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der subchapter IV of chapter 81 of this title) as will be mutually beneficial in the carrying out of the mission of the medical facility and the school; and

(D) on the basis of consultation with the appropriate accreditation body or bodies approved for such purpose by the Commissioner of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, there is reasonable assurance that, with the aid of an agreement under subsection (a) of this section, such school will meet the accreditation standards of such body or bodies within a reasonable time.

(2) Any agreement entered into by the Administrator under this subchapter shall contain such terms and conditions (in addition to those imposed pursuant to subsections (a) (1) and (b)(1) of this section) as he deems necessary and appropriate to protect the interest of the United States.

(c) If the Administrator, in accordance with such regulations as he shall prescribe, determines that any school established with assistance under this chapter

(1) is not accredited and fails to gain appropriate accreditation within a reasonable period of time;

(2) is accredited but fails substantially to carry out the terms of the agreement entered into under this chapter; or

(3) is no longer operated for the purpose for which such assistance was granted,

he shall be entitled to recover from the recipient of assistance under this chapter the facilities of such school which were established with assistance under this chapter. In order to recover such facilities the Administrator may bring an action in the district court of the United States for the district in which such facilities are situated. (Added Pub. L. 92-541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1102.)

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 5072 of this title. § 5074. Limitations.

The Administrator may not use the authority under this subchapter to assist in the establishment of more than eight new medical schools. Such schools shall be located in geographically dispersed areas of the United States. (Added Pub. L. 92-541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1104.)

SUBCHAPTER II.-GRANTS TO AFFILIATED MEDICAL SCHOOLS

SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This subchapter is referred to in section 5070 of this title.

§ 5081. Declaration of purpose.

The purpose of this subchapter is to authorize the Administrator to carry out a program of grants to medical schools which have maintained affiliations with the Veterans' Administration in order to assist such schools to expand and improve their training capacities and to cooperate with institutions of the types assisted under subchapter III of this chapter in carrying out the purposes of such subchapter. (Added Pub. L. 92–541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1104.)

§ 5082. Authorization of appropriations.

(a) There is further authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1973, ad a like sum for each of the six succeeding fiscal years, for carrying out programs authorized under this chapter.

(b) Sums appropriated pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall remain available until the end of the sixth fiscal year following the fiscal year for which they are appropriated. (Added Pub. L. 92-541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1104.)

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This section is referred to in section 5096 of this title. § 5083. Grants.

(a) Any medical school which is affiliated with the Veterans' Administration under an agreement entered into pursuant to subchapter IV of chapter 81 of this title may apply to the Administrator for a grant under this subchapter to assist such school, in part, to carry out, through the Veterans' Administration medical facility with which it is affiliated, projects and programs in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter, except that no grant shall be made for the construction of any building which will not be located on land under the jurisdiction of the Administrator. Any such application shall contain such information in such detail as the Administrator deems necessary and appropriate.

(b) An application for a grant under this section may be approved by the Administrator only upon his determination that

(1) the proposed projects and programs for which the grant will be made wili make a significant contribution to improving the medical education (including continuing education) program of the school and will result in a substantial increase in the number of medical students attending such school, provided there is reasonable assurance from a recognized accrediting body or bodies approved for such purposes by the Commissioner of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare that the increase in the number of students will not threaten any existing accreditation or otherwise compromise the quality of the training at such school;

(2) the application contains or is supported by adequate assurance that any Federal funds made available under this subchapter will be supplemented by funds or other resources available from other sources, whether public or private;

(3) the application sets forth such fiscal control and accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds expended under this subchapter; and

(4) the application provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Administrator may require to carry out his functions under this subchapter, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Administrator may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.

(Added Pub. L. 92-541, §2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1104.)

SUBCHAPTER III.-ASSISTANCE TO PUBLIC AND NON-PROFIT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, HOSPITALS AND OTHER HEALTH MANPOWER INSTITUTIONS AFFILIATED WITH THE VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION TO INCREASE THE PRODUCTION OF PROFESSIONAL AND OTHER HEALTH PER

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SUBCHAPTER REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS This subchapter is referred to in section 5070 of this title.

