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administrative staff as well as office expenses; travel expenses; research and publication efforts; two-thirds of the cost associated with the annual folklife festival; and special projects such as the Renwick exhibition, [[underlined]] Celebration: A World of Art and Ritual [[/underlined]], and the FDR Centennial program, [[underlined]] Folk Music in the Roosevelt White House [[/underlined]]. Trust funds support the salaries of the remaining nine permanent staff members, one-third the cost of the annual festival, and some travel and office expenses.  Grants and contracts are sought to augment programs at the annual festival (e.g., the Oklahoma and Korean programs at the 1982 festival) and to initiate special projects (e.g., the cost of the St. Patrick's Day festivities for the opening of [[underlined]] Celebration [[/underlined]]).

Trust funds cover the direct costs of the Visiting Research Fellowships, the recently established Regent's Fellowships, and the James E. Webb Fellowship program.  Administrative costs for the [[underlined]] Office of Fellowships and Grants [[/underlined]], the office which manages these programs, 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 projects, 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, long-term 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 to be housed in the Museum Support Center.  These funds in FY 1982 amounted to $768,000 and are planned to be allocated to the Museum of Natural History, Museum of American History, the Cooper-Hewitt, and the Offices of Information Resource Management and Registrar to permit these units to initiate or continue important projects