LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN DATA BASES.

SEC. 110. LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN DATA BASES. (a) Authorization.— The Secretary of State, in consultation with the heads of appropriate departments and agencies of the United States, shall use not less than $1,300,000 of the funds authorized to be appropriated for each of the fiscal years 1988 and 1989 by section 101(a)(1) of this Act to provide for the establishment of a Latin American and Caribbean Data Base. (b) Conditions.— In developing these data bases the Secretary of State shall be required to satisfy the following conditions: (1) Any new agreement for an on-line bibliographic data base entered into for purposes of this section shall be subject to full and open competition or merit review among qualified United States institutions with strong Latin American and Caribbean programs. (2) The Secretary shall ensure that funds are not awarded to maintain services which are significantly duplicative of existing services.