§ 5091. Declaration of purpose.

The purpose of this subchapter is to authorize the Administrator to carry out a program of grants to provide assistance in the establishment of cooperative arrangements among universities, colleges, junior colleges, community colleges, schools of allied health professions, State and local systems of education, hospitals, and other nonprofit health manpower institutions affiliated with the Veterans' Administration, designed to coordinate, improve, and expand the training of professional and technical allied health and paramedical personnel, and to assist in developing and evaluating new health careers, interdisciplinary approaches and career advancement opportunities, so as to improve and expand allied and other health manpower utilization. (Added Pub. L. 92-541, §2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1105.)

§ 5092. Definition.

For the purpose of this subchapter, the term "eligible institution" means any nonprofit educational facility or other public or nonprofit institution, including universities, colleges, junior colleges, community colleges, schools of allied health professions, State and local systems of education, hospitals, and other nonprofit health manpower institutions for the training or education of allied health or other health personnel affiliated with the Veterans' Administration for the conduct of or the providing of guidance for education and training programs for health manpower. (Added Pub. L. 92-541, §2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1105.)

§ 5093. Grants.

(a) Any eligible institution may apply to the Administrator for a grant under this subchapter to assist such institution to carry out through the Veterans' Administration medical facility with which it is, or will become affiliated, educational and clinical projects and programs, matching the clinical requirements of the facility to the health manpower training potential of the eligible institution, for the expansion and improvement of such institution's capacity to train health manpower, including physicians' assistants, nurse practitioners, and other new types of health personnel in furtherance of the purposes of this subchapter. Any such application shall contain a plan to carry out such projects and programs and such other information in such detail as the Administrator deems necessary and appropriate.

(b) An application for a grant under this section may be approved by the Administrator only upon his determination that

(1) the proposed projects and programs for which the grant will be made will make a significant contribution to improving the education (including continuing education) or training program of the eligible institution and will result in a substantial increase in the number of students trained at such institution, provided there is reasonable assurance from a recognized accrediting body or bodies approved for such purposes by the Commissioner of Education of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare that the increase in the number of students will not threaten any existing accreditation or otherwise compromise the quality of the training at such institution;

(2) the application contains or is supported by adequate assurance that any Federal funds made available under this subchapter will be supplemented by funds or other resources available from other sources, whether public or private;

(3) the application sets forth such fiscal control and accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds expended under this subchapter; and

(4) the application provides for making such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Administrator may require to carry out his functions under this subchapter, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Administrator may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.

(Added Pub. L. 92–541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1106.)

SUBCHAPTER IV.-EXPANSION OF VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION HOSPITAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING CAPACITY

§ 5096. Expenditures to remodel and make special allocations to Veterans' Administration hospitals for health manpower education and training.

Out of funds appropriated to the Veterans' Administration pursuant to the authorization in section 5082 of this title, the Administrator may expend such sums as he deems necessary, not to exceed 30 per centum thereof, for (1) the necessary extension, expansion, alteration, improvement, remodeling, or repair of Veterans' Administration buildings and structures (including provision of initial equipment, replacement of obsolete or worn-out equipment, and, where necessary, addition of classrooms, lecture facilities, laboratories, and other teaching facilities) to the extent necessary to make them suitable for use for health manpower education and training in order to carry out the purpose set forth in section 4101(b), and (2) special allocations to Veterans' Administration hospitals and other medical facilities for the development or initiation of improved methods of education and training which may include the development or initiation of plans which reduce the period of required education and training for health personnel but which do not adversely affect the quality of such education or training. (Added Pub. L. 92-541, § 2(a), Oct. 24, 1972, 86 Stat. 1106.)

