HR.2965

Public Law 99-335

Ninety-ninth Congress of the United States of America

AT THE FIRST SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of January, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-five

An Act

Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,1986, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,1986, and for other purposes, namely…

COMMISSION ON THE UKRAINE FAMINE

For necessary expenses of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to carry out the provisions of S. 2456 (98th Congress) as passed the Senate on September 21, 1984, $400,000, to remain available until expended, and the Commission on the Ukraine Famine as contained in S. 2456, is hereby established, with modifications as follows:

ESTABLISHMENT
Section 1. There is established a commission to be known as the “Commission on the Ukraine Famine” (in this Act referred to as the “Commission”).

PURPOSE OF THE COMMISSION
Sec 2. The purpose of the Commission is to conduct a study of the 1932-1933 Uk¬raine famine in order to—
(1) expand the world’s knowledge of the famine; and
provide the American public with a better understanding of the Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role in the Ukraine famine.