20 U.S.C. § 3481 — Gifts and bequests

Page 1180 TITLE 20—EDUCATION § 3480 § 3480. Copyrights and patents The Secretary is authorized to acquire any of the following described rights if the property ac- quired thereby is for use by or for, or useful to, the Department: (1) copyrights, patents, and applications for patents, designs, processes, and manufacturing data; (2) licenses under copyrights, patents, and applications for patents; and (3) releases, before suit is brought, for past infringement of patents or copyrights. (Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 420, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.) § 3481. Gifts and bequests The Secretary is authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, bequests and de- vises of property, both real and personal, and to accept donations of services, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the work of the Depart- ment. Gifts, bequests, and devises of money and proceeds from sales of other property received as gifts, bequests, or devises shall be deposited in the Treasury and shall be available for disburse- ment upon the order of the Secretary. (Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 421, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687; Pub. L. 103–382, title II, § 271(d)(2), Oct. 20, 1994, 108 Stat. 3930.) Editorial Notes AMENDMENTS 1994—Pub. L. 103–382 inserted ‘‘and to accept dona- tions of services,’’ after ‘‘personal,’’. § 3482. Technical advice (a) Authorization The Secretary is authorized, upon request, to provide advice, counsel, and technical assistance to applicants or potential applicants for grants and contracts and other interested persons with respect to any functions of the Secretary or the Department. (b) Consolidation of applications for grants and contracts The Secretary may permit the consolidation of applications for grants or contracts with re- spect to two or more functions of the Secretary or the Department, but such consolidation shall not alter the statutory criteria for approval of applications for funding with respect to such functions. (Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 422, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.) § 3483. Working capital fund (a) Establishment; administrative services in- cluded The Secretary, with the approval of the Direc- tor of the Office of Management and Budget, is authorized to establish for the Department a working capital fund, to be available without fiscal year limitation, for expenses necessary for the maintenance and operation of such common administrative services as the Secretary shall find to be desirable in the interests of economy and efficiency, including such services as— (1) a central supply service for stationery and other supplies and equipment for which adequate stocks may be maintained to meet in whole or in part the requirements of the De- partment and its components; (2) central messenger, mail, telephone, and other communications services; (3) office space, central services for docu- ment reproduction, and for graphics and visual aids; and (4) a central library service. (b) Capital; reimbursement of funds; credit; mis- cellaneous receipts; transfers The capital of the fund shall consist of any ap- propriations made for the purpose of providing working capital and the fair and reasonable value of such stocks of supplies, equipment, and other assets and inventories on order as the Sec- retary may transfer to the fund, less the related liabilities and unpaid obligations. Such funds shall be reimbursed in advance from available funds of agencies and offices in the Department, or from other sources, for supplies and services at rates that will approximate the expense of op- eration, including the accrual of annual leave and the depreciation of equipment. The fund shall also be credited with receipts from sale or exchange of property and receipts in payment for loss or damage to property owned by the fund. There shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts any surplus of the fund (all assets, liabilities, and prior losses con- sidered) above the amounts transferred or appro- priated to establish and maintain such fund. There shall be transferred to the fund the stocks of supplies, equipment, other assets, liabilities, and unpaid obligations relating to the services which the Secretary determines, with the ap- proval of the Director of the Office of Manage- ment and Budget, will be performed. (Pub. L. 96–88, title IV, § 423, Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 687.) § 3483a. Department of Education Nonrecurring Expenses Fund There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be known as the ‘‘Department of Education Nonrecurring Ex- penses Fund’’ (the Fund): Provided, That unobli- gated balances of expired discretionary funds ap- propriated for this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the Department of Education by this or any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds are available for the pur- poses for which appropriated) into the Fund: Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall be available until expended, and in addition to such other funds as may be available for such purposes, for information and business technology system modernization and facilities infrastructure improvements necessary for the operation of the Department, subject to ap- proval by the Office of Management and Budget: Provided further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated only after the Committees on Ap- propriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 30 days in ad- vance of the specific information and business