nancial audits issued by the Comptroller General of the
United States.
SEC. 104. OPERATION OF REVOLVING FUND SERVICE AC-
TIVITIES.
(a) RATES FOR PURCHASE OF PRODUCTS AND SERV-
ICES.—The Librarian is authorized to make any products
and services provided as Revolving Fund service activities
available for purchase at rates estimated by the Librarian
to be adequate to recover, over a reasonable period of time,
the direct and indirect costs to the activity of providing
such products and services.
(b) ADVANCES OF FUNDS.—Participants in Revolv-
ing Fund service activities shall pay for products and serv-
ices of the activity by advance of funds—
(1) if the Librarian determines that amounts in
the Revolving Fund are otherwise insufficient to
cover the costs of providing such products and serv-
ices; or
(2) upon agreement between participants and
the Librarian.
(c) MULTI-YEAR CONTRACTING AUTHORITY.—In the
operation of Revolving Fund service activities, the Librar-
ian may—
(1) enter into contracts for the lease and acqui-
sition of goods and services (including severable
services) for a period that begins in one fiscal year
and ends in the next fiscal year, pursuant to section
303L of the Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act (41 U.S.C. 253l); and
(2) enter into multi-year contracts for the ac-
quisition of property and services, pursuant to sec-
tion 304B of such Act (41 U.S.C. 254c).
SEC. 105. REPEAL OF COOPERATIVE ACQUISITIONS PRO-
GRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 207 of the Legislative
Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (2 U.S.C. 182) is re-
pealed.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
subsection (a) shall take effect upon the establishment by
the Librarian of the cooperative acquisitions program de-
scribed in section 207 of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 1998, as a Revolving Fund service activity
under section 101.
SEC. 106. NO EFFECT ON PERSONNEL.
Nothing in this title may be construed to affect the
terms and conditions of employment of any employee of
the Library of Congress who carries out any activity des-
ignated as a Revolving Fund service activity or who is as-
signed to a Revolving Fund service unit.
TITLE II—CATALOGING
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
SEC. 201. AVAILABILITY OF CATALOGING PRODUCTS AND
SERVICES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Librarian of Congress is au-
thorized to make cataloging products and services created
by the Library of Congress available for purchase at prices
that reflect as closely as practicable the cost of distribution
over a reasonable period of time. Any amounts paid to
the Librarian for cataloging products and services pursu-
ant to this subsection shall be deposited in the Treasury
to the credit of the appropriation for salaries and expenses
of the Library of Congress, and shall remain available
until expended for expenses attributable to the necessary
distribution of such products and services.
(b) DEFINITION.—In this title, the term ‘‘cataloging
products and services’’ means bibliographic products and
services (in any current or future format) that are used
by libraries and library organizations, including other Li-
brary of Congress-created data bases, and related tech-
nical publications.
SEC. 202. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.
The undesignated paragraph beginning ‘‘The Librar-
ian of Congress’’ under the heading ‘‘PUBLIC PRINT-
ING AND BINDING’’ in section 1 of the Act entitled
‘‘An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses
of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thir-
tieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other pur-
poses’’, approved June 28, 1902 (2 U.S.C. 150), is re-
pealed.
TITLE III—LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD
SEC. 301. REVISIONS TO MEMBERSHIP AND OPERATION OF
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS TRUST FUND BOARD.
(a) ADDITION OF VICE CHAIR OF JOINT COMMITTEE
ON THE LIBRARY AS BOARD MEMBER.—Section 1 of the
Act entitled ‘‘An Act to create a Library of Congress
Trust Fund Board, and for other purposes’’, approved
March 3, 1925 (2 U.S.C. 154), is amended in the first
sentence of the first paragraph by inserting ‘‘and the vice
chair’’ after ‘‘chairman.’’
(b) QUORUM REQUIREMENT.—Section 1 of such Act
(2 U.S.C. 154) is amended in the second sentence of the
first paragraph by striking ‘‘Nine’’ and inserting ‘‘Seven’’.
(c) TEMPORARY EXTENSION
OF BOARD MEMBER
TERM.—Section 1 of such Act (2 U.S.C. 154) is amended
in the first paragraph by inserting after the first sentence
the following: ‘‘Upon request of the chair of the Board,
any member whose term has expired may continue to serve
on the Trust Fund Board until the earlier of the date on
which such member’s successor is appointed or the expira-
tion of the 2-year period which begins on the date such
member’s term expires.’’.
TITLE IV—EFFECTIVE DATE
SEC. 401. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall
take effect October 1, 2000.
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