H. R. 2862

One Hundred Ninth Congress

of the

United States of America 

AT THE FIRST SESSION 

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 

the fourth day of January, two thousand and five 

An Act 

Making appropriations for Science, the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, 

and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, 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 fiscal year ending September 

30, 2006, and for other purposes, namely: 

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the administration of the Depart- ment of Justice, $124,456,000, of which not to exceed $3,317,000 

is for the Facilities Program 2000, to remain available until 

expended: Provided, That not to exceed 45 permanent positions and 46 full-time equivalent workyears and $11,821,000 shall be 

expended for the Department Leadership Program exclusive of augmentation that occurred in these offices in fiscal year 2005: Provided 

further, That not to exceed 26 permanent positions, 21 full-time equivalent workyears and $3,480,000 shall be expended for the 

Office of Legislative Affairs: Provided further, That not to exceed 

17 permanent positions, 22 full-time equivalent workyears and 

$2,764,000 shall be expended for the Office of Public Affairs: Provided further, That the Offices of Legislative Affairs and Public 

Affairs may utilize, on a non-reimbursable basis details of career 

employees within the ceilings provided for the Office of Legislative 

Affairs and the Office of Public Affairs: Provided further, That 

not less than $500,000 shall be used to contract with an independent 

party to carry out a privacy assessment. 

JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY

For necessary expenses for information sharing technology, 

including planning, development, deployment and Departmental 

direction, $125,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That, of the funds available $10,000,000 is for the unified 

financial management system to be administered by the Unified 

Financial Management System Executive Council: Provided further, That of the funds provided, $20,000,000 is unavailable for obligation 

until the Department Chief Information Officer submits the plan 

described in section 110 of this title. 
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NARROWBAND COMMUNICATIONS/INTEGRATED WIRELESS NETWORK

For the costs of conversion to narrowband communications, 

including the cost for operation and maintenance of Land Mobile 

Radio legacy systems, $90,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That the Attorney General shall transfer 

to this account all funds made available to the Department of 

Justice for the purchase of portable and mobile radios: Provided 

further, That any transfer made under the preceding proviso shall 

be subject to section 605 of this Act. 

ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS

For expenses necessary for the administration of pardon and clemency petitions and immigration-related activities, $215,685,000. 

DETENTION TRUSTEE

For necessary expenses of the Federal Detention Trustee, $1,222,000,000, of which $45,000,000 shall be derived from prior 

year unobligated balances from funds previously appropriated, to 

remain available until expended: Provided, That the Trustee shall 

be responsible for managing the Justice Prisoner and Alien 

Transportation System and for overseeing housing related to such 

detention: Provided further, That any unobligated balances available in prior years from the funds appropriated under the heading 

‘‘Federal Prisoner Detention’’ shall be transferred to and merged 

with the appropriation under the heading ‘‘Detention Trustee’’ and 

shall be available until expended. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, $68,801,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to meet unforeseen 

emergencies of a confidential character. 

UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the United States Parole Commission 

as authorized, $11,000,000. 

LEGAL ACTIVITIES

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES

For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the Department of Justice, not otherwise provided for, including not to exceed 

$20,000 for expenses of collecting evidence, to be expended under 

the direction of, and to be accounted for solely under the certificate 

of, the Attorney General; and rent of private or Government-owned 

space in the District of Columbia, $661,959,000, of which not to 

exceed $10,000,000 for litigation support contracts shall remain 

available until expended: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, not to exceed $1,000 shall be available to the United 

States National Central Bureau, INTERPOL, for official reception 

and representation expenses: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105 of this Act, upon a determination by the 

Attorney General that emergent circumstances require additional 
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funding for litigation activities of the Civil Division, the Attorney 

General may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, 

General Legal Activities’’ from available appropriations for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may be necessary 

to respond to such circumstances: Provided further, That any 

transfer pursuant to the previous proviso shall be treated as a 

reprogramming under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 

available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with 

the procedures set forth in that section. 

In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the Department 

of Justice associated with processing cases under the National 

Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, not to exceed $6,333,000, 

to be appropriated from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust 

Fund. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION

For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust and 

kindred laws, $144,451,000, to remain available until expended: 

Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 

to exceed $116,000,000 of offsetting collections derived from fees 

collected for premerger notification filings under the Hart-ScottRodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of the year of collection, shall be retained and used for necessary 

expenses in this appropriation, and shall remain available until 

expended: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from 

the general fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collections 

are received during fiscal year 2006, so as to result in a final 

fiscal year 2006 appropriation from the general fund estimated 

at not more than $28,451,000. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS

For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United States 

Attorneys, including inter-governmental and cooperative agreements, $1,600,000,000: Provided, That of the total amount appropriated, not to exceed $8,000 shall be available for official reception 

and representation expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 

$20,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided further,

That of the funds made available under this heading, $1,500,000 

shall only be available to continue ‘‘Operation Streetsweeper’’. 

UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND

For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee Program, 

as authorized, $214,402,000, to remain available until expended 

and to be derived from the United States Trustee System Fund: 

Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, deposits 

to the Fund shall be available in such amounts as may be necessary 

to pay refunds due depositors: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, $214,402,000 of offsetting 

collections pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 589a(b) shall be retained and 

used for necessary expenses in this appropriation and remain available until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated from the Fund shall be reduced as such offsetting collections 

are received during fiscal year 2006, so as to result in a final 

fiscal year 2006 appropriation from the Fund estimated at $0. 
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT COMMISSION

For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of the Foreign 

Claims Settlement Commission, including services as authorized 

by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,320,000. 

UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the United States Marshals Service, 

$793,031,000; of which not to exceed $6,000 shall be available 

for official reception and representation expenses; of which 

$4,000,000 for information technology systems shall remain available until expended; and of which not less than $12,000,000 shall 

be available for the costs of courthouse security equipment, 

including furnishings, relocations, and telephone systems and 

cabling, and shall remain available until expended. 

CONSTRUCTION

For construction in space controlled, occupied or utilized by 

the United States Marshals Service in United States courthouses 

and Federal buildings, $8,883,000, to remain available until 

expended. 

FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES

For fees and expenses of witnesses, for expenses of contracts 

for the procurement and supervision of expert witnesses, for private 

counsel expenses, including advances, such sums as are necessary, 

to remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed 

$10,000,000 may be made available for construction of buildings 

for protected witness safesites: Provided further, That not to exceed 

$1,000,000 may be made available for the purchase and maintenance of armored vehicles for transportation of protected witnesses: 

Provided further, That not to exceed $9,000,000 may be made 

available for the purchase, installation, maintenance and upgrade 

of secure telecommunications equipment and a secure automated 

information network to store and retrieve the identities and locations of protected witnesses. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE

For necessary expenses of the Community Relations Service, 

$9,659,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 105 of this Act, 

upon a determination by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances require additional funding for conflict resolution and 

violence prevention activities of the Community Relations Service, 

the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to the Community 

Relations Service, from available appropriations for the current 

fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may be necessary 

to respond to such circumstances: Provided further, That any 

transfer pursuant to the previous proviso shall be treated as a 

reprogramming under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 

available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with 

the procedures set forth in that section. 
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ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND

For expenses authorized by 28 U.S.C. 524(c)(1)(B), (F), and (G), $21,468,000, to be derived from the Department of Justice 

Assets Forfeiture Fund. 

INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT

INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT

For necessary expenses for the identification, investigation, and 

prosecution of individuals associated with the most significant drug 

trafficking and affiliated money laundering organizations not otherwise provided for, to include inter-governmental agreements with 

State and local law enforcement agencies engaged in the investigation and prosecution of individuals involved in organized crime 

drug trafficking, $489,440,000, of which $50,000,000 shall remain 

available until expended: Provided, That any amounts obligated 

from appropriations under this heading may be used under authorities available to the organizations reimbursed from this appropriation. 

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 

for detection, investigation, and prosecution of crimes against the 

United States; including purchase for police-type use of not to 

exceed 3,868 passenger motor vehicles, of which 3,039 will be for 

replacement only; and not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen 

emergencies of a confidential character pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 530C, 

$5,728,737,000; of which not to exceed $150,000,000 shall remain 

available until expended; of which $2,288,897,000 shall be for 

counterterrorism investigations, foreign counterintelligence, and 

other activities related to our national security; and of which not 

to exceed $25,000,000 is authorized to be made available for making 

advances for expenses arising out of contractual or reimbursable 

agreements with State and local law enforcement agencies while 

engaged in cooperative activities related to violent crime, terrorism, 

organized crime, gang-related crime, cybercrime, and drug investigations: Provided, That not to exceed $205,000 shall be available 

for official reception and representation expenses. 

CONSTRUCTION

For necessary expenses to construct or acquire buildings and 

sites by purchase, or as otherwise authorized by law (including 

equipment for such buildings); conversion and extension of Federally-owned buildings; and preliminary planning and design of 

projects; $37,608,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,

That $15,108,000 shall be available for the planning, design, and 

construction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Center for 

Integrated Training and Technology Transfer in Redstone Arsenal: 

Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall be available for a chemical 

and biological evidence handling and storage facility to be co-located 

with comparable facilities in existence for sample, handling and 

receipt of hazardous material by the Department of the Army: 

Provided further, That $10,000,000 shall be available for equipment 
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and associated costs for a permanent central records complex in 

Frederick County, Virginia. 

DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Administration, including not to exceed $70,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 530C; 

expenses for conducting drug education and training programs, 

including travel and related expenses for participants in such programs and the distribution of items of token value that promote 

the goals of such programs; and purchase of not to exceed 1,043 

passenger motor vehicles, of which 937 will be for replacement 

only, for police-type use, $1,686,457,000; of which not to exceed 

$75,000,000 shall remain available until expended; and of which 

not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for official reception and 

representation expenses. 

BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, including the purchase of not to exceed 822 

vehicles for police-type use, of which 650 shall be for replacement 

only; not to exceed $40,000 for official reception and representation 

expenses; for training of State and local law enforcement agencies 

with or without reimbursement, including training in connection 

with the training and acquisition of canines for explosives and 

fire accelerants detection; and for provision of laboratory assistance 

to State and local law enforcement agencies, with or without 

reimbursement, $923,613,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 

shall be available for the payment of attorneys’ fees as provided 

by 18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $10,000,000 shall remain 

available until expended: Provided, That no funds appropriated 

herein shall be available for salaries or administrative expenses 

in connection with consolidating or centralizing, within the Department of Justice, the records, or any portion thereof, of acquisition 

and disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms 

licensees: Provided further, That no funds appropriated herein shall 

be used to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of 

any officer or employee of the United States to implement an 

amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or to change the 

definition of ‘‘Curios or relics’’ in 27 CFR 178.11 or remove any 

item from ATF Publication 5300.11 as it existed on January 1, 

1994: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated herein 

shall be available to investigate or act upon applications for relief 

from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): Provided 

further, That such funds shall be available to investigate and act 

upon applications filed by corporations for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c) of title 18, United States 

Code: Provided further, That no funds made available by this or 

any other Act may be used to transfer the functions, missions, 

or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to other agencies or Departments in fiscal year 2006: Provided 

further, That no funds appropriated under this or any other Act 
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with respect to any fiscal year may be used to disclose part or 

all of the contents of the Firearms Trace System database maintained by the National Trace Center of the Bureau of Alcohol, 

Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives or any information required to 

be kept by licensees pursuant to section 923(g) of title 18, United 

States Code, or required to be reported pursuant to paragraphs 

(3) and (7) of such section 923(g), to anyone other than a Federal, 

State, or local law enforcement agency or a prosecutor solely in 

connection with and for use in a bona fide criminal investigation 

or prosecution and then only such information as pertains to the 

geographic jurisdiction of the law enforcement agency requesting 

the disclosure and not for use in any civil action or proceeding 

other than an action or proceeding commenced by the Bureau 

of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or a review of such 

an action or proceeding, to enforce the provisions of chapter 44 

of such title, and all such data shall be immune from legal process 

and shall not be subject to subpoena or other discovery, shall 

be inadmissible in evidence, and shall not be used, relied on, or 

disclosed in any manner, nor shall testimony or other evidence 

be permitted based upon such data, in any civil action pending 

on or filed after the effective date of this Act in any State (including 

the District of Columbia) or Federal court or in any administrative 

proceeding other than a proceeding commenced by the Bureau 

of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to enforce the provisions of that chapter, or a review of such an action or proceeding; 

except that this proviso shall not be construed to prevent the 

disclosure of statistical information concerning total production, 

importation, and exportation by each licensed importer (as defined 

in section 921(a)(9) of such title) and licensed manufacturer (as 

defined in section 921(a)(10) of such title): Provided further, That 

no funds made available by this or any other Act shall be expended 

to promulgate or implement any rule requiring a physical inventory 

of any business licensed under section 923 of title 18, United 

States Code: Provided further, That no funds under this Act may 

be used to electronically retrieve information gathered pursuant 

to 18 U.S.C. 923(g)(4) by name or any personal identification code: 

Provided further, That no funds authorized or made available under 

this or any other Act may be used to deny any application for 

a license under section 923 of title 18, United States Code, or 

renewal of such a license due to a lack of business activity, provided 

that the applicant is otherwise eligible to receive such a license, 

and is eligible to report business income or to claim an income 

tax deduction for business expenses under the Internal Revenue 

Code of 1986: Provided further, That of the amount provided under 

this heading, $5,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 

be for the expenses necessary for site selection, architectural design, 

site preparation and the development of a total cost estimate for 

the construction of a permanent site for the National Center for 

Explosives Training and Research: Provided further, That any funds 

remaining shall be applied to the construction of the Center: Provided further, That the Director of the ATF, when considering 

site selection shall consider a site collocated with other law enforcement and Federal Government entities that provide similar training 

and research. 
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FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary of the Federal Prison System for the 

administration, operation, and maintenance of Federal penal and 

correctional institutions, including purchase (not to exceed 768, 

of which 701 are for replacement only) and hire of law enforcement 

and passenger motor vehicles, and for the provision of technical 

assistance and advice on corrections related issues to foreign governments, $4,892,649,000: Provided, That the Attorney General may 

transfer to the Health Resources and Services Administration such 

amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures by that 

Administration for medical relief for inmates of Federal penal and 

correctional institutions: Provided further, That the Director of the 

Federal Prison System, where necessary, may enter into contracts 

with a fiscal agent/fiscal intermediary claims processor to determine 

the amounts payable to persons who, on behalf of the Federal 

Prison System, furnish health services to individuals committed 

to the custody of the Federal Prison System: Provided further, That not to exceed $6,000 shall be available for official reception 

and representation expenses: Provided further, That not to exceed 

$50,000,000 shall remain available for necessary operations until 

September 30, 2007: Provided further, That, of the amounts pro- vided for Contract Confinement, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall 

remain available until expended to make payments in advance 

for grants, contracts and reimbursable agreements, and other 

expenses authorized by section 501(c) of the Refugee Education 

Assistance Act of 1980, for the care and security in the United 

States of Cuban and Haitian entrants: Provided further, That the 

Director of the Federal Prison System may accept donated property 

and services relating to the operation of the prison card program 

from a not-for-profit entity which has operated such program in 

the past notwithstanding the fact that such not-for-profit entity 

furnishes services under contracts to the Federal Prison System 

relating to the operation of pre-release services, halfway houses 

or other custodial facilities. 

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

For planning, acquisition of sites and construction of new facilities; purchase and acquisition of facilities and remodeling, and 

equipping of such facilities for penal and correctional use, including 

all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force account; 

and constructing, remodeling, and equipping necessary buildings 

and facilities at existing penal and correctional institutions, 

including all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or 

force account, $90,112,000, to remain available until expended, 

of which not to exceed $14,000,000 shall be available to construct 

areas for inmate work programs: Provided, That labor of United 

States prisoners may be used for work performed under this appropriation. 

FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and 

borrowing authority available, and in accord with the law, and 
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to make such contracts and commitments, without regard to fiscal 

year limitations as provided by section 9104 of title 31, United 

States Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the program 

set forth in the budget for the current fiscal year for such corporation, including purchase (not to exceed five for replacement only) 

and hire of passenger motor vehicles. 

LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL PRISON

INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED

Not to exceed $3,365,000 of the funds of the corporation shall 

be available for its administrative expenses, and for services as 

authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, to be computed on an accrual basis 

to be determined in accordance with the corporation’s current prescribed accounting system, and such amounts shall be exclusive 

of depreciation, payment of claims, and expenditures which such 

accounting system requires to be capitalized or charged to cost 

of commodities acquired or produced, including selling and shipping 

expenses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, construction, 

operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of 

facilities and other property belonging to the corporation or in 

which it has an interest. 

OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND PROSECUTION

PROGRAMS

For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance for the prevention and prosecution of violence against women 

as authorized by the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 

Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violent Crime Control and Law 

Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); 

the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools to End the Exploitation of Children 

Today Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–21); the Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 Act’’); and the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public 

Law 106–386); $386,502,000, including amounts for administrative 

costs, to remain available until expended: Provided, That except 

as otherwise provided by law, not to exceed three percent of funds 

made available under this heading may be used for expenses related 

to evaluation, training and technical assistance: Provided further, 

That of the amount provided—

(1) $11,897,000 for the court-appointed special advocate 

program, as authorized by section 217 of the 1990 Act; 

(2) $2,287,000 for child abuse training programs for judicial 

personnel and practitioners, as authorized by section 222 of 

the 1990 Act; 

(3) $986,000 for grants for televised testimony, as authorized by part N of the 1968 Act; 

(4) $187,308,000 for grants to combat violence against 

women, as authorized by part T of the 1968 Act, of which—

(A) $5,100,000 shall be for the National Institute of 

Justice for research and evaluation of violence against 

women; 
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(B) $10,000,000 shall be for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the Safe Start Program, as authorized by the 1974 Act; and 

(C) $15,000,000 shall be for transitional housing assistance grants for victims of domestic violence, stalking or 

sexual assault as authorized by Public Law 108–21; 

(5) $63,075,000 for grants to encourage arrest policies as 

authorized by part U of the 1968 Act; 

(6) $39,166,000 for rural domestic violence and child abuse 

enforcement assistance grants, as authorized by section 

40295(a) of the 1994 Act; 

(7) $4,958,000 for training programs as authorized by section 40152 of the 1994 Act, and for related local demonstration 

projects; 

(8) $2,962,000 for grants to improve the stalking and 

domestic violence databases, as authorized by section 40602 

of the 1994 Act; 

(9) $9,054,000 to reduce violent crimes against women on 

campus, as authorized by section 1108(a) of Public Law 106–

386; 

(10) $39,220,000 for legal assistance for victims, as authorized by section 1201(c) of Public Law 106–386; 

(11) $4,540,000 for enhancing protection for older and disabled women from domestic violence and sexual assault, as 

authorized by section 40802 of the 1994 Act; 

(12) $13,894,000 for the safe havens for children pilot program, as authorized by section 1301(a) of Public Law 106–

386; and 

(13) $7,155,000 for education and training to end violence 

against and abuse of women with disabilities, as authorized 

by section 1402(a) of Public Law 106–386. 

OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS

JUSTICE ASSISTANCE

For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance authorized by title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 

Streets Act of 1968, the Missing Children’s Assistance Act, including 

salaries and expenses in connection therewith, the Prosecutorial 

Remedies and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children 

Today Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–21), the Justice for All Act 

of 2004 (Public Law 108–405), and the Victims of Crime Act of 

1984, $233,233,000, to remain available until expended. 

STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE

For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance authorized by the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement 

Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Omnibus 

Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); and 

the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 

(Public Law 106–386); and other programs; $1,142,707,000 

(including amounts for administrative costs, which shall be transferred to and merged with the ‘‘Justice Assistance’’ account): Provided, That funding provided under this heading shall remain available until expended, as follows—
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(1) $416,478,000 for the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice 

Assistance Grant program pursuant to the amendments made 

by section 201 of H.R. 3036 of the 108th Congress, as passed 

by the House of Representatives on March 30, 2004 (except 

that the special rules for Puerto Rico established pursuant 

to such amendments shall not apply for purposes of this Act), 

of which—

(A) $10,000,000 is for the National Institute of Justice 

in assisting units of local government to identify, select, 

develop, modernize, and purchase new technologies for use 

by law enforcement; and 

(B) $85,000,000 for Boys and Girls Clubs in public 

housing facilities and other areas in cooperation with State 

and local law enforcement, as authorized by section 401 

of Public Law 104–294 (42 U.S.C. 13751 note); 

(2) $405,000,000 for the State Criminal Alien Assistance 

Program, as authorized by section 242(j) of the Immigration 

and Nationality Act; 

(3) $30,000,000 for the Southwest Border Prosecutor Initiative to reimburse State, county, parish, tribal, or municipal 

governments only for costs associated with the prosecution of 

criminal cases declined by local United States Attorneys offices; 

(4) $191,704,000 for discretionary grants authorized by subpart 2 of part E, of title I of the 1968 Act, notwithstanding 

the provisions of section 511 of said Act; 

(5) $10,000,000 for victim services programs for victims 

of trafficking, as authorized by section 107(b)(2) of Public Law 

106–386; 

(6) $850,000 for the Missing Alzheimer’s Disease Patient 

Alert Program, as authorized by section 240001(c) of the 1994 

Act; 

(7) $10,000,000 for Drug Courts, as authorized by part 

EE of the 1968 Act; 

(8) $7,500,000 for a prescription drug monitoring program; 

(9) $18,175,000 for prison rape prevention and prosecution 

programs, as authorized by the Prison Rape Elimination Act 

of 2003 (Public Law 108–79), of which $2,175,000 shall be 

transferred to the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission for authorized activities; 

(10) $10,000,000 for grants for residential substance abuse 

treatment for State prisoners, as authorized by part S of the 

1968 Act; 

(11) $10,000,000 for a program to improve State and local 

law enforcement intelligence capabilities including 

antiterrorism training and training to ensure that constitutional rights, civil liberties, civil rights, and privacy interests 

are protected throughout the intelligence process; 

(12) $1,000,000 for a capital litigation improvement grant 

program; 

(13) $5,000,000 for a cannabis eradication program to be 

administered by the Drug Enforcement Administration; 

(14) $22,000,000 for assistance to Indian tribes, of which—

(A) $9,000,000 shall be available for grants under section 20109(a)(2) of subtitle A of title II of the 1994 Act; 

(B) $8,000,000 shall be available for the Tribal Courts 

Initiative; and 
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(C) $5,000,000 shall be available for demonstration 

projects on alcohol and crime in Indian Country; and 

(15) $5,000,000 for mental health courts and adult and 

juvenile collaboration program grants, as authorized by parts 

V and HH of title I of the 1968 Act: 

Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of the 

funds made available under this title to increase the number of 

law enforcement officers, the unit of local government will achieve 

a net gain in the number of law enforcement officers who perform 

nonadministrative public safety service. 

WEED AND SEED PROGRAM FUND

For necessary expenses, including salaries and related expenses 

of the Executive Office for Weed and Seed, to implement ‘‘Weed 

and Seed’’ program activities, $50,000,000, to remain available until 

September 30, 2007, for inter-governmental agreements, including 

grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts, with State and local 

law enforcement agencies, non-profit organizations, and agencies 

of local government engaged in the investigation and prosecution 

of violent and gang-related crimes and drug offenses in ‘‘Weed 

and Seed’’ designated communities, and for either reimbursements 

or transfers to appropriation accounts of the Department of Justice 

and other Federal agencies which shall be specified by the Attorney 

General to execute the ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ program strategy: Provided,

That funds designated by Congress through language for other 

Department of Justice appropriation accounts for ‘‘Weed and Seed’’ 

program activities shall be managed and executed by the Attorney 

General through the Executive Office for Weed and Seed: Provided 

further, That the Attorney General may direct the use of other 

Department of Justice funds and personnel in support of ‘‘Weed 

and Seed’’ program activities only after the Attorney General notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate in accordance with section 605 of this Act: 

Provided further, That of the funds appropriated for the Executive 

Office for Weed and Seed, not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be directed 

for comprehensive community development training and technical 

assistance. 

COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control and 

Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (including 

administrative costs), $478,300,000, to remain available until 

expended: Provided, That of the funds under this heading, not 

to exceed $2,575,000 shall be available for the Office of Justice 

Programs for reimbursable services associated with programs 

administered by the Community Oriented Policing Services Office: 

Provided further, That section 1703(b) and (c) of the Omnibus 

Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’) shall 

not apply to non-hiring grants made pursuant to part Q of title 

I thereof (42 U.S.C. 3796dd et seq.): Provided further, That up 

to $34,000,000 of balances made available as a result of prior 

year deobligations may be obligated for program management and 

administration, of which $5,000,000 shall be available for transfer 

to the National Institute of Standards and Technology: Provided 
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further, That any balances made available as a result of prior year deobligations in excess of $34,000,000 shall only be obligated 

in accordance with section 605 of this Act. Of the amounts provided—

(1) $30,000,000 is for the matching grant program for law 

enforcement armor vests as authorized by section 2501 of part 

Y of the 1968 Act, of which not to exceed $3,000,000 may 

be for the National Institute of Justice to test and evaluate 

vests; (2) $63,590,000 is for policing initiatives to combat methamphetamine production and trafficking and to enhance 

policing initiatives in ‘‘drug hot spots’’; (3) $139,904,000 is for a law enforcement technologies and 

interoperable communications program; (4) $10,000,000 is for grants to upgrade criminal records, 

as authorized under the Crime Identification Technology Act 

of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601); (5) $5,000,000 is for an offender re-entry program; 

(6) $108,531,000 is for a DNA analysis and capacity 

enhancement program, and for other State, local and Federal 

forensic activities, of which $4,000,000 shall be for grant programs as authorized by sections 412 and 413 of Public Law 

108–405; (7) $15,000,000 is for law enforcement assistance to Indian 

tribes; (8) $40,000,000 for a national program to reduce gang 

violence; (9) $4,000,000 is for training and technical assistance; 

(10) $18,500,000 is for Paul Coverdell Forensic Sciences 

Improvement Grants under part BB of title I of the 1968 

Act (42 U.S.C. 3797j et seq.); (11) $28,775,000 is for grants, contracts and other assistance to States under section 102(b) of the Crime Identification 

Technology Act of 1998 (42 U.S.C. 14601); and (12) $15,000,000 is for Project Safe Neighborhoods, of which $4,500,000 is for the National District Attorneys Association 

to conduct prosecutorial training by the National Advocacy 

Center. 

JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS

For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and other assistance authorized by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention 

Act of 1974 (‘‘the Act’’), and other juvenile justice programs, 

including salaries and expenses in connection therewith to be transferred to and merged with the appropriations for Justice Assistance, 

$342,739,000, to remain available until expended, as follows— (1) $712,000 for concentration of Federal efforts, as authorized by section 204 of the Act; (2) $80,000,000 for State and local programs authorized 

by section 221 of the Act, including training and technical 

assistance to assist small, non-profit organizations with the 

Federal grants process; (3) $106,027,000 for demonstration projects, as authorized 

by sections 261 and 262 of the Act; (4) $10,000,000 for juvenile mentoring programs; 

(5) $65,000,000 for delinquency prevention, as authorized 

by section 505 of the Act, of which—
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(A) $10,000,000 shall be for the Tribal Youth Program; 

(B) $25,000,000 shall be for a gang resistance education 

and training program; and (C) $25,000,000 shall be for grants of $360,000 to each State and $6,640,000 shall be available for discretionary 

grants to States, for programs and activities to enforce 

State laws prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages to 

minors or the purchase or consumption of alcoholic beverages by minors, prevention and reduction of consumption 

of alcoholic beverages by minors, and for technical assistance and training; 

(6) $1,000,000 for Project Childsafe; 

(7) $15,000,000 for the Secure Our Schools Act as authorized by Public Law 106–386; (8) $15,000,000 for programs authorized by the Victims 

of Child Abuse Act of 1990; and (9) $50,000,000 for the Juvenile Accountability Block 

Grants program as authorized by Public Law 107–273 and 

Guam shall be considered a State: 

Provided, That not more than 10 percent of each amount may 

be used for research, evaluation, and statistics activities designed 

to benefit the programs or activities authorized: Provided further, That not more than 2 percent of each amount may be used for 

training and technical assistance: Provided further, That the previous two provisos shall not apply to demonstration projects, as 

authorized by sections 261 and 262 of the Act: Provided further,

That section 702(a) of Public Law 88–352 shall apply to any grants 

for World Vision, described in House Report No. 108–792 and the 

statement of managers accompanying this Act, and awarded by 

the Attorney General. 

PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS BENEFITS

To remain available until expended, for payments authorized 

by part L of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 

Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3796), such sums as are necessary, as 

authorized by section 6093 of Public Law 100–690 (102 Stat. 4339–

4340); and $4,884,000, to remain available until expended for payments as authorized by section 1201(b) of said Act; and $4,064,000 

for educational assistance, as authorized by section 1212 of the 

1968 Act. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

SEC. 101. In addition to amounts otherwise made available 

in this title for official reception and representation expenses, a 

total of not to exceed $60,000 from funds appropriated to the Department of Justice in this title shall be available to the Attorney 

General for official reception and representation expenses. 

SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall 

be available to pay for an abortion, except where the life of the 

mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, 

or in the case of rape: Provided, That should this prohibition be 

declared unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this 

section shall be null and void. 

SEC. 103. None of the funds appropriated under this title shall 

be used to require any person to perform, or facilitate in any 

way the performance of, any abortion. 
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SEC. 104. Nothing in the preceding section shall remove the 

obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons to provide escort 

services necessary for a female inmate to receive such service outside the Federal facility: Provided, That nothing in this section 

in any way diminishes the effect of section 103 intended to address 

the philosophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau 

of Prisons. 

SEC. 105. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 

available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice 

in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but 

no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 

shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: 

Provided, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated 

as a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this Act and 

shall not be available for obligation except in compliance with 

the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That 

none of the funds appropriated to ‘‘Buildings and Facilities, Federal 

Prison System’’ in this or any other Act may be transferred to 

‘‘Salaries and Expenses, Federal Prison System’’, or any other 

Department of Justice account, unless the President certifies that 

such a transfer is necessary to the national security interests of 

the United States, and such authority shall not be delegated, and 

shall be subject to section 605 of this Act. 

