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PUBLIC LAW 94-000—MMMM. DD, 1976

90 STAT. 2054

Transfer of funds, limitation.

Report to Speaker of the House, President of the Senate and congressional committees.

PUBLIC LAW 94-471—OCT. 11, 1976 tion SO as to assure that the identity of the proposer is not known to the reviewers of the proposal. Any such system shall be considered to supplement and not to supplant the peer review system in operation in the Foundation on the date of enactment of this Act. (g) No funds may be transferred from any particular category listed in section 2(a) to any other category or categories listed in such section if the total of the funds so transferred from that particular category would exceed 10 per centum thereof, and no funds may be transferred to any particular category listed in section 2(a) from any other category or categories listed in such section if the total of the funds so transferred to that particular category would exceed 10 per centum thereof luiless-— (1) a period of thirty legislative days has passed after the Director or his designate has transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President of the Senate and to the Committee on Science and Technology of the House of llepresentatives and to the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate a written report containing a full and complete statement concerning the nature of the transfer and the reason thereof, or (2) each such committee before the expiration of such period has transmitted to the Director written notice to the effect that such committee has no objection to the proposed action. INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC KESEARGIT, EDUCATION, AND POLICY ANALYSIS

SEC. 3. The National Science Foundation is authorized and directed to support basic and applied research and education programs, and to conduct and support policy analysis, information dissemination, and international cooperative programs consistent with the Nation's foreign policy objectives designed to make the results of scientific research conducted abroad more readily available to United States scientists, engineers, and technologists, to promote international cooperation in science and technology, to assist in the resolution of critical and emerging problems with significant scientific or technical components, such as world food and population problems, and to insure full coordination of these programs with related activities conducted by other Federal agencies and organizations. The Director of the National Science Foundation shall consult with the Secretary of State to assure that the programs authorized under this section are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

SEC. 4. The National Science Foundation is directed to encourage and promote the conduct of interdisciplinary research through broadly based undergraduate interdisciplinary education programs, interdisciplinary research projects which provide for apprenticeship training, interdisciplinary fellowship programs, and arrangements for degree training, including postgraduate degrees in more than one discipline, in institutions of higher education. SCIENCE FOR CITIZENS

42 USC 1862 note.

SEC. 5. (a) The National Science Foundation is authorized and directed to conduct an experimental "Science for Citizens Program" and an augmented Public Understanding of Science Program under which funds will be available for pilot projects to: