2017 US Code
Title 20 - Education
Chapter 67 - Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation
Sec. 5705 - Christopher Columbus Fellowship Fund

(1) amounts deposited under subsection (d);

(2) obligations obtained under subsection (c);

(3) amounts contributed to the Foundation;

(4) amounts appropriated to the Foundation, as authorized under section 5709 of this title; and

(5) all surcharges received by the Secretary of the Treasury from the sale of coins minted under the Christopher Columbus Quincentenary Coin Act.

The Secretary of the Treasury shall invest in full any amount appropriated or contributed to the fund.

Investments pursuant to paragraph (1) may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States or in obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States. For such purpose, such obligations may be acquired—

The purposes for which obligations of the United States may be issued under chapter 31 of title 31 are hereby extended to authorize the issuance at par of special obligations exclusively to the fund. Such special obligations shall bear interest at a rate equal to the average rate of interest, computed as to the end of the calendar month preceding the date of such issue, borne by all marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States then forming a part of the public debt; except that, if such average rate is not a multiple of 1/8 of 1 percent, the rate of interest of such special obligations shall be the multiple of 1/8 of 1 percent next lower than such average rate. Such special obligations shall be issued only if the Secretary determines that the purchase of other obligations of the United States, or of obligations guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the United States or original issue at the market price, is not in the public interest.

The fund shall be available to the Foundation for payment of stipends awarded under section 5704 of this title.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to pay to the Foundation from the interest and earnings of the funds such sums as the Board determines are necessary and appropriate to enable the Foundation to carry out the provisions of this chapter.