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[House Report 106-756]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

106th Congress                                                   Report
                        HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
 2d Session                                                     106-756

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 TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 
                                  2001

                                _______
                                

 July 18, 2000.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
              State of the Union and ordered to be printed

                                _______
                                

    Mr. Kolbe, from the Committee on Appropriations, submitted the 
                               following

                              R E P O R T

                             together with

                            ADDITIONAL VIEWS

                        [To accompany H.R. 4871]

    The Committee on Appropriations submits the following 
report in explanation of the accompanying bill making 
appropriations for the Treasury Department, the Postal Service, 
the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for 
other purposes.

                        INDEX TO BILL AND REPORT

_______________________________________________________________________

                                                            Page number

                                                            Bill Report
Summary of the Bill........................................
                                                                      2

Title I--Department of the Treasury:
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms....................     8
                                                                     21
Bureau of Engraving and Printing...........................
                                                                     33
Bureau of the Public Debt..................................    15
                                                                     34
Counterterrorism Fund......................................
                                                                     15
Departmental Offices.......................................     2
                                                                      6
Department-Wide Systems and Capital Investments Programs...     3
                                                                      8
Expanded Access to Financial Services......................     4
                                                                     14
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center....................     5
                                                                     17
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.......................     4
                                                                     13
Financial Management Service...............................     8
                                                                     20
General Provisions--Treasury Department....................    20
                                                                     42
Inspector General for Tax Administration...................     4
                                                                     10
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement.....................     8
                                                                     19
Internal Revenue Service...................................    15
                                                                     35
Money Laundering Strategy..................................
                                                                     11
Office of Inspector General................................     3
                                                                     10
Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration.........     4
                                                                     11
Treasury Forfeiture Fund...................................
                                                                     15
United States Customs Service..............................    11
                                                                     24
United States Mint.........................................
                                                                     34
United States Secret Service...............................    18
                                                                     40
Violent Crime Reduction Programs...........................
                                                                     16

Title II--Postal Service:
Payment to the Postal Service Fund.........................    25
                                                                     44

Title III--Executive Office of the President and Funds 
    Appropriated to the President:
Compensation of the President and the White House Office...    27
                                                                     47
Council of Economic Advisers...............................    31
                                                                     51
Executive Residence at the White House.....................    28
                                                                     48
Federal Drug Control Programs..............................    35
                                                                     57
National Security Council..................................    32
                                                                     52
Office of Administration...................................    32
                                                                     52
Office of Management and Budget............................    32
                                                                     53
Office of National Drug Control Policy.....................    33
                                                                     55
Office of Policy Development...............................    32
                                                                     51
Special Assistance to the President and Official Residence 
    of the Vice President..................................    31
                                                                     50
Unanticipated Needs........................................
                                                                     61

Title IV--Independent Agencies:
Committee for Purchase from People who are Blind or 
    Severely Disabled......................................    36
                                                                     61
Federal Election Commission................................    37
                                                                     62
Federal Labor Relations Authority..........................    37
                                                                     63
General Services Administration............................    38
                                                                     63
Merit Systems Protection Board.............................    46
                                                                     74
Morris K. Udall scholarship and foundation.................    47
                                                                     74
National Archives and Records Administration...............    47
                                                                     75
Office of Government Ethics................................    48
                                                                     77
Office of Personnel Management.............................    49
                                                                     78
Office of Special Counsel..................................    52
                                                                     81
United States Tax Court....................................    52
                                                                     82

Title V--General Provisions:
This Act...................................................    53
                                                                     82

Title VI--Governmentwide General Provisions:
Departments, Agencies, and Corporations....................    62
                                                                     84
Compliance with House Rules................................
                                                                     88
Tables.....................................................

Summary of the Total Bill..................................

    The accompanying bill contains recommendations for new 
budget (obligational) authority for fiscal year 2001 for the 
Department of the Treasury, the Postal Service, various offices 
in the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
Independent Agencies. The following table summarizes these 
recommendations and reflects comparisons with the budget, as 
amended, and with amounts appropriated to date for fiscal year 
2000:

                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                            Budget                        Bill compared with
                                          New budget     estimates of               ----------------------------
                                        (obligational)        new
                Agency                     authority    (obligational)  Recommended   New budget      Budget
                                          fiscal year     authority,    in the bill   authority      estimate,
                                         2000 enacted     fiscal year                fiscal year    fiscal year
                                            to date          2001                        2000          2001
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Treasury..............................     12,352,437      14,520,692    13,225,949     +873,512      -1,294,743
Postal Service........................         93,056          96,093        96,093       +3,037  ..............
Executive Office of the President.....        654,422         702,245       656,499       +2,077         -45,746
Independent agencies..................     14,969,147      16,437,796    15,123,722     +154,575      -1,314,074
      Grand total.....................     28,069,062      31,756,826    29,102,263   +1,033,201      -2,654,563
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                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends a total of $14,401,999,000 in 
discretionary resources for agencies under its jurisdiction; 
this includes $145 million for the Earned Income Tax Credit 
Compliance Initiative. After scorekeeping adjustments, the 
Committee's recommendation is $677,947,000 above the level 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and below the President's 
request by $2,126,830,000 in budget authority.

