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[CITE: 22USC6552]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 74--FOREIGN AFFAIRS AGENCIES CONSOLIDATION
 
            SUBCHAPTER III--UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
 
                      Part C--Conforming Amendments
 
Sec. 6552. Application of certain laws


(a) Application to functions of Department of State

    Section 1461 of this title, section 1461-1 of this title, and 
section 1461-1a of this title shall not apply to public affairs and 
other information dissemination functions of the Secretary of State as 
carried out prior to any transfer of functions pursuant to this chapter.

(b) Application to functions transferred to Department of State

    Section 1461 of this title, section 1461-1 of this title, and 
section 1461-1a of this title shall apply only to public diplomacy 
programs of the Director of the United States Information Agency as 
carried out prior to any transfer of functions pursuant to this chapter 
to the same extent that such programs were covered by these provisions 
prior to such transfer.

(c) Limitation on use of funds

    (1) Except as provided in section 1461 of this title and section 
1461-1a of this title, funds specifically authorized to be appropriated 
for such public diplomacy programs, identified as public diplomacy funds 
in any Congressional Presentation Document described in subsection (e) 
of this section, or reprogrammed for public diplomacy purposes, shall 
not be used to influence public opinion in the United States, and no 
program material prepared using such funds shall be distributed or 
disseminated in the United States.
    (2) Construction.--Nothing in paragraph (1) may be construed (A) to 
interfere with the integration of administrative resources between 
public diplomacy and other functions of the Department of State or to 
prevent the occasional performance of functions other than public 
diplomacy by officials or employees of the Department of State who are 
primarily assigned to public diplomacy, provided there is no substantial 
resulting diminution in the amount of resources devoted to public 
diplomacy below the amounts described in paragraph (1), or (B) to 
supersede reprogramming procedures.

(d) Reporting requirements

    The report submitted pursuant to section 6601(f) of this title shall 
include a detailed statement of the manner in which the special mission 
of public diplomacy carried out by USIA prior to the transfer of 
functions under this chapter shall be preserved within the Department of 
State, including the planned duties and responsibilities of any new 
bureaus that will perform such public diplomacy functions. Such report 
shall also include the best available estimates of--
        (1) the amounts expended by the Department of State for public 
    affairs programs during fiscal year 1998, and on the personnel and 
    support costs for such programs;
        (2) the amounts expended by USIA for its public diplomacy 
    programs during fiscal year 1998, and on the personnel and support 
    costs for such programs; and
        (3) the amounts, including funds to be transferred from USIA and 
    funds appropriated to the Department, that will be allocated for the 
    programs described in paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively, during 
    the fiscal year in which the transfer of functions from USIA to the 
    Department occurs.

(e) Congressional Presentation Document

    The Department of State's Congressional Presentation Document for 
fiscal year 2000 and each fiscal year thereafter shall include--
        (1) the aggregated amounts that the Department will spend on 
    such public diplomacy programs and on costs of personnel for such 
    programs, and a detailed description of the goals and purposes for 
    which such funds shall be expended; and
        (2) the amount of funds allocated to and the positions 
    authorized for such public diplomacy programs, including bureaus to 
    be created upon the transfer of functions from USIA to the 
    Department.

(Pub. L. 105-277, div. G, subdiv. A, title XIII, Sec. 1333, Oct. 21, 
1998, 112 Stat. 2681-785; Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(7) [div. 
A, title III, Sec. 304], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-434.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a), (b), and (d), was in the 
original ``this subdivision'', meaning subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 
105-277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681-765, known as the Foreign Affairs 
Agencies Consolidation Act of 1998. For complete classification of this 
subdivision to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 6501 
of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106-113 designated existing provisions as 
par. (1), inserted ``, identified as public diplomacy funds in any 
Congressional Presentation Document described in subsection (e) of this 
section, or reprogrammed for public diplomacy purposes,'' after 
``diplomacy programs'', and added par. (2).
