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cost associated with the annual folklife festival.  The Office also receives an annual allocation of unrestricted trust funds to cover about one-third the costs of the festival, plus support for lecturers. instructors, and field researchers.

Trust funds cover the direct costs of the Visiting Research Fellowships and the recently established Regents' Fellowships, but administrative costs for the [[underlined]] Office of Fellowships and Grants [[/underlined]] are essentially Federally funded.  In addition to administering the Institution's entire range of fellowship offerings the Office of Fellowships and Grants also manages, for the Assistant Secretary of Science the [[underlined]] Special Foreign Currency Program. [[/underlined]]

The [[underlined]] Office of Elementary and Secondary Education [[/underlined]] conducts its activities through federal appropriations, with only occasional trust funds or grants received for support of special meetings or conferences.  The [[underlined]] Office of Symposia and Seminars [[/underlined]] receives an annual allotment from trust funds for administration and direction of its activities, which include seeking outside support for the academic and intellectual conferences which it coordinates.  Both offices are administered by the Assistant Secretary for Public Service.

The [[underlined]] International Environmental Research Program [[/underlined]] was established in the early 1970s  to promote interbureau research on environmental matters by funding special projects using the principal scientific strengths of such organizations as the Tropical Research Institute, Chesapeake Bay Center, Radiation Biology Laboratory, Natural History Museum, and the Zoo.  These funds are federally appropriated and administered by the Assistant Secretary for Science.

[[underlined]] Collections Management/Inventory Programs. [[/underlined]]  In FY 1979, Congress appropriated special funds in the amount of $500,000 to help allow the Institution to begin conducting a major inventory of its various collections, including those which are the be housed in the  Museum Support Center.  These funds in FY 1979 were allocated to the Museum of Natural History, Museum of History and Technology, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Offices of Computer Services and Registrar to permit these units to initiate important projects associated with the overall effort.  Descriptions of the bureaus' activities underway are contained in the appropriate chapters; a breakdown of the FY 1980 estimated allocation follows:

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  | [[underlined]] FY 1980 Estimated [[/underlined]]

Museum of Natural History | $236,000
Museum of History and Technology | 156,000
Cooper-Hewitt Museum | 50,000
Office of Computer Services | 45,300
Office of the Registrar | 700
National Collection of Fine Arts | [[underlined]]] 12,000 [[/underlined]]
Total | $500,000