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107TH CONGRESS REPORT " ! HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 1st Session 107–342

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, HEALTH

AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES FOR

THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2002, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

DECEMBER 19 (legislative day, DECEMBER 8), 2001.—Ordered to be printed

Mr. REGULA, from the committee of conference,

submitted the following

CONFERENCE REPORT

[To accompany H.R. 3061]

The committee of conference on the disagreeing votes of the

two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3061)

‘‘making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and

Human Services, and Education, and related agencies for the fiscal

year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes’’, having

met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and

do recommend to their respective Houses as follows:

That the House recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the Senate, and agree to the same with an amendment, as

follows:

In lieu of the matter stricken and inserted by said amendment,

insert:

That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the

Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of Labor,

Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies

for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes, namely:

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION

TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act, including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and other facilities, and the

purchase of real property for training centers as authorized by the

Workforce Investment Act; the Women in Apprenticeship and NonVerDate 11-MAY-2000 06:25 Jan 03, 2002 Jkt 076719 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6603 E:\HR\OC\HR342.XXX pfrm11 PsN: HR342
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traditional Occupations Act; and the National Skill Standards Act

of 1994; $3,167,282,000 plus reimbursements, of which

$1,779,342,000 is available for obligation for the period July 1,

2002 through June 30, 2003; of which $1,353,065,000 is available

for obligation for the period April 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003,

including $1,127,965,000 to carry out chapter 4 of the Workforce Investment Act and $225,100,000 to carry out section 169 of such Act;

and of which $3,500,000 is available for obligation October 1, 2001

until expended for carrying out the National Skills Standards Act

of 1994; and of which $30,375,000 is available for the period July

1, 2002 through June 30, 2005 for necessary expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of Job Corps centers: Provided,

That $9,098,000 shall be for carrying out section 172 of the Workforce Investment Act: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any

other provision of law or related regulation, $80,770,000 shall be for

carrying out section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act, including

$74,965,000 for formula grants, $4,786,000 for migrant and seasonal housing, and $1,019,000 for other discretionary purposes: Provided further, That funding provided herein under section 166 of

the Workforce Investment Act shall include $1,711,000 for use under

section 166(j)(1) of the Act: Provided further, That funds provided

to carry out section 171(d) of the Workforce Investment Act may be

used for demonstration projects that provide assistance to new entrants in the workforce and incumbent workers: Provided further,

That funding provided to carry out projects under section 171 of the

Workforce Investment Act that are identified in the Conference

Agreement, shall not be subject to the requirements of section

171(b)(2)(B) of such Act, the requirements of section 171(c)(4)(D) of

such Act, or the joint funding requirements of sections 171(b)(2)(A)

and 171(c)(4)(A) of such Act: Provided further, That no funds from

any other appropriation shall be used to provide meal services at or

for Job Corps centers.

For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act, including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and other facilities, and the

purchase of real property for training centers as authorized by the

Workforce Investment Act; $2,463,000,000 plus reimbursements, of

which $2,363,000,000 is available for obligation for the period October 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, and of which $100,000,000 is

available for the period October 1, 2002 through June 30, 2005, for

necessary expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and acquisition of

Job Corps centers.

COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS

To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as

amended, $445,100,000.

FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES

For payments during the current fiscal year of trade adjustment

benefit payments and allowances under part I; and for training, allowances for job search and relocation, and related State administrative expenses under part II, subchapters B and D, chapter 2, title

II of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, $415,650,000, together

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quent appropriation for payments for any period subsequent to September 15 of the current year.

STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

OPERATIONS

For authorized administrative expenses, $163,452,000, together

with not to exceed $3,237,886,000 (including not to exceed

$1,228,000 which may be used for amortization payments to States

which had independent retirement plans in their State employment

service agencies prior to 1980), which may be expended from the

Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment

Trust Fund including the cost of administering section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, section 7(d) of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, the Trade Act of 1974, as amended, the

Immigration Act of 1990, and the Immigration and Nationality Act,

as amended, and of which the sums available in the allocation for

activities authorized by title III of the Social Security Act, as

amended (42 U.S.C. 502–504), and the sums available in the allocation for necessary administrative expenses for carrying out 5 U.S.C.

8501–8523, shall be available for obligation by the States through

December 31, 2002, except that funds used for automation acquisitions shall be available for obligation by the States through September 30, 2004; and of which $163,452,000, together with not to

exceed $773,283,000 of the amount which may be expended from

said trust fund, shall be available for obligation for the period July

1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, to fund activities under the Act of

June 6, 1933, as amended, including the cost of penalty mail authorized under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E) made available to States in

lieu of allotments for such purpose: Provided, That to the extent that

the Average Weekly Insured Unemployment (AWIU) for fiscal year

2002 is projected by the Department of Labor to exceed 2,622,000,

an additional $28,600,000 shall be available for obligation for every

100,000 increase in the AWIU level (including a pro rata amount

for any increment less than 100,000) from the Employment Security

Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided

further, That funds appropriated in this Act which are used to establish a national one-stop career center system, or which are used

to support the national activities of the Federal-State unemployment

insurance programs, may be obligated in contracts, grants or agreements with non-State entities: Provided further, That funds appropriated under this Act for activities authorized under the WagnerPeyser Act, as amended, and title III of the Social Security Act, may

be used by the States to fund integrated Employment Service and

Unemployment Insurance automation efforts, notwithstanding cost

allocation principles prescribed under Office of Management and

Budget Circular A–87: Provided further, That notwithstanding any

other provisions of law, the portion of the funds received by the

State of Mississippi in the settlement of litigation with a contractor

relating to the acquisition of an automated system for benefit payments under the unemployment compensation program that is attributable to the expenditure of Federal grant funds awarded to the

State shall be transferred to the account under this heading and

shall be made available by the Department of Labor to the State of

Mississippi for obligation by the State through fiscal year 2004 to

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carry out automation and related activities under the unemployment compensation program.

ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND OTHER FUNDS

For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund as

authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the Social Security Act,

as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954,

as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to the Unemployment

Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United States

Code, and to the ‘‘Federal unemployment benefits and allowances’’

account, to remain available until September 30, 2003,

$464,000,000.

In addition, for making repayable advances to the Black Lung

Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal year after September 15,

2002, for costs incurred by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund

in the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary.

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

For expenses of administering employment and training programs, $113,356,000, including $5,934,000 to administer welfare-towork grants, together with not to exceed $48,507,000, which may be

expended from the Employment Security Administration Account in

the Unemployment Trust Fund.

PENSION AND WELFARE BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, $109,866,000.

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to

make such expenditures, including financial assistance authorized

by section 104 of Public Law 96–364, within limits of funds and

borrowing authority available to such Corporation, and in accord

with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 9104), as

may be necessary in carrying out the program through September

30, 2002, for such Corporation: Provided, That not to exceed

$11,690,000 shall be available for administrative expenses of the

Corporation: Provided further, That expenses of such Corporation in

connection with the termination of pension plans, for the acquisition, protection or management, and investment of trust assets, and

for benefits administration services shall be considered as non-administrative expenses for the purposes hereof, and excluded from the

above limitation.

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EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards Administration, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local

agencies and their employees for inspection services rendered,

$369,220,000, together with $1,981,000 which may be expended

from the Special Fund in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d) and

44(j) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act: Provided, That $2,000,000 shall be for the development of an alternative system for the electronic submission of reports required to be

filed under the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of

1959, as amended, and for a computer database of the information

for each submission by whatever means, that is indexed and easily

searchable by the public via the Internet: Provided further, That the

Secretary of Labor is authorized to accept, retain, and spend, until

expended, in the name of the Department of Labor, all sums of

money ordered to be paid to the Secretary of Labor, in accordance

with the terms of the Consent Judgment in Civil Action No. 91–

0027 of the United States District Court for the District of the

Northern Mariana Islands (May 21, 1992): Provided further, That

the Secretary of Labor is authorized to establish and, in accordance

with 31 U.S.C. 3302, collect and deposit in the Treasury fees for

processing applications and issuing certificates under sections 11(d)

and 14 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended (29

U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for processing applications and issuing

registrations under title I of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural

Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.).

SPECIAL BENEFITS

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses (except

administrative expenses) accruing during the current or any prior

fiscal year authorized by title 5, chapter 81 of the United States

Code; continuation of benefits as provided for under the heading

‘‘Civilian War Benefits’’ in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the Employees’ Compensation Commission Appropriation Act, 1944; sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims Act of

1948 (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 percent of the additional compensation and benefits required by section 10(h) of the Longshore

and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, as amended, $121,000,000

together with such amounts as may be necessary to be charged to

the subsequent year appropriation for the payment of compensation

and other benefits for any period subsequent to August 15 of the

current year: Provided, That amounts appropriated may be used

under section 8104 of title 5, United States Code, by the Secretary

of Labor to reimburse an employer, who is not the employer at the

time of injury, for portions of the salary of a reemployed, disabled

beneficiary: Provided further, That balances of reimbursements unobligated on September 30, 2001, shall remain available until expended for the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses:

Provided further, That in addition there shall be transferred to this

appropriation from the Postal Service and from any other corporation or instrumentality required under section 8147(c) of title 5,

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United States Code, to pay an amount for its fair share of the cost

of administration, such sums as the Secretary determines to be the

cost of administration for employees of such fair share entities

through September 30, 2002: Provided further, That of those funds

transferred to this account from the fair share entities to pay the

cost of administration of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act,

$36,696,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as follows: (1)

for the operation of and enhancement to the automated data processing systems, including document imaging and conversion to a

paperless office, $24,522,000; (2) for medical bill review and periodic roll management, $11,474,000; (3) for communications redesign, $700,000; and (4) the remaining funds shall be paid into the

Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any person filing a notice of injury or a

claim for benefits under chapter 81 of title 5, United States Code,

or 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq., provide as part of such notice and claim,

such identifying information (including Social Security account

number) as such regulations may prescribe.

ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act, $136,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to transfer to any Executive agency with authority under

the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act, including within the Department of Labor, such sums as may be necessary in fiscal year 2002 to carry out those authorities: Provided

further, That the Secretary may require that any person filing a

claim for benefits under the Act provide as part of such claim, such

identifying information (including Social Security account number)

as may be prescribed.

BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For payments from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund,

$1,036,115,000, of which $981,283,000 shall be available until September 30, 2003, for payment of all benefits as authorized by section

9501(d)(1), (2), (4), and (7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954,

as amended, and interest on advances as authorized by section

9501(c)(2) of that Act, and of which $31,558,000 shall be available

for transfer to Employment Standards Administration, Salaries and

Expenses, $22,590,000 for transfer to Departmental Management,

Salaries and Expenses, $328,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, Office of Inspector General, and $356,000 for payment into

miscellaneous receipts for the expenses of the Department of Treasury, for expenses of operation and administration of the Black Lung

Benefits program as authorized by section 9501(d)(5) of that Act:

Provided, That, in addition, such amounts as may be necessary may

be charged to the subsequent year appropriation for the payment of

compensation, interest, or other benefits for any period subsequent

to August 15 of the current year.

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OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and Health

Administration, $443,651,000, including not to exceed $89,747,000

which shall be the maximum amount available for grants to States

under section 23(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act,

which grants shall be no less than 50 percent of the costs of State

occupational safety and health programs required to be incurred

under plans approved by the Secretary under section 18 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration may retain up to $750,000 per fiscal year of training

institute course tuition fees, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, and may utilize such sums for occupational safety and

health training and education grants: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary of Labor is authorized, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, to collect and retain

fees for services provided to Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories, and may utilize such sums, in accordance with the provisions

of 29 U.S.C. 9a, to administer national and international laboratory

recognition programs that ensure the safety of equipment and products used by workers in the workplace: Provided further, That none

of the funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated

or expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard,

rule, regulation, or order under the Occupational Safety and Health

Act of 1970 which is applicable to any person who is engaged in a

farming operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp

and employs 10 or fewer employees: Provided further, That no funds

appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or expended

to administer or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order

under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 with respect

to any employer of 10 or fewer employees who is included within a

category having an occupational injury lost workday case rate, at

the most precise Standard Industrial Classification Code for which

such data are published, less than the national average rate as such

rates are most recently published by the Secretary, acting through

the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in accordance with section 24 of that

Act (29 U.S.C. 673), except—

(1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, consultation, technical assistance, educational and training services, and to conduct surveys and studies;

(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in response to

an employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations found

during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for violations

which are not corrected within a reasonable abatement period

and for any willful violations found;

(3) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect

to imminent dangers;

(4) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect

to health hazards;

(5) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect

to a report of an employment accident which is fatal to one or

more employees or which results in hospitalization of two or

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more employees, and to take any action pursuant to such investigation authorized by such Act; and

(6) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect

to complaints of discrimination against employees for exercising

rights under such Act:

Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply to any

person who is engaged in a farming operation which does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer employees.

MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health Admin- istration, $254,768,000, including purchase and bestowal of certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-aid

work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles; including up to

$1,000,000 for mine rescue and recovery activities, which shall be

available only to the extent that fiscal year 2002 obligations for

these activities exceed $1,000,000; in addition, not to exceed

$750,000 may be collected by the National Mine Health and Safety

Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale of training materials, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, to be available for

mine safety and health education and training activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; and, in addition, the Mine Safety and

Health Administration may retain up to $1,000,000 from fees collected for the approval and certification of equipment, materials,

and explosives for use in mines, and may utilize such sums for such

activities; the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, buildings,

equipment, and other contributions from public and private sources

and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or private; the Mine Safety and Health Administration

is authorized to promote health and safety education and training

in the mining community through cooperative programs with

States, industry, and safety associations; and any funds available

to the department may be used, with the approval of the Secretary,

to provide for the costs of mine rescue and survival operations in

the event of a major disaster.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and local

agencies and their employees for services rendered, $397,142,000, together with not to exceed $69,132,000, which may be expended from

the Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund; and $10,280,000 which shall be available for obligation for the period July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003, for Occupational Employment Statistics.

OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability Employment

Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and initiatives, and

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award grants furthering the objective of eliminating barriers to the

training and employment of people with disabilities, $38,158,000, of

which $2,640,000 shall be for the President’s Task Force on the Employment of Adults with Disabilities.

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, including the hire of three sedans, and including the management or operation, through contracts, grants or other arrangements of Departmental activities conducted by or through the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, including bilateral and multilateral technical assistance and other international labor activities, of which

the funds designated to carry out bilateral assistance under the

international child labor initiative shall be available for obligation

through September 30, 2003, and $50,000,000, for the acquisition of

Departmental information technology, architecture, infrastructure,

equipment, software and related needs which will be allocated by

the Department’s Chief Information Officer in accordance with the

Department’s capital investment management process to assure a sound investment strategy; $378,778,000; together with not to exceed

$310,000, which may be expended from the Employment Security

Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided, That no funds made available by this Act may be used by

the Solicitor of Labor to participate in a review in any United States

court of appeals of any decision made by the Benefits Review Board

under section 21 of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C. 921) where such participation is precluded by

the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Director, Office

of Workers’ Compensation Programs v. Newport News Shipbuilding,

115 S. Ct. 1278 (1995), notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained in Rule 15 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure: Provided further, That no funds made available by this Act

may be used by the Secretary of Labor to review a decision under

the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (33 U.S.C.

901 et seq.) that has been appealed and that has been pending before the Benefits Review Board for more than 12 months: Provided

further, That any such decision pending a review by the Benefits Review Board for more than 1 year shall be considered affirmed by the

Benefits Review Board on the 1-year anniversary of the filing of the

appeal, and shall be considered the final order of the Board for purposes of obtaining a review in the United States courts of appeals:

Provided further, That these provisions shall not be applicable to

the review or appeal of any decision issued under the Black Lung

Benefits Act (30 U.S.C. 901 et seq.).

VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

Not to exceed $186,903,000 may be derived from the Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust

Fund to carry out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4100–4110A, 4212,

4214, and 4321–4327, and Public Law 103–353, and which shall be

available for obligation by the States through December 31, 2002.

To carry out the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and

section 168 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, $25,800,000,

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of which $7,550,000 shall be available for obligation for the period

July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003.

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General in

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

amended, $52,182,000, together with not to exceed $4,951,000,

which may be expended from the Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this title for the

Job Corps shall be used to pay the compensation of an individual,

either as direct costs or any proration as an indirect cost, at a rate

in excess of Executive Level II.

(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds

(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control

Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act may be transferred

between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That

the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Labor Appropriations Act, 2002’’.

TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES

For carrying out titles II, III, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and XXVI

of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal

Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and sections 1128E and 1820

of the Social Security Act, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act

of 1986, as amended, the Native Hawaiian Health Care Act of 1988,

as amended, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000, and the Poison Control Center Enhancement and Awareness Act,

$6,081,237,000, of which $311,978,000 shall be available for construction and renovation of health care and other facilities, and of

which $40,000,000 from general revenues, notwithstanding section

1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall be available for carrying out

the Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants program under section

1820 of such Act: Provided, That of the funds made available under

this heading, $250,000 shall be available until expended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center: Provided further, That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b)

of the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be

collected for the full disclosure of information under the Act sufficient to recover the full costs of operating the National Practitioner

Data Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry out

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that Act: Provided further, That fees collected for the full disclosure

of information under the ‘‘Health Care Fraud and Abuse Data Collection Program’’, authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the Social

Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover the full costs of operating

the program, and shall remain available until expended to carry out

that Act: Provided further, That no more than $15,000,000 is available for carrying out the provisions of Public Law 104–73: Provided

further, That of the funds made available under this heading,

$265,085,000 shall be for the program under title X of the Public

Health Service Act to provide for voluntary family planning

projects: Provided further, That amounts provided to said projects

under such title shall not be expended for abortions, that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and that such amounts

shall not be expended for any activity (including the publication or

distribution of literature) that in any way tends to promote public

support or opposition to any legislative proposal or candidate for

public office: Provided further, That $639,000,000 shall be for State

AIDS Drug Assistance Programs authorized by section 2616 of the

Public Health Service Act: Provided further, That of the amount

provided under this heading, $80,000 shall be for the Wausau

Health Foundation in Wausau, Wisconsin, for a survey and analysis

of local health professionals’ career paths to better understand entry into and exit from health professions, $100,000 shall be for the University of San Diego Institute for the Advancement of Health Policy

to assess through teaching, research and delivery of services the impact of public policy on families from vulnerable populations,

$200,000 shall be for the Luna County, New Mexico and the Columbus Volunteer Fire Department to provide emergency medical services to immigrants, $350,000 shall be for the Clinical Pharmacy

Training Program at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, $475,000

shall be for the American Federation of Negro Affairs, $500,000

shall be for the University of Washington Center for Health Workforce Studies in Seattle, Washington, for a demonstration project to

collect and analyze health workforce data, $800,000 shall be for the

University of Iowa for the training of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, $1,000,000 shall be for the Washington Health Foundation for a comprehensive demonstration project on improving nurse

retention, and $1,100,000 shall be for the Iowa Department of Public Health to create a Center for Health Care Workforce Shortage:

Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 502(a)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to exceed $115,236,000 is available for carrying out special projects of regional and national significance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of such Act, of which $50,000 is for the

Center for Great Expectations, Somerville, New Jersey to provide

prenatal health care, education and counseling for pregnant teens,

$565,000 is for the Milwaukee Health Department for a pilot program providing health care services to at-risk children in day care,

and $4,000,000 is for the Columbia Hospital for Women Medical

Center in Washington, D.C., to support community outreach programs for women: Provided further, That $10,000,000 is available

for special projects of regional and national significance under section 501(a)(2) of the Social Security Act, which shall not be counted

toward compliance with the allocation required in section 502(a)(1)

of such Act, and which shall be used only for making competitive

grants to provide abstinence education (as defined in section

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510(b)(2) of such Act) to adolescents and for evaluations (including

longitudinal evaluations) of activities under the grants and for Federal costs of administering the grants: Provided further, That grants

under the immediately preceding proviso shall be made only to public and private entities which agree that, with respect to an adolescent to whom the entities provide abstinence education under such

grant, the entities will not provide to that adolescent any other education regarding sexual conduct, except that, in the case of an entity

expressly required by law to provide health information or services

the adolescent shall not be precluded from seeking health information or services from the entity in a different setting than the setting

in which the abstinence education was provided: Provided further,

That the funds expended for such evaluations may not exceed 3.5

percent of such amount.

HEALTH EDUCATION ASSISTANCE LOANS PROGRAM

Such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the

program, as authorized by title VII of the Public Health Service Act,

as amended. For administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, including section 709 of the Public Health Service Act, $3,792,000.

VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM TRUST FUND

For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program

Trust Fund, such sums as may be necessary for claims associated

with vaccine-related injury or death with respect to vaccines administered after September 30, 1988, pursuant to subtitle 2 of title XXI

of the Public Health Service Act, to remain available until expended: Provided, That for necessary administrative expenses, not to

exceed $2,992,000 shall be available from the Trust Fund to the

Secretary of Health and Human Services.

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING

To carry out titles II, III, VII, XI, XV, XVII, XIX, and XXVI of

the Public Health Service Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 203,

301, and 501 of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977,

sections 20, 21, and 22 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act

of 1970, title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and section

501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; including insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries; and hire,

maintenance, and operation of aircraft, $4,293,151,000, of which

$250,000,000 shall remain available until expended for equipment

and construction and renovation of facilities, and of which

$143,763,000 for international HIV/AIDS shall remain available

until September 30, 2003, and in addition, such sums as may be

derived from authorized user fees, which shall be credited to this account: Provided, That in addition to amounts provided herein, up

to $23,286,000 shall be available from amounts available under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act to carry out the National

Center for Health Statistics surveys: Provided further, That none of

the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the

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direct the total amount made available under authority of Public

Law 101–502, section 3, dated November 3, 1990, to activities the

Director may so designate: Provided further, That the Congress is

to be notified promptly of any such transfer: Provided further, That

not to exceed $10,000,000 may be available for making grants under

section 1509 of the Public Health Service Act to not more than 15

States: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision

of law, a single contract or related contracts for development and

construction of facilities may be employed which collectively include

the full scope of the project: Provided further, That the solicitation

and contract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found

at 48 CFR 52.232–18.

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to cancer, $4,190,405,000.

NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases,

and blood and blood products, $2,576,125,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to dental disease, $343,327,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY

DISEASES

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and kidney disease, $1,466,833,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to neurological disorders and stroke,

$1,328,188,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to allergy and infectious diseases,

$2,372,278,000: Provided, That the Director may transfer up to

$25,000,000 to International Assistance Programs, ‘‘Global Fund to

Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis’’, to remain available

until expended.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to general medical sciences, $1,725,263,000.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to child health and human development,

$1,113,605,000.

NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to eye diseases and visual disorders,

$581,366,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

For carrying out sections 301 and 311 and title IV of the Public

Health Service Act with respect to environmental health sciences,

$566,639,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to aging, $893,443,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND

SKIN DISEASES

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin

diseases, $448,865,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION

DISORDERS

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to deafness and other communication disorders, $342,072,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to nursing research, $120,451,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism,

$384,238,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to drug abuse, $888,105,000.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to mental health, $1,248,626,000.

NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to human genome research, $429,515,000.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to biomedical imaging and bioengineering

research, $111,984,000.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to research resources and general research

support grants, $1,011,594,000: Provided, That none of these funds

shall be used to pay recipients of the general research support

grants program any amount for indirect expenses in connection with

such grants: Provided further, That $110,000,000 shall be for extramural facilities construction grants, of which $5,000,000 shall be

for beginning construction of facilities for a Chimp Sanctuary system as authorized in Public Law 106–551.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE

MEDICINE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to complementary and alternative medicine,

$104,644,000.

NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to minority health and health disparities

research, $157,812,000.

JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER

For carrying out the activities at the John E. Fogarty Inter- national Center, $56,940,000.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the Public Health

Service Act with respect to health information communications,

$277,658,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be available until expended

for improvement of information systems: Provided, That in fiscal

year 2002, the Library may enter into personal services contracts for

the provision of services in facilities owned, operated, or constructed

under the jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, $235,540,000, of which $53,540,000

shall be for the Office of AIDS Research: Provided, That funding

shall be available for the purchase of not to exceed 29 passenger

motor vehicles for replacement only: Provided further, That the Director may direct up to 1 percent of the total amount made available

in this or any other Act to all National Institutes of Health appropriations to activities the Director may so designate: Provided further, That no such appropriation shall be decreased by more than

1 percent by any such transfers and that the Congress is promptly

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tutes of Health is authorized to collect third party payments for the

cost of clinical services that are incurred in National Institutes of

Health research facilities and that such payments shall be credited

to the National Institutes of Health Management Fund: Provided

further, That all funds credited to the National Institutes of Health

Management Fund shall remain available for 1 fiscal year after the

fiscal year in which they are deposited.

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For the study of, construction of, and acquisition of equipment

for, facilities of or used by the National Institutes of Health, including the acquisition of real property, $309,600,000, to remain available until expended, of which $26,000,000 shall be for the John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research Center: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, single contracts or related contracts, which collectively include the full scope of the project, may

be employed for the development and construction of the first and

second phases of the John Edward Porter Neuroscience Research

Center: Provided further, That the solicitations and contracts shall

contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’ found at 48 CFR 52.232–

18: Provided further, That the Director may transfer up to

$75,000,000 to International Assistance Programs, ‘‘Global Fund to

Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis’’, to remain available

until expended.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

ADMINISTRATION

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

For carrying out titles V and XIX of the Public Health Service

Act with respect to substance abuse and mental health services, the

Protection and Advocacy for Mentally Ill Individuals Act of 1986,

and section 301 of the Public Health Service Act with respect to program management, $3,138,279,000, of which $28,721,000 shall be

available for the projects and in the amounts specified in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying this

Act.

AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY

HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY

For carrying out titles III and IX of the Public Health Service

Act, and part A of title XI of the Social Security Act, $2,600,000;

in addition, amounts received from Freedom of Information Act fees,

reimbursable and interagency agreements, and the sale of data

shall be credited to this appropriation and shall remain available

until expended: Provided, That the amount made available pursuant to section 926(b) of the Public Health Service Act shall not exceed $296,145,000.

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CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES

GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID

For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI and

XIX of the Social Security Act, $106,821,882,000, to remain available until expended.

For making, after May 31, 2002, payments to States under title

XIX of the Social Security Act for the last quarter of fiscal year 2002

for unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such

sums as may be necessary.

For making payments to States or in the case of section 1928

on behalf of States under title XIX of the Social Security Act for the

first quarter of fiscal year 2003, $46,601,937,000, to remain available until expended.

Payment under title XIX may be made for any quarter with respect to a State plan or plan amendment in effect during such quarter, if submitted in or prior to such quarter and approved in that

or any subsequent quarter.

PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS

For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal

Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under

section 1844 of the Social Security Act, sections 103(c) and 111(d)

of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, section 278(d) of Public

Law 97–248, and for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to

section 201(g) of the Social Security Act, $81,979,200,000.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles XI, XVIII,

XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act, titles XIII and XXVII of

the Public Health Service Act, and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, not to exceed $2,440,798,000, to be

transferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal

Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds, as authorized by

section 201(g) of the Social Security Act; together with all funds collected in accordance with section 353 of the Public Health Service

Act and section 1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act, and such sums

as may be collected from authorized user fees and the sale of data,

which shall remain available until expended, and together with administrative fees collected relative to Medicare overpayment recovery

activities, which shall remain available until expended: Provided,

That all funds derived in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from organizations established under title XIII of the Public Health Service

Act shall be credited to and available for carrying out the purposes

of this appropriation: Provided further, That $18,200,000 appropriated under this heading for the managed care system redesign

shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That

$100,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, and

evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Regional Nursing Centers Consortium in Philadelphia to initiate a demonstration project

to evaluate 15 nurse-managed health centers in urban and rural

areas across Pennsylvania: Provided further, That $200,000 of the

amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Madonna Rehabilitation Center in

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Lincoln, Nebraska to create a new standard of rehabilitation practice and program design for children and adults with disabilities:

Provided further, That $250,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to

the Cook County, Illinois Bureau of Health for the Asthma Champion Initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from asthma in

high prevalence areas: Provided further, That $250,000 of the

amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Illinois Primary Health Care Association to implement the Shared Integrated Management Information System providing centralized case management, reimbursement

and administrative support services: Provided further, That

$500,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, and

evaluation activities shall be awarded to Project Access in Muskegon, Michigan to offer affordable insurance to uninsured workers,

primarily in small business, and low-income individuals: Provided

further, That $590,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to Santa

Clara County, California, for the outreach and application assistance aspects of its Children’s Health Initiative, to demonstrate

means of expanding enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid,

SCHIP and other available health care programs: Provided further,

That $800,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration,

and evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Fishing Partnership Health Plan, based in Boston, Massachusetts, for a demonstration project on the efficacy of using a community-based health benefit program to provide health care coverage for lower-income independently employed workers and their families: Provided further,

That $800,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration,

and evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Mind-Body Institute of Boston, Massachusetts to continue and expand a demonstration project: Provided further, That $900,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be

awarded to the Children’s Hospice International demonstration program to provide a continuum of care for children with life-threatening conditions and their families: Provided further, That

$1,500,000 of the amount available for research, demonstration, and

evaluation activities shall be awarded to the Iowa Department of

Public Health for the continuation of a prescription drug cooperative demonstration: Provided further, That $2,000,000 of the

amount available for research, demonstration, and evaluation activities shall be awarded to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los

Angeles for a demonstration of residential and outpatient treatment

facilities: Provided further, That the Secretary of Health and

Human Services is directed to collect fees in fiscal year 2002 from

Medicare∂Choice organizations pursuant to section 1857(e)(2) of

the Social Security Act and from eligible organizations with risksharing contracts under section 1876 of that Act pursuant to section

1876(k)(4)(D) of that Act.

HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION LOAN AND LOAN GUARANTEE

FUND

For carrying out subsections (d) and (e) of section 1308 of the

Public Health Service Act, any amounts received by the Secretary in

connection with loans and loan guarantees under title XIII of the

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Public Health Service Act, to be available without fiscal year limitation for the payment of outstanding obligations. During fiscal year

2002, no commitments for direct loans or loan guarantees shall be

made.

ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AND

FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS

For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities

under titles I, IV–D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), $2,447,800,000, to remain available until expended; and for such purposes for the first

quarter of fiscal year 2003, $1,100,000,000, to remain available

until expended.

For making payments to each State for carrying out the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children under title IV– A of the Social Security Act before the effective date of the program

of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) with respect to

such State, such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That the sum

of the amounts available to a State with respect to expenditures

under such title IV–A in fiscal year 1997 under this appropriation

and under such title IV–A as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 shall not exceed the limitations under section 116(b) of such Act.

For making, after May 31 of the current fiscal year, payments

to States or other non-Federal entities under titles I, IV–D, X, XI,

XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of July 5, 1960

(24 U.S.C. ch. 9), for the last 3 months of the current fiscal year for

unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal year, such sums

as may be necessary.

LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, $1,700,000,000.

For making payments under title XXVI of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, $300,000,000: Provided, That these

funds are for the unanticipated home energy assistance needs of one

or more States, as authorized by section 2604(e) of the Act: Provided

further, That these funds are hereby designated by Congress to be

emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided

further, That these funds shall be made available only after submission to Congress of an official budget request by the President that

includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE

For making payments for refugee and entrant assistance activities authorized by title IV of the Immigration and Nationality Act

and section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980

(Public Law 96–422), $450,203,000: Provided, That funds appropriated pursuant to section 414(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act for fiscal year 2002 shall be available for the costs of asVerDate 11-MAY-2000 06:25 Jan 03, 2002 Jkt 076719 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 6659 Sfmt 6603 E:\HR\OC\HR342.XXX pfrm11 PsN: HR342
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sistance provided and other activities through September 30, 2004:

Provided further, That up to $10,000,000 is available to carry out

the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

For carrying out section 5 of the Torture Victims Relief Act of

1998 (Public Law 105–320), $10,000,000.

PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT

BLOCK GRANT

For carrying out sections 658A through 658R of the Omnibus

Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990), $2,099,994,000 shall be used to supplement, not supplant state general revenue funds for child care assistance for low-income families: Provided, That $19,120,000 shall

be available for child care resource and referral and school-aged

child care activities, of which $1,000,000 shall be for the Child Care

Aware toll free hotline: Provided further, That, in addition to the

amounts required to be reserved by the States under section 658G,

$272,672,000 shall be reserved by the States for activities authorized under section 658G, of which $100,000,000 shall be for activities that improve the quality of infant and toddler care: Provided

further, That $10,000,000 shall be for use by the Secretary for child

care research, demonstration, and evaluation activities.

SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

For making grants to States pursuant to section 2002 of the Social Security Act, $1,700,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding

subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of such Act, the applicable

percent specified under such subparagraph for a State to carry out

State programs pursuant to title XX of such Act shall be 10 percent.

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS

(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the Runaway

and Homeless Youth Act, the Developmental Disabilities Assistance

and Bill of Rights Act, the Head Start Act, the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, sections 310 and 316 of the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act, as amended, the Native American Programs Act of 1974, title II of Public Law 95–266 (adoption

opportunities), the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (Public

Law 105–89), sections 1201 and 1211 of the Children’s Health Act

of 2000, the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1988, the Early

Learning Opportunities Act, part B(1) of title IV and sections 413,

429A, 1110, and 1115 of the Social Security Act, and sections

40155, 40211, and 40241 of Public Law 103–322; for making payments under the Community Services Block Grant Act, section 473A

of the Social Security Act, and title IV of Public Law 105–285, and

for necessary administrative expenses to carry out said Acts and titles I, IV, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and XX of the Social Security Act, the

Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C. ch. 9), the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, title IV of the Immigration and Nationality

Act, section 501 of the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980,

section 5 of the Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–

320), sections 40155, 40211, and 40241 of Public Law 103–322, sections 310 and 316 of the Family Violence Prevention and Services

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Act, as amended, and section 126 and titles IV and V of Public Law

100–485, $8,429,183,000, of which $43,000,000, to remain available

until September 30, 2003, shall be for grants to States for adoption

incentive payments, as authorized by section 473A of title IV of the

Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 670–679) and may be made for adoptions completed in fiscal years 2000 and 2001; of which

$738,821,000 shall be for making payments under the Community

Services Block Grant Act; and of which $6,537,906,000 shall be for

making payments under the Head Start Act, of which

$1,400,000,000 shall become available October 1, 2002 and remain

available through September 30, 2003: Provided, That to the extent

Community Services Block Grant funds are distributed as grant

funds by a State to an eligible entity as provided under the Act, and

have not been expended by such entity, they shall remain with such

entity for carryover into the next fiscal year for expenditure by such

entity consistent with program purposes: Provided further, That all

eligible entities currently in good standing in the Community Services Block Grant program shall receive an increase in funding proportionate to the increase provided in this Act for the Community

Services Block Grant: Provided further, That $88,133,000 shall be

for activities authorized by the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act,

notwithstanding the allocation requirements of section 388(a) of

such Act, of which $39,739,900 is for the transitional living program: Provided further, That $30,000,000 is for a compassion capital fund to provide grants to charitable organizations to emulate

model social service programs and to encourage research on the best

practices of social service organizations: Provided further, That the

Secretary shall establish procedures regarding the disposition of intangible property which permits grant funds, or intangible assets

acquired with funds authorized under section 680 of the Community

Services Block Grant Act, as amended, to become the sole property

of such grantees after a period of not more than 12 years after the

end of the grant for purposes and uses consistent with the original

grant: Provided further, That funds appropriated for section

680(a)(2) of the Community Services Block Grant Act, as amended,

shall be available for financing construction and rehabilitation and

loans or investments in private business enterprises owned by community development corporations.

Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under section 429A(e),

part B of title IV of the Social Security Act shall be reduced by

$6,000,000.

Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 under section 413(h)(1)

of the Social Security Act shall be reduced by $15,000,000.

PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES

For carrying out subpart 2 of part B of title IV of the Social Security Act, $305,000,000. In addition, for such purposes,

$70,000,000 to carry out such subpart.

PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities

under title IV–E of the Social Security Act, $4,885,600,000.

For making payments to States or other non-Federal entities

under title IV–E of the Social Security Act, for the first quarter of

fiscal year 2003, $1,754,000,000.

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ADMINISTRATION ON AGING

AGING SERVICES PROGRAMS

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Older

Americans Act of 1965, as amended, and section 398 of the Public

Health Service Act, $1,199,814,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be

available for activities regarding medication management, screening, and education to prevent incorrect medication and adverse

drug reactions.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for general departmental management, including hire of six sedans, and for carrying out titles III, XVII, and XX of the Public Health Service Act,

and the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act,

$341,703,000, together with $5,851,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act

from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplemental

Medical Insurance Trust Fund: Provided, That of the funds made

available under this heading for carrying out title XX of the Public

Health Service Act, $11,885,000 shall be for activities specified

under section 2003(b)(2), of which $10,157,000 shall be for prevention service demonstration grants under section 510(b)(2) of title V

of the Social Security Act, as amended, without application of the

limitation of section 2010(c) of said title XX: Provided further, That

of this amount, $50,000,000 is for minority AIDS prevention and

treatment activities; and $21,998,000 shall be for an Information

Technology Security and Innovation Fund for Department-wide activities involving cybersecurity, information technology security, and

related innovation projects.

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General in

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

amended, $35,786,000: Provided, That, of such amount, necessary

sums are available for providing protective services to the Secretary

and investigating non-payment of child support cases for which

non-payment is a Federal offense under 18 U.S.C. section 228.

OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights,

$28,691,000, together with not to exceed $3,314,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social

Security Act from the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Supplemental Medical Insurance Trust Fund.

POLICY RESEARCH

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, research

studies under section 1110 of the Social Security Act and title III

of the Public Health Service Act, $2,500,000: Provided, That in addition to amounts provided herein, funds from amounts available

under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act may be used to

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carry out national health or human services research and evaluation activities: Provided further, That the expenditure of any funds

available under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act are

subject to the requirements of section 205 of this Act.

RETIREMENT PAY AND MEDICAL BENEFITS FOR COMMISSIONED

OFFICERS

For retirement pay and medical benefits of Public Health Service Commissioned Officers as authorized by law, for payments

under the Retired Serviceman’s Family Protection Plan and Survivor Benefit Plan, for medical care of dependents and retired personnel under the Dependents’ Medical Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55),

and for payments pursuant to section 229(b) of the Social Security

Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), such amounts as may be required during the

current fiscal year.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND

For expenses necessary to support activities related to countering potential biological, disease and chemical threats to civilian

populations, $242,949,000: Provided, That this amount is distributed as follows: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,

$181,919,000, of which $52,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile; and Office of

Emergency Preparedness, $61,030,000.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 201. Funds appropriated in this title shall be available for

not to exceed $37,000 for official reception and representation expenses when specifically approved by the Secretary.

SEC. 202. The Secretary shall make available through assignment not more than 60 employees of the Public Health Service to assist in child survival activities and to work in AIDS programs

through and with funds provided by the Agency for International

Development, the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund or the World Health Organization.

SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may

be used to implement section 399L(b) of the Public Health Service

Act or section 1503 of the National Institutes of Health Revitalization Act of 1993, Public Law 103–43.

SEC. 204. None of the funds appropriated in this Act for the

National Institutes of Health, the Agency for Healthcare Research

and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services

Administration shall be used to pay the salary of an individual,

through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at a rate in excess

of Executive Level I.

SEC. 205. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be

expended pursuant to section 241 of the Public Health Service Act,

except for funds specifically provided for in this Act, or for other

taps and assessments made by any office located in the Department

of Health and Human Services, prior to the Secretary’s preparation

and submission of a report to the Committee on Appropriations of

the Senate and of the House detailing the planned uses of such

funds.

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SEC. 206. Notwithstanding section 241(a) of the Public Health

Service Act, such portion as the Secretary shall determine, but not

more than 1.25 percent, of any amounts appropriated for programs

authorized under said Act shall be made available for the evaluation (directly, or by grants or contracts) of the implementation and

effectiveness of such programs.

(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

SEC. 207. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds

(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control

Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year for the Department of Health and Human Services in this

Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such

transfer: Provided, That an appropriation may be increased by up

to an additional 2 percent subject to approval by the House and

Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the

Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified

at least 15 days in advance of any transfer.

SEC. 208. The Director of the National Institutes of Health,

jointly with the Director of the Office of AIDS Research, may transfer up to 3 percent among institutes, centers, and divisions from the

total amounts identified by these two Directors as funding for research pertaining to the human immunodeficiency virus: Provided,

That the Congress is promptly notified of the transfer.

SEC. 209. Of the amounts made available in this Act for the

National Institutes of Health, the amount for research related to the

human immunodeficiency virus, as jointly determined by the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the Office

of AIDS Research, shall be made available to the ‘‘Office of AIDS

Research’’ account. The Director of the Office of AIDS Research

shall transfer from such account amounts necessary to carry out section 2353(d)(3) of the Public Health Service Act.

SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be

made available to any entity under title X of the Public Health

Service Act unless the applicant for the award certifies to the Secretary that it encourages family participation in the decision of minors to seek family planning services and that it provides counseling to minors on how to resist attempts to coerce minors into engaging in sexual activities.

SEC. 211. None of the funds appropriated by this Act (including

funds appropriated to any trust fund) may be used to carry out the

Medicare+Choice program if the Secretary denies participation in

such program to an otherwise eligible entity (including a Provider

Sponsored Organization) because the entity informs the Secretary

that it will not provide, pay for, provide coverage of, or provide referrals for abortions: Provided, That the Secretary shall make appropriate prospective adjustments to the capitation payment to such

an entity (based on an actuarially sound estimate of the expected

costs of providing the service to such entity’s enrollees): Provided

further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to change

the Medicare program’s coverage for such services and a

Medicare+Choice organization described in this section shall be responsible for informing enrollees where to obtain information about

all Medicare covered services.

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SEC. 212. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no provider of services under title X of the Public Health Service Act shall

be exempt from any State law requiring notification or the reporting

of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape, or incest.

SEC. 213. The Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 (Public Law 101–167) is

amended—

(1) in section 599D (8 U.S.C. 1157 note)— (A) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ‘‘1997, 1998, 1999,

2000, and 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘1997, 1998, 1999, 2000,

2001, and 2002’’; and

(B) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘October 1, 2001’’ each

place it appears and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2002’’; and

(2) in section 599E (8 U.S.C. 1255 note) in subsection (b)(2),

by striking ‘‘September 30, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30,

2002’’. SEC. 214. (a) Except as provided by subsection (e) none of the

funds appropriated by this Act may be used to withhold substance

abuse funding from a State pursuant to section 1926 of the Public

Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300x–26) if such State certifies to the

Secretary of Health and Human Services by May 1, 2002 that the

State will commit additional State funds, in accordance with subsection (b), to ensure compliance with State laws prohibiting the

sale of tobacco products to individuals under 18 years of age.

(b) The amount of funds to be committed by a State under subsection (a) shall be equal to 1 percent of such State’s substance

abuse block grant allocation for each percentage point by which the

State misses the retailer compliance rate goal established by the

Secretary of Health and Human Services under section 1926 of such

Act.

(c) The State is to maintain State expenditures in fiscal year

2002 for tobacco prevention programs and for compliance activities

at a level that is not less than the level of such expenditures maintained by the State for fiscal year 2001, and adding to that level the

additional funds for tobacco compliance activities required under

subsection (a). The State is to submit a report to the Secretary on

all fiscal year 2001 State expenditures and all fiscal year 2002 obligations for tobacco prevention and compliance activities by program

activity by July 31, 2002.

(d) The Secretary shall exercise discretion in enforcing the timing of the State obligation of the additional funds required by the

certification described in subsection (a) as late as July 31, 2002.

(e) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to

withhold substance abuse funding pursuant to section 1926 from a

territory that receives less than $1,000,000.

SEC. 215. In order for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to carry out international health activities, including HIV/

AIDS and other infectious disease, chronic and environmental disease, and other health activities abroad during fiscal year 2002, the

Secretary of Health and Human Services is authorized to— (1) utilize the authorities contained in subsection 2(c) of the

State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as amended,

and

(2) utilize the authorities contained in 22 U.S.C. sections

291 and 292 and directly or through contract or cooperative

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agreement to lease, alter or renovate facilities in foreign countries, to carry out programs supported by this appropriation

notwithstanding PHS Act section 307.

In exercising the authority set forth in (1) and (2), the Secretary

of Health and Human Services shall consult with the Department

of State to assure that planned activities are within the legal strictures of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as

amended, and other applicable parts of U.S.C. Title 22.

SEC. 216. The Division of Federal Occupational Health may

utilize personal services contracting to employ professional management/administrative and occupational health professionals.

SEC. 217. Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating

to vacancies in offices for which appointments must be made by the

President, including any time limitation on serving in an acting capacity, the Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health as of

January 12, 2000, may serve in that position until a new Director

of the National Institutes of Health is confirmed by the Senate.

SEC. 218. Section 582 of the Public Health Service Act (42

U.S.C. 290hh–1(f)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

‘‘(g) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the ‘Donald J.

Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative’.’’.

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

Human Services Appropriations Act, 2002’’.

TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED

For carrying out title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (‘‘ESEA’’) and section 418A of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $12,346,900,000, of which $4,777,199,000 shall

become available on July 1, 2002, and shall remain available

through September 30, 2003, and of which $7,383,301,000 shall become available on October 1, 2002, and shall remain available

through September 30, 2003, for academic year 2002–2003: Provided, That $235,000,000 shall be available for comprehensive

school reform grants under part F of the ESEA: Provided further,

That $15,000,000 of the amount appropriated for title I, part B,

subpart 1 shall become available October 1, 2001, and shall remain

available through September 30, 2003, for evaluation and technical

assistance: Provided further, That the funds provided for title I,

part B, subpart 2 shall become available October 1, 2001, and shall

remain available through September 30, 2003: Provided further,

That $7,172,971,000 shall be available for basic grants under section 1124: Provided further, That up to $3,500,000 of these funds

shall be available to the Secretary of Education on October 1, 2001,

to obtain updated educational-agency-level census poverty data from

the Bureau of the Census: Provided further, That $1,365,031,000

shall be available for concentration grants under section 1124A:

Provided further, That $1,018,499,000 shall be available for targeted grants under section 1125: Provided further, That

$793,499,000 shall be available for education finance incentive

grants under section 1125A.

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IMPACT AID

For carrying out programs of financial assistance to federally

affected schools authorized by title VIII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $1,143,500,000, of which

$982,500,000 shall be for basic support payments under section

8003(b), $50,000,000 shall be for payments for children with disabilities under section 8003(d), $48,000,000 shall be for construction

under section 8007 and shall remain available through September

30, 2003, $55,000,000 shall be for Federal property payments under

section 8002, and $8,000,000, to remain available until expended,

shall be for facilities maintenance under section 8008: Provided,

That $3,000,000 of the funds for section 8007 shall be available for

the local educational agencies and in the amounts specified in the

statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying

this Act.

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS

For carrying out school improvement activities authorized by titles II, IV, V, VI, and parts B and C of title VII of the Elementary

and Secondary Education Act of 1965; part B of title II of the Higher Education Act; the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; and

the Civil Rights Act of 1964, $7,827,473,000, of which

$1,717,609,000 shall become available October 1, 2001, and shall

remain available through September 30, 2003, of which

$2,801,597,000 shall become available on July 1, 2002, and remain

available through September 30, 2003, and of which $1,765,000,000

shall become available on October 1, 2002, and shall remain available through September 30, 2003, for academic year 2002–2003:

Provided, That $75,000,000 for continuing and new grants to demonstrate effective approaches to comprehensive school reform shall

be allocated and expended in the same manner as the funds provided under the Fund for the Improvement of Education for this

purpose were allocated and expended in fiscal year 2001: Provided

further, That $142,189,000 shall be available to support the activities authorized under subpart 4 of part D of title V of the ESEA,

of which up to 5 percent shall become available on October 1, 2001,

for evaluation, technical assistance, school networking, peer review

of applications, and program outreach activities and of which not

less than 95 percent shall become available on July 1, 2002, and remain available through September 30, 2003, for grants to local educational agencies: Provided further, That funds made available to

local educational agencies under this subpart shall be used only for

activities related to establishing smaller learning communities in

high schools: Provided further, That of the amount made available

for subpart 3, part C, of title II of the ESEA, $2,000,000 shall be

used by the Center for Civic Education to implement a comprehensive program to improve public knowledge, understanding, and support of the Congress and the state legislatures: Provided further,

That $269,906,000 of the funds for subpart 1, part D of title V of

the ESEA shall be available for the projects and in the amounts

specified in the statement of the managers on the conference report

accompanying this Act.

