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PUBLIC LAW 98-164—NOV. 22, 1983 97 STAT. 1035 NOTIFICATION OF REPROGRAMINGS AND GRANTS SEC. 214. Title VII of the United States Information and Educa- tional Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1476-1477b) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "SEC. 705. (a) Unless the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 22 USC 1477c. House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate are notified fifteen days in advance of a proposed reprograming, funds appropriated for the United States Information Agency shall not be available for obligation or expenditure through any such reprograming of funds— "(1) which creates new programs; "(2) which eliminates a program, project, or activity; "(3) which increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Congress; "(4) which relocates an office or employees; "(5) which reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; "(6) which involves contracting out functions which had been performed by Federal employees; or "(7) which involves a reprograming in excess of $250,000 or 10 per centum, whichever is less, and which (A) augments existing programs, projects, or activities, (B) reduces by 10 per centum or more the funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or personnel approved by the Congress, or (C) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects approved by the Congress. "(b) In addition, the United States Information Agency may award program grants for the fiscal years 1984 and 1985 only if the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate are notified fifteen days in advance of the proposed grant.". SUPPLEMENTAL ALLOWANCE FOR USIA PERSONNEL STATIONED IN NEW YORK CITY SEC. 215. Section 9 of the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287e-l) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ", and any employee of the United States Information Agency designated by the Director of that Agency," immediately after 'Secretary of State"; and (2) in the last sentence, by striking out "forty-five employees" and inserting in lieu thereof "fifty employees, including not more than five employees of the United States Information Agency,". DISTRIBUTION WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OF THE UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY FILM ENTITLED "THANKSGIVING IN PESHAWAR" SEC. 216. (a) Notwithstanding the second sentence of section 501 of the United States Information and Education Exchange Act of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461(a))— (1) the Director of the United States Information Agency shall make available to the Administrator of General Services a master copy of the film entitled "Thanksgiving in Peshawar"; and