PUBLIC LAW 99-475—OCT. 16, 1986
100 STAT. 1217
Public Law 99-475 99th Congress An Act To authorize the release to museums in the United States of certain objects owned by the United States Information Agency.
Oct. 16, 1986 [H.R. 5522]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. RELEASE OF CERTAIN OBJECTS OWNED BY USIA.
Notwithstanding section 208 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 (22 U.S.C. 1461-la), and the second sentence of section 501 of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461), the Director of the United States Information Agency may release to any museum located in the United States the objects described in section 2 if that museum pays all costs associated with the transfer of such objects to that museum (as determined by the Director). SEC. 2. OBJECTS SUBJECT TO RELEASE.
The objects referred to in section 1 are those objects displayed at Canada, the United States Pavilion at the 86 Expo in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which are owned by the United States Information Agency but (as determined by the Director of the United States Information Agency) not committed by it for other purposes. Approved October 16, 1986.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5522: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 132 (1986): Sept. 22, considered and passed House. Oct. 1, considered and passed Senate.
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