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INDIAN EDUCATION

For expenses necessary to carry out, to the extent not otherwise

provided, title VII, part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $120,368,000.

BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION

For carrying out title III, part A of the ESEA, $665,000,000, of which $415,000,000 shall become available on July 1, 2002, and

shall remain available through September 30, 2003.

SPECIAL EDUCATION

For carrying out the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, $8,672,804,000, of which $3,315,233,000 shall become available

for obligation on July 1, 2002, and shall remain available through

September 30, 2003, and of which $5,072,000,000 shall become

available on October 1, 2002, and shall remain available through

September 30, 2003, for academic year 2002–2003: Provided, That

$9,500,000 shall be for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic to support the development, production, and circulation of recorded educational materials: Provided further, That $1,500,000 shall be for

the recipient of funds provided by Public Law 105–78 under section

687(b)(2)(G) of the Act to provide information on diagnosis, intervention, and teaching strategies for children with disabilities: Provided further, That the amount for section 611(c) of the Act shall

be equal to the amount available for that section under Public Law

106–554, increased by the amount of inflation as specified in section 611(f)(1)(B)(ii) of the Act: Provided further, That $8,380,000 of the

funds for section 672 of the Act shall be available for the projects

and in the amounts specified in the statement of the managers on

the conference report accompanying this Act.

REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Assistive Technology Act of 1998, and the

Helen Keller National Center Act, $2,945,813,000, of which

$56,552,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2003:

Provided, That the funds provided for title I of the Assistive Technology Act of 1998 (‘‘the AT Act’’) shall be allocated notwithstanding

section 105(b)(1) of the AT Act: Provided further, That in the case

of a State that was in the third year of a 3-year extension grant

made pursuant to section 101(f) of the Assistive Technology Act of

1998 for fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Education shall award

under such section an additional 1-year extension of the grant to

such State for fiscal year 2002 in an amount equal to the amount

the State received under such section for fiscal year 2001: Provided

further, That each State shall be provided $50,000 for activities

under section 102 of the AT Act: Provided further, That $36,552,000

shall be used to support grants for up to 3 years to States under

title III of the AT Act, of which the Federal share shall not exceed

75 percent in the first year, 50 percent in the second year, and 25

percent in the third year, and that the requirements in section

301(c)(2) and section 302 of that Act shall not apply to such grants:

Provided further, That $3,746,000 of the funds for section 303 of the

Rehabilitation Act of 1973 shall be available for the projects and in

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the amounts specified in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying this Act.

SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND

For carrying out the Act of March 3, 1879, as amended (20

U.S.C. 101 et seq.), $14,000,000.

NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF

For the National Technical Institute for the Deaf under titles I

and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et

seq.), $55,376,000, of which $5,376,000 shall be for construction and

shall remain available until expended: Provided, That from the

total amount available, the Institute may at its discretion use funds

for the endowment program as authorized under section 207.

GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY

For the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School, the Model

Secondary School for the Deaf, and the partial support of Gallaudet

University under titles I and II of the Education of the Deaf Act of

1986 (20 U.S.C. 4301 et seq.), $96,938,000: Provided, That from the

total amount available, the University may at its discretion use

funds for the endowment program as authorized under section 207.

VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Carl

D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, the

Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and title VIII–D of the

Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and Public Law 102–

73, $1,934,060,000, of which $1,136,560,000 shall become available

on July 1, 2002 and shall remain available through September 30,

2003 and of which $791,000,000 shall become available on October

1, 2002 and shall remain available through September 30, 2003:

Provided, That of the amounts made available for the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act, $6,500,000

shall be for tribally controlled postsecondary vocational and technical institutions under section 117: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law or any regulation, the Secretary

of Education shall not require the use of a restricted indirect cost

rate for grants issued pursuant to section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins

Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act: Provided further, That $9,500,000 shall be for carrying out section 118 of such

Act: Provided further, That of the amounts made available for the

Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act,

$5,000,000 shall be for demonstration activities authorized by section 207: Provided further, That of the amount provided for Adult

Education State Grants, $70,000,000 shall be made available for integrated English literacy and civics education services to immigrants and other limited English proficient populations: Provided

further, That of the amount reserved for integrated English literacy

and civics education, notwithstanding section 211 of the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, 65 percent shall be allocated to

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lating each State’s share of a 10-year average of the Immigration

and Naturalization Service data for immigrants admitted for legal

permanent residence for the 10 most recent years, and 35 percent allocated to States that experienced growth as measured by the average of the 3 most recent years for which Immigration and Naturalization Service data for immigrants admitted for legal permanent residence are available, except that no State shall be allocated

an amount less than $60,000: Provided further, That of the

amounts made available for the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, $9,500,000 shall be for national leadership activities

under section 243 and $6,560,000 shall be for the National Institute

for Literacy under section 242: Provided further, That $22,000,000

shall be for Youth Offender Grants, of which $5,000,000 shall be

used in accordance with section 601 of Public Law 102–73 as that

section was in effect prior to the enactment of Public Law 105–220.

STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

For carrying out subparts 1, 3 and 4 of part A, section 428K,

part C and part E of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965,

as amended, $12,285,500,000, which shall remain available

through September 30, 2003.

The maximum Pell Grant for which a student shall be eligible

during award year 2002–2003 shall be $4,000.

FEDERAL FAMILY EDUCATION LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT

For Federal administrative expenses to carry out guaranteed

student loans authorized by title IV, part B, of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, $49,636,000.

HIGHER EDUCATION

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, section

121 and titles II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII of the Higher Education

Act of 1965, as amended, section 1543 of the Higher Education

Amendments of 1992, title VIII of the Higher Education Amendments of 1998, and the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange

Act of 1961, $2,031,048,000, of which $5,000,000 for interest subsidies authorized by section 121 of the Higher Education Act of

1965, shall remain available until expended: Provided, That

$10,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2003, shall

be available to fund fellowships for academic year 2003–2004 under

part A, subpart 1 of title VII of said Act, under the terms and conditions of part A, subpart 1: Provided further, That $1,000,000 is for

data collection and evaluation activities for programs under the

Higher Education Act of 1965, including such activities needed to

comply with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993:

Provided further, That $17,500,000 shall be available for tribally

controlled colleges and universities under section 316 of the Higher

Education Act of 1965: Provided further, That notwithstanding any

other provision of law, funds made available in this Act to carry out

title VI of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, and section 102(b)(6) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange

Act of 1961 may be used to support visits and study in foreign countries by individuals who are participating in advanced foreign language training and international studies in areas that are vital to

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United States national security and who plan to apply their language skills and knowledge of these countries in the fields of government, the professions, or international development: Provided further, That up to one percent of the funds referred to in the preceding

proviso may be used for program evaluation, national outreach, and

information dissemination activities: Provided further, That

$149,722,000 of the funds for part B of title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall be available for the projects and in the

amounts specified in the statement of the managers on the conference report accompanying this Act.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

For partial support of Howard University (20 U.S.C. 121 et

seq.), $237,474,000, of which not less than $3,600,000 shall be for

a matching endowment grant pursuant to the Howard University

Endowment Act (Public Law 98–480) and shall remain available

until expended.

COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS PROGRAM

For Federal administrative expenses authorized under section

121 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $762,000 to carry out activities related to existing facility loans entered into under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAPITAL FINANCING

PROGRAM ACCOUNT

The total amount of bonds insured pursuant to section 344 of

title III, part D of the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall not exceed

$357,000,000, and the cost, as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of such bonds shall not exceed zero.

For administrative expenses to carry out the Historically Black

College and University Capital Financing Program entered into

pursuant to title III, part D of the Higher Education Act of 1965,

as amended, $208,000.

EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND ASSESSMENT

For carrying out activities authorized by the Educational Research, Development, Dissemination, and Improvement Act of 1994,

including part E; the National Education Statistics Act of 1994, including sections 411 and 412; section 4 of the No Child Left Behind

Act of 2001; and title VI, part A of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act, $443,870,000: Provided, That $58,000,000 of the

amount available for the national education research institutes

shall be allocated notwithstanding section 912(m)(1)(B–F) and subparagraphs (B) and (C) of section 931(c)(2) of Public Law 103–227.

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, the Department of Education Organization Act, including rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and hire of two passenger

motor vehicles, $424,212,000.

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OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS

For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, as authorized by section 203 of the Department of Education Organization

Act, $79,934,000.

OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector General,

as authorized by section 212 of the Department of Education Organization Act, $38,720,000.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used for

the transportation of students or teachers (or for the purchase of

equipment for such transportation) in order to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system, or for the transportation of

students or teachers (or for the purchase of equipment for such

transportation) in order to carry out a plan of racial desegregation

of any school or school system.

SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used

to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation of any student

to a school other than the school which is nearest the student’s

home, except for a student requiring special education, to the school

offering such special education, in order to comply with title VI of

the Civil Rights Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect requirement of transportation of students includes the transportation of students to carry out a plan involving the reorganization

of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of grade restructuring, pairing

or clustering. The prohibition described in this section does not include the establishment of magnet schools.

SEC. 303. No funds appropriated under this Act may be used

to prevent the implementation of programs of voluntary prayer and

meditation in the public schools.

(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

SEC. 304. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds

(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control

Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the Department of Education in this Act may be transferred between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be increased by more

than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified at least 15

days in advance of any transfer.

SEC. 305. (a) Section 1543(a) of the Higher Education Amendments of 1992 (20 U.S.C. 1070 note) is amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:

‘‘(2) AWARD DETERMINATION.—The amount of the financial

assistance provided to an athlete described in paragraph (1)

shall be determined in accordance with criteria, and in

amounts, specified in the application of the center under subsection (c). Such assistance shall not exceed the athlete’s cost of

attendance as determined under section 472 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1087ll).

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‘‘(3) INFORMATION ON DISTRIBUTION OF ASSISTANCE.—Each

center providing such assistance shall annually report to the

Secretary such information as the Secretary may reasonably require on the distribution of such assistance among athletes and

institutions of higher education. The Secretary shall compile

such reports and submit them to the Committees on Education

and the Workforce and Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committees on Health, Education, Labor,

and Pensions and Appropriations of the Senate.’’. (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with

respect to any funds appropriated pursuant to section 1543(d) of the

Higher Education Amendments of 1992, including funds appropriated pursuant to that section in fiscal years 2000 and 2001, that

are available for financial assistance under section 1543 on or after

the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 306. (a) Notwithstanding sections 413D, 442, and 488 of

the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Secretary of Education may

reallocate, from funds made available under the heading ‘‘Student

Financial Assistance’’ to carry out part C of title IV of that Act, excess allocations for fiscal year 2002 in an amount not to exceed

$1,000,000 in the aggregate to institutions of higher education described in subsection (b) for the purposes described in subsection (c).

The reallocation to each such institution shall be made in accordance with subsection (d). Such excess allocations shall remain available for obligation until March 31, 2004.

(b) An institution of higher education may receive a reallocation

under subsection (a) if the institution— (1) is, on the date of enactment of this Act, participating in

the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant and

Federal Work Study programs under subpart 3 of part A, and

part C of title IV of that Act, respectively;

(2) initially began participating in both such programs during or after 1989, but not later than 1999;

(3) has a current enrollment of not less than 2,000 students;

(4) provides educational programs for which the institution

awards baccalaureate and graduate degrees;

(5) has experienced an actual enrollment increase of 75 percent or more since the institution began participating in such

programs; and

(6) charged, for academic year 2000–2001, in-State tuition

and fees for a full-time undergraduate student that were less

than such tuition and fees charged by the institution for academic year 1998–1999.

(c) An institution of higher education that receives a reallocation under subsection (a) may use that reallocation for Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants or Federal Work Study

awards.

(d)(1) A reallocation made under subsection (a) to an institution

described in subsection (b) shall be determined by calculating the

difference between—

(A) the amount (commonly referred to as the ‘‘base guarantee’’) that the institution received under section 413D(a) or

442(a) of that Act, as the case may be; and

(B) the amount that the institution would receive pursuant

to section 413D(a)(2)(B)(ii) or 442(a)(2)(B)(ii) of that Act, as the

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case may be, if the institution were beginning its program participation in the 2002–2003 academic year.

(2) If the amounts available for reallocation under subsection

(a) are insufficient to fully fund the amounts determined under

paragraph (1) of this subsection to each institution described in subsection (b), then the amount to be reallocated to each such institution shall be ratably reduced.

(e) The Secretary may use such data as he determines appropriate in order to carry out this section.

SEC. 307. If this Act is enacted before H.R. 1, the No Child Left

Behind Act of 2001, is enacted, then references to the Elementary

and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or to any other Acts that

would be amended by H.R. 1 shall be read to be references to those

Acts as they would be amended by H.R. 1 (including amendments

made by H. Con. Res. 289, as passed by the House and the Senate).

This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Education Appropriations Act, 2002’’.

TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES

ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME

For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Retirement Home

to operate and maintain the United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s

Home and the United States Naval Home, to be paid from funds

available in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund,

$71,440,000, of which $9,812,000 shall remain available until expended for construction and renovation of the physical plants at the

United States Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home and the United States

Naval Home: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision

of law, a single contract or related contracts for development and

construction, to include construction of a long-term care facility at

the United States Naval Home, may be employed which collectively

include the full scope of the project: Provided further, That the solicitation and contract shall contain the clause ‘‘availability of funds’’

found at 48 CFR 52.232–18 and 252.232–7007, Limitation of Government Obligations.

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the Corporation for National and

Community Service to carry out the provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, as amended, $328,895,000: Provided,

That none of the funds made available to the Corporation for National and Community Service in this Act for activities authorized

by part E of title II of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973

shall be used to provide stipends or other monetary incentives to volunteers or volunteer leaders whose incomes exceed 125 percent of the

national poverty level.

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

For payment to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, an amount which

shall be available within limitations specified by that Act, for the

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fiscal year 2004, $380,000,000: Provided, That no funds made

available to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting by this Act

shall be used to pay for receptions, parties, or similar forms of entertainment for Government officials or employees: Provided further,

That none of the funds contained in this paragraph shall be available or used to aid or support any program or activity from which

any person is excluded, or is denied benefits, or is discriminated

against, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, or sex:

Provided further, That in addition to the amounts provided above,

$25,000,000, for costs related to digital program production, development, and distribution, associated with the transition of public

broadcasting to digital broadcasting, to be awarded as determined

by the Corporation in consultation with public radio and television

licensees or permittees, or their designated representatives.

FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor

Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 171–180, 182–183), including hire of passenger motor vehicles; for expenses necessary for

the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a);

and for expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the functions

vested in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 95–454 (5

U.S.C. ch. 71), $39,982,000, including $1,500,000, to remain available through September 30, 2003, for activities authorized by the

Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a): Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to

full-cost recovery, for special training activities and other conflict

resolution services and technical assistance, including those provided to foreign governments and international organizations, and

for arbitration services shall be credited to and merged with this account, and shall remain available until expended: Provided further,

That fees for arbitration services shall be available only for education, training, and professional development of the agency workforce: Provided further, That the Director of the Service is authorized to accept and use on behalf of the United States gifts of services

and real, personal, or other property in the aid of any projects or

functions within the Director’s jurisdiction.

FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety and Health

Review Commission (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), $6,939,000.

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

OFFICE OF LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION

For carrying out subtitle B of the Museum and Library Services

Act, $197,602,000: Provided, That of the amount provided,

$2,000,000 shall be awarded to the National Museum of African

American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission, $250,000 shall be awarded to American Village Project in

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Montevallo, Alabama, $20,000 shall be awarded to EvergreenConecuh Public Library, Alabama, $50,000 shall be awarded to

Gordo Public Library, Pickens County Commission, Alabama,

$300,000 shall be awarded to Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama, $1,500,000 shall be awarded to National Museum for Women

in the Arts, $300,000 shall be awarded to Tuskegee Human and

Civil Rights Multicultural Center, $50,000 shall be awarded to

Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, $800,000 shall be awarded to

Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, California, $150,000 shall be

awarded to Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, California,

$750,000 shall be awarded to Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, $290,000 Santa Barbara Maritime Museum,

$25,000 Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, California,

$1,000,000 shall be awarded to The Fine Arts Museums of San

Francisco, $150,000 shall be awarded to Bethel Public Library,

Connecticut, $500,000 shall be awarded to Mattatuck Museum in

Waterbury, Connecticut, $250,000 shall be awarded to Museum of

Aviation, Warner Robins, Georgia, $700,000 shall be awarded to

Bishops Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, $500,000 shall be awarded

to Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa, $61,000 shall be awarded to

Iowa State Historical Society, $389,000 shall be awarded to The

National Audobon Society’s ARK Museum in Dubuque, Iowa, $750,000 shall be awarded to University of Idaho Performance and

Education Facility, $50,000 shall be awarded to Adler Planetarium

and Astronomy Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Johnson

County Museum of History, Franklin, Indiana, $125,000 shall be

awarded to Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts,

$1,000,000 shall be awarded to Shakespeare Rose Theater, $150,000

shall be awarded to Springfield-Greene County Library, Springfield,

Missouri, $1,160,000 shall be awarded to Webster University, St.

Louis, Missouri, $850,000 shall be awarded to University of Mississippi Foundation, Oxford, Mississippi, $350,000 shall be awarded to University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, $132,000 shall

be awarded to Lois Morgan Edward Memorial Library, Nashville,

North Carolina, $100,000 shall be awarded to Rocky Mount Children’s Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Confluence Visitor

Center in Williston, North Dakota and the North Dakota State Historical Society, $100,000 shall be awarded to Fort Mandan Visitor’s

Center, $100,000 shall be awarded to Mandan-on-a-Slant Museum,

$1,000,000 shall be awarded to Franklin Pierce College, $160,000

shall be awarded to Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New

Jersey, $100,000 shall be awarded to Princeton Public Library, Mercer County, New Jersey, $125,000 shall be awarded to Albany Institute for History and Art, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to Brooklyn

Historical Society, New York, $22,500 shall be awarded to Buffalo

and Erie County Library System, Buffalo, New York, $250,000 shall

be awarded to Center for Jewish History, New York, New York,

$150,000 shall be awarded to Children’s Museum of Manhattan,

New York, $105,000 shall be awarded to Four County Library System, Vestal, New York, $500,000 shall be awarded to Hunter College, New York, $200,000 shall be awarded to Long Island Maritime

Museum in West Sayville, New York, $750,000 shall be awarded to

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, $1,000,000 shall be

awarded to New York Hall of Science, $22,500 shall be awarded to

NIOGA Library System of Niagara and Orleans County, New York,

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$100,000 shall be awarded to The Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen,

Inc., Woodstock, New York, $100,000 shall be awarded to Clark

County Historical Museum, $40,000 shall be awarded to Cleveland

Botanical Garden, Cleveland, Ohio, $500,000 shall be awarded to

Crawford Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, $42,000 shall be awarded to

Farmer’s Castle Museum in Belpre, $500,000 shall be awarded to

MAPS Air Museum, Canton Ohio, $44,000 shall be awarded to

McKinley Museum, Canton, Ohio, $50,000 shall be awarded to University of Oregon Museum of Natural History in Eugene, Oregon,

$150,000 shall be awarded to Academy of Natural Sciences in

Philadelphia County, $100,000 shall be awarded to Beaver Area

Memorial Library, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, $300,000 shall be

awarded to Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association,

$100,000 shall be awarded to Discovery Square, Inc. in Erie, Pennsylvania, $200,000 shall be awarded to Everhart Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania, $300,000 shall be awarded to National Liberty

Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $126,000 shall be awarded

to Northland Public Library Authority, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

$235,000 shall be awarded to Penn Hills Public Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $250,000 shall be awarded to Philadelphia

Zoo, $100,000 shall be awarded to Pittsburgh Children’s Museum,

$700,000 shall be awarded to Please Touch Museum at the Children’s Museum of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, $50,000 shall be

awarded to Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania, $50,000

shall be awarded to Bamberg County Library in Bamberg, South

Carolina, $50,000 shall be awarded to Clarendon County Library in

Manning, South Carolina, $500,000 shall be awarded to Marion

Wright Edelman Public Library, Bennettsville, South Carolina,

$600,000 shall be awarded to The Children’s Discovery House,

Murfreesboro, Tennessee, $150,000 shall be awarded to The International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee, $500,000

shall be awarded to El Progreso Library, Uvalde, Texas, $500,000

shall be awarded to Vietnam Archive Center, Texas Tech University,

Lubbock, Texas, $800,000 shall be awarded to Children’s Museum

of Virginia, Portsmouth, Virginia, $325,000 shall be awarded to

Virginia Living Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to Burlington

City Arts in Burlington, Vermont, $125,000 shall be awarded to

Lake Champlain Science Center in Burlington, Vermont, $175,000

shall be awarded to Vermont Historical Society in Montpelier,

Vermont, $100,000 shall be awarded to Beaver Creek Reserve Education Center, Fall Creek, Wisconsin, $500,000 shall be awarded to

The Kenosha Civil War Museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, $75,000

shall be awarded to Village of Hawkins, Wisconsin, and $500,000

shall be awarded to Weis Earth Science Museum in Menasha, Wisconsin.

MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the Social

Security Act, $8,250,000, to be transferred to this appropriation

from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds.

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NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For necessary expenses for the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, established by the Act of July 20, 1970

(Public Law 91–345, as amended), $1,000,000.

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the National Council on Disability

as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as

amended, $2,830,000.

NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL

For expenses necessary for costs associated with the termination

of the National Education Goals Panel, $400,000.

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations Board

to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141–167), and other laws,

$226,438,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be

available to organize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or

used in connection with investigations, hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural laborers

as referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935 (29 U.S.C.

152), and as amended by the Labor-Management Relations Act,

1947, as amended, and as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June

25, 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), and including in said definition employees engaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, canals,

reservoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least 95 percent of the water stored or

supplied thereby is used for farming purposes.

NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151–188), including emergency boards appointed by the President, $10,635,000.

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and Health

Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), $8,964,000.

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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT

For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, authorized

under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974,

$146,000,000, which shall include amounts becoming available in

fiscal year 2002 pursuant to section 224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–

76; and in addition, an amount, not to exceed 2 percent of the

amount provided herein, shall be available proportional to the

amount by which the product of recipients and the average benefit

received exceeds $146,000,000: Provided, That the total amount provided herein shall be credited in 12 approximately equal amounts

on the first day of each month in the fiscal year.

FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS

For payment to the accounts established in the Treasury for the

payment of benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act for interest

earned on unnegotiated checks, $150,000, to remain available

through September 30, 2003, which shall be the maximum amount

available for payment pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98–76.

LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION

For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement Board for

administration of the Railroad Retirement Act and the Railroad

Unemployment Insurance Act, $97,700,000, to be derived in such

amounts as determined by the Board from the railroad retirement

accounts and from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment

insurance administration fund.

LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General for

audit, investigatory and review activities, as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, not more than $6,261,000,

to be derived from the railroad retirement accounts and railroad

unemployment insurance account: Provided, That none of the funds

made available in any other paragraph of this Act may be transferred to the Office; used to carry out any such transfer; used to provide any office space, equipment, office supplies, communications facilities or services, maintenance services, or administrative services

for the Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or award for any personnel of the Office; used to pay any other operating expense of the

Office; or used to reimburse the Office for any service provided, or

expense incurred, by the Office.

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS

For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance

and the Federal Disability Insurance trust funds, as provided under

sections 201(m), 217(g), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security

Act, $434,400,000.

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SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS

For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health

Act of 1977, $332,840,000, to remain available until expended.

For making, after July 31 of the current fiscal year, benefit payments to individuals under title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and

Health Act of 1977, for costs incurred in the current fiscal year,

such amounts as may be necessary.

For making benefit payments under title IV of the Federal Mine

Safety and Health Act of 1977 for the first quarter of fiscal year

2003, $108,000,000, to remain available until expended.

SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM

For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Security Act,

section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 of Public Law 93–66,

as amended, and section 405 of Public Law 95–216, including payment to the Social Security trust funds for administrative expenses

incurred pursuant to section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act,

$21,277,412,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,

That any portion of the funds provided to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State during that year shall be

returned to the Treasury.

In addition, $200,000,000, to remain available until September

30, 2003, for payment to the Social Security trust funds for administrative expenses for continuing disability reviews as authorized by

section 103 of Public Law 104–121 and section 10203 of Public Law

105–33. The term ‘‘continuing disability reviews’’ means reviews and

redeterminations as defined under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social

Security Act, as amended.

For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, benefit

payments to individuals under title XVI of the Social Security Act,

for unanticipated costs incurred for the current fiscal year, such

sums as may be necessary.

For making benefit payments under title XVI of the Social Se- curity Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2003, $10,790,000,000,

to remain available until expended.

LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

For necessary expenses, including the hire of two passenger

motor vehicles, and not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and

representation expenses, not more than $7,035,000,000 may be expended, as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act,

from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein: Provided,

That not less than $1,800,000 shall be for the Social Security Advisory Board: Provided further, That unobligated balances at the end

of fiscal year 2002 not needed for fiscal year 2002 shall remain

available until expended to invest in the Social Security Administration information technology and telecommunications hardware

and software infrastructure, including related equipment and nonpayroll administrative expenses associated solely with this information technology and telecommunications infrastructure: Provided

further, That reimbursement to the trust funds under this heading

for expenditures for official time for employees of the Social Security

Administration pursuant to section 7131 of title 5, United States

Code, and for facilities or support services for labor organizations

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pursuant to policies, regulations, or procedures referred to in section

7135(b) of such title shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury,

with interest, from amounts in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, as soon as possible after such expenditures are made.

From funds provided under the first paragraph, not less than

$200,000,000 shall be available for conducting continuing disability

reviews.

In addition to funding already available under this heading,

and subject to the same terms and conditions, $433,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2003, for continuing disability

reviews as authorized by section 103 of Public Law 104–121 and

section 10203 of Public Law 105–33. The term ‘‘continuing disability reviews’’ means reviews and redeterminations as defined

under section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act, as amended.

In addition, $100,000,000 to be derived from administration

fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Security Act or section 212(b)(3)

of Public Law 93–66, which shall remain available until expended.

To the extent that the amounts collected pursuant to such section

1616(d) or 212(b)(3) in fiscal year 2002 exceed $100,000,000, the

amounts shall be available in fiscal year 2003 only to the extent

provided in advance in appropriations Acts.

From funds previously appropriated for this purpose, any unobligated balances at the end of fiscal year 2001 shall be available to

continue Federal-State partnerships which will evaluate means to

promote Medicare buy-in programs targeted to elderly and disabled

individuals under titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act.

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General in

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

amended, $19,000,000, together with not to exceed $56,000,000, to

be transferred and expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of

the Social Security Act from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust

Fund.

In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the total provided in this appropriation may be transferred from the ‘‘Limitation

on Administrative Expenses’’, Social Security Administration, to be

merged with this account, to be available for the time and purposes

for which this account is available: Provided, That notice of such

transfers shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate.

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,

$15,104,000.

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TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education are authorized to transfer unexpended balances

of prior appropriations to accounts corresponding to current appropriations provided in this Act: Provided, That such transferred balances are used for the same purpose, and for the same periods of

time, for which they were originally appropriated.

SEC. 502. 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. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act

shall be used, other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, for the

preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television, or video presentation designed to support or

defeat legislation pending before the Congress or any State legislature, except in presentation to the Congress or any State legislature

itself.

(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be

used to pay the salary or expenses of any grant or contract recipient,

or agent acting for such recipient, related to any activity designed

to influence legislation or appropriations pending before the Congress or any State legislature.

SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education are authorized to make available not to exceed $23,000 and $15,000, respectively, from funds available for salaries and expenses under titles I

and III, respectively, for official reception and representation expenses; the Director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized to make available for official reception and representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from the funds available

for ‘‘Salaries and expenses, Federal Mediation and Conciliation

Service’’; and the Chairman of the National Mediation Board is authorized to make available for official reception and representation

expenses not to exceed $2,500 from funds available for ‘‘Salaries and

expenses, National Mediation Board’’.

SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no

funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to carry out any

program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug.

SEC. 506. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the greatest

extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased with

funds made available in this Act should be American-made.

(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into any

contract with, any entity using funds made available in this Act, the

head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable, shall

provide to such entity a notice describing the statement made in

subsection (a) by the Congress.

(c) 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

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described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.

SEC. 507. When issuing statements, press releases, requests for

proposals, bid solicitations and other documents describing projects

or programs funded in whole or in part with Federal money, all

grantees receiving Federal funds included in this Act, including but

not limited to State and local governments and recipients of Federal

research grants, shall clearly state: (1) the percentage of the total

costs of the program or project which will be financed with Federal

money; (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the project or program; and (3) percentage and dollar amount of the total costs of the

project or program that will be financed by non-governmental

sources.

SEC. 508. (a) None of the funds appropriated under this Act,

and none of the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under this Act, shall be expended for any abortion.

(b) None of the funds appropriated under this Act, and none of

the funds in any trust fund to which funds are appropriated under

this Act, shall be expended for health benefits coverage that includes

coverage of abortion.

(c) The term ‘‘health benefits coverage’’ means the package of

services covered by a managed care provider or organization pursuant to a contract or other arrangement.

SEC. 509. (a) The limitations established in the preceding section shall not apply to an abortion—

(1) if the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest;

or

(2) in the case where a woman suffers from a physical disorder, physical injury, or physical illness, including a life-endangering physical condition caused by or arising from the

pregnancy itself, that would, as certified by a physician, place

the woman in danger of death unless an abortion is performed.

(b) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as prohibiting the expenditure by a State, locality, entity, or private person

of State, local, or private funds (other than a State’s or locality’s

contribution of Medicaid matching funds).

(c) Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed as restricting the ability of any managed care provider from offering

abortion coverage or the ability of a State or locality to contract separately with such a provider for such coverage with State funds

(other than a State’s or locality’s contribution of Medicaid matching

funds).

SEC. 510. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may

be used for—

(1) the creation of a human embryo or embryos for research

purposes; or

(2) research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or

death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero

under 45 CFR 46.208(a)(2) and section 498(b) of the Public

Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 289g(b)).

(b) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘human embryo or embryos’’ includes any organism, not protected as a human subject

under 45 CFR 46 as of the date of the enactment of this Act, that

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is derived by fertilization, parthenogenesis, cloning, or any other

means from one or more human gametes or human diploid cells.

SEC. 511. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may

be used for any activity that promotes the legalization of any drug

or other substance included in schedule I of the schedules of controlled substances established by section 202 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 812).

(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply when there

is significant medical evidence of a therapeutic advantage to the use

of such drug or other substance or that federally sponsored clinical

trials are being conducted to determine therapeutic advantage.

SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may be

obligated or expended to enter into or renew a contract with an entity if— (1) such entity is otherwise a contractor with the United

States and is subject to the requirement in section 4212(d) of

title 38, United States Code, regarding submission of an annual

report to the Secretary of Labor concerning employment of certain veterans; and

(2) such entity has not submitted a report as required by

that section for the most recent year for which such requirement

was applicable to such entity.

SEC. 513. None of the funds made available in this Act may be

used to promulgate or adopt any final standard under section

1173(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320d–2(b)) providing

for, or providing for the assignment of, a unique health identifier

for an individual (except in an individual’s capacity as an employer

or a health care provider), until legislation is enacted specifically

approving the standard.

SEC. 514. (a) Section 10 of the Native Hawaiian Health Care

Improvement Act (42 U.S.C. 11709) is amended— (1) in subsection (a) in the matter preceding paragraph (1),

by striking ‘‘Kamehameha School/Bishop Estate’’ and inserting ‘‘Papa Ola Lokahi’’; and

(2) in subsection (b)(1)(C), by striking ‘‘Kamehameha

School/Bishop Estate’’ and inserting ‘‘Papa Ola Lokahi’’.

(b) Section 338K(a) of the Public Health Service Act (42

U.S.C. 254s(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘Kamehameha School/

Bishop Estate’’ and inserting ‘‘Papa Ola Lokahi’’.

SEC. 515. (a) In this section the term ‘‘qualified magistrate

judge’’ means any person who—

(1) retired as a magistrate judge before November 15, 1988;

and

(2) on the date of filing an election under subsection (b)—

(A) is serving as a recalled magistrate judge on a fulltime basis under section 636(h) of title 28, United States

Code; and

(B) has completed at least 5 years of full-time recall

service.

(b) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United

States Courts may accept the election of a qualified magistrate

judge to—

(1) receive an annuity under section 377 of title 28, United

States Code; and

(2) come within the purview of section 376 of such title.

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(c) Full-time recall service performed by a qualified magistrate

judge shall be credited for service in calculating an annuity elected

under this section.

(d) The Director of the Administrative Office of the United

States Courts may promulgate regulations to carry out this section.

SEC. 516. Amounts made available under this Act for the administrative and related expenses for departmental management for

the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human

Services, and the Department of Education, shall be reduced on a

pro rata basis by $25,000,000: Provided, That this provision shall

not apply to the Food and Drug Administration and the Indian

Health Service: Provided further, That not later than 15 days after

the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office of Management

and Budget shall report to the House and Senate Committees on

Appropriations the accounts subject to the pro rata reductions and

the amount to be reduced in each account.

TITLE VI—EXTENSION OF MARK-TOMARKET PROGRAM FOR MULTIFAMILY

ASSISTED HOUSING

SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.

(a) SHORT TITLE.—This title may be cited as the ‘‘Mark-to-Market Extension Act of 2001’’. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this title is

as follows:

TITLE VI—EXTENSION OF MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM FOR

MULTIFAMILY ASSISTED HOUSING

Sec. 601. Short title and table of contents.

Sec. 602. Purposes.

Sec. 603. Effective date.

Subtitle A—Multifamily Housing Mortgage and Assistance Restructuring and

Section 8 Contract Renewal

Sec. 611. Definitions.

Sec. 612. Mark-to-market program amendments.

Sec. 613. Consistency of rent levels under enhanced voucher assistance and rent

restructurings.

Sec. 614. Eligible inclusions for renewal rents of partially assisted buildings.

Sec. 615. Eligibility of restructuring projects for miscellaneous housing insurance.

Sec. 616. Technical corrections.

Subtitle B—Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring

Sec. 621. Reauthorization of Office and extension of program.

Sec. 622. Appointment of Director.

Sec. 623. Vacancy in position of Director.

Sec. 624. Oversight by Federal Housing Commissioner.

Sec. 625. Limitation on subsequent employment.

Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Housing Program Amendments

Sec. 631. Extension of CDBG public services cap exception.

Sec. 632. Use of section 8 enhanced vouchers for prepayments.

Sec. 633. Prepayment and refinancing of loans for section 202 supportive housing.

Sec. 634. Technical correction.

SEC. 602. PURPOSES.

The purposes of this title are—

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(1) to continue the progress of the Multifamily Assisted Housing

Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (referred to in this section as

‘‘that Act’’);

(2) to ensure that properties that undergo mortgage

restructurings pursuant to that Act are rehabilitated to a standard

that allows the properties to meet their long-term affordability requirements;

(3) to ensure that, for properties that undergo mortgage

restructurings pursuant to that Act, reserves are set at adequate levels to allow the properties to meet their long-term affordability requirements;

(4) to ensure that properties that undergo mortgage

restructurings pursuant to that Act are operated efficiently, and that

operating expenses are sufficient to ensure the long-term financial

and physical integrity of the properties;

(5) to ensure that properties that undergo rent restructurings

have adequate resources to maintain the properties in good condition;

(6) to ensure that the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance

Restructuring of the Department of Housing and Urban Development continues to focus on the portfolio of properties eligible for restructuring under that Act;

(7) to ensure that the Department of Housing and Urban

Development carefully tracks the condition of those properties

on an ongoing basis;

(8) to ensure that tenant groups, nonprofit organizations,

and public entities continue to have the resources for building

the capacity of tenant organizations in furtherance of the purposes of subtitle A of that Act; and

(9) to encourage the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring to continue to provide participating administrative entities, including public participating administrative

entities, with the flexibility to respond to specific problems that

individual cases may present, while ensuring consistent outcomes around the country.

SEC. 603. EFFECTIVE DATE.

Except as provided in sections 616(a)(2), 633(b), and 634(b),

this title and the amendments made by this title shall take effect or

are deemed to have taken effect, as appropriate, on the earlier of—

(1) the date of the enactment of this title; or

(2) September 30, 2001.

Subtitle A—Multifamily Housing Mortgage

and Assistance Restructuring and Section 8 Contract Renewal

SEC. 611. DEFINITIONS.

Section 512 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and

Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

‘‘(19) OFFICE.—The term ‘Office’ means the Office of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring established under section 571.’’.

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SEC. 612. MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM AMENDMENTS.

(a) FUNDING FOR TENANT AND NONPROFIT PARTICIPATION.—

Section 514(f)(3)(A) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform

and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended—

(1) by striking ‘‘Secretary may provide not more than

$10,000,000 annually in funding’’ and inserting ‘‘Secretary

shall make available not more than $10,000,000 annually in

funding, which amount shall be in addition to any amounts

made available under this subparagraph and carried over from

previous years,’’; and

(2) by striking ‘‘entities), and for tenant services,’’ and inserting ‘‘entities), for tenant services, and for tenant groups,

nonprofit organizations, and public entities described in section

517(a)(5),’’. (b) EXCEPTION RENTS.—Section 514(g)(2)(A) of the Multifamily

Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C.

1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘restructured mortgages in any

fiscal year’’ and inserting ‘‘portfolio restructuring agreements’’.

(c) NOTICE TO DISPLACED TENANTS.—Section 516(d) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42

U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘Subject to’’ and inserting

the following:

‘‘(1) NOTICE TO CERTAIN RESIDENTS.—The Office shall notify any tenant that is residing in a project or receiving assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937

(42 U.S.C. 1437f) at the time of rejection under this section, of

such rejection, except that the Office may delegate the responsibility to provide notice under this paragraph to the participating administrative entity.

‘‘(2) ASSISTANCE AND MOVING EXPENSES.—Subject to’’.

(d) RESTRUCTURING PLANS FOR TRANSFERS OF PREPAYMENT

PROJECTS.—The Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended—

(1) in section 524(e), by adding at the end the following

new paragraph:

‘‘(3) MORTGAGE RESTRUCTURING AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE

SUFFICIENCY PLANS.—Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the

owner of the project may request, and the Secretary may consider, mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency

plans to facilitate sales or transfers of properties under this

subtitle, subject to an approved plan of action under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 (12 U.S.C.

1715l note) or the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990 (12 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.),

which plans shall result in a sale or transfer of those properties.’’; and

(2) in the last sentence of section 512(2), by inserting ‘‘, but

does include a project described in section 524(e)(3)’’ after ‘‘section 524(e)’’.

(e) ADDITION OF SIGNIFICANT FEATURES.—Section 517 of the

Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997

(42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended—

(1) by striking subsection (c) (except that the striking of

such subsection may not be construed to have any effect on the

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section was in effect before the date of the enactment of this

Act);

(2) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘(7)’’ and inserting ‘‘(1)’’; and

(B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(2) ADDITION OF SIGNIFICANT FEATURES.— ‘‘(A) AUTHORITY.—An approved mortgage restructuring

and rental assistance sufficiency plan may require the improvement of the project by the addition of significant features that are not necessary for rehabilitation to the standard provided under paragraph (1), such as air conditioning, an elevator, and additional community space. The

Secretary shall establish guidelines regarding the inclusion

of requirements regarding such additional significant features under such plans. ‘‘(B) FUNDING.—Significant features added pursuant to

an approved mortgage restructuring and rental assistance

sufficiency plan may be paid from the funding sources specified in the first sentence of paragraph (1)(A). ‘‘(C) LIMITATION ON OWNER CONTRIBUTION.—An owner

of a project may not be required to contribute from nonproject resources, toward the cost of any additional significant features required pursuant to this paragraph, more

than 25 percent of the amount of any assistance received for

the inclusion of such features. ‘‘(D) APPLICABILITY.—This paragraph shall apply to all

eligible multifamily housing projects, except projects for

which the Secretary and the project owner executed a mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan on

or before the date of the enactment of the Mark-to-Market

Extension Act of 2001.’’; and

(3) by inserting after paragraph (6) of subsection (b) the following:

‘‘(c) REHABILITATION NEEDS AND ADDITION OF SIGNIFICANT

FEATURES.—’’. (f) LOOK-BACK PROJECTS.—Section 512(2) of the Multifamily

Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C.

1437f note) is amended by adding after the period at the end of the

last sentence the following: ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of

this title, the Secretary may treat a project as an eligible multifamily housing project for purposes of this title if (I) the project is

assisted pursuant to a contract for project-based assistance under

section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 renewed under

section 524 of this Act, (II) the owner consents to such treatment,

and (III) the project met the requirements of the first sentence of this

paragraph for eligibility as an eligible multifamily housing project

before the initial renewal of the contract under section 524.’’. (g) SECOND MORTGAGES.—Section 517(a) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C.

1437f note) is amended— (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘no more than the’’ and

inserting the following: ‘‘not more than the greater of— ‘‘(i) the full or partial payment of claim made

under this subtitle; or

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‘‘(ii) the’’; and

(2) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘of the second mortgage,

assign the second mortgage to the acquiring organization or

agency,’’ after ‘‘terms’’.

(h) EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRUCTURING.—Section 514(h)(2) of

the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of

1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by inserting before the

semicolon the following: ‘‘, or refinanced pursuant to section 811 of

the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of

2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note)’’.

SEC. 613. CONSISTENCY OF RENT LEVELS UNDER ENHANCED VOUCHER ASSISTANCE AND RENT RESTRUCTURINGS.

Subtitle A of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by adding

at the end the following new section:

‘‘SEC. 525. CONSISTENCY OF RENT LEVELS UNDER ENHANCED VOUCHER ASSISTANCE AND RENT RESTRUCTURINGS.

‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall examine the standards

and procedures for determining and establishing the rent standards

described under subsection (b). Pursuant to such examination, the

Secretary shall establish procedures and guidelines that are designed to ensure that the amounts determined by the various rent

standards for the same dwelling units are reasonably consistent and

reflect rents for comparable unassisted units in the same area as

such dwelling units.

‘‘(b) RENT STANDARDS.—The rent standards described in this

subsection are as follows:

‘‘(1) ENHANCED VOUCHERS.—The payment standard for enhanced voucher assistance under section 8(t) of the United

States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)).

‘‘(2) MARK-TO-MARKET.—The rents derived from comparable

properties, for purposes of section 514(g) of this Act.

‘‘(3) CONTRACT RENEWAL.—The comparable market rents

for the market area, for purposes of section 524(a)(4) of this

Act.’’.

SEC. 614. ELIGIBLE INCLUSIONS FOR RENEWAL RENTS OF PARTIALLY

ASSISTED BUILDINGS.

Section 524(a)(4)(C) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by adding after the period at the end the following: ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall include in

such budget-based cost increases costs relating to the project as a

whole (including costs incurred with respect to units not covered by

the contract for assistance), but only (I) if inclusion of such costs is

requested by the owner or purchaser of the project, (II) if inclusion

of such costs will permit capital repairs to the project or acquisition

of the project by a nonprofit organization, and (III) to the extent that

inclusion of such costs (or a portion thereof) complies with the requirement under clause (ii).’’.

SEC. 615. ELIGIBILITY OF RESTRUCTURING PROJECTS FOR MISCELLANEOUS HOUSING INSURANCE.

Section 223(a)(7) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.

1715n(a)(7)) is amended—

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(1) by striking ‘‘under this Act: Provided, That the principal’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘under this Act, or an existing mortgage held by the Secretary that is subject to a mortgage

restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan pursuant to

the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act

of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note), provided that— ‘‘(A) the principal’’;

(2) by striking ‘‘except that (A)’’ and inserting ‘‘except that

(i)’’;

(3) by striking ‘‘(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘(ii)’’;

(4) by striking ‘‘(C)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iii)’’;

(5) by striking ‘‘(D)’’ and inserting ‘‘(iv)’’;

(6) by striking ‘‘: Provided further, That a mortgage’’ and

inserting the following ‘‘; and ‘‘(B) a mortgage’’;

(7) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; and

(8) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: ‘‘(C) a mortgage that is subject to a mortgage restructuring and rental assistance sufficiency plan pursuant to

the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability

Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) and is refinanced under

this paragraph may have a term of not more than 30 years;

or’’.

SEC. 616. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.

(a) EXEMPTIONS FROM RESTRUCTURING.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 514(h) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C.

1437f note) is amended to read as if the amendment made by

section 531(c) of Public Law 106–74 (113 Stat. 1116) were made

to ‘‘Section 514(h)(1)’’ instead of ‘‘Section 514(h)’’. (2) RETROACTIVE EFFECT.—The amendment made by paragraph (1) of this subsection is deemed to have taken effect on

the date of the enactment of Public Law 106–74 (113 Stat.

1109).

(b) OTHER.—The Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended— (1) in section 511(a)(12), by striking ‘‘this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘this title’’;

(2) in section 513, by striking ‘‘this Act’’ each place such

term appears in subsections (a)(2)(I) and (b)(3) and inserting

‘‘this title’’;

(3) in section 514(f)(3)(B), by inserting ‘‘Housing’’ after

‘‘Multifamily’’;

(4) in section 515(c)(1)(B), by inserting ‘‘or’’ after the semicolon;

(5) in section 517(b)—

(A) in each of paragraphs (1) through (6), by capitalizing the first letter of the first word that follows the paragraph heading;

(B) in each of paragraphs (1) through (5), by striking

the semicolon at the end and inserting a period; and

(C) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end and

inserting a period;

(6) in section 520(b), by striking ‘‘Banking and’’; and

(7) in section 573(d)(2), by striking ‘‘Banking and’’.

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Subtitle B—Office of Multifamily Housing

Assistance Restructuring

SEC. 621. REAUTHORIZATION OF OFFICE AND EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.

Section 579 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and

Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended—

(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following

new subsection:

‘‘(a) REPEALS.—

‘‘(1) MARK-TO-MARKET PROGRAM.—Subtitle A (except for section 524) is repealed effective October 1, 2006.

‘‘(2) OMHAR.—Subtitle D (except for this section) is repealed effective October 1, 2004.’’;

(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘October 1, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2006’’;

(3) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘upon September 30, 2001’’

and inserting ‘‘at the end of September 30, 2004’’; and

(4) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the following

new subsection:

‘‘(d) TRANSFER OF AUTHORITY.—Effective upon the repeal of

subtitle D under subsection (a)(2) of this section, all authority and

responsibilities to administer the program under subtitle A are

transferred to the Secretary.’’.

SEC. 622. APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 572 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is

amended by striking subsection (a) and inserting the following new

subsection:

‘‘(a) APPOINTMENT.—The Office shall be under the management

of a Director, who shall be appointed by the President from among

individuals who are citizens of the United States and have a demonstrated understanding of financing and mortgage restructuring

for affordable multifamily housing.’’.

(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by subsection (a)

shall apply to the first Director of the Office of Multifamily Housing

Assistance Restructuring of the Department of Housing and Urban

Development appointed after the date of the enactment of this Act,

and any such Director appointed thereafter.

SEC. 623. VACANCY IN POSITION OF DIRECTOR.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 572 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is

amended by striking subsection (b) and inserting the following new

subsection:

‘‘(b) VACANCY.—A vacancy in the position of Director shall be

filled by appointment in the manner provided under subsection (a).

The President shall make such an appointment not later than 60

days after such position first becomes vacant.’’.

(b) APPLICABILITY.—The amendment made by subsection (a)

shall apply to any vacancy in the position of Director of the Office

of Multifamily Housing Assistance Restructuring of the Department

of Housing and Urban Development which occurs or exists after the

date of the enactment of this Act.

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SEC. 624. OVERSIGHT BY FEDERAL HOUSING COMMISSIONER.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 578 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is

amended to read as follows:

‘‘SEC. 578. OVERSIGHT BY FEDERAL HOUSING COMMISSIONER.

‘‘All authority and responsibilities assigned under this subtitle

to the Secretary shall be carried out through the Assistant Secretary

of the Department of Housing and Urban Development who is the

Federal Housing Commissioner.’’. (b) REPORT.—The second sentence of section 573(b) of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (42

U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by striking ‘‘Secretary’’ and inserting ‘‘Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development who is the Federal Housing Commissioner’’.

SEC. 625. LIMITATION ON SUBSEQUENT EMPLOYMENT.

Section 576 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and

Affordability Act of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f note) is amended by

striking ‘‘2-year period’’ and inserting ‘‘1-year period’’.