                           GENERAL STATEMENT

    For fiscal year 2001, the Committee's recommendation 
reflects difficult choices made under tight budgetary 
constraints. Including technical and other scorekeeping 
adjustments, the allocation received by the Treasury, Postal 
Service and General Government Subcommittee provides an 
increase of $677,947,000 over fiscal year 2000 enacted levels. 
This allocation is nearly 5 percent above the current year. 
However, it does not fully accommodate basic requirements, 
including maintaining adequate personnel and support for the 
upcoming Presidential campaign and providing an estimated 3.7 
percent pay raise to the approximately 150,000 federal 
employees supported through this appropriations measure. 
Moreover, this allocation does not fully support workloads 
associated with prior Congressional action, such as: training 
law enforcement personnel, reforming the Federal Election 
Commission, bringing Customs' drug interdiction air support on 
line, fully funding the Drug Free Communities Act, reducing 
unacceptably high levels of overtime within the Secret Service, 
and providing additional resources for the Internal Revenue 
Service (IRS) to implement reforms mandated by the 
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998. With these basic 
requirements in mind, the allocation is short by approximately 
$175,000,000.
    In addition to these basic requirements, the Committee has 
other critical responsibilities, including: maintaining an 
adequate federal infrastructure through the General Services 
Administration (GSA); ensuring a smooth Presidential 
transition; providing resources to archive the Presidential and 
federal records of the Clinton Administration; supporting 
ongoing information technology reform within the IRS and the 
Executive Office of the President; maintaining a viable 
commercial automation system for the Customs Service; and 
ensuring the successful completion of major repair and 
restoration work underway at the National Archives, including 
work to preserve and protect the Charters of Freedom. Finally, 
the Committee notes that it was asked to consider a number of 
initiatives including: additional resources to more 
aggressively enforce our nation's gun laws; funds to begin 
replacing the Customs' antiquated import processing system; and 
resources to enhance investigations of money laundering, child 
labor violations and drug interdiction. With these additional 
responsibilities in mind, the allocation is short by 
approximately $1.3 billion.
    In making its recommendations, the Committee's first 
priority was maintaining current services for all federal law 
enforcement as well as most other agencies. The Committee 
notes, however, that the recommendation is below the request of 
$347,596,000 for the IRS to maintain current service levels by 
$52,591,000.
    With the exception of some enhancements to ongoing agency 
work and upgrades to critical information technology 
infrastructure, the Committee was unable to support any new 
initiatives for fiscal year 2001. Recognizing growing workloads 
of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), the 
Committee has provided sufficient funds to assist ATF in its 
efforts to enforce our current gun laws. Additionally, the 
Committee believes it is critical for Customs to have the tools 
it needs to enforce our trade laws. The Committee is extremely 
concerned with the escalating costs and disruptions in service 
to Customs' current commercial automation system (ACS). 
Nevertheless, the Committee is compelled to provide resources 
to sustain ACS until it can be replaced. In total, the 
Committee provides $233,400,000 for Customs Automation and, 
given the priority of replacing ACS, includes not less than 
$105,000,000 to begin in earnest work on the new system, the 
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE) program, half of the 
amount requested by the President. The Committee expresses its 
disappointment in the President's proposed new tax to support 
ACE, a tax that may ultimately be found to violate 
international trade agreements. The Committee also notes the 
apparent inconsistency in the President's policy in regards to 
trade: on one hand promoting free trade and on the other 
failing to propose a direct appropriation to provide Customs 
with the tools it needs to ensure the expeditious and 
legitimate processing of cargo.
    The Committee regrets that it is unable to fund any new 
construction and significantly less building repair work than 
was requested. This includes not only courthouse and border 
station projects proposed through GSA, but other important 
projects such as renovation and restoration of the National 
Archives building, a new headquarters for the ATF, Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) master plan projects, the 
next phase of the Food and Drug Administration consolidation, 
and the critical telecommunications requirements of the White 
House. The Committee is extremely concerned by the potential 
long-term costs and consequences that these construction delays 
may have on critical federal infrastructure. Nonetheless, the 
Committee could not support new construction at the expense of 
maintaining basic agency operations, particularly those related 
to federal law enforcement. The Committee notes that, if it 
were required to freeze appropriations at the fiscal year 2000 
level, the net loss of personnel would be -2,031 FTE from 
Customs, -1,389 FTE from Secret Service, -388 FTE from ATF, and 
-8,528 FTE from IRS.
    The Committee recognizes that many of the proposed funding 
levels will require agencies to modify their anticipated 
financial and business practices during fiscal year 2001. This 
is especially true for the IRS and agencies with any 
construction requirements. The Committee acknowledges that IRS, 
GSA, and the National Archives have borne the brunt of the 
restraint on spending found in this bill, requiring denial of 
requested increases for the upcoming fiscal year.

             REPROGRAMMING AND TRANSFER OF FUNDS GUIDELINES

    The following reprogramming guidelines shall be complied 
with by all agencies funded by the Treasury and General 
Government Appropriations Act, 2001:
    1. Except under extraordinary and emergency situations, the 
Committees on Appropriations will not consider requests for a 
reprogramming or a transfer of funds, or use of unobligated 
balances, which are submitted after the close of the third 
quarter of the fiscal year, June 30;
    2. Clearly stated and detailed documentation presenting 
justification for the reprogramming, transfer, or use of 
unobligated balances shall accompany each request;
    3. For agencies, departments, or offices receiving 
appropriations in excess of $20,000,000, a reprogramming shall 
be submitted if the amount to be shifted to or from any object 
class, budget activity, program line item, or program activity 
involved is in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 
greater, of the object class, budget activity, program line 
item, or program activity;
    4. For agencies, departments, or offices receiving 
appropriations less than $20,000,000, a reprogramming shall be 
submitted if the amount to be shifted to or from any object 
class, budget activity, program line item, or program activity 
involved is in excess of $50,000, or 10 percent, whichever is 
greater, of the object class, budget activity, program line 
item, or program activity;
    5. For any action where the cumulative effect of below 
threshold reprogramming actions, or past reprogramming and/or 
transfer actions added to the request, would exceed the dollar 
threshold mentioned above, a reprogramming shall be submitted;
    6. For any action which would result in a major change to 
the program or item which is different than that presented to 
and approved by either of the Committees, or the Congress, a 
reprogramming shall be submitted;
    7. For any action where funds earmarked by either of the 
Committees for a specific activity are proposed to be used for 
a different activity, a reprogramming shall be submitted; and
    8. For any action where funds earmarked by either of the 
Committees for a specific activity are in excess of the project 
or activity requirement, and are proposed to be used for a 
different activity, a reprogramming shall be submitted.
    Additionally, each request shall include a declaration 
that, as of the date of the request, none of the funds included 
in the request have been obligated, and none will be obligated, 
until the Committees on Appropriations have approved the 
request.

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $158,934,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       161,006,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       149,437,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -9,497,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -11,569,000

                                MISSION

    The Departmental Offices' function in the Treasury 
Department is to provide basic support to the Secretary of the 
Treasury, who is the chief operating executive of the 
Department. The Secretary of the Treasury also has a primary 
role in formulating and managing the domestic and international 
tax and financial policies of the Federal Government. The 
Secretary's responsibilities funded by the salaries and 
expenses appropriation include: recommending and implementing 
United States domestic and international economic and tax 
policy; fiscal policy; governing the fiscal operations of the 
Government; maintaining foreign assets control; managing the 
public debt; overseeing the law enforcement functions carried 
out by the Treasury Department; managing development of 
financial policy; representing the United States on 
international monetary, trade and investment issues; overseeing 
Treasury Department overseas operations; directing the 
administrative operations of the Treasury Department; and 
providing executive oversight of the bureaus within the 
Treasury Department. This account also includes funding for the 
Office of Professional Responsibility.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $149,437,000 
for Departmental Offices, Salaries and Expenses, a decrease of 
$9,497,000 below the amount appropriated in fiscal year 2000 
and a decrease of $11,569,000 below the budget estimate. The 
amount provided includes increases above the fiscal year 2000 
enacted level of $7,332,000 for fixed costs to maintain current 
levels ($3,701,000 for pay, $474,000 for other labor-related 
benefits, $3,526,000 for non-labor items, and -$369,000 for one 
less compensable work day), $3,813,000 for productivity 
enhancements to Departmental Office information systems as a 
transfer from the Department-Wide Systems and Capital 
Investments Programs account, $854,000 to annualize the filling 
of 6 positions within the Office of International Affairs 
during fiscal year 2000, $504,000 and no more than 3 positions 
for increased management and coordination by the Office of 
Enforcement of the Department's involvement in the National 
Money Laundering Strategy, and $2,900,000 for grants to state 
and local law enforcement agencies to help combat money 
laundering--the same level as provided for fiscal year 2000 for 
this purpose within the Department-Wide Systems and Capital 
Investments Programs account. The Committee also assumes 
savings of $24,900,000 associated with one-time costs of the 
fiscal year 2000 emergency supplemental appropriation. The 
Committee has not provided funds for the Counterterrorism 
Initiative. Bill language has been added to allow the funds 
transferred into the account for productivity enhancements to 
remain available for two years. The Committee notes that the 
amount provided includes sufficient funding for the Department 
of the Treasury to provide up to $500,000 in contract awards to 
the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade, the same 
level as included for fiscal year 2000. Additional Committee 
guidance concerning the Department's actions with respect to 
the National Money Laundering Strategy is contained in this 
report under the heading, ``Money Laundering Strategy.'' From 
within amounts appropriated, the Committee has included 
$502,000 to reimburse Morris County, New Jersey, for law 
enforcement agencies overtime pay associated with the World 
Bank protests on March 31, 2000 to April 2, 2000; $150,000 for 
Arlington County, Virginia, law enforcement agencies overtime 
pay associated with the World Bank and IMF protests of April 
2000; and not to exceed $300,000 to reimburse the State Police, 
the police departments of the towns of New Castle, North 
Castle, Mount Kisco, Bedford, and the Department of Public 
Safety of Westchester County of the State of New York.

