Volume 92 · 999
Public Law 95–428
To improve the operations of the national sea grant program, to authorize appropriations to carry out such program for fiscal years 1979 and 1980, and for other purposes.
Approved October 7, 1978
Statutory text
An Act
To improve the operations of the national sea grant program, to authorize appropriations to carry out such program for fiscal years 1979 and 1980, 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 title heading of title II of the Marine Resources and Engineering Development Act of 1966 (33 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is amended to read as follows:
“TITLE II— NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM”.
Sec. 2.
Section 201 of the National Sea Grant Program Act (33 U.S.C. 1121) is amended by inserting “College” immediately before
“Program”.
Sections 202(a) (3) , 203(3) , 204, and 211 are each amended by
striking out “national sea grant program” each place it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof “national sea grant college program”.
The section heading of such section 204 is amended to read as follows:
“SEC. 204. NATIONAL SEA GRANT COLLEGE PROGRAM.”
Sec. 3.
The National Sea Grant College Program Act (as redesignated by section 2 of this Act) (33 U.S.C. 1121–1131) is amended—
by amending section 204(d) —
by striking out “and” at the end of paragraph (5),
by redesignating paragraph (6) as paragraph (7), and
by inserting immediately after paragraph (5) the following new paragraph:
accept funds from other Federal departments, agencies (including agencies within the Administration), and instrumentalities to pay for grants made, and contracts entered into, by the Secretary under section 205(a) ; and " ;
by striking out the period at the end of the last sentence of section 205(a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “ ; except that this limitation shall not apply in the case of grants or contracts paid for with funds accepted by the Secretary under section 204(d)(6).”;
by amending the first sentence of section 206(c) to read as
follows:
“There are authorized to be appropriated for purposes of carrying this section not to exceed the following amounts:
“(1) $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1977, 1978, and 1979.
“(2) $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1980.”;
by amending section 211—
by striking out “annual” in the section heading and inserting in lieu thereof “biennial”,
by-amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
“(a) Biennial Report.—
The Secretary shall submit to the Congress
Report to Congress and the President.
and the President, not later than February 15, 1980, and not later than February 15 of every even-numbered year thereafter, a report on the activities of, and the outlook for, the national sea grant program.”; and
by amending the last sentence of subsection (b) to read as follows: “Such material shall be submitted to the Secretary not later than February 1 of the year in which the report concerned is to be submitted under subsection (a), and the Secretary shall cause it to be published as a separate section in such report.”; and
by amending the first sentence in section 212 to read as
follows:
“There are authorized to be appropriated for purposes of carrying out the provisions of this title (other than section 206) not to exceed
the following amounts:
“(1) $50,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1977 and 1978.
“(2) $55,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1979 and 1980.”.
Sec. 4.
Section 3 of the Sea Grant Program Improvement Act of 1976 (33 U.S.C. 1124a) is amended—
by striking out “National Sea Grant Program Act” each place it appears therein and inserting in lieu thereof “National Sea Grant College Program Act”;
by amending subsection (a) (2) to read as follows:
“(2) promote the exchange among the United States and foreign nations (including, but not limited to, developing foreign nations) of information and data with respect to the assessment, development, utilization, and conservation of such resources.”; and
by amending the first sentence of subsection (c) to read as follows:
“There are authorized to be appropriated for purposes of carrying out this section not to exceed the following amounts:
“(1) $3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 1977, 1978, and 1979.
“(2) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1980.”.
Approved October 7, 1978.