Subtitle C—Miscellaneous Housing

Program Amendments

SEC. 631. EXTENSION OF CDBG PUBLIC SERVICES CAP EXCEPTION.

Section 105(a)(8) of the Housing and Community Development

Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)(8)) is amended by striking ‘‘through

2001’’ and inserting ‘‘through 2003’’.

SEC. 632. USE OF SECTION 8 ENHANCED VOUCHERS FOR PREPAYMENTS.

Section 8(t)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42

U.S.C. 1437f(t)(2)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘insurance contract

for the mortgage for such housing project’’ the following: ‘‘(including

any such mortgage prepayment during fiscal year 1996 or a fiscal

year thereafter or any insurance contract voluntary termination during fiscal year 1996 or a fiscal year thereafter)’’.

SEC. 633. PREPAYMENT AND REFINANCING OF LOANS FOR SECTION

202 SUPPORTIVE HOUSING.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 811 of the American Homeownership

and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note) is

amended by striking subsection (e).

(b) EFFECTIVENESS UPON DATE OF ENACTMENT.—The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall take effect upon

the date of the enactment of this Act and the provisions of section

811 of the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act

of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note), as amended by subsection (a) of this

section, shall apply as so amended upon such date of enactment,

notwithstanding—

(1) any authority of the Secretary of Housing and Urban

Development to issue regulations to implement or carry out the

amendments made by subsection (a) of this section or the provisions of section 811 of the American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000 (12 U.S.C. 1701q note); or

(2) any failure of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to issue any such regulations authorized.

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SEC. 634. TECHNICAL CORRECTION.

(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 101(a) of Public Law 100–77 (42

U.S.C. 11301 note) is amended to read as if the amendment made

by section 1 of Public Law 106–400 (114 Stat. 1675) were made to ‘‘Section 101’’ instead of ‘‘Section 1’’. (b) RETROACTIVE EFFECT.—The amendment made by subsection

(a) of this section is deemed to have taken effect immediately after

the enactment of Public Law 106–400 (114 Stat. 1675).

TITLE VII—MENTAL HEALTH PARITY

SEC. 701. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS

(a) ERISA.—Section 712(f) of the Employee Retirement Income

Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1185a(f)) is amended by striking

‘‘September 30, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2002’’. (b) PHSA.—Section 2705(f) of the Public Health Service Act (42

U.S.C. 300gg–5(f)) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2002’’. (c) INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986.—Section 9812(f) of the

Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ‘‘September

30, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2002’’.

SEC. 702. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT.

Notwithstanding Rule 3 of the Budget Scorekeeping Guidelines

set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 105–217, the provisions of

this title that would have been estimated by the Office of Management and Budget as changing direct spending or receipts under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act

of 1985 were it included in an Act other than an appropriations Act

shall be treated as direct spending or receipts legislation, as appropriate, under section 252 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency

Deficit Control Act of 1985, and by the Chairmen of the House and

Senate Budget Committees, as appropriate, under the Congressional

Budget Act.

This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor, Health

and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002’’. And the Senate agree to the same.

RALPH REGULA, C.W. BILL YOUNG, ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr.,

DAN MILLER, ROGER F. WICKER,

ANNE M. NORTHUP,

RANDY ‘‘DUKE’’ CUNNINGHAM,

KAY GRANGER,

JOHN E. PETERSON,

DON SHERWOOD,

DAVID OBEY,

STENY HOYER,

NANCY PELOSI,

NITA M. LOWEY,

ROSA DELAURO,

JESSE JACKSON, Jr.,

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PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Managers on the Part of the House.

TOM HARKIN,

ERNEST HOLLINGS,

DANIEL INOUYE,

HARRY REID,

HERB KOHL,

PATTY MURRAY,

MARY LANDRIEU,

ROBERT C. BYRD,

ARLEN SPECTER,

THAD COCHRAN,

JUDD GREGG,

LARRY E. CRAIG,

TED STEVENS,

KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON,

MIKE DEWINE,

Managers on the Part of the Senate.

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JOINT EXPLANATORY STATEMENT OF THE COMMITTEE OF

CONFERENCE

The managers on the part of the House and Senate at the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the amendment of the Senate to the bill (H.R. 3061) making appropriations

for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and

Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other purposes, submit the following joint

statement of the House and Senate in explanation of the effect of

the action agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the

accompanying conference report.

In implementing this agreement, the Departments and agencies should comply with the language and instructions set forth in

House Report 107–229 and Senate Report 107–84.

In the case where the language and instructions in either report specifically address the allocation of funds, the Departments

and agencies are to follow the funding levels specified in the Congressional budget justifications accompanying the fiscal year 2002

budget or the underlying authorizing statute and should give full

consideration to all items, including items allocating specific funding included in the House and Senate reports. With respect to the

provisions in the House and Senate reports that specifically allocate funds, each has been reviewed and those that are jointly concurred in have been included in this joint statement.

The conferees specifically endorse the provisions of the House

Report 105–205 directing ‘‘. . . the Departments of Labor, Health

and Human Services, and Education, and the Social Security Administration and the Railroad Retirement Board to submit operating plans with respect to discretionary appropriations to the

House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. These plans,

which are to be submitted within 30 days of the final passage of

the bill, must be signed by the respective Departmental Secretaries, the Social Security Commissioner and the Chairman of the

Railroad Retirement Board.’’

The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and

Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2002 incorporates the following agreements of the managers:

TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION

TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES

The conference agreement includes $5,630,282,000 for training

and employment services instead of $5,583,147,000 as proposed by

the House and $5,533,281,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the

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amount appropriated, $2,463,000,000 is an advance appropriation

for fiscal year 2003, as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $1,127,965,000 for Youth

Training, which is the Senate level. Funding for the Youth Opportunity Grants, $225,100,000, provided within the total for this activity in the House bill, is provided separately in the conference

agreement as proposed by the Senate. These grants are aimed at

increasing the long-term employment of youth who live in empowerment zones, enterprise communities, and other high-poverty

areas.

The conference agreement includes $1,549,000,000 for the Dislocated Worker program, which is the same as the Senate level.

The conferees intend that 80 percent of the funds provided will be

used for State formula grants and 20 percent for National Emergency Grants as authorized under the Workforce Investment Act of

1998 and provided in the House bill.

The conferees have been informed that the Department plans

to cut dislocated worker funding in program year 2001 for community-based organizations and, therefore, strongly urge the Administration to continue, at least at current services levels, job training

activities for these organizations.

The conference agreement includes $57,000,000 for Native

Americans instead of $55,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$57,800,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $80,770,000 for activities

authorized under Section 167 of the Workforce Investment Act, reflected in two separate line items on the table accompanying the

conference agreement: ‘‘Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers’’ and

‘‘National Activities/Other’’. Under the Migrant and Seasonal

Farmworkers line item, the conference agreement provides

$79,751,000. The agreement includes bill language directing that

$4,786,000 of this amount be used for migrant and seasonal farmworker housing grants. The conferees agree that the remaining

amount should be used for State service area grants, including

funding grantees in those States impacted by formula changes at

their comparable 1998 levels. Within the National Activities/Other

line item, the conference agreement includes $1,019,000 to be used

for Section 167 training, technical assistance and related activities,

including funds for migrant rest center activities. The agreement

anticipates that the Department will continue valuable technical

assistance services provided by the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs.

The conference agreement includes $1,459,200,000 for Job

Corps. Within the total, $1,328,825,000 is provided for continuing

operations of the program and $130,375,000 is for renovation and

construction of Job Corps centers. The additional $10,000,000

above the request in construction and renovation is for the first

year costs for a minimum of two new Job Corps centers. The Secretary is urged to initiate the process of selecting and designing

these new centers in the 2002 fiscal year and to include additional

required funding in subsequent budget requests, beginning with

fiscal year 2003.

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The conference agreement includes a citation to the Women in

Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations Act as proposed by

the House. The Senate bill did not cite this Act.

The conference agreement provides that funds for the National

Skill Standards Board shall become available October 1, 2001 as

proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not contain this provision.

The conferees urge the Secretary to target funds to fill vacancies in caring for our nation’s elderly and disabled with those workers recently unemployed. Training for long-term care workers

should be a high priority for the use of Workforce Investment Act

funds both at the federal level and in the States.

The conferees urge the Department of Labor, in cooperation

with the Health Resources and Services Administration, to assess

the shortage of frontline caregivers in long-term care settings (certified nurse aids, licensed practical nurses) and make comprehensive recommendations to address the increasing demand of an

aging baby-boomer generation, and report findings and recommendations to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees by June 2002.

With respect to the projects listed below for pilots and demonstrations, the conferees encourage the Department to ensure that

these projects are coordinated with local Workforce Investment

Boards. The conferees also encourage the Department to ensure

that project performance is adequately documented and evaluated.

The conference agreement includes the following amounts for the

following projects and activities:

Bristol Bay Native Association vocational job training program ................ $500,000

Recruitment and retention of Alaska Natives in nursing at University of

Alaska in Anchorage .................................................................................... 500,000

Center for Textile Training and Apparel Technology at Central Alabama

Community College ...................................................................................... 750,000

Arkansas Enterprise Group’s Good Faith Fund to focus on employment

training and career path development for low-income residents of the

Delta Region in Arkansas ........................................................................... 150,000

University of Arkansas Medical Sciences BioVentures Incubator for

equipment needed for wetlabs used in training ........................................ 200,000

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, to develop technology training programs ............................................................................ 250,000

City of Compton to support the Compton Youth Succeed Initiative ........... 250,000

Greater Sacramento Urban League, Sacramento, CA, for job training activities ........................................................................................................... 270,000

Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA, for the Brentwood Outreach Center

to develop model program to serve low-income minorities ....................... 440,000

Pride Industries, Roseville, CA, to create long-term jobs for persons with

disabilities and other barriers to employment .......................................... 1,000,000

Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency for the Sacramento PreApprenticeship Construction Job Training Program ................................ 800,000

Urban League of Metropolitan Denver, CO, for Project Connect Technical

Training Program ......................................................................................... 100,000

Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, CT, to develop skills sets for the

manufacturing sector ................................................................................... 500,000

Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury, Danbury, CT, to provide career

services to minority populations ................................................................. $150,000

National Student Partnerships continuation project for expansion to 10

new sites ....................................................................................................... 550,000

Waterbury Adult Education Technical Center to provide occupational

training to workers at small firms. ............................................................ 400,000

Jobs for America’s Grads (JAG) program $1,000,000 ................................... 1,000,000

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Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, Tallahassee, FL, for a pilot

program to recruit and train health care workers .................................... 2,000,000

American Indian Science and Engineering Society for the Rural Computer Utilization Training Program ........................................................... 500,000

Bishops Museum .............................................................................................. 800,000

High Tech Training—Maui, HI ...................................................................... 500,000

Maui Economic Development Board for the Rural Computer Utilization

Training Program ........................................................................................ 1,000,000

Remote Rural Hawaii Job Training Project .................................................. 5,000,000

Samoan/Asian Pacific Job Training—Hawaii ................................................ 3,500,000

Training & Education Opportunities at the University of Hawaii at Maui 5,000,000

Iowa Policy Project for a study on temporary and contingent workers ...... 500,000

The Joblinks program ..................................................................................... 1,000,000

University of Northern Iowa’s Program for Integrating Immigrants and

Refugees into the Workforce ....................................................................... 250,000

Harvey Community Center, Harvey, IL, for a demonstration project to

provide job training for low income individuals/families .......................... 200,000

Lakeside Community Committee, Chicago, IL, for a job training program

targeting the hard core unemployed .......................................................... 440,000

Opportunity, Inc. in Highland Park, IL to implement a model job training program to integrate workers with disabilities into a manufacturing workplace .......................................................................................... 125,000

Policy Research Action Group in Chicago to train inner-city residents for

careers in the automotive industry ............................................................ 125,000

Safer Foundation, Chicago, IL to continue the Workplace Acclimation

Program for Ex-Offenders ........................................................................... 400,000

Labor Institute for Training, Indianapolis, IN, to expand and improve

services to newly dislocated and incumbent workers ............................... 152,000

Career Resources, Inc., Louisville, KY, to establish a workforce computer

training program .......................................................................................... 100,000

Career Vision Inc., Louisville, KY, to establish a distance learning pilot

program for computer-based employment skills for youths and adults

with disabilities ............................................................................................ 100,000

Center for Women and Families, Louisville, KY, to expand technology

training and professional education for women affected by domestic violence ............................................................................................................ 700,000

Clifty Heights Community Development Organization, Inc, Science Hill,

KY, for program development, operation and equipment ......................... 200,000

Custom Quality Services, Louisville, KY, for training for their disabled

employees ...................................................................................................... 30,000

New Vision Enterprises, Louisville, KY, for an employment program for

people with disabilities ................................................................................ 100,000

University of Louisville Center for Supply Chain Workforce Development 800,000

Louisiana National Guard for the Louisiana Job Challenge Program to

fund a trade/skill training program for at-risk teenagers ........................ 200,000

Military Educational Training Enhancement Fund, Carville, LA, for a job

challenge program for at risk youth ........................................................... 500,000

Kennebec Valley Technical College to develop a Precision Machining

Technology Program to address the critical workforce shortage in

Maine’s metal products industry ................................................................ 400,000

United Technologies Center to develop a Photonics Training Pilot Project,

to regional technical high school students in the field of photonics ........ 400,000

Focus: HOPE in Detroit, MI to provide training programs to women and

minorities through their Information Tech Center ................................... 500,000

Michigan Technology Commercialization, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI, for planning activities ............................................................................................... 350,000

Mott Community College, Flint, MI to develop simulation curriculum in

virtual machining ......................................................................................... 1,000,000

Minnesota Assistance Council for Veterans to support their workforce

readiness program for homeless veterans .................................................. 500,000

Northeast Higher Education District (NHED) in Minnesota to design a

Rural Telework Center which will provide workforce programs and employment opportunities in IT jobs ............................................................... 1,000,000

Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, for economic

and workforce development ......................................................................... 900,000

Alcorn Biotechnology Center, Lorman, MS for entrepreneurial training ... 150,000

Mississippi Delta Community College Business Services Center ............... 300,000

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Mississippi State Board for Community and Junior Colleges for an automotive workforce training program in Madison County, MS ................... 5,000,000

Mississippi State University Nursery Assistance ......................................... 800,000

Mississippi State University, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems,

Mississippi State, MS, for automotive engineering training .................... 200,000

Mississippi Valley Biometric Technology, Itta Bena, MS ............................ 150,000

Minot State University, Minot, ND, for the Minot Job Corps Fellowship

Training Program ........................................................................................ 385,000

Traill County Technology Center at Mayville State University to retain

graduates in business in Traill County, ND .............................................. 175,000

New Hampshire Motor Transport Association to recruit, train, and retrain truck drivers in Concord, NH ............................................................ 375,000

Youth Opportunities in Retailing, Inc., to work in cooperation with

schools and community organizations to teach sales and service skills

to develop a future workforce ...................................................................... 200,000

City of Las Vegas for worker initiatives in response to post-terrorist attack layoffs .................................................................................................... 1,750,000

NevadaWorks to create a job skills training program to help residents

meet the employment needs of new businesses in the area ..................... 250,000

Reno/Sparks Chamber of Commerce—Workforce Learning Academy

Summit ......................................................................................................... 150,000

Audrey Cohen College, New York City, for Welfare to Careers Program 475,000

Healthcare Association of New York State to develop the Center for

Health Care Workforce Innovations ........................................................... 150,000

Westchester-Putnam Counties Consortium for Worker Education and

Training, Inc., Yonkers, NY, for outreach and training for construction

workers ......................................................................................................... 500,000

Eastern Ohio Training Center, Cambridge, OH, for instructional software, training materials, computer hardware and accessories ................ 300,000

Westside Industrial Retention and Expansion Network to expand metalworking training programs ......................................................................... 500,000

State Board of Career and Technology Education, Stillwater, OK, to develop and update training modules ............................................................ 300,000

Altoona Blair County Development Corporation Workforce Initiative ....... 200,000

College Consortium for Workforce and Economic Development to expand

training programs in Philadelphia ............................................................. 300,000

Community Empowerment Association, Inc. for community re-entry of offenders job training in Allegheny County .................................................. 100,000

Community Loan Fund of Southwestern Pennsylvania to expand its

‘‘Family-Wage Job Initiative’’ ...................................................................... 200,000

Economic Growth Connection of Westmoreland, PA, to establish a training network consortium ............................................................................... 250,000

Lehigh Valley Workforce Investment Board for the implementation of a

training and curriculum program ............................................................... 100,000

National Student Partnerships for the opening of drop-in centers at Temple University, establishing staffed centers at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pittsburgh, and 18 current sites ............ 150,000

Northwest Pennsylvania Industrial Resources Center, Inc., Erie, PA, for

development and distribution of Foundation Skills Curriculum for

Wood/Forest Industry .................................................................................. 100,000

Nueva Esperanza for the administration of the Nueva Esparanza

Telework Center in Philadelphia. ............................................................... 200,000

Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation to provide support services in

the community for workers seeking technology training in Philadelphia. .............................................................................................................. 100,000

Olde Kensington Redevelopment Corporation in Philadelphia for the establishment of the North Philadelphia Senior Development Project—to

maximize seniors’ self-sufficiency and independent community residence through technology training. ............................................................ 100,000

Pennsylvania Association of Individuals with Disabilities to develop programs to help disabled individuals to move into the workforce ............... 500,000

Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board to train workforce in technology occupations in Alleghany County ................................................... 200,000

UMWA Career Centers, Inc. to provide training and placement services

to dislocated coalminers .............................................................................. 2,000,000

University Technology Park/Westchester University to establish a Computer and Internet Training Center ........................................................... 200,000

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Venango Economic Development Corporation, Oil City, PA, to quantify

the need for technology training in rural areas ........................................ 200,000

Intertribal Bison Cooperative in Rapid City, SD to provide employment

training ......................................................................................................... 300,000

Midland College, Midland, TX, for training and safety programs for students desiring to work in the oil and gas industry ................................... 1,600,000

Permian Basin Energy Education Project, Midland Community College

and Odessa College ...................................................................................... 250,000

Project Quest for innovations to improve program performance in the delivery of training to the unemployed and the underemployed ................. 440,000

Alexandria /Arlington Workforce Investment Board to increase employment of the disabled .................................................................................... 300,000

Chantilly Mews Preservation Program, Springfield, VA, to purchase educational equipment and software ................................................................ 100,000

Martinsville-Henry County Chamber of Commerce, Martinsville, VA, for

Workforce Learning Academies .................................................................. 50,000

SERVE, Inc., Manassas, VA, for job training and employment services .... 400,000

Southwest Virginia Community College for Work Keys .............................. 70,000

Champlain College in Burlington, VT, for the Vermont Telecommunications Application Center (VTAC) to understand, plan and leverage

the opportunities of advanced technology .................................................. 250,000

Cyberskills Vermont Workforce Development Initiative in Burlington,

VT, to provide community-based job training programs for low and medium income residents ................................................................................. 200,000

Lake Champlain Life-Long Learning Fund in Burlington, VT, to plan development of a fully integrated academic and technical curriculum for

secondary and adult technical education ................................................... 50,000

Vermont Department of Employment and Training in Montpelier to develop a Registered Apprenticeship Program designed to provide opportunities to a wider range of individuals who are not bound for college

but require instruction in new occupational areas .................................... 200,000

Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center to work in collaboration

with the Vermont State College System to develop a Vermont Workforce and Training Initiative which will be a regional system for technological and skills development ................................................................ 300,000

Seattle King County Workforce Development Council, Seattle, WA, for

the purpose of retraining displaced Boeing employees ............................. 800,000

Green Bay Area Workforce Development Board in Green Bay, WI, to create a public-private partnership providing training for specific employer needs in the area .............................................................................. 1,200,000

The Superior-Douglas County Senior Computer Training in Superior, WI,

to expand a computer lab used to train the senior workforce for new

technologies .................................................................................................. 32,000

University of Wisconsin-Extension Service for the Northern Economic

Development Initiative for baseline analysis, strategic planning and

workforce training in northern Wisconsin ................................................. 175,000

Workforce Development Board of South Central WI, located in Madison,

WI, to create an industry partnership that develops workers for targeted applications ........................................................................................ 1,140,000

West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation to expand IT

training and establish a pilot curriculum .................................................. 700,000

COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS

The conference agreement appropriates $445,100,000 for Community Service Employment for Older Americans, instead of

$440,200,000 as proposed by the House and $450,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES

The conference agreement provides $415,650,000 for Federal

Unemployment Benefits and Allowances as proposed by the House

and the Senate. The conferees did not provide these funds contingent upon enactment of authorizing legislation as proposed by the

House. The Senate bill did not include this provision.

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STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

OPERATIONS

The conference agreement provides $3,401,338,000 for State

Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Operations instead of $3,400,338,000 as proposed by the House and

$3,430,338,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees include $50,680,000 instead of the $49,680,000

proposed by the House and $51,680,000 proposed by the Senate for

employment service national activities.

The conferees include $120,000,000 for One-Stop/America’s

Labor Market Information system as proposed by the House, instead of $148,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees include a provision directing that funds recovered in the settlement of litigation between the State of Mississippi

and a contractor relating to the acquisition of an automated system

for benefit payments be transferred from the Treasury to the State

of Mississippi.

PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION

The conference agreement appropriates $161,863,000 for Program Administration, the same as the House level. The detailed

table at the end of this joint statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the conferees.

The conferees also include funding, as listed in the Senate report, for management and oversight of pilot and demonstration

projects.

PENSION AND WELFARE BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement appropriates $109,866,000 for the

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration, salaries and expenses, as proposed by the House instead of $112,418,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total, $85,525,000 is provided for

enforcement and compliance, $20,205,000 is provided for policy,

regulation, and public service, and $4,136,000 is included for program oversight.

EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement appropriates $371,201,000 for the

Employment Standards Administration, salaries and expenses, instead of the $369,631,000 as proposed by the House and

$377,145,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total,

$156,092,000 is provided for enforcement of wage and hour standards, $30,632,000 is provided for the office of labor-management

standards, $77,914,000 for federal contractor EEO standards enforcement, $91,356,000 for federal programs for worker compensation, and $13,226,000 for program direction and support.

The Senate conferees do not concur with the House report language regarding Davis-Bacon wage determination process reforms.

The conferees request the Department of Labor to submit a report

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not later than June 30, 2002, outlining specific changes, which are

proposed to modernize the Davis-Bacon wage determination process under the reengineering approach.

ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND

The conference agreement includes $136,000,000 for the administrative expenses related to the processing of claims for the

Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act, the

same as both the House and Senate.

The conferees are aware that a significant number of possible

beneficiaries reside in West Texas near the Pantex facility. The

conferees encourage the Secretary to establish a full-time resource

center in West Texas in order to provide sufficient services to those

who may qualify for benefits under the law.

BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND

The conference agreement includes a definite annual appro- priation of $1,035,759,000 for black lung benefit payments and interest payments on advances made to the Trust Fund as proposed

by the House instead of an indefinite permanent appropriation as

proposed by the Senate.

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes $443,651,000 for the Occu- pational Safety and Health Administration instead of $435,307,000

as proposed by the House and $450,262,000 as proposed by the

Senate. The detailed table at the end of this joint statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the conferees.

MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes $254,768,000 for the Mine Safety and Health Administration instead of $251,725,000 as proposed by the House and $256,093,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The detailed table at the end of this joint statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the conferees.

BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes $476,554,000 for the Bu- reau of Labor Statistics rather than $477,108,000 as provided by

the House and $476,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The detailed table at the end of this joint statement reflects the activity

distribution agreed to by the conferees.

OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes $38,158,000 for the Office

of Disability Employment Policy instead of $33,053,000 as proposed

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by the House and $43,263,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within

the total, $2,640,000 is specifically for the President’s Task Force

on Employment of Adults with Disabilities, the same as in the

House bill.

The conference agreement includes $1,000,000, as provided by

the Senate, for three pilot programs for Federal employment for individuals with significant disabilities from home-based

workstations. The conferees intend that Federal agencies include in

these pilots all appropriate positions, whether the work is performed in-house, contracted, or outsourced in the types of jobs

which can be performed from home, such as customer service/call

contact centers, and claims, loan or financial transaction processing

operations.

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes $379,088,000 for Departmental Management, salaries and expenses, instead of

$383,878,000 as proposed by the House and $361,834,000 as proposed by the Senate. The detailed table at the end of this joint

statement reflects the activity distribution agreed to by the conferees.

Within the total provided for this account, the conference agreement appropriates $50,000,000 for the Department-wide information technology crosscut. The conference agreement includes $148,282,000 for the Bu- reau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB), instead of $147,982,000

as provided in both the House and Senate bills. The conference

agreement also includes language authorizing the expenditure of

funds for bilateral and multilateral technical assistance and other

international labor activities, and general grant authority for the

agency. Within the total provided, $82,000,000 is to assist developing countries with the elimination of child labor. Of this amount,

$45,000,000 is for the International Labor Organization’s International Programme for the Elimination of Child Labor. In addition, $37,000,000 is provided for bilateral assistance, made available through September 30, 2003, to improve access to basic education in international areas with a high rate of abusive and exploitative child labor. The conference agreement further includes

$20,000,000 for multilateral technical assistance and $17,000,000

for bilateral technical assistance. These funds help developing

countries implement core labor standards, strengthen the capacities of Ministries of Labor to enforce national labor laws, and protect internationally-recognized worker rights. The conference agreement further includes $5,000,000 for ILAB to build its own permanent capacity to monitor and report regularly and in-depth to the

Congress on the extent to which foreign countries with trade and

investment agreements with the United States respect internationally-recognized worker rights and effectively promote core labor

standards. The conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for

global workplace-based HIV–AIDS education and prevention programs. The conferees agree that the Secretary may transfer up to

5 percent of ILAB funding, exempting child labor protection and

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monitoring amounts, for other unspecified ILAB activities. The conferees also agree that no funds shall be transferred from amounts

included for child labor protection and monitoring activities.

The conferees also include funding for the following activity:

—$300,000 to the University of Iowa for work on child labor.

Within the total amount provided for ILAB, the conferees expect the Department to work with the U.S. Department of State to

post additional labor attache ́s overseas. The conferees expect the

Department to submit a plan detailing the countries with which

the U.S. has bilateral or regional trade and investment agreements

and to which it would propose to send labor attache ́s, as well as

the entire cost attendant to such overseas assignments. The conferees also strongly encourage the Secretary to continue the Labor

Exchange Program with the State Department through which employees throughout the Labor Department have the opportunity to

serve as labor attache ́s abroad in countries that ILAB and State

determine to have significant problems with respect to child labor

and other core labor standards. The conferees expect the Department to submit a draft of the plan, developed in collaboration with

the Department of State, to the Committees on Appropriations no

later than March 31, 2002.

The conferees urge ILAB to submit a report by September 1,

2002 to the Committees on Appropriations on the nature and scope

of technical assistance funds already appropriated in prior fiscal

years. Similar language was included in the Senate report. In addition, the conferees urge ILAB to report by June 30, 2002 on the

study that was undertaken by the Department with regard to regular reporting of working conditions in the production of apparel

imported into the U.S. The Senate report contained similar language.

The conferees note that the Department had a significant lapse

in full-time equivalent usage at the end of fiscal year 2001, particularly in the worker protection programs. The conferees recognize

that this was partly due to the transition from the previous Administration to the current one, as well as to some uncertainty regarding the final 2001 budget level. It is the conferees’ intention that

the Department should make every effort to ensure that the programs are appropriately staffed to perform their mandated responsibilities and meet performance goals. The conferees are pleased to

note, from the data most recently available, that the Department

has been able to achieve wholly, in part, or exceed over 90 percent

of its performance objectives. The conference agreement directs the

Department to prepare a report detailing its hiring plans for fiscal

year 2002 and to submit the report no later than January 15, 2002.

The conferees are aware of the important work the Department is doing to encourage small businesses to develop alcohol and

drug-free workplace programs. Therefore, the conferees recommend

continuation of the Working Partners Program within the Department’s Office of Policy.

VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING

The conferees appropriate $212,703,000 for veterans employment and training, instead of the $211,703,000 as proposed by the

House and $213,703,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the

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funds provided, $18,250,000 is included for the homeless veterans

program and $7,550,000 is included for the veterans workforce investment programs.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

DISLOCATED WORKER ASSISTANCE TO AIRPORT CAREER CENTERS

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding appropriations to enable airport career centers

in New York and New Jersey to provide dislocated worker employment and training assistance to workers in the airline and related

industries who have been dislocated as a result of the September

11, 2001 attack. The House bill contains no similar provision.

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATIVE SERVICES

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding assistance to individuals with disabilities from

New York and New Jersey who require vocational rehabilitative

services as a result of September 11. The House bill contains no

similar provision.

TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN

SERVICES

HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES

The conference agreement includes $6,081,237,000 for health resources and services instead of $5,691,480,000 as proposed by the

House and $5,501,343,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language identifying $311,978,000 for the construction and renovation of health care and

other facilities instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The House bill contained no similar provision. These funds are to

be used for the following projects: Prince George’s Hospital Center,

Cheverly, Maryland; Whitman-Walker Clinic, Inc., Washington,

D.C.; ARCH (Adolescent Residential Center for Help) Facility, Anchorage, Alaska; Southcentral Foundation’s Pathways Home Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Facility, Anchorage, Alaska;

Baptist Health Foundation, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama; Pickens

County Medical Center, Carrollton, Alabama; Thomas Hospital,

Fairhope, Alabama; University of South Alabama Gulf Coast Cancer Center and Research Institute; University of Alabama School of

Medicine, Huntsville Primary Care Center; Cooper Green Hospital

in Alabama; Hospice of West Alabama; University of Alabama, Birmingham, Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Institute; Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Children’s Health Fund in Arkansas; Advance Care Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas; College of Nursing,

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Community

Healthcare of Douglas, Douglas, Arizona; Copper Queen Community Hospital, Bisbee, Arizona; Sierra Vista Health Center, Sierra

Vista, Arizona; University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Cochise

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zona; Yuma County Department of Health, Arizona; Maricopa Integrated Health System, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona;

University of Southern California Alfred E. Mann Institute and

Biomedical Engineering Center; California School of Professional

Psychology, Center for Innovation in Behavioral Health, San Diego;

Children’s Regional Emergency Care Center at Children’s Hospital

and Health Center, San Diego, California; Sharp Coronado Hospital, Coronado, California; Placer County Children’s Emergency

Shelter, Auburn, California; Psychiatric Emergency Services Center, San Mateo County, California Health Center; Hartnell College,

Regional Health Occupations Resource Center, Salinas, California;

The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles; University of Southern

California Keck School of Medicine; Paradise Valley Hospital, Complementary Medicine Center, National City, California; Grossmont

College, El Cajon, California; Riverside-San Bernardino South Clinic, Temecula, California; La Clinica de la Raza, Oakland, California; Loma Linda University Medical Center, Trauma/Emergency

Medical Services Center, Loma Linda, California; Los Angeles Eye

Institute, Los Angeles, California; Touro University School of Osteopathic Medicine, Mare Island, California; San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium, San Francisco, California; Community

Medical Centers, Fresno, California; AltaMed Health Services Corporation, Los Angeles, California; Pediatric and Family Medical

Center, Los Angeles, California; East Los Angeles Health Task

Force, Los Angeles, California; Alliance Medical Center,

Healdsburg, California; Center Point, Inc., San Rafael, California;

Colorado State University Bioenvironmental Hazards Level-3 Facility; University of Northern Colorado Low-Incidence Disabilities

Center; The Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center at Denver

Health; National Jewish Medical and Research Center, Denver,

Colorado; Boys Village Youth and Family Services, Milford, Connecticut; John D. Thompson Hospice Institute for Education, Training and Research, Branford, Connecticut; Southern Connecticut

State University, School of Nursing, New Haven, Connecticut; Jefferson Senior Citizens Center, Monticello, Florida; Northwest Florida Community Hospital; Camillus House, Inc., Miami, Florida;

Ambulatory Care Center at Miami Children’s Hospital, Miami,

Florida; Economic Opportunity Family Health Center, Miami, Florida; Florida Association of Community Health Centers; University

of Florida College of Dentistry; University of Miami School of Medicine, Batchelor Children’s Health Center; Columbia County Senior

Services, Lake City Florida; Enrichment Center, Brooksville, Florida; Bridges of America, Inc., St. Petersburg, Florida; Community

Health Centers of Pinellas, Inc., Johnnie Ruth Clark Health Center, St. Petersburg, Florida; University of South Florida Health

Sciences Center and College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida; Paul D.

Coverdell Building at the Institute of Biomedical and Health

Sciences at the University of Georgia; Marcus Institute, Atlanta,

Georgia; West End Medical Centers, Atlanta, Georgia; J.P. Carr

Human Services Complex in Rockdale County, Georgia; Oakhurst

Medical Centers, Decatur and Stone Mountain, Georgia; Maui

Community Health Center; Molokai General Hospital; Community

Health Care Inc., Davenport, Iowa; Des Moines University Osteopathic Medical Center; Grandview Health Center, Des Moines,

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Iowa; Mercy Medical Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Neumann College,

Aston, Pennsylvania; Palmer Chiropractic College, Davenport,

Iowa; Peoples Community Health Clinic, Waterloo, Iowa; Primary

Health Care Inc., Des Moines, Iowa; River Hills Community Health

Center, Ottumwa, Iowa; Siouxland Community Health Center,

Sioux City, Iowa; South East Iowa Community Health Centers,

Burlington, Iowa; University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa;

Children’s Memorial Hospital, Children’s Memorial Institute for

Education and Research, Chicago, Illinois; Loretto Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Prentice Women’s Hospital, Northwestern Memorial

Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Edward Health Services Women’s &

Children’s Pavilion, Naperville, Illinois; La Rabida Children’s Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; Community Health Care, Inc., Rock Island,

Illinois; Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Illinois; Access Community Health Center, Chicago, Illinois; Marklund Children’s Home,

West Chicago, Illinois; Rush-Copley Medical Center, Aurora, Illinois; Valley West Community Hospital, Sandwich, Illinois;

Marklund Children’s Home, Bloomingdale, Illinois; Chicago Family

Health Center, Chicago, Illinois; The Clinic in Altgeld, Chicago, Illinois; Condell Medical Center, Libertyville, Illinois; Lake County

Health Department and Community Health Center, Waukegan, Illinois; Edward Hospital, Naperville, Illinois; Northwestern University Center for Genomics and Molecular Medicine, Evanston, Illinois; Women’s Health Center at Proctor Hospital in Peoria, Illinois;

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois; Riverside Medical Center, Kankakee, Illinois; Union Hospital,

Midwest Center for Rural Health, Terre Haute, Indiana; Indiana

University Midwest Proton Radiation Institute, Bloomingdale, Indiana; Indiana Genomics Initiative, Indiana University School of

Medicine; Bethany Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas; Kansas

University Imaging Facilities; Harrison Memorial Hospital Dialysis

Center, Cynthiana, Kentucky; Jane Todd Crawford Hospital,

Greensburg, Kentucky; St. Catharine’s College, St. Catharine, Kentucky; University of Louisville Cardiac Assist Device Center; James

Taylor Memorial Nursing Home, Louisville, Kentucky; Park

DuValle Community Health Center, Louisville, Kentucky; Kentucky Communities Economic Opportunity Council, Inc., Appalachian Regional Wellness Center, Barbourville, Kentucky; Martin

County Community Center, Inc., Health and Wellness Resource

Center, Inez, Kentucky; University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky; Lake Charles Memorial Hospital, Lake

Charles, Louisiana; Allied Health Sciences Building at the University of Louisiana, Monroe; East Jefferson Community Health Center, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; Innis, Louisiana Community

Health Center; Louisiana Memorial Hospital, Lake Charles, Louisiana; Louisiana State University Pennington Biomedical Center;

Louisiana State University Health Science Center, Shreveport,

Louisiana; Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center,

New Orleans, Louisiana; Manet Community Health Center, Massachusetts; Jaharis Family Center on Biomedical Research and Nutrition; Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories at the University of

Massachusetts; Northeastern University Bouve College of Health

Sciences; Caritas Good Samaritan Medical Center, Brockton, Massachusetts; J. Joseph Moakley Medical Services Building, Boston

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Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; Brandeis University National Center for Behavioral Genomics, Waltham, Massachusetts;

City of Malden, Massachusetts, Urgent Care Clinic and Family

Health Center at Malden Hospital; University of Massachusetts

Memorial Medical Center, University Campus, Worcester, Massachusetts; Lowell Community Health Center, Lowell, Massachusetts;

Pioneer Valley Life Sciences Joint Venture between the University

of Massachusetts and Baystate Medical Center; Holyoke Hospital,

Holyoke, Massachusetts; Jackson Laboratory in Maine; Saginaw

Cooperative Hospitals, Saginaw, Michigan; Detroit Medical Center,

Detroit, Michigan; Community Health and Social Services, Detroit,

Michigan; Samaritan Center, Detroit, Michigan; Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan; Charlevoix Area Hospital in Traverse City,

Michigan; Marquette General Health System; Wayne State University and the University of Detroit Mercy; Ele’s Place Healing Center, Lansing, Michigan; Hillsdale Community Health Center, Hillsdale, Michigan; American Lung Association of Minnesota, St. Paul,

Minnesota; Model Cities Health Center, St. Paul, Minnesota; North

End Health Center, St. Paul, Minnesota; West Side Community

Health Services Dental Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota; Fairview University Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; West Side Community Health Services Minneapolis Clinic, St. Paul, Minnesota;

Ozark Tri-County Health Care Consortium Inc., Anderson, Missouri; University of Missouri Center for Molecular and Cellular

Bioengineering Research, Kansas City; Cross Trails Medical Center, Bollinger County, Missouri; Douglas County Public Health

Services Group; Northeast Missouri Health Council, Kirksville,

Missouri; Samuel U. Rodgers Community Health Center, Kansas

City, Missouri; Christian Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri; Logan College of Chiropractic, Chesterfield, Missouri; Operation Breakthrough, Kansas City, Missouri; University of Missouri-Kansas

City Institute for Biomedical Research; Family Care Health Centers, St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute,

Kansas City, Missouri; Center for Delta Health, Stoneville, Mississippi; Guyton Building, University of Mississippi Medical Center; Mississippi State School of Agriculture/Agromedicine; Mississippi State University Social Science Research Center; Neshoba

County General Hospital, Philadelphia, Mississippi; Health and

Wellness Center at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi;

Gilmore Hospital, Amory, Mississippi; McLaughlin Animal Facility

and Research Laboratories, Great Falls, Montana; University of

Montana National Center for Health Care Informatics; Greene

County Health Care, Inc., North Carolina; Northeast Medical Center and the Carrabus College of Health Sciences, Concord, North

Carolina; Ruth and Billy Graham Children’s Center, Asheville,

North Carolina; Durham County Hospital Corporation, Durham,

North Carolina; McDowell Hospital, McDowell County, North Carolina; Education and Research Consortium of Western North Carolina, Inc., Asheville, North Carolina; University of North Carolina

Biomedical Research and Teaching Facility; University of North

Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks,

North Dakota; Ai Ki Ruti Substance Abuse Treatment Center in

Winnebago, Nebraska; Boys Town National Research Hospital National Learning and Technology Center for Childhood Deafness and

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Vision Disorders, Omaha, Nebraska; Nebraska Health Systems,

Omaha, Nebraska; University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha,

Nebraska; University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

Cancer Institute, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Hunterdon Medical

Center, Flemington, New Jersey; Child Health Institute of New

Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Leon G. Smith Infectious Disease Institute, Saint Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, New Jersey; Englewood Hospital and Medical Center Advanced Breast Care

Center, Englewood, New Jersey; Hackensack University Medical

Center, Hackensack, New Jersey; Holy Name Hospital, Teaneck,

New Jersey; Cooper Hospital, Camden New Jersey; Kessler Rehabilitation Research Institute in West Orange, New Jersey; First

Choice Community Clinic, Albuquerque, New Mexico; New Mexico

State University, College of Health and Social Services, Las

Cruces, New Mexico; University of Nevada, Reno Biotechnology

and Genomics Center; Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City,

Utah; University Medical Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit,

Las Vegas, Nevada; University of Nevada, Las Vegas Cancer Institute; North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Hillside Hospital; Little Falls Hospital and Residential Health Care Facility,

Little Falls, New York; University of Buffalo Bioinformatics Center;

New York University School of Medicine; The National Center for

Muskuloskeletal Research at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New

York, New York; Dominican College Center for Health Sciences,

Orangeburg, New York; Village of Kiryas Joel, Maternal and Infant

Health Care Convalescence Center, Monroe, New York; Ellenville

Regional Hospital, Ellenville, New York; Kingston Hospital, Kingston, New York; Putnam Hospital, Camel, New York; Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, New York; Open Door Family Medical Center, Edison School Clinic, Port Chester, New York;

Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York; Lewis County General

Hospital, Lowville, New York; Albany Medical Center, Albany, New

York; Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, New York, New

York; New York University Downtown Hospital, New York, New

York; State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Advanced Biotechnology Incubator, Brooklyn, New York; Children’s

Hospital, Buffalo, New York; North General Hospital, New York,

New York; University of Rochester Medical Center, Children’s Hospital at Strong Clinical Genetics Center; Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, New York; Glens Falls Hospital, Glens Falls, New

York; Mary McClellan Hospital, Inc., Cambridge, New York; Kings

County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, New York; Department of

Emergency Medicine, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York; Hospice of Finger Lakes, Auburn, New York; National Kidney Foundation of Central New York;

State University of New York Upstate Medical University; St. Joseph Community Center, Lorain, Ohio; Akron Children’s Hospital;

Cincinnati’s Children’s Hospitals; Columbus Children’s Hospital;

Huron Hospital Emergency Department; Mercy Hospital, Hamilton,

Ohio; Rainbow Babies’ and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio;

Stella Maris Detoxification Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Hopeland

Health Center, Grandview Hospital and Medical Center, Dayton,

Ohio; Hospice and Health Services of Fairfield County, Lancaster,

Ohio; Mary Rutan Hospital, Bellefontaine, Ohio; Regional OutVerDate 11-MAY-2000 06:25 Jan 03, 2002 Jkt 076719 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 6601 Sfmt 6602 E:\HR\OC\HR342.XXX pfrm11 PsN: HR342
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patient Cancer Center, Springfield, Ohio; Tecumseh YMCA Health

and Wellness Center, New Carlisle, Ohio; University Hospitals of

Cleveland, Department of Psychiatry, Center of Excellence for the

Care of Adolescents and Adults with Bipolar Illness and Other Severe Mental Disorders, Cleveland, Ohio; Barnesville Hospital,

Barnesville, Ohio; Beallsville E-Squad, Beallsville, Ohio; Belmont

Community Hospital, Bellaire, Ohio; University of Findlay, Findlay, Ohio; University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Medical

Sciences Building; Joel Pomerene Hospital, Millersburg, Ohio;

Knox Community Hospital, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Ohio State University Biomedical Research and Education Center, Columbus, Ohio;

Red Center, Massillon, Ohio; Stark State College of Technology,

Canton, Ohio; Walsh University Bioinformatics Laboratory, Medical Sciences Building, North Canton, Ohio; Malone College Health

and Wellness Center, Canton, Ohio; Mercy Hospital, Scranton,

Pennsylvania; NorthEast Ohio Neighborhood Health Services,

Cleveland, Ohio; Family and Children’s Services, Tulsa, Oklahoma;

St Anthony Hospital, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation; Virginia Garcia Collaborative Health

Center in Hillsboro, Oregon; Volunteers in Medicine Clinic, Eugene, Oregon; Community Outreach, Corvallis, Oregon; Salud Medical Center, Woodburn, Oregon; Delaware Valley Community

Health, Inc., Maria de los Santos Community Health Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine,

Erie, Pennsylvania; United Cerebral Palsy of Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington, Pennsylvania; Brookville Hospital,

Brookville, Pennsylvania; Bucktail Medical Center, Renova, Pennsylvania; Charles Cole Memorial Hospital, Coudersport, Pennsylvania; Clarion Hospital, Clarion, Pennsylvania; Jersey Shore Hospital, Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania; Kane Community Hospital,

Kane, Pennsylvania; Punxsutawney Area Hospital, Punxsutawney,

Pennsylvania; Soldier and Sailors Memorial Hospital, Wellsboro,

Pennsylvania; Warren General Hospital, Warren, Pennsylvania;

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Clinical Learning and

Assessment Center; Endless Mountains Health Systems, Montrose,

Pennsylvania; Memorial Hospital Inc., Towanda, Pennsylvania;

Moses Taylor Health Care System, Scranton, Pennsylvania; Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine’s Sullivan County Medical

Clinic, LaPorte, Pennsylvania; Fulton County Medical Center,

McConnellsberg, Pennsylvania; Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia; Carnegie Mellon University; Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh; Crozer-Keystone Health System, Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania; Fox Chase Cancer Center and Lombardi Cancer

Center at Georgetown University; Inner Harmony Wellness Center,

Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania; Kidspeace National Outpatient

Health Center; Magee-Womens Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;

Sacred Heart Hospital, Allentown, Pennsylvania; Shamokin Area

Community Hospital, Coal Township, Pennsylvania; Susquehanna

School for the Blind and Vision Impaired; Temple University

Health System, Episcopal Hospital campus; University of Pennsylvania, Comprehensive Cancer Treatment and Research Center;

Wills Eye Hospital, National Center for Clinical Research, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Wistar Institute; Children’s Health Fund; Caribbean Primate Research Center, University of Puerto Rico; Emma

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Pendleton Bradley Hospital, East Providence, Rhode Island;

Thundermist Health Associates, Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Cancer

Prevention Research Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston;

Newport Hospital, Newport, Rhode Island; Women and Infants

Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island; Williamsburg Regional Hospital, Kingstree, South Carolina; Medical University of South Carolina Oncology Center, Charleston, South Carolina; Voorhees College, Center of Excellence in Rural and Minority Health; University

of South Carolina School of Public Health, Columbia, South Carolina; Community Memorial Hospital, Redfield, South Dakota; Crow

Creek Sioux Tribe, Fort Thompson, South Dakota; Ellen Stephen

Hospice, Kyle, South Dakota; Wakanyeja Pawicayapi, Inc., Porcupine, South Carolina; St. Bernard’s Hospital, Milbank, South Dakota; University of South Dakota, School of Medicine; Children’s

Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; East Tennessee State University, Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, Tennessee; Tennessee Tech, School of Nursing,

Chattanooga, Tennessee; University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas; Institute for Research and Rehabilitation, Houston, Texas; Val Verde Regional Medical Center, Del Rio,

Texas; Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital, The Woodlands, Texas; Fort Bend Hospital, Missouri City, Texas; Pediatric

Intensive Care Unit at Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort

Worth, Texas; University of North Texas Health Science Center;

Driscoll Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Clinic, McAllen, Texas;

Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M University, Michael E.

DeBakey Institute; University of Texas, Southwestern Comprehensive Stroke Center; Houston County Hospital, Crockett, Texas; University of Texas Health Science Center, Texas Diabetes Institute,

San Antonio; Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia;

Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; Medical Clinic, Haysi, Virginia; Northwest Community Services, Front Royal, Virginia; Our Health, Inc., Winchester, Virginia; Rutland Regional Medical Center, Rutland,

Vermont; Spectrum Youth and Family Services, Burlington,

Vermont; Vermont Department of Health, Division of Alcohol and

Drug Abuse Programs, Primary Care Facility; University of

Vermont College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care;

Northeast Washington County Community Health Center, Plainfield, Vermont; University of Washington, Life Sciences Facility,

Seattle, Washington; Lourdes Health Network, Pasco, Washington;

Puget Sound Blood Center, Seattle, Washington; Memorial Hospital of Iowa County, Dodgeville, Wisconsin; Northcentral Technical

College, Wausau, Wisconsin; Chippewa Valley Technical College

Health Education Center, Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Marquette University School of Dentistry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Marshfield

Clinic, Marshfield, Wisconsin; Marshall University Biotechnology

Science Center; University of Charleston, Riggleman Hall; West

Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Ambulatory Care Facility;

and Friends-R-Fun, Summersville, West Virginia.

The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration to

a proposal from Yeshiva University, Einstein Medical College.

The conference agreement includes bill language to limit the

amount available for Federal tort claims within community health

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centers funding to not more than $15,000,000 as proposed by the

House instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language identifying $265,085,000 for family planning instead of $264,170,000 as proposed by the House and $266,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement does not include bill language to provide $30,000,000 for abstinence education in fiscal year 2003 as

proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision. The conferees agree with the President’s request to fund this

program on a current year basis. The conference agreement includes $1,343,723,000 for community health centers as proposed by the Senate instead of

$1,318,559,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees concur

with language contained in the Senate report that not less than

$7,000,000 be provided for Native Hawaiian health care activities.

