. 27, 1948, provided that: ``If any provision 
of this Act [enacting this chapter] or the application of any such 
provision to any person or circumstance shall be held invalid, the 
validity of the remainder of the Act [this chapter] and the 
applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall 
not be affected thereby.''

                          Transfer of Functions

    All functions vested in the President, the Secretary of State, the 
Department of State, the United States Information Agency, or the 
Director thereof, under this chapter, were transferred to the Director 
of the International Communication Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1977, 
Sec. 7(a)(1), 42 F.R. 62461, 91 Stat. 1637, set out under section 1461 
of this title, effective on or before July 1, 1978, at such time as 
specified by the President, except to the extent that such functions 
were vested in the President under sections 1452, 1456, and 1467 of this 
title. The International Communication Agency, and the Director thereof, 
were redesignated the United States Information Agency, and the Director 
thereof, by section 303 of Pub. L. 97-241, title III, Aug. 24, 1982, 96 
Stat. 291, set out as a note under section 1461 of this title. United 
States Information Agency (other than Broadcasting Board of Governors 
and International Broadcasting Bureau) abolished and functions 
transferred to Secretary of State, see sections 6531 and 6532 of this 
title.


 Continuation of Certain Executive Orders, Agreements, Determinations, 
         Regulations, Contracts, Appointments, and Other Actions

    Continuation in full force and effect, and applicability to the 
appropriate provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 
Act of 1961, set out as section 2451 et seq. of this title, until 
modified or superseded by appropriate authority, of all Executive 
orders, agreements, determinations, regulations, contracts, 
appointments, and other actions issued, concluded, or taken under 
authority of this section, see section 111(b) of Pub. L. 87-256, set out 
as a note under section 2451 of this title.
