104 STAT. 48 PUBLIC LAW 101-246—FEB. 16, 1990 revise the Employee Evaluation Report for Foreign Service officers, and the United States Information Agency shall revise the Officer Evaluation Report for its Foreign Service officers, to require in a separate entry, an assessment of the employee's effectiveness in using, in his or her work, a foreign language or languages tested at the general professional speaking proficiency level or above, in cases where the supervisor is capable of making such an assessment, (b) PRECEDENCE IN PROMOTION.— The directors of personnel of the Department of State, the Agency for International Development, and the United States Information Agency shall instruct promotion panels to take account of language ability and, all matters being otherwise equal, to give precedence in promotions to officers who have achieved at least the General Professional Speaking Proficiency level in one or more foreign languages over officers who lack that level of proficiency. TITLE II—UNITED STATES INFORMATION- AL, EDUCATIONAL, AND CULTURAL PROGRAMS PART A—UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. (a) AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.— The following amounts are authorized to be appropriated for the United States Information Agency (other than for the Voice of America) to carry out international information, educational, cultural, and exchange programs under the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961, Reorganization Plan Number 2 of 1977, and other purposes authorized by law: (1) SALARIES AND EXPENSES. —For "Salaries and Expenses", $410,000,000 for the fiscal year 1990 and $432,640,000 for the fiscal year 1991. (2) TELEVISION AND FILM SERVICE.— For "Television and Film Service", $31,000,000 for the fiscal year 1990 and $32,240,000 for the fiscal year 1991. (3) NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY.— For "National Endowment for Democracy" $25,000,000 for the fiscal year 1990 and $25,000,000 for the fiscal year 1991. (4) CENTER FOR CULTURAL AND TECHNICAL INTERCHANGE BE- TWEEN EAST AND WEST.— For "Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange between East and West", $20,700,000 for the fiscal year 1990 and $26,000,000 for the fiscal year 1991. (b) SEVILLE WORLD'S FAIR.— (1) Subject to paragraph (2), there are authorized to be appropriated to the United States Information Agency for fiscal year 1990 $7,300,000 for United States participation in the World's Fair in Seville, Spain. (2) Funds made available under this title for any educational or cultural exchange program. Voice of America programming to China, or any overseas post of the United States Information Agency may not be transferred or otherwise made available for the purposes of paragraph (1).
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