The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration to

proposals to support expanded services to reach priority populations in under-served communities in Kane, Marion, Saline, and

Will, Illinois counties on the southwest side of Chicago and in the

AAPI community on the north side of Chicago.

The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration to

proposals to support expanded services to reach priority populations in under-served communities in Greene, Howell, Washington, Benton, Sullivan, Vernon, and Ozark counties, Missouri. The conference agreement includes $46,511,000 for the na- tional health service corps, field placements instead of $42,511,000

as proposed by the House and $49,511,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $107,000,000 for national health service corps, recruitment instead of $100,000,000 as proposed by the House and $104,916,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $8,000,000 is for State offices of rural

health.

The conference agreement includes $662,768,000 for health

professions instead of $669,992,000 as proposed by the House and

$596,369,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total provided,

$285,000,000 is for children’s hospitals graduate medical education.

The conferees provide $2,000,000 to establish a graduate psychology education program. These funds are to be used consistent

with language contained in the House report.

The conferees provide $8,000,000 to expand graduate medical

education curriculum in geriatrics. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the House report.

In convening the panel to examine the education and training

requirements for all nursing occupations, as directed in the Senate

report, the Secretaries of the Department of Health and Human

Services and the Department of Labor shall also collaborate with

the American Association of Community Colleges, the American

Organization of Nurse Executives, and the National League for

Nursing, and ensure that a representative spectrum of views on

relevant issues is considered.

The conferees note the value of the Native Hawaiian Center of

Excellence in Nursing in addressing the nursing shortage in Hawaii.

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The conference agreement includes $17,841,000 for Hansen’s

disease services instead of $17,491,000 as proposed by the House

and $18,391,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total provided, $350,000 is for the Diabetes Lower Extremity Amputation

Prevention program at the University of South Alabama. The conference agreement includes $731,615,000 for the mater- nal and child health block grant instead of $740,000,000 as proposed by the House and $719,087,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language designating $115,236,000 of the funds provided for the block grant for special

projects of regional and national significance (SPRANS) instead of

$116,145,000 as proposed by the House. The Senate bill did not

earmark funds for this purpose. It is intended that $4,000,000 of

the SPRANS amount will be used to enhance the sickle cell newborn screening program and its locally based outreach and counseling efforts. The conferees urge HRSA to give full and fair consideration to a proposal by the Sickle Cell Disease Association of

America. It is also intended that $4,000,000 of the SPRANS

amount will be used for Columbia Hospital for Women Medical

Center in Washington, D.C., to support community outreach programs for women, $565,000 will be used for the Milwaukee Health

Department for a pilot program providing health care services to

at-risk children in day care, and $50,000 will be used for the Center for Great Expectations, Somerville, New Jersey to provide prenatal health care, education, and counseling for pregnant teens.

Funding for the continuation of the traumatic brain injury

State demonstration projects is provided as a separate line item in

the table as proposed by the Senate. The House provided funding

for this purpose within the SPRANS amount. The conference agreement includes $10,000,000 for abstinence education as proposed by the House instead of $15,000 as proposed

by the Senate. This additional funding brings the total discretionary amount available for abstinence education in fiscal year

2002 to $40,000,000.

The conference agreement includes $99,000,000 for healthy

start instead of $102,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$89,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees urge HRSA

to give preference to current and former grantees with expiring or

recently expired project periods, including grantees that did not receive renewed funding but whose grant applications were approved

but not funded during fiscal year 2001.

The conference agreement includes $51,928,000 for rural

health outreach grants instead of $51,863,000 as proposed by the

House and $52,921,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees continue to be concerned about the health care

needs of those in the Mississippi River Delta region. The conferees

concur with the budget request and provide $6,800,000 to continue

HRSA’s ongoing initiative which is providing funding and technical

assistance to help underserved rural communities identify and better address their health care needs and to help small rural hospitals improve their financial and operational performance. The

conferees recommend that HRSA consult with the Delta Regional

Authority (DRA), given DRA’s ongoing relationship with communities in the Delta.

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The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: —$75,000 is for Ellen Stephen Hospice in Kyle, South Dakota

to provide end-of-life care for Native Americans on the Pine Ridge

Indian Reservation; —$100,000 is for the Mississippi Disease State Management

program at the University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy,

which focuses on providing information and medications to the underserved, particularly those with diabetes and asthma; —$100,000 is for the Northwest Health Center in Pascoag,

Rhode Island to support health care services for low-income individuals; —$100,000 is for the People of Color AIDS Foundation in

Santa Fe, New Mexico for education, prevention, and HIV testing

services in northern New Mexico; —$200,000 is for the Louisiana Public Health Institute, Center

for Community Capacity Enhancement to promote community partnerships in order to address health improvement priorities; —$200,000 is for Health Centers of Northern New Mexico in

Espanola, San Miguel and Truchas, New Mexico to improve service

delivery and access to care for low-income families in Northern

New Mexico; —$200,000 is for the Geisinger Health Systems Rural Stroke

Care Partnership in Danville, Pennsylvania; —$200,000 is for the Eastside Neighborhood Center, Inc. in

Pierre, South Dakota for the Frontier School Health Initiative to

provide health care services to children in rural areas who do not

receive regular health care services; —$215,000 is for Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal City,

Missouri for its rural health outreach activities; —$250,000 is for the St. Nicholas Free Clinic in Paducah, Kentucky to establish health education and wellness promotion programs for the working-poor of Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton,

Graves, Hiuskman, Livingston, McCracken, and Marshall Counties;

—$250,000 is for the Buncombe County Medical Society in

North Carolina for Project Access;

—$300,000 is for the Western Kentucky University Healthy

Farm Families Initiative;

—$300,000 is for the Carolina’s Health Care Systems;

—$300,000 is for the University of Nebraska Medical Center,

500 mile medical center;

—$330,000 is for Mercy Housing health care technical support,

to provide health care in coordination with affordable housing to

low income families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities;

—$370,000 is for the Clackamas County, Oregon, Public

Health Division, for rural outreach activities;

—$400,000 is for the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior in

Bayfield, Wisconsin for dental services;

—$425,000 is for the Southern University Nurse Managed

Family Health Center in Baton Rouge for a health clinic on campus

and a mobile health clinic;

—$500,000 is for the State of Alaska: ‘‘A Counselor in Every

Village’’ program to train behavioral health counselors and provide

their services in Alaskan villages; and Alaska Native Health Board

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to expand the Alaska Community Health Aide program in rural

Alaska and to update training materials;

—$500,000 is for the Western Kentucky University Emergency

Medical Services Academy;

—$500,000 is for the Western Kentucky University Mobile

Health Screening program;

—$500,000 is for the Louisiana State University Health

Science Center in New Orleans to reduce diabetes-related foot amputations in a high-risk population;

—$500,000 is for the Penn State Hershey Medical Center to

expand access to healthcare in rural areas of central Pennsylvania;

—$500,000 is for the Huntsman Cancer Institute to develop a

pilot project involving mobile clinics equipped with Positron Emission Tomography to educate Native Americans on cancer risk, early

detection, prevention and treatment;

—$550,000 is for the Center for Sustainable Health Outreach

at the University of Southern Mississippi;

—$800,000 is for the Tennessee Hospital Education Research

Foundation in Nashville, Tennessee for the Center for Health

Workforce Planning;

—$500,000 is for the Cooperative Education Service Agency

#11 in Turtle Lake, Wisconsin for dental services;

—$1,000,000 is for the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairman’s

Health Board in Aberdeen, South Dakota to support the Northern

Plains Healthy Start project;

—$1,000,000 is for the Center for Acadiana Genetics and Hereditary Health Care at Louisiana State University Medical Center

to continue and expand the development of the center;

—$1,200,000 is for Creighton University’s Accelerated Nursing

Program in Omaha, Nebraska; and

—$1,250,000 is for the Montana Comprehensive Health Association in Helena, Montana to develop a demonstration program to

bring insurance coverage to high-risk individuals.

The conference agreement includes $16,810,000 for rural

health research instead of $12,099,000 as proposed by the House

and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$200,000 is for the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford,

Center for Rural Health Practices;

—$250,000 is for the Healthcare Association of New York State

for a Center for Health Care Workforce Innovations

—$300,000 is for Bassett Healthcare to develop and initiate a

comprehensive cardiovascular research initiative to demonstrate

the effectiveness of an integrated cardiac care program in rural

New York;

—$360,000 is for the University of South Dakota to establish

a cooperative academic Rural Primary Care and Health Service Research Center to help define the status of health care delivery in

South Dakota;

—$400,000 is for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences

Center at El Paso and the University of Texas at El Paso for joint

research and education on the health problems of migrant workers;

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—$400,000 is for the University of Vermont, School of Nursing

in Burlington, Vermont to create a nursing center of excellence

that will assist policy formulation regarding the severe shortage of

nurses, especially in rural areas;

—$1,400,000 is for Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls,

South Dakota to develop and apply computerized radiography within multiple rural and tertiary level medical care settings;

—$1,500,000 is for the University of North Dakota School of

Medicine to support its rural health program in preventative medicine and behavioral sciences; and

—$2,000,000 is for the Raleigh County Commission in Beckley,

West Virginia for an Educational Mall to serve as a coordinating

and research location for rural health initiatives, especially in preventative medicine.

The conference agreement includes $39,197,000 for telehealth

instead of $27,609,000 as proposed by the House and $5,609,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$45,000 is for the Oregon Community Health Information

Network for technology upgrades;

—$75,000 is for the University of South Alabama for the

Southwest Alabama Network for Education and Telemedicine;

—$100,000 is for the Oklahoma State Department of Health,

Oklahoma City for planning and development of a rural telemedicine system;

—$100,000 is for the Coalition for Ultrasound Education and

Training to develop a comprehensive multi-institution model distance learning network for the training of ultrasound technologists

and medical sonographers;

—$100,000 is for the University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, Nurse Anesthesia Program and LaRoche College for the Nurse

Anesthesia Rural and Elderly Expansion project;

—$200,000 is for the Primary Care Association of Hawaii;

—$200,000 is for Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield,

Missouri for a distance learning project;

—$200,000 is for Clarion University and the Primary Care

Council of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education;

—$250,000 is for Molokai General Hospital to use the latest

technology advances to provide health care in rural areas;

—$250,000 is for Greene Memorial Hospital in Xenia, Ohio for

a Medical Safety Modernization project;

—$250,000 is for the Pennsylvania School of Optometry in

Philadelphia to establish a network of urban community-based satellite centers to provide access to inner city, underserved persons

who need vision care;

—$250,000 is for the Pennsylvania Association of Home Health

Agencies to conduct a multi-facility examination of telehomecare

and concurrent development and analysis of the Telenursing role

as a solution to the nursing shortage, working with Penn State

University Health Policy and Administration;

—$300,000 is for the University of Virginia for telemedicine

projects in southwest Virginia;

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—$350,000 is for Fairview Ridges Hospital for a demonstration

to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity using technology and

communications methodologies; —$400,000 is for Deaconess Billings Clinic Northwest Area

Center for Studies on Aging in Billings, Montana to address

healthcare problems associated with rural aging, and expand access to specialty health care via telemedicine; —$400,000 is for the Rocky Mountain Technology Foundation

in Billings, Montana through Rocky Mountain College and Deaconess Billings College to provide telemedicine links to rural areas; —$400,000 is for the University of Vermont College of Medicine and Fletcher Allen Health Care to support its use of two-way

interactive video telemedicine systems to reduce disparities in the

clinical care and medical education of trauma; —$440,000 is for the Telehealth Resource Center at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas for a telehealth initiative; —$450,000 is for St. Vincent Hospital in Billings, Montana to

establish a regional video telecommunications network for

healthcare providers; —$500,000 is for Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant

for the rural telehealth and community education network to improve access and quality of health care to migrants and underserved in rural populations; —$500,000 is for the Alaska Telemedicine Advisory Council for

an Alaska telemedicine project; —$500,000 is for Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Illinois for an automated clinical information system; —$500,000 is for the University of Montana, ImProving Health

Among Rural Montanans project for expansion of existing capabilities of the campus-based Drug Information Service; —$500,000 is for the New Mexico-Hawaii Telehealth Outreach

for Unified Community Health (TOUCH) project in remote and

rural areas;

—$500,000 is for the Penn State Cancer Institute at Hershey

Medical Center to develop a digital informatics and communications system to provide a virtual work environment offering patient

services across central and northeastern Pennsylvania;

—$550,000 is for the North Idaho Rural Telehealth program to

help provide for the logical extension of more complete telehealth

services to additional, high-priority participants and rural areas;

—$600,000 is for the Institute for Urban Family Health in

New York, New York for an information technology initiative;

—$600,000 is for North Dakota State University College of

Pharmacy to conduct a pilot study testing the safety, cost-effectiveness and access to health care provided by new telepharmacy technology in rural communities;

—$750,000 is for Susquehanna Health Systems in Williamsport, Pennsylvania for an Electronic Medical Information and Physician Access project;

—$750,000 is for the Morehouse School of Medicine to develop

networking capability at the National Center of Primary Care;

—$800,000 is for the Fairview Lakes Regional Medical Center

in Wyoming, Minnesota for its telemedicine program;

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—$800,000 is for the University of South Dakota in Vermillion

to implement a distance learning project to train entry-level nursing home workers to become nurses; —$850,000 is for the New York Presbyterian Hospital telehealth initiative; —$900,000 is for South Dakota State University to develop

and evaluate on-line health tracking to help manage chronic conditions in tribal communities; —$982,000 is for the Maricopa County, Arizona Correctional

Health Telemedicine Initiative; —$1,000,000 is for Baycare Health Systems in Clearwater,

Florida for a Medical Information Systems Initiative; —$1,000,000 is for Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio for a Netwellness Internet health program; —$1,000,000 is for Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive

Health Services for Phase II of a telemedicine system to link its patients with the research capabilities of the American Health Foundation; —$1,100,000 is for Northeastern Ohio Universities College of

Medicine in Rootstown, Ohio for implementation of the Medical

Education Network Teaching Ohio Region III; —$1,500,000 is for the Idaho State University Telehealth Integrated Care Center to improve the quality and quantity of access

to healthcare for people living in Idaho’s rural and frontier areas

by providing consultation and diagnosis over long distance; —$1,500,000 is for the Northeast Ohio Health Outreach Network in Massillon, Ohio for a patient safety pilot program; —$1,721,000 is for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas for its

e-Health program to improve access to specialized and high quality

health care in rural Nevada; —$1,940,000 is for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

for support of the development and deployment of its state of the

art health care information technology system; —$2,000,000 is for the University of South Dakota School of

Medicine;

—$2,085,000 is for the Education and Research Consortium of

Western North Carolina, Inc., Western North Carolina Health Care

Regional Center to provide computer hardware/software acquisition, upgrade and installation as well as training and consultation

services for medical staff and administrators; and

—$2,900,000 is for West Virginia University to provide medical

care to rural communities through the Mountaineer Doctor Television (MDTV) program.

The conference agreement includes $20,000,000 for authorized

health-related activities of the Denali Commission as proposed by

the Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision.

The conference agreement includes $18,993,000 for emergency

medical services for children instead of $19,000,000 as proposed by

the House and $18,986,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $21,210,000 for poison control instead of $16,421,000 as proposed by the House and

$24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $7,500,000 for traumatic

brain injury instead of $10,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The

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House bill provided $5,000,000 for this purpose within the maternal and child health block grant SPRANS funding. Within the total

provided, $1,500,000 is for protection and advocacy services. These

funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the

Senate report. The conference agreement includes $6,000,000 for black lung clinics as proposed by the House instead of $7,000,000 as proposed

by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $3,500,000 for trauma care instead of $3,000,000 as proposed by the House and $4,000,000 as

proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $10,240,000 for nursing loan repayment for shortage area service instead of $2,279,000 as

proposed by the House and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes a total of $1,910,806,000 for Ryan White programs instead of $1,919,609,000 as proposed by

the House and $1,883,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Included

in this amount is $619,585,000 for emergency assistance,

$977,485,000 for comprehensive care, $193,939,000 for early intervention, $70,998,000 for women, infants, children, and youth,

$13,500,000 for dental services, and $35,299,000 for education and

training centers.

The conference agreement includes bill language identifying $639,000,000 for the Ryan White Title II State AIDS drug assistance programs instead of $649,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $610,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total provided, $123,200,000 is for the Minority

HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent with

language contained in the House report.

The conferees concur with House report language under title

IV regarding the distribution of title IV funds.

The conferees are concerned about the increasing incidence of

HIV/AIDS infection in rural regions of the United States, and are

aware that HIV/AIDS disproportionately impacts minority communities in underserved rural areas, particularly in the Southeast.

Therefore, States should utilize funds provided under the Minority

HIV/AIDS Initiative to fund outreach strategies that assist in linking underserved minority populations with State ADAPs, primary

care, and other HIV/AIDS treatment services.

The conferees are concerned about the formula-based distribution of discretionary supplemental ADAP grant awards to States

with demonstrated need. The conferees encourage HRSA to distribute these grant awards to eligible States based on needs identified by the States, rather than a formula based solely on living

AIDS cases. The conferees also encourage HRSA to consider capped

program enrollment and client waiting lists, in conjunction with

the eligibility, formulary, and medical criteria as among the ADAP

access restrictions that may qualify a State or territory for these

grant awards. The conferees also urge HRSA to provide supplemental awards to States with an ADAP eligibility limit in excess

of 200 percent of the Federal poverty level when those States meet

any of the statutorily defined criteria.

The conference agreement includes $40,000,000 for rural hospital flexibility grants instead of $35,000,000 as proposed by the

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House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total

provided, $15,000,000 is for a rural hospital performance improvement program. These funds would be used for the small rural hospital prospective payment systems grant program as created in section 409 of the Balanced Budget Relief Act of 1999 and authorized

in section 1820(g)(3) of the Social Security Act. These funds would

also be used to help rural hospitals comply with provisions of the

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and to

reduce medical errors and support quality improvement. The funds

would be geared toward small rural hospitals that are essential access points for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The conference agreement includes $4,000,000 for the Radi- ation Exposure Compensation Act instead of $5,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision. The conference agreement includes $120,041,000 for the community access program as proposed by the House instead of

$15,041,000 as proposed by the Senate. These funds are to be used

consistent with language contained in the House report. The conference agreement includes $149,154,000 for program management instead of $147,049,000 as proposed by the House and

$135,991,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of the increase provided,

$2,500,000 is for information technology.

The conferees are concerned by the recently announced plan to

abolish the Office for the Advancement of Telehealth and reassign

these functions to the HIV/AIDS Bureau. The conferees have provided sufficient funds to continue the operations of this Office as

a component of the Office of the Administrator.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: —$80,000 is for the Wausau Health Foundation in Wausau,

Wisconsin for a survey and analysis of local health professionals’ career paths to better understand entry into and exit from health

professions; —$100,000 is for the University of San Diego Institute for the

Advancement of Health Policy to assess through teaching, research

and delivery of services the impact of public policy on families from

vulnerable populations;

—$200,000 is for Luna County, New Mexico and the Columbus

Volunteer Fire Department to provide emergency medical services

to immigrants;

—$350,000 is for the Clinical Pharmacy Training program at

the University of Hawaii at Hilo;

—$475,000 is to support the efforts of the American Federation

of Negro Affairs Education and Research Fund of Philadelphia;

—$500,000 is for the University of Washington Center for

Health Workforce Studies in Seattle, Washington for a demonstration project to collect and analyze health workforce data;

—$800,000 is for the University of Iowa for the training of Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists;

—$1,000,000 is for the Washington Health Foundation for a

comprehensive demonstration project on improving nurse retention;

and

—$1,100,000 is for the Iowa Department of Public Health to

create a Center for Health Care Workforce Shortage.

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CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING

The conference agreement includes $4,293,151,000 for disease control, research, and training instead of $4,077,060,000 as proposed by the House and $4,418,910,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language to earmark $250,000,000 for equipment, construction, and renovation of facilities as proposed by the Senate instead of $175,000,000 as proposed

by the House. Within the total provided, $6,000,000 is for data

storage infrastructure hardware and software upgrades to provide

for the remote mirroring of information between CDC data centers,

and provide heterogeneous connectivity to existing systems used at

CDC, to ensure protection, recovery, and availability of critical data

resources.

The conference agreement includes bill language to allow the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enter into a

single contract or related contracts for the full scope of development and construction of facilities as proposed by the Senate. The

House bill contained no similar provision.

The conference agreement includes bill language to earmark $143,763,000 for international HIV/AIDS instead of $137,527,000

as proposed by the House and $154,527,000 as proposed by the

Senate.

The conference agreement does not include bill language to

earmark funds for the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile within

CDC. The agreement includes bill language for this purpose within

the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund.

The conference agreement includes a total of $126,978,000 for

the National Center for Health Statistics as proposed by both the

House and the Senate. The agreement also includes bill language

designating $23,286,000 of the total to be available to the Center

from the Public Health Service Act evaluation set-aside as proposed

by the House. The Senate bill contained no similar provision.

The conferees urge CDC to review the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring Survey to explore the feasibility of establishing a

uniform State and national reporting system of pregnancy related

complications for women, to provide technical assistance to States

in examining pregnancy related health data, to track interventions

and patterns of care received, and to conduct research into the

causes of and interventions for pregnancy complications, especially

for complications relating to disparities in mother and infant outcomes for different racial and ethnic populations.

The conference agreement includes $90,078,000 for birth defects, developmental disabilities, disability and health instead of

$80,280,000 as proposed by the House and $88,748,000 as proposed

by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $12,000,000 is for fetal alcohol syndrome, $3,000,000 is to support the Christopher Reeve Paralysis

Foundation, and $2,000,000 is to expand surveillance and epidemiological efforts of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy in

the United States.

Within the total provided, $2,800,000 is for a Special Olympics

Healthy Athletes Initiative to help train health professionals and

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sensitize health care systems and institutions to the special needs

of individuals with mental retardation; expand systems to make

them accessible for special needs individuals; help identify the nature and scope of health challenges and health access barriers to

persons with mental retardation; and create and test models for

athlete health promotion at the local level.

Within the total provided, $2,500,000 above the budget request

is to expand autism and developmental disability surveillance activities in additional States and $1,250,000 above the budget request is to establish an attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder resource center.

The conferees support CDC’s prevention activities for folic acid

and urge the agency to expand efforts to enhance State and local

activities to educate women about this effective prevention strategy.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$100,000 for the Birth Defects Monitoring and Prevention

Center at the University of South Alabama;

—$150,000 for the California Teratogen Information Center at

the University of California, San Diego;

—$300,000 for the Children and Adults with Attention Deficit

Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD); and

—$750,000 for the University of Louisville Craniofacial Birth

Defects Research Center.

The conference agreement includes $747,823,000 for chronic

disease prevention and health promotion instead of $722,495,000

as proposed by the House and $701,654,000 as proposed by the

Senate. Programs within this account are funded at the following

levels:

Arthritis .................................................................................................. $13,896,000

Breast and Cervical Cancer .................................................................. 192,598,000

Cancer Prevention and Control ............................................................ 76,662,000

Cancer Registries ............................................................................ (40,000,000)

Colorectal Cancer ........................................................................... (12,000,000)

Other Cancers ................................................................................. (4,357,000)

Ovarian Cancer ............................................................................... (4,596,000)

Prostate Cancer .............................................................................. (14,062,000)

Skin Cancer ..................................................................................... (1,647,000)

Community Health Promotion .............................................................. 15,243,000

Diabetes .................................................................................................. 61,754,000

Epilepsy .................................................................................................. 6,527,000

Heart Disease and Stroke ..................................................................... 37,384,000

Iron Overload ......................................................................................... 477,000

National Campaign to Change Children’s Health Behaviors ............ 68,400,000

Nutrition/Physical Activity ................................................................... 27,505,000

Oral Health ............................................................................................ 10,839,000

Prevention Centers ................................................................................ 26,182,000

Safe Motherhood/Infant Health ............................................................ 50,790,000

School Health ......................................................................................... 58,495,000

Tobacco ................................................................................................... 101,071,000

Within the total provided, $68,400,000 is for the National

Campaign to Change Children’s Health Behaviors. These funds are

to be used consistent with language contained in the House report.

The conferees do not provide funds to continue the Health Resources and Services Administration and the National Institute of

Child Health and Human Development activities.

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The conferees concur with the Senate report language encouraging CDC to continue public and professional awareness activities

with respect to pulmonary hypertension.

With the additional funding provided for oral health, the conferees understand that priority will be given to completing the

funding of cooperative agreements to strengthen State oral disease

prevention programs. These programs may include projects that

will include dental sealant programs for children and community

fluoridation projects.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: Within the total for breast and cervical cancer, $50,000 is for

SHAREing & CAREing, Inc., Astoria, New York for an outreach,

education and breast cancer screening program; $150,000 is for a

breast cancer demonstration project at the Healthcare Association

of New York State; and $250,000 is for the Swope Parkway Health

Center Breast and Cervical Cancers Demonstration and Outreach

project in Kansas City, Missouri. Within the total for comprehensive cancer control, $250,000 is

for the Rhode Island Cancer Council in Pawtucket, Rhode Island

for public education and professional outreach; $440,000 is for the

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,

Texas for a comprehensive cancer control program to address minority and medically underserved populations; and $500,000 is for

the St. Mary’s Medical Center Comprehensive Cancer Care Center

in Long Beach, California. Within the total provided for prostate cancer, $290,000 is for

the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas for satellite

prostate cancer testing centers to carry out programs of prevention,

education and testing related to prostate cancer.

Within the total provided for community health promotion, $2,800,000 is to develop a model project to test the efficacy of glaucoma screening using mobile units. The conferees further suggest

the program establish protocols to conduct outreach, identify staffing needs, provide patient education regarding glaucoma management, address other eye conditions, and make appropriate referrals

to eye care professionals.

Within the total provided for community health promotion,

$1,200,000 is for the Mind-Body Medical Institute in Boston, Massachusetts to continue practice-based assessments, identification,

and study of promising and heavily used mind/body practices.

Within the total provided for community health promotion,

$225,000 is for the Roger Williams Medical Center Healthlink in

Providence, Rhode Island for a disease prevention initiative for senior retirees; $250,000 is for Valley Children’s Hospital in California

for a mobile asthma care program to reduce the incidence of asthma in the region and reduce the related costs of hospital-based

treatment; $300,000 is for Pikeville College, School of Osteopathic

Medicine to conduct epidemiological studies in the Appalachian Region of Southeastern Kentucky; $500,000 is for Community Health

Centers in Hawaii for a childhood rural asthma project; $500,000

is for the State of Alaska for a program to reduce high anemia

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western Medical Center, National Multiple Sclerosis Training Center.

Within the total for diabetes prevention, $100,000 is a diabetes

care program at the Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero in Los Angeles, California; $250,000 is for a diabetes and diabetic retinopathy demonstration at the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement

of Science and Technology in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; $440,000

is for the University of Arizona in Tucson for a Border Health Initiative; $500,000 is for the Texas Tech University Center for Diabetes Prevention and Control; and $1,600,000 is for the Standing

Rock Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne Sioux Tribe for the Dakota Plains

Diabetes Center.

Within the total provided for heart disease and stroke,

$4,500,000 is for the Paul Coverdell National Acute Stroke Registry.

Within the total for heart disease and stroke, $130,000 is for

the Wausau Health Foundation in Wausau, Wisconsin, for a schoolbased program to increase awareness of cardiovascular disease and

the importance of prevention and to document prevalence of cardiovascular disease in youth; $200,000 is for a Cardiac Outreach program at HealthReach NY in Flushing, New York; and $440,000 is

for the Stroke Belt Research and Intervention Network at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Within the total provided for nutrition and physical activity,

$5,000,000 is for efforts to eliminate micronutrient malnutrition

and $475,000 is for a study by the Institute of Medicine on childhood obesity as described in the Senate report.

Within the total for nutrition and physical activity, $125,000 is

for the Village of Park Forest, Illinois Health Department, for preventive health education and screening projects in fields such as

nutrition, chronic illness, food safety, health screening, and hygiene, and nutrition education for school children; $200,000 is for

the Great South Bay YMCA in Bay Shore, New York, for its Fit

Kids education and health promotion program; $500,000 is for the

State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services for an

Obesity Prevention and Control program; and $2,000,000 is for

West Virginia University to establish the Center on Obesity.

Within the total for prevention centers, $250,000 is for the

Kansas City Area Life Sciences Institute to support infectious disease, cancer and cardiovascular disease, and prevention research at

the Kansas City Proteomics Consortium.

Within the total for safe motherhood, $2,650,000 is for the

Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies

in Tampa, Florida, of which $1,500,000 is for training paraprofessionals in the health-care field.

Within the total for school health, $225,000 is for the School

of Optometry at the University of Missouri, St. Louis for a program

of mobile vision screenings for school children.

The conference agreement includes $153,753,000 for environmental health instead of $146,683,000 as proposed by the House

and $171,863,000 as proposed by the Senate.

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ties, $35,193,000 is for asthma, and $42,140,000 is for lead poisoning. Within the total provided, $2,200,000 is to expand the physician education and public awareness program for primary immune

deficiency disease.

The conferees have included funds for a CDC assessment, in

conjunction with the Iowa Department of Public Health, on the effect of environmental factors on rural health.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: —$130,000 is for Environment and Human Health, Inc. in

North Haven, Connecticut to research and track asthma among the

school-age population in Connecticut; —$300,000 is for the Sustainable Resource Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota to focus on lead poisoning remediation and

education; —$300,000 is for Citizens Against Toxic Exposure in Pensacola, Florida to locate and screen individuals for health problems

associated with local toxic pollution and to assist those who have

been exposed to these environmental toxins; —$350,000 is for the Community Lead Education and Reduction Corps (CLEARCorps) in St. Louis, Missouri to fight childhood

lead poisoning; —$440,000 is for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District

to expand an assessment of human exposure to environmental contaminants near Kelly Air Force Base, Texas; —$700,000 is for the University of Montana at Missoula, Center for Environmental Health Sciences to support research on the

impact of environmental factors in causing or exacerbating human

diseases; and —$850,000 is for the University of West Florida for an environmental health study in Escambia and Santa Rosa Counties. The conference agreement includes $80,303,000 for epidemic

services and response as proposed by the House instead of

$85,303,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $1,135,532,000 for HIV/

AIDS, STD and TB prevention instead of $1,148,452,000 as proposed by the House and $1,121,612,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Included in this amount is $835,293,000 for HIV/AIDS activities, of

which $143,763,000 is for global HIV/AIDS activities; $167,450,000

for STD activities; and $132,789,000 for TB activities.

Within the total provided for HIV/AIDS, $96,000,000 is for the

Minority HIV/AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the House report.

The conferees are concerned about the increasing incidence of

HIV/AIDS infection in rural regions of the United States, and are

aware that HIV/AIDS disproportionately impacts minority communities in underserved rural areas, particularly in the Southeast.

Therefore, CDC should develop strategies with States to implement

interventions targeted to these communities.

Within the total provided for tuberculosis, $500,000 is for the

State of Alaska for a tuberculosis control and prevention program.

The conference agreement includes $627,895,000 for childhood

immunization instead of $599,645,000 as proposed by the House

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and $637,145,000 as proposed by the Senate. Included in this

amount is $223,527,000 for vaccine purchase, $200,697,000 for operation/infrastructure activities, $107,400,000 for global polio eradication activities, $26,388,000 for measles eradication activities, and

$69,883,000 for prevention activities. In addition, the Vaccines for

Children (VFC) program funded through the Medicaid program is

expected to provide $795,553,000 in vaccine purchases and distribution support in fiscal year 2002, for a total program level of

$1,423,448,000.

The conference agreement includes $344,858,000 for infectious diseases instead of $343,018,000 as proposed by the House and

$331,518,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total provided, $4,000,000 above the budget request

is for a prevention program to control and reduce the incidents of

hepatitis C. This funding is to develop State-based programs and

demonstrations to learn the most feasible approach to integrating

hepatitis C and B screening, counseling, and referral programs into

existing HIV and STD State programs. The conferees also urge

CDC to more aggressively undertake the implementation of the National Hepatitis C Prevention Strategy with greater emphasis on

communication of information about hepatitis C to health care professionals, and educate the general public and groups at increased

risk for infection.

Within the total provided, $4,000,000 above the budget request

is to continue planned activities and expand efforts to control the

West Nile virus.

Within the total provided, $2,200,000 is to establish a comprehensive thalassemia-based blood safety and surveillance program.Within the total provided, $1,500,000 is for the establishment

of a national autopsy network for prion disease surveillance. These

funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the

House report. The conferees urge CDC to give full and fair consideration to a proposal from the National Prion Disease Pathology

Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University.

The conferees encourage CDC to consider funding the Pediatric

Prevention Network (PPN) and its efforts to improve infection control for children. The PPN works to decrease health-care acquired

infections in hospitalized children, with special emphasis on blood

stream infections and the transmission of resistant organisms.

It is estimated that 30 million people reside in, or are adjacent

to, areas considered endemic for the soil organism that causes Valley Fever. The conferees encourage CDC to support ongoing efforts

in the development of a vaccine, including appropriate epidemiological and surveillance activities.

The conferees support the implementation of the demonstration project developed through the enhancing the monitoring of

pharmaceutical services and patient safety through connectivity

project.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$200,000 for the Border Health Institute in El Paso, Texas

for research related to infectious diseases and other public health

problems affecting the U.S.-Mexico border region;

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—$440,000 for the Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, Center

for Infectious Diseases, Advanced Diagnostics, and Emerging

Pathogens for efforts to improve the early detection, prevention and

control of meningitis, sepsis, pneumonia and myocarditis and for

research on the immune responses of at-risk populations; —$500,000 is for the University of Idaho, Post Falls for biomedical sensor electronics development; and —$500,000 for the State of Utah Health Department to assist

local health authorities in ensuring the safety of food and to protect

against communicable disease outbreaks during the 2002 Winter

Olympic and Paralympic Games in Salt Lake City. The conference agreement includes $149,767,000 for injury control instead of $143,655,000 as proposed by the House and

$146,655,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the total provided, $2,000,000 above the budget request

is to expand current activities to better understand the scope of

child abuse and neglect and its consequences. These activities could

include examining child fatality review systems, supporting States

in their collection of surveillance data, improving data collection on

the incidence of child maltreatment through the development of

consensus definitions, and supporting the implementation and evaluation of interventions aimed at the prevention of child maltreatment.

Within the total provided, $1,500,000 above the budget request

is for the National Violent Death Reporting System to gather information on the circumstances of violent deaths and develop effective

methods of prevention and intervention. Within the total provided, $125,000 is for the trauma information and exchange program.

The conferees have included funds for the continuation of the

Iowa Injury Control Center.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: —$37,000 for the Save A Life Foundation, Inc. in Schiller

Park, Illinois to expand the training of its basic life supporting first

aid program;

—$100,000 for the Westchester County, New York, Department of Emergency Services to develop and implement a training

program in pediatric trauma for pre-hospital providers; and

—$450,000 for the National SAFE KIDS Campaign, Washington DC for its SAFE KIDS AT HOME project to improve child

health through outreach to public housing and other at-risk communities.

The conference agreement includes $276,460,000 for occupational safety and health instead of $270,135,000 as proposed by the

House and $276,135,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $2,000,000 is for the Education and

Research Centers to expand research activities in support of implementation of NORA and $2,000,000 is to develop an intramural

and extramural prevention research program that will target all

aspects of workplace violence and to coordinate its efforts with the

Departments of Justice and Labor.

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ers who respond to public health needs in the event of a terrorist

incident.

The conferees are aware of the research on construction worker

safety and health being done by the Center to Protect Worker

Rights.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$125,000 for the University of Buffalo, Division of Pulmonary

and Critical Care Medicine for a joint educational program with

Millard Fillmore Hospital’s Sleep Disorder Center in Buffalo, New

York and Mount St. Mary’s Hospital Sleep Disorder Center in

Lewiston, New York to increase knowledge of sleep disorders; and

—$200,000 is for the Occupational and Environmental Health

Center of Rhode Island for research, tracking and investigation of

employment-related disease.

The conference agreement includes $148,520,000 for public

health improvement instead of $149,910,000 as proposed by the

House and $114,910,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $17,500,000 is for development and

implementation of a nationwide environmental health tracking network and capacity development in environmental health at State

and local health Departments.

Within the total provided, $2,500,000 above the budget request

is for prevention research. These funds are to be used consistent

with language contained in the Senate report.

The conferees urge CDC to give full and fair consideration to

a proposal from the CNA Corporation.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$60,000 is for the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department in Lawrence, Kansas for assessment, training and equipment

related to public health information systems infrastructure;

—$150,000 is for the Interstitial Cystitis (IC) Association

CURE program in Rockville, Maryland for activities to broaden the

understanding of IC;

—$350,000 is for the New England Medical Center to develop

predictive instrument research in technology to reduce medical errors;

—$400,000 is for the University of Vermont College of Medicine to support the Vermont Oxford Network and its efforts to improve the quality of health care available to children born prematurely through the reduction of medical errors;

—$400,000 is for the Northeast Regional Cancer Institute Cancer Epidemiology Research Program in Northeastern Pennsylvania;

—$500,000 is for the Institute for Clinical Evaluation for the

reduction of medical errors through the development and demonstration of virtual reality medical technology simulation training

for training health care workers in medical procedures;

—$500,000 is for the University of Louisville and Kosair Children’s Hospital Sleep Medicine Center;

—$500,000 is for the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center’s Integrated Health and Medical Weapons of

Mass Destruction Training Program in College Station, Texas;

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—$650,000 is for the University of Georgia to establish a Center for Leadership in Education and Applied Research in Mass Destruction Defense to train health professionals to respond to chemical and biological attacks;

—$700,000 is for the Kirkwood Community College in Cedar

Rapids, Iowa for the National Mass Fatalities Institute;

—$800,000 is to continue the development of the Delaware

Electronic Reporting Systems (DEERS) to track diseases;

—$900,000 is for the Center for the Study of Bioterrorism and

Emerging Infections at the St. Louis University School of Public

Health;

—$1,000,000 is for Westchester County, New York to conduct

readiness assessments of all response systems, including emergency response and management systems, hospitals, the county

health department, equipment needs and communications systems,

in the development of a comprehensive bioterrorism response plan;

—$1,000,000 is for the University of Kentucky Center for Improving Medication-Related Outcomes;

—$1,000,000 is for the Delta Health and Prevention Research

Initiative at Delta State University;

—$1,000,000 is for the Public Health Service Noble Training

Center for the development of a comprehensive bioterrorism curriculum and the conduct of on-site training for health care professionals to be done in conjunction with appropriate Federal agencies, Auburn University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham;

—$1,000,000 is for Iowa State University for the creation of a

Center for Food Security and Public Health;

—$1,000,000 is for the University of Iowa for the planning of

a Hygienic Lab;

—$1,000,000 is for the Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies at Johns Hopkins University to improve the nation’s medical

and public health preparedness and response to bioterrorism;

—$1,000,000 is for the University of Texas Medical Branch,

National Rapid Response Bioterrorism Defense Center;

—$1,200,000 is for the Oral Vaccine Institute in Las Vegas,

Nevada for the development of innovative oral vaccine delivery alternatives;

—$1,500,000 is for the University of Louisville Center for the

Deterrence of Biowarfare and Bioterrorism; and

—$2,000,000 is for West Virginia University for continued development of the virtual medical campus.

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE

The conference agreement includes $4,190,405,000 for the National Cancer Institute instead of $4,146,291,000 as proposed by

the House and $4,258,516,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees urge NCI to continue supporting cancer

genomics projects with the goal of identifying potential cancer

therapies.

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NATIONAL HEART, LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE

The conference agreement includes $2,576,125,000 for the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute instead of $2,547,675,000 as

proposed by the House and $2,618,966,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH

The conference agreement includes $343,327,000 for the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research instead of

$339,268,000 as proposed by the House and $348,767,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY

DISEASES

The conference agreement includes $1,466,833,000 for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases instead of $1,446,705,000 as proposed by the House and

$1,501,476,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE

The conference agreement includes $1,328,188,000 for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke instead of

$1,306,321,000 as proposed by the House and $1,352,055,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

The conferees understand that over two million Americans suffer from epilepsy, with one million suffering from uncontrolled seizures. The conferees are interested in the acceleration of epilepsy

research and encourage NINDS to take steps to jumpstart promising epilepsy research areas. In particular, the conferees urge

NINDS to establish an annual lectureship in the epilepsy research

field to provide the intellectual stimulation to prompt new findings

in both the NINDS intramural program and the extramural community. The conferees request that NINDS consider naming the

lectureship in memory of Judith Hoyer. Mrs. Hoyer had epilepsy;

she spent her life helping families dealing with the condition and

promoting research into a cure and a better quality of life for those

with epilepsy. Such a lectureship would continue her legacy of

stimulating important epilepsy research.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES

The conference agreement includes $2,372,278,000 for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases instead of

$2,337,204,000 as proposed by the House and $2,375,836,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language to give the

Director discretion to transfer up to $25,000,000 to International

Assistance Programs, Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria,

and Tuberculosis as proposed by the House. The Senate bill included a general provision to transfer this amount to the Global

Fund.

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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

The conference agreement includes $1,725,263,000 for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences instead of

$1,706,968,000 as proposed by the House and $1,753,465,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

The conference agreement includes $1,113,605,000 for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development instead

of $1,088,208,000 as proposed by the House and $1,123,692,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

The conferees note the achievements of the NICHD Study of

Early Child Care and Youth Development and urge its continuation, including its program of data collection and dissemination of

findings.

The conferees are pleased to hear that over the past year,

NICHD has begun to plan a major initiative on stillbirth. In

March, the Institute convened scientific and medical experts from

around the country to explore the available information about the

incidence of stillbirth, its varying causes, and the opportunities for

research. The conferees urge NICHD to build upon this knowledge

by planning for a prospective investigation of the scope and causes

of stillbirth nationally and internationally. The conferees also encourage NICHD to work with professional organizations on this

issue to assess current knowledge and develop research opportunities in the management of stillbirth.

NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE

The conference agreement includes $581,366,000 for the National Eye Institute instead of $566,725,000 as proposed by the

House and $614,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES

The conference agreement includes $566,639,000 for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences instead of

$557,435,000 as proposed by the House and $585,946,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

The conference agreement includes $893,443,000 for the National Institute on Aging instead of $873,186,000 as proposed by

the House and $909,174,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN

DISEASES

The conference agreement includes $448,865,000 for the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases

instead of $440,144,000 as proposed by the House and

$460,202,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Eosinophilia-myalgia syndrome is a multi-systemic disorder

that was first recognized in 1989. The conferees encourage NIAMS

to enhance research efforts to identify the cause of this disease and

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develop a better understanding of the characterization of

pathophysiological events leading to the chronic phase of the disease.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION

DISORDERS

The conference agreement includes $342,072,000 for the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

instead of $334,161,000 as proposed by the House and

$349,983,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees continue to support the expansion of NIDCD’s

research on the efficacy of new hearing screening technologies

through all available mechanisms, as appropriate, including clinical

studies on screening methodologies and studies on the efficacy of

intervention and follow-up, and related research.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH

The conference agreement includes $120,451,000 for the Na- tional Institute of Nursing Research instead of $116,773,000 as

proposed by the House and $125,659,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM

The conference agreement includes $384,238,000 for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism instead of

$379,026,000 as proposed by the House and $390,761,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

The conference agreement includes $888,105,000 for the Na- tional Institute on Drug Abuse instead of $900,389,000 as proposed

by the House and $902,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

The conference agreement includes $1,248,626,000 for the Na- tional Institute of Mental Health instead of $1,228,780,000 as proposed by the House and $1,279,383,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE

The conference agreement includes $429,515,000 for the Na- tional Human Genome Research Institute instead of $423,454,000

as proposed by the House and $440,448,000 as proposed by the

Senate.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND BIOENGINEERING

The conference agreement includes $111,984,000 for the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering instead

of $39,896,000 as proposed by the House and $140,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees commend NIH for agreeing to establish a task

force comprising both NIH staff and representatives of the extramural research community to review all current imaging and bioengineering grants and identify those that are appropriate for

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transfer to the newly-established National Institute of Biomedical

Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). Toward that end, the conferees support the agreement to create a nine-member task force

that includes representatives of NIH (three members), the extramural imaging community (three members), and the bioengineering

community (three members), with representatives of the outside

groups to be appointed by the appropriate professional organizations in those fields. The conferees direct the task force to establish

criteria to be applied consistently to all grants under consideration.

The conferees urge that these criteria ensure that research projects

with applications to multiple disease processes or organ systems

should generally reside in NIBIB in accordance with the intent of

Congress in creating the new Institute. The Director of the NIH

shall submit a report on the findings of the task force to the House

and Senate Appropriations Committees by March 31, 2002.

While the conferees are pleased that progress has been

achieved in implementing the legislation that created NIBIB, they

have been concerned that the amount of research grants proposed

by the NIH for transfer to the new Institute falls short of previous

assessments of NIH support for basic biomedical imaging and bioengineering as expressed in NIH statements to the Congress. Creation of the joint NIH-extramural task force should help to ensure

that all parties have confidence in the process.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH RESOURCES

The conference agreement includes $1,011,594,000 for the National Center for Research Resources instead of $966,541,000 as

proposed by the House and $1,014,044,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language to earmark

$110,000,000 for extramural facilities construction grants instead

of $97,000,000 as proposed by the House and $125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes bill language to

earmark $5,000,000 of these funds to begin construction of facilities

for a Chimp Sanctuary as proposed by the House. The Senate bill

contained no similar provision.

Within the total provided, $160,000,000 is for the Institutional

Development Awards program and $271,580,000 is for the General

Clinical Research Centers.

NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE

MEDICINE

The conference agreement includes $104,644,000 for the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine instead

of $99,288,000 as proposed by the House and $110,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

The conference agreement includes $157,812,000 for the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities instead of

$157,204,000 as proposed by the House and $158,421,000 as proposed by the Senate.

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The conferees concur with language contained in the House report regarding the newly established National Center for Minority

Health and Health Disparities. The conferees encourage the Center

to move forward in implementing the Research Endowment and

Centers of Excellence programs as ongoing initiatives.

JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER

The conference agreement includes $56,940,000 for the John E. Fogarty International Center instead of $56,021,000 as proposed by

the House and $57,874,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

The conference agreement includes $277,658,000 for the Na- tional Library of Medicine instead of $273,610,000 as proposed by

the House and $281,584,000 as proposed by the Senate.

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

The conference agreement includes $235,540,000 for the Office of the Director instead of $232,098,000 as proposed by the House

and $236,408,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes a designation in bill language of $53,540,000 for the operations of the Office of AIDS Research.

Within the total provided, $10,341,000 is for the Office of Rare Diseases and $17,000,000 is for the Office of Dietary Supplements.

The conferees are agreed that NIH should continue to allocate

funds for biomedical research on the basis of scientific opportunity,

taking into consideration the many other factors identified by NIH

as being relevant to funding decisions, such as the infectious nature of a disease, the number of cases and deaths associated with

a disease, the costs of disease treatment, and/or other costs associated with a disease. The conferees also expect NIH to carefully consider the language in the House and Senate reports and give it appropriate weight when determining funding allocations across disease areas. Regarding the cases in which the House or Senate reports reference funding levels for a specific disease, the conferees

are agreed that these are intended only to express relative priority

and are not funding earmarks.

The conferees concur with language contained in the Senate report regarding the pediatric research initiative.

The conferees recognize the significance of child abuse and neglect as a serious public health problem. The conferees commend

the efforts of NIH, under the leadership of NIMH, for convening a

working group of organizations and relevant Federal agencies to facilitate collaborative and cooperative efforts on child abuse and neglect research. The conferees encourage NIH to continue to address

this public health problem and request that the Director of NIH be

prepared to report on the progress of this research at the fiscal

year 2003 appropriations hearing.

The conferees are concerned about the impact of Tropical

Storm Allison on the research programs and institutions located in

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ferees recognize the efforts of NIH to extend application deadlines

and provide administrative supplements to affected grantees. The

conferees strongly encourage NIH to continue this practice and, to

the extent practicable, provide one-year extensions for those investigators who need them.

