(20 U.S.C. 331) Provision with similar authority enacted July 26, 1954, P.L. 531, 83rd Cong., sec. 1(a), 68 Stat. 533. Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title IV, sec. 401, 79 Stat. 44, as sec. 1 of P.L. 531, 83rd Con.

EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING

SEC. 2(a)(1). In order to assist the Commissioner in carrying out the purpose and duties of the Office of Education, the Commissioner is authorized, during the period beginning July 1, 1972, and ending June 30, 1976, to make grants to, and contracts with, public and private institutions, agencies, and organizations for the dissemination of information, for surveys, for exemplary projects in the field of education, and for the conduct of studies related to the management of the Office of Education, except that no such grant may be made to a private agency, organization, or institution other than a nonprofit one. (2) No grant shall be made or contract or jointly financed cooperative arrangement entered into under this subsection until the Commissioner has obtained the advice and recommendations of a panel of specialists who are not employees of the Federal Government and who are competent to evaluate the proposals as to the soundness of their design, the possibilities of securing productive results, the adequacy of resources to conduct the proposed research, surveys, or demonstrations, and their relationship to other similar educational research or dissemination progams already completed or in progress.

(d) The Commissioner shall transmit to the Congress annually a report concerning the research, surveys, and demonstrations, the information disseminating activities, and the training in research initiated under this Act, the recommendations made by research specialists pursuant to subsection (a) (2), and any action taken with respect to such recommendations.

(e) (1) The Commissioner shall establish in the Office of Education an Advisory Council on Research and Development, consisting of fifteen members appointed, without regard to the civil service laws, by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. The Commissioner shall appoint one such member as Chairman. Such members shall include persons recognized as authorities in the field of educational research and development or in related fields.

(2) The Advisory Council shall advise the Commissioner with respect to matters of general policy arising in the administration of this Act.

(20 U.S.C. 331a) Provisions with similar authority enacted July 26, 1954, P.L. 531, 83d Cong., sec. 1, 68 Stat. 533. Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title IV; sec. 401, 79 Stat. 44, as sec. 2 of P.L. 531, 83d Cong.; amended Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 141, 80 Stat. 1202; amended Jan. 2, 1968, P.L. 90-247, Title VII, sec. 706, 81 Stat. 820, amended April 13, 1970, P.L. 91-230, Title I, sec. 143 (c), Title VIII, secs. 808, 809 (c), 84 Stat. 151, 193, 194; amended June 23, 1972, P.L. 92-318, sec. 303 (a) (1), 86 Stat. 333; subsections (b) and (c) repealed June 23, 1972, P.L. 92-318, sec. 303 (a) (1), 86 Stat. 333.

SEC. 3. There are authorized to be appropriated for purposes of section 2, $58,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973. $68.000.000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1974, and $78,000.000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1975.

(20 U.S.C. 332) Enacted July 26, 1954, P.L. 531, 83rd Cong., sec. 2, 68 Stat. 533; redesignated as sec. 3 and amended April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title IV, secs. 401-402, 79 Stat. 44, 46; amended June 23, 1972, P.L. 92-318, sec. 303 (a) (2), 86 Stat. 333.

CONSTRUCTION OF REGIONAL FACILITIES FOR RESEARCH AND

RELATED PURPOSES

SEC. 4. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated over a period of five fiscal years beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1966, $100,000,000 in the aggregate, to enable the Commissioner to carry out the purposes of this section. Sums so appropriated shall remain available until expended for payments with respect to projects for which applications have been filed under this section before July 1, 1970, and approved by the Commissioner before July 1, 1974.

(b) Whenever the Commissioner finds that the purposes of this Act can best be achieved through the construction of a facility for research, or for research and related purposes (as defined in this section), and that such facility would be of particular value to the Nation or a region thereof as a national or regional resource for research or related purposes, he may make a grant for part or all of the cost of constructing such facility to a university, college, or other appropriate public or nonprofit private agency or institution competent to engage in the types of activity for which the facility is to be constructed, or to a combination of such agencies or institutions, or may construct or make arrangements for constructing such facility through contracts for paying part or all of the cost of construction or otherwise. Title to any facility constructed under this section, if vested in the United States, may be transferred by the Commissioner on behalf of the United States to any such college or university or other public or nonprofit private agency or institution, but such transfer shall be made subject to the condition that the facility will be operated for the purposes for which it was constructed and to such other conditions as the Commissioner deems necessary to carry out the objectives of this title and to protect the interests of the United States.

(d) Payments under this section shall be made in advance or by way of reimbursement, in such installments consistent with construction progress, and on such conditions as the Commissioner may determine.

(e) As used in this section, the term "research and related purposes" means research, research training, surveys, or demonstrations in the field of education, or the dissemination of information derived therefrom, or all of such activities, including (but without limitation) experimental schools, except that such term does not include research, research training, surveys, or demonstrations in the field or sectarian instruction or the dissemination of information derived therefrom.

(20 U.S.C. 332a) Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title IV, sec. 403, 79 Stat. 46; amended Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 142, 80 Stat. 1203; subsection (c) repealed April 13, 1970, P.L. 91-230, Title IV, sec. 401 (g) (2), 84 Stat. 174, and superseded by Title VIII, sec. 423 of P.L. 90-247, Title IV, as amended (20 U.S.C. 1232 (b)); sec. 4(a) amended April 13, 1970, P.L. 91-230, sec. 810, 84 Stat. 194.

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 5. As used in this Act

(1) The term "State" includes, in addition to the several States of the Union, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands.

