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Cooperative Agreement P14AC00084
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<br /> equipment or product that may be authorized to be purchased with financial
<br /> assistance provided using funds made available in this Act, it is the sense of
<br /> the Congress that entities receiving the assistance should, in expending the
<br /> assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products.
<br /> 6. Non-Discrimination: All activities pursuant to this Agreement shall be in
<br /> compliance with the requirements of Executive Order 11246, as amended;
<br /> Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, (78 Stat. 252; 42
<br /> U.S.C. §§2000d et seg.); Title V, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of
<br /> 1973, as amended, (87 Stat. 394; 29 U.S.C. §794); the Age Discrimination
<br /> Act of 1975 (89 Stat. 728; 42 U.S.C. §§6101 et sec l.); and with all other
<br /> federal laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination on grounds of race,
<br /> color, sexual orientation, national origin, disabilities, religion, age, or sex.
<br /> 7. Lobbying Prohibition: 18 U.S.C. §1913, Lobbying with Appropriated
<br /> Moneys, as amended by Public Law 107-273, Nov. 2, 2002 -No part of the
<br /> money appropriated by any enactment of Congress shall, in the absence of
<br /> express authorization by Congress, be used directly or indirectly to pay for
<br /> any personal service, advertisement, telegram, telephone, letter, printed or
<br /> written matter, or other device, intended or designed to influence in any
<br /> manner a Member of Congress, a jurisdiction, or an official of any
<br /> government, to favor, adopt, or oppose, by vote or otherwise, any legislation,
<br /> law, ratification, policy, or appropriation, whether before or after the
<br /> introduction of any bill, measure, or resolution proposing such legislation,
<br /> law, ratification, policy, or appropriation; but this shall not prevent officers or
<br /> employees of the United States or of its departments or agencies from
<br /> communicating to any such Members or official, at his request, or to
<br /> Congress or such official, through the proper official channels, requests for
<br /> legislation, law, ratification, policy, or appropriations which they deem
<br /> necessary for the efficient conduct of the public business, or from making
<br /> any communication whose prohibition by this section might, in the opinion
<br /> of the Attorney General, violate the Constitution or interfere with the conduct
<br /> of foreign policy, counter-intelligence, intelligence, or national security
<br /> activities. Violations of this section shall constitute violations of section
<br /> 1352(a) of title 31. In addition to the above, the related restrictions on the use
<br /> of appropriated funds found in Div. F, § 402 of the Omnibus Appropriations
<br /> Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-161) also apply.
<br /> 8. Anti-Deficiency Act: Pursuant to 31 U.S.C. §1341 nothing contained in this
<br /> Agreement shall be construed as binding the NPS to expend in any one fiscal
<br /> year any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress, for the purposes
<br /> of this Agreement for that fiscal year, or other obligation for the further
<br /> expenditure of money in excess of such appropriations.
<br /> 9. Minority Business Enterprise Development: Executive Order 12432— It is
<br /> national policy to award a fair share of contracts to small and minority firms.
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