Volume 84 · 864
Public Law 91–412
To authorize the Department of Commerce to make special studies, to provide services, and to engage in joint projects, and for other purposes.
Approved September 25, 1970
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Department of Commerce to make special studies, to provide services, and to engage in joint projects, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, upon the request of any person, firm, organization, or others, public or private, to make special studies on matters within the authority of the Department of Commerce; to prepare from its records special compilations, lists, bulletins, or reports; to perform the functions authorized by section 2 of the Act of September 9, 1950 (64 Stat. 823; 15 U.S.C, 1152); and to furnish transcripts or copies of its studies, compilations, and other records; upon the payment of the actual or estimated cost of such special work.
Joint projects, cost apportionment.
In the case of nonprofit organizations, research organizations, or public organizations or agencies, the Secretary may engage in joint projects, or perform services, on matters of mutual interest, the cost of which shall be apportioned equitably, as determined by the Secretary, who may, however, waive payment of any portion of such costs by others, when authorized to do so under regulations approved by the Bureau of the Budget.
Sec. 2.
All payments for work or services performed or to be performed under this Act shall be deposited in a separate account or accounts which may be used to pay directly the costs of such work or services, to repay or make advances to appropriations or funds which do or will initially bear all or part of such costs, or to refund excess sums when necessary: Provided, That said receipts may be credited to a working capital fund otherwise established by law, and used under the law governing said fluids, if the fund is available for use by the agency of the Department of Commerce which is responsible for performing the work or services for which payment is received. Acts appropriating funds to the Department of Commerce may include provisions limiting annual expenditure from said account or accounts.
Sec. 3.
The following laws, or parts of laws, are hereby repealed:
That proviso in the Act of March 1, 1919 (ch. 86, sec. 1, at 40 Stat. 1256), which reads as follows: “Provided further, That all moneys hereafter received by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce in payment of photographic and other mechanical reproduction of special statistical compilations from its records shall be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt.”
The Act of May 27, 1935 (ch. 148, 49 Stat. 292; 15 U.S.C. 189a, 192, 192a).
The proviso in the Act of May 15, 1936 (ch. 405, sec. 1, at 49 Stat. 1335 (15 U.S.C. 189)), which reads as follows: “Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce may make such charges as he deems reasonable for lists of foreign buyers, special statistical services, special commodity news bulletins, and World Trade Directory Reports, and the amounts collected therefrom shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.”
The Act of December 19, 1942 (ch. 780, 56 Stat. 1067; 15 U.S.C. 1520).
The proviso in section 3 of the Act of September 9, 1950 (64 Stat. 823; 15 U.S.C. 1153), which reads as follows: “Provided, That all moneys hereafter received by the Secretary in payment for publications under this Act shall be deposited in a special account in the Treasury, such account to be available, subject to authorization in any appropriation Act, for reimbursing any appropriation then current and chargeable for the cost of furnishing copies or reproductions as herein authorized, and for making refunds to organizations and individuals when entitled thereto: And provided further, That an appropriation reimbursed by this special account shall, notwithstanding any other provision of law, be available for the purposes of the original appropriation.”
The proviso in title III of the Act of October 22, 1951 (ch. 533, title III, section 301 at 65 Stat. 586, 15 U.S.C. 1153a), which reads as follows: “Provided, That moneys hereafter received by the Secretary pursuant to section 3 of said Act of September 9, 1950, for publications provided thereunder, shall be available for reimbursing any appropriation as provided by said section.”
Sec. 4.
Except as to those laws expressly repealed herein, nothing in this Act shall alter, amend, modify, or repeal any existing law prescribing fees or charges or authorizing the prescribing of fees or charges for services performed or for any publication furnished by the Department of Commerce, or any of its sever ill bureaus or offices.
Approved September 25, 1970.