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B-149441 1 (1987-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The mptroHer General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision AF National Endowment for the Humanities-- Matterof Authority to Fund Private Endowments File: B-149441 Date: February 17, 1987 DIGEST Proposal from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to condition grant awards to state humanities councils upon the councils providing matching funds that would endow the councils with a capital fund that would provide a source of income to the councils is not au- thorized since NEH grant legislation does not provide authority to make such grants. Matching funds are re- quired under the NEH grant legislation and such matching funds are subject to the same restrictions on their use as the federal grant funds. DECISION The General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has requested our opinion on whether it would be legal for the Endowment to offer a merit award on a matching basis tY a state humanities council pur- suant to 20 U.S.C. §956(f)(4)(A) (1982). The terms of the award would require obligation and expenditure of the federal funds awarded during the grant period but would allow the non-federal monies raised in response to the matching offer to be deposited in an-endowment fund. We find that non-federal funds used to match a NEH merit award cannot be deposited for investment pur- poses unless such investment is an authorized grant pur- pose. A matching requirement contemplates that both

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