The conferees recognize the association between religion and

positive health outcomes. This may be the result of the emphasis

of some religions on healthy behaviors. For example, the Church of

Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as the Mormon religion, encourages members to adopt health-promoting behaviors and

proscribes behaviors associated with poor health outcomes, such as

smoking or substance abuse. The conferees encourage NIH to examine further the association between religion and health outcomes and how some religious organizations effectively promote

healthy behaviors among their members.

The conferees continue to be very interested in matching the

increased needs of researchers, particularly NIH grantees, as well

as intramural and university-based researchers, who rely upon

human tissues and organs to study human diseases and to search

for cures. The conferees are aware that NIH is in the process of encouraging the Institutes and Centers to expand support for NDRI

and urge NIH to submit a written progress report to the House and

Senate Committees on Appropriations no later than February 1,

2002.

BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES

The conference agreement includes $309,600,000 for buildings

and facilities instead of $311,600,000 as proposed by the House and

$306,600,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes bill language to give the

Director discretion to transfer up to $75,000,000 to International

Assistance Programs, Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Malaria,

and Tuberculosis as proposed by the House. The Senate bill included a general provision to transfer $70,000,000 to the Global

Fund.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES

The conference agreement includes $3,138,279,000 for substance abuse and mental health services instead of $3,131,558,000

as proposed by the House and $3,088,456,000 as proposed by the

Senate.

The conference agreement does not include bill language as

proposed by the Senate to earmark funds to carry out subtitle C

of title XXXVI of the Children’s Health Act of 2000. The House bill

contained no similar provision. The conferees provide funding for

this purpose within the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.

The conference agreement does not include bill language to

earmark funds for mental health providers serving public safety

workers affected by disasters of national significance. The House

bill contained no similar provision. The conferees provide funding

for this purpose within the Center for Mental Health Services.

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Center for Mental Health Services

The conference agreement includes $433,000,000 for the men- tal health block grant instead of $440,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $420,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $96,694,000 for children’s

mental health instead of $97,694,000 as proposed by the House and

$91,694,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $32,500,000 for protection and advocacy instead of $33,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$32,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $230,067,000 for programs of regional and national significance instead of $223,499,000 as

proposed by the House and $208,599,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $95,000,000 is for continuation and

expansion of youth violence prevention programs. Within the total provided, $20,000,000 is provided under section 582 of the Public Health Service Act to support grants to local

mental health providers for the purposes of developing knowledge

of best practices and providing mental health services to children

and youth suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result

of having witnessed or experienced a traumatic event. Within the total provided, $7,000,000 is for the Minority HIV/

AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the House report. Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is to provide mental

health outreach and treatment to the elderly. Within the total provided, $4,000,000 is for grants to develop

and implement programs to divert individuals with a mental

health illness from the criminal justice system to community-based

services and for related training and technical assistance as authorized by section 520G of the Public Health Service Act. Within the total provided, $3,000,000 is to establish a National

Suicide Prevention Resource Center to provide technical assistance

in developing, implementing, and evaluating effective suicide prevention programs. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the Senate report. Within the total provided, $2,500,000 is for mental health providers serving public safety workers affected by disasters of national significance.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: —$46,000 for Leo N. Levi Memorial Hospital Association, Hot

Springs, Arkansas for a school-based student/family psychotherapy

program; —$50,000 is for the Wisconsin Primary Healthcare Association

in Madison, Wisconsin to provide mental health services to farm

families affected by economic problems related to agriculture; —$100,000 is for American Trauma Society’s 2nd Trauma Program;

—$150,000 is for the Weingart Center in Los Angeles, California to develop and expand mental health support and long-term

case management within transitional housing and clinical programs;

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—$160,000 is for the Hispanic Counseling Center in Hempstead, New York for mental health, alcoholism, and substance

abuse treatment services; —$172,000 is for Family Communications Inc. in Pittsburgh

for an antiviolence program entitled the National Preschool Anger

Management Project; —$200,000 is for the Bert Nash Community Mental Health

Center in Lawrence, Kansas to provide mental health services in

schools and other settings to prevent juvenile crime and substance

abuse among high-risk youth; —$200,000 is for the Concord-Assabet Family Services Center

for a model transitional living program for troubled youth; —$250,000 is for the further development, testing, and implementation of the computerization of the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (T–MAP) in Tarrent County, Texas; —$250,000 is for the Texas Department of Mental Health and

Retardation for further development of Texas Medication Algorithm

Project (T–MAP) —$350,000 is for Casa Myrna Vazquez in Boston to support domestic violence services and related services; —$350,000 is for Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital in East

Providence, Rhode Island for a school-based adolescent mental

health initiative; —$400,000 is for the Corporation for Supportive Housing, New

York, New York to advise and assist supportive housing organizations in providing mental health and substance abuse services; —$490,000 is for Pacific Clinics in Arcadia, California to support a school-based mental health demonstration program for

Latina adolescents; —$500,000 is for the Life Quest Community Mental Health

Center for its program for treatment of co-occurring disorders

among the population of Mat-Su Valley; —$500,000 is for the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa,

Alabama for the Geriatric Mental Health Research Center;

—$650,000 is for the University of Connecticut for an urban

health initiative, jointly with Yale University, to improve mental

health services to underserved, high-risk urban residents;

—$700,000 is for the Providence Center for Counseling and

Psychiatric Services in Providence, Rhode Island for an early intervention preschool and parent training program;

—$800,000 is for the Mentally Ill Offender Crime Reduction

demonstration in Ventura County, California;

—$800,000 is for the Yale University, Child Study Center to

support collaborative programs aimed at addressing the needs of

children exposed to violence and based on the Child DevelopmentCommunity Policing program model;

—$850,000 is for the Iowa State University extension for the

training of rural mental health providers; and

—$1,000,000 is for the Ch’eghutsen comprehensive mental

health services program for children in Interior Alaska.

Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

The conference agreement includes $291,572,000 for programs

of regional and national significance instead of $305,122,000 as

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proposed by the House and $276,122,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $57,000,000 is for the Minority HIV/

AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the House report.

Within the total provided, $9,000,000 above last year’s level is

for grants to develop and expand mental health and substance

abuse treatment services for homeless individuals as authorized by

section 506 of the Public Health Service Act. The intent of this section was to permit grants to be made to projects which provide either mental health services, substance abuse services, or services

in both fields. This allows communities greater flexibility to provide

the services they believe to be the most urgent. While the resources

have been included within the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the conferees believe that the most effective outcomes will be achieved in addressing the multiple needs of homeless individuals if CSAT and the Center for Mental Health Services

work cooperatively. The conferees further intend that these funds

could be used in conjunction with permanent supportive housing

programs for homeless people in support of the Secretary’s initiative to reduce chronic homelessness.

Within the total provided, $10,000,000 is to expand support of

clinically based treatment and related services for adult, juvenile,

and family drug courts and individuals returning to the community

who are on probation, parole, or unsupervised release.

Within the total provided, $3,000,000 is for the Addiction and

Technology Transfer Center program. These funds are to be used

consistent with language contained in the House report.

The conferees urge SAMHSA to give full and fair consideration

to a proposal by the National Center on Addiction and Substance

Abuse at Columbia University.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002:

—$50,000 is for Recovery House in Wallingford, Vermont to develop a day treatment program for substance abuse counseling and

other support services for pregnant women and women with dependent children;

—$100,000 is for Haymarket West in Schaumburg, Illinois to

expand its comprehensive substance abuse treatment and related

services;

—$100,000 is for Treatment Alternatives for Safe Communities

in Chicago, Illinois for a substance abuse treatment program;

—$100,000 is for ThedaCare Behavioral Health in Menasha,

Wisconsin to establish pilot models for expanded regional substance abuse prevention and treatment services for youth and families;

—$200,000 is for the Dimock Community Health Center to

support inpatient detoxification and behavioral health programs;

—$200,000 is for the Vinland Center in Loretto, Minnesota to

offer specialized residential treatment programs for adults with

cognitive and functional impairments;

—$200,000 is for the Vermont Department of Health, Division

of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs for long-term residential

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treatment services for adolescents with significant substance abuse

problems in Bradford, Vermont;

—$200,000 is for Lutheran Social Services in Appleton, Wisconsin to expand alcohol abuse prevention programs for older

adults in northern Wisconsin;

—$250,000 is for the Pennington County Detention Center in

South Dakota for mental health and substance abuse treatment

services;

—$400,000 is for the WestCare Foundation, Inc. in Las Vegas,

Nevada to demonstrate and evaluate the Batterers Intervention

Demonstration project;

—$500,000 is for the Cook Inlet Tribal Council to treat women

and children with substance abuse problems in Kenai;

—$500,000 is for the Vermont Department of Health, Division

of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs to establish pilot projects in

Rutland and Burlington that will develop prevention and treatment

strategies for combating substance abuse problems in urban and

rural settings;

—$500,000 is for the United Community Center/Centro de la

Comunidad to establish a demonstration project integrating substance abuse treatment programs into domestic violence intervention and outreach programs geared toward Hispanic women;

—$750,000 is for the Cook Inlet Tribal Council’s Ernie Turner

Center to provide outpatient substance abuse treatment;

—$750,000 is for the Fairbanks Native Association’s Lifegivers

program;

—$750,000 is for the Southcentral Foundation’s Pathways

Home Residential Treatment Center for Adolescent Substance

Abusers;

—$800,000 is for Diversion Alternatives, Inc. in Ft. Worth,

Texas for a comprehensive outpatient substance abuse treatment

program;

—$1,000,000 is for the San Francisco Department of Public

Health, for its model substance abuse treatment on demand initiative; and

—$2,500,000 is for the City of Baltimore, Maryland to expand

its drug treatment services.

Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

The conference agreement includes $198,140,000 for programs

of regional and national significance instead of $187,215,000 as

proposed by the House and $199,013,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $38,100,000 is for the Minority HIV/

AIDS initiative. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the House report.

Within the total provided, $12,500,000 is to expand efforts to

identify, disseminate, and implement effective fetal alcohol syndrome prevention and treatment programs.

Within the total provided, $5,000,000 is to carry out the Ecstasy Anti-Proliferation Act of 2000.

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based programs concerning the dangers of methamphetamine

abuse and addiction.

The conferees urge SAMHSA to give full and fair consideration

to a proposal by the National Center on Addiction and Substance

Abuse at Columbia University.

The conferees include the following amounts for the following

projects and activities in fiscal year 2002: —$75,000 is for the Start S.M.A.R.T. Foundation in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for the development of a pilot project to examine the optimal ways of distributing ‘‘QED,’’ a new saliva alcohol

test;—$100,000 is for the Syracuse University for the Twelve Point

for Substance Abuse Prevention program; —$100,000 is for the Rock Island County Council on Addictions

in East Moline, Illinois for its Healthy Youth Prevention Program; —$150,000 is for the Palm Beach County Community Services

Department for the Free to Grow Program that provides drug prevention services to families of pre-schoolers; —$150,000 is for the State University of New York Upstate

Medical University for the Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center; —$250,000 is for the Northwestern Community Services Board

in Front Royal, Virginia for a Warren County Drug Initiative; —$300,000 is for the Orleans Parish, SE Louisiana Drug Prevention Education program for student drug testing assessment,

counseling, treatment, drug education, outreach services and program evaluation; —$400,000 is for the Institute for Research, Education, and

Training in Addictions in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at St. Francis

Health System to facilitate the coordination of approaches to research, treatment and health policy development; —$500,000 is for Coalition for Safe and Drug Free St. Petersburg, Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida for a demonstration project; —$600,000 is for Chrysalis House, Inc. in Fayette County,

Kentucky for substance abuse prevention programs;

—$750,000 is for the Anchorage Department of Health for drug

and alcohol prevention programs to reach 50 percent of Alaska’s

population;

—$800,000 is for Fenway Community Health in Boston, Massachusetts to expand its HIV prevention, mental health, and substance abuse programs;

—$1,200,000 is for the Ohio Prevention in Education Resource

Center in Cincinnati, Ohio for the Bridgebuilders project; and

—$1,250,000 is for Community Health Centers in the Big Island of Hawaii for a youth anti-drug program.

Program Management

The conference agreement includes $91,451,000 for program

management instead of $80,173,000 as proposed by the House and

$96,173,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $3,278,000 is to continue testing the

effectiveness of Community Assessment and Intervention Centers

in providing integrated mental health and substance abuse services

to troubled and at-risk children and youth, and their families in

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four Florida communities. Building upon successful juvenile programs, this effort responds directly to nationwide concerns about

youth violence, substance abuse, declining levels of service availability and the inability of certain communities to respond to the

needs of their youth in a coordinated manner.

AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY

HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY

The conference agreement includes $2,600,000 in appropriated

funds instead of $168,435,000 as proposed by the House and

$291,245,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement designates $296,145,000 to be available to the agency under the Public Health Service Act one percent

evaluation set-aside instead of $137,810,000 as proposed by the

House. The Senate bill contained no similar provision.

Within the total provided, $55,000,000 is to determine ways to

reduce medical errors.

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

The conference agreement includes $2,440,798,000 for program

management instead of $2,361,158,000 as proposed by the House

and $2,464,658,000 as proposed by the Senate. An additional appropriation of $700,000,000 has been provided for the Medicare Integrity Program through the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation

The conference agreement includes $118,201,000 for research,

demonstration, and evaluation instead of $55,311,000 as proposed

by the House and $125,311,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $40,000,000 is for Real Choice Systems Change Grants to States. These funds are to be used consistent with language contained in the Senate report.

Within the total provided, $15,000,000 is to continue the Nursing Home Transition Initiative.

The conferees do not concur with the Senate report language

regarding the extension of Disease State Management Programs to

Medicare demonstration projects.

The conferees have included sufficient funds to continue a

Medicare demonstration project to test the effectiveness of using

lifestyle changes to treat heart disease.

The agreement includes bill language for the following projects

and activities for fiscal year 2002:

—$100,000 is for the Regional Nursing Centers Consortium in

Philadelphia to initiate a demonstration project to evaluate 15

nurse-managed health centers in urban and rural areas across

Pennsylvania;

—$200,000 is for the Madonna Rehabilitation Center in Lincoln, Nebraska to create a new standard of rehabilitation practice

and program design for children and adults with disabilities;

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—$250,000 is for the Cook County, Illinois Bureau of Health

for the Asthma Champion Initiative to reduce morbidity and mortality from asthma in high prevalence areas;

—$250,000 is for the Illinois Primary Health Care Association

to implement the Shared Integrated Management Information System providing centralized case management, reimbursement and

administrative support services;

—$500,000 is for Project Access in Muskegon, Michigan to offer

affordable insurance to uninsured workers, primarily in small business, and low-income individuals;

—$590,000 is for Santa Clara County, California for the outreach and application assistance aspects of its Children’s Health

Initiative, to demonstrate means of expanding enrollment of eligible children in Medicaid, SCHIP and other available health care

programs;

—$800,000 is for the Fishing Partnership Health Plan, based

in Boston, Massachusetts for a demonstration project on the efficacy of using a community-based health benefit program to provide

health care coverage for lower-income independently employed

workers and their families;

—$800,000 is to continue a demonstration project being conducted at the Mind-Body Institute of Boston, Massachusetts, and

expand the demonstration so that eligible patients shall also include those who have undergone coronary bypass surgery or

angioplasty and do not have reduced blood flow to the heart, and/

or angina;

—$900,000 is for the Children’s Hospice International demonstration program to provide a continuum of care for children

with life-threatening conditions and their families;

—$1,500,000 is for the Iowa Department of Public Health for

the continuation of a prescription drug cooperative demonstration;

and

—$2,000,000 is for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation in Los Angeles for a demonstration of residential and outpatient treatment

facilities.

Medicare Contractors

The conference agreement includes $1,534,500,000 for Medicare contractors instead of $1,522,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $1,547,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Within the total provided, $52,000,000 is for the

Medicare+Choice information campaign and $12,500,000 is to support grants for State Health Insurance Counseling and Assistance

programs.

State Survey and Certification

The conference agreement includes $256,397,000 for State survey and certification instead of $252,147,000 as proposed by the

House and $260,647,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Federal Administration

The conference agreement includes $531,700,000 for Federal

administration as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

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The conferees understand that CMS is developing a comprehensive regulation establishing a new fee schedule for ambulance payments as required by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.

The conferees believe it is equally important to implement condition codes and urge CMS to do so simultaneously with the new fee

schedule.

The conferees are aware of underpayment to certain hospitals

that treat newborns with life threatening respiratory diseases and

encourage CMS to implement a methodology to reimburse hospitals

for inhaled nitric oxide treatment for neonatal hypoxic respiratory

failure.

The conferees strongly concur with Senate report language regarding the Medicaid upper payment limit agreement that was included in the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental

Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001.

ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE

The conference agreement specifies that the contingency funds

are for the unanticipated home energy assistance needs of one or

more States, consistent with language contained in the House bill.

The Senate bill did not include such a provision.

The conference agreement specifies that the contingency funds

shall be made available only after submission to the Congress of

an official budget request as proposed by the Senate, instead of a

formal budget request as proposed by the House.

The conferees note that the amount provided by the Congress

in the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2001 was $150,000,000

more than requested by the Administration because of serious concerns about low-income households which had experienced significant increases in their home heating costs during the harsh winter

of the past year. In addition, many States exhausted their LIHEAP

allocations as the program served one million households more

than it had in the previous year. The conferees are concerned that

the combination of circumstances, according to objective data

sources, has left many low income households with utility debts at

levels considerably higher than the previous year, while applications for this coming heating season are coming in at rates significantly higher than last year. Therefore, the conferees encourage

the Administration to release funds to reduce the energy burden on

low income households throughout the nation. The conferees recognize that the contingency fund was authorized to meet the additional home energy assistance needs of one or more States arising

from a natural disaster or other emergency, which includes a significant increase in the cost of home energy, a significant increase

in home energy disconnections or a significant increase in unemployment, layoffs, or the number of households applying for unemployment benefits. The conferees understand that the latest Department of Labor employment data indicate the unemployment

rate has risen almost one full percentage point in the last two

months, while payroll employment has fallen by almost 800,000.

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REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE

The conference agreement appropriates $460,203,000, instead

of $460,224,000 as proposed by the House and $445,224,000 proposed by the Senate. Within this amount, for Social Services, the

agreement provides $158,600,000 instead of $156,621,000 as proposed by the House and $143,621,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees specify that funds for section 414 of the Immigration and Nationality Act shall be available for three fiscal years,

as proposed by the House.

The conference agreement includes $15,000,000 that is to be

used under social services to increase educational support to

schools with a significant proportion of refugee children, consistent

with language contained in the House report.

The agreement also includes $19,000,000 for increased support

to communities with large concentrations of refugees whose cultural differences make assimilation especially difficult justifying a

more intense level and longer duration of Federal assistance, consistent with language contained in the House report.

CHILD CARE AND DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT

The conference agreement includes $2,099,994,000 for the

Child Care and Development Block Grant, instead of

$2,199,987,000 as proposed by the House and $2,000,000,000 as

proposed by the Senate. Within the funds provided for child care

resources and referrals, the agreement also includes $1,000,000 for

the Child-Care Aware toll-free hotline operated by the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT

The conference agreement provides that States may transfer

up to 10 percent of TANF funds to SSBG as proposed by the House.

The Senate proposed a transfer amount of 5.7 percent.

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS

(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)

The conference agreement includes $8,429,183,000 for children

and families services programs instead of $8,275,442,000 as proposed by the House and $8,592,496,000 as proposed by the Senate.

In addition, the agreement rescinds $21,000,000 from permanent

appropriations as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

Head Start

The conference agreement includes $6,537,906,000 for Head

Start instead of $6,475,812,000 as proposed by the House and

$6,600,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes

an advance appropriation of $1,400,000,000 for Head Start for fiscal year 2003 as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

Runaway Youth

The conference agreement includes $88,133,000 for runaway

youth instead of $105,133,000 as proposed by the Senate and

$71,133,000 as proposed by the House. Within the funds provided,

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$39,739,900 is available for the transitional living program (TLP).

The conference agreement includes these additional resources to

meet the needs of young people in need of services. The Administration proposed $33,000,000 for a separate transitional living program designed to serve pregnant and parenting

youth. The conferees are aware of the need for and share the Administration’s interest in funding residential services for young

mothers and their children who are unable to live with their own

families because of abuse, neglect, or other circumstances. The conferees also recognize the need for and value of expanding transitional living opportunities for all homeless youth. Therefore, the

conferees seek to preserve the flexibility afforded in current law to

respond to the needs of the young people who are most at-risk and

in greatest need of transitional living opportunities in their communities by providing additional resources to consolidated runaway

and homeless youth act programs.

It is the conferees’ expectation that current and future TLP

grantees will continue to provide transitional living opportunities

and supports to pregnant and parenting homeless youth, as is their

current practice. To further ensure that pregnant and parenting

homeless youth are able to access transitional living opportunities

and supports in their communities, the conferees encourage the

Secretary, acting through the network of federally-funded runaway

and homeless youth training and technical assistance providers, to

offer guidance to grantees and others on the programmatic modifications required to address the unique needs of pregnant and parenting youth and on the various sources of funding available for

residential services to this population.

Child abuse

The conference agreement includes $22,013,000 for child abuse state grants, instead of $23,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$21,026,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $26,178,000 for child abuse discretionary programs instead

of $19,978,000 as proposed by the House and $33,717,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the funds provided for child abuse prevention programs, the agreement includes the following items:

Agape of Central Alabama, Inc., Montgomery, AL, for their work with

the children in need ..................................................................................... $45,000

Alameda County Social Services Agency for the Alternative Response

System ........................................................................................................... 440,000

Alaska Native Health Board and the State of Alaska to develop and implement statewide child abuse prevention and treatment plan for Alaska Native children and parents .................................................................. 450,000

Center for Women and Families, Louisville, KY, for child abuse prevention ................................................................................................................ 300,000

Child Advocacy Center of the Ozarks, Inc., Monett, MO, for equipment 50,000

Cornerstone Advocacy Service in Bloomington, MN, to provide prevention

and education services to children and adults who are survivors of domestic violence ............................................................................................. 300,000

Family and Children’s Services for a child abuse prevention program ...... 400,000

Family social service provider in Yellowstone County, MT, to deliver

early intervention services to at-risk families including the provision of

family social services ................................................................................... 400,000

Farm Resource Center, Mound City, IL, for mental health and substance

abuse outreach to farm families ................................................................. 600,000

Healthy Families/Better Beginnings home visiting program for State of

AK and regional Native non-profit organizations ..................................... 2,000,000

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Little Flower Children Services facility, Wading, NY, for a comprehensive child abuse prevention and remediation program ............................. 800,000

Missouri Bootheel Healthy Start to implement community-based education interventions ..................................................................................... 500,000

Ohel Family Services in Brooklyn, NY, to provide intensive treatment,

crisis intervention, in-home support and rehabilitation services to

abused and neglected children in foster care ............................................ 275,000

Prevent Child Abuse Louisiana to train teachers in the Greater New Orleans area on how to recognize and report child abuse cases among

their students ............................................................................................... 200,000

Project SafePlace in Louisville to conduct a demonstration project serving

at-risk youth in Kentucky ........................................................................... 150,000

Safe Harbor Crisis Nursery, Kennewick, WA, for child abuse prevention 200,000

University of Notre Dame to develop model intervention effort to help

prevent child neglect and abuse ................................................................. 220,000

The conference agreement includes $7,498,000 for child welfare training, instead of $6,998,000 as proposed by the House and

$7,998,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Adoption Awareness

The conference agreement includes $12,906,000 for adoption awareness as proposed by the Senate instead of $9,906,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement includes $3,000,000

above the budget request to implement the Special Needs Awareness Campaign in fiscal year 2002.

Compassion Capital Fund

The conference agreement includes $30,000,000 for the compassion capital fund as proposed by the House instead of

$89,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. This new program is part

of the Administration’s Faith Based Initiative. Funds available for

this program will be used for grants to public/private partnerships

that help small faith-based and community-based organizations

replicate or expand model social services programs. The conferees

also intend that funding be used to support and promote rigorous

evaluations on the ‘‘best practices’’ among charitable organizations

so that successful models can be emulated and expanded by other

entities. The conferees expect funds made available through this

program to supplement and not supplant private resources and encourage the Secretary to require private resources to match grant

funding provided to public/private partnerships.

Social Services and Income Maintenance Research

The conference agreement includes $31,250,000 for social serv- ices and income maintenance research instead of $27,000,000 as

proposed by the House and $27,426,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees continue to support the agency’s efforts to assist

States in meeting the complex information and systems reporting

requirements of TANF and have provided $1,000,000 to continue

this initiative. The State Information Technology Consortium is coordinating this effort. Given the success of this effort, the conferees

believe that there can be better coordination of child support enforcement activities. The flow of information between Federal and

State agencies and the court system continues to be a critical factor

in the success of the Child Support Enforcement program. While

some States have succeeded in implementing seamless, cost-effective processes for information-sharing among their human service

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agencies and the courts, others have not. The conferees have included $2,000,000 to expand this ongoing initiative so that the

State Information Technology Consortium can identify and widely

disseminate methods for improving the flow of information between

agencies and the court system. The conferees also provide sufficient

funding for the following:

Metropolitan Family Services for a demonstration project encouraging

more involved fathers .................................................................................. $400,000

Montana Child Care Financing Demonstration ............................................ 200,000

National Center for Appropriate Technology in Butte, MT ......................... 150,000

University of Georgia to evaluate the feasibility of creating a commission

to carry out a comprehensive program of economic and human resource

development in the Southern Black Belt ................................................... 250,000

University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc., for a National Center

on Child Welfare Training Evaluation ....................................................... 250,000

Community Services

The conference agreement includes $33,417,000 for community

based resource centers, instead of $34,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $32,834,000 as proposed by the Senate.

For Developmental Disabilities, the conference agreement includes $35,000,000 for protection and advocacy services as proposed

by the Senate instead of $34,000,000 as proposed by the House. It

also includes $11,734,000 for special projects as proposed by the

Senate instead of $10,734,000 as proposed by the House. For university affiliated programs, the agreement includes $24,000,000 as

proposed by the Senate instead of $21,800,000 as proposed by the

House.

The conference agreement includes $45,946,000 for Native Americans, instead of $44,396,000 as proposed by the House and

$45,996,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees recommend

that the Administration on Native Americans increase support for

Native Hawaiian educational programs which enhance their ability

to participate effectively in the governmental process. Within the

total the conferees provide funding for the following:

Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Inc. ....................................................................... $350,000

Kawerak, Inc. ................................................................................................... 150,000

Tanana Chiefs Conference in interior Alaska ............................................... 250,000

The conference agreement includes $650,000,000 for the community services block grant instead of $620,000,000 as proposed by

the House and $675,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes bill language stipulating that all local

entities that are in good standing in the community services block

grant program shall receive an increase in funding for the next program year that is proportionate to the overall increase in the appropriation provided for the block grant. The conference agreement

also includes bill language proposed by the Senate that clarifies

that the community economic development grant funds may be

used to finance construction and rehabilitation.

The conference agreement also includes $32,517,000 for economic development, instead of $30,034,000 as proposed by the

House and $35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees

also set aside $5,500,000 within the community economic development program for the job creation demonstration authorized under

the Family Support Act. The conference agreement also includes

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$7,000,000 for the rural community facilities program described in

the House and Senate reports, as proposed by the Senate, instead

of $5,321,000 as proposed by the House.

For National Youth Sports, the agreement includes $17,000,000 as proposed by the House instead of $16,000,000 as

proposed by the Senate. For the community food program, the

agreement includes $7,314,000 as proposed by the Senate instead

of $6,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement also includes $124,459,000 for Battered Women’s Shelters instead of $126,918,000 as proposed by the House and $122,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. For the Early

Learning Fund, the agreement includes $25,000,000 as proposed by

the Senate. The House bill did not include funding for this program. The agreement also includes $1,500,000 for the Faith Based

Center instead of $3,000,000 as proposed by the House. The Senate

bill did not include funding for this program.

PROMOTING SAFE AND STABLE FAMILIES

The conference agreement appropriates funds for promoting

safe and stable families under subpart 2 of part B of title IV of the

Social Security Act, as proposed by the House. The Senate proposed

providing funds under section 430 of the Social Security Act.

PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE

The conference agreement includes $6,621,500,000 as proposed by the House instead of $6,621,100,000 as proposed by the Senate.

ADMINISTRATION ON AGING

AGING SERVICES PROGRAMS

The conference agreement includes $1,199,814,000 for aging services programs instead of $1,144,832,000 as proposed by the

House and $1,209,756,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $357,000,000 for supportive centers, instead of $327,075,000 as proposed by the House and

$366,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $21,123,000 for preventive health services as proposed by

the House instead of $22,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The

conferees intend that $5,000,000 be made available from preventive

health services for activities regarding medication management,

screening, and education to prevent incorrect medication and adverse drug reactions. The conference agreement also includes $17,681,000 for

ombusdsman/elder abuse prevention activities, instead of

$14,181,000 as proposed by the House and $18,181,000 as proposed

by the Senate. The agreement also includes $141,500,000 for family

caregivers, instead of $137,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$146,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the funds provided

for family caregivers, the agreement includes $5,500,000 for Native

American caregivers. The Senate bill provided $6,000,000 for this

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ment includes $176,500,000 for home delivered meals, instead of

$176,000,000 as proposed by the House and $177,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $25,729,000 for

grants to Indians instead of $25,457,000 as proposed by the House

and $26,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes $38,280,000 for aging research and demonstrations instead of $19,100,000 as proposed by the House

and $36,574,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the funds, the

conferees have included sufficient funding for an osteoporosis prevention education program aimed at post-menopausal women. The

conferees also include the following amounts under aging research

and training:

Adult Day Care of Winchester, Winchester, VA, to provide adult day care

for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease .................................................... $150,000

Allegheny County Homestead Apartments LIFE Center ............................. 300,000

Alzheimer’s Family Day Center, Falls Church, VA, to provide adult day

care for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease ........................................... 250,000

Area Agency on Aging of Southeast Arkansas, Inc., for demonstration

project for non-Medicaid eligible elderly .................................................... 500,000

Area Agency on Aging of Southwest Arkansas for family care-giving research project ............................................................................................... 231,000

Champlain Senior Center in Burlington, VT, to support its efforts to help

low-income seniors remain independent and active for as long as possible through the use of technology ............................................................ 100,000

Civic Ventures for Experience Corps initiative for older adults to mentor

young people ................................................................................................. 800,000

Coalition of Wisconsin Aging Groups in Madison, WI, to provide assistance and education to the legal community and the public about elder

financial abuse ............................................................................................. 136,000

Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc., Baltimore, MD, for demonstration project on Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities to the

Baltimore Jewish Naturally Occurring Retirement Community ............. 1,000,000

Council of Senior Centers and Services of NYC for ACCESS to

BENE*FITS Demonstration Project ........................................................... 75,000

DuPage County Human Services Department, Wheaton, IL, ‘‘Elder Abuse

and Neglect Program’’ .................................................................................. 100,000

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, for Anne and Louis Green

Alzheimer’s Care and Research Center ...................................................... 1,000,000

Florida International University, Miami, FL, National Policy and Research Center on Nutrition and Aging ‘‘Nutrition 2030 program’’ .......... 500,000

Garrett County Area Agency on Aging to increase access to nutrition

services for rural seniors ............................................................................. 25,000

Guadelupe Community Center, Los Angeles, CA, for a demonstration

project on delivery of outreach services to the elderly, including nonEnglish speaking seniors ............................................................................. 440,000

Hmong Mutual Assistance Association in La Crosse, WI, to provide employment, social, economic and educational assistance to elder Hmong

refugees ......................................................................................................... 127,000

Institute for Music and Neurologic Function, Bronx, NY, for research involving the use of music to assist individuals suffering from stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s ..................................................................................... 500,000

INTEGRIS health system in Oklahoma for technology centers that seniors could utilize for health education and community interaction ......... 100,000

Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Seamless System to integrate senior

programs. In administering this award, the AoA and CMS should provide the technical assistance and related support necessary to develop

and implement program changes ............................................................... 1,500,000

Iowa State University, Ames, IA, for the universal kitchen design project

to develop technologies for independent living for individuals with disabilities ......................................................................................................... 200,000

Jewish Association on Aging, Pittsburgh, for a demonstration project on

Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities ......................................... 200,000

Jewish Family and Children’s Service of Greater Philadelphia for a demonstration project on Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities ..... 200,000

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Jewish Federation of St. Louis to establish a Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities (NORCs) demonstration project providing supportive services to seniors. .......................................................................... 1,280,000

Mecklenburg County, NC, Nutrition 2000 program to help provide nutritional care for homebound frail senior citizens ......................................... 1,000,000

National Center for Seniors’ Housing Research to enable the elderly to

live independently ........................................................................................ 475,000

Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities, Cleveland, OH, for a demonstration program ...................................................................................... 1,000,000

Oregon Health Sciences University for Healthy Aging Project ................... 450,000

Rebuilding Together with Christmas in April to rehabilitate the homes

of the low income elderly ............................................................................. 500,000

Senior Community Centers of San Diego for the Health Promotion/Harm

Reduction Demonstration Project ............................................................... 90,000

Senior Specialists Agency on Aging of West Central Arkansas for research on services to the aging ................................................................... 455,000

Social Research into Alzheimer’s disease care options, best practices and

other Alzheimer’s research priorities as specified in the House Report 3,685,000

SPRY Foundation to develop web-based resources and training programs

to help seniors access high-quality information and caregiver support

services .......................................................................................................... 367,000

Texas Tech Institute University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX,

for the Institute for Healthy Aging ............................................................ 1,000,000

The Motion Picture and Television Fund, in partnership with the University of Southern California’s Andrus School of Gerontology, for the

Eden Alternative demonstration project that seeks to improve quality

of care and life for seniors residing in nursing homes and assisted living facilities .................................................................................................. 100,000

Tri-County Community Action Program, Berlin, NH, for demonstration

project ........................................................................................................... 50,000

Wayne County, MI, demonstration project to enhance services to the elderly, including dementia patients, and to serve ethnic groups .............. 800,000

Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services for a

Senior Outreach to Senior program ........................................................... 20,000

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The conference agreement includes $347,554,000 for general departmental management instead of $338,887,000 as proposed by

the House and $422,212,000 as proposed by the Senate. In addition, the agreement provides $21,552,000 in program evaluation

funds as proposed by the House. The Senate did not provide for

evaluation funds in this account.

Within the total provided, $4,000,000 is for the United StatesMexico Border Health Commission as proposed by the Senate. The

House did not specify an amount for the Commission.

The conference agreement includes $500,000 for the National

Academy of Sciences and Institute of Medicine (NAS/IOM) to develop a cost-effective strategy for reducing and preventing underage drinking. The House had included funds for a similar purpose

within the appropriation for the Substance Abuse and Mental

Health Services Administration, while the Senate bill included

funds for this purpose in this account.

To help develop a cost-effective strategy for reducing and preventing underage drinking, the NAS/IOM shall review existing

Federal, State and non-governmental programs, including mediabased programs, designed to change the attitudes and health behaviors of youth. Based on its review, the NAS/IOM shall produce

a strategy designed to prevent and reduce underage drinking including: an outline and implementation strategy, message points

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that will be effective in changing the attitudes and health behaviors of youth concerning underage drinking, target audience identification, goals and objectives of the campaign, and the estimated

costs of development and implementation. The review and recommendations of the NAS/IOM shall be reported to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress, the Secretary of Health

and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, and the U.S. Attorney General no later than nine months after the date of enactment of this Act.

The conferees have heard concerns from state and local health

departments and community-based organizations about the lack of

availability of rapid HIV tests to identify individuals with HIV disease. Rapid HIV tests are needed for increasing the number of

HIV-infected individuals who know they are infected; for screening

pregnant women in labor to prevent transmission to their infants;

for screening potential recipients of smallpox or other live-virus

vaccines against potential agents of bioterrorism; and for emergency screening of blood transfusions in the event of large-scale

terrorist attack. The conferees strongly encourage the Secretary to

expedite approval and make available simple, rapid HIV diagnostic

tests for use by a variety of health and community-based personnel.

The conferees concur with language in the House report regarding the coordination of men’s health activities.

The conferees concur with language in the Senate report regarding the ongoing research supported by the Office of Dietary

Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health concerning

ephedra and the corresponding language relating to FDA rulemaking. The conferees urge the Secretary to work with FDA and

ODS to resolve this rulemaking matter expeditiously so that the

millions of Americans who use these weight loss products can continue to do so responsibly. Several states, such as Ohio in 1997 and

Nebraska as recently as 2001, have already taken action to put in

place clear and science-based regulatory parameters in an effort to

preserve consumer access and safeguard public health by precluding the sale of ephedrine products marketed as street drug alternatives. The conferees urge the Secretary to work with industry

and to take an active role in this regulatory process and to ensure

that any interim actions as well as the final rule establish appropriate rules based on science. The conferees also urge industry to

share with the Department all data from clinical studies with

ephedra.

The conferees are concerned about the growing shortages of

qualified healthcare workers, particularly in underserved rural and

urban areas. The problem is at once an educational issue, a labor

issue, and a healthcare issue. The conferees urge the Secretary, in

consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Education, to convene a high level task force to develop both immediate

and longer-term solutions to these shortages. The conferees expect

the Secretary to be prepared to discuss this issue and the status

of the task force during the fiscal year 2003 budget hearings.

The conferees are aware that patients who suffer terminal illnesses face severe and excruciating pain. For such patients, palliative care is essential. The conferees are concerned that, although

palliative care is well-established in many other countries, most of

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the American public and many health care professionals still know

little about it. The conferees urge the Secretary to work with organizations like the American Medical Association and the American

Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, to disseminate appropriate information to health care professionals and the public.

The conferees note that it has been seven years since enactment of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act and the

Department has yet to promulgate good manufacturing practices

regulations as called for under the Act. These regulations are crucial for consumer protection. The conferees strongly urge the Secretary to publish these regulations within 15 days of enactment of

this Act.

The conference agreement includes $500,000 to augment the

resources of the Office of General Counsel for enforcement of violations of DSHEA’s labeling and content requirements as recommended by the Senate. The House had no similar provision.

The conferees understand the White House Commission on

Complementary and Alternative Medicine will release its final report early in 2002. The conferees urge the Secretary to form a coordinating unit to review the Commission’s report and implement

ways to better coordinate the Department’s many CAM-related activities.

Within the total, the agreement includes funds above the request for the Department’s Information Collection Review and

Analysis System as proposed by the House. The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 to launch a public awareness campaign to inform Americans about the existence of

spare embryos and options for couples to adopt an embryo or embryos in order to bear children, as proposed by the Senate. The

House had no similar provision. The conferees further direct that

the Secretary prepare and submit a report to the Committees on

Appropriations by April 1, 2002, outlining the Department’s plans

and timeline to launch this campaign.

The conferees encourage the Secretary, in conjunction with the

CDC and relevant NIH institutes, to work with interested members

of the physician community to provide nationwide access to a physician-only multi-media internet site. The conferees are aware of

such sites with webcast experience, media response capability, and

original content developed by nationally recognized medical faculty.

Access to this web-based technology, which should function in conjunction with Federal health agencies’ information systems, will

allow the nation’s primary care providers to receive important Federal health news and alerts as well as up to date information on

treatment protocols for biological threats.

The conferees are aware of a proposal to develop a Prescription

Drug Surveillance System using independent, real-time pharmaceutical transaction data. The conferees encourage the Secretary to

consider this proposal.

It has come to the conferees’ attention that a number of experts believe that more needs to be done in the area of tissue engineering, including the development of a national strategy. The conferees urge the Secretary to consider developing such a national

strategy, one that includes collaborative research and entrepreneurship. The conferees further urge the Secretary to consider

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using the scientific expertise at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to execute the strategy and

encourage consideration of the establishment of a Center for Tissue

Engineering and Regenerative Medicine through the Institute’s extramural research program. The agreement provides $28,931,000 for the adolescent family life program instead of $27,862,000 as proposed by the House and

$30,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes bill

language earmarking $11,885,000 under the adolescent family life

program for activities specified under section 2003(b)(2) of the Public Health Service Act, of which $10,157,000 shall be for prevention

grants under section 510(b)(2) of Title V of the Social Security Act,

without application of the limitation of section 2010(c) of Title XX

of the Public Health Service Act. The conference agreement includes funds above the request to expand efforts in providing care

services.

The agreement provides $49,584,000 for minority health, in- stead of $43,084,000 as proposed by the House and the Senate. The

conferees urge the Secretary, where appropriate, to incorporate the

out-year costs of fiscal year 2002 program initiatives in the operating divisions as recommended by the House.

The conferees concur with the House recommendation regarding the importance of OMH partnerships with minority health professions institutions. Specifically, the conferees urge the Office to

continue its successful cooperative agreement with Meharry Medical College. In addition, the conferees urge the OMH to give priority consideration to partnering with the Morehouse School of

Medicine. In addition, the conferees urge the Office to retain Central State University as the managing institution for the Family

Community Violence Prevention program. Also, the conferees encourage the Office of Minority Health to work with Morehouse College of Atlanta, Georgia and a consortium of historically black colleges and universities to undertake the planning and design phase

of the National Minority Male Project. The conferees also urge that

during the implementation phase of the project, the Office reach

out and involve as many interested minority institutions as possible.

The agreement provides $26,819,000 for the office of women’s

health instead of $26,769,000 as proposed by the House and

$27,396,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees urge the Secretary, where appropriate, to incorporate the out-year costs of fiscal

year 2002 program initiatives in the operating divisions as recommended by the House.

The agreement includes $1,000,000 to commission a Surgeon

General’s report on osteoporosis and related bone diseases, detailing the burden bone disease places on society and highlighting preventive measures to improve and maintain bone health throughout

life as proposed by the Senate. The House included no similar provision.

The agreement does not include $68,700,000 for bioterrorism

within this account as proposed by the Senate. Instead, funds for

bioterrorism preparedness and response are provided within the

Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund as proposed by

the House.

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Within the total provided, $50,000,000 is for minority HIV/

AIDS Initiative as proposed by the House and Senate. The conferees concur with the House report regarding the purposes and

uses of these funds. The agreement deletes bill language included

by the House requiring the Secretary to submit an operating plan

prior to the obligation of these funds, because the conferees expect

this information to be included in the general operating plan to be

submitted by the Department. The Senate had no similar provision.

The agreement includes $21,998,000 for the IT Security and Innovation Fund, instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees include the amounts for the following projects

and activities in fiscal year 2002 listed below. The conferees direct

that none of these project funds be transferred to either the National Institutes of Health or the Agency for Healthcare Research

and Quality.

For the Community Transportation Association of America to provide

technical assistance to human services transportation providers on

ADA requirements ....................................................................................... $1,000,000

For the ARCH National Resource Center on Respite and Crisis Services

in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, to expand training, technical assistance, evaluation and networking expertise in respite care ...................... 200,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for Access Community Health Network in Maywood/Chicago Heights IL to expand its women’s health

programs ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for Padres Contra El Cancer in Los

Angeles to expand patient education programs and family support

services for Latino children with cancer .................................................... 200,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for Sisters Network, Inc. in Houston, Texas, for an educational and outreach program on breast cancer

targeted to African-American women ......................................................... 150,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the Baltimore City Health Department to provide HIV/AIDS testing, counseling, and prevention programs for high-risk persons ........................................................................ 500,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the San Francisco Department

of Public Health, to expand and support San Francisco General Hospital’s capacity to provide HIV care and related services with an emphasis on providing care for women and minorities ................................. 650,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, for the development of community-based programs and support of public education and outreach activities on sarcoidosis and minority health ....................................................................... 2,000,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Illinois, for projects related to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in minority and disadvantaged communities ................................... 500,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the Thomas Jefferson University

Hospital in Philadelphia, to create a Chinese language and culture Primary Health Care Center where members of the community can gain

access to desperately needed linguistically competent and culturally

sensitive health care services ...................................................................... 1,500,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the Glaucoma Caucus Foundation to provide glaucoma screening and outreach activities ..................... 500,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the University of Medicine and

Dentistry in NJ to focus research on key health areas that disproportionately affect minority populations, and to educate and train minority health providers ...................................................................................... 200,000

Within the Office of Minority Health for the County of San Diego to provide treatment to TB patients along the Mexican border with California ............................................................................................................. 200,000

Within the Office of Women’s Health for the Adelphi Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program for counseling services and to address psycho-social issues associated with breast cancer ......................................... 50,000

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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

The conference agreement includes $35,786,000 for the Office

of Inspector General as proposed by the House and Senate. The

conferees do not include language proposed by the House to limit

the amount of funds available to the Inspector General in fiscal

year 2002 under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to not more than $130,000,000. The

Senate bill contained no similar provision.

The conference agreement deletes language proposed by the

Senate authorizing the use of funds for the hire of vehicles for investigations. The House bill had no similar provision. In addition,

the agreement deletes language proposed by the Senate permanently authorizing the use of funds to provide protective services

to the Secretary and to investigate non-payment of child support

cases for which non-payment is a federal offense. Like the House

bill, the agreement includes language providing this authority for

one year.

The conferees request the Inspector General to conduct an

audit of all federal amounts and activities allocated for AIDS prevention programs in the Act and to report its findings to the Congress.

POLICY RESEARCH

The conference agreement includes $2,500,000 for policy research as proposed by the House, instead of $20,500,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes language proposed by the House providing authority to the Secretary to utilize

evaluation funds available under section 241 of the Public Health

Service Act. The conferees understand that this authority, along

with the $2,500,000 in appropriated funds, will yield a program

level of at least $20,500,000 in fiscal year 2002.

The conference agreement also includes language proposed by

the House requiring the Secretary to comply with section 205 of

this Act before utilizing section 241 funds to support Policy Research activities. The Senate bill contained no similar provision. In

addition, the conferees are aware that the national poverty center

grant expired on June 30, 2001, and expect the Secretary to hold

a national competition to award a new five-year grant or grants.

This agreement includes sufficient funds to continue to support one

or more national poverty research centers on a competitive basis.

Within the funds available, $7,125,000 is to continue to study

the outcomes of welfare reform and to assess the impacts of policy

changes on the low-income population. The conferees recommend

that this effort include the collection and use of state-specific surveys, state and federal administration data, and data administratively linking the National Database of New Hires, other child support enforcement data, TANF and Medicaid records together. These

studies should focus on assessing the well-being of the low income

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cipients, as well as other special populations affected by state

TANF policies. The conferees further expect these studies to analyze how the earnings of custodial and non-custodial parents who

are, or have had children who are, current or former welfare recipients have changed over time and whether the pattern is significantly different among states. The conferees request a report on

these topics to be submitted to House and Senate Appropriations

Committees by May 1, 2002.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND

The conference agreement includes $242,949,000 for the Public

Health and Social Services Emergency Fund instead of

$300,619,000 as proposed by the House. The Senate provided

$181,919,000 within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and $68,700,000 within General Departmental Management

for these activities.

The amount provided includes $181,919,000 for the Centers for

Disease Control and Prevention for the following bioterrorism and

related activities:

—$2,000,000 to continue to discover, develop, and transition

anti-infective agents to combat emerging diseases;

—$18,040,000 for the third year of a collaborative research program on the anthrax vaccine;

—$34,000,000 for a national health alert network; and

—$127,879,000 for all other activities.

The remaining $61,030,000 is for the Office of Emergency Preparedness for bioterrorism-related activities.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

NIH AND SAMHSA SALARY CAP

The conference agreement includes a modified provision limiting the use of the National Institutes of Health, the Agency for

Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Substance Abuse and

Mental Health Services Administration funds to pay the salary of

an individual, through a grant or other extramural mechanism, at

a rate in excess of Level I of the Executive Schedule.

EVALUATION TAP

The conference agreement includes a provision to allow for not

more than a 1.25 percent evaluation tap pursuant to section 241

of the Public Health Service Act. The House bill contained a provision to allow for a one percent evaluation tap and the Senate bill

contained a provision to allow for an evaluation tap of not more

than two percent.

TRANSFER AUTHORITY

The conference agreement includes modified language to provide general transfer authority for the Department of Health and

Human Services. The language limits the amount an appropriation

can be increased by a transfer to not more than three percent as

proposed by the Senate instead of ten percent as proposed by the

House. The language also allows an appropriation to be increased

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by an additional two percent subject to approval by the House and

Senate Committees on Appropriations.

EXTENSION OF CERTAIN ADJUDICATION PROVISIONS

The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the

Senate to extend the refugee status for persecuted religious groups.

The House bill contained no similar provision.

CDC INTERNATIONAL AUTHORITY

The conference agreement includes a modified provision to provide authority to support CDC carrying out international HIV/

AIDS and other infectious and chronic disease activities abroad.