SEC. 106. The Attorney General is authorized to extend through 

September 30, 2007, the Personnel Management Demonstration 

Project transferred to the Attorney General pursuant to section 

1115 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, Public Law 107–

296 (6 U.S.C. 533) without limitation on the number of employees 

or the positions covered. 

SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Public 

Law 102–395 section 102(b) shall extend to the Bureau of Alcohol, 

Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the conduct of undercover 

investigative operations and shall apply without fiscal year limitation with respect to any undercover investigative operation initiated 

by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that 

is necessary for the detection and prosecution of crimes against 

the United States. 

SEC. 108. None of the funds made available to the Department 

of Justice in this Act may be used for the purpose of transporting 

an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to conviction for crime 

under State or Federal law and is classified as a maximum or 

high security prisoner, other than to a prison or other facility 

certified by the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure 

for housing such a prisoner. 

SEC. 109. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 

be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable television services, 

to rent or purchase videocassettes, videocassette recorders, or other 

audiovisual or electronic equipment used primarily for recreational 

purposes. 

(b) The preceding sentence does not preclude the renting, 

maintenance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic equipment 

for inmate training, religious, or educational programs. 

SEC. 110. Within the funds provided under ‘‘Justice Information 

Sharing Technology’’, the Attorney General shall establish an 

investment review board, which the Deputy Attorney General shall 

head: Provided, That within 90 days of enactment of this Act, 

the Department shall submit a plan that outlines the governance 
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structure and membership of the board: Provided further, That 

the Department shall submit to the Committee on Appropriations 

of the Senate and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 

of Representatives, within 90 days of enactment of this Act, the 

project criteria that will initiate the board’s oversight, to include 

a listing of all projects to be reviewed during fiscal year 2006. 

SEC. 111. Section 3151(b) of title 5, United States Code, is 

amended by—

(1) striking paragraph (2)(A) and (B); 

(2) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘(1)’’; and 

(3) redesignating subparagraphs (A) and (B) as paragraphs 

(1) and (2), respectively. 

SEC. 112. Within the funds provided for the Drug Enforcement 

Administration, the Attorney General shall establish a Methamphetamine Task Force within the Drug Enforcement Administration which shall be responsible for improving and targeting the 

Federal Government’s policies with respect to the production and 

trafficking of methamphetamine: Provided, That within 90 days 

of enactment of this Act, the Drug Enforcement Administration 

shall submit a plan that outlines the governance structure and 

membership of the task force: Provided further, That within 120 

days the Drug Enforcement Administration shall submit to the 

Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee 

on Appropriations of the House of Representatives the membership 

of the task force and powers established for the task force. 

SEC. 113. (a) Section 4(a) of the Prison Rape Elimination Act 

of 2003 (42 U.S.C. 15603(a)) is amended—

(1) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘, except as authorized 

in paragraph (7)’’ before the period at the end; and 

(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 

‘‘(7) REPORTING ON CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.—Nothing 

in section 304 or 812 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 

and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3735, 3789g) or any 

other provision of law, including paragraph (5), shall prevent 

the Bureau (including its agents), in carrying out the review 

and analysis under paragraph (1), from reporting to the designated public officials such information (and only such information) regarding child abuse or child neglect with respect to 

which the statutes or regulations of a State (or a political 

subdivision thereof) require prompt reporting.’’. 

(b) Section 7(d)(3)(A) of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 

2003 (42 U.S.C. 15606(d)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘2 years’’ 

and inserting ‘‘3 years’’. 

SEC. 114. The Attorney General shall waive the matching 

requirement for the purchase of bulletproof vests of the Bulletproof 

Vest Partnership Grant Act of 1998 for any law enforcement agency 

that purchased defective Zylon-based body armor with Federal funds 

pursuant to such Act between October 1, 1998, and September 

30, 2005, and seeks to replace that Zylon-based body armor, provided that the law enforcement agency can present documentation 

to prove the purchase of Zylon-based body armor with funds 

awarded to it under such Act. 

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TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND RELATED 

AGENCIES 

TRADE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT

RELATED AGENCIES 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Office of the United States Trade 

Representative, including the hire of passenger motor vehicles and 

the employment of experts and consultants as authorized by 5 

U.S.C. 3109, $44,779,000, of which $1,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $124,000 shall 

be available for official reception and representation expenses: Provided further, That not less than $2,000,000 provided under this 

heading shall be for expenses authorized by 19 U.S.C. 2451 and 

1677b(c): Provided further, That negotiations shall be conducted 

within the World Trade Organization to recognize the right of 

members to distribute monies collected from antidumping and 

countervailing duties: Provided further, That negotiations shall be 

conducted within the World Trade Organization consistent with 

the negotiating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002, Public 

Law 107–210. 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the International Trade Commission, 

including hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for official reception 

and representation expenses, $62,752,000, to remain available until 

expended. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION

OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

For necessary expenses for international trade activities of 

the Department of Commerce provided for by law, and for engaging 

in trade promotional activities abroad, including expenses of grants 

and cooperative agreements for the purpose of promoting exports 

of United States firms, without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 

3703; full medical coverage for dependent members of immediate 

families of employees stationed overseas and employees temporarily 

posted overseas; travel and transportation of employees of the 

United States and Foreign Commercial Service between two points 

abroad, without regard to 49 U.S.C. 40118; employment of Americans and aliens by contract for services; rental of space abroad 

for periods not exceeding 10 years, and expenses of alteration, 

repair, or improvement; purchase or construction of temporary 

demountable exhibition structures for use abroad; payment of tort 

claims, in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of 28 

U.S.C. 2672 when such claims arise in foreign countries; not to 
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exceed $327,000 for official representation expenses abroad; purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use abroad, not to 

exceed $45,000 per vehicle; obtaining insurance on official motor 

vehicles; and rental of tie lines, $406,925,000, to remain available 

until September 30, 2007, of which $8,000,000 is to be derived 

from fees to be retained and used by the International Trade 

Administration, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided, That 

$47,434,000 shall be for Manufacturing and Services; $39,815,000 

shall be for Market Access and Compliance; $62,134,000 shall be 

for the Import Administration of which not less than $3,000,000 

is for the Office of China Compliance; $231,722,000 shall be for 

the United States and Foreign Commercial Service; and $25,820,000 

shall be for Executive Direction and Administration: Provided further, That negotiations shall be conducted within the World Trade 

Organization to recognize the right of members to distribute monies 

collected from antidumping and countervailing duties: Provided further, That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) 

and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural 

Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply 

in carrying out these activities without regard to section 5412 

of the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 

4912); and that for the purpose of this Act, contributions under 

the provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 

Act of 1961 shall include payment for assessments for services 

provided as part of these activities: Provided further, That the 

International Trade Administration shall be exempt from the 

requirements of Circular A–25 (or any successor administrative 

regulation or policy) issued by the Office of Management and 

Budget: Provided further, That negotiations shall be conducted 

within the World Trade Organization consistent with the negotiating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002, Public Law 

107–210. 

BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY

OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION

For necessary expenses for export administration and national 

security activities of the Department of Commerce, including costs 

associated with the performance of export administration field 

activities both domestically and abroad; full medical coverage for 

dependent members of immediate families of employees stationed 

overseas; employment of Americans and aliens by contract for services abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized 

in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such claims arise 

in foreign countries; not to exceed $15,000 for official representation 

expenses abroad; awards of compensation to informers under the 

Export Administration Act of 1979, and as authorized by 22 U.S.C. 

401(b); and purchase of passenger motor vehicles for official use 

and motor vehicles for law enforcement use with special requirement vehicles eligible for purchase without regard to any price 

limitation otherwise established by law, $76,000,000, to remain 

available until expended, of which $14,767,000 shall be for inspections and other activities related to national security: Provided, 

That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all 

of section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange 

Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying 
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out these activities: Provided further, That payments and contributions collected and accepted for materials or services provided as 

part of such activities may be retained for use in covering the 

cost of such activities, and for providing information to the public 

with respect to the export administration and national security 

activities of the Department of Commerce and other export control 

programs of the United States and other governments. 

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

For grants for economic development assistance as provided 

by the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, and 

for trade adjustment assistance, $253,985,000, to remain available 

until expended. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of administering the economic development assistance programs as provided for by law, $30,075,000: 

Provided, That these funds may be used to monitor projects 

approved pursuant to title I of the Public Works Employment 

Act of 1976, title II of the Trade Act of 1974, and the Community 

Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. 

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce in 

fostering, promoting, and developing minority business enterprise, 

including expenses of grants, contracts, and other agreements with 

public or private organizations, $30,024,000. 

ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE

ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of economic 

and statistical analysis programs of the Department of Commerce, 

$80,304,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, analyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for by law, $198,029,000. 

PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS

For necessary expenses related to the 2010 decennial census, 

$453,596,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

In addition, for expenses to collect and publish statistics for 

other periodic censuses and programs provided for by law, 

$160,612,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That none of the funds provided in this or any other Act 
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for any fiscal year may be used for the collection of Census data 

on race identification that does not include ‘‘some other race’’ as 

a category. 

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION

ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the National 

Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), 

$18,068,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of 

Commerce shall charge Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum management, analysis, and operations, and related services 

and such fees shall be retained and used as offsetting collections 

for costs of such spectrum services, to remain available until 

expended: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce is 

authorized to retain and use as offsetting collections all funds 

transferred, or previously transferred, from other Government agencies for all costs incurred in telecommunications research, 

engineering, and related activities by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions 

under this paragraph, and such funds received from other Government agencies shall remain available until expended. 

PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING AND

CONSTRUCTION

For the administration of grants authorized by section 392 of the Communications Act of 1934, $22,000,000, to remain available 

until expended as authorized by section 391 of the Act: Provided,

That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall be available for program 

administration as authorized by section 391 of the Act: Provided 

further, That, notwithstanding the provisions of section 391 of the 

Act, the prior year unobligated balances may be made available 

for grants for projects for which applications have been submitted 

and approved during any fiscal year. 

UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and Trademark Office provided for by law, including defense of suits instituted 

against the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property 

and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 

$1,683,086,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 

the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 

as offsetting collections assessed and collected pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 

1113 and 35 U.S.C. 41 and 376 are received during fiscal year 

2006, so as to result in a fiscal year 2006 appropriation from 

the general fund estimated at $0: Provided further, That during 

fiscal year 2006, should the total amount of offsetting fee collections 

be less than $1,683,086,000, this amount shall be reduced accordingly: Provided further, That not less than 657 full-time equivalents, 690 positions and $85,017,000 shall be for the examination of trademark applications; and not less than 5,810 full-time equivalents, 

6,241 positions and $906,142,000 shall be for the examination and 
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searching of patent applications: Provided further, That not more 

than 265 full-time equivalents, 272 positions and $37,490,000 shall 

be for the Office of the General Counsel: Provided further, That 

not more than 82 full-time equivalents, 83 positions and $25,393,000 

shall be for the Office of the Administrator for External Affairs: 

Provided further, That any deviation from the full-time equivalent, 

position, and funding designations set forth in the preceding four 

provisos shall be subject to the procedures set forth in section 

605 of this Act: Provided further, That from amounts provided 

herein, not to exceed $1,000 shall be made available in fiscal year 

2006 for official reception and representation expenses: Provided 

further, That notwithstanding section 1353 of title 31, United States 

Code, no employee of the United States Patent and Trademark 

Office may accept payment or reimbursement from a non-Federal 

entity for travel, subsistence, or related expenses for the purpose 

of enabling an employee to attend and participate in a convention, 

conference, or meeting when the entity offering payment or 

reimbursement is a person or corporation subject to regulation 

by the Office, or represents a person or corporation subject to 

regulation by the Office, unless the person or corporation is an 

organization exempt from taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) 

of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986: Provided further, That in 

fiscal year 2006, from the amounts made available for ‘‘Salaries 

and Expenses’’ for the United States Patent and Trademark Office 

(PTO), the amounts necessary to pay: (1) the difference between 

the percentage of basic pay contributed by the PTO and employees 

under section 8334(a) of title 5, United States Code, and the normal 

cost percentage (as defined by section 8331(17) of that title) of 

basic pay, of employees subject to subchapter III of chapter 83 

of that title; and (2) the present value of the otherwise unfunded 

accruing costs, as determined by the Office of Personnel Management, of post-retirement life insurance and post-retirement health 

benefits coverage for all PTO employees, shall be transferred to 

the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, the Employees 

Life Insurance Fund, and the Employees Health Benefits Fund, 

as appropriate, and shall be available for the authorized purposes 

of those accounts. 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Under Secretary for Technology 

Office of Technology Policy, $6,000,000. 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES

For necessary expenses of the National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, $399,869,000, to remain available until expended, 

of which not to exceed $1,300,000 may be transferred to the 

‘‘Working Capital Fund’’. 
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INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

For necessary expenses of the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, $106,000,000, to remain available until expended. 

In addition, for necessary expenses of the Advanced Technology 

Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 

$80,000,000, to remain available until expended. 

CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES

For construction of new research facilities, including architectural and engineering design, and for renovation and maintenance 

of existing facilities, not otherwise provided for the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, as authorized by 15 U.S.C. 

278c–278e, $175,898,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That beginning in fiscal year 2007 and for each fiscal year 

thereafter, the Secretary of Commerce shall include in the budget 

justification materials that the Secretary submits to Congress in 

support of the Department of Commerce budget (as submitted with 

the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United 

States Code) an estimate for each National Institute of Standards 

and Technology construction project having a total multiyear program cost of more than $5,000,000 and simultaneously the budget 

justification materials shall include an estimate of the budgetary 

requirements for each such project for each of the five subsequent 

fiscal years. 

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law for the 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including 

maintenance, operation, and hire of aircraft and vessels; grants, 

contracts, or other payments to nonprofit organizations for the 

purposes of conducting activities pursuant to cooperative agreements; and relocation of facilities, $2,763,222,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007, except for funds provided for cooperative enforcement which shall remain available until September 

30, 2008: Provided, That fees and donations received by the National 

Ocean Service for the management of national marine sanctuaries 

may be retained and used for the salaries and expenses associated 

with those activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided 

further, That in addition, $3,000,000 shall be derived by transfer 

from the fund entitled ‘‘Coastal Zone Management’’ and in addition 

$67,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from the fund entitled 

‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining 

to American Fisheries’’: Provided further, That of the $2,833,222,000 

provided for in direct obligations under this heading $2,763,222,000 

is appropriated from the general fund and $70,000,000 is provided 

by transfer: Provided further, That no general administrative charge 

shall be applied against an assigned activity included in this Act 

or the report accompanying this Act: Provided further, That the 

total amount available for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration corporate services administrative support costs shall 
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not exceed $179,036,000: Provided further, That payments of funds 

made available under this heading to the Department of Commerce 

Working Capital Fund including Department of Commerce General 

Counsel legal services shall not exceed $34,000,000: Provided further, That any deviation from the amounts designated for specific 

activities in the report accompanying this Act, or any use of 

deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set forth in section 

605 of this Act: Provided further, That grants to States pursuant 

to sections 306 and 306A of the Coastal Zone Management Act 

of 1972, as amended, shall not exceed $2,000,000, unless funds 

provided for ‘‘Coastal Zone Management Grants’’ exceed funds provided in the previous fiscal year: Provided further, That if funds 

provided for ‘‘Coastal Zone Management Grants’’ exceed funds provided in the previous fiscal year, then no State shall receive more 

than 5 percent or less than 1 percent of the additional funds: 

Provided further, That the personnel management demonstration 

project established at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4703 may be expanded by 

3,500 full-time positions to include up to 6,925 full-time positions 

and may be extended indefinitely: Provided further, That the 

Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may engage in formal and informal education activities, 

including primary and secondary education, related to the agency’s 

mission goals: Provided further, That, in accordance with the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 611 et seq.), within 

funds appropriated under this heading, $2,000,000 shall remain 

available until expended, for the cost of loans under section 211(e) 

of title II of division C of Public Law 105–277, such loans to 

have terms of up to 30 years and to be available for use in any 

of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands fisheries. 