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Section 1 of Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 719, provided: "That this Act [which revised this title, enacted sections 1735-1737 of Title 18, amended section 356 of Title 2, section 19 (d) (1) of Title 3, sections 101, 104(1), 2104, 2105, 3104, 3304 (a), 4301(1), 5102(c), 5303 (a), 5304, 5312, 5314-5316, 5541(2), 6301(2) (11), 6323, 7101, and 8344 of Title 5, sections 24 seventh par., 1701d-3(c), and 1701e (a) of Title 12, section 637(b) (15) of Title 15, section 4601-1(f) of Title 16, section 8 of Title 17, sections 12, 440, 441, 500, 501, 612, 876, 877, 1114, 1303, 1341, 1342, 1463, 1696 (c), 1699, 1703, 1704, 1707, 1709-1713, 1715, 1716, 1716A, 1717(b), 1718, 1721-1725, 1729, 1730, 1733, and 3061 of Title 18, section 611(d) of Title 22, sections 72 fifth par., 129, and 724a of Title 31, sections 356 (f), 474 (15), 615, 723, and 724 of Title 40, and section 2942(1) of Title 42, repealed section 3327 of Title 5 and section 1028 of Title 31, and enacted provisions set out as notes hereunder and under sections 201, 601, 1001, 1003. 1201, 2002, 2004, 3010, and 3621 of this title] may be cited as the 'Postal Reorganization Act'."

Part I.-GENERAL

Chapter 2.-ORGANIZATION

§ 206. Advisory Council.

TERMINATION OF ADVISORY COUNCILS

Advisory Council in existence on January 5, 1973, to terminate not later than the expiration of the two-year period following January 5, 1973, unless, in the case of a Council established by the President or an officer of the Federal Government, such Council is renewed by appropriate action prior to the expiration of such twoyear period, or in the case of a Council established by the Congress, its duration is otherwise provided for by law, see sections 3(2) and 14 of Pub. L. 92-463, Oct. 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 770, 776, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.

Chapter 4.-GENERAL AUTHORITY

§ 406. Postal services at Armed Forces installations. SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 3401 of this title.

Part II-PERSONNEL

Chapter 10.-EMPLOYMENT WITHIN
THE POSTAL SERVICE

§ 1004. Supervisory and other managerial organizations.

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in section 1005 of this title.

§ 1005. Applicability of laws relating to Federal employees.

(a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the provisions of chapter 75 of title 5 shall apply to officers and employees of the Postal Service except to the extent of any inconsistency with

(A) the provisions of any collective-bargaining agreement negotiated on behalf of and applicable to them; or

(B) procedures established by the Postal Service and approved by the Civil Service Commission. (2) The provisions of title 5 relating to a preference eligible (as that term is defined under section 2108(3) of such title) shall apply to an applicant for appointment and any officer or employee of the Postal Service in the same manner and under the same conditions as if the applicant, officer, or employee were subject to the competitive service under such title. The provisions of this paragraph shall not be modified by any program developed under section 1004 of this title or any collective-bargaining agreement entered into under chapter 12 of this title.

(f) Compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment in effect immediately prior to the effective date of this section, whether provided by statute or by rules and regulations of the former Post Office Department or the executive branch of the Government of the United States, shall continue to apply to officers and employees of the Postal Service, until changed by the Postal Service in accordance with this chapter and chapter 12 of this title. Subject to the provisions of this chapter and chapter 12 of this title, the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 85 and chapters 87 and 89 of title 5 shall apply to officers and employees of the Postal Service, unless varied, added to, or substituted for, under this subsection. No variation, addition, or substitution with respect to fringe benefits shall result in a program of fringe benefits which on the whole is less favorable to the officers and employees than fringe benefits in effect on the effective date of this section, and as to officers and employees for whom there is a collective-bargaining representative, no such variation, addition, or substitution shall be made except by agreement between the collective-bargaining representative and the Postal Service. (Pub. L. 91-375, Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 731.)

PART III.-MODERNIZATION AND

FISCAL ADMINISTRATION

Chapter 20.-FINANCE

§ 2002. Capital of the Postal Service.