                          Budget Restructuring

    The Committee does not approve the budget restructuring as 
proposed in the budget justification for Departmental Offices, 
Salaries and Expenses. In particular, the Committee does not 
approve the dissolution of the budget activity for executive 
direction; providing executive direction to the bureaus within 
the department is a major responsibility of the Secretary of 
the Treasury. The Committee does not object to the recasting of 
the budgets for the Office of Domestic Finance, Office of Tax 
Policy, Office of Economic Policy, and Office of International 
Affairs into two budget activities (a budget activity for 
Economic Policies and Programs and one for Financial Policies 
and Programs) as proposed by the Department as long as future 
budget justifications display the separate office budgets in a 
manner similar to that which is currently provided for the 
Office of Enforcement and the Office of Foreign Assets Control. 
Should the Department desire to recast the budgets for these 
Offices, then the Committee directs that the Department provide 
a report to the Committee within 60 days of the enactment of 
this act describing the new budget structure and providing 
crosswalk tables from the old budget structure to the new 
structure for the current and budget years.

                         Office of Enforcement

    The Committee continues to believe that Treasury law 
enforcement requires leadership, coordination, and advocacy 
within the Department. To help assess the operation and 
performance of the Office of Enforcement and its components, 
such as the Office of Professional Responsibility, the 
conferees for the fiscal year 2000 appropriation directed the 
General Accounting Office (GAO) to undertake a management 
review. That study will soon commence, and the Committee 
expects to receive the GAO report in time for consideration 
with the fiscal year 2002 appropriation request.

                reception and representation allowances

    The Committee is concerned to learn that the Under 
Secretary of Enforcement has required the various Treasury law 
enforcement bureaus to transfer a portion of their reception 
and representation funds to the Office of the Under Secretary. 
Although there may be certain functions appropriate to the 
involvement of all the Treasury law enforcement bureaus, the 
Committee reminds the Under Secretary that expenses for these 
events are accommodated within the amounts authorized for 
Departmental Offices reception and representation allowances. 
In the event that the Under Secretary believes that 
Departmental Offices representation allowances are insufficient 
to meet current needs, the Under Secretary should submit a 
justification for increases to this allowance to the Committee 
for its consideration. The Committee also directs the Under 
Secretary to submit for advance approval any requirement to use 
reception and representation allowance funds from any 
appropriation account other than Departmental Offices, Salaries 
and Expenses.

         treasury law enforcement funding and personnel issues

    In its report accompanying the fiscal year 2000 
appropriation bill, the Committee expressed its concern with a 
lack of Administration attention to providing the proper 
resources, staffing and management needed for Treasury law 
enforcement. The Committee directed the Secretary of the 
Treasury to conduct a study on the overall requirements for 
Treasury law enforcement and to develop recommendations on how 
to ensure full funding and staffing for the bureaus. These 
recommendations were to include, but not be limited to, funding 
requirements, hiring authority, personnel compensation, 
overtime practices, training, and other areas critical to 
meeting the investigative and protective missions of Treasury 
law enforcement. The report should address the need for, and 
reasons for the delay in implementing, Schedule B hiring 
authority for certain law enforcement positions, particularly 
for the Customs Service and ATF. It should also address the 
appropriate allocation of Senior Executive Service positions 
for Treasury law enforcement bureaus. The Committee underscores 
that it expects that the Secretary will submit a final report 
to the Committee by November 1, 2000.