In addition, for necessary retired pay expenses under the 

Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits Plan, 

and for payments for the medical care of retired personnel and 

their dependents under the Dependents Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. 

ch. 55), such sums as may be necessary. 

PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION

For procurement, acquisition and construction of capital assets, 

including alteration and modification costs, of the National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration, $1,124,278,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008, except funds provided for construction of facilities which shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of the amounts provided for the National Polar-orbiting 

Operational Environmental Satellite System, funds shall only be 

made available on a dollar for dollar matching basis with funds 

provided for the same purpose by the Department of Defense: 

Provided further, That except to the extent expressly prohibited 

by any other law, the Department of Defense may delegate procurement functions related to the National Polar-orbiting Operational 

Environmental Satellite System to officials of the Department of 

Commerce pursuant to section 2311 of title 10, United States Code: 

Provided further, That any deviation from the amounts designated 

for specific activities in the report accompanying this Act, or any 

use of deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading 

in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set forth 

in section 605 of this Act: Provided further, That beginning in 
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fiscal year 2007 and for each fiscal year thereafter, the Secretary 

of Commerce shall include in the budget justification materials 

that the Secretary submits to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce budget (as submitted with the budget of the 

President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) 

an estimate for each National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration procurement, acquisition and construction program having a 

total multiyear program cost of more than $5,000,000 and an estimate of the budgetary requirements for each such program for 

each of the five subsequent fiscal years: Provided further, That 

subject to amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, 

the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to enter into a lease 

with The Regents of the University of California for land at the 

San Diego Campus in La Jolla for a term not less than 55 years: 

Provided further, That funds appropriated for the construction of 

the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Pacific 

Regional Center are an additional increment in the incremental 

funding planned for the Center, and may be expended incrementally, through multi-year contracts for construction and related 

activities, provided that obligations under any such multi-year contract shall be subject to the availability of appropriations. 

PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY

For necessary expenses associated with the restoration of 

Pacific salmon populations, $67,500,000. 

COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT FUND

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

Of amounts collected pursuant to section 308 of the Coastal 

Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1456a), not to exceed 

$3,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Operations, Research, and 

Facilities’’ account to offset the costs of implementing such Act. 

FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

For the costs of direct loans, $287,000, as authorized by the 

Merchant Marine Act of 1936: Provided, That such costs, including 

the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in the Federal 

Credit Reform Act of 1990: Provided further, That these funds 

are only available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal 

amount of direct loans not to exceed $5,000,000 for Individual 

Fishing Quota loans, and not to exceed $59,000,000 for traditional 

direct loans, of which $19,000,000 may be used for direct loans 

to the United States menhaden fishery: Provided further, That 

none of the funds made available under this heading may be used 

for direct loans for any new fishing vessel that will increase the 

harvesting capacity in any United States fishery. 

OTHER

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the departmental management of 

the Department of Commerce provided for by law, including not 
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to exceed $5,000 for official entertainment, $47,466,000: Provided, 

That not to exceed 11 full-time equivalents and $1,490,000 shall 

be expended for the legislative affairs function of the Department. 

UNITED STATES TRAVEL AND TOURISM PROMOTION

For necessary expenses of the United States Travel and 

Tourism Promotion Program, as authorized by section 210 of Public 

Law 108–7, for programs promoting travel to the United States 

including grants, contracts, cooperative agreements and related 

costs, $4,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 

carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978 

(5 U.S.C. App.), $22,758,000. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

SEC. 201. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropriations and funds made available to the Department of Commerce 

by this Act shall be available for the activities specified in the 

Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in 

the manner prescribed by the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 

3324, may be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized 

only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary 

of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest. 

SEC. 202. During the current fiscal year, appropriations made 

available to the Department of Commerce by this Act for salaries 

and expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles 

as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized 

by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 

by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). 

SEC. 203. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 

available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce 

in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but 

no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent 

by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to 

this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 

section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 

or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 

in that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce 

shall notify the Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days 

in advance of the acquisition or disposal of any capital asset 

(including land, structures, and equipment) not specifically provided 

for in this or any other Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 

State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act: Provided further, That for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration this section shall provide for transfers among appropriations made only to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration and such appropriations may not be transferred 

and reprogrammed to other Department of Commerce bureaus and 

appropriation accounts. 

SEC. 204. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded 

under this title resulting from personnel actions taken in response 
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to funding reductions included in this title or from actions taken 

for the care and protection of loan collateral or grant property 

shall be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available 

to such department or agency: Provided, That the authority to 

transfer funds between appropriations accounts as may be necessary 

to carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities 

included elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds 

to carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 

of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be available 

for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 

SEC. 205. Funds made available for salaries and administrative 

expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Program in section 211(b) of Public Law 108–199 shall remain available 

until expended: Provided, That section 101(k) of the Emergency 

Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 (Public Law 106–51; 15 U.S.C. 

1841 note) is amended by striking ‘‘2005’’ and inserting ‘‘2007’’. 

SEC. 206. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 

no funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to register, 

issue, transfer, or enforce any trademark of the phrase ‘‘Last Best 

Place’’. 

SEC. 207. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 

amounts made available elsewhere in this title to the ‘‘National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, Construction of Research 

Facilities’’, $8,000,000 is for a cooperative agreement with the Medical University of South Carolina; $20,000,000 is for the National 

Formulation Science Laboratory at the University of Southern Mississippi; $20,000,000 is for the University of Mississippi Research 

Park; $5,000,000 is for the Alabama State University Science and 

Education Building; $8,000,000 is for Tuscaloosa, Alabama, revitalization; $20,000,000 is for the Biomedical Research Center at the 

University of Alabama at Birmingham; $3,000,000 is for the 

Institute for Security Technology Studies; $1,000,000 is for the 

Thayer School of Engineering; $12,000,000 is for the WVHTCF 

Research Facility; and $30,000,000 is for the University of Alabama 

for the design and construction of the Science and Engineering 

Center. 

SEC. 208. Of the amount available from the fund entitled ‘‘Promote and Develop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to 

American Fisheries’’, $7,000,000 shall be provided to the Alaska 

Fisheries Marketing Board, $5,000,000 shall be available to the 

Southern Shrimp Alliance for its ‘‘Wild American Shrimp Marketing 

Program’’. 

SEC. 209. Of the amounts made available under the heading 

‘‘Procurement, Acquisition and Construction, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration’’, $27,000,000 shall be transferred to 

the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the planning, design, and construction of Building 3203, for the planning 

and design of Buildings 3205 and 3216, and for certain infrastructure improvements. 

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Commerce and 

Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006’’. 
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TITLE III—SCIENCE 

OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology 

Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and 

Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42 

U.S.C. 6601–6671), hire of passenger motor vehicles, and services 

as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official 

reception and representation expenses, and rental of conference 

rooms in the District of Columbia, $5,564,000. 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND EXPLORATION

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the 

conduct and support of science, aeronautics and exploration research 

and development activities, including research, development, operations, support and services; maintenance; construction of facilities 

including repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modification of 

facilities, construction of new facilities and additions to existing 

facilities, facility planning and design, and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; environmental compliance and restoration; space flight, spacecraft control 

and communications activities including operations, production, and 

services; program management; personnel and related costs, 

including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 

5901–5902; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor 

vehicles; not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and representation expenses; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation of mission and administrative aircraft, $9,761,400,000, to 

remain available until September 30, 2007, of which amounts as 

determined by the Administrator for salaries and benefits; training, 

travel and awards; facility and related costs; information technology 

services; science, engineering, fabricating and testing services; and 

other administrative services may be transferred to ‘‘Exploration 

Capabilities’’ in accordance with section 312(b) of the National 

Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended by Public Law 

106–377. 

EXPLORATION CAPABILITIES

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the 

conduct and support of exploration capabilities research and 

development activities, including research, development, operations, 

support and services; maintenance; construction of facilities 

including repair, rehabilitation, revitalization and modification of 

facilities, construction of new facilities and additions to existing 

facilities, facility planning and design, and acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; environmental compliance and restoration; space flight, spacecraft control and communications activities including operations, production, and services; 

program management; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–
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5902; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor 

vehicles; not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and representation expenses; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation of mission and administrative aircraft, $6,663,000,000, to 

remain available until September 30, 2007, of which amounts as 

determined by the Administrator for salaries and benefits; training, 

travel and awards; facility and related costs; information technology 

services; science, engineering, fabricating and testing services; and 

other administrative services may be transferred to ‘‘Science, Aeronautics and Exploration’’ in accordance with section 312(b) of the 

National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, as amended by Public 

Law 106–377. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 

carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 

$32,400,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 

appropriated for ‘‘Science, Aeronautics and Exploration’’, or ‘‘Exploration Capabilities’’ by this appropriations Act, when any activity 

has been initiated by the incurrence of obligations for construction 

of facilities or environmental compliance and restoration activities 

as authorized by law, such amount available for such activity shall 

remain available until expended. This provision does not apply 

to the amounts appropriated for institutional minor revitalization 

and construction of facilities, and institutional facility planning 

and design. 

Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 

appropriated for ‘‘Science, Aeronautics and Exploration’’, or ‘‘Exploration Capabilities’’ by this appropriations Act, the amounts appropriated for construction of facilities shall remain available until 

September 30, 2008. 

Funds for announced prizes otherwise authorized shall remain 

available, without fiscal year limitation, until the prize is claimed 

or the offer is withdrawn. Funding shall not be made available 

for Centennial Challenges unless authorized. 

Funding made available under the headings ‘‘Exploration 

Capabilities’’ and ‘‘Science, Aeronautics and Exploration’’ in this 

Act shall be governed by the terms and conditions specified in 

the statement of managers accompanying the conference report 

for this Act. 

The unexpired balances of prior appropriations to National 

Aeronautics and Space Administration for activities for which funds 

are provided under this Act may be transferred to the new account 

established for the appropriation that provides such activity under 

this Act. Balances so transferred may be merged with funds in 

the newly established account and thereafter may be accounted 

for as one fund under the same terms and conditions. 
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

For necessary expenses in carrying out the National Science 

Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), and 

the Act to establish a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–

1881); services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and 

operation of aircraft and purchase of flight services for research 

support; acquisition of aircraft; and authorized travel; 

$4,387,520,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007, of 

which not to exceed $425,000,000 shall remain available until 

expended for Polar research and operations support, and for 

reimbursement to other Federal agencies for operational and science 

support and logistical and other related activities for the United 

States Antarctic program: Provided, That from funds specified in 

the fiscal year 2006 budget request for icebreaking services, such 

sums shall be available for the procurement of polar icebreaking 

services: Provided further, That the National Science Foundation 

shall reimburse the Coast Guard according to the existing memorandum of agreement: Provided further, That receipts for scientific 

support services and materials furnished by the National Research 

Centers and other National Science Foundation supported research 

facilities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further,

That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less than 

the total amount authorized to be appropriated for included program 

activities, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in 

the authorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally: Provided further, That funds 

under this heading may be available for innovation inducement 

prizes. 

MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION

For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construction, 

commissioning, and upgrading of major research equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursuant to the National Science 

Foundation Act of 1950, as amended, including authorized travel, 

$193,350,000, to remain available until expended. 

EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES

For necessary expenses in carrying out science and engineering 

education and human resources programs and activities pursuant 

to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 

U.S.C. 1861–1875), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 

3109, authorized travel, and rental of conference rooms in the 

District of Columbia, $807,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That to the extent that the amount 

of this appropriation is less than the total amount authorized to 

be appropriated for included program activities, all amounts, 

including floors and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for 

those program activities or their subactivities shall be reduced 

proportionally. 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out the 

National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
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1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger 

motor vehicles; not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and representation expenses; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 

by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; rental of conference rooms in the District 

of Columbia; and reimbursement of the General Services Administration for security guard services; $250,000,000: Provided, That 

contracts may be entered into under ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ in 

fiscal year 2006 for maintenance and operation of facilities, and 

for other services, to be provided during the next fiscal year. 

OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD

For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 

rooms in the District of Columbia, and the employment of experts 

and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United States Code) 

involved in carrying out section 4 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 (42 

U.S.C. 1880 et seq.), $4,000,000: Provided, That not more than 

$9,000 shall be available for official reception and representation 

expenses. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General as 

authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 

$11,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Science Appropriations Act, 

2006’’. 

TITLE IV—DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED AGENCY 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For necessary expenses of the Department of State and the 

Foreign Service not otherwise provided for, including employment, 

without regard to civil service and classification laws, of persons 

on a temporary basis (not to exceed $700,000 of this appropriation), 

as authorized by section 801 of the United States Information 

and Educational Exchange Act of 1948; representation to certain 

international organizations in which the United States participates 

pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant to the advice and consent 

of the Senate or specific Acts of Congress; arms control, nonproliferation and disarmament activities as authorized; acquisition 

by exchange or purchase of passenger motor vehicles as authorized 

by law; and for expenses of general administration, $3,680,019,000: 

Provided, That not to exceed 71 permanent positions and $9,804,000 

shall be for the Bureau of Legislative Affairs: Provided further,

That of the amount made available under this heading, not to 

exceed $4,000,000 may be transferred to, and merged with, funds 

in the ‘‘Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service’’ appropriations account, to be available only for emergency evacuations 

and terrorism rewards: Provided further, That of the amount made 
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available under this heading, not less than $334,000,000 shall be 

available only for public diplomacy international information programs: Provided further, That of the amount made available under 

this heading, not less than $2,000,000 shall be for a contribution 

to the Scholar Rescue Fund endowment: Provided further, That 

of the amount made available under this heading, $3,000,000 shall 

be available only for the operations of the Office on Right-Sizing 

the United States Government Overseas Presence: Provided further, 

That funds available under this heading may be available for a 

United States Government interagency task force to examine, 

coordinate and oversee United States participation in the United 

Nations headquarters renovation project: Provided further, That 

no funds may be obligated or expended for processing licenses 

for the export of satellites of United States origin (including 

commercial satellites and satellite components) to the People’s 

Republic of China unless, at least 15 days in advance, the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 

Senate are notified of such proposed action: Provided further, That 

funds appropriated under this heading are available, pursuant to 

31 U.S.C. 1108(g), for the field examination of programs and activities in the United States funded from any account contained in 

this title. 

In addition, not to exceed $1,469,000 shall be derived from 

fees collected from other executive agencies for lease or use of 

facilities located at the International Center in accordance with 

section 4 of the International Center Act; in addition, as authorized 

by section 5 of such Act, $490,000, to be derived from the reserve 

authorized by that section, to be used for the purposes set out 

in that section; in addition, as authorized by section 810 of the 

United States Information and Educational Exchange Act, not to 

exceed $6,000,000, to remain available until expended, may be 

credited to this appropriation from fees or other payments received 

from English teaching, library, motion pictures, and publication 

programs and from fees from educational advising and counseling 

and exchange visitor programs; and, in addition, not to exceed 

$15,000, which shall be derived from reimbursements, surcharges, 

and fees for use of Blair House facilities. 

In addition, for the costs of worldwide security upgrades, $689,523,000, to remain available until expended. 

CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND

For necessary expenses of the Capital Investment Fund, $58,895,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized: 

Provided, That section 135(e) of Public Law 103–236 shall not 

apply to funds available under this heading. 

CENTRALIZED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MODERNIZATION PROGRAM

For expenses relating to the modernization of the information 

technology systems and networks of the Department of State, 

$69,368,000, to remain available until expended. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General, $30,029,000, notwithstanding section 209(a)(1) of the Foreign 
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Service Act of 1980 (Public Law 96–465), as it relates to post 

inspections. 

EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE PROGRAMS

For expenses of educational and cultural exchange programs, 

as authorized, $431,790,000, to remain available until expended: 

Provided, That not to exceed $2,000,000, to remain available until 

expended, may be credited to this appropriation from fees or other 

payments received from or in connection with English teaching, 

educational advising and counseling programs, and exchange visitor 

programs as authorized. 

REPRESENTATION ALLOWANCES

For representation allowances as authorized, $8,281,000. 

PROTECTION OF FOREIGN MISSIONS AND OFFICIALS

For expenses, not otherwise provided, to enable the Secretary 

of State to provide for extraordinary protective services, as authorized, $9,390,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

EMBASSY SECURITY, CONSTRUCTION, AND MAINTENANCE

For necessary expenses for carrying out the Foreign Service 

Buildings Act of 1926 (22 U.S.C. 292–303), preserving, maintaining, 

repairing, and planning for buildings that are owned or directly 

leased by the Department of State, renovating, in addition to funds 

otherwise available, the Harry S Truman Building, and carrying 

out the Diplomatic Security Construction Program as authorized, 

$598,800,000, to remain available until expended as authorized, 

of which not to exceed $25,000 may be used for domestic and 

overseas representation as authorized: Provided, That none of the 

funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be available for acquisition of furniture, furnishings, or generators for other departments 

and agencies. 

In addition, for the costs of worldwide security upgrades, 

acquisition, and construction as authorized, $910,200,000, to remain 

available until expended. 

EMERGENCIES IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary of State to 

meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, $10,000,000, to remain available until expended as 

authorized, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 may be transferred 

to and merged with the ‘‘Repatriation Loans Program Account’’, 

subject to the same terms and conditions. 

REPATRIATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For the cost of direct loans, $712,000, as authorized: Provided,

That such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall 

be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

1974. 
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In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to carry 

out the direct loan program, $607,000, which may be transferred 

to and merged with funds in the ‘‘Diplomatic and Consular Programs’’ account. 

PAYMENT TO THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE IN TAIWAN

For necessary expenses to carry out the Taiwan Relations Act 

(Public Law 96–8), $19,751,000. 

PAYMENT TO THE FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY

FUND

For payment to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability 

Fund, as authorized by law, $131,700,000. 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary to meet 

annual obligations of membership in international multilateral 

organizations, pursuant to treaties ratified pursuant to the advice 

and consent of the Senate, conventions or specific Acts of Congress, 

$1,166,212,000: Provided, That the Secretary of State shall, at 

the time of the submission of the President’s budget to Congress 

under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, transmit 

to the Committees on Appropriations the most recent biennial 

budget prepared by the United Nations for the operations of the 

United Nations: Provided further, That the Secretary of State shall 

notify the Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days in advance 

(or in an emergency, as far in advance as is practicable) of any 

United Nations action to increase funding for any United Nations 

program without identifying an offsetting decrease elsewhere in 

the United Nations budget and cause the United Nations budget 

for the biennium 2006–2007 to exceed the revised United Nations 

budget level for the biennium 2004–2005 of $3,695,480,000: Provided further, That any payment of arrearages under this title 

shall be directed toward special activities that are mutually agreed 

upon by the United States and the respective international 

organization: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 

in this paragraph shall be available for a United States contribution 

to an international organization for the United States share of 

interest costs made known to the United States Government by 

such organization for loans incurred on or after October 1, 1984, 

through external borrowings. 

CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING ACTIVITIES

For necessary expenses to pay assessed and other expenses 

of international peacekeeping activities directed to the maintenance 

or restoration of international peace and security, $1,035,500,000, 

of which 15 percent shall remain available until September 30, 

2007: Provided, That none of the funds made available under this 

Act shall be obligated or expended for any new or expanded United 

Nations peacekeeping mission unless, at least 15 days in advance 

of voting for the new or expanded mission in the United Nations 

Security Council (or in an emergency as far in advance as is 
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practicable): (1) the Committees on Appropriations and other appropriate committees of the Congress are notified of the estimated 

cost and length of the mission, the national interest that will 

be served, and the planned exit strategy; (2) the Committees on 

Appropriations and other appropriate committees of the Congress 

are notified that the United Nations has taken appropriate measures to prevent United Nations employees, contractor personnel, 

and peacekeeping forces serving in any United Nations peacekeeping mission from trafficking in persons, exploiting victims of 

trafficking, or committing acts of illegal sexual exploitation, and 

to hold accountable individuals who engage in such acts while 

participating in the peacekeeping mission; and (3) a reprogramming 

of funds pursuant to section 605 of this Act is submitted, and 

the procedures therein followed, setting forth the source of funds 

that will be used to pay for the cost of the new or expanded 

mission: Provided further, That funds shall be available for peacekeeping expenses only upon a certification by the Secretary of 

State to the appropriate committees of the Congress that American 

manufacturers and suppliers are being given opportunities to provide equipment, services, and material for United Nations peacekeeping activities equal to those being given to foreign manufacturers and suppliers: Provided further, That none of the funds made 

available under this heading are available to pay the United States 

share of the cost of court monitoring that is part of any United 

Nations peacekeeping mission. 

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS

For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to meet 

obligations of the United States arising under treaties, or specific 

Acts of Congress, as follows: 

INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY AND WATER COMMISSION, UNITED STATES

AND MEXICO

For necessary expenses for the United States Section of the 

International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and 

Mexico, and to comply with laws applicable to the United States 

Section, including not to exceed $6,000 for representation; as follows: 

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For salaries and expenses, not otherwise provided for, 

$28,000,000. 

CONSTRUCTION

For detailed plan preparation and construction of authorized 

projects, $5,300,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized. 

AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS

For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for the International Joint Commission and the International Boundary 

Commission, United States and Canada, as authorized by treaties 

between the United States and Canada or Great Britain, and for 

the Border Environment Cooperation Commission as authorized 
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by Public Law 103–182, $10,039,000, of which not to exceed $9,000 

shall be available for representation expenses incurred by the International Joint Commission. 

INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES COMMISSIONS

For necessary expenses for international fisheries commissions, not otherwise provided for, as authorized by law, $24,000,000: Provided, That the United States’ share of such expenses may be 

advanced to the respective commissions pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3324. 

OTHER

PAYMENT TO THE ASIA FOUNDATION

For a grant to the Asia Foundation, as authorized by the 

Asia Foundation Act (22 U.S.C. 4402), $14,000,000, to remain available until expended, as authorized. 

CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN-WESTERN DIALOGUE TRUST FUND

For a grant to the Center for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue 

Trust Fund (22 U.S.C. 2078), $5,000,000 for operation of the Center 

for Middle Eastern-Western Dialogue in Istanbul, Turkey. 

In addition, for necessary expenses of the Center for Middle 

Eastern-Western Dialogue Trust Fund, the total amount of the 

interest and earnings accruing to such Fund on or before September 

30, 2006, to remain available until expended. 

EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM

For necessary expenses of Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships, 

Incorporated, as authorized by sections 4 and 5 of the Eisenhower 

Exchange Fellowship Act of 1990 (20 U.S.C. 5204–5205), all interest 

and earnings accruing to the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship Program Trust Fund on or before September 30, 2006, to remain 

available until expended: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be used to pay any salary or other compensation, or to enter into any contract providing for the payment thereof, 

in excess of the rate authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5376; or for purposes 

which are not in accordance with OMB Circulars A–110 (Uniform 

Administrative Requirements) and A–122 (Cost Principles for Nonprofit Organizations), including the restrictions on compensation 

for personal services. 

ISRAELI ARAB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM

For necessary expenses of the Israeli Arab Scholarship Program 

as authorized by section 214 of the Foreign Relations Authorization 

Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2452), all interest 

and earnings accruing to the Israeli Arab Scholarship Fund on 

or before September 30, 2006, to remain available until expended. 

EAST-WEST CENTER

To enable the Secretary of State to provide for carrying out 

the provisions of the Center for Cultural and Technical Interchange 

Between East and West Act of 1960, by grant to the Center for 

Cultural and Technical Interchange Between East and West in 

the State of Hawaii, $19,240,000: Provided, That none of the funds 
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appropriated herein shall be used to pay any salary, or enter 

into any contract providing for the payment thereof, in excess 

of the rate authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5376. 

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY

For grants made by the Department of State to the National 

Endowment for Democracy as authorized by the National Endowment for Democracy Act, $75,000,000, to remain available until 

expended. 

RELATED AGENCY 

BROADCASTING BOARD OF GOVERNORS

INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS

For expenses necessary to enable the Broadcasting Board of 

Governors, as authorized, to carry out international communication 

activities, including the purchase, rent, construction, and improvement of facilities for radio and television transmission and reception 

and purchase, lease, and installation of necessary equipment for 

radio and television transmission and reception to Cuba, and to 

make and supervise grants for radio and television broadcasting 

to the Middle East, $641,450,000: Provided, That of the total 

amount in this heading, not to exceed $16,000 may be used for 

official receptions within the United States as authorized, not to 

exceed $35,000 may be used for representation abroad as authorized, and not to exceed $39,000 may be used for official reception 

and representation expenses of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; 

and in addition, notwithstanding any other provision of law, not 

to exceed $2,000,000 in receipts from advertising and revenue from 

business ventures, not to exceed $500,000 in receipts from cooperating international organizations, and not to exceed $1,000,000 

in receipts from privatization efforts of the Voice of America and 

the International Broadcasting Bureau, to remain available until 

expended for carrying out authorized purposes. 

BROADCASTING CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS

For the purchase, rent, construction, and improvement of facilities for radio and television transmission and reception, and purchase and installation of necessary equipment for radio and television transmission and reception as authorized, $10,893,000, to 

remain available until expended, as authorized. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED

AGENCY

SEC. 401. Funds appropriated under this title shall be available, 

except as otherwise provided, for allowances and differentials as 

authorized by subchapter 59 of title 5, United States Code; for 

services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and for hire of passenger 

transportation pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1343(b). 

SEC. 402. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 

available for the current fiscal year for the Department of State 

in this title may be transferred between such appropriations, but 

no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, 

shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: 
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Provided, That not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 

available for the current fiscal year for the Broadcasting Board 

of Governors in this title may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically 

provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such 

transfers: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to this 

section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 

605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 

section. 

SEC. 403. None of the funds made available in this title may 

be used by the Department of State or the Broadcasting Board 

of Governors to provide equipment, technical support, consulting 

services, or any other form of assistance to the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation. 

SEC. 404. (a) The Senior Policy Operating Group on Trafficking 

in Persons, established under section 406 of division B of Public 

Law 108–7 to coordinate agency activities regarding policies 

(including grants and grant policies) involving the international 

trafficking in persons, shall coordinate all such policies related 

to the activities of traffickers and victims of severe forms of trafficking. 

(b) None of the funds provided in this or any other Act shall 

be expended to perform functions that duplicate coordinating 

responsibilities of the Operating Group. 

(c) The Operating Group shall continue to report only to the 

authorities that appointed them pursuant to section 406 of division 

B of Public Law 108–7. 

SEC. 405. For the purposes of registration of birth, certification 

of nationality, or issuance of a passport of a United States citizen 

born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary of State shall, upon 

request of the citizen, record the place of birth as Israel. 

SEC. 406. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 

funds appropriated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Diplomatic and 

Consular Programs’’: $5,000,000 shall be made available for an 

endowment for the Center for Asian Democracy; $100,000 shall 

be made available for a grant to the Center for the Study of 

the Presidency for a public diplomacy initiative; $300,000 shall 

be made available for a grant to Operation Smile for a public 

diplomacy program; and $350,000 shall be made available for a 

grant to MiraMed for programs to combat human trafficking. 

SEC. 407. Funds appropriated under this title for the Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Department of State may 

be obligated and expended notwithstanding section 15 of the State 

Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 

(Public Law 103–236), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Security 

Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414(a)(1)). 

SEC. 408. (a) Funds provided in this title for the following 

accounts shall be made available for programs in the amounts 

contained in the respective tables included in the report accompanying this Act: 

‘‘Educational and Cultural Exchange Programs’’. 

‘‘National Endowment for Democracy’’. 

‘‘International Broadcasting Operations’’. 

‘‘Broadcasting Capital Improvements’’. 
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(b) Any proposed increases or decreases to the amounts contained in such tables in the accompanying report shall be subject 

to the regular notification procedures in section 605 of this Act. 

(c) The Secretary of State shall notify the Committees on Appropriations 15 days in advance of recommending the issuance of 

any license subject to Executive Order No. 13067. 

SEC. 409. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 

funds appropriated or otherwise made available in this title, not 

more than $1,035,500,000 shall be available for payment to the 

United Nations for assessed and other expenses of international 

peacekeeping activities. 

SEC. 410. Section 1334 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (22 U.S.C. 6553) is amended by striking 

‘‘October 1, 2005’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2006’’. 

SEC. 411. None of the funds appropriated under this title may 

be made available to pay any contribution of the United States 

to the United Nations if the United Nations implements or imposes 

any taxation on any United States persons. 

SEC. 412. It is the sense of the Congress that the amount 

of any loan for the renovation of the United Nations headquarters 

building located in New York, New York, should not exceed 

$600,000,000: Provided, That if any loan exceeds $600,000,000, 

the Secretary of State shall notify the Congress of the current 

cost of the renovation and cost containment measures. 

SEC. 413. None of the funds made available by this title may 

be used for any United Nations undertaking when it is made 

known to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend 

such funds that: (1) the United Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) such undertaking will involve United States 

Armed Forces under the command or operational control of a foreign 

national; and (3) the President’s military advisors have not submitted to the President a recommendation that such involvement 

is in the national security interests of the United States and the 

President has not submitted to the Congress such a recommendation. 

