§ 78a. — Authorization of appropriations; availability of funds; limit on use of funds during fiscal year; supervision; rules and regulations.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 20USC78a]
TITLE 20--EDUCATION
CHAPTER 3--SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES
SUBCHAPTER VIII--PALEONTOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS
Sec. 78a. Authorization of appropriations; availability of
funds; limit on use of funds during fiscal year; supervision;
rules and regulations
There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $65,000, which shall be
available until expended for the above purposes: Provided, That at such
time as the Smithsonian Institution is satisfied that any State agency,
or any educational institution or scientific organization in any of the
United States, is prepared to contribute to such investigation and when
in its judgment such investigation shall appear meritorious, the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution may make available for such
investigation such amounts from this sum as shall be equal to the
amounts contributed respectively by each such State agency, or
educational institution or scientific organization: Provided further,
That the amount to be made available from this sum for such
investigation in cooperation with each such State agency, or educational
institution or scientific organization, shall not exceed $10,000 in any
fiscal year: Provided further, That all such cooperative work and
division of the result thereof shall be under the direction of the
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution: Provided further, That where
lands are involved which are controlled by the Government of the United
States, cooperative work thereon shall be under the provisions of the
Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 432, 433), and rules and regulations
pertaining thereto.
(Aug. 15, 1949, ch. 427, Sec. 2, 63 Stat. 606.)