(2) The term "State educational agency" means the State board of education or other agency or officer primarily responsible for the State supervision of public elementary and secondary schools, or, if there is no such officer or agency, an officer or agency designated by the Governor or by State law.

(3) The term "nonprofit" as applied to any agency, organization, or institution means an agency, organization, or institution owned and operated by one or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.

(4) The terms "construction" and "cost of construction" include (A) the construction of new buildings, and the aquisition, expansion remodeling, replacement and alteration of existing buildings, including architects' fees, but not including the cost of acquisition of land (except in the case of acquisition of an existing building) or off-site improvements, and (B) equipping new buildings and existing buildings, whether or not acquired, expanded, remodeled, or altered.

(20 U.S.C. 332b) Enacted April 11, 1965, P.L. 89-10, Title IV, sec. 403, 79 Stat. 47; amended Nov. 3, 1966, P.L. 89-750, Title I, sec. 143, 80 Stat. 1203.

SHORT TITLE

SEC. 6. This Act may be cited as the "Cooperative Research Act."

SPECIAL PROJECTS ACT

AN ACT to authorize special projects, surveys, and studies by the Office of Education

PURPOSE

SEC. 2. It is the purpose of this Act to authorize the Commissioner of Education (hereinafter referred to as the "Commissioner") to carry out special projects

(1) to experiment with new educational and administrative methods, techniques, and practices;

(2) to meet special or unique educational needs or problems; and

(3) to place special emphasis on national education priorities.

(20 U.S.C. 1851) Enacted August 21, 1974, P.L. 93-380, sec. 402(a) (1), 88 Stat. 544.

CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

SEC. 3. (a) The Commissioner is authorized, during the period beginning July 1, 1975, and ending June 30, 1978, to make contracts with public and private agencies, organizations, associations, institutions, and with individuals in order to carry out the purposes of this Act as set forth in section 2.

(b) In exercising his authority under this section, the Commissioner shall comply with such priorities and preferences as may be expressly provided by law, with respect to this section.

(20 U.S.C. 1852) Enacted August 21, 1974, P.L. 93-380, sec. 402 (a) (1), 88 Stat. 544, 545.

APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 4. (a) (1) In order to enable the Commissioner to make contracts under section 3, there is authorized, subject to subsection (b), to be appropriated to the Office of Education $200,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1976, and each of the two succeeding fiscal years.

(2) Sums appropriated pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, notwithstanding any other provisions of law, unless enacted in express limitation of this paragraph, remain available until expended.

(b) (1) Not later than February 1 of each year, the Commissioner shall submit to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate a plan in accordance with which the Commissioner has determined to expend funds to be appropriated for the succeeding fiscal year. Such plan shall be accompanied by a report describing each contract made during the calendar year preceding that fiscal year under the authority of this Act involving an expenditure in excess of $100,000.

(2) (A) The funds appropriated pursuant to subsection (a), for any fiscal year shall be expended in accordance with the plan submitted for that year pursuant to paragraph (1), unless prior to sixty days after the submission of such plan, either the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives or the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare of the Senate adopts a resolution disapproving such plan.

(B) If either or both such committees adopts a resolution of disapproval as provided in subparagraph (A), the Commissioner shall, not later than fifteen days after the adoption of any such resolution, submit a new plan in accordance with paragraph (1) and subparagraph (A).

(20 U.S.C. 1853) Enacted August 21, 1974, P.L. 93-380, sec. 402(a)(1), 88 Stat. 545.

Provisions of P.L. 93-380 which relate to the Special Projects Act. (Section numbers are sections of P.L. 93–380.)

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(a)

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(b) (1) In carrying out his functions under section 3 of the Special Projects Act, the Commissioner shall reserve not less than 50 per centum of the sums appropriated pursuant to section 4 of such Act for the purposes given preference under paragraph (3) of this subsection and apportioned in accordance with paragraph (2) of this subsection. With respect to the funds to which this paragraph applies, the Commissioner's authority under such section 3 shall include authority to make grants as well as contracts.

(2) Except as is otherwise provided with respect to section 409, the Commissioner shall apportion an amount for each of the purposes set forth in paragraph (3) which bears the same ratio to the sums reserved pursuant to paragraph (1) as the amount permitted to be expended for each such purpose bears to the aggregate of the amounts permitted to be expended for all such purposes.

(3) The sums reserved pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be expended for programs otherwise authorized by an applicable statute and described in the following subparagraphs:

Education for the Use of the Metric System of Measurement

(A) A program to encourage educational agencies and institutions to prepare students to use the metric system of measurement, as provided in section 403.

Gifted and Talented Children

(B) A program for the education of gifted and talented children. through grants to the States for such purpose, as provided in section 404 (except subsection (f) thereof).

Community Schools

(C) A program of grants to local educational agencies to assist them in planning, establishing, expanding, and operating community education programs, as provided in section 405.

Career Education

(D) A program to assess, and to encourage establishment and operation of, career education programs, as provided in section 406.

Consumers' Education

(E) A program of grants and contracts designed to provide consumer education to the public, as provided in section 811 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.

Women's Equity in Education

(F) A program of grants and contracts designed to provide educational equity for women in the United States, as provided in section

408.

Arts in Education Programs

(G) A program of grants and contracts designed to assist and encourage the use of the arts in elementary and secondary school programs as provided in section 409.

(4) No appropriation may be made for any fiscal year for the purposes of section 811 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or sections 403, 404, 405, 406, 408, and 409 of this Act during which funds are available for the purposes of such sections under the provisions of this subsection.

(c) (1) The amendments made by subsection (a) and the provisions of subsection (b) shall be effective on and after July 1, 1975.

(2) Effective July 1, 1975, title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended