103 STAT. 990 PUBLIC LAW 101-162—NOV. 21, 1989 of permanent positions funded in the Salaries and Expenses account of the £k:onomic Development Administration for fiscal year 1990, 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: Provided further, That none of the funds may be used to formulate or implement any action, activity, guideline, program, project, policy or regulation which alters the practice of making grants directly to planning and development districts which was in effect on December 31, 1988, or which results in denial of funding to any planning and development district on the basis of the number of years such district has received economic development assistance program funding or on the basis of the geographic area such district encompasses or on the basis of the population situated in the geographic area such district encompasses or a combination of any of these factors. INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION For necessary expenses for international trade activities of the Department of Commerce provided for by law, and including dem- onstrating new alternatives to providing services domestically and engaging in trade promotional activities abroad without regard to the provisions of law set forth in 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 3703; and implementation of section 406(b) of the U.S.-Canada Free-Trade Agreement Implementation Act of 1988, notwithstanding section 406(b)3 of said Act; full medical coverage for dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed overseas; travel and transportation of employees of the United States and Foreign Commercial Service between two points abroad, without regard to 49 U.S.C. 1517; 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 psissenger motor vehicles for official use abroad; obtain insurance on official motor vehicles, rent tie lines and teletype equipment; $181,296,000, to remain available until expended, of which $3,000,000 shall be for support costs of a new materials center in Ames, Iowa: Provided, That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these activities; and that for the purpose of this Act, contributions under the provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act shall include pay- ment of assessments for services provided as part of these activities: Provided further. That of the funds provided in this Act or any previous Acts for the International Trade Administration Trade Adjustment Assistance Program including those amounts provided in advance to recipient organizations which remain unexpended or which have been obligated or reserved for fiscal year 1990 expenses, including close out costs, by those organizations as of October 1, 1989, not to exceed $10,877,000 shall be available for the Trade
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