SEC. 414. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 

made available under this title shall be expended for any purpose 

for which appropriations are prohibited by section 609 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 

Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. 

(b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 

609 of that Act shall continue to apply during fiscal year 2006. 

SEC. 415. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 

made available under this title shall be expended for any purpose 

for which appropriations are prohibited by section 616 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related 

Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999. 

(b) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) of section 616 

of that Act shall continue to apply during fiscal year 2006. 

SEC. 416. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), a project 

to construct a diplomatic facility of the United States may not 

include office space or other accommodations for an employee of 

a Federal agency or department if the Secretary of State determines 

that such department or agency has not provided to the Department 

of State the full amount of funding required by subsection (e) 

of section 604 of the Secure Embassy Construction and 

Counterterrorism Act of 1999 (as enacted into law by section 
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1000(a)(7) of Public Law 106–113 and contained in appendix G 

of that Act; 113 Stat. 1501A–453), as amended by section 629 

of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, 

and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005. 

(b) Notwithstanding the prohibition in subsection (a), a project 

to construct a diplomatic facility of the United States may include 

office space or other accommodations for members of the Marine 

Corps. 

SEC. 417. Ceilings and earmarks contained in this title shall 

not be applicable to funds or authorities appropriated or otherwise 

made available by any subsequent Act unless such Act specifically 

so directs. Earmarks or minimum funding requirements contained 

in any other Act shall not be applicable to funds appropriated 

by this title. 

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State and Related 

Agency Appropriations Act, 2006’’. 

TITLE V—RELATED AGENCIES 

ANTITRUST MODERNIZATION COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Antitrust Modernization Commis- sion, as authorized by Public Law 107–273, $1,172,000, to remain 

available until expended. 

COMMISSION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICA’S HERITAGE

ABROAD

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses for the Commission for the Preservation of Amer- ica’s Heritage Abroad, $499,000, as authorized by section 1303 

of Public Law 99–83. 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Commission on Civil Rights, 

including hire of passenger motor vehicles, $9,048,000: Provided, 

That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be 

used to employ in excess of four full-time individuals under Schedule 

C of the Excepted Service exclusive of one special assistant for 

each Commissioner: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be used to reimburse Commissioners 

for more than 75 billable days, with the exception of the chairperson, 

who is permitted 125 billable days. 

COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the United States Commission on 

International Religious Freedom, as authorized by title II of the 

International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–

292), $3,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 
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COMMISSION ON SECURITY AND COOPERATION IN EUROPE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Commission on Security and 

Cooperation in Europe, as authorized by Public Law 94–304, 

$2,030,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

CONGRESSIONAL-EXECUTIVE COMMISSION ON THE PEOPLE’S

REPUBLIC OF CHINA

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People’s Republic of China, as authorized, $1,900,000, 

including not more than $3,000 for the purpose of official representation, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission as authorized by title VII of the Civil Rights Act 

of 1964 (29 U.S.C. 206(d) and 621–634), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, including 

services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor 

vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b); non-monetary awards 

to private citizens; and not to exceed $33,000,000 for payments 

to State and local enforcement agencies for services to the Commission pursuant to title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sections 

6 and 14 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Civil Rights Act of 

1991, $331,228,000: Provided, That the Commission is authorized 

to make available for official reception and representation expenses 

not to exceed $2,500 from available funds: Provided further, That 

the Commission may take no action to implement any workforce 

repositioning, restructuring, or reorganization until such time as 

the Committees on Appropriations have been notified of such proposals, in accordance with the reprogramming provisions of section 

605 of this Act. 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Federal Communications 

Commission, as authorized by law, including uniforms and allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; not to exceed 

$4,000 for official reception and representation expenses; purchase 

and hire of motor vehicles; special counsel fees; and services as 

authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $289,771,000: Provided, That 

$288,771,000 of offsetting collections shall be assessed and collected 

pursuant to section 9 of title I of the Communications Act of 

1934, shall be retained and used for necessary expenses in this 

appropriation, and shall remain available until expended: Provided 

further, That the sum herein appropriated shall be reduced as 

such offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2006 so 

as to result in a final fiscal year 2006 appropriation estimated 
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at $1,000,000: Provided further, That any offsetting collections 

received in excess of $288,771,000 in fiscal year 2006 shall remain 

available until expended, but shall not be available for obligation 

until October 1, 2006: Provided further, That notwithstanding 47 

U.S.C. 309(j)(8)(B), proceeds from the use of a competitive bidding 

system that may be retained and made available for obligation 

shall not exceed $85,000,000 for fiscal year 2006. 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Commission, 

including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 

5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $2,000 for official reception 

and representation expenses, $211,000,000, to remain available 

until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be 

available for use to contract with a person or persons for collection 

services in accordance with the terms of 31 U.S.C. 3718: Provided 

further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to 

exceed $116,000,000 of offsetting collections derived from fees collected for premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino 

Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless 

of the year of collection, shall be retained and used for necessary 

expenses in this appropriation: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, $23,000,000 in offsetting collections derived from fees sufficient to implement and enforce the 

Telemarketing Sales Rule, promulgated under the Telephone Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), 

shall be credited to this account, and be retained and used for 

necessary expenses in this appropriation: Provided further, That 

the sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be reduced 

as such offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2006, 

so as to result in a final fiscal year 2006 appropriation from the 

general fund estimated at not more than $72,000,000: Provided 

further, That none of the funds made available to the Federal 

Trade Commission may be used to enforce subsection (e) of section 

43 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t) or section 

151(b)(2) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (12 U.S.C. 1831t note). 

LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to carry out 

the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974, 

$330,803,000, of which $312,375,000 is for basic field programs 

and required independent audits; $2,539,000 is for the Office of 

Inspector General, of which such amounts as may be necessary 

may be used to conduct additional audits of recipients; $12,825,000 

is for management and administration; $1,255,000 is for client 

self-help and information technology; and $1,809,000 is for grants 

to offset losses due to census adjustments. 
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services 

Corporation shall be expended for any purpose prohibited or limited 

by, or contrary to any of the provisions of, sections 501, 502, 

503, 504, 505, and 506 of Public Law 105–119, and all funds 

appropriated in this Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall 

be subject to the same terms and conditions set forth in such 

sections, except that all references in sections 502 and 503 to 

1997 and 1998 shall be deemed to refer instead to 2005 and 2006, 

respectively, and except that section 501(a)(1) of Public Law 104–

134 (110 Stat. 1321–51 et seq.) shall not apply to the use of 

the $1,809,000 to address loss of funding due to Census-based 

reallocations. 

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Commission as authorized by title II of Public Law 92–522, $2,920,000, of 

which $920,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2007. 

NATIONAL VETERANS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

For necessary expenses of the National Veterans Business 

Development Corporation as authorized under section 33(a) of the 

Small Business Act, $1,500,000, to remain available until expended. 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Securities and Exchange 

Commission, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 

the rental of space (to include multiple year leases) in the District 

of Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed $3,000 for official 

reception and representation expenses, $888,117,000, to remain 

available until expended; of which not to exceed $10,000 may be 

used toward funding a permanent secretariat for the International 

Organization of Securities Commissions; and of which not to exceed 

$100,000 shall be available for expenses for consultations and 

meetings hosted by the Commission with foreign governmental 

and other regulatory officials, members of their delegations, appropriate representatives and staff to exchange views concerning 

developments relating to securities matters, development and 

implementation of cooperation agreements concerning securities 

matters and provision of technical assistance for the development 

of foreign securities markets, such expenses to include necessary 

logistic and administrative expenses and the expenses of Commission staff and foreign invitees in attendance at such consultations 

and meetings including: (1) such incidental expenses as meals taken 

in the course of such attendance; (2) any travel and transportation 

to or from such meetings; and (3) any other related lodging or 

subsistence: Provided, That fees and charges authorized by sections 

6(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77f(b)), 

and 13(e), 14(g) and 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(15 U.S.C. 78m(e), 78n(g), and 78ee), shall be credited to this 

account as offsetting collections: Provided further, That not to exceed 
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$863,117,000 of such offsetting collections shall be available until 

expended for necessary expenses of this account: Provided further,

That $25,000,000 shall be derived from prior year unobligated balances from funds previously appropriated to the Securities and 

Exchange Commission: Provided further, That the total amount 

appropriated under this heading from the general fund for fiscal 

year 2006 shall be reduced as such offsetting fees are received 

so as to result in a final total fiscal year 2006 appropriation from 

the general fund estimated at not more than $0. 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of the Small 

Business Administration as authorized by Public Law 108–447, 

including hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 

U.S.C. 1343 and 1344, and not to exceed $3,500 for official reception 

and representation expenses, $313,029,000: Provided, That the 

Administrator is authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of 

publications developed by the Small Business Administration, and 

certain loan servicing activities: Provided further, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues received from all such activities 

shall be credited to this account, to be available for carrying out 

these purposes without further appropriations: Provided further,

That $89,000,000 shall be available to fund grants for performance 

in fiscal year 2006 or fiscal year 2007 as authorized: Provided 

further, That the Small Business Administration is authorized to 

award grants under the Women’s Business Center Sustainability 

Pilot Program established by section 4(a) of Public Law 106–165 

(15 U.S.C. 656(l)): Provided further, That, of the amounts provided 

for Women’s Business Centers, not less than 41 percent shall be 

available to continue Women’s Business Centers in sustainability 

status. 

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 

carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 

$13,900,000. 

SURETY BOND GUARANTEES REVOLVING FUND

For additional capital for the Surety Bond Guarantees 

Revolving Fund, authorized by the Small Business Investment Act, 

as amended, $2,861,000, to remain available until expended. 

BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

For the cost of direct loans, $1,300,000, to remain available 

until expended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 

modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 

Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That subject 

to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, during 

fiscal year 2006 commitments to guarantee loans under section 

503 of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958, shall not exceed 

the levels established under 20(e)(1)(B)(ii) of the Small Business 
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Act: Provided further, That during fiscal year 2006 commitments 

for general business loans authorized under section 7(a) of the 

Small Business Act, shall not exceed the levels established under 

20(e)(1)(B)(i) of the Small Business Act: Provided further, That 

during fiscal year 2006 commitments to guarantee loans for debentures under section 303(b) of the Small Business Investment Act 

of 1958, shall not exceed $3,000,000,000: Provided further, That 

during fiscal year 2006 guarantees of trust certificates authorized 

by section 5(g) of the Small Business Act shall not exceed a principal 

amount of $12,000,000,000. 

In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct 

and guaranteed loan programs, $125,307,000, which may be transferred to and merged with the appropriations for Salaries and 

Expenses: Provided, That, of the funds previously made available 

under Public Law 105–135, section 507(g), for the Delta Loan program, up to $500,000 may be transferred to and merged with 

the appropriation for Salaries and Expenses. 

DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)

From unobligated balances under this heading, in fiscal year 

2006, not to exceed $9,000,000 may be transferred to and merged 

with appropriations for Salaries and Expenses for indirect administrative expenses, of which $1,500,000 is for the Office of Inspector 

General of the Small Business Administration for audits and 

reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan program and shall 

be transferred to and merged with appropriations for the Office 

of Inspector General. 

ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available 

for the current fiscal year for the Small Business Administration 

in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but 

no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent 

by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to 

this paragraph shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 

section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 

or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 

in that section. 

STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, as authorized by the State Justice Institute Authorization Act of 1992 (Public 

Law 102–572), $3,500,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 

shall be available for official reception and representation expenses. 

UNITED STATES-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW

COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the United States-China Economic 

and Security Review Commission, $3,000,000, including not more 
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than $5,000 for the purpose of official representation, to remain 

available until September 30, 2007. 

UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE

OPERATING EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the United States Institute of Peace 

as authorized in the United States Institute of Peace Act, 

$22,350,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

UNITED STATES SENATE-CHINA INTERPARLIAMENTARY GROUP

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses of the United States Senate-China 

Interparliamentary Group, as authorized under section 153 of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2004 (22 U.S.C. 276n; Public Law 

108–99; 118 Stat. 448), $150,000, to remain available until September 30, 2007. 

TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 

SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 

shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized 

by the Congress. 

SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 

shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 

unless expressly so provided herein. 

SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 

Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where 

such expenditures are a matter of public record and available 

for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 

existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant 

to existing law. 

SEC. 604. If any provision of this Act or the application of 

such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, 

the remainder of the Act and the application of each provision 

to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is 

held invalid shall not be affected thereby. 

SEC. 605. (a) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 

provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded 

by this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 

in fiscal year 2006, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury 

of the United States derived by the collection of fees available 

to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation 

or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates 

new programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) 

increases funds or personnel by any means for any project or 

activity for which funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates 

an office or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices; (6) reorganizes, programs or activities; or (7) contracts out or privatizes 

any functions or activities presently performed by Federal 

employees; unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses 

of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming 

of funds. 
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(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or provided 

under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by this 

Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal 

year 2006, or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 

United States derived by the collection of fees available to the 

agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obligation or 

expenditure for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $750,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects, or 

activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 

as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings, 

including savings from a reduction in personnel, which would result 

in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved 

by Congress; unless the Appropriations Committees of both Houses 

of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming 

of funds. 

SEC. 606. Hereafter, none of the funds made available in this 

Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any guidelines 

of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission covering harassment based on religion, when it is made known to the Federal 

entity or official to which such funds are made available that 

such guidelines do not differ in any respect from the proposed 

guidelines published by the Commission on October 1, 1993 (58 

Fed. Reg. 51266). 

SEC. 607. If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal 

agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a 

‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with the same 

meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States 

that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible 

to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 

48, Code of Federal Regulations. 

SEC. 608. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, 

the Broadcasting Board of Governors, the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and Exchange 

Commission and the Small Business Administration shall provide 

to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the 

House of Representatives a quarterly accounting of the cumulative 

balances of any unobligated funds that were received by such agency 

during any previous fiscal year. 

SEC. 609. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded 

under this Act resulting from personnel actions taken in response 

to funding reductions included in this Act shall be absorbed within 

the total budgetary resources available to such department or 

agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer funds between 

appropriations accounts as may be necessary to carry out this 

section is provided in addition to authorities included elsewhere 

in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry out this 

section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 

605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 

section. 
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SEC. 610. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be 

available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country 

of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, 

except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco 

or tobacco products of the same type. 

SEC. 611. None of the funds appropriated pursuant to this 

Act or any other provision of law may be used for—

(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection 

with the implementation of subsection 922(t) of title 18, United 

States Code; and 

(2) any system to implement subsection 922(t) of title 18, 

United States Code, that does not require and result in the 

destruction of any identifying information submitted by or on 

behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohibited from possessing or receiving a firearm no more than 24 

hours after the system advises a Federal firearms licensee 

that possession or receipt of a firearm by the prospective transferee would not violate subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 

of title 18, United States Code, or State law. 

SEC. 612. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 

deposited or available in the Fund established under 42 U.S.C. 