        Department-Wide Systems and Capital Investments Programs

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $43,448,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        99,279,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        41,787,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -1,661,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -57,492,000

                                mission

    This appropriation succeeds the Automation Enhancement 
appropriation established by the Treasury, Postal Service and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1997, and funds the 
modernization of Treasury business processes and increases in 
Department-wide systems efficiency through technology 
investments for systems that involve more than one Treasury 
bureau or Treasury's interface with other governmental 
agencies.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $41,787,000 
for Department-Wide Systems and Capital Investments Programs, a 
decrease of $1,661,000 below the amount appropriated in fiscal 
year 2000 and a decrease of $57,492,000 below the budget 
estimate. The amount provided includes an increase above the 
fiscal year 2000 enacted level of $14,779,000 for 
communications infrastructure (including radios and related 
equipment) associated with Departmental law enforcement 
responsibilities for the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics 
scheduled for the year 2002. Decreases from the fiscal year 
2000 enacted level include reductions of $4,327,000 for non-
recurring costs associated with Y2K; $3,813,000 for 
transferring productivity enhancements for Departmental Office 
information systems to the Departmental Offices, Salaries and 
Expenses account; $2,900,000 for transferring grants to state 
and local law enforcement to help combat money laundering to 
the Departmental Offices, Salaries and Expenses account; and 
$5,400,000 for transferring the International Trade Data System 
to the Customs Service.
    The Committee reminds the Administration that this account 
is intended for department-wide capital investments and systems 
modernization efforts. No positions are paid for by this 
account; the management of projects funded through this account 
is conducted by Treasury employees organizationally located 
throughout the Departmental Offices and Treasury bureaus whose 
salaries are paid from other appropriations either directly or 
indirectly.

                 Integrated Treasury (Wireless) Network

    The Committee notes that the Administration proposes to 
transfer receipts from the Federal Communications Commission's 
analog spectrum lease fee to cover the entire amount proposed 
as an increase for the Integrated Treasury Network for wireless 
communications ($55,000,000). This action, similar to that 
proposed last year, has yet to be authorized. However, the 
Committee is aware of the National Telecommunications and 
Information Administration requirement for Treasury bureaus to 
switch their communications equipment from wide-band channels 
to narrow-band channels by 2005. This requirement has serious 
implications for the law enforcement bureaus of the Department 
of the Treasury, as only about one-third of the radios owned by 
Treasury bureaus currently have narrow-band capabilities. In 
funding the Department of the Treasury's law enforcement 
communication commitments for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter 
Olympics in this account, the Committee has provided for the 
most pressing communication need of the Department. The 
Committee denies without prejudice the funds requested for the 
Public Safety Wireless Network/Federal Law Enforcement Wireless 
Users Group. The Committee notes that this effort is 
operational in nature and would be more appropriately funded in 
a different account.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $30,599,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        33,608,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        31,940,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,341,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -1,668,000

                                mission

    This appropriation provides agency-wide audit and 
investigative functions to identify and correct operational and 
administrative deficiencies, which create conditions for 
existing or potential instances of fraud, waste, and 
mismanagement. The audit function provides program, contract, 
and financial statement audit services. Contract audits provide 
professional advice to agency contracting officials on 
accounting and financial matters relative to negotiation, 
award, administration, repricing, and settlement of contracts. 
Program audits review and evaluate all facets of agency 
operations. Financial statement audits assess whether financial 
statements fairly present the agency's financial condition and 
results of operations, the adequacy of accounting controls, and 
compliance with laws and regulations. The investigative 
function provides for the detection and investigation of 
improper and illegal activities involving programs, personnel, 
and operations. The Office of Inspector General also provides 
for internal investigations made by the Office of Internal 
Affairs and Inspection in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms, the Customs Service, and the Secret Service.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $31,940,000 
for the Office of Inspector General, an increase of $1,341,000 
above the amount appropriated for fiscal year 2000 and a 
decrease of $1,668,000 below the budget estimate. The increase 
provided above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level is to cover 
increases in fixed costs so that the Office of Inspector 
General can maintain current levels of service. The Committee 
denies without prejudice the additional amounts requested.

