Volume 92 · 1641
Public Law 95–491
To authorize the permanent establishment of a system of Federal Information centers.
Approved October 20, 1978
Statutory text
An Act
To authorize the permanent establishment of a system of Federal Information centers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and, House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That this Act may
Federal Information Centers Act.
be cited as the “Federal Information Centers Act”.
Sec. 2.
Title I of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section:
“Sec. 112. “federal information centers
(a) The Administrator is authorized to establish within
Establishment.
the General Services Administration a nationwide network of Federal information centers for the purpose of providing the public with information about the programs and procedures of the Federal Government and for other appropriate and related purposes.
“(b) The Administrator is authorized to prescribe such rules and
Rules and regulations.
regulations as may be necessary to the functioning of the Federal information centers.
“(c) There is hereby authorized to be appropriated $7,000,000 for
Appropriation authorization.
the fiscal year ending September 30, 1980, and such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of this section.”.
The table of contents of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 is amended by inserting immediately after the item pertaining to section 109 the following new items:
Title I of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act is further amended by inserting immediately before section 110
the following heading:
“federal telecommunication fund”.
Approved October 20, 1978.