10601 in any fiscal year in excess of $625,000,000 shall not be 

available for obligation until the following fiscal year.

SEC. 613. For additional amounts under the heading ‘‘Small 

Business Administration, Salaries and Expenses’’, $1,000,000 shall 

be available for the Adelante Development Center, Inc., NM; 

$850,000 shall be available for the Alabama Department of Archives 

and History, Montgomery, AL; $500,000 shall be available for the 

Alabama Humanities Foundation for a Statewide Initiative; 

$1,500,000 shall be available for Alabama State Docks Economic 

Development; $200,000 shall be available for the Alaska Small 

Business Development Center; $1,000,000 shall be available for 

the Alcorn State University Judicial Threat Analysis Center; 

$775,000 shall be available for Ben Franklin Technology Partners 

Translational Action Research Boards, Philadelphia, PA; $1,000,000 

shall be available for the Bring Back Broad Street Initiative, Mobile, 

AL; $450,000 shall be available for the City of Guin, AL, Industrial 

Development Initiative; $250,000 shall be available for the City 

of Monroeville, AL, Community Enrichment Project; $300,000 shall 

be available for the City of Oneonta, AL, for industrial development; 

$500,000 shall be available for the City of Richland Revitalization 

Project; $100,000 shall be available for community development 

in Randolph County, AL; $275,000 shall be available for the 

Community Development Project, Huntsville, AL; $500,000 shall 

be available for economic development in Lamar County, AL; 

$100,000 shall be available for the Great Lakes Business Growth 

and Development Center at Lorain County Community College; 

$200,000 shall be available for the Greenville Waterfront Industrial 

Enhancement Project; $50,000 shall be available for the Houston 

Community College Multi-Cultural Business Center; $75,000 shall 

be available for the Idaho Virtual Incubator at Lewis-Clark State 

College; $500,000 shall be available for Industrial Infrastructure 

in Hartselle, AL; $5,000,000 shall be available for the Industrial 

Outreach Service at Mississippi State University; $450,000 shall 

be available for infrastructure development in Chambers County, 
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AL; $200,000 shall be available for the Investnet/Technology Venture Center partnership for Alaska and Montana; $200,000 shall 

be available for the Knoxville College Small Business Incubator 

Program; $350,000 shall be available for the LeFleur Lakes Flood 

Control/Pearl River Watershed project; $750,000 shall be available 

for the Manufacturing Technology Initiative at Mississippi State 

University; $500,000 shall be available for the Mississippi Children’s Museum; $1,000,000 shall be available for the Mississippi 

Film Enterprise Zone; $1,250,000 shall be available for the Mississippi Technology Alliance Economic Development Plan; $500,000 

shall be available for the Mitchell Memorial Library for the 

digitization of special collections; $500,000 shall be available for 

the Montgomery, AL, Downtown Revitalization Project; $650,000 

shall be available for the New Product Development and Commercialization Center for Rural Manufacturers; $2,100,000 shall be 

available for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the Southeastern fiber optic project (Lambda Rail); $500,000 shall be available 

for the Old Fort McClellan Economic Development Initiative, 

Anniston, AL; $75,000 shall be available for the Pro-Tech Program 

at the College of Southern Idaho; $500,000 shall be available for 

the Shelby County, AL, Environmental Education Center; 

$2,000,000 shall be available for Small Business Development Centers in Mississippi; $100,000 shall be available for the South Carolina International Center for Automotive Research Park Innovation 

Center; $250,000 shall be available for the Technology Venture 

Center, MT; $25,000 shall be available for the Town of Millry, 

AL, for community development; $1,000,000 shall be available for 

the Toxin Alert Development Project at the University of Southern 

Mississippi; $500,000 shall be available for the Troy University 

Center for International Business and Economic Development; 

$900,000 shall be available for the Tuck School of Business/MBDA 

Partnership; $150,000 shall be available for the University of Alabama Community Development project; $350,000 shall be available 

for the University of West Alabama Regional Center for Community 

and Economic Development; $1,000,000 shall be available for the 

Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative at the Mississippi University 

for Women; $500,000 shall be available for the Montana Department 

of Administration for spatial data to enable economic development; 

$500,000 shall be available for the City of Fort Wayne, Indiana 

for the Institute for Orthopedic Biomaterials Research; $1,000,000 

shall be available for the New Mexico State University Arrowhead 

Center; $1,000,000 shall be available for the New Mexico Community Development Loan Fund/WESSTCorp. Cooperative; $1,500,000 

shall be available for the Inland Northwest Regional GigaPop Network Connectivity project; $300,000 shall be available for the 

Brooklyn, NY Chamber of Commerce for the Brooklyn Goes Global 

program; $500,000 shall be available for the Institute for Technology 

and Business Development at Central Connecticut State University; 

$500,000 shall be available for the Iowa Department of Economic 

Development for the Entrepreneurial Venture Assistance Project; 

$400,000 shall be available for the New Ventures Center in Davenport in Iowa; $400,000 shall be available for the Pappajohn 

Higher Education Center in Des Moines, Iowa; $250,000 shall be 

available for the University of Vermont Small Enterprise Research 

Initiative; $200,000 shall be available for the Genesis of Innovation 

in Rapid City, South Dakota; $500,000 shall be available for the 

Wisconsin Security Research Consortium, a collaboration between 
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the University of Wisconsin System and the Wisconsin Technology 

Council; $500,000 shall be available for the Rowan University Technology Center and Business Incubator; $1,500,000 shall be available 

for the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies; $500,000 shall 

be available for the Vermont Employee Ownership Center; $820,000 

shall be available for the Central Michigan University Center for 

Applied Research and Technology; $500,000 shall be available for 

the Nanotechnology Economic Development Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; $1,100,000 shall be available for 

the University of Arkansas’ Research and Technology Park; 

$600,000 shall be available for the Maryland Technology Development Corporation for the Minority R&D Initiative; $1,000,000 shall 

be available for the University of West Florida’s Statewide Small 

Business Development Center Network; $200,000 shall be available 

for the Nevada’s Commission on Economic Development; $1,000,000 

shall be available for the Clark County Department of Aviation, 

Las Vegas, Nevada to study and operate the international air 

trade show; $250,000 shall be available for the Corona-Elmhurst 

Center for Economic Development, New York; $180,000 shall be 

available for the Sephardic Angel Fund, New York City; $500,000 

shall be available for the Detroit Economic Growth Business Attraction Program; $250,000 shall be available for the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services’ One-Stop Permitting 

Portal; $250,000 shall be available for the Fossil Bed Park and 

Ancient Lands Field House; $100,000 shall be for a grant to Cedar 

Creek Battlefield Foundation; $100,000 shall be for a grant to 

Belle Grove Plantation; $250,000 shall be for a grant to Shenandoah 

University for a facility; $100,000 shall be for a grant to WinchesterFrederick Convention and Visitor Bureau; $2,000,000 shall be for 

a grant to Virginia Community College System for a web portal; 

$200,000 shall be for a grant to Americans at War; $500,000 shall 

be for a grant to Warren County, Virginia, for a community enhancement project; $2,000,000 shall be available for the United StatesChina Economic and Security Review Commission for projects to 

study Chinese policies and practices and their impacts on American 

interests, the American economy, and small businesses; $200,000 

shall be for a grant to the Myrtle Beach International Trade and 

Convention Center; $575,000 shall be for a grant to the Innovation 

and Outreach Center at the University of Mississippi; $500,000 

shall be for a grant to Competitive Manufacturing through Innovation Management at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh; $200,000 

shall be for a grant to Business and Industrial Incubator in Cushing, 

Oklahoma; $500,000 shall be for a grant to Patrick Henry Community College for a workforce development program; $500,000 shall 

be for a grant to Danville Community College for a workforce 

development program; $500,000 shall be for a grant to Advanced 

and Applied Polymer Processing Institute; $1,000,000 shall be for 

a grant to the Industrial Development Authority of Halifax, VA; 

$1,000,000 shall be for a grant to the University of Illinois for 

the Information Trust Initiative; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant 

to Aurora, IL, for construction and other activities related to community development; $200,000 shall be for a grant to Carnegie Mellon 

University for a Community-Based Demonstration Project; $500,000 

shall be for a grant to REI Rural Business and Resource Center 

in Seminole, Oklahoma; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to Appalachian State University; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to Western 

Carolina University for a computer engineering program; $1,000,000 
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shall be for a grant to International Small Business and Trade 

Institute; $500,000 shall be for a grant to the Illinois Institute 

for Technology to examine and assess advancements in biotechnologies; $3,000,000 shall be for a grant to the Southern and 

Eastern Kentucky Tourism Development Association; $2,500,000 

shall be for a grant to the Southern and Eastern Kentucky Economic 

Development Corporation; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to the 

National Center for Community Renewal; $250,000 shall be for 

a grant to Advanced Business Technology Incubator at College 

of the Canyons; $250,000 shall be for a grant to the Applied 

Competitive Technologies Program of the California Community 

Colleges; $250,000 shall be for a grant to Adirondack Champlain 

Fiber Network; $100,000 shall be for a grant to Amoskeag Business 

Incubator; $500,000 shall be for a grant to the Montana World 

Trade Center; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to the Fairplex Trade 

and Conference Center; $220,000 shall be for a grant to Virtual 

Business Incubator in Southeast Pennsylvania; $250,000 shall be 

for a grant to the Rochester Tooling and Machining Association; 

$600,000 shall be for a grant to Wittenberg University to expand 

business education; $500,000 shall be for a grant to Experience 

Works to expand opportunities for older workers; $1,000,000 shall 

be for a grant to Innovation Center in Peoria, Illinois; $1,250,000 

shall be for a grant to North Iowa Area Community College business 

incubator; $1,000,000 shall be for a grant to University of Redlands 

for development of a center to assist small business; $500,000 

shall be for a grant to McHenry County Economic Development 

Corporation; $300,000 shall be for a grant to Rockford Area Ventures in Rockford, Illinois; $1,100,000 shall be for a grant to Ohio 

Ready to Work program; $530,000 shall be for a grant to Michigan 

State University for the Institute for Trade in the Americas; 

$500,000 shall be for a grant to Bridgeport Regional Business 

Council for an economic integration initiative; $100,000 shall be 

for a grant to Cedarbridge Development Corporation for a redevelopment initiative; $100,000 shall be for a grant to the Heart of 

Florida Regional Coalition; $150,000 shall be for a grant to Syracuse, NY, for a small business community support program; 

$500,000 shall be for a grant to the Connect the Valley initiative; 

$500,000 shall be for a grant to the Chattanooga Enterprise Center 

for a demonstration project; $150,000 shall be available for a grant 

to St. Jerome Church for their community center project and programs in the Bronx, New York; $50,000 shall be available for 

a grant to establish the Tito Puente Legacy Project at Hostos 

Community College in New York; $150,000 shall be available for 

a grant to the Bronx Council on the Arts for its Arts Cultural 

Corridor Project to promote local arts initiatives; $50,000 shall 

be available for a grant to the South Bronx Action Group to provide 

housing related services to the community; $100,000 shall be available for a grant to Pro Co Technology, Inc. for their programs 

in the Bronx, New York; $150,000 shall be available for a grant 

to Bronx Shepherds for community programs; $200,000 shall be 

available for a grant to HOGAR, Inc. in the Bronx, New York; 

$50,000 shall be available for a grant to the Promesa Foundation 

to provide financial assistance to New York area families under 

a youth sports and recreational initiative; $100,000 shall be available for a grant to Promesa Enterprises in New York for infrastructure program support; $100,000 shall be available for a grant to 

Presbyterian Senior Services for capital costs for their Grandparent 
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Family Apartments project in the Bronx, New York; $50,000 shall 

be available for a grant to World Vision’s Bronx Storehouse for 

services in the community; $50,000 shall be available for a grant 

to the Bronx River Alliance for its services in the Bronx, New 

York; $600,000 shall be available to the Downtown Huntsville Small 

Business Enhancement Initiative; $150,000 shall be available for 

the Rhode Island College for the Project FLIP (Financial and Functional Literacy Incentive Program); $750,000 shall be available 

for the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island; 

$100,000 shall be available for the Newport County Chamber of 

Commerce for the Aquidneck Island Corporate Park Capital Program; $700,000 shall be available for the American Cities Foundation (ACF) Economic Development Initiative; $300,000 shall be 

available for CAP Services in Stevens Point, WI; $500,000 shall 

be available for the Northwest Regional Planning Commission; 

$400,000 shall be available for the Wisconsin Procurement Institute; 

$250,000 shall be for the JARI Workforce Development Program; 

$250,000 shall be for the JARI Small Business Technology Center; 

$400,000 shall be for the Economic Growth Connection Procurement 

Assistance Program; $300,000 shall be for the Franklin County, 

Massachusetts Community Development Corporation for a rural 

economic growth program; $1,870,000 shall be available for a grant 

to the MountainMade Foundation to fulfill its charter purposes 

and to continue the initiative developed by the NTTC for outreach 

and promotion, business and sites development, the education of 

artists and craftspeople, and to promote small businesses, artisans 

and their products through market development, advertisement, 

commercial sale and other promotional means; $1,000,000 shall 

be available for the INNOVA small business incubator; $30,000 

shall be available for the Town of Hambleton for upgrades and 

renovations to the town hall; $100,000 shall be available for the 

Parsons Revitalization Organization for planning purposes; 

$100,000 shall be available for Rowlesburg Revitalization Committee for neighborhood revitalization; $500,000 shall be available 

for the Institute for Entrepreneurship, Small Business Development 

and Global Logistics at California State University at Dominguez 

Hills, California; $300,000 shall be available for Brooklyn Economic 

Development Corporation in Brooklyn, New York to support and 

expand the Initiative for a Competitive Brooklyn; and $200,000 

shall be available for the Local Development Corporation of East 

New York for the Brooklyn Enterprise Center. 

SEC. 614. None of the funds made available to the Department 

of Justice in this Act may be used to discriminate against or 

denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate 

in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those 

funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such students. 

SEC. 615. All disaster loans issued in Alaska or North Dakota 

shall be administered by the Small Business Administration and 

shall not be sold during fiscal year 2006. 

SEC. 616. None of the funds made available in this Act may 

be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 

the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 

by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 

SEC. 617. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, 

the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Small Business 

Administration shall, not later than two months after the date 
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of the enactment of this Act, certify that telecommuting opportunities have increased over levels certified to the Committees on Appropriations for fiscal year 2005: Provided, That, of the total amounts 

appropriated to the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, 

the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Small Business 

Administration, $5,000,000 shall be available to each only upon 

such certification: Provided further, That each Department or 

agency shall provide quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations on the status of telecommuting programs, including the 

number and percentage of Federal employees eligible for, and 

participating in, such programs: Provided further, That each Department or agency shall maintain a ‘‘Telework Coordinator’’ to be 

responsible for overseeing the implementation and operations of 

telecommuting programs, and serve as a point of contact on such 

programs for the Committees on Appropriations. 

SEC. 618. With the consent of the President, the Secretary 

of Commerce shall represent the United States Government in 

negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding 

fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles: Provided, That the Secretary of Commerce shall be responsible for the development and 

interdepartmental coordination of the policies of the United States 

with respect to the international negotiations and agreements 

referred to in this section. 

