[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC4504]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 55--RESEARCH AND TRAINING FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND INDEPENDENT
STATES OF FORMER SOVIET UNION
Sec. 4504. Authority to make payments; purposes
(a) The Secretary of State, after consultation with the Advisory
Committee, shall make payments, in accordance with the provisions of
this section, out of funds made available to carry out this chapter.
(b)(1) One part of the payments made in each fiscal year shall be
used to conduct a national research program at the postdoctoral or
equivalent level, such program to include--
(A) the dissemination of information about the research program
and the solicitation of proposals for research contracts from
American institutions of higher education and not-for-profit
corporations, such contracts to contain shared-cost provisions; and
(B) the awarding of contracts for such research projects as the
respective institution determines will best serve to carry out the
purposes of this chapter after reviewing proposals submitted under
subparagraph (A).
(2) One part of the payments made in each fiscal year shall be
used--
(A) to establish and carry out a program of graduate,
postdoctoral, and teaching fellowships for advanced training in
studies on the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent
states of the former Soviet Union and related studies, such
program--
(i) to be coordinated with the research program described in
paragraph (1);
(ii) to be conducted, on a shared-cost basis, at American
institutions of higher education; and
(iii) to include--
(I) the dissemination of information on the fellowship
program and the solicitation of applications for fellowships
from qualified institutions of higher education and
qualified individuals; and
(II) the awarding of such fellowships as the respective
institution determines will best serve to carry out the
purposes of this chapter after reviewing applications
submitted under subclause (I); and
(B) to disseminate research, data, and findings on studies on
the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of the
former Soviet Union and related fields in such a manner and to such
extent as the respective institution determines will best serve to
carry out the purposes of this chapter.
(3) One part of the payments made in each fiscal year shall be
used--
(A) to provide fellowship and research support for American
specialists in the independent states of the former Soviet Union and
the countries of Eastern Europe and related fields to conduct
advanced research with particular emphasis upon the use of data on
those states and countries; and
(B) to conduct seminars, conferences, and other similar
workshops designed to facilitate research collaboration between
Government and private specialists in the independent states of the
former Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe and related
fields.
(4) One part of the payments made in each fiscal year shall be used
to conduct specialized programs in advanced training and research on a
reciprocal basis in the independent states of the former Soviet Union
and the countries of Eastern Europe designed to facilitate access for
American specialists to research institutes, personnel, archives,
documentation, and other research and training resources located in
those states and countries.
(5) One part of the payments made in each fiscal year shall be used
to support training in the languages of the independent states of the
former Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe. Such payments
shall include grants to individuals to pursue such training and to
summer language institutes operated by institutions of higher education.
Preference shall be given for Russian language studies and, as
appropriate, studies of other languages of the independent states of the
former Soviet Union.
(6) Payments may be made to carry out other research and training in
studies on the countries of Eastern Europe and the independent states of
the former Soviet Union not otherwise described in this section.
(Pub. L. 98-164, title VIII, Sec. 805, Nov. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 1048;
Pub. L. 103-199, title III, Sec. 302(6), Dec. 17, 1993, 107 Stat. 2323.)
Amendments
1993--Subsec. (b)(2)(A), (B). Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 302(6)(A),
substituted ``studies on the countries of Eastern Europe and the
independent states of the former Soviet Union'' for ``Soviet and Eastern
European studies''.
Subsec. (b)(3)(A). Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 302(6)(B), (C), substituted
``independent states of the former Soviet Union and the countries of
Eastern Europe and related fields'' for ``fields of Soviet and Eastern
European studies and related studies'' and ``those states and
countries'' for ``the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries''.
Subsec. (b)(3)(B). Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 302(6)(B), which directed
the substitution of ``independent states of the former Soviet Union and
the countries of Eastern Europe and related fields'' for ``fields of
Soviet and Eastern European studies and related studies'', was executed
by making the substitution for ``fields of Soviet and East European
studies and related studies'', to reflect the probable intent of
Congress.
Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 103-199, Sec. 302(6)(D), substituted
``independent states of the former Soviet Union'' for ``Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics'' and ``those states and countries'' for ``the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics and Eastern European countries''.
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