DIVISION OF FEDERAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

The conference agreement includes a provision to allow the Division of Federal Occupational Health to use personal services contracting to employ professional management/administrative and occupational health professionals as a general provision as proposed

by the House. The Senate bill contained a similar provision within

the Health Resources and Services Administration.

NIH OBLIGATIONS

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the House to limit NIH obligations. The Senate bill contained no similar provision.

NIH ACTING DIRECTOR

The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the

Senate to allow the NIH Acting Director to remain in that position

until a new Director of NIH is confirmed by the Senate. The House

bill contained no similar provision.

GLOBAL HIV/AIDS TRANSFER FUND

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to transfer funds from the National Institute

of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and NIH Buildings and Facilities

to International Assistance Programs, ‘‘Global Fund to Fight HIV/

AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis’’ as a general provision. The

agreement provides for this transfer within the individual accounts

as proposed by the House.

ENFORCEMENT OF LABELING PROVISIONS OF THE DIETARY

SUPPLEMENT HEALTH AND EDUCATION ACT OF 1994

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to earmark funds for the Office of the General

Counsel to provide legal support for enforcement of the labeling

provisions of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of

1994. The House bill contained no similar provision. The agreement addresses this issue under General Departmental Management.

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SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING GOOD MANUFACTURING PRACTICES

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding good manufacturing practices. The House bill

contained no similar provision.

FEDERAL USE OF AIDS PREVENTION FUNDS

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to require the Inspector General to audit all

Federal amounts allocated to AIDS Prevention programs. The

House bill contained no similar provision.

SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING HOSPITAL REIMBURSEMENT

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding reimbursement of certain hospitals testing and

treating individuals for exposure to anthrax. The House bill contained no similar provision. The conferees encourage the Department to assist and fairly compensate hospitals and other health

providers that respond to emergency public health threats.

SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LEAD POISONING SCREENING AND

MEDICAID

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding lead poisoning screenings and treatments

under the Medicaid program. The House bill contained no similar

provision. The conferees encourage CMS to work with medical providers to ensure that all eligible children receive a lead poison

screening and appropriate treatment as required by the Medicaid

program.

SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LEAD POISONING SCREENING AND

SCHIP

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding lead poisoning screenings and treatments

under the SCHIP program. The House bill contained no similar

provision. The conferees encourage the Department to consider expanding SCHIP to allow funds to be used for lead poison

screenings.

SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING CHILDHOOD LEAD SCREENING

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding the establishment of a bonus program for improvement of childhood lead screening rates. The House bill contained no similar provision. The conferees encourage the Department to consider establishing such a program.

RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to earmark funds for cancer prevention and

screening programs under section 471C of the Public Health Service Act. The House bill contained no similar provision. The agreement addresses this issue within the Health Resources and Services Administration.

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TANF RESCISSION

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to rescind $200,000,000 of TANF funds. The

House bill contained no similar provision.

SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING POST-ABORTION DEPRESSION AND

PSYCHOSIS

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding research on, and services for, individuals with

post-abortion depression and psychosis. The House bill contained

no similar provision.

CHILDREN’S TRAUMATIC STRESS PROGRAM

The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the

Senate to rename section 582 of the Public Health Service Act. The

House bill contained no similar provision.

TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED

The conference agreement includes $12,346,900,000 for Education for the Disadvantaged instead of $12,571,400,000 as proposed by the House and $11,926,400,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes advance funding for this account of

$7,383,301,000 instead of $6,758,300,000 as proposed by the House

and $6,953,300,000 as proposed by the Senate.

For Grants to Local Educational Agencies (LEAs) the agreement provides $10,350,000,000 instead of $10,500,000,000 as proposed by the House and $10,200,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $7,172,971,000 for basic

grants and $1,365,031,000 for concentration grants. The agreement

also includes $1,018,499,000 for targeted grants, and $793,499,000

for education finance incentive grants. Both targeted and education

finance incentive grants are authorized distributions of the title I

formula that have not previously been funded. For targeted grants,

funds are distributed based on a weighted count of the number of

poor children within the state. Distribution for education finance

incentive grants is based on the total number of poor children within the State multiplied by the per pupil expenditure, a state effort

factor and a state equity factor. There is a within-state allocation

for education finance incentive grants which is based on variations

of the targeted grant formula with the greatest targeting on high

poverty school districts in the states where the equity factor is lowest. Concentration grants, targeted grants, and incentive grants are

all provided on an advance-funded basis.

The House bill proposed $8,037,000,000 for basic grants,

$1,684,000,000 for concentration grants, and $779,000,000 for targeted grants. The Senate bill proposed $7,172,690,000 for basic

grants, $1,365,031,000 for concentration grants, $1,000,000,000 for

targeted grants, and $662,279,000 for education finance incentive

grants.

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The conference agreement also provides $3,500,000 for updated

census poverty data from the Bureau of the Census, as proposed

by the Senate. The House bill contained no similar provision.

The conference agreement includes $250,000,000 for the Even

Start program instead of $260,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $200,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement also includes $12,500,000 for Literacy through School Libraries instead of $25,000,000 as proposed

by the Senate. The House bill did not provide funding for this program. This program is designed to improve literacy skills and academic achievement of students by providing students with increased access to up-to-date school library materials, a wellequipped, technologically advanced school library media center, and

well-trained, professionally certified school library media specialists.

The conference agreement includes $396,000,000 for the migrant education program instead of $410,000,000 as proposed by

the House and $405,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $48,000,000 for neglected and delinquent youth

instead of $46,000,000 as proposed by the House and $50,000,000

as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $235,000,000 for grants to

local educational agencies for comprehensive school reform, compared to $310,000,000 as proposed by the House. The Senate bill

did not include funds for this activity. The conference agreement

permits up to 3 percent of these funds to be used for quality improvement initiatives, as authorized.

The conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for dropout prevention programs, instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the

Senate. The House bill did not provide funding for this program.

The conference agreement includes $1,500,000 for the Close Up

Foundation as proposed by the House instead of $2,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

IMPACT AID

The conference agreement includes $1,143,500,000 for the Impact Aid programs instead of $1,130,500,000 as proposed by both

the House and the Senate. Within this amount, $48,000,000 is provided for construction instead of $35,000,000 as proposed by both

the House and the Senate.

Sufficient funding is provided within the account for construction for the following:

Killeen Independent School District, Texas, for capital improvements ...... $2,000,000

Ronan School District in Ronan, Montana to facilitate the construction

of a new middle school ................................................................................. 1,000,000

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS

The conference agreement includes $7,827,473,000 for School

Improvement Programs instead of $7,673,584,000 as proposed by

the House and $8,751,514,000 as proposed by the Senate. The

agreement provides $6,062,423,000 in fiscal year 2002 and

$1,765,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for this account.

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Improving teacher quality

The conference agreement includes $2,850,000,000 for state

grants for improving teacher quality, instead of $3,175,000,000 as

proposed by the House and $3,039,834,000 as proposed by the Senate. Of this amount, $1,150,000,000 is provided as a fiscal year

2003 advance as proposed by the Senate instead of $1,345,000,000

as proposed by the House. Grants for Improving Teacher Quality

consolidates and streamlines the Eisenhower Professional Development program and the Class Size Reduction program to allow

greater flexibility for local school districts. The purpose of this part

is to provide grants to States, school districts, State agencies for

higher education, and eligible partnerships to: (1) increase student

academic achievement through such strategies as improving teacher and principal quality and increasing the number of highly qualified teachers in the classroom and highly qualified principals and

assistant principals in schools; (2) hold districts and schools accountable for improvements in student academic achievement; and

(3) hold districts and schools accountable so that all teachers teaching core academic subjects in public elementary schools and secondary schools are highly qualified.

The conferees understand that the Eisenhower Professional

Development program, which has been consolidated into a larger

State Teacher Quality Improvement Grant program under the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary School Act, was

funded at $485,000,000 in fiscal year 2001. The Eisenhower program required that a minimum of $250,000,000 be dedicated to

math and science professional development activities; however, the

conferees understand that as much as $375,000,000 was actually

expended on math and science in fiscal year 2001. The conferees

believe that providing high-quality math and science instruction is

of critical importance to our Nation’s future competitiveness, and

agree that math and science professional development opportunities should be expanded. The conferees therefore strongly urge the

Secretary and the States to continue to fund math and science activities within the Teacher Quality Grant program at a comparable

level in fiscal year 2002.

The conference agreement also includes $12,500,000 for math

and science partnerships, instead of $25,000,000 as proposed by the

Senate. Math and science partnerships are intended to improve the

performance of students in the areas of mathematics and science

by encouraging States, institutions of higher education, districts,

elementary schools, and secondary schools to participate in programs that: (1) improve and upgrade the status and stature of

mathematics and science teaching by encouraging institutions of

higher education to assume greater responsibility for improving

mathematics and science teacher education; (2) focus on education

of mathematics and science teachers as a career-long process; (3)

bring mathematics and science teachers together with scientists,

mathematicians, and engineers to improve their teaching skills;

and (4) develop more rigorous mathematics and science curricula

that are aligned with State and local academic achievement standards expected for postsecondary study in engineering, mathematics,

and science.

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The conferees note that, although this is a separate program

designed specifically for the development of high quality math and

science professional development opportunities, in no way do the

conferees intend to discourage the Secretary and States from using

other federal funding for math and science instructional improvement programs. The conferees strongly urge the Secretary and

States to utilize funding provided by the Teacher Quality Grant

program, as well as other programs funded by the federal government, to strengthen math and science education programs across

the Nation.

The conference agreement includes $88,000,000 for activities

designed to recruit and train new teachers. The House bill proposed $50,000,000 for Troops to Teachers and Transition to Teaching programs, while the Senate proposed $95,000,000 for these activities as well as for a variety of other national teacher improvement activities.

The conference agreement includes $53,000,000 for the Troopsto-Teachers and Transition-to-Teaching programs authorized under

part C of title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,

as amended. Of this amount, $18,000,000 is available to the Secretary to transfer to the Department of Defense for Troops-toTeachers and not less than $35,000,000 shall be available for Transition-to-Teaching. The conference agreement increases by six

times the amount made available for Troops-to-Teachers compared

to last year. The conferees are aware of the tremendous interest in

the Transition-to-Teaching initiative that is aimed at recruiting

and supporting mid-career professionals and talented, recent college graduates to become teachers. In FY 2001, 172 applications requesting over $220,000,000 in federal funds were submitted—seven

times more than the $31,000,000 available for awards. As a result,

many grantees received awards substantially less than requested

and other applicants were not funded at all. The conferees intend

that the Department use a portion of the additional resources for

Transition-to-Teaching to make supplemental awards to current

national grantees to enable them to accelerate multi-state teacher

recruitment efforts.

The conference agreement also includes $10,000,000 for the

National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as proposed

by the House and the Senate and $15,000,000 for the early childhood educator professional development grants program, as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $10,000,000 for

principal recruitment. The House bill did not include funding for

these activities.

National writing project

The agreement also includes $14,000,000 for the National

Writing Project instead of $12,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Civic education

For Cooperative Education Exchanges, formerly the International Education Exchange program, the conference agreement

includes $11,500,000, instead of $12,000,000 as proposed by the

Senate. The House bill did not fund this program. Within the total,

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$4,300,000 is included for the Center for Civic Education and

$4,300,000 is for the National Council on Economic Education for

economics education to continue the work these organizations are

doing in Central and Eastern Europe and the newly independent

states of the former Soviet Union, as well as to expand significantly

the economic education and civic education programs already underway in Russia. Also included is $2,900,000 for competitive

grants in economics and civics and/or government education.

For Civic Education, the conference agreement includes $15,500,000 instead of $12,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees support allocating $1,500,000 of the total amount for a continuation of the violence prevention demonstration program, and $500,000 of the total

amount for the Native American civic education initiative. Further,

the conferees intend that $2,000,000 be allocated for a cooperative

project among the Center for Civic Education, the Center on Congress at Indiana University, and the Trust for Representative Democracy at the National Conference of State Legislatures to implement a comprehensive program to improve public knowledge, understanding, and support of American democratic institutions.

Teaching of traditional American history

The conference agreement includes $100,000,000 for the teaching of traditional American history, as proposed by the Senate in

the LIFE fund. The House bill did not propose separate funding for

this program.

Innovative education program strategies

For innovative education program strategies, the education block grant, the conference agreement includes $385,000,000 as

proposed by the House instead of $410,000,000 as proposed by the

Senate.

School renovation

The conference agreement does not include funding for grants

to local educational agencies for emergency school renovation and

repair activities. The House bill provided no funding for this activity. The Senate bill provided $925,000,000 for this purpose.

Education technology

The conference agreement includes $700,500,000 for education

technology state grants, instead of $1,000,000,000 as proposed by

the House and $712,146,000 as proposed by the Senate. The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act consolidates several technology programs (including the Technology

Literacy Challenge Fund and Local Innovation Challenge Grants)

into a State-based technology grant program that sends more

money to schools. In doing so, it will facilitate comprehensive and

integrated education technology strategies that target the specific

needs of individual schools. Uses of funds include: (1) promoting innovative State and local initiatives using technology to increase

academic achievement; (2) increasing access to technology, especially for high-need schools; and (3) improving and expanding

teacher professional development in technology.

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The conference agreement also includes $62,500,000 for teacher training in technology, instead of $125,000,000 as proposed by

the Senate. The House bill did not include separate funding for this

activity.

The agreement also includes $22,000,000 for Ready to Learn

Television, instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$24,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Safe and Drug Free Schools

The conference agreement includes $644,250,000 for the Safe

and Drug Free Schools and Communities Act as proposed by both

the House and the Senate.

Included within this amount is $472,017,000 for state grants

instead of $527,250,000 as proposed by the House and

$444,250,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The agreement also includes $172,233,000 for national programs instead of $117,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$150,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within this amount, the

conferees include $100,000,000 to support the Safe Schools/Healthy

Students initiative.

Of the amount provided for Safe and Drug Free Schools National programs, the conferees also agree that up to $1,000,000 is

available to the Secretary of Education, in consultation with the

Secretary of Health and Human Services, to develop and disseminate recommendations and models to assist communities in implementing emergency response, evacuation and parental notification

plans for schools and other community facilities where children

gather, and coordinating these plans with local law enforcement,

public safety, health and mental health agencies. Further, the conferees agree that $9,000,000 is available for grants to enable local

educational agencies to improve and strengthen emergency response and crisis management plans, including training school personnel, students and parents in emergency response procedures

and coordinating with local law enforcement, public safety, health

and mental health agencies. The conferees intend that these funds

shall be available only to local educational agencies that demonstrate a significant need for emergency preparedness improvements and a lack of fiscal capacity to implement these improvements. The conferees have provided extended availability of funding for these two activities through September 30, 2003.

Within the funds for national programs, the agreement also

provides $37,500,000 to fund coordinators. The conferees understand that in the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary

Education Act, this program has been expanded to serve schools at

all education levels.

Mentoring, community service, and alcohol abuse reduction programs

The conference agreement includes $17,500,000 for mentoring

programs, instead of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$5,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes

$50,000,000 for grants for community service for expelled or suspended students and $25,000,000 for grants to reduce alcohol abuse

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as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not propose separate

funding for these programs.

State assessments

The conference agreement includes $387,000,000 for assessments instead of $400,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$352,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The new assessment provisions in H.R. 1 require States to implement annual reading and

math assessments for grades 3–8, to hold states and local school

districts that use federal funds accountable for improving student

academic achievement. Annual reading and math assessments are

intended to provide parents with the information they need to

know how well their child is doing in school, and how well the

school is educating their child. States may select and design assessments of their choosing. However, State assessments must be

aligned with State academic standards, allow student achievement

to be comparable from year to year, be of objective knowledge, be

based on measurable, verifiable and widely accepted professional

assessment standards, and not evaluate or assess personal or family beliefs and attitudes. States will have until the 2005–2006

school year to develop and implement these assessments.

The conferees understand that funding provided above the trigger set in the authorizing law for state assessments will be used

for enhanced assessment instruments.

Public school choice

The conference agreement includes $25,000,000 to support voluntary public school choice programs, instead of $50,000,000 as

proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not provide funding for

this program.

Magnet schools

The conferees concur with language in the House report directing the Secretary, when allocating magnet schools assistance funds,

to give priority for funding to the highest-quality applications remaining from the previous year’s competition before funding applications approved in a new competition. The conferees also note that

no funds are included for a new competition in innovative programs, since this program is no longer authorized.

Education for Homeless Children and Youth

The conference agreement includes $50,000,000 for Education

for Homeless Children and Youth as proposed by the House instead

of $36,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Education of Native Hawaiians

The conference agreement includes $30,500,000 for the Education of Native Hawaiians instead of $33,000,000 as proposed by

the Senate and $28,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees urge the Department to provide $1,000,000 for construction

and co-location, $7,000,000 for curriculum development, $2,100,000

for community-based learning centers, $3,500,000 for higher education, $1,250,000 for gifted and talented, $3,100,000 for special

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education, $500,000 for Native Hawaiian education councils; and

$12,050,000 for family-based education centers.

Alaska Native Educational Equity

The conference agreement includes $24,000,000 for the Alaska Native Educational Equity program instead of $33,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and $15,000,000 as proposed by the House.

Rural education

The conference agreement includes $162,500,000 for rural edu- cation programs, instead of $200,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $125,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. This program is intended to address the unique needs of rural school districts that

frequently: (1) lack the personnel and resources needed to compete

effectively for federal competitive grants; and (2) receive formula

grant allocations in amounts too small to be effective in meeting

their intended purposes. The program consists of two parts:

Subpart 1—Small, Rural School Achievement Program—Under

subpart 1, a school district is able to combine funds under various

formula grant programs to carry out local activities intended to improve the academic achievement of elementary and secondary

school students and the quality of instruction provided to these students. In addition, grants under this subpart would be awarded to

eligible districts based on the number of students in average daily

attendance less the amount they received from consolidated formula grant programs.

Subpart 2—Rural and Low-Income School Program—If a district did not qualify for funding under subpart 1, it would be eligible for funding under subpart 2. Funds awarded to districts or

made available to schools under subpart 2 can be used to carry out

local activities intended to improve the academic achievement of elementary and secondary school students and the quality of instruction provided for these students.

The conferees intend that the funds provided for rural education programs be distributed equally between subpart 1 and subpart 2, as authorized.

Fund for the Improvement of Education (FIE)

The conference agreement includes $832,889,000 for the Fund

for the Improvement of Education. This program has consolidated

a number of programs that had previously been funded as separate

line items.

Within the total for FIE, the conference agreement includes

$32,500,000 for the elementary school counseling program, instead

of $30,000,000 as proposed by the House and $35,000,000 as proposed by the Senate within the Local Innovations for Education

(LIFE) fund.

The conference agreement includes $25,000,000 for the partnership in character education program under the Fund for the Improvement of Education. The House bill recommended $25,000,000

for this purpose as a separate program, while the Senate bill included funding for this purpose under the LIFE fund. The conferees encourage the Secretary to consider funding projects that

sensitize students to the painful effects of bullying, ridicule and

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other forms of disrespect—behaviors that frequently lie at the root

of emotional and physical injury that children inflict upon one another. The conferees are supportive of such projects that help

teachers and students create a respectful, compassionate and ridicule-free environment that nurtures both the emotional/social and

academic growth of students. The conference agreement includes $142,189,000 for small, safe and successful high schools, instead of $200,000,000 as proposed by

the House and $100,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The bill

provides the funds on a forward funding basis. The conferees concur in the direction in House Report 107–229 concerning this activity.

For the Reading is Fundamental program, the conference agreement provides $24,000,000 instead of $23,000,000 as proposed

by the House and $25,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement also includes $11,250,000 for Javits Gifted and Talented Education, instead of $7,500,000 as proposed

by the House and $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The

agreement includes $27,520,000 for Star Schools instead of

$59,300,000 as proposed by the Senate in the LIFE fund. The

House bill did not provide separate funding for this program. The agreement also includes $12,000,000 for the Ready to Teach program, instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The House bill did not include separate funding for this activity.

Funds may be used to develop high-quality, curriculum-based digital content and a national telecommunications-based program to

improve the teaching of core academic subjects. The agreement also provides $14,000,000 for foreign language assistance instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The

House bill did not include separate funding for this activity.

For the Carol M. White Physical Education for Progress pro- gram, the conference agreement includes $50,000,000 as proposed

by the Senate. The House bill did not propose funding for this program. The agreement also includes $32,475,000 for community

based technology centers instead of $64,950,000 as proposed by the

Senate. The House bill did not propose funding for this program.

The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for a program to

promote educational, cultural, apprenticeship and exchange programs for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and their historical

whaling and trading partners in Massachusetts.

For Arts in Education, the conference agreement includes

$30,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the Senate. The

conferees provide that within this total, $8,650,000 is for Very Special Arts, $6,000,000 is for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and $2,000,000 is to be used to continue a youth violence prevention initiative. The conferees agree that of the funds

provided to Very Special Arts, $1,650,000 is for planning for the

2004 International Festival. In addition, $2,000,000 is for model

professional development programs for music educators and

$4,000,000 is for activities authorized under subpart 2 of the Arts

in Education program.

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pose funding for this program. The conference agreement also includes $3,000,000 for the Women’s Educational Equity Act as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $75,000,000 for continuing

and new grants to local educational agencies for comprehensive

school reform. The House and Senate bills did not include funds for

this activity. The bill includes language specifying that these funds

shall be allocated and expended in the same manner as in FY 2001

and provides the funds on a forward funding basis. The conference

agreement includes funds to continue all existing grants and contracts for comprehensive school reform capacity and dissemination

activities, including the national clearinghouse for comprehensive

school reform.

The conferees have included additional funds in this line item

for the Secretary to support programs and projects that address national priorities in K–12 education. The conferees note that projects

to promote economic education are authorized under this program

and encourage the Secretary to utilize funds to support these activities.

Within the total for FIE, the following amounts are provided:

American Airlines Travel Academy, Fort Worth, Texas, for a demonstration project to implement a school-to-work education curriculum focused on careers in the travel and tourism industry in up to 10 school

districts in New Jersey serving predominantly low-income Hispanic

students ........................................................................................................ $600,000

North Syracuse Central School, Cicero, New York for technology .............. 200,000

University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, for a model teacher preparation program ............................................................................................. 440,000

White Plains School District, New York, for after school and summer

academic programs serving at-risk elementary students ......................... 260,000

‘‘Project Promotion,’’ a project of the Southern Penobscot Regional Program for Children with Exceptionalities (SPRPCE) and Eastern Maine

Technical College for Paraprofessional Educators to pursue a two-year

college degree ............................................................................................... 200,000

24 Challenge and Jumping Levels to continue the empirical study of the

math program in Philadelphia County ...................................................... 50,000

Alabama School of Mathematics and Science Foundation, Mobile, AL, for

program development and equipment ........................................................ 300,000

Alaska Department of Education and Early Development for Alyeska

Central School, to prepare students in small rural schools for the Alaska High School Qualifying exam through distance delivery of core

courses .......................................................................................................... 500,000

Alaska Department of Education for a remedial summer tutoring program .............................................................................................................. 800,000

Alaska Department of Education for its ‘‘Qualified Teachers for Alaska’’

program ......................................................................................................... 2,000,000

Alaska Geographic Alliance to work with the Library of Congress to incorporate its ‘‘Meeting of the Frontiers’’ work into the Alaska school

history and geography curriculum .............................................................. 250,000

Alaska Mentoring Demonstration Project, Big Brothers/Big Sisters agencies in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau and other partners to extend

the proven benefits of mentoring at-risk youth ......................................... 500,000

Albuquerque Public Schools to expand child and family development

services in the South Valley area of Albuquerque .................................... 200,000

Alliance for the Arts, New York City, for arts education programs ............ 600,000

Alliance Neighborhood Center, Alliance, OH, for after-school program ..... 250,000

American Film Institute Screen Education Center and Initiative for arts

education curriculum development and teacher training ......................... 650,000

Amer-I-can program to assist at-risk youth with developing life management skills, goals and self-esteem necessary to acquire gainful employment .............................................................................................................. 1,000,000

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American Theater Arts for Youth, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, for a Mississippi Arts in Education program ............................................................ 150,000

American Theater Arts For Youth, Inc., for an Arts in Education Program .............................................................................................................. 25,000

American Theater Arts for Youth, San Diego, CA, for educational assistance in music and arts for students ........................................................... 100,000

American Theater Arts for Youth, Spokane, WA, for educational assistance in music and arts for students in Spokane, WA ............................... 50,000

AMISTAD America, Inc. to coordinate with school districts and schools

to provide students free admission, tours and history lessons on the

schooner Amistad vessel when it visits various ports in the United

States ............................................................................................................ 810,000

Anchorage Community Theater School after school program in the performing arts for grades K–12 ...................................................................... 50,000

Appalachian Center for Economic Networks, Athens, Ohio, to expand a

computer entrepreneurship project ............................................................ 1,200,000

Art Share Los Angeles, California, for equipment and programmatic support to expand a technology instructional program for at-risk youth ..... 150,000

Arts and Education in Concert, Centreville, VA, for violence prevention

programs ....................................................................................................... 250,000

Auburn City Board of Education, Auburn, AL, for technology .................... 38,000

Audubon Institute of New Orleans, LA to expand after-school programs

that offer safe, positive alternatives for at-risk students in kindergarten through 8th grade ............................................................................ 100,000

Augusta Public School District, Augusta, KS, for staff development in

technology curriculum ................................................................................. 250,000

Babyland Family Services, Newark, New Jersey for technology training

and extended learning opportunities for students, parents and teachers 200,000

Baltimore City Public School System to help complete wiring schools to

the Internet .................................................................................................. 1,500,000

Bay County School District, Florida, for technology equipment, supplies,

teacher training, and student transportation for a science education

project in partnership with ZooWorld ........................................................ 26,000

Beaver Local School District, Lisbon, OH, for educational programming 40,000

Belmont-Harrison Vocational School District, St. Clairsville, OH, for educational programming .................................................................................. 40,000

Bibb County Board of Education, Centreville, AL, for technology .............. 38,000

Bloom Township High School District 206, Chicago Heights, Illinois, to

establish a work-study cooperative program ............................................. 450,000

Blue Springs Youth Outreach Unit, Blue Springs, MO, for educational

training in combating Goth culture ............................................................ 273,000

Board of Education, Albertville City, AL, for technology enhancements .... 30,000

Board of Education, Arab City, AL, for technology enhancements ............. 30,000

Board of Education, Attalla City, AL, for technology enhancements .......... 30,000

Board of Education, Cullman City, AL, for technology enhancements ....... 30,000

Board of Education, Fort Payne City, AL, for technology enhancements 30,000

Board of Education, Gadsdene City, AL, for technology enhancements ..... 30,000

Board of Education, Guntersville City, AL, for technology enhancements 30,000

Board of Education, Haleyville City, AL, for technology enhancements .... 30,000

Board of Education, Jasper City, AL, for technology enhancements .......... 30,000

Board of Education, Oneonta City, AL, for technology enhancements ....... 30,000

Board of Education, Russellville City, AL, for technology enhancements 30,000

Board of Education, Winfield City, AL, for technology enhancements ....... 30,000

Boys and Girls Club of El Dorado, Arkansas, for after school programs

for at-risk youth ........................................................................................... 14,000

Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, D.C., Silver Spring, MD for

after school programs for at-risk youth ...................................................... 825,000

Boys and Girls Clubs of Philadelphia to develop a school based mentoring program ............................................................................................. 75,000

Bridgeport Exempted Village School District, Bridgeport, OH, for educational programming .................................................................................. 40,000

Brooke High School, Wellsburg, WV, for educational programming ........... 40,000

Brooklawn Youth Services, Louisville, KY, for comprehensive care treatment and education for children with serious emotional disabilities ...... 50,000

Brown University’s Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory to support the Knowledge Loom web site that provides enrichment

resources for educators ................................................................................ 100,000

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Buckeye Local School District, Rayland, OH, for educational programming .............................................................................................................. 40,000

Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts in Hartford, CT to expand the

arts-in-education program ........................................................................... 440,000

Calhoun County Board of Education, Anniston, AL, for technology ........... 38,000

Camp Fire Boys and Girls—First Texas Council, Ft. Worth, TX, for an

early childhood violence reduction program .............................................. 700,000

Canaan Community Development Corporation, Louisville, KY, after

school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students .............................................................................................................. 60,000

Centennial School District, Bucks County, PA, for activities authorized

by title V, part D, subpart 20 of ESEA ...................................................... 500,000

Centennial School District, Circle Pines, Minnesota, for an after school

program ......................................................................................................... 293,000

Center for Community Transformation, Chicago, IL, to support student

fellowships and ongoing secular educational activities in community

leadership transformation, including curriculum development ............... 200,000

Central Florida Community College, Ocala, FL, for Education Training

Consortium for teacher training, recruitment and retention ................... 800,000

Challenger Learning Center at SciTrek, Atlanta, GA to use a simulated

mission control station and space laboratory to create a dynamic learning environment for students in the areas of science and technology ..... 350,000

Chambers County Board of Education, LaFayette, AL, for technology ...... 38,000

Champions of Caring programs that encourage young people to take an

active role in their communities ................................................................. 50,000

CHAR High School-to-work vocational training program ............................ 100,000

Charter School Development Corporation in Las Vegas, Nevada to focus

on technology and college preparation ....................................................... 1,500,000

Chicago Children’s Choir, Illinois, to support arts-integrated academic

curriculum development, musical equipment, textbooks, and learning

aids for the Choir Academy ......................................................................... 225,000

Chicago Public Schools, Illinois, for after school programs .......................... 100,000

Chicago State University for an innovative project designed to support

teacher training and expand technology .................................................... 200,000

Children’s Land Alliance Supporting Schools (CLASS) ............................... 200,000

Children’s Literacy Initiative to supplement Head Start’s distance learning program as well as a teacher education program ............................... 100,000

Chilton County Board of Education, Clanton, AL, for technology ............... 38,000

Chippewa Falls Unified School District, WI, for after school programs ..... 950,000

Choteau Elementary School in Choteau, Montana for an e-learning pilot

program ......................................................................................................... 500,000

Cincinnati Arts School, Inc., Cincinnati, OH, for development of the

school’s academic and artistic curricula ..................................................... 1,000,000

City of Boston for after-school programs ....................................................... 200,000

City of Salt Lake, Utah, for the YouthCity Empowerment project to establish after school centers ......................................................................... 1,200,000

Clark County School District, Las Vegas, Nevada, to expand after school

programs for drop out prevention ............................................................... 440,000

Clark County, NV School District for a School-to-Work Program to provide students who do not plan to attend college with instruction in

nursing and home health aid ...................................................................... 160,000

Classika Theatre, Arlington, Virginia, to expand the ARTsmarts and SS

VETA arts education initiatives in Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia

schools ........................................................................................................... 500,000

Clay County Board of Education, Ashland, AL, for technology ................... 38,000

Cleburne County Board of Education, Heflin, AL, for technology ............... 38,000

Coffeyville Public School District, Coffeyville, KS, for technology .............. 250,000

Columbia College in Chicago to establish a mentoring program designed

to improve minority student educational success and retention .............. 200,000

Columbiana County Career Center, Lisbon, OH, for educational programming .............................................................................................................. 40,000

Communities in Schools of East Texas, Inc., Marshall, Texas, for educational services to at-risk students ........................................................... 240,000

Communities in Schools of Northeast Texas, Inc., Mount Pleasant, Texas,

for educational services to at-risk students ............................................... 240,000

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Concord College Technology Center to equip new teachers with the technical skills essential for the utilization of information technologies in

the classroom ................................................................................................ 1,000,000

Continuation and expansion of the Iowa Communications Network statewide fiber optic demonstration ................................................................... 3,000,000

Cooperative Educational Services Agency #9, WI, for after school programs ............................................................................................................ 1,200,000

Coosa County Board of Education, Rockford, AL, for technology ................ 38,000

Council Bluffs Community Schools in Iowa for a demonstration on testing software .................................................................................................. 500,000

D.C. Everest School District, WI, for a history day project ......................... 200,000

Dardanelle School District, Dardanelle, Arkansas, to establish a center

to use technology to enhance English, academic and parenting skills

for Hispanic students and adults ................................................................ 50,000

Daycare Literacy Project in Salem, Oregon .................................................. 20,000

Depaul School, Louisville, KY, for technology needs .................................... 45,000

Detroit Science Center, Detroit, Michigan, to develop science education

programs and exhibits to introduce students to science, technology, and

engineering ................................................................................................... 500,000

Discovery Place, North Carolina, for development of exhibits and science

education programs ...................................................................................... 440,000

Do Something, Inc., New York, New York, to implement the ‘‘Community

Coaches’’ leadership and citizenship program at up to 20 schools in the

Chicago metropolitan area .......................................................................... 125,000

Dowling High School Project Intercept—mentoring and tutoring program

for low-income youth .................................................................................... 300,000

Drop out prevention program in the Pendleton school district, Oregon ..... 125,000

Drug Free Pennsylvania to implement a demonstration project in Dauphin County .................................................................................................. 50,000

Early Reading Success Institute in Connecticut to broaden the training

of professionals in best practices in the delivery of reading instruction 800,000

East Liverpool School District, East Liverpool, OH, for educational programming ...................................................................................................... 40,000

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre, East Los Angeles, California for the

‘‘Beyond Borders: Literacy Through Performing Arts’’ literacy program 50,000

East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California, for ‘‘APPLES

Project’’ to provide early childhood curriculum development, professional development, parental instruction and program dissemination ... 230,000

East Providence School District, Rhode Island, for music curriculum development, teacher recruitment and equipment purchases ..................... 400,000

Eastern College for computers, printers, computer cables, telecommunications equipment and laboratory equipment for the Center for Information, Science and Learning Resources in St Davids, Pennsylvania .... 100,000

Edison Local School District, Hammondsville, OH, for educational programming ...................................................................................................... 40,000

Education Service District 117 in Wenatchee, WA to equip a community

technology center to expand technology-based training ........................... 250,000

Educational Advancement Alliance of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to establish computer centers in high schools and education centers ............. 500,000

Educational Service District 112, Vancouver, Washington, to implement

the Help One Student to Succeed (HOSTS) reading program in elementary schools ................................................................................................... 167,000

Eisenhower Foundation for a demonstration of full-service schools in

Iowa ............................................................................................................... 500,000

El Dorado Public School District, El Dorado, KS, for PROJECT CONNECT ............................................................................................................ 250,000

Electronic Data Systems Project to create a database that would improve

the acquisition, analysis and sharing of student information .................. 1,000,000

Ellijay Wildlife Rehabilitation Sanctuary, Ellijay, GA, to provide educational programs for at-risk youth ............................................................ 500,000

Ernie Pyle Middle School, Albuquerque, NM, for a middle school initiative ................................................................................................................. 50,000

Eufaula Independent School District Number 1, Oklahoma, for instructional materials and teacher-related expenses .......................................... 250,000

Everybody Wins! In New York, NY to promote children’s literacy and

love of learning through mentoring programs with adults. ..................... 1,000,000

Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, Bridging the Digital Divide 150,000

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Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, for educator-to-educator

training ......................................................................................................... 260,000

Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, Institute for Student

Achievement ................................................................................................. 270,000

Fairfax County Public Schools, Fairfax, VA, Pre-Delinquent and Delinquent Prevention Program .......................................................................... 40,000

Faith Academy Child Development Center, Hamlet, NC, for after school

program ......................................................................................................... 100,000

Father Maloney’s Boys’ Haven, Louisville, Kentucky, for technology ......... 20,000

Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and University for telecommunications equipment and for training programs necessary to

link educational institutions to a high bandwidth network ..................... 200,000

Ferris State University, Big Rapids, MI, for curriculum development and

outreach ........................................................................................................ 500,000

First Gethsemane Center for Family Development, Louisville, KY, after

school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students .............................................................................................................. 60,000

Five Towns Community Center, Nassau County, New York for after

school programs ............................................................................................ 500,000

Florida 4–H Foundation Inc., Gainesville, Florida, for personnel and

other expenses to provide educational programs for youth participants 100,000

Florida Institute of Education, Jacksonville, FL, for Florida Network of

Readiness Hubs ............................................................................................ 500,000

Fort Lewis College Child Development Center to serve young children

and their families, students, faculty and community in the Four Corners Regions. ................................................................................................ 1,500,000

Foundation for the Improvement of Mathematics and Education in San

Diego, CA to improve math and science testing scores through the advancement of curriculum and improvements in teacher/administrator

education ....................................................................................................... 150,000

Freedom Theatre: to provide greater access to its training program for

talented African Americans in Philadelphia .............................................. 25,000

Fresno At-Risk Youth Services to address the problems of at-risk youths

by coordinating the city’s efforts through an education program coordinator, working with targeted groups, and making peer counselors

available to students .................................................................................... 200,000

Fresno Unified School District, in partnership with the City of Fresno,

California, for after school programs for middle schools in disadvantaged communities ....................................................................................... 225,000

Friends of the Children in Portland, Oregon ................................................ 100,000

Friends of the Children, providing full-time, paid adult mentors to at-risk

children, in Chester, Pennsylvania ............................................................. 50,000

Futures for Children, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to expand its educational services to Native American children .......................................... 1,000,000

Galena School district and other partners to assist Alaska Native students attending boarding schools and colleges make the transition from

rural village life to educational residence facility ..................................... 250,000

Galena School District for alternative education programs ......................... 750,000

Garfield Middle School, Albuquerque, NM, ‘‘Accelerated Reader Program’’ 50,000

General George S. Patton School District 133, Riverdale, Illinois, for computer lab equipment and professional development for school reform

initiatives ...................................................................................................... 150,000

Georgia Project, Inc. in Dalton, GA to support the academic and social

needs of Hispanic children and their families in northern Georgia ........ 650,000

Girard Community Committee Incorporated, Girard, OH, for educational

programming ................................................................................................ 700,000

Glendale Unified School District in La Crescenta, California, to expand

after school programs at Valley View Elementary School, Monte Vista

Elementary School and Mountain Avenue Elementary School ................ 40,000

GlennOaks Therapeutic Day School, Addison, IL, to upgrade technology

and improve student safety for children with emotional and behavioral

problems ........................................................................................................ 200,000

GRAMMY Foundation, Santa Monica, California, for music education

programs ....................................................................................................... 1,200,000

Grand Valley State University Teacher Academy in Allendale, MI, to

train a cadre of master teachers who will develop curriculum and will

mentor pre-service and novice science and math teachers ....................... 200,000

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Great Projects Film Company to produce ‘‘Educating America,’’ a documentary T.V. series and multi-media project about challenges facing

public schools ................................................................................................ 50,000

Greater Minneapolis Day Care Council, Minnesota, for a demonstration

initiative to improve early learning and after school programs ............... 350,000

Green Bay Area School District in Green Bay, Wisconsin to implement

a district-wide technology plan ................................................................... 750,000

Gulf Coast Exploreum Science Center, Mobile, AL, to staff and support

science activities ........................................................................................... 400,000

Hackensack Public School District, Hackensack, New Jersey, to establish

an after school program at Jackson Avenue School .................................. 75,000

Hamcock County Schools, New Cumberland, WV, for educational programming ...................................................................................................... 40,000

Hampshire Educational Collaborative at Northampton, Massachusetts

for implementation of internet-based professional development for K–

12 teachers and early child care providers ................................................ 400,000

Hands Across Cultures Corporation, Espanola, New Mexico, for after

school programs at the Espanola and Pojoaque Valley School Districts 500,000

Harrison Middle School, Albuquerque, NM, for an after-school program 50,000

Hawthorne Elementary Junior High School in Hawthorne, NV for the

One-on-one Laptop Computer Program ..................................................... 420,000

Hazel Crest School District 152.5, Hazel Crest, Illinois, to implement a

comprehensive professional development program for teachers and administrators to improve student achievement ........................................... 100,000

Healthy Foundation in Murrieta, CA to conduct a study of the impact of

vitamin intake and the school performance of at-risk youth ................... 500,000

Helen Keller Worldwide to expand the ChildSight Vision Screening Program and provide eyeglasses to additional children whose educational

performance may be hindered because of poor vision ............................... 1,000,000

Henry, Highlands, Glades and Okeechobee county school districts in

Florida for technology upgrades ................................................................. 500,000

Holy Redeemer Health System in Philadelphia for after-school programs

for at-risk children. ...................................................................................... 250,000

Illinois Challenger Learning Center, Bloomington-Normal, IL, for science

and math programs ...................................................................................... 250,000

Illinois Department of Education, Improving Reading Achievement for

Grades 7–12 program for Peoria School District #150 .............................. 50,000

Illinois Department of Education, Improving Reading Achievement for

Grades 7–12 program for Springfield School District #186 ...................... 50,000

Illinois Math and Science Academy ‘‘21st Century Information Fluency

Program’’ ....................................................................................................... 900,000

Illinois State Board of Education ‘‘Improving Reading Achievement for

grades 7–12’’ for Kankakee District #111 and Champaign District #4 200,000

Illinois State Board of Education for Downers Grove School District #99

‘‘Teacher Helping Teachers’’ and Joliet Public School District #86

‘‘Helping Hands Lead to Success’’ mentoring programs ........................... 500,000

Illinois State Board of Education for Induction and Mentoring Model Districts Program at Elgin, Illinois #46 .......................................................... 150,000

Illinois State Board of Education for the At Risk Student Program at Aurora Illinois East 131 School District ......................................................... 200,000

Illinois State Board of Education, ‘‘Illinois Virtual High School’’ ................ 1,500,000

Illinois State Board of Education, for curriculum development, materials,

and professional development activities to improve math achievement

in the middle grades in Decatur School District 61 .................................. 300,000

Illinois State Board of Education, Freeport School District #16 for a

Reading Improvement Achievement Pilot Program for grades 7–12 ....... 250,000

Illinois State Board of Education, Rockford School District #205 for a

Reading Improvement Achievement Pilot Program for grades 7–12 ....... 250,000

Illinois State Board of Education, to provide alternative learning opportunities for at risk students in the Mt. Vernon Township High School

District #201, Christopher Unit #99, and Grayville Community Unit

School District #1 ......................................................................................... 400,000

Illinois State Board of Education/Boys and Girls Clubs of America,

Springfield, IL, for Community Technology Centers ................................ 300,000

Independence Public School District, Independence, KS, for teacher training and curriculum development ................................................................ 250,000

Independent School District 834, Minnesota, for an after school program 227,000

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Indian Creek School District, Wintersville, OH, for educational programming .............................................................................................................. 40,000

Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne, IN, to enhance educational and cultural programming through the development of

‘‘Teleplex’’ ...................................................................................................... 650,000

Infinity Project at Southern Methodist University ....................................... 500,000

Ingham County Intermediate School District, Mason, MI, for Technology

Enhancements for Capital Area Career Center ........................................ 200,000

Innovative Directions, an Educational Alliance, Bronx County, New

York, for after school and summer academic enrichment programs ....... 75,000

Institute for International Sport at the University of Rhode Island to address issues of sportsmanship between athletes and their parents,

coaches and teachers ................................................................................... 100,000

Institute for Student Achievement in Lake Success, NY to expand its

intervention program that provides academic enrichment and counseling support for students performing in the lowest quartile in their

middle or high schools ................................................................................. 200,000

Institute for Student Achievement, Manhasset, New York for educational

programs for at-risk students in the Mount Vernon school district ........ 250,000

International Music Products Association, Carlsbad, CA, for school music

programs ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Invent Iowa to encourage kids to invent and hold fairs to display those

inventions ..................................................................................................... 100,000

Iowa Department of Education for additional bilingual and English as a

Second Language training in rapid growth areas of Iowa ....................... 1,055,000

Iowa Online AP Academy to continue and expand the online advanced

placement demonstration ............................................................................ 2,000,000

Iowa School Board Association Lighthouse for School Reform for the

training of school board members on education issues ............................. 500,000

Isaac Stern Education Legacy in New York, NY to integrate distance

learning and educational technology with music education programs. ... 2,000,000

Jacksonville City Board of Education, Jacksonville, AL, for technology .... 38,000

James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, College Park, Maryland, for a National Youth Leadership Institute for K–12 students ....... 250,000

Jefferson County Joint Vocational School, Bloomingdale, OH, for educational programming .................................................................................. 40,000

Jewish Family and Community Service in Chicago, IL for its therapeutic

program ......................................................................................................... 100,000

Jobs for Youth of Boston, Massachusetts for technical assistance and

training related to standards based education .......................................... 500,000

Junior Achievement of Delaware Valley, Inc. for a youth mentoring initiative ............................................................................................................ 150,000

Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, MD, to complete the school-towork instructional model for its Career and Technology High School .... 440,000

Kenosha Unified School District, Kenosha, WI, for after-school programs 300,000

Kent State University, Kent, OH, to develop a replicable model for supporting GED graduates in higher education .............................................. 500,000

Kentucky Opera, Louisville, KY, for educational outreach programs ......... 50,000

Kenyon College, Gambier, OH, for technology and science improvements

and upgrade .................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Kids Voting South Dakota in Pierre, South Dakota, to expand the program in the state, primarily to the nine Indian Reservations ................. 100,000

Kids Voting USA, Tempe, Arizona for a civics program to educate children about the importance of voting .......................................................... 380,000

La Crosse Medical Health Science Consortium in La Crosse, Wisconsin

to expand reading remediation services to literacy-impaired adolescents .............................................................................................................. 375,000

Lake Metroparks, Concord, OH, for equipment ............................................ 1,000,000

Lawrence County School District, Mississippi, for a Parents as Teachers

program ......................................................................................................... 400,000

Lawrence Public Schools, Lawrence, Kansas, for after school programs in

the New York and East Heights elementary schools ................................ 100,000

Learning Collaborative Inc., Milford, Connecticut, for the ‘‘Pebbles

Project’’ to demonstrate innovative technology to deliver educational

services to children medically unable to attend school ............................. 870,000

Lee County Board of Education, Opelika, AL, for technology ..................... 38,000

Lee’s Summit Education Foundation in Missouri, for Parents as Teachers 500,000

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Lewiston-Auburn College/University of Southern Maine TEAMS program

to prepare teachers to meet the demands of Maine’s 21st century elementary and middle schools at Sherwood Heights Elementary School

in Auburn and Lewiston Middle School in Lewiston ................................ 50,000

Lincoln Center, New York City, for the Louis Armstrong Jazz Curriculum project to provide arts education professional development to

teachers across the country ......................................................................... 250,000

Livingston Technical Academy, Howell, MI, for Technology Enhancements ............................................................................................................. 150,000

Local Initiative Support Corporation Child Care Education ....................... 400,000

Long Island Works Coalition to provide school-to-career partnerships for

students, and to provide them with the skills necessary for successful

employment .................................................................................................. 100,000

Los Angeles County Office of Education, Downey, California, for the

Early Advantage Initiative to provide preschool and family learning activities, and training for parents, child care providers and community

members ........................................................................................................ 440,000

Loudonville Golden Center, Loudonville, OH, to develop a technology,

training and youth mentoring program for seniors and youths ............... 130,000

Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Baton Rouge, LA, for professional

development .................................................................................................. 300,000

Louisiana Department of Education to implement an early childhood development program for at risk children ..................................................... 300,000

Louisiana Department of Education to implement the Voyager Universal

Literacy System in Louisiana ..................................................................... 700,000

Louisiana District Attorney’s Office, The Orleans Parish, Louisiana for a

School-Based Drug Awareness program .................................................... 100,000

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, ‘‘Project Catalyst’’ ........................ 400,000

Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, ‘‘Project LIFE (Laboratory Investigations and Field Experience’’) ................................................................. 400,000

Lyons Township High School District 204, Illinois, for a Quality Teacher

Recruitment Model Program ....................................................................... 440,000

Macomb County Intermediate School District, Michigan for the ‘‘Kids

Klub’’ after school program ......................................................................... 600,000

Macon County Board of Education, Tuskegee, AL, for technology .............. 38,000

Madison County School District’s School Needs Assessment in Madison

County, MS to conduct an impact study of the sudden influx of a large

number of new students in the school district .......................................... 500,000

Maine School Administrative District #58 in Kingfield, Maine, for Pathway Partners rural education program, to help connect young people

to fundamental resources such as caring adults and safe places ............ 200,000

Maine School Administrative District Number 64, East Corinth, Maine,

for the STAR technology teacher training project ..................................... 100,000

Malverne Afterschool Center, Malverne, NY, to expand an after school

program ......................................................................................................... 100,000