SEC. 619. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

and the National Science Foundation shall, not later than two 

months after the date of the enactment of this Act, certify that 

telecommuting opportunities are made available to 100 percent 

of the eligible workforce: Provided, That, of the total amounts 

appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 

and the National Science Foundation, $5,000,000 shall be available 

to each agency only upon such certification: Provided further, That 

both agencies shall provide quarterly reports to the Committees 

on Appropriations on the status of telecommuting programs, 

including the number of Federal employees eligible for, and participating in, such programs: Provided further, That both agencies 

shall designate a ‘‘Telework Coordinator’’ to be responsible for overseeing the implementation and operations of telecommuting programs, and serve as a point of contact on such programs for the 

Committees on Appropriations. 

SEC. 620. Any funds provided in this Act used to implement 

E-Government Initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set 

forth in section 605 of this Act. 

SEC. 621. (a) Tracing studies conducted by the Bureau of 

Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are released without 

adequate disclaimers regarding the limitations of the data. 

(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 

shall include in all such data releases, language similar to the 

following that would make clear that trace data cannot be used 

to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime: 

(1) Firearm traces are designed to assist law enforcement 

authorities in conducting investigations by tracking the sale 

and possession of specific firearms. Law enforcement agencies 

may request firearms traces for any reason, and those reasons 

are not necessarily reported to the Federal Government. Not 

all firearms used in crime are traced and not all firearms 

traced are used in crime. 
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(2) Firearms selected for tracing are not chosen for purposes 

of determining which types, makes or models of firearms are 

used for illicit purposes. The firearms selected do not constitute 

a random sample and should not be considered representative 

of the larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or 

any subset of that universe. Firearms are normally traced 

to the first retail seller, and sources reported for firearms 

traced do not necessarily represent the sources or methods 

by which firearms in general are acquired for use in crime. 

SEC. 622. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 

be used by the Federal Communications Commission to modify, 

amend, or change its rules or regulations for universal service 

support payments to implement the February 27, 2004 recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service 

regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on universal 

service support payments. 

SEC. 623. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 

available under this Act may be used to issue patents on claims 

directed to or encompassing a human organism. 

SEC. 624. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 

be used in any way whatsoever to support or justify the use of 

torture by any official or contract employee of the United States 

Government. 

SEC. 625. Of the amounts made available in this Act, 

$393,616,321 from ‘‘Department of State’’; $27,938,072 from 

‘‘Department of Justice’’; $14,107,754 from ‘‘Department of Commerce’’; $426,314 from ‘‘United States Trade Representative’’; 

$575,116 from ‘‘Broadcasting Board of Governors’’; $291,855 from 

‘‘National Aeronautics and Space Administration’’; and $79,754 from 

‘‘National Science Foundation’’ shall be available for the purposes 

of implementing the Capital Security Cost Sharing program. 

SEC. 626. None of the funds made available to NASA in this 

Act may be used for voluntary separation incentive payments as 

provided for in subchapter II of chapter 35 of title 5, United States 

Code, unless the Administrator of NASA has first certified to Congress that such payments would not result in the loss of skills 

related to the safety of the Space Shuttle or the International 

Space Station or to the conduct of independent safety oversight 

in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 

SEC. 627. Notwithstanding 40 U.S.C. 524, 571, and 572, the 

Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may sell the National Aeronautics and Space Administrationowned property on the Camp Parks Military Reservation, Alameda 

County, California. 

SEC. 628. (a) IN GENERAL.—The President of the United States 

through his designee the Administrator of the National Aeronautics 

and Space Administration and in consultation with other Federal 

agencies shall develop a national aeronautics policy to guide the 

aeronautics programs of the Administration through 2020. 

(b) CONTENT.—At a minimum, the national aeronautics policy 

shall describe—

(1) the priority areas of research for aeronautics through 

fiscal year 2011; 

(2) the basis on which and the process by which priorities 

for ensuing fiscal years will be selected; 

(3) the facilities and personnel needed to carry out the 

program through fiscal year 2011; and 
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(4) the budget assumptions on which the national aeronautics policy is based. 

(c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In developing the national aeronautics 

policy, the President shall consider the following questions, which 

shall be discussed in the policy statement—

(1) the extent to which NASA should focus on long-term, 

high-risk research or more incremental research or both and 

the expected impact on the U.S. aircraft and airline industries 

of those decisions; 

(2) the extent to which NASA should address military 

and commercial needs; 

(3) how NASA will coordinate its aeronautics program with 

other Federal agencies; and 

(4) the extent to which NASA will fund university research 

and the expected impact of that funding on the supply of 

U.S. workers for the aeronautics industry. 

(d) CONSULTATION.—In developing the national aeronautics 

policy, the Administrator shall consult widely with academic and 

industry experts and with other Federal agencies. The Administrator may enter into an arrangement with the National Academy 

of Sciences to help develop the national aeronautics policy. 

(e) SCHEDULE.—The Administrator shall submit the new 

national aeronautics policy to the House and Senate Committees 

on Appropriations and to the House Committee on Science and 

the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 

within one year of enactment of this Act. The Administrator shall 

make available to the Congress any study done by a non-governmental entity that was used in the development of the national 

aeronautics policy. 

SEC. 629. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or 

treaty, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 

under this Act or any other Act may be expended or obligated 

by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 

to pay administrative expenses or to compensate an officer or 

employee of the United States in connection with requiring an 

export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, accessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category I, section 

121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), part 121, as it existed on 

April 1, 2005) with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale 

in any transaction, provided that the conditions of subsection (b) 

of this section are met by the exporting party for such articles. 

(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export license—

(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any Shipper’s 

Export Declaration or notification letter required by law, or 

from being otherwise eligible under the laws of the United 

States to possess, ship, transport, or export the articles enumerated in subsection (a); and 

(2) does not permit the export without a license of—

(A) fully automatic firearms and components and parts 

for such firearms, other than for end use by the Federal 

Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of 

Canada; 

(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete 

breech mechanisms for any firearm listed in Category I, 

other than for end use by the Federal Government, or 

a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; or 
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(C) articles for export from Canada to another foreign 

destination. 

(c) In accordance with this section, the District Directors of 

Customs and postmasters shall permit the permanent or temporary 

export without a license of any unclassified articles specified in 

subsection (a) to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the 

United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from 

Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada 

for a Canadian citizen. 

(d) The President may require export licenses under this section 

on a temporary basis if the President determines, upon publication 

first in the Federal Register, that the Government of Canada has 

implemented or maintained inadequate import controls for the articles specified in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion 

of such articles has and continues to take place for use in international terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another 

nation. The President shall terminate the requirements of a license 

when reasons for the temporary requirements have ceased. 

SEC. 630. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 

department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 

receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any other Act shall 

obligate or expend in any way such funds to pay administrative 

expenses or the compensation of any officer or employee of the 

United States to deny any application submitted pursuant to 22 

U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR Sec. 478.112 

or .113, for a permit to import United States origin ‘‘curios or 

relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 

SEC. 631. None of the funds made available in this Act may 

be used to include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agreement the text of— 

(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 

(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement; or 

(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United States-Morocco 

Free Trade Agreement. 

SEC. 632. Of the funds appropriated to the Federal Trade 

Commission by this Act, not less than $1,000,000 shall be used 

by the Commission to conduct an immediate investigation into 

nationwide gasoline prices in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina: 

Provided, That the investigation shall include: (1) any evidence 

of price-gouging by companies with total United States wholesale 

sales of gasoline and petroleum distillates for calendar 2004 in 

excess of $500,000,000 and by any retail distributor of gasoline 

and petroleum distillates against which multiple formal complaints 

(that identify the location of a particular retail distributor and 

provide contact information for the complainant) of price-gouging 

were filed in August or September, 2005, with a Federal or State 

consumer protection agency; (2) a comparison of, and an explanation 

of the reasons for changes in, profit levels of such companies during 

the 12-month period ending on August 31, 2005, and their profit 

levels for the month of September, 2005, including information 

for particular companies on a basis that does not permit the identification of any company to which the information relates; (3) a 

summary of tax expenditures (as defined in section 3(3) of the 

Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 
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U.S.C. 622(3)) for such companies; (4) the effects of increased gasoline prices and gasoline price-gouging on economic activity in the 

United States; and (5) the overall cost of increased gasoline prices 

and gasoline price-gouging to the economy, including the impact 

on consumers’ purchasing power in both declared State and 

National disaster areas and elsewhere: Provided further, That, in 

conducting its investigation, the Commission shall treat as evidence 

of price-gouging any finding that the average price of gasoline 

available for sale to the public in September, 2005, or thereafter 

in a market area located in an area designated as a State or 

National disaster area because of Hurricane Katrina, or in any 

other area where price-gouging complaints have been filed because 

of Hurricane Katrina with a Federal or State consumer protection 

agency, exceeded the average price of such gasoline in that area 

for the month of August, 2005, unless the Commission finds 

substantial evidence that the increase is substantially attributable 

to additional costs in connection with the production, transportation, 

delivery, and sale of gasoline in that area or to national or international market trends: Provided further, That in any areas of 

markets in which the Commission determines price increases are 

due to factors other than the additional costs, it shall also notify 

the appropriate State agency of its findings: Provided further, That 

the Commission shall provide information on the progress of the 

investigation to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees, 

the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, 

and the House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce every 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, shall 

provide those Committees a written interim report 90 days after 

such date, and shall transmit a final report to those Committees, 

together with its findings and recommendations, no later than 

180 days after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, 

That the Commission shall transmit recommendations, based on 

its findings, to the Congress for any legislation necessary to protect 

consumers from gasoline price-gouging in both State and National 

disaster areas and elsewhere: Provided further, That chapter 35 

of title 44, United States Code, does not apply to the collection 

of information for the investigation required by this section: Provided further, That if, during the investigation, the Commission 

obtains evidence that a person may have violated a criminal law, 

the Commission may transmit that evidence to appropriate Federal 

or State authorities: Provided further, That nothing in this section 

affects any other authority of the Commission to disclose information. 

SEC. 633. Section 302 of the Universal Service Antideficiency 

Temporary Suspension Act is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 

2005,’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2006,’’. 

SEC. 634. None of the funds made available in this Act may 

be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 

50 employees of agencies or departments of the United States 

Government who are stationed in the United States, at any single 

international conference occurring outside the United States, unless 

the Secretary of State determines that such attendance is in the 

national interest: Provided, That for purposes of this section the 

term ‘‘international conference’’ shall mean a conference attended 

by representatives of the United States Government and representatives of foreign governments, international organizations, or nongovernmental organizations. 
H. R. 2862—57

SEC. 635. (a) MODIFICATION OF RESPONSIBILITIES.—Notwithstanding any provision of section 1238 of the Floyd D. Spence 

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (22 U.S.C. 

7002), or any other provision of law, the United States–China 

Economic and Security Review Commission established by subsection (b) of that section shall investigate and report exclusively 

on each of the following areas: 

(1) PROLIFERATION PRACTICES.—The role of the People’s 

Republic of China in the proliferation of weapons of mass 

destruction and other weapons (including dual use technologies), including actions the United States might take to 

encourage the People’s Republic of China to cease such practices. 

(2) ECONOMIC TRANSFERS.—The qualitative and quantitative nature of the transfer of United States production 

activities to the People’s Republic of China, including the relocation of high technology, manufacturing, and research and 

development facilities, the impact of such transfers on United 

States national security, the adequacy of United States export 

control laws, and the effect of such transfers on United States 

economic security and employment. 

(3) ENERGY.—The effect of the large and growing economy 

of the People’s Republic of China on world energy supplies 

and the role the United States can play (including through 

joint research and development efforts and technological assistance) in influencing the energy policy of the People’s Republic 

of China. 

(4) ACCESS TO UNITED STATES CAPITAL MARKETS.—The 

extent of access to and use of United States capital markets 

by the People’s Republic of China, including whether or not 

existing disclosure and transparency rules are adequate to identify People’s Republic of China companies engaged in harmful 

activities. 

(5) REGIONAL ECONOMIC AND SECURITY IMPACTS.—The triangular economic and security relationship among the United 

States, Taipei, and the People’s Republic of China (including 

the military modernization and force deployments of the People’s Republic of China aimed at Taipei), the national budget 

of the People’s Republic of China, and the fiscal strength of 

the People’s Republic of China in relation to internal instability 

in the People’s Republic of China and the likelihood of the 

externalization of problems arising from such internal instability. 

(6) UNITED STATES-CHINA BILATERAL PROGRAMS.—Science 

and technology programs, the degree of non-compliance by the 

People’s Republic of China with agreements between the United 

States and the People’s Republic of China on prison labor 

imports and intellectual property rights, and United States 

enforcement policies with respect to such agreements. 

(7) WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION COMPLIANCE.—The compliance of the People’s Republic of China with its accession agreement to the World Trade Organization (WTO). 

(8) FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.—The implications of restrictions on speech and access to information in the People’s 

Republic of China for its relations with the United States 

in the areas of economic and security policy. 
H. R. 2862—58

(b) APPLICABILITY OF FEDERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ACT.—

Subsection (g) of section 1238 of the Floyd D. Spence National 

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 is amended to 

read as follows: 

‘‘(g) APPLICABILITY OF FACA.—The provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall apply to the activities 

of the Commission.’’. 

SEC. 636. Section 635 of division B of Public Law 108–447 

is amended by striking ‘‘balance’’ and inserting ‘‘and unexpended 

balances’’. 

SEC. 637. None of the funds made available in this Act may 

be used to pay expenses for any United States delegation to any 

specialized agency, body, or commission of the United Nations if 

such commission is chaired or presided over by a country, the 

government of which the Secretary of State has determined, for 

purposes of section 6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 

1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), has provided support for acts 

of international terrorism. 

(RESCISSION)

SEC. 638. (a) There is hereby rescinded an amount equal to 

0.28 percent of the budget authority provided for in fiscal year 

2006 for any discretionary account in this Act. 

(b) Any rescission made by subsection (a) shall be applied 

proportionately—

(1) to each discretionary account and each item of budget 

authority described in subsection (a); and 

(2) within each such account and item, to each program, 

project, and activity (with programs, projects, and activities 

as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying reports 

for the relevant fiscal year covering such account or item, 

or for accounts and items not included in appropriation Acts, 

as delineated in the most recently submitted President’s 

budget). 

TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

WORKING CAPITAL FUND

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$2,500,000 are rescinded. 

LEGAL ACTIVITIES

ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$102,000,000 are rescinded. 
H. R. 2862—59

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$25,000,000 are rescinded. 

OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, $110,500,000 are rescinded. 

COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$86,500,000 are rescinded. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available in accounts under this heading from prior year appropriations, $25,000,000 are rescinded. 

RELATED AGENCIES 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$25,300,000 are rescinded. 

FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$12,000,000 are rescinded. 

MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$920,000 are rescinded. 
H. R. 2862—60

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$3,000,000 are rescinded. 

BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT

(RESCISSION)

Of the unobligated balances available under this heading, 

$4,000,000 are rescinded. 

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Science, State, Justice, Commerce, 

and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006’’.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.