PUBLIC LAW 94^462—OCT. 8, 1976 "(C) enabling cultural organizations and institutions to increase audience participation in, and appreciation of, programs sponsored by such organizations and institutions; "(D) stimulating greater cooperation among cultural organizations and institutions especially designed to serve better the communities in which such organizations or institutions are located; and " (E) fostering greater citizen involvement in planning the cultural development of a community. "(2) The total amount of any payment made under this subsection for a program or project may not exceed 50 per centum of the cost of such program or project. "(3) In carrying out the program authorized by this subsection, the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts shall have the same authority as is established in section 5(c) and section 10.". (b) Section 7 of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, as amended by section 105, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: " (h)(1) The Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, with the advice of the National Council on the Humanities, is authorized, in accordance with the provisions of this su'bsection, to establish and carry out a program of contracts with, or grants-in-aid to, public agencies and private nonprofit organizations for the purpose of— "(A) enabling cultural organizations and institutions to increase the levels of continuing support and to increase the range of contributors to the program of such organizations or institutions; "(B) providing administrative and management improvements for cultural organizations and institutions, particularly in the field of long-range financial planning; "(C) enabling cultural organizations and institutions to increase audience participation in, and appreciation of, programs sponsored by such organizations and institutions; "(D) stimulating greater cooperation among cultural organizations and institutions especially designed to serve better the communities in which such organizations or institutions are located; " (E) fostering greater citizen involvement in planning the cultural development of a community; and " (F) for bicentennial programs, assessing where our society and Government stand in relation to the founding principles of the Republic, primarily focused on projects which will bring together the public and private citizen sectors in an effort to find new processes for solving problems facing our Nation in its third century. "(2)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, the total amount of any payment made under this subsection for a program or project may not exceed 50 per centum of the cost of such program or project. "(B) The Chairman, with the advice of the Council, may waive all or part of the requirement of matching funds provided in subparagraph (A) of this paragraph, but only for the purposes described in clause (F) of paragraph (1), whenever he determines that highly meritorious proposals for grants and contracts under such clause, could not otherwise be supported from non-Federal sources or from Federal sources other than funds authorized by section 11(a)(3), unless such matching requirement is waived. Such waiver may not exceed 15 per centum of the amount appropriated in any fiscal year
90 STAT. 1979
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Limitation,
20 USC 954, 959. Ante, p. 1974.
Limitation,
Waiver,
20 USC 960.
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