Marshfield School District, WI, for computers, library books, and supplies

for a new elementary school ........................................................................ 75,000

Martins Ferry School District, Martins Ferry, OH, for educational programming ...................................................................................................... 40,000

Maryhurst Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for an educational program ............ 50,000

Math, Science and Technology Education Partnership K–12 cluster pilot

program in Albuquerque public schools ..................................................... 1,250,000

Mehlville School District, St. Louis, Missouri, to implement a new reading technology program ............................................................................... 75,000

Mellen School District, WI, for after school programs ................................. 340,000

MENC (Music Education and Technology Advancement) to establish and

support standard music education and creativity, instructional technology and professional development for approximately 4000 K–12

public schools ................................................................................................ 50,000

Meredith-Dunn School, Louisville, KY, technology infrastructure for children with learning disabilities .................................................................... 60,000

Mid-American Regional Council in Kansas City, Missouri to establish the

Finance CIRCLE demonstration initiative to improve financing for

early learning and after-school programs .................................................. 250,000

Midland School District, Midland, PA, for educational programming ........ 40,000

Military Heritage Foundation, Carlisle, PA, Army Heritage and Education Center to establish educational programs and materials ............. 150,000

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Millikin University to assist inner-city and rural high school students

prepare for college ........................................................................................ 200,000

Milton Eisenhower Foundation, Washington, DC for a full-service community school demonstration project in up to five locations .................... 450,000

Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee, Wisconsin to expand programs to

recruit, prepare and retain a diverse, effective, innovative teaching

force ............................................................................................................... 350,000

Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin, for after school programs ............... 400,000

Milwaukee Public Schools, Wisconsin, for the Bradley School for Technology and Trade High School for technology training and curriculum

implementation ............................................................................................ 200,000

Mississippi Delta Education Initiative for teacher recruitment, Delta

University ..................................................................................................... 900,000

Murray State University, Murray, KY, Center for Teaching Excellence in

Science and Mathematics ............................................................................ 800,000

Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY to expand its distance learning

program to give students and teachers access to their collection ............ 220,000

Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, CT, to develop an Onboard and Online

Program ........................................................................................................ 350,000

National Center for Youth Issues, Chattanooga, TN, to provide Internet

based resource in character education ....................................................... 1,000,000

New Mexico Department of Education to provide on-line courses aligned

with state academic standards and curriculum to students in rural and

remote areas ................................................................................................. 200,000

New York City Public Schools, New York to expand the New York City

Teaching Fellows Program to attract and retain certified teachers in

New York City Schools that need qualified teachers ................................ 500,000

New York Hall of Science, Corona Park, New York, to expand the

Science Career Ladder and After-School Science Club programs for

middle school students ................................................................................ 300,000

New Zion Community Development Foundation, Louisville, KY, after

school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students .............................................................................................................. 30,000

Newport Public Schools, Newport, Rhode Island, for early childhood programs, specialized teacher recruitment and professional development .. 750,000

Newton Public School District, Newton, KS, to help incorporate technology into the math curriculum ................................................................ 250,000

Nicholls State University to train faculty, reading specialists and families in order to identify the reading disabilities of children and adults

in the Southern Gulf Coast region of Louisiana ........................................ 500,000

North Carolina Aquarium Society for development of environmental education exhibits and distance learning programs for students .................. 440,000

North Carolina Electronics and Information Technologies Association

Education Foundation, for a technology demonstration project in rural

and underserved school districts ................................................................ 250,000

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina for arts and environmental education programs ................................................................ 100,000

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science for development of BioQuest

exhibits .......................................................................................................... 150,000

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina to expand regional satellite centers to provide science and math education to rural

schools through the Science House ............................................................. 600,000

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, WA, ‘‘Star Nations

Program’’ ....................................................................................................... 450,000

Northwood School District in Minong, Wisconsin to complete their distance education project that enhances learning opportunities and provides useful skill development .................................................................... 62,000

Nosotros, Hollywood, California to implement music education activities,

including purchasing instruments for low-income students, for the Mariachi Plaza after school program ............................................................... 100,000

Oakland Unified School District, California, for teacher professional development ..................................................................................................... 440,000

Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, to expand the Council’s international

programming ................................................................................................ 1,200,000

Ohio Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH, for the development

of a statewide science and math education service program ................... 5,000,000

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Ohio Department of Education, Columbus, OH, ‘‘Troops to Teachers Ohio

Demonstration’’ ............................................................................................ 2,500,000

Oklahoma State Department of Education, Oklahoma City, OK, for a

handheld computing initiative to be coordinated with the University of

Central Oklahoma in Edmund, OK ............................................................ 1,000,000

Olympic Park Institute to expand its scholarship fund to allow more disadvantaged students to attend its environmental education programs 250,000

Onondaga Community College, Syracuse, NY, for technology and personnel ............................................................................................................ 500,000

Opelika City Board of Education, Opelika, AL, for technology ................... 38,000

Operation Get Ahead, Hempstead, New York, for an Early Awareness for

College program for disadvantaged youth ................................................. 200,000

Our Hope For Youth, Delaware, for an anti-school violence education

media program on in-school educational networks ................................... 500,000

Oxford City Board of Education, Oxford, AL, for technology ....................... 38,000

Pacific Islands Center for Educational Development in American Samoa 400,000

Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington to develop a hands-on genetics exhibit to explain basic concepts of genetics and the human genome project ................................................................................................. 250,000

Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, New York, for the development of earth science educational programs ............................................. 100,000

PARENTS, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, for creation of a full-working parent

matching, mentoring and home visit system to support parents of children with disabilities for the state of Alaska ............................................ 500,000

PARENTS, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, for implementation and expansion of

their projects to train teachers, specialists and parents in the use of

technology to assist students with disabilities .......................................... 1,000,000

Phenix City Board of Education, Phenix City, AL, for technology .............. 38,000

Philadelphia Opera Sounds of Learning ........................................................ 100,000

Piedmont City Board of Education, Piedmont, AL, for technology ............. 38,000

Pima Community College, Arizona, for an Achieving a College Education

initiative to help low-income and minority students attend college ........ 185,000

Pinellas County Florida School District, St. Petersburg, FL, for technology for Title I schools ............................................................................. 3,587,000

Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium ........................................................................ 200,000

Plymouth Community Renewal Center, Louisville, KY, after school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students ................ 40,000

Pomona Unified School District, Pomona, CA, for a Literacy Technology

Center ........................................................................................................... 1,000,000

Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District, New York, for an after

school program at Thomas Edison Elementary School ............................. 260,000

Potter Park Zoological Society, Lansing, MI, Expanding Educational Programming ‘‘The BIG Zoo Lesson’’ ............................................................... 100,000

Prairie Lakes Education Cooperative in Madison, SD to advance distance

learning for Native Americans in BIA and tribal schools ........................ 500,000

Prime Time Family Reading Time to continue its family literacy programs in Louisiana ...................................................................................... 100,000

Prince William County, VA, Bilingual Literacy Extended Kindergarten

Program ........................................................................................................ 140,000

Prince William County, VA, for assistance to Special Need Middle School

Students ........................................................................................................ 100,000

Prince William County, VA, Mathematics Intervention Program ............... 90,000

Project Intercept to identify and intercept youth who display early-stage

problems, implement mentoring programs and offer sensitivity training

to teachers, principals and parents ............................................................ 100,000

Project STARS (Strategies to Accelerate Reading Success) in Clark County, NV to provide literacy intervention for students ................................. 900,000

Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ, for ‘‘Center for International Education and Entrepreneurship’’ ............................................... 800,000

Randolph County Board of Education, Wedowee, AL, for technology ......... 38,000

Reading Alabama, Inc. in Montgomery, Alabama ........................................ 150,000

Reading Evaluation and Assessment Demonstration, Today Foundation

in Dallas, Texas ............................................................................................ 200,000

Reading Together USA Program at the University of North Carolina at

Greensboro for tutoring program expansion .............................................. 800,000

ReadNet Foundation, New York, NY, to fully implement web-based simulation educational program ....................................................................... 600,000

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Red Bluff Joint Union High School District, Red Bluff, CA, for technology 180,000

Resource Area for Teachers, San Jose, California, to provide classroom

learning materials and teacher training in use of interactive materials 340,000

Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Forces of Change Collaborative Exhibit ..................................................... 200,000

Rio Linda Union School District, Rio Linda, CA, for technology ................. 350,000

Riverside Community College District, Riverside, CA, for curriculum development and related costs for the Riverside School for the Arts .......... 500,000

Robbie Valentine Stars Club Education Program, Louisville, KY, after

school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students .............................................................................................................. 50,000

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, for curriculum development, educational materials, and outreach activities to

expand the ‘‘Rockin’ the Schools’’ music education program to reach additional students .......................................................................................... 200,000

Rockford Public School District #205, Rockford, IL, for a magnet schools

program ......................................................................................................... 1,200,000

Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development in Detroit,

Michigan to expand Pathways to Freedom and Learning Center programs ............................................................................................................ 200,000

Russell County Board of Education, Phenix City, AL, for technology ........ 38,000

Rutgers University Law School to support a scholarship fund, public interest activities, and its work with the LEAP Academy Charter School,

including the purchase of books and equipment ....................................... 540,000

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, New Jersey for

the RUNet 2000 to expand its innovative voice-video-data communications system to bring the resources of the university to more K–12

teachers and students .................................................................................. 2,000,000

San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego, CA, for a distance learning project ..................................................................................................... 150,000

San Diego Unified School District in CA, for ‘‘The Blueprint for Student

Success in a Standards-Based System’’ ...................................................... 1,000,000

San Luis Obispo County Office of Education, California, to develop,

maintain and distribute school violence emergency response kits .......... 75,000

Santa Barbara High School District, California, to develop a health careers academy at San Marcos High School ................................................ 50,000

School District of Bruce, WI, for after school programs ............................... 400,000

School District of Palm Beach County, Florida, to provide after school

and evening supplemental bilingual language instruction for immigrant students and their parents ............................................................... 600,000

School District of Rhinelander, WI, for after school programs .................... 1,000,000

Schoolcraft College, Livonia, MI, VistaTech Center for development and

technological equipment to provide extensive connectivity to the Internet ................................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Schurz Elementary School in Schurz, NV for the One-on-one Laptop

Computer Program ...................................................................................... 249,000

Science and Math Teacher Academy University of North Texas and Paul

Quinn College ............................................................................................... 200,000

Science Applications International Corporation, King of Prussia, PA, for

HUBS Education Program .......................................................................... 200,000

ScienceSouth, Inc., Florence, South Carolina, for science education programming, a science traveling exhibit, and outreach activities ............... 500,000

Shake-A-Leg Miami to develop curriculum and provide equipment for its

educational programs including its Marine Trade Sea School and marine environmental education programs for students with and without

disabilities from Miami-Dade County public schools ................................ 150,000

Shawnee Gardens Tenants Association, Louisville, KY, for after school

programs ....................................................................................................... 35,000

Shiloh Baptist Church Community Renewal Center, Louisville, KY, after

school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students .............................................................................................................. 50,000

South Cook Education Consortium in Hazel Crest, IL, to support computer laboratory facilitators, equipment and technology support for

community technology centers serving eight elementary school districts

in South Cook County, Illinois .................................................................... 400,000

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South Dakota Department of Education and Cultural Affairs for the Distance Education Alliance to advance distance learning for South Dakota Schools .................................................................................................. 2,000,000

South Side School District, Hookstown, PA, for educational programming 40,000

Southeast Associated Ministries, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for an after

school program ............................................................................................. 20,000

Southeast Missouri State University’s NASA Educator Resource Center

in Cape Girardeau, MO to make available to K–12 schools, teachers

and students a wide variety of educational materials related to science,

mathematics and space-science education ................................................. 170,000

Southeastern Environmental Education Alliance (SEEL) to improve

science and math education at the elementary and middle school level 200,000

Southern Local School District, Salineville, OH, for educational programming .............................................................................................................. 40,000

Southern Star Development Corporation, Louisville, KY, after school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students ........... 40,000

Southwest Texas State University Center for School Improvement ........... 250,000

Space Education Initiatives Inc., Green Bay, WI, for professional development programs and technology ................................................................... 250,000

Spelman College Teacher as Leader Educational Initiative in Atlanta,

GA to provide early intervention and academic support through the for

at-risk, disadvantaged children and their families ................................... 500,000

Springfield School District, for the Schools Plus initiative to provide after

school services for elementary school students ......................................... 440,000

St. Clair County Board of Education, Ashville, AL, for technology ............ 38,000

St. Clair County Educational Cooperative Board of Control, Belleville, Illinois, for the development of hands-on learning activities about the

Mississippi River .......................................................................................... 700,000

St. Clair County Intermediate School District, Michigan for the ‘‘Kids

Klub’’ after school program ......................................................................... 400,000

St. Joseph’s Indian School of Chamberlain, South Dakota, for after-school

programs, educational outreach, mentoring, equipment and educational

materials ....................................................................................................... 800,000

St. Stephens Family Life Center, Louisville, KY, after school tutoring,

mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students ....................... 75,000

Stark County Parks, Canton, OH, for an Electronic Gateway Project ....... 1,000,000

State of Alaska for Right Start extended-day kindergarten program ......... 1,000,000

State of Louisiana for ‘‘Louisiana Online’’ ..................................................... 1,000,000

Steps to Success of Louisiana to expand its efforts to provide parents of

children from birth to three years of age with the information and support necessary for their development ......................................................... 250,000

Steubenville City Schools, Steubenville, OH, for educational programming .............................................................................................................. 40,000

Sylacauga City Board of Education, Sylacauga, AL, for technology ........... 38,000

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation,

Mountain View, California, to support project-based science and math

education at elementary, middle and high schools in Santa Clara

County, California ........................................................................................ 100,000

Talladega County Board of Education, Talladega, AL, for technology ....... 38,000

Tallapoosa County Board of Education, Dadeville, AL, for technology ....... 38,000

Teaneck Public School District, Teaneck, New Jersey, to establish

‘‘Project Lighthouse’’ after school programs at Benjamin Franklin and

Thomas Jefferson Middle Schools ............................................................... 75,000

TELACU Education Foundation in Los Angeles to provide interactive

computer literacy and tutoring to economically disadvantaged Latino

students ........................................................................................................ 1,800,000

The Boston History Collaborative to develop educational programs on the

history of Boston .......................................................................................... 100,000

The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, for teacher training initiatives and curriculum development ................................................................................... 250,000

The Imaginarium in Anchorage to provide coursework, teaching materials and teacher training in science and math to benefit students in

rural Alaska who do not have access to such courses and teachers ........ 100,000

The Professional Partnership Laboratory School at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode Island to provide an innovative learning environment for K–12 students in the Bristol-Warren Regional School District ................................................................................................................ 850,000

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YMCAs of Sarasota, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater for expansion of

YMCA Character Development Schools which address school behavior

problems through family partnerships, counseling, case management,

parenting classes, and positive behavior modification intervention ........ 250,000

THINK Together, Santa Ana, California for after school programs for

low-income students in Orange County, CA .............................................. 440,000

Thirteenth Place Youth and Family Services in Gadsden, AL, after-school

program ......................................................................................................... 10,000

Three Rivers Connect in Pittsburgh .............................................................. 100,000

Tides Foundation to provide assistance in supporting McKelvey entrepreneurial college scholarships to rural, low income Pennsylvania high

school graduates. Funds shall be used for screening of applicants, computers, books and other educational tools, and outreach to inform students of the scholarship program ............................................................... 250,000

Toronto School District, Toronto, OH, for educational programming ......... 40,000

Trinity Family Life Center, Inc., Louisville, Kentucky, for an after school

programs ....................................................................................................... 10,000

University of Akron, Akron, OH, for the ‘‘Exercise in Hard Choices’’ ......... 500,000

University of Akron, Ohio, for curriculum development, teacher training

and technology enhancements for the K–12 Urban School Project ......... 200,000

University of Alaska and Alaska Department of Education to establish

the Alaska Center for Excellence in Schools at the University of Alaska 500,000

University of Arkansas Little Rock to offer high school students a webbased math course with the goal of reducing the number of entering

freshmen who need math remediation ....................................................... 200,000

University of Iowa for a demonstration in Iowa of a computerized reading program .................................................................................................. 500,000

University of Nebraska, Kearney, Nebraska, for Minority Access to Higher Education Program to help teachers to address the special need of

minority populations from grades K–12 ..................................................... 900,000

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, ‘‘Mathematics and Science

Teacher Academy’’ for professional development ...................................... 850,000

University of New Orleans Millennium School Project to establish a charter school district and redesign teacher education to support school restructuring .................................................................................................... 1,000,000

University of Northern Iowa in collaboration with the Waterloo Community Schools for the expansion of an early childhood development center .................................................................................................................. 600,000

University of Northern Iowa’s National Center for Public and Private

School Foundations ...................................................................................... 200,000

University of Southern Maine, Orono, Maine, for the Electronic Learning

Marketplace to expand K–12 professional development and improve

educational standards and assessments statewide ................................... 440,000

University of Southern Mississippi Gifted Center ........................................ 100,000

University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the Urban Educator

Corps Partnership initiative ....................................................................... 500,000

University of Wisconsin-Extension’s School Readiness Project to provide

training and technical assistance to its partners in preparing children

for learning in school ................................................................................... 200,000

Urban League of Metropolitan Denver, Colorado for an after school program for at-risk youth in Aurora and northeast Denver .......................... 300,000

Utah Literacy Project to support the Utah Reading Excellence Act in providing reading and training materials to rural schools ............................ 600,000

Utah State Office of Education to help school districts test effectiveness

of administering yearly assessment using computers ............................... 700,000

Vermont Higher Education Council in Essex Junction to develop universal early learning programs to ensure that at least one certified

teacher will be available in center-based child care programs ................ 200,000

Village of Riverdale, Illinois, to provide mentoring, conflict resolution,

and other intervention services for at-risk youth ...................................... 100,000

Vocational Technical Center, New Cumberland, WV, for educational programming ...................................................................................................... 40,000

Walnut Street Theater: For its Educational and Outreach program for

area K–12 schools, which includes an apprenticeship program, an

adopt a school program, and a summer camp ........................................... 25,000

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Washington and Jefferson College: To support professional development

and quality education initiatives at the K–12 in the Southwest Region

of Pennsylvania ............................................................................................ 200,000

Washington Association of Career and Technical Education to update

training technology to ensure that it meets industry standards ............. 250,000

Washington Virtual Classroom Consortium to establish interconnectivity

between rural schools to create expanded learning opportunities ........... 750,000

Watertown Public Schools, Watertown, SD, to integrate technology in the

classroom by expanding wireless labs and computers .............................. 220,000

Watts Learning Center, Los Angeles, California for instructional programming in reading and language arts ................................................... 285,000

Wausau School District, WI, for after school programs in middle schools 850,000

Wellington Public School District, Wellington, KS, for teacher training .... 250,000

Wellsville Local School District, Wellsville, OH, for educational programming .............................................................................................................. 40,000

West Allis/West Milwaukee School District, Wisconsin, for after school

centers serving low-income elementary students ...................................... 200,000

West Ed Eisenhower Regional Consortium for Science and Mathematics,

San Francisco, CA, for 24 Challenge and Jumping Levels Math ............ 300,000

Westchester Philharmonic, Hartsdale, NY for the ‘‘Philharmonic Alive’’

after school music and arts education pilot project ................................... 50,000

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, Joint Demonstration

Project for the ‘‘Study of Wireless Technology in Education’’ .................. 500,000

Wheeling Jesuit University NASA Center for Educational Technologies

to provide technology training to all elementary and secondary West

Virginia math and science teachers ........................................................... 3,600,000

Wheeling Park High School, Wheeling, WV, for educational programming 40,000

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Winston-Salem, NC, for ‘‘Winston Net’’ ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Wisconsin Educational Partnership Initiative in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin for a professional development initiative ....................................... 350,000

Wisconsin Rapids Area Public School District, WI, for after school programs ............................................................................................................ 700,000

WNVT/KidzOnline, Falls Church, VA, for online K–12 programming ....... 800,000

Working in the Schools, Chicago to expand tutoring and mentoring programs in the Chicago public schools ........................................................... 100,000

WQED Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to provide math and science education

through its Learning Center ....................................................................... 205,000

Yell County Schools in Arkansas to expand their bilingual programs to

address needs of a growing Hispanic population ...................................... 150,000

YMCA of Metropolitan Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, for Community

Action Program ............................................................................................ 300,000

YMCA for a demonstration of youth mentoring and after school activities

in Iowa .......................................................................................................... 770,000

YMCA of Central Stark County, Canton, OH, to implement a pilot

project to work with middle school youth during after school hours ....... 200,000

YMCA of Greater Seattle to expand their teen development activities ...... 500,000

YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin to expand its Teen Agenda

to serve at-risk teenage youth .................................................................... 1,000,000

YMCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County to support women and

families through an at-risk youth center and other family supports ...... 250,000

Yosemite National Institutes, Sausalito, CA, to develop outreach programs targeted toward minority, disadvantaged students ....................... 500,000

Youth Alive, Inc., Louisville, KY, after school tutoring, mentoring and enrichment programs for at-risk students ..................................................... 30,000

YWCA of Anchorage for after-school enrichment programs to benefit atrisk Anchorage schoolchildren and their mothers. .................................... 500,000

Zero to Five Foundation, Los Angeles, California, to develop an early

childhood education and parenting project at the Los Angeles Elementary School .................................................................................................... 340,000

Big Brothers/Big Sisters national program to double the number children

served in school-based mentoring ............................................................... 250,000

CAPE/PETE Net: to continue to develop its national demonstration program for distance learning with 105 Pennsylvania universities and colleges .............................................................................................................. 550,000

Cheyney University: to create a pilot ‘‘Collaborative Center for Teacher

Preparation’’ program by partnering with area school districts .............. 100,000

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia: to expand its educational outreach

to all students in the Philadelphia School District through a medical

science museum-based experimental learning program ........................... 50,000

Communities In Schools of the Lehigh Valley: to further develop inschool and after school programs for at-risk middle school and high

school students ............................................................................................. 50,000

Eisenhower Foundation: to replicate the full community school program

that emphasizes the school as the central point of the community ......... 100,000

Indiana University of Pennsylvania: to establish a K–12 computer services center for area school districts ............................................................ 50,000

Microsociety: to further develop and disseminate the MICROSOCIETY

whole school model of comprehensive school reform in Philadelphia ...... 200,000

Pennsylvania Ballet: for ‘‘Accent on Dance’’ program for elementary and

secondary school students for in-school and after school programs ........ 75,000

Philadelphia Orchestra: to allow the Orchestra to expand its 5 educational programs to reach broader and more diverse audiences ............ 175,000

Pittsburgh Technology Council: provide computer training to teachers in

school districts in the 13 county area ......................................................... 50,000

Project 2000: to expand the existing program to the adjoining housing

project in Washington, DC .......................................................................... 125,000

SEPCHE in Philadelphia to develop ‘‘global curriculum’’ to challenge students to develop their knowledge of foreign languages and culture, recognize relationships between history and current issues, and collaborate with peers on oral and written presentations ................................... 750,000

The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship to expand the

program to Philadelphia .............................................................................. 50,000

Do Something, Inc., New York, New York, to implement the ‘‘Community

Coaches’’ leadership and citizenship program ........................................... 200,000

—$20,000,000 is included for a grant to the Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania Department of Education to provide assistance to

low-performing school districts that are slated for potential takeover and/or on the Education Empowerment List as prescribed by

Pennsylvania State Law. The initiative is intended to improve the

management and operations of the school districts; assist with curriculum development; provide after-school, summer and weekend

programs; offer teacher and principal professional development and

promote the acquisition and effective use of instructional technology and equipment. —$50,000,000 is included for a grant to the Iowa Department

of Education to expand the Iowa School Construction Demonstration Project. The funds will be used to build and repair public

schools in Iowa. —$18,000,000 for Project GRAD–USA Inc., in Houston, Texas

for continued support and expansion of the successful school reform

program. —$9,000,000 for I CAN LEARN —$2,000,000 for Reach Out and Read.

It has been brought to the conferees’ attention that Tesoro

High School Knowledge Center in Las Flores, California is establishing an electronic communications demonstration project to customize storage, retrieval and dissemination of information throughout the school. The project will consist of state-of-the-art computers, networked within labs both inside and outside of the school,

with the capability to do on-line research, multi-media development, video microfiche research and desktop presentation. The conferees strongly encourage the Department to consider funding this

initiative.

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tional rights, citizen’s responsibilities, core values and the private

enterprise system. The conferees strongly encourage the Department to consider funding this initiative.

Charter Schools Homestead

The conference agreement does not include funding for Charter

Schools Homestead fund. The Senate bill proposed $50,000,000 for

this program; the House bill did not include funding for it.

INDIAN EDUCATION

The conference agreement includes $120,368,000 for Indian

Education instead of $123,235,000 as proposed by the House and

$117,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within the totals,

$97,133,000 is provided for grants to LEAs, instead of $100,000,000

as proposed by the House and $94,265,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $3,235,000 for national activities

as proposed by the House instead of $2,735,000 as proposed by the

Senate.

BILINGUAL AND IMMIGRANT EDUCATION

The conference agreement includes $665,000,000 for Bilingual

and Immigrant Education programs instead of $700,000,000 as proposed by the House and $600,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

H.R. 1 consolidates the Bilingual Education Act with the Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Reform of existing law will

focus existing programs on teaching English to limited English proficient children (LEP), including immigrant children and youth,

and holding states accountable for their LEP students attaining

English. H.R. 1 eliminates the requirement that 75 percent of federal bilingual education funds are to be used for programs that use

a child’s native language in instruction and also requires that 95

percent of funds must go to the local level to teach LEP children.

SPECIAL EDUCATION

The conference agreement includes $8,672,804,000 for Special

Education instead of $8,860,076,000 as proposed by the House and

$8,439,643,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement provides

$3,600,804,000 in fiscal year 2002 and $5,072,000,000 in fiscal year

2003 funding for this account.

Included in these funds is $7,528,533,000 for Grants to States

part b instead of $7,714,685,000 as proposed by the House and

$7,339,685,000 as proposed by the Senate. This funding level provides nearly an additional $1,200,000,000 to assist the States in

meeting the additional per pupil costs of services to special education students.

The conference agreement includes $417,000,000 for Grants for

Infants and Families instead of $430,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $383,567,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $51,700,000 for state program improvement grants instead of $54,200,000 as proposed by

the House and $49,200,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement includes $78,380,000 for research and innovation instead of

$70,000,000 as proposed by both the House and the Senate. Within

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the amounts provided for Special Education Research and Innovation, the conference agreement includes funding for the following:

2002 Paralympic Winter Games for the Salt Lake City Organizing Committees or to a government agency or a not-for-profit organization, to

support venue operations, spectator services, broadcast support, and

ceremonies .................................................................................................... $850,000

Best Buddies International, Inc. in Miami, FL to enhance the lives of

people with mental retardation by providing opportunities for one-toone friendships and integrated employment ............................................. 500,000

Center for Discovery International Family Institute, Sullivan County,

NY, to develop a program initiative directed toward acquisition, synthesis and application of information about disabilities ........................... 500,000

Center for Literacy and Assessment, University of Southern Mississippi 850,000

Easter Seals’ Delta Project ............................................................................. 100,000

Fraser Child and Family Center, Richfield, Minnesota, for research, technology, personnel development, and parent training to improve services

to children with neurological, emotional and behavioral disorders ......... 200,000

Hebrew Academy for Special Children, New York City for a demonstration project to enhance academic and social outcomes of developmentally disabled children and adults ....................................................... 540,000

Iowa Parent Training Information Center for pilot on referral and legal

advice ............................................................................................................ 100,000

Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD for computer technology to expand distance learning opportunities for disabled students and to provide professional development .................................................................... 1,700,000

Lady B. Ranch, Apple Valley, CA, for direct services related to the

Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program .................................................... 150,000

Norman Howard School, Rochester, NY, for the Community Learning Resource Initiative for children with learning disabilities ........................... 400,000

Puget Sound Educational Service District, Burien, Washington for a pilot

program to improve special education services and teacher training ..... 490,000

Rainbows United, Wichita, KS, for research efforts and staff development

in special education programs .................................................................... 500,000

Spokane Guilds’ School and Neuromuscular Center, Spokane, WA, to

evaluate the effectiveness of type of care provided at the center ............ 500,000

University of Kentucky Special Education Instructional Technology Initiative ............................................................................................................ 1,000,000

The agreement also includes $36,210,000 for technology and

media services as proposed by the Senate instead of $31,710,000 as

proposed by the House. The agreement includes $9,500,000 for Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic for the purposes described in

both the House and Senate reports.

The agreement also includes $1,500,000 for Public Telecommunications Information and Training Dissemination as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not contain funds for this

activity.

REHABILITATION SERVICES AND DISABILITY RESEARCH

The conference agreement includes $2,945,813,000 for Rehabilitation Services and Disability Research instead of

$2,942,117,000 as proposed by the House and $2,932,617,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

The conferees agree that, in reallocating any FY 2002 funds

that become available for reallocation to states under the reallotment process authorized under section 110(b)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act, the Department accord priority to states that received a

formula allocation providing less than a full cost-of-living adjustment in FY 2002 and to the early implementation states under the

Ticket to Work and Self Sufficiency Program that have experienced

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an increase in the number of eligible applicants as a result of the

implementation of this program. The conference agreement includes $11,897,000 for client as- sistance state grants instead of $12,147,000 as proposed by the

Senate and $11,647,000 as proposed by the House. The agreement

also includes $21,238,000 for demonstration and training programs

instead of $16,492,000 as proposed by both the House and the Senate. The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 above the budget request to support programs designed to improve the quality of

applied orthotic and prosthetic research and help meet the increasing demand for provider services. Within the amounts provided for

vocational rehabilitation demonstration and training programs, the

conference agreement includes funding for the following activities:

American Foundation for the Blind, for a National Literacy Center for

the Visually Impaired in Atlanta, Georgia ................................................ $266,000

Apple Patch Community Inc., Crestwood, KY, for vocational training for

adults with mental retardation ................................................................... 45,000

Cabrillo College Stroke Center, Santa Cruz, California, for a demonstration project on classroom-based approaches to long-term rehabilitation 200,000

Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation’s Rehabilitation Research and

Training Center and Wichita State University to continue to help people with disabilities obtain self-sufficient employment. ............................ 500,000

Darden Rehabilitation Foundation in Gadsden, AL, for vocational evaluation, employment preparation services and job development .................. 275,000

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Learning Disability Research and

Training at Krasnow Institute for continuation of learning disability

research ......................................................................................................... 400,000

Hot Springs Rehabilitation Center to expand their welding training program so individuals with disabilities gain the vocational skills needed

to lead productive and independent lives .................................................. 160,000

Lighthouse for the Blind to expand services that help deaf-blind clients

with daily tasks, to purchase adaptive computer equipment and to provide interpreter services .............................................................................. 500,000

Oakland Community College, Michigan, for a sign language instruction

interpreter training program, in conjunction with Deaf Community Advocacy Network, to serve deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals .............. 100,000

Orange County Public Schools, Maitland, FL, for the Virtual RealityBased Education & Training for the Deaf program .................................. 800,000

Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, Madison, Wisconsin, for

the Tech Works project to train individuals with disabilities for highskill jobs in the information technology sector .......................................... 500,000

The conference agreement includes $15,200,000 for Protection

and Advocacy of Individual Rights instead of $16,000,000 as proposed by the House and $14,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $62,500,000 for Independent Living Centers instead of $63,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $60,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement

also includes $25,000,000 for services for older blind individuals as

proposed by the House instead of $20,000,000 as proposed by the

Senate.

The conference agreement includes language which allows

states in their third year of a three-year assistive technology extension grant to continue to receive an award in fiscal year 2002. This

language is provided to allow time for the authorizing committees

to review the Assistive Technology program, as it now operates in

the new policy landscape that includes the Olmstead decision, final

section 508 guidelines, and the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives

Improvement Act. This language was not included in either the

House or Senate bills. However, the Senate bill included language

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providing minimum grants of $500,000 for each state and $150,000

for outlying areas.

The conferees also have included bill language contained in the

House bill to provide minimum grants of $50,000 to each state for

activities relating to protection and advocacy systems. The Senate

bill included language providing minimum grants of $100,000 for

states and $50,000 for outlying areas for this purpose.

The conferees recommend that the Department of Education

reconsider whether there might be any circumstances under which

a placement in an extended employment setting should be considered an acceptable outcome.

SPECIAL INSTITUTIONS FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND

The conference agreement includes $14,000,000 for American

Printing House for the Blind as proposed by the Senate instead of

$13,000,000 as proposed by the House.

NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF

The conference agreement includes $55,376,000 for the National Technical Institute for the Deaf as proposed by the House instead of $54,976,000 as proposed by the Senate.

GALLAUDET UNIVERSITY

The conference agreement includes $96,938,000 for Gallaudet

University instead of $95,600,000 as proposed by the House and

$97,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION

The conference agreement includes $1,934,060,000 for Vocational and Adult Education instead of $2,006,060,000 as proposed

by the House and $1,818,060,000 as proposed by the Senate. The

agreement provides $1,143,060,000 in fiscal year 2002 and

$791,000,000 in fiscal year 2003 funding for this account.

The conference agreement includes $1,180,000,000 for Vocational Education basic state grants instead of $1,250,000,000 as

proposed by the House and $1,100,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $108,000,000 for Tech

Prep, instead of $110,000,000 as proposed by the House and

$106,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $6,500,000 for Tribally

Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions instead of

$7,000,000 as proposed by the Senate and $6,000,000 as proposed

by the House.

The conferees remain interested in the distribution of funds

available under section 117 Perkins Act, and request that the Department report no later than August 1, 2002 on how it is distributing funds as set out in the law. The conferees further request

that this report include the per capita data used by the Department in distributing these funds.

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The conference agreement includes bill language allowing

grantees under section 117 of the Perkins Act to be exempt from

indirect cost rate requirements imposed by this program. The conferees have included this bill language because they recognize that

there are certain circumstances in which grantees might require

additional flexibility not provided under current law or regulation.

However, the conferees remain committed to maximizing federal

resources for direct educational services, as opposed to paying for

administrative and other indirect costs that do not increase access

to high quality vocational and technical post secondary education

programs for students served through this program. Therefore, the

conferees urge the Secretary to report to the Committees on Appropriations and Education and the Workforce of the House and the

Committees on Appropriations and Health, Education, Labor and

Pensions of the Senate on the indirect cost rates of grantees participating in this program, including a justification for any grantee

that has an indirect cost rate considerably greater than those allowed under current law and regulation. The agreement also includes $9,500,000 to continue the occupational and employment information program instead of

$10,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The House bill did not include funding for this activity. The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for the techprep education demonstration authorized under section 207 of the

Perkins Act as proposed by the Senate. The House did not provide

funding for this activity. The agreement also includes $22,000,000

for State Grants for Incarcerated Youth as proposed by the Senate

instead of $17,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement includes $575,000,000 for adult edu- cation state grants instead of $595,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $540,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

The conference agreement includes $12,285,500,000 for Stu- dent Financial Assistance instead of $12,410,100,000 as proposed

by the House and $12,284,100,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement provides a program level of $10,314,000,000 for Pell Grants as proposed by the Senate instead of $10,458,100,000

as proposed by the House. The conferees note that this is the largest increase in appropriations in the Pell Grant program’s history,

bringing the total number of students served to 4.3 million, the

highest level in the program’s history. The Pell Grant program is

of great importance in a declining economy because it enables people to develop new job skills so they can become more marketable

in highly competitive workplaces. The conferees strongly support

an increased maximum in the Pell Grant program and have accordingly retained the maximum Pell Grant for academic year 2002– 2003 at $4,000 as set in both the House and Senate bills.

The conferees are aware that the Department of Education is currently projecting a funding shortfall of $716,000,000 in the Pell

Grant program for academic year 2001–2002. This shortfall is the

result of a larger-than-expected increase in the number of independent students applying and qualifying for the Pell Grant program in a worsening economy and was exacerbated by the terrorist

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attacks on September 11, 2001. As such, the shortfall was not anticipated in either the budget request or the House and Senate

bills. The increase in funding provided in the conference report will

retire this shortfall for academic year 2001–2002; however, the conferees are aware that the Pell Grant program will experience an

additional shortfall in academic year 2002–2003 at the $4,000 maximum award level and strongly recommend that the Administration propose a supplemental budget request to begin to retire this

shortfall in fiscal year 2002. The conference agreement includes $725,000,000 for Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants as proposed by the House

instead of $713,100,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement

also includes $67,500,000 for Perkins Loan cancellations instead of

$60,000,000 as proposed by the House and $75,000,000 as proposed

by the Senate. The agreement also includes $67,000,000 for

Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnerships (LEAP) instead of

$55,000,000 as proposed by the House and $70,000,000 as proposed

by the Senate.

The conferees support continuing funding for work colleges, authorized in section 448 of the Higher Education Act of 1965. These

funds help support comprehensive work-service-learning programs

at seven work colleges, and cooperative efforts among the work colleges to expose other institutions of higher education to the work

college concept. Of the funds provided, the conference agreement

includes $4,000,000 to continue and expand the work colleges program.

HIGHER EDUCATION

The conference agreement includes $2,031,048,000 for Higher Education instead of $1,908,151,000 as proposed by the House and

$1,826,223,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Aid for Institutional Development

The conference agreement includes $73,625,000 for strength- ening institutions instead of $73,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $74,250,000 as proposed by the Senate. The agreement also includes $86,000,000 for Hispanic Serving Institutions instead of

$81,500,000 as proposed by the House and $77,750,000 as proposed

by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $206,000,000 for Strengthening Historically Black Colleges and Universities instead of

$215,000,000 as proposed by the House and $197,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $49,000,000 for Historically Black Graduate Institutions instead of $50,000,000 as proposed by

the House and $48,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement includes $6,500,000 for Alaska and Native Hawaiian Institutions instead of $7,000,000 as proposed by

the Senate and $6,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference agreement includes $17,500,000 for Strength- ening Tribal Colleges instead of $18,000,000 as proposed by the

Senate and $17,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conference

agreement provides that the additional funds for Strengthening

Tribal Colleges and Universities for fiscal year 2002 shall only be

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for grants for renovation and construction of facilities, to help address urgently needed facilities repair and expansion.

Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education

The conference agreement includes $180,922,000 for the Fund

for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education instead of

$52,400,000 as proposed by the House and $51,200,000 as proposed

by the Senate. Within the amounts provided for the Fund for the

Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the conference agreement includes funding for the following:

Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, California to upgrade and purchase

equipment for automotive and culinary training programs ..................... $350,000

Purchase College, NY to develop academic programs and implement a

computerized academic advising system .................................................... 500,000

Africa-America Institute for the African Workforce and Market Development Initiative which will employ new information technologies to deliver education and training from American universities to Africa ......... 500,000

AIB College of Business, Des Moines, IA, to train court reporting students in captioning ....................................................................................... 800,000

Alabama A&M University Research Institute, Huntsville, Alabama, for

continuation of research activities and operations .................................... 400,000

Albany Technical College in Albany, GA to reach out to rural communities through the Interactive Distance Learning program and give

citizens the opportunity to improve their basic and technical skills ....... 500,000

Alfred State College of Technology Court and Real-time Reporting program, Alfred, NY, to train close-caption reporters .................................... 800,000

Alverno College, Wisconsin, for technology equipment and upgrades ........ 500,000

Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana,

for education outreach and to develop an African American curatorship

program ......................................................................................................... 225,000

Arkansas State University Mountain Home Hearing Healthcare Degree

program to utilize distance learning technology to develop and offer a

new degree program for hearing health care practitioners ...................... 140,000

Assumption College in Worcester, Mass. for technology infrastructure,

training and support .................................................................................... 200,000

Auburn University at Montgomery for instructional technology lab equipment .............................................................................................................. 100,000

Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA, for science center technology, equipment and personnel ..................................................................................... 1,000,000

Ball State University in Muncie, IN, technology education project ............ 600,000

Bay Mills Community College, Brimley, Michigan for instruction equipment and technology infrastructure ........................................................... 200,000

Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to develop an associates degree program in

nanotechnology at four community colleges in southeastern Pennsylvania and to establish outreach programs in local high schools .............. 600,000

Beville State Community College in Sumiton, AL, for technology upgrades ............................................................................................................ 500,000

Bloomsburg University: to provide computer wiring, computers and

training for teachers in the 25 surrounding school districts. ................... 100,000

Brookdale’s Community College for design, acquisition and installation of

the technology component of ‘‘New Jersey Coastal Communiversity’’ ..... 500,000

Buena Vista University, Storm Lake, IA, for equipment ............................. 1,000,000

Cal State, San Marcos, CA, Center for the Study of Books in Spanish ...... 300,000

Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ, ‘‘Center of Excellence in Teaching’’ to develop academic programs and workshops and to purchase technology 1,000,000

California State University Monterey Bay, for student support services 200,000

California State University, Monterey Bay, California, for a cooperative

project with Western Michigan University for a study of wireless technology in education and industry ............................................................... 75,000

California State University, San Bernardino, CA, for telecommunications

and equipment .............................................................................................. 500,000

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California State University, Stanislaus, California, for laboratories, curriculum development, faculty and scholarships for a pre-licensure nursing program .................................................................................................. 225,000

Cameron County Jr./Sr. High School, Emporium, PA, for technology infrastructure ................................................................................................... 100,000

Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, to enhance distance learning programs ............................................................................................................ 210,000

Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to expand programs that address workforce development needs in the teaching and

nursing professions ...................................................................................... 800,000

Center for International Trade, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,

OK, for educational programs ..................................................................... 300,000

Central College, Pella, Iowa, for teacher training in technology and for

distance education programs ....................................................................... 1,000,000

Centre County AVTS, Pleasant Gap, PA, for technology infrastructure .... 100,000

Chattanooga State Technical Community College, Chattanooga, TN, to

support real time captioning training ........................................................ 700,000

City College of San Francisco, California, for the National Articulation

and Transfer Network ................................................................................. 800,000

Clarion County Career Center, Shippenville, PA, for technology infrastructure ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Clark State Community College, Springfield, OH, to train and recruit

students in closed-captioning ...................................................................... 250,000

Clemson University College of Health’s ‘‘Call Me MISTER’’ program, designed to recruit minority males as teachers in public schools ................ 500,000

Clemson University Extension Service’s Digital Divide program, to partner with local communities, agencies, and organizations to make information accessible to those who live in South Carolina’s least developed

areas .............................................................................................................. 250,000

Clemson University’s Strom Thurmond Institute, to address the effect of

increased funding on education .................................................................. 250,000

Cleveland State University, College of Education, Cleveland, OH, for

technology ..................................................................................................... 1,000,000

College of Charleston School of Sciences and Mathematics for scientific

and audio/visual equipment and telecommunications systems ................ 500,000

College of Southern Maryland, in conjunction with the Technical Career

Institute in New York City, to implement a Women in Technology

demonstration program ............................................................................... 250,000

Columbia River Estuary Research Program at Oregon Graduate Institute

School of Science and Engineering certificate and degree programs in

Environmental Information Technology .................................................... 50,000

Columbia University Teachers College, New York City, NY to expand

teacher professional development and mentoring in high need schools 430,000

Columbia University, New York, for a joint project with the Hostos Community College of the City University of New York, New York, for a

distance learning initiative to train minority students in foreign policy

disciplines ..................................................................................................... 100,000

Community College of Allegheny and the Orleans Technical Institute to

train captioners ............................................................................................ 200,000

Contra Costa Community College, California, for the Bridge to the Future pilot project to increase the enrollment of low-income students ...... 400,000

Coudersport Area Jr/Sr. High School, Coudersport, PA, for technology infrastructure ................................................................................................... 100,000

Darton College, Albany, Georgia, for personnel, curriculum development,

technology equipment and support for a rural technology network ........ 440,000

Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona, FL, for high technology instructional equipment and technology infrastructure ............................... 250,000

Delta State University’s Delta Education Initiative in Cleveland, MS, to

improve birth through 12th grade education in the impoverished Mississippi Delta ................................................................................................ 500,000

Dominican University of California to develop a center for science and

technology to serve as a national model for the education of female and

minority scientists, nurse training and the use of technology in education and outreach ..................................................................................... 300,000

D’Youville College, Buffalo, New York, to enhance distance learning programs ............................................................................................................ 210,000

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Early childhood leadership training initiative at Oregon State University

in Corvallis ................................................................................................... 75,000

East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, PA, for science center

equipment ..................................................................................................... 500,000

Eastern College, St Davids, PA, for telecommunications equipment .......... 200,000

Eastern Oregon University, LaGrande, OR, for technology equipment ...... 500,000

Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, for purchase of equipment 1,000,000

Edmonds Community College to enhance programs related to child care

for students and staff, parent training courses and training for early

childhood educators, including the acquisition of equipment ................... 250,000

Edward Waters College, Jacksonville, Florida, to upgrade computer technology and telecommunications .................................................................. 225,000

Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL, for Integrated Systems Technology

Program ........................................................................................................ 250,000

Emerson College in Boston, Mass. for curriculum development in the performing arts .................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Emmanuel College in Boston, MA to improve academic programs including technology improvements ...................................................................... 850,000

Encore Series Inc. in Philadelphia for Music Education and Community

Outreach ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Enterprise Center in West Philadelphia to provide resources for entrepreneurial education .................................................................................... 250,000

Florida Campus Compact, Tallahassee, Florida, to enhance service learning on college campuses throughout Florida ............................................. 400,000

Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, FL, for curriculum development and planning ....................................................................................... 1,000,000

Forsyth Technical Community College, Winston-Salem, NC, for an Informational Technology Education Center ..................................................... 100,000

Franklin Pierce College computer upgrades ................................................. 1,000,000

Franklin Pierce College distance learning initiative .................................... 1,000,000

Gadsden State Community College, Gadsden, AL, to recruit and train individuals in performing real-time captioning services .............................. 425,000

Gateway Technical College, Kenosha, WI, for equipment ........................... 500,000

George J. Mitchell Scholarship Research Institute in Portland, Maine to

provide scholarships that allow students attending public high schools

in Maine to continue their education. ........................................................ 1,000,000

Glendale Community College, Glendale, California, for equipment and

technology upgrades for the Cimmarusti Science Center ......................... 400,000

Glenville State College, Glenville, West Virginia, for faculty, curriculum

development and equipment to establish a computer science program 200,000

Grambling State University to equip a Lifelong Learning and Technology

complex ......................................................................................................... 500,000

Green River Community College’s Communications Access Realtime

Translation (CART) Services Training to provide curriculum, distance

learning, scholarships and job placement in the area of closed captioning ........................................................................................................... 250,000

Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, for equipment ............................................ 250,000

Heidelburg College, Tiffin, OH, for technology and equipment for science

buildings ....................................................................................................... 1,500,000

Higher Education Learning Center in Des Moines, Iowa for curriculum

development .................................................................................................. 200,000

Hillsborough Community College, Tampa, FL, ‘‘Teacher Development Initiative’’ ........................................................................................................... 1,000,000

Hofstra University, New York, for technology enhancements ..................... 200,000

Holyoke Community College for technology education programs at the

College’s Business and Technology Center ................................................ 350,000

Hood River Integrated Technology Center in Hood River, Oregon ............. 150,000

Huntingdon College for Training Teachers in Technology in Montgomery,

Alabama ........................................................................................................ 200,000

Huntingdon College, Montgomery, AL, Super Sport Program for research

and equipment .............................................................................................. 686,000

Illinois Community College Board ‘‘Illinois Community College Online

initiative’’ to purchase equipment to implement statewide online degree model .................................................................................................... 1,000,000

Indian Hills College in Ottumwa, Iowa for technology upgrades and

equipment at the Bioprocess Training Center ........................................... 800,000

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Indiana University of Pennsylvania Center for Corrections Education, Indiana, PA, for technology, curriculum development, scholarships and

outreach activities ........................................................................................ 600,000

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, to continue and expand

Project TEAM to recruit talented minority students into the field of

teaching ......................................................................................................... 675,000

Information Technology Infrastructure, Alabama A&M in Normal, Alabama .............................................................................................................. 100,000

Institute of American History and Democracy, College of William and

Mary, Williamsburg, VA, for curriculum development ............................. 500,000

Iowa State University Center for Technology in Learning and Teaching

and the Center for Excellence in Science and Math Education ............... 150,000

Iowa Student Aid Commission to continue a program of loan forgiveness

for teachers ................................................................................................... 2,000,000

Ivy Tech State College, Indiana, to establish a machine tool training apprenticeship program at campuses in South Bend and East Chicago,