EX. ORD. No. 11672. TRANSFER OR FURNISHING OF PROPERTY Ex. Ord. No. 11672, June 6, 1972, 37 F.R. 11455, provided:

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Postal Reorganization Act (39 U.S.C. 2002(d)) and section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, and as President of the United States it is hereby ordered as follows:

SECTION 1. The authority conferred upon the President by section 2002 (d) of title 39 of the United States Code is hereby delegated to the Administrator of General Services subject to the provisions of this order.

SEC. 2. Property transferred to the Postal Service under this order shall be subject to reimbursement at fair market value, as agreed to by the Administrator of General Services and the Postmaster General, unless the Director of the Office of Management and Budget finds that a different basis of valuation, or transfer without reimbursement, is more equitable or better serves the public interest.

SEC. 3. Reimbursement of fair market value required for property transfers to the Postal Service under this order may consist of cash payments or, subject to approval by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, property transferred from the Postal Service to other departments, agencies, or independent establishments of the Government of the United States, or both cash and approved properties.

SEC. 4. Heads of agencies furnishing property to the Postal Service under section 411 of title 39 of the United States Code shall require reimbursement at fair market value of such property or at a rate based on appropriate commercial charges for comparable property, as agreed to by the agency head and the Postmaster General, unless the Director of the Office of Management and Budget finds that a different basis of valuation is more equitable or better serves the public interest.

SEC. 5. Delegations of authority made in this order may be redelegated.

RICHARD NIXON.

Part IV.-MAIL MATTER

Chapter 30.-NONMAILABLE MATTER

§ 3001. Nonmailable matter.

(g) The district courts, together with the District Court of the Virgin Islands and the District Court of Guam, shall have jurisdiction, upon cause shown, to enjoin violations of section 1716 of title 18. (As amended Pub. L. 92-191, § 2, Dec. 15, 1971, 85 Stat. 647.)

AMENDMENTS

1971-Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 92-191 added subsec. (g). EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1971 AMENDMENT Amendment by Pub. L. 92-191 effective at the beginning of the third calendar month following Dec. 15, 1971, or on the date that this section becomes effective pursuant to section 15(a) of Pub. L. 91-375, which is set out as a note preceding section 101 of this title, whichever is later, see section 3 of Pub. L. 92-191, set out as a note under section 1716 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure.

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§ 3202. Penalty mail.
PAYMENT OF POSTAGE FOR STATE UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
PENSATION SYSTEMS AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
Section 100 of Pub. L. 92-80, title I, Aug. 10, 1971, 85
Stat. 287, provided in part that: "Such amounts as may
be agreed upon by the Department of Labor and the Post
Office Department shall be used for the payment, in such
manner as said parties may jointly determine, of postage
for the transmission of official mail matter in connection
with the administration of unemployment compensation
systems and employment services by States receiving
grants herefrom."

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
This section is referred to in title 29 section 49b.

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§ 3210. Franked mail transmitted by the Vice President, Members of Congress, and congressional officials.

(a) (1) It is the policy of the Congress that the privilege of sending mail as franked mail shall be established under this section in order to assist and expedite the conduct of the official business, activities, and duties of the Congress of the United States. (2) It is the intent of the Congress that such official business, activities, and duties cover all matters which directly or indirectly pertain to the legislative process or to any congressional representative functions generally, or to the functioning, working, or operating of the Congress and the performance of official duties in connection therewith, and shall include, but not be limited to, the conveying of information to the public, and the requesting of the views of the public, or the views and information of other authority of government, as a guide or a means of assistance in the performance of those functions.

(3) It is the intent of the Congress that mail matter which is frankable specifically includes, but is not limited to

(A) mail matter to any person and to all agencies and officials of Federal, State, and local governments regarding programs, decisions, and other related matters of public concern or public service, including any matter relating to actions of a past or current Congress;

(B) the usual and customary congressional newsletter or press release which may deal with such matters as the impact of laws and decisions on State and local governments and individual

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