                Inspector General for Tax Administration

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $111,781,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       118,427,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       116,427,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +4,646,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -2,000,000

                                mission

    The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Restructuring and Reform 
Act of 1998 established the Office of Treasury Inspector 
General for Tax Administration and abolished the IRS Office of 
the Chief Inspector. The Office was established in January of 
1999 as required by that legislation. The Treasury Inspector 
General for Tax Administration conducts audits, investigations, 
and evaluations to assess the operations and programs of the 
IRS and its related entities, the IRS Oversight Board and the 
Office of Chief Counsel. The purpose of those audits and 
investigations is to: (1) promote the economic, efficient, and 
effective administration of the nation's tax laws and to detect 
and deter fraud and abuse in IRS programs and operations; and 
(2) recommend actions to resolve fraud and other serious 
problems, abuses, and deficiencies in these programs and 
operations.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $116,427,000 
for the Inspector General for Tax Administration, an increase 
of $4,646,000 above the amount appropriated for fiscal year 
2000 and a decrease of $2,000,000 from the budget estimate. The 
increase above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level is to 
partially cover increases in fixed costs so that the Treasury 
Inspector General for Tax Administration can maintain current 
levels of service.
    The Committee has included a new general provision (Section 
115) modified from the one proposed by the Administration, that 
allows an increase of up to two percent of the budget of 
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, derived from 
transfers of funds from the appropriations of the Internal 
Revenue Service, upon advance approval of the Committees on 
Appropriations.

           Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $22,700,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        31,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        31,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +8,300,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation funds the repairs, selected 
improvements, and construction necessary to renovate and 
maintain the Main Treasury, the Treasury Annex, and other 
Treasury buildings.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $31,000,000 
for Treasury Building and Annex Repair and Restoration, an 
increase of $8,300,000 above the amount enacted for fiscal year 
2000 and the same as the budget estimate. These funds will 
permit the Department to continue the program for renovation 
and modernization of the historic Main Treasury Building in 
Washington, D.C.

                       Money Laundering Strategy

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............  ................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       $15,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................  ................
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -15,000,000

                                mission

    This proposed new appropriation would provide additional 
funds beyond those currently included in the budgets of 
Treasury bureaus for money laundering. The appropriation also 
would fund increased coordination within the Department of the 
Treasury to work with various law enforcement entities involved 
in addressing money laundering crimes.

                             recommendation

    The Committee does not recommend creating a new 
appropriation for the Money Laundering Strategy. The Committee 
has provided $504,000 in the Departmental Offices, Salaries and 
Expenses appropriation for enhancing Treasury management of its 
efforts to combat money laundering and for improving the 
coordination of efforts within the federal government and with 
state and local as well as international entities to fight 
money laundering. The Committee also provides the same level of 
support ($2,900,000) as was provided for fiscal year 2000 for 
state and local law enforcement grants to help combat money 
laundering; these funds are also located in the Departmental 
Offices, Salaries and Expenses appropriation. The Committee 
denies without prejudice the balance of the funds requested for 
inclusion in this proposed new appropriation.
    Although the Committee is concerned about the extent and 
scope of money laundering, it has not been given data that 
identify and quantify the types and levels of resources that 
the Department has already committed to this issue within its 
base budget, and how a program centralized in the Department 
would relate to and improve upon existing programs and 
cooperative efforts within the federal government and with 
state, local, and foreign governments. One of the key items of 
the National Money Laundering Strategy for 2000 is a thorough 
review of the resources devoted to anti-money laundering 
efforts. The Committee directs the Department of the Treasury 
to submit a report 60 days after the enactment of this act that 
identifies and quantifies the resources in the various accounts 
of the Department for the budget year (fiscal year 2001), the 
current year (fiscal year 2000), and the previous three fiscal 
years for combating money laundering and how these resources 
are currently being coordinated.
    The Committee raises the following concerns about the local 
geographic emphasis and approach adopted by the National Money 
Laundering Strategy for 2000: (1) money laundering is an 
international problem and a focus on local geographic areas 
does not intuitively address the heart of the issue, which is 
the fluidity by which criminal organizations launder their 
proceeds; (2) a crackdown on money laundering within specific 
geographic areas may only result in moving the criminal 
activity to a different area rather than eliminating the 
criminal activity; (3) the electronic aspect of fund transfers 
inherently broadens the scope of the issue beyond a local 
geographic area; and (4) such local geographic foci have a way 
of becoming viewed as permanent features unless strict and firm 
management is put in place, including the development of base 
line data for judging the extent of the local problem, 
quantifiable performance measures for monitoring program 
progress at a local level, and a clear concept of achievable 
goals for determining how and when a local effort should be 
terminated.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date..............        $27,818,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001....................         34,694,000
Recommended in the bill..............................         34,694,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000..................         +6,876,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001................  .................

