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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

98 STAT. 1574

Antitrust actions.

Reductions.

97 Stat. 752. 22 USC 1465e. Agriculture and agricultural commodities. Guatemalan refugees. Mexico.

PUBLIC LAW 98-411—AUG. 30, 1984

excess of a 7 per centum rate increase over such charges in fiscal year 1984. SEC. 509. (a) None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprograming of funds which: (1) creates new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or (6) contracts out any functions or activities presently performed by Federal employees; unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such reprograming of funds. (b) None of the funds provided under this Act shall be available for obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, or projects through a reprograming of funds in excess of $250,000 or 10 per centum, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 per centum funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 per centum as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduction in personnel which would result in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by Congress, unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified fifteen days in advance of such reprograming of funds. SEC. 510. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act to the Federal Trade Commission, unless specifically authorized by law hereafter, may be obligated or expended to issue, implement, administer, conduct or enforce any antitrust action against a municipality or other unit of local government, except that this limitation shall not apply to private antitrust actions. SEC. 511. The amount appropriated in this Act for each appropriation account listed in this section is reduced as follows: "Salaries and Expenses, Antitrust Division", $1,000,000; "International Conferences and Contingencies", $400,000; and "International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, Salaries and Expenses", $400,000. SEC. 512. Section 7(b) of the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act is amended in the second sentence by striking out "(replaced less" and inserting in lieu thereof "replaced (less". SEC. 513. It is the sense of the Congress, that in cooperation with the Government of Mexico, the newly enacted authority under section 416 of the Agricultural Act dealing with United States surplus wheat and dairy products shall be used on an expedited basis to make these commodities available to help feed the Guatemalan refugees in Mexico.