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Staff Contact: Russ Vought (x68581) October 6, 2005

***DRAFT***

**Appropriations Policy Brief**

**H.R. 2360 --- Homeland Security Appropriations Act for FY 2006**

***Conference Report***

[**Earmarks:**]{.underline}

-   \$35 million, customs and border protection construction at the San
    Diego sector fence

-   \$35 million, customs and border protection construction at the
    Tucson sector tactical infrastructure

-   \$26 million, Advanced Training Center

-   \$2.5 million, Chelsea Street Bridge, MA\*

-   \$2 million, Canadian Pacific Railroad Bridge, WI\*

-   \$6 million, Fourteen Mile Bridge, AL\*

-   \$2.5 million, Galveston Railway Bridge, TX\*

-   \$1 million, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Bridge, IA\*

-   \$1 million, Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern Railway Bridge, IL\*

> **\***These earmarks consume 100% of the appropriations for Alteration
> of Bridges.

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**[Items of Note]{.underline}:**

**Aviation Security Fee Increase:** The Committee did **NOT** include
the Administration's proposal to increase passenger aviation security
fees by \$3.00 (from \$2.50 to \$5.50). This proposal would have
provided \$1.68 billion.

**Nebraska Avenue Complex (Homeland Security D.C.
headquarters[)]{.underline}:** Includes \$26 million to complete
construction of the Nebraska Avenue Complex, in Washington, D.C., which
is at the President's request.

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**Outsourcing/A-76 Activities:** Prohibits funds to be used under OMB
Circular A-76 (governing the federal government's outsourcing policies)
"to process or approve a competition" with regard to employees of the
Citizenship and Immigration Services.

**Undocumented Alien Reduction Plan:** Requires the Secretary to submit
a strategy to the Appropriations Committee within 180 days to reduce the
number of undocumented aliens by ten percent each year.

**TSA Employee Cap:** Maintains the current cap of 45,000 full-time TSA
screeners.

**Oath of Allegiance:** Prohibits funds to be used to amend the oath of
allegiance currently required of new citizens.

**REAL ID Funds:** Includes \$40 million for grants to States to
implement the REAL ID Act (\$60 million less than the House-passed bill)
and "to assist with the implementation of national standards for
drivers' licenses."

**FEMA Eligibility Designations:** Designates the following communities
as eligible "notwithstanding any other provision of law" under the FEMA
Public Assistance Program:

-   City of Paso Robles, California for the repair and upgrade of all
    "damaged *and undamaged* elements of the Carnegie Library...which
    was damaged by the 2003 San Simeon earthquake, so that the library
    is brought into conformance with all local code requirements for new
    construction" (emphasis added).

-   El Dorado County, California for the costs to repair canals and
    wooden flumes damaged during a 1996 storm and subsequent mudslide.

-   University of Hawaii Manoa, Hawaii for the costs to replace research
    and education materials, library collections and "other non-covered
    losses," resulting from an October 2004 flood.

**[Presidential Terminations]{.underline}:**

**NOTE:** The President did not propose any program terminations within
the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee's jurisdiction.

**[Funding Summaries]{.underline}:**

*In millions of dollars*

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                                                                                  **FY 2005**   **FY 2006**   **FY 2006** **FY2006**   **FY2006**   **Conf Vs.**  **Conf   **Conf
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  Departmental Operations\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\....    4,337         4,241         4,154       4,140        4,190        -51           -147     36

  Inspector                                                                       82            80            120         83           83           3             1        -37
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  Border and Transportation Security\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\....             12,199        11,631        13,657      13,504       13,711       2,080         1,512    54

  U.S. Coast                                                                      6,321         6,947         6,444       6,766        6,783        -164          462      339
  Guard\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...                                                                                            

  U.S. Secret                                                                     1,176         1,204         1,233       1,193        1,212        8             36       -21
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  Emergency Preparedness and Response\...\...\...\...\...\....                    3,144         3,134         3,013       2,757        2,648        -486          -496     -365

  Citizenship and Immigration Services\...\...\...\...\...\...\....               160           80            120         80           115          35            -45      -5

  Science and Technology\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...\...  1,116         1,368         1,290       1,453        1,482        114           366      192

  Information Analysis and Infras. Protection\...\...\.....                       894           873           853         871          625          -248          -269     -228
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