                                mission

    The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) is 
responsible for implementing Treasury's anti-money laundering 
regulations through administration of the Bank Secrecy Act, 31 
U.S.C. section 5311, et seq (BSA). It also serves as a United 
States Government source for the systematic collection and 
analysis of information to assist in the investigation of money 
laundering and other financial crimes. FinCEN assists all law 
enforcement entities, including Federal, State, local and 
international, through information collection, sophisticated 
data analysis, and intelligence sharing through dissemination 
of its analytical products, technological assistance, and 
implementation of Treasury authorities. It prevents money 
laundering through its regulatory and outreach programs, 
including setting policy for and overseeing BSA compliance by 
financial institutions, and by providing BSA training for law 
enforcement, bankers, and bank regulators. FinCEN supports U.S. 
Government initiatives on money laundering and financial crime 
through multilateral organizations, such as the Financial 
Action Task Force (FATF) of the Group of Eight, and the UN. It 
is a catalyst for the development of Financial Intelligence 
Units (FIUs) in other countries, and the transfer of 
information on money laundering and financial services 
worldwide.
    As part of its regulatory mission, FinCEN plans to provide 
regulatory and enforcement support to ensure compliance by 
money service businesses (MSBs) with the requirements of the 
BSA, and it is requesting additional funding to carry out this 
expanded responsibility.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $34,694,000 
for the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, as requested by 
the President, and $6,876,000 above the amount appropriated in 
fiscal year 2000. Of the amounts provided, $2,851,000 reflects 
the cost to maintain current level spending, $1,750,000 covers 
activities previously funded in the Violent Crime Reduction 
Trust Fund, and $2,275,000 is to fund additional oversight 
responsibility for the Money Service Business regulatory 
program.

             magnitude of money laundering and data mining

    As part of its responsibilities to provide useful analysis 
of the intelligence it gathers on money laundering and 
financial crime, FinCEN requests that funding previously 
provided through the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund be 
continued in fiscal year 2001. In testimony, the Committee was 
informed that $500,000 of this would be used to continue work 
to establish a system to estimate the magnitude, flow and 
characteristics of money laundering and related financial 
crimes. FinCEN will work with the Financial Advisory Task Force 
(FATF) on an agreed methodology and scope, and plans to award a 
research contract this summer. The Committee strongly supports 
this initiative, in conjunction with related efforts by the 
Office of National Drug Control Policy to develop models of 
drug trafficking flows. The Committee directs FinCEN to provide 
a report with the fiscal year 2002 budget request detailing 
progress made towards the development of a robust measure of 
use to law enforcement, intelligence analysts, and 
policymakers.
    The Committee also includes funding for development of data 
mining software and a BSA data warehouse to improve the ability 
of FinCEN and law enforcement to enhance the quality of 
investigative information that can be derived from the vast and 
varied raw data collected by FinCEN. The Committee encourages 
FinCEN to ensure that the fruits of this effort are made 
available as soon as possible to Federal and other law 
enforcement through the Gateway and Secure Outreach programs. 
The Committee also continues to support efforts to improve and 
expand access to FinCEN programs through the Gateway Program, 
which permits state and local agencies to access FinCEN 
information through a secure system, and the Secure Outreach 
program, which will permit real-time access to data in FinCEN's 
Money Laundering Coordination Center and the Internal Revenue 
Service's Detroit Computing Center.

                 Expanded Access to Financial Services

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............  ................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       $30,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        -2,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +2,000,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -28,000,000

                                mission

    This proposed new appropriation would fund a new effort to 
expand the access of low-income families to normal financial 
services. The appropriation proposes to accomplish its mission 
by performing research, by conducting outreach efforts to low-
income families, and by working with the private sector to 
encourage financial institutions to expand access to electronic 
accounts and automatic teller machines.

                             recommendation

    The Committee is aware of the potential benefits to be 
gained by individuals and families as a result of their making 
use of standard financial services.
    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,000,000 for 
the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and implement a pilot 
program to expand access to financial services to low-income 
individuals who do not currently utilize bank accounts or other 
financial service opportunities.

                         Counterterrorism Fund

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............  ................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       $55,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................  ................
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -55,000,000

                                mission

    This proposed appropriation would provide funding as a 
contingency for unanticipated costs associated with providing 
support to counter, investigate, or prosecute domestic or 
international terrorism, including payment of rewards, and to 
re-establish the operational capability an office, facility, or 
other property damaged or destroyed as a consequence of any 
domestic or international terrorist act. These funds would only 
be available to the extent that the President transmits an 
official budget request as an emergency requirement as defined 
in section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. Congress previously appropriated 
$15,000,000 for such a fund in the fiscal year 1997 Omnibus 
Consolidated Appropriations Act.

                             recommendation

    The Committee is unable to recommend funding for this 
request, although the Committee acknowledges the inherently 
unpredictable nature of the terrorist threat this country 
faces. The Committee will consider any Departmental requests 
for reprogramming or transfer of funds for counter-terrorism 
purposes.