Indiana .......................................................................................................... 220,000

Ivy Tech State College-Northeast Region, Ft. Wayne, IN, for equipment 150,000

Jack C. Davis Observatory, Western Nevada Community College to procure educational materials and technology related to the observatory’s

academic offerings. ....................................................................................... 300,000

Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, to establish an e-Center

focused on electronic-based teaching and learning, research and community outreach and services. .................................................................... 200,000

Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL, for Little River Canyon

Field School program development and technology .................................. 412,000

Jefferson College, Hillsboro, Missouri, for the Instructional Support Center to provide technology training and distance learning programs in

collaboration with the Gateway Community College Consortium ........... 450,000

Jefferson County-Dubois AVTS, Reynoldsville, PA for technology infrastructure ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Kean University, Union, NJ, Global University Studies Internship Program .............................................................................................................. 800,000

Kent State University, Kent, OH, for Institute for Computational Science

for the development of interdisciplinary and outreach activities in research and education ................................................................................... 1,200,000

Keystone Central AVTS, Lock Haven, PA, for technology infrastructure 100,000

Keystone Central School District in Pennsylvania, in collaboration with

Lock Haven University, to continue a model alternative school .............. 750,000

Keystone College, LaPlume, PA, for technology upgrade ............................. 150,000

Kishwaukee College, IL, for Computer Technology Center to purchase

computers and equipment ........................................................................... 400,000

La Roche College, Pacem In Terris Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, for technology ............................................................................................................ 600,000

LaGuardia Community College, Long Island City, New York, for technology-based teacher training initiatives ................................................... 600,000

Lake Area Technical Institute in Watertown, SD to integrate interactive

learning in technical education programs through the use of technology 80,000

Lake Superior State University to develop and implement a new degree

program to meet industry’s increasing demand for skilled trades workers trained in new technologies .................................................................. 200,000

Lakeshore Technical College in Cleveland, Wisconsin to provide training,

distance learning, education and job placement services for court reporters and captioners ................................................................................. 500,000

Landmark College in Putney, VT to develop a model implementation system for improving access to public school and college classrooms

through the use of assistive technology ..................................................... 350,000

Lees-McRae College, Banner Elk, NC, ‘‘Applied Mathematics Program’’ ... 650,000

Lehman College, New York City, New York for a distance learning initiative to connect pre-service teachers with experienced classroom teachers .................................................................................................................. 440,000

Lewis and Clark Community College, Illinois for programmatic activities

related to study of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems at the Great Rivers Research and Education Center ........................................................... 100,000

Lincoln University to purchase laboratory and computer equipment to

provide a six-week summer workshop for teachers within the Philadelphia School District ...................................................................................... 100,000

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Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio for technology upgrades

for distance learning programs and advanced placement programs ....... 480,000

Los Angeles Community College District, California, for the Vocational

Instructor Recruitment Initiative ............................................................... 315,000

Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA, for equipment, personnel

and curriculum development for the Television Network distance

learning project ............................................................................................ 800,000

Lourdes College, Sylvania, Ohio to upgrade laboratory equipment and

programs at the Life Lab for Natural and Environmental Sciences ....... 200,000

Macon State College, Macon, GA, for technology and faculty at the Regional Center for Information Technology and Workforce Development 400,000

Madison Area Technical College in Madison, Wisconsin to provide training, distance learning, education and job placement services for court

reporters and captioners .............................................................................. 500,000

Madonna University, Livonia, Michigan for technology ............................... 175,000

Maricopa Community College District, Phoenix, Arizona, for the Hispanic

Nursing Fellows Program ............................................................................ 400,000

Maryland Association of Community Colleges to reinforce community colleges’ ability to educate and train the Information Technology workforce throughout Maryland ......................................................................... 1,250,000

Maryland Institute for Minority Achievement and Urban Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD to develop, evaluate, and implement promising practices for improving minority student achievement

and urban education .................................................................................... 750,000

Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement Program, University

of California, Oakland, California to develop strategies to prepare and

support students for nursing careers ......................................................... 200,000

Midstate College in Peoria, IL, to establish a real-time captioning training program .................................................................................................. 100,000

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities for Emerging Curriculum for

the 21st Century Program ........................................................................... 1,000,000

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, St. Paul, MN for development

of an e-monitoring environment ................................................................. 1,000,000

Minority Math, Jackson State University ..................................................... 550,000

Minot State University to develop an Institute for Rural Human Services

that will study systems designed to meet the unique needs of persons

with disabilities living in rural communities ............................................ 250,000

Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica Campus, Utica, NY, for technology ............................................................................................................ 500,000

Montana State University—Northern in Havre, MT to develop curricula

and educational materials related to rural development programs ........ 250,000

Montana State University-Bozeman distance learning opportunities for

rural and remote populations ..................................................................... 500,000

Montana State University-Bozeman to launch a Coalition for Establishing a National Teacher Enhancement Network .................................. 500,000

Montclair State University, New Jersey, for the Center for Teacher Preparation and Learning Technology to expand teacher training programs 750,000

Morris Brown College, Atlanta, GA, for computer and technology equipment .............................................................................................................. 2,000,000

Mount St. Clare College, Clinton, IA, to create, test and implement a

technology-based undergraduate and graduate teacher training program .............................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, Mt. Vernon, OH, equipment, technology

upgrades of the Natural Sciences and Social Sciences facility ................ 500,000

Murray State University’s Telecommunications Training and Learning

Center to assist Western Kentucky public schools in exploring new

technologies .................................................................................................. 300,000

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Washington,

D.C., for a minority undergraduate fellows program to increase minorities in higher education ............................................................................... 250,000

National Aviary Conservation Education Technology Integration in Pittsburgh ............................................................................................................. 250,000

New Jersey Institute of Technology to provide technological equipment

for expansion of their teacher training programs ..................................... 350,000

Niagara University, Lewiston, New York, to enhance distance learning

programs ....................................................................................................... 210,000

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Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA for their International Program

to support staffing, curriculum development and equipment acquisition 650,000

North Carolina Community College System for information technology

upgrades ....................................................................................................... 250,000

North Central State Community College, Mansfield, OH, for equipment

and professional development ..................................................................... 100,000

North Dakota State University for the Tech-Based Industry Traineeship

Program designed to enhance student postsecondary experiences while

providing innovative solutions to small business needs ........................... 350,000

Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, for rural education programs at the Center for Rural Development ............................................. 250,000

Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, Massachusetts, for technology equipment for its Technology Training Center .............................. 600,000

Northern Illinois University for the Lab for Structural Analysis and

Computer Modeling to purchase equipment .............................................. 500,000

Northern Illinois University for the Nanoscale Science, Engineering, and

Technology Laboratory to purchase equipment ......................................... 2,000,000

Northern Kentucky University for the Institute for Freedom Studies to

promote understanding of the Underground Railroad .............................. 920,000

Northern Potter Jr/Sr. High School, Ulysses, PA, for technology infrastructure ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, for programmatic activities, including equipment, for the Lifelong Learning

Center on the West Bay campus ................................................................ 500,000

Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT, for technology and equipment .............................................................................................................. 500,000

Oklahoma Regents for Higher Education, Oklahoma City, OK, for distance learning expansion ............................................................................. 1,000,000

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, for technology in coordination with other state and local telecommunications projects, including

the Ponca City broadband project and the Oklahoma Municipal

League’s Telecommunications project ........................................................ 350,000

Oregon Health and Science University’s Institute for Excellence in Nursing in Portland, Oregon ............................................................................... 250,000

Oregon Institute of Technology, Klamath Falls, OR, for course development and equipment .................................................................................... 300,000

Peirce College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for technology enhancements, course development, faculty training, and outreach activities to

expand Peirce Online ................................................................................... 400,000

Philadelphia University, Pennsylvania, for technology equipment and upgrades ............................................................................................................ 600,000

Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse ....................................................................... 250,000

Portland State University, Oregon, to recruit, prepare and support secondary school administrators ...................................................................... 440,000

Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, to support public service

programs at the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government in the College

of Urban and Public Affairs ........................................................................ 250,000

Research and evaluation agenda for health care delivery in Alaska centered at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks ........................................ 750,000

Rose State College, Midwest City, OK, for a closed-captioning pilot program .............................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, to expand and update its distance

education efforts to serve a larger potential student market via web

links and interactive communication ......................................................... 100,000

Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island, to develop and expand

a nursing education and minority workforce training program ............... 1,000,000

San Bernardino Community College District, San Bernardino, CA, to

support the expansion of distance telecourse broadcasting ...................... 1,000,000

Santa Clarita Community College District, Santa Clarita, CA, for equipment, personnel for the University Center ................................................ 800,000

Science Education Technology initiative at University of Alabama ............ 440,000

Scott County LifeLong Learning Center, Scottsburg, Indiana, for the purchase of industrial training equipment to support training programs

that focus on the development of transferable technical skills ................ 808,000

Seminole State College, Seminole, OK, for technology and academic programming ...................................................................................................... 200,000

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Seneca Highlands AVTS, Port Allegany, PA, for technology infrastructure ................................................................................................................ 100,000

Sheldon-Jackson College Center for Life Long Learning for teacher training to address the shortage of teachers in rural Alaska ........................... 2,000,000

Shelton State Community College Electronics and Technology Training

in Tuscaloosa, Alabama ............................................................................... 100,000

Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, ‘‘Loudoun Higher Education

Initiative’’ ...................................................................................................... 20,000

Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, for a teacher technology initiative ................................................................................................................. 380,000

Shippensburg University: for computer wiring and computers for the Performing Arts Center ..................................................................................... 200,000

Shriver Peace Worker Program, Inc. to establish the Sargent Shriver

Peace Center ................................................................................................. 10,000,000

South Dakota State University in Brookings to enhance the programs offered by the Polytechnic Center of Excellence in the College of Engineering .......................................................................................................... 640,000

South Florida Community College, Avon Park, FL, for equipment ............ 500,000

South Suburban College, South Holland, Illinois, for personnel, curriculum development, training and administrative expenses to implement Project Higher Education aviation and aerospace educational initiatives .......................................................................................................... 250,000

Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, MO, to utilize

advanced communication and computer technology to improve curricula and programs offered by its School of Visual and Performing

Arts ................................................................................................................ 900,000

Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO, River Campus Initiative ................................................................................................ 850,000

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale in Peoria, IL, to establish a

real-time captioning training program ....................................................... 25,000

Southern Methodist University, Texas, for a program to increase enrollment and graduation of engineering students ........................................... 800,000

Southern New England School of Law, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts,

to support faculty, staff and student stipends for the establishment of

an immigration law clinic ............................................................................ 100,000

Southern New Hampshire University, to support expansion of a distance

learning program ......................................................................................... 625,000

Southern University Center for Community Development, Baton Rouge

to coordinate the university’s community outreach efforts ...................... 75,000

Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, in partnership with the Atlanta Public Schools, for a teacher training project to support urban education 267,000

Spring Arbor University teaching consortium of higher education institutions to develop voluntary standards to improve teacher instruction of

technology in the classroom ........................................................................ 125,000

St. John University, Oakdale, New York for the Institute for Minority

Teacher Development and Training to improve math and science education in low-performing school districts and develop a ‘‘future teachers’’ project in middle and high schools ...................................................... 800,000

St. Louis Community College at Meramac (Kirkwood, MO) to train realtime captioners to provide closed captioning to the deaf and hard-ofhearing .......................................................................................................... 200,000

St. Mary Area Senior High School, St. Marys, PA, for technology infrastructure ....................................................................................................... 100,000

St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin to enhance and expand a fieldbased teacher training program .................................................................. 400,000

St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, for an EPICENTER ................ 2,000,000

St. Petersburg College, St. Petersburg, FL, for equipment, technology,

curriculum development and educational program planning for students training in museum services ............................................................. 1,000,000

St. Thomas University, Miami, FL, for computer and science laboratory

equipment ..................................................................................................... 500,000

Stark State College of Technology, North Canton, OH, Integrated Systems Technology ........................................................................................... 990,000

State University of New York Empire State College for distance learning

project ........................................................................................................... 250,000

Stetson University, Deland, FL, for a scientific instrumentation, technology and infrastructure project ............................................................... 2,500,000

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Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, for the expansion and enhancement of ocean-based science and mathematics education project 500,000

Stillman College, Zelpha Wells Cultural Education Center ........................ 50,000

Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts, to establish and operate the

Moakley Archives and the Moakley Institute ............................................ 750,000

Sun Area Career Training Center, New Berlin, PA, for technology infrastructure ....................................................................................................... 100,000

Surry Community College ‘‘Viticulture Technology Program’’ for tools,

equipment, resource materials, instructional staff, lab supplies ............. 300,000

Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, for equipment for the optical observatory and for science education programs .............................. 500,000

Technology Innovation Challenge Grants for Tupelo Public Schools .......... 1,000,000

Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, for technology .............. 930,000

The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change in Memphis, TN, to

pursue a broad academic agenda that emphasizes the continued importance of the Civil Rights Movement and encourages academic research

and community outreach ............................................................................. 835,000

The Education and Research Consortium of Western North Carolina,

Inc., Asheville, NC, for technology ............................................................. 40,000

The Research Foundation of the State University of New York, Buffalo,

NY, for technology ........................................................................................ 600,000

The Technology Center at Mountain State University in Beckley, WV, to

provide telecommunications equipment, including wiring for interactive

classrooms and tools to train students to create their own electronic

business opportunities ................................................................................. 1,500,000

Tougaloo College, Mississippi, for establishment of the Leadership Institute to address socioeconomic disparities within the Mississippi Delta 440,000

Trident Technical College, Charleston, South Carolina, to equip the information technology center, electro-mechanical skills laboratory, and the

hospitality, tourism and culinary arts program ........................................ 400,000

Union County College in Elizabeth, NJ to expand their program that

connects unemployed and underemployed older youth and adults to the

College’s lifelong learning, literacy and occupational training programs

through the use of network technology ...................................................... 250,000

University of Dubuque for the creation of a teacher training program focused on environmental science .................................................................. 800,000

University of Alabama Science Education Technology Initiative in Tuscaloosa, Alabama ............................................................................................. 200,000

University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, for computer network and computer security upgrades ............................................................................... 400,000

University of Alaska and State of Alaska to create the Alaska Digital Archives and Digital Library .......................................................................... 500,000

University of Arizona for training and curriculum development at the

Program in Integrative Medicine ................................................................ 500,000

University of California at Santa Barbara, California, for the Walter H.

Capps Center for the Study of Religion and Public Life for research,

fellowships, lecture series and community outreach ................................. 500,000

University of Charleston, in cooperation with the Clay Center for the

Arts and Sciences, for technology equipment related to arts and science

education as well as outreach ..................................................................... 1,000,000

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, for the ATLAS (Alliance

for Technology, Learning and Society) Project for technology enhancement .............................................................................................................. 1,000,000

University of Hawaii at Manoa for the Globalization Network program 300,000

University of Houston, Texas, for the Great Cities’ Universities Skills

Enhancement Partnership Initiative to provide high skill and professional training programs ............................................................................. 440,000

University of Idaho Advanced Computing and Modeling Laboratory to

provide independent technical expertise and applied research ................ 700,000

University of Louisville-Northern Kentucky University’s Urban University Partnership for Math and Science Teaching ...................................... 1,500,000

University of Massachusetts Schools for Marine Science and Technology

to improve marine science research programs, including technology upgrades and equipment ................................................................................. 600,000

University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, Ann

Arbor, Michigan, for curriculum development and training .................... 2,000,000

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, to expand software education and training programs, and curriculum development ................... 800,000

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, for

technology ..................................................................................................... 300,000

University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, for technology ................................. 1,000,000

University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana, to upgrade information technology equipment and infrastructure campus-wide ................... 500,000

University of South Alabama Preparatory Music Program in Mobile, Alabama .............................................................................................................. 50,000

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, for a ‘‘Globalization Research

Network’’ ....................................................................................................... 2,000,000

University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX, for technology .............. 1,732,000

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, for Governmental Studies

‘‘Youth Leadership Initiative’’ ..................................................................... 1,200,000

University of Washington, Tacoma, Washington, for faculty, curriculum

development and equipment acquisition to establish a technology institute ................................................................................................................ 100,000

University of West Alabama Electronic Campus in Livingston, Alabama 100,000

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire for a collaborative effort to develop

a curriculum for social workers serving primarily rural, impoverished,

and vulnerable adults .................................................................................. 213,000

University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Wisconsin for the Wisconsin Agricultural Stewardship Initiative to develop and disseminate environmentally-friendly practices and policies for production agriculture, and

related distance learning programs ............................................................ 380,000

Upper Great Lakes Educational Technologies Inc., Marquette, Michigan,

for personnel, technology and support costs to design, coordinate and

implement ‘‘Operation UP Link’’ ................................................................ 300,000

Urban College of Boston in Massachusetts to support higher education

program serving low-income and minority students ................................. 1,000,000

Venango County AVTS, Oil City, PA, for technology infrastructure .......... 100,000

Wallace Community College, Dothan AL, for new equipment .................... 114,000

Wallace Community College, Selma, Alabama for biology and chemistry

laboratory equipment and to incorporate science technology into instruction ........................................................................................................ 70,000

Warren County AVTS, Warren, PA, for technology infrastructure ............. 100,000

Waukesha County Technical College in Waukesha, Wisconsin and Marquette University to develop a joint curriculum and transfer program

targeted to underserved populations in the fields of nursing and engineering .......................................................................................................... 700,000

Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, to assist the Dumke College of

Health Professions for computer technology .............................................. 150,000

Wellsboro Area High School, Wellsboro, PA, for technology infrastructure 100,000

West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, Fairmont, West

Virginia, to support a collaborative effort with Fairmont State College

and DSD Laboratories of West Virginia to develop a computer security

curriculum and to strengthen an information assurance center of excellence .............................................................................................................. 300,000

Western Governors University in Salt Lake City, UT to improve distance

learning education programs, including upgrades in technology ............. 1,800,000

Western Kentucky University Technology Innovation Challenge Program 500,000

Westminster College, Fulton, MO, ‘‘Winston Churchill Center for Leadership Service’’ for communications upgrades, recruitment of staff and

academic program development and implementation ............................... 800,000

Widener University, Chester, PA, for technological infrastructure improvements to educational entities ............................................................. 400,000

Widener University, Center for Social Work Education, Harrisburg, PA,

for curriculum development ........................................................................ 350,000

William Tyndale College, Farmington Hills MI, to expand and enhance

its curriculum ............................................................................................... 850,000

Wilson College to expand and develop the ‘‘Women with Children Program,’’ which assists single women with children in earning a degree,

becoming financially independent, and raising the children’s aspirations for educational accomplishment ........................................................ 200,000

Wireless Computer Laboratory, East Central Community College,

Ellisville, Mississippi ................................................................................... 50,000

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Wisconsin Association of Independent Colleges and Universities for a collaboration project to consolidate administrative operations and information technology ........................................................................................ 800,000

World Learning, Brattleboro, VT for foreign language training programs 200,000

Army War College: to develop a major educational center to provide a

joint research and teaching opportunities in military and social history 25,000

Cabrini College: for equipment and programmatic funding for the new

Center for Science, Education, and Technology, which will provide a

model elementary education classroom ...................................................... 200,000

Keystone Virtual University: to establish a Pennsylvania University ‘‘online’’ university ............................................................................................. 250,000

Lehigh University: for the Center for Promoting Healthy Development

for Individuals with Disabilities for research to develop strategies that

can improve the healthy development of individuals with disabilities ... 500,000

Military Heritage Foundation, Carlisle, PA, for Military History Institute

to provide joint research and teaching opportunities in military and social history .................................................................................................... 175,000

Temple University for the Center for Research in Human Development

and Education for the development of innovative models to address

teacher recruitment, training and mentoring ............................................ 500,000

International Education

The conference agreement provides $98,500,000 for Title VI

and Fulbright-Hays International Education programs instead of

$93,000,000 as proposed by the House and $78,022,000 as proposed

by the Senate.

The conferees find that our national security, stability and economic vitality depend, in part, on American experts who have sophisticated language skills and cultural knowledge about the various areas of the world. An urgent need exists to enhance the nation’s in-depth knowledge of world areas and transnational issues,

and fluency of U.S. citizens in languages relevant to understanding

societies where Islamic and/or Muslim culture, politics, religion,

and economy are a significant factor.

Therefore, the conferees have included an increase of

$20,478,000 for the Title VI/Fulbright-Hays programs to increase

the number of international experts (including those entering government service and various professional disciplines) with in-depth

expertise and high-level language proficiency in the targeted world

areas of Central and South Asia, the Middle East, Russia, and the

Independent States of the former Soviet Union. A portion of these

funds is intended to enhance the capacity of U.S. higher education

institutions to sustain these initiatives over time.

The conferees intend that these additional funds be used for

priority initiatives within existing Title VI/Fulbright-Hays mechanisms, but with increased flexibility to address new challenges.

Within the amount included in the bill, $5,409,000 is provided to

double the number of Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies

(FLAS) fellowships to students pursuing advanced training in Arabic, Azeri, Persian/Dari, Pashto, Tajik, Uzbek, Urdu and other languages spoken in the critical world regions of Central and South

Asia, the Middle East, and Russia/Eastern Europe. All current

FLAS institutions are eligible to receive supplemental awards if

they offer language training in these areas. The bill also includes

$3,448,000 to increase the amount of FLAS fellowships from

$21,000 to $25,000 as a first step toward making these awards

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tional security. The conferees encourage the award of Title VI fellowships to talented students pursuing masters degrees who may

be more likely to pursue government service, and the use of these

fellowships for immersion foreign language training abroad.

Within the total amount in the bill, $3,368,000 is provided for

supplemental awards to existing Title VI national resource centers

(NRCs) specializing in Central and South Asia, the Middle East,

and Russia/Eastern Europe and to establish four new centers, with

FLAS fellowships allocations, focused on these world regions from

high quality, unfunded applications from the most recent NRC and

FLAS competitions. The conferees encourage the creation of distance learning initiatives to provide more universal access to language training, summer language institutes abroad, one-on-one

language tutoring to accelerate student progress to the highest levels of proficiency, engaging the language resources of local heritage

communities where appropriate, and increased collaboration with

the Title VI language resource centers, the centers for international

business education and research, and the American overseas research centers with a focus on the least commonly taught languages and areas and underrepresented professional disciplines.

The conference agreement includes $1,000,000 to establish three

new language resource centers, each specializing in either Central

Asia, the Middle East, or South Asia, to develop the resources

needed to improve foreign language teacher training for less commonly taught languages, including research, curriculum and other

instructional materials, and language pedagogical strategies. The

conferees encourage the development of up-to-date, interactive

multi-media material specifically tailored for targeted language instructional needs.

Further, the conference agreement includes an increase of

$4,975,000 for all other Title VI activities, including the development of innovative techniques, including electronic technologies, to

collect, organize, preserve and disseminate materials focused on the

least commonly taught languages, and for centers and programs focused on international business, economic competitiveness and security issues, undergraduate education, and research.

The conferees intend that $1,800,000 be used to expand Fulbright-Hays overseas programs in targeted world areas to increase

opportunities for scholars and faculty to enhance their language

skills and cultural studies by conducting research and training

abroad. The conference agreement includes bill language allowing

section 102(b)(6) funds to be used to support individuals planning

to apply their advanced language skills in fields outside of teaching, including government, professional fields, or international development, and language permitting up to one percent of the Title

VI/Fulbright-Hays funds provided to the Department to be used for

program evaluation, national outreach, and information dissemination activities.

The conference agreement also provides $1,500,000 for the Institute of International Public Policy.

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TRIO

The conference agreement includes $802,500,000 for TRIO instead of $800,000,000 as proposed by the House and $805,000,000

as proposed by the Senate.

Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants

The conference agreement also includes $90,000,000 for Teacher Quality Enhancement Grants, instead of $100,000,000 as proposed by the House and $54,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Demonstrations in Disability

The agreement also includes $7,000,000 for Demonstrations in

Disability as proposed by the Senate instead of $6,000,000 as proposed by the House. The conferees are aware that, although minorities comprise a significant number of students with learning

disabilities enrolled in postsecondary institutions, no Historically

Black Colleges or Universities (HBCU) have been funded since the

inception of this demonstration program. The conferees note that

subsection 762(c)(3) of the Higher Education Act requires the Secretary to consider a range of types of institutions of higher education when making awards under this program. Therefore, the

conferees strongly urge the Secretary to comply with this requirement of the law by providing due consideration to qualified applications from HBCUs, as well as Hispanic Serving Institutions.

Other higher education programs

The conference agreement includes $2,000,000 for the Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program as proposed by

the Senate instead of $1,750,000 as proposed by the House. The

agreement also includes $1,000,000 for GPRA data and program

evaluations as proposed by the House instead of $1,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement also includes $4,000,000 for

Thurgood Marshall Scholarships instead of $5,000,000 as proposed

by the House, and $1,000,000 for B.J. Stupak Olympic Scholarships

as proposed by the House. The Senate bill did not provide funding

for these activities.

The conferees are concerned that fiscal year 2001 funding for

the Child Care Access Means Parents in School program was not

fully expended. The conferees provided additional funds last year

because of the understanding that a lack of convenient and affordable childcare services is a significant barrier preventing low-income parents from pursuing postsecondary education. Therefore,

the conferees encourage the Department to work with colleges and

universities and relevant organizations to heighten awareness and

increase utilization of the financial assistance available through

this program.

HOWARD UNIVERSITY

The conference agreement includes $237,474,000 for Howard

University instead of $242,474,000 as proposed by the House and

$232,474,000 as proposed by the Senate.

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EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS AND ASSESSMENT

The conference agreement includes $443,870,000 for Education

Research, Statistics and Assessment instead of $421,620,000 as

proposed by the House and $389,567,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees provide $121,817,000 for research instead of

$147,567,000 as proposed by the House and $120,567,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees provide $85,000,000 for statistics as proposed by

the House instead of $80,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement includes $67,500,000 for regional

educational labs instead of $70,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $65,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conferees have

provided this increase to address the increased demand for technical assistance in comprehensive school reform. The conferees intend that regional educational laboratory funds shall be obligated

and distributed on the same basis as the fiscal year 2001 allocations not later than January 31, 2002.

The conference agreement includes $107,500,000 for the National Assessment for Educational Progress as proposed by the

House instead of $105,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. Within

this total, $2,500,000 is included for a trial urban assessment study

as proposed by the House. The agreement also includes $4,053,000

for the National Assessment Governing Board as proposed by the

House instead of $4,000,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conference agreement also includes $58,000,000 to continue multi-year grants and contracts for Comprehensive Regional

Assistance Centers, Regional Math and Science Education Consortia, the Math and Science Clearinghouse, and Technology-based

technical assistance.

DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT

The conference agreement includes $424,212,000 for Departmental program administration as proposed by the Senate instead

of $427,212,000 as proposed by the House.

The conferees are very concerned that the Department has

made the decision in several programs to provide the full grant

amount of multiyear awards in the first year (front loaded), rather

than following the traditional practice of providing funding one

year at a time. This practice was adopted for several programs during fiscal year 2001 without prior notification to Congress and, in

many cases, represented a significant departure from the proposed

program implementation outlined in the Department’s Justifications of Appropriation Estimates to the Congress. The conferees believe that this practice should be limited and utilized only when

justified by programmatic considerations. Moreover, the conferees

have a strong interest in receiving complete and accurate information from the Department about the proposed use of appropriations. Therefore, the conferees direct the Secretary to provide notification and justification to the Committees on Appropriations of

the House and Senate not later than 30 days prior to release of any

grant opportunities or notices inviting applications that propose

front-loaded grant awards or that express funding priorities or

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competitive preferences for funding availability significantly different from what is proposed in Justifications of Appropriation Estimates to the Congress, the House and Senate Committee reports

accompanying Department of Education appropriations bills or the

Statement of the Managers accompanying Department of Education Appropriations Acts.

The conferees note that the legislation reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has adopted many of the

Administration’s proposals to consolidate a number of categorical

programs into teacher quality, technology, bilingual and innovative

education state grants. The conferees expect that as a result of this

legislation, the Department will reassign personnel slots previously

needed to administer categorical programs to new program priorities. The conferees are concerned that the International Education

and Graduate Programs Service has been understaffed and has additional program responsibilities.

The conferees urge the Department to review the organizational structures within the Department to (1) strengthen the staff

and support systems as international education programs and responsibilities grow; (2) increase outreach activities and information

about funding opportunities; (3) provide greater national accessibility by government agencies, businesses, the media, and education institutions to the expertise and knowledge these programs

produce; and (4) increase coordination among all international education activities and programs within the Department. The conferees direct the Department to submit a letter report to the House

and Senate Committees on Appropriations by February 1, 2002 describing steps taken and planned to address these program and

management needs.

GENERAL PROVISIONS

B.J. STUPAK OLYMPIC SCHOLARSHIPS

The conference agreement includes an amendment which

makes changes to the award determinations for the B.J. Stupak

Olympic Scholarship program. This language was not included by

either the House or the Senate.

SCHOOL RENOVATION

The conference agreement does not include language proposed

by the Senate relating to school renovation.

STUDENT LOANS FOR FOREIGN SCHOOLS

The conference agreement does not include language proposed

by the Senate relating to student loans for students attending foreign schools.

The conferees are concerned about reports of students obtaining Federal Family Education Loans by fraudulently claiming to

attend foreign schools. Since 1995, at least 25 individuals have

been convicted of cashing student loan checks without ever attending the foreign institution at which they claimed to be students. Accordingly, the conferees direct the General Accounting Office to examine and report on the extent of fraud, waste, and abuse related

to loans for students attending foreign schools, steps taken by the

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Department of Education to curb such abuses, and possible additional steps, such as tighter disbursement controls, that may be

needed to solve this problem.

LEAP PROGRAM

The conference agreement does not include language proposed

by the Senate relating to the maintenance of effort requirement in

the LEAP program.

COLLEGE WORK STUDY

The conference agreement includes language that allows the

Secretary to reallocate funds under the College Work Study program to certain institutions. Neither the House nor the Senate bills

contained this language.

REFERENCES TO THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT

The conference agreement includes language clarifying that

references made in this Act to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act are to be interpreted as referring to the Elementary and

Secondary Education Act of 1965 as it was amended by H.R. 1, the

‘‘No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.’’ Neither the House nor the

Senate bills contained this language.

TITLE IV—RELATED AGENCIES

CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

DOMESTIC VOLUNTEER SERVICE PROGRAMS, OPERATING EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes $328,895,000 for the Domestic Volunteer Service programs instead of $324,450,000 as proposed by the House and $321,276,000 as proposed by the Senate.

Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)

The conference agreement includes $85,287,000 for VISTA instead of $83,074,000 as proposed by the House and $86,500,000 as

proposed by the Senate.

Volunteers in Homeland Security

The conference agreement includes $5,000,000 for Volunteers

in Homeland Security, a new activity authorized under Section 122

of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act which was not included in

either the House or the Senate bills. These funds would be used to

place senior and other volunteers in community activities that are

targeted specifically at contributing to homeland defense. Grants

will be made to states and community organizations on a competitive basis and will support public and nonprofit agencies’ efforts in

the areas of public safety, public health, and disaster relief and

preparedness.

Since September 11, hundreds of volunteers have been actively

engaged in supporting relief efforts. Building on this record, the

Corporation will use these funds to place additional volunteers in

assignments targeted specifically at mitigating the effects of the attacks and in enhancing homeland security.

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National Senior Volunteer Corps

The conference agreement includes $106,700,000 for the Foster

Grandparent Program (FGP) instead of $109,468,000 as proposed

by the House and $102,868,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees have provided sufficient funds to allow for a stipend increase of ten cents per hour for participants in both the

Foster Grandparent and the Senior Companion Programs. The conferees direct the Corporation to provide such a stipend increase to

these two programs.

One-third of the increases provided for the FGP, SCP, and

RSVP programs shall be used to fund Programs of National Significance expansion grants to allow existing FGP, RSVP and SCP programs to expand the number of volunteers serving in areas of critical need as identified by Congress in the Domestic Volunteer Service Act.

Sufficient funding has been included to provide a 2 percent increase for administrative costs realized by all current grantees in

the FGP and SCP programs, and a 4 percent increase for administrative costs realized by all current grantees in the RSVP program.

Funds remaining above these amounts should be used to begin new

FGP, RSVP and SCP programs in geographic areas currently

unserved. The conferees expect these projects to be awarded via a

nationwide competition among potential community-based sponsors.

The Corporation for National and Community Service shall

comply with the directive that use of funding increases in the Foster Grandparent Program, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

and VISTA not be restricted to America Reads activities. The conferees further direct that the Corporation shall not stipulate a minimum or maximum amount for PNS grant augmentations.

The conference agreement includes $400,000 for senior demonstration activities as proposed by both the House and the Senate.

These funds are to be used solely to carry out evaluations and to

provide recruitment, training, and technical assistance to local

projects as described in the budget request. No new demonstration

projects may be begun with these funds. None of the increases provided for FGP, SCP, or RSVP in fiscal year 2002 may be used for

demonstration activities. The conferees further expect that all future demonstration activities will be funded through allocations

made through Part E of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act.

Funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002 may not be used to implement or support service collaboration agreements or any other

changes in the administration and/or governance of national service programs prior to passage of a bill by the authorizing committees of jurisdiction specifying such changes.

CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING

The conference agreement provides $380,000,000 in funding for fiscal year 2004, instead of $365,000,000 as proposed by the House

and $395,000,000 as proposed by the Senate. The conference agreement also includes $25,000,000 for equipment and facilities to enable public broadcasters to meet the statutory deadline for digital conversion as proposed by the Senate. The

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conference agreement does not provide these funds contingent upon

authorization as proposed by the House.

FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE

The conference agreement includes $39,982,000 for the Federal

Mediation and Conciliation Service instead of $40,482,000 as proposed by the Senate and $39,482,000 as proposed by the House.

The conference agreement includes funds for FMCS to continue

their work to prevent youth violence by teaching students mediation and conflict resolution techniques.

INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES

The conference agreement provides $197,602,000 for the Institute of Museum and Library Services instead of $168,078,000 as

proposed by the House and the Senate. Within the amount provided, the conference agreement specifies $2,941,000 for library

services to Native Americans and Native Hawaiians as proposed by

the Senate. The conference agreement also specifies funding for the

following:

National Museum of African American History and Culture Plan for Action Presidential Commission ..................................................................... $2,000,000

American Village Project in Montevallo, Alabama ....................................... 250,000

Evergreen-Conecuh Public Library, Alabama ............................................... 20,000

Gordo Public Library, Pickens County Commission, Alabama .................... 50,000

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, for systems and technology upgrades 300,000

National Museum for Women in the Arts ..................................................... 1,500,000

Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center ............................ 300,000

Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, to develop exhibits and educational

programs about the historic Phoenix Indian School and the Native

Americans who attended the school ........................................................... 50,000

Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, California, for development of exhibits and educational programs ...................................................................... 800,000

Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, California to complete and install the ‘‘Family and Community’’ exhibit and for related educational

outreach programs ....................................................................................... 150,000

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, for equipment and to develop exhibits and educational materials for the Julian

C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies ..................................................... 750,000

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum for the installation of an environmental exhibit .............................................................................................. 290,000

Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, California, for the development

of exhibits and educational materials ........................................................ 25,000

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco to expand model arts education

programs at the de Young Museum ........................................................... 1,000,000

Bethel Public Library, Connecticut, for technology upgrades and collections ............................................................................................................... 150,000

Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury, Connecticut to plan and develop a history of Waterbury exhibit ............................................................................ 500,000

Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, GA, to expand outreach and educational activities and programs ................................................................. 250,000

Bishops Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii .......................................................... 700,000

Grout Museum in Waterloo, Iowa for exhibits on the Sullivan brothers 500,000

Iowa State Historical Society to catalogue and archive the history of

workers in Iowa ............................................................................................ 61,000

The National Audobon Society’s ARK Museum in Dubuque, Iowa for creation of exhibits and public education ........................................................ 389,000

University of Idaho Performance and Education Facility to preserve the

history of jazz and teach it to future generations ..................................... 750,000

Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum ................................................. 50,000

Johnson County Museum of History, Franklin, IN, for personnel, supplies and equipment ..................................................................................... 100,000

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Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth, Massachusetts, for equipment for the Online Education Center to provide distance learning programs ................. 125,000

Shakespeare Rose Theater to enhance the educational and cultural programs in language, literacy and the arts for students and the general

public ............................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Springfield-Greene County Library, Springfield, MO, for education and

training ......................................................................................................... 150,000

Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, for technology enhancements for

the Global Access Library ........................................................................... 1,160,000

University of Mississippi Foundation, Oxford, MS, for educational and

preservation programs at Rowan Oak, the home of William Faulkner 850,000

University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, for digitization of the National Library of the Accounting Profession ............................................................. 350,000

Lois Morgan Edward Memorial Library, Nashville, NC, for furniture,

equipment, automation and materials ....................................................... 132,000

Rocky Mount Children’s Museum, North Carolina ...................................... 100,000

Confluence Visitor Center in Williston, ND and the North Dakota State

Historical Society for Lewis and Clark exhibits ........................................ 100,000

Fort Mandan Visitor’s Center for exhibits and other interpretation related to the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commemoration ................... 100,000

Mandan-on-a-Slant Museum to replace exhibits that preserve the

Mandan Indian Heritage ............................................................................. 100,000

Life Center library project at Franklin Pierce College, New Hampshire 1,000,000

Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, for collections and technology equipment for the Guggenheim Memorial Library ....................... 160,000

Princeton Public Library, Mercer County, NJ, for library security, inventory and circulation system, and technology enhancements to support

digital library initiatives ............................................................................. 100,000

Albany Institute for History and Art for a two-part technology project

that will broaden public access to its collections and improve services

to its on-site and off-site constituencies ..................................................... 125,000

Brooklyn Historical Society, NY, for structural repairs and environmental upgrades to preserve collections and for education programs

and exhibits .................................................................................................. 1,000,000

Buffalo and Erie County Library System, Buffalo, NY, for technology

equipment ..................................................................................................... 22,500

Center for Jewish History, New York, NY, to support educational and

cultural programs and exhibits to facilitate the study of Jewish history 250,000

Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NY, to develop exhibits on the Harlem

Renaissance .................................................................................................. 150,000

Four County Library System, Vestal, NY, for technology enhancements

for a distance learning initiative ................................................................ 105,000

Hunter College, NY, to identify, preserve and archive research collections

of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, and develop a website ............... 500,000

Long Island Maritime Museum in West Sayville, NY for archival and

educational programs .................................................................................. 200,000

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NY, for its collections management

program to make collections available to the public, and for the development and implementation of educational programs .............................. 750,000

New York Hall of Science to develop, expand, and display science-related

educational materials .................................................................................. 1,000,000

NIOGA Library System of Niagara and Orleans County, NY for technology improvements ................................................................................... 22,500

The Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen, Inc., Woodstock, NY for the development and promotion of the Byrdcliffe Centennial Exhibition .................. 100,000

Clark County Historical Museum for development, implementation, and

enhancement of cultural education exhibits, Ohio .................................... 100,000

Cleveland Botanical Garden, Cleveland, OH, to develop educational exhibits and materials ..................................................................................... 40,000

Crawford Museum, Cleveland, OH, for planning and educational programming ...................................................................................................... 500,000

Farmer’s Castle Museum in Belpre, to assist with technical components

that will enhance the visitors’ experience .................................................. 42,000

MAPS Air Museum, Canton OH, for equipment and education .................. 500,000

McKinley Museum, Canton, OH, for technology improvement to the

Ramsayer Research Library ........................................................................ 44,000

University of Oregon Museum of Natural History in Eugene, OR ............. 50,000

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Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia County for the preservation

of the Academy’s collection of more than 22 million natural sciences

specimens, for the development and delivery of natural sciences educational programming for children and the general public and for environmental research ...................................................................................... 150,000

Beaver Area Memorial Library, Beaver County, PA, for equipment .......... 100,000

Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association ........................................... 300,000

Discovery Square, Inc. in Erie, PA for exhibit development ........................ 100,000

Everhart Museum in Scranton, PA ................................................................ 200,000

National Liberty Museum in Philadelphia, PA ............................................. 300,000

Northland Public Library Authority, Pittsburgh, PA, for digitization ........ 126,000

Penn Hills Public Library in Pittsburgh, PA, to purchase library materials and upgrade technology ...................................................................... 235,000

Philadelphia Zoo .............................................................................................. 250,000

Pittsburgh Children’s Museum: to develop educational exhibits and programs for area K–12 schools ....................................................................... 100,000

Please Touch Museum at the Children’s Museum of Philadelphia, PA, to

provide hands-on learning experiences for children ................................. 700,000

Wayne Art Center in Wayne, PA ................................................................... 50,000

Bamberg County Library in Bamberg, SC, for books and materials .......... 50,000

Clarendon County Library in Manning, SC, for books and materials ........ 50,000

Marion Wright Edelman Public Library, Bennettsville, SC, for library

collections and technology ........................................................................... 500,000

The Children’s Discovery House, Murfreesboro, TN, for the development

of hands-on and interactive exhibits and educational programs ............. 600,000

The International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, TN ....................... 150,000

El Progreso Library, Uvalde, TX, for computers, equipment ....................... 500,000

Vietnam Archive Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, for

digitization .................................................................................................... 500,000

Children’s Museum of Virginia, Portsmouth, VA, for new programs and

exhibits, educational training opportunities for children and teachers 800,000

Virginia Living Museum ................................................................................. 325,000

Burlington City Arts in Burlington, VT for the creation of exhibits, displays and programming at the Firehouse Center for the Visual Arts .... 100,000

Lake Champlain Science Center in Burlington, VT for displays and education ............................................................................................................. 125,000

Vermont Historical Society in Montpelier, VT, to expand displays, exhibits and programming ................................................................................... 175,000

Beaver Creek Reserve Education Center, Fall Creek, WI, for environmental and conservation education programs for elementary and secondary students ............................................................................................ 100,000

The Kenosha Civil War Museum in Kenosha, WI for exhibits and programming related to the Civil War ............................................................ 500,000

Village of Hawkins, WI, for library technology programs, including equipment .............................................................................................................. 75,000

Weis Earth Science Museum in Menasha, WI for educational exhibits, including interactive videos, simulated mine tunnels and paleontological

specimens ...................................................................................................... 500,000

MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION

The conference agreement includes $8,250,000 for the Medicare

payment advisory commission, instead of $8,000,000 as proposed by

the House, and $8,500,000 as proposed by the Senate.

The conferees are concerned about the reported impact of the

Medicare Part B payment reduction scheduled to take effect in

2002. The conferees urge MedPAC to study replacing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) as a factor in determining the update for

Medicare Part B payments with a factor that more fully accounts

for the changes in the unit costs of providing physicians’ services

and report back its findings and recommendations to the Committees on Appropriations and authorizing committees not later than

March 1, 2002.

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NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

The conference agreement provides $1,000,000 for the National

Commission on Libraries and Information Science as proposed by

the House, instead of $1,495,000 as proposed by the Senate.

NATIONAL EDUCATION GOALS PANEL

The conference agreement provides $400,000 for close-out costs

associated with the termination of the National Education Goals

Panel. The Senate provided $2,000,000 for on-going activities. The

House did not propose funding for this agency. The conferees note

that this panel was not reauthorized in the recent reauthorization

of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

The conference agreement provides $226,438,000 for the National Labor Relations Board as proposed by the Senate instead of

$221,438,000 as proposed by the House.

RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

The conference agreement includes a limitation on transfers

from the railroad trust funds of $6,261,000 for administrative expenses of the Office of Inspector General instead of $6,480,000 as

proposed by the Senate and $6,042,000 as proposed by the House.

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM

The conference agreement includes $21,277,412,000 for the

Supplemental Security Income Program as proposed by the Senate

instead of $21,270,412,000 as proposed by the House. Within the

funds provided, the conference agreement includes $7,000,000 as

proposed by the Senate for outreach efforts to identify individuals

who may be eligible for payment of the cost of Medicare cost sharing under the Medicaid program. The House report contained no

similar provision.

UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE

The conference agreement provides $15,104,000 for the United

States Institute of Peace, instead of $15,000,000 as proposed by the

House and $15,207,000 as proposed by the Senate.

TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS

OFFICIAL EXPENSES

The conference agreement includes language to provide an additional $3,000 from funds made available to the Department of

Labor in salaries and expenses accounts for official receptions and

representation expenses.

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DISTRIBUTION OF STERILE NEEDLES

The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the

House that prohibits the use of funds in this Act to carry out any

program of distributing sterile needles or syringes for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug. The Senate bill contained a

similar provision except that it would have allowed for such a program if the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines

that these programs are effective in preventing the spread of HIV

and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.

BUY AMERICAN ACT

The conference agreement deletes without prejudice a provision proposed by the House to prohibit any funds made available

in this Act to any person or entity that violates the Buy American

Act. The Senate bill contained no similar provision. The agreement

includes a Sense of the Congress provision regarding this issue

that was proposed in both the House and the Senate bills.

NIH LICENSE AGREEMENTS

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the House regarding NIH license agreements. The Senate

bill contained no similar provision.

CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF GRANT AWARDS

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to prohibit the Departments of Labor, Health

and Human Services, and Education from making a grant award

totaling more than $500,000 unless the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified. The House bill contained no

similar provision.

SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS ACT

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to establish certain requirements related to

maintenance of effort for State expenditures on public education.

The House bill contained no similar provision.

SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY

ASSISTANCE

The conferees delete without prejudice a Sense of the Senate

provision regarding Low-Income Home Energy Assistance. The

House bill contained no similar provision.

NATIVE HAWAIIAN HEALTH CARE IMPROVEMENT ACT

The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the

Senate to change the names of eligible organizations named in the

Native Hawaiian Health Care Improvement Act. The House bill

contained no similar provision.

GAO STUDY REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION OF HIPAA REGULATIONS

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to require GAO to report on the State and

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local impacts of the administrative simplification requirements of

HIPAA. The House bill contained no similar provision.

ELECTION OF AN ANNUITY FOR QUALIFIED MAGISTRATE JUDGES

The conference agreement includes a provision proposed by the

Senate to provide for an election of an annuity under section 377

of title 28, United States Code, for any qualified magistrate judge.

The House bill contained no similar provision.

INTERIOR APPROPRIATIONS

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to modify language contained in H.R. 2217,

the Interior Appropriations bill. The House bill contained no similar provision.

ACROSS-THE-BOARD ADMINISTRATIVE AND RELATED EXPENSES

REDUCTION

The conference agreement includes a modified provision proposed by the Senate to reduce administrative and related expenses

of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and

Education. The House bill contained no similar provision.

TITLE VII—MENTAL HEALTH PARITY

The conference agreement modifies language proposed by the

Senate amending the Public Health Service Act and the Employee

Retirement Income Security Act with respect to equitable treatment in insurance coverage of mental illnesses. The Senate amendment had expanded the provisions in the respective Acts concerning parity in mental health coverage. The conference agreement instead extends for one year the previously expired mental

health parity provisions in the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and the Internal Revenue

Code of 1986.

The conferees recognize the devastating impact of mental illnesses on Americans from every walk of life and widespread bipartisan support of mental health parity legislation in both houses of

Congress. The conferees strongly urge the committees of jurisdiction in the House and the Senate to convene early hearings and

undertake swift consideration of legislation to extend and improve

mental health parity protections during the second session of 107th

Congress.

INFORMATION ON PASSENGERS AND CARGO

The conference agreement does not include a provision proposed by the Senate to require advance electronic information for

air cargo and passengers entering the United States. The House

bill contained no similar provision.

CONFERENCE AGREEMENT

The following table displays the amounts agreed to for each

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RALPH REGULA, C.W. BILL YOUNG, ERNEST J. ISTOOK, Jr.,

DAN MILLER, ROGER F. WICKER, ANNE M. NORTHUP, RANDY ‘‘DUKE’’ CUNNINGHAM, KAY GRANGER, JOHN E. PETERSON, DON SHERWOOD, DAVID OBEY, STENY HOYER, NANCY PELOSI, NITA M. LOWEY, ROSA DELAURO, JESSE JACKSON, JR., PATRICK J. KENNEDY, Managers on the Part of the House.

TOM HARKIN,

ERNEST HOLLINGS,

DANIEL INOUYE,

HARRY REID,

HERB KOHL,

PATTY MURRAY,

MARY LANDRIEU,

ROBERT C. BYRD,

ARLEN SPECTER,

THAD COCHRAN,

JUDD GREGG,

LARRY E. CRAIG,

TED STEVENS,

KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON,

MIKE DEWINE,

Managers on the Part of the Senate.

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