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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 29 — Cultural, Technical, and Educational Centers

§ 2075. Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between North and South

Statutory text

(a)

Short title

This section may be cited as the “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991” 1

(b)

Purpose

The purpose of this section is to promote better relations between the United States and the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean and Canada through cooperative study, training, and research, by supporting in Florida a Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between North and South where scholars and students in various fields from the nations of the hemisphere may study, give and receive training, exchange ideas and views, and conduct other activities consistent with the objectives of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.] and other Acts promoting international, educational, cultural, scientific, and related activities of the United States.

(c)

Dante B. Fascell North-South Center

In order to carry out the purpose of this section, the Director of the United States Information Agency shall provide for the operation in Florida of an educational institution which shall be known and designated as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center, through arrangements with public, educational, or other nonprofit institutions.

(d)

Authorities

The Director of the United States Information Agency, in carrying out this section, may utilize the authorities of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 [22 U.S.C. 2451 et seq.]. Section 2056(b) of this title shall apply in the administration of this section. In order to carry out the purposes of this section, the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center is authorized to use funds made available under this section to acquire property and facilities, by construction, lease, or purchase.

(e)

Authorization of appropriations

There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $10,000,000 for each subsequent fiscal year to carry out this section. Amounts appropriated under this section are authorized to be available until expended.

Footnotes

  1. 1 So in original. Probably should be followed by a period.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

    Pub. L. 102–138 title II § 208 · 105 Stat. 647

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2075

    Pub. L. 102–138, title II, § 208, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 694

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 102–138, title II, § 208, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 694

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 208. CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH. (a) Short Title.— This section may be cited as the “North/South Center Act of 1991”. (b) Purpose.— The purpose of this section is to promote better relations between the United States and the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean and Canada through cooperative study, training, and research, by supporting in Florida a Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange Between North and South where scholars and students in various fields from the nations of the hemisphere may study, give and receive training, exchange ideas and views, and conduct other activities consistent with the objectives of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 and other Acts promoting international, educational, cultural, scientific, and related activities of the United States. (c) North/South Center.— In order to carry out the purpose of this section, the Director of the United States Information Agency shall provide for the operation in Florida of an educational institution known as the North/South Center, through arrangements with public, educational, or other nonprofit institutions. (d) Authorities.— The Director of the United States Information Agency, in carrying out this section, may utilize the authorities of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961. Section 704(b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1960 (22 U.S.C. 2056(b)) shall apply in the administration of this section. In order to carry out the purposes of this section, the North/South Center is authorized to use funds made available under this section to acquire property and facilities, by construction, lease, or purchase. (e) Authorization of Appropriations.— There are authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for fiscal year 1992 and $10,000,000 for each subsequent fiscal year to carry out this section. Amounts appropriated under this section are authorized to be available until expended. (f) Repeal.— Effective October 1, 1991, the section enacted by the third proviso under the heading “education and human resources development, development assistance” in the Foreign Operations, 22 USC 2075. Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991, is repealed.

  2. Pub. L. 106–29 § 1(1) · 113 Stat. 54

    1. Added · 22 U.S.C. § 2075(a)

      Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(1), added subsec. (a)

    2. Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 2075(a)

      Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(1), struck out heading and text of former subsec. (a). Text read as follows: “This section may be cited as the ‘North/South Center Act of 1991’.”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (a). Text read as follows: “This section may be cited as the ‘North/South Center Act of 1991’.”

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following: “(a) Short Title.— This section may be cited as the “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991”;

  3. Pub. L. 106–29 § 1(2)(A) · 113 Stat. 54

    Amended · 22 U.S.C. § 2075(c)

    Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(2)(A), amended subsec. heading generally. Prior to amendment, heading read as follows: “North/South Center”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(2)(A), amended subsec. heading generally. Prior to amendment, heading read as follows: “North/South Center”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) by amending the subsection heading to read as follows: “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center.—”; and

  4. Pub. L. 106–29 § 1(2)(B) · 113 Stat. 54

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 2075(c)

    Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(2)(B), substituted “which shall be known and designated as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center,” for “known as the North/South Center,”

    Target inherited from the preceding amendment note.

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(2)(B), substituted “which shall be known and designated as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center,” for “known as the North/South Center,”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (B) by striking “known as the North/South Center,” and inserting “which shall be known and designated as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center,”; and

  5. Pub. L. 106–29 § 1(3) · 113 Stat. 54

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 2075(d)

    Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(3), substituted “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center” for “North/South Center”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(3), substituted “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center” for “North/South Center”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (3) in subsection (d), by striking “North/South Center” and inserting “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center”.

6 of 6 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, referred to in subsecs. (b) and (d), is Pub. L. 87–256, , 75 Stat. 527, which is classified principally to chapter 33 (§ 2451 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2451 of this title and Tables.

Codification

Section is comprised of section 208 of Pub. L. 102–138. Subsec. (f) of section 208 of Pub. L. 102–138 repealed a prior section 2075 of this title. See Prior Provisions note below.

Prior Provisions

A prior section 2075, Pub. L. 101–513, title II, , 104 Stat. 1984, was based on section 206 of title II of the House engrossed amendment (as passed the House of Representatives on ) to S. 2364, One Hundred First Congress, which was enacted into law by Pub. L. 101–513, and which was cited as the “Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between North and South Act of 1990”, established a North-South Center in Florida to promote better relations between the United States and the nations of Latin America and the Caribbean and Canada through study, training, exchange of ideas and views, and other activities in support of the objectives of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, prior to repeal, effective , by Pub. L. 102–138, title II, § 208(f), , 105 Stat. 694.

Amendments

1999—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(1), added subsec. (a) and struck out heading and text of former subsec. (a). Text read as follows: “This section may be cited as the ‘North/South Center Act of 1991’.”

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(2)(A), amended subsec. heading generally. Prior to amendment, heading read as follows: “North/South Center”.

Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(2)(B), substituted “which shall be known and designated as the Dante B. Fascell North-South Center,” for “known as the North/South Center,”.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 106–29, § 1(3), substituted “Dante B. Fascell North-South Center” for “North/South Center”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Pub. L. 106–29, § 2, , 113 Stat. 54, provided that:

“(a)

Center.—

Any reference in any other provision of law to the educational institution in Florida known as the North/South Center shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘Dante B. Fascell North-South Center’.

“(b)

Short Title.—

Any reference in any other provision of law to the North/South Center Act of 1991 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘Dante B. Fascell North-South Center Act of 1991’.”

Transfer of Functions

United States Information Agency (other than Broadcasting Board of Governors and International Broadcasting Bureau) abolished and functions transferred to Secretary of State, see sections 6531 and 6532 of this title.

Credits

1991–1999 · 2 acts
  1. 1991Pub. L. 102–138, title II, § 208, , 105 Stat. 694
  2. 1999Pub. L. 106–29, § 1, , 113 Stat. 54.
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(Pub. L. 102–138, title II, § 208, , 105 Stat. 694; Pub. L. 106–29, § 1, , 113 Stat. 54.)

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