102 STAT. 2188
PUBLIC LAW 100-459—OCT. 1, 1988
any rule, r^ulation, or grant agreement provision affecting programs authorized by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, as amended, unless such rule, regulation, or provision is either required by statute or expressed as the explicit intent of the Congress or is in substantial conformity with those i*ules, regulations and provisions in effect prior to December 22, 1987: Provided further. That during fiscal year 1989 total commitments to guarantee loans shall not exceed $150,000,000 of contingent liabliity for loan principal: Provided further. That none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this heading may be used directly or indirectly for attorneys' or consultants' fees in connection with securing grants and contracts made by the Economic Development Adnunistration. SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of administering the economic development assistance programs as provided for by law, $24,742,000: Provided, That the number of Deputy Assistant Secretary positions shall not be greater than four: Provided further, That these funds may be used to monitor projects approvea pursuant to title I of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976, as amended, title II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, and the Community Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other law, funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be used to fill and maintain forty-nine permanent positions designated as Economic Development Representatives out of the total number of permanent positions funded in the Salaries and Expenses account of the Economic Development Administration for fiscal year 1989, and such positions shall be maintained in the various States within the approved organizational structure in place on December 1, 1987, and where possible, with those employees who filled those positions on that date. INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses for international trade activities of the Department of Commerce, including trade promotional activities abroad without regard to the provisions of law set forth in 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 3703; full medical coverage for dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed overseas; employment of Americans and aliens by contract for services abroad; rental of space abroad for periods not exceeding ten years, and expenses of alteration, repair, or improvement; purchase or construction of temporary demountable exhibition structures for use abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $300,000 for official representation expenses abroad; and purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use abroad; $167,502,000, to remain available until expended, of which $3,300,000 is for support costs for a new materials center in Ames, Iowa, and of which $7,060,000 is for the Office of Textiles and Apparels, including $3,360,000 for a grant to the Tailored Clothing Technology Corporation: Provided, That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual
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