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sophisticated analytical tools available to the major problems of 

 contemporary civilization." ^^^ 



The initial budget totaled $3 million ; the Soviet Union has pledged 

 $1 million, "with remaining funds to be made up by the other member 

 countries." Other participants are the United Kingdom, France, 

 Italy, West Germany, Poland, and East Germany; Canada, Japan, 

 and Bulgaria are considering membership. 



Special Foreign Currency Program. — Since 1959 the National Science 

 Foundation has maintained a program for collecting, translating, 

 abstracting, and disseminating foreign science information to meet 

 the requirements of Federal agencies and the general scientific com- 

 munity. The program makes available selected scientific and tech- 

 nological literature produced by .foreign scientists. Funds for this 

 program, from fiscal year 1959 to 1970, came from NSF-purchased 

 foreign currencies. Approximately $1 million in foreign currency 

 funding was devoted to the program from 1964 to 1970. Since the 

 fiscal year 1970, the Foundation has been given a Special Foreign 

 Currency appropriation, enabling the agency to utilize payments in 

 foreign currencies which the Treasury Department has determined 

 to be in excess of the normal requirements of the United States in 

 certain countries.^^^ 



In mid-fiscal year 1971 the Foundation expanded its excess 

 foreign currency translation program to support cooperative scientific 

 research and related activities benefiting both United States and 

 foreign scientists in six foreign countries: India, Morocco, Poland, 

 Tunisia, Egypt, and Yugoslavia.^^* The Foundation subsequently 

 extended the program to Pakistan in FY 1972 and to Burma and 

 Guinea in FY 1973. 



The scientific activities supported under this program are con- 

 sidered to be of mutual benefit to both U.S. and foreign scientific 

 communities, but lack priority to warrant their funding from the 

 Foundation's appropriation.^^^ The program, under the category 

 "Scientific Research and Related Activities," encompasses four 

 kinds of activity: 



(1) collaborative research undertaken by U.S. and foreign 

 scientists ; 



(2) joint studies, conferences, symposia, seminars, or meetings; 



(3) visits of U.S. scientists to foreign institutions to teach or 

 conduct research; and 



(4) travel by U.S. scientists to meetings or other scientific 

 activities in special foreign currency countries and travel by 

 scientists of the special foreign currency countries to the United 

 States or elsewhere.^®" 



2W In Authorizing Appropriations to the NSF, FY 197S, House Report 92-977, op. cit.; See also: 1972 NSF 

 Authorization: Hearings, op. cit., p. 364. 

 2W Under authority of Section 104(b)3 of the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 



258 NSF, justification of Estimates of Appropriations, FY7S, op. cit., p. P-1. 

 "9 Idem. 

 J'o Idem. 