                        Treasury Forfeiture Fund

                                mission

    Public Law 102-393 (31 USC 9703) authorized the 
establishment of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund (TFF) with 
permanent, indefinite authority, to replace the Customs 
Forfeiture Fund, and provided that the TFF should receive all 
proceeds from assets seized by Treasury enforcement 
organizations. The TFF makes these funds available to pay or 
reimburse certain costs and expenses related to providing 
stable resources to cover the costs of effective asset seizure 
and forfeiture programs that occur pursuant to Treasury 
Department law enforcement activities. The Coast Guard also 
participates in the TFF.

                             recommendation

    The Committee has provided no appropriation for the 
Treasury Forfeiture Fund, as the Administration requested none. 
The Committee assumes the availability of $42,500,000 in Super 
Surplus balances, as proposed by the Administration.

           SUPER SURPLUS AND THE SECRETARY'S ENFORCEMENT FUND

    Funding available in the Super Surplus to the Treasury 
Forfeiture Fund has fluctuated in recent years as a result of 
specific forfeiture events. The large balance available in 
fiscal year 2000 resulted in significant levels of such funding 
being used to support agency base operations. The Committee 
notes that the Administration's proposed use of the expected 
Super Surplus for fiscal year 2001 is for discrete, time-
limited projects--with the exception of funding for Customs 
vehicles. The Committee believes this reflects the appropriate 
use of this fund, rather than as a substitute for continuing 
activities properly funded through base appropriations.
    The Committee generally supports the Department's proposal 
for use of the Surplus. However, because it cannot fund the 
requests for construction from regular appropriations, the 
Committee believes that the same convention should apply to new 
construction proposed to be funded through the Super Surplus, 
without any prejudice to the merit of those projects. The 
Committee therefore directs that the $7,290,000 in over-
prospectus costs for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms (ATF) headquarters project not be funded in FY 2001, 
in keeping with the inability of the Committee to fund the main 
construction costs for the headquarters. Similarly, the 
Committee also directs that no Super Surplus funding go to 
either of the proposed Federal Law Enforcement Training Center 
(FLETC) projects: $7,590,000 for a dormitory at Glynco and 
$4,177,000 for a firing range at Artesia. Instead, the 
Committee directs that a total of $22,057,000 be provided for 
the National Integrated Ballistic Identification Network 
(NIBIN) program. $19,057,000 of this would be in lieu of 
funding for NIBIN requested in the ATF Salaries and Expenses 
account. This does not reflect any diminution of this 
Committee's support for a FLETC construction schedule that will 
permit full transition of U.S. Border Patrol basic training to 
FLETC in FY 2004. The Committee thus directs FLETC to continue 
to work towards completing the transition to conducting all 
basic training for the U.S. Border Patrol at FLETC facilities 
by the end of fiscal year 2004. The Committee will consider 
favorably funding in the FY 2002 appropriation to ensure that 
this schedule can be met.
    The Committee recommends specific funding levels as 
follows:

US Customs Service:
    Vehicle Replacement.................................     $11,000,000
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms:
    IBIS/NIBIN..........................................      22,057,000
    Laboratory/FIRE Facility............................       3,023,000
US Secret Service:
    Vice President's Residence Security.................       3,920,000
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center:
    Major Renovations...................................       2,500,000
                    --------------------------------------------------------
                    ____________________________________________________
      Total.............................................      42,500,000

                    Violent Crime Reduction Programs

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $130,081,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................  ................
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      -130,081,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    Amounts for the Department of the Treasury's portion of 
Crime Control Programs were derived from transfers from the 
Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund (VCRTF) as authorized by the 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    No funding is provided for the Violent Crime Reduction 
Trust Fund, as its authorization expires this year and there is 
no Administration request to re-authorize it. Some activities 
previously funded in this account are included in agency base 
appropriations.

                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $84,027,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        93,483,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        93,483,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +9,456,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) 
provides the necessary facilities, equipment, and support 
services to conduct advanced, specialized, and refresher 
training for Federal law enforcement personnel. This 
appropriation is for operating expenses of the Center, for 
research in law enforcement training methods, and curriculum 
content. In addition, the Center has a reimbursable program to 
accommodate the training requirements of various Federal 
agencies. As funds are available, law enforcement training is 
provided to certain State and local law enforcement, and in 
some cases, foreign government and private sector security 
personnel, on a space-available basis.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $93,483,000 
for FLETC Salaries and Expenses, as requested by the President, 
and $9,456,000 above the amount appropriated in fiscal year 
2000. These funds will permit FLETC to carry out all its 
requested activities, including mandatory workload increases 
required to meet basic training needs for federal law 
enforcement agencies, such as the U.S. Border Patrol, and to 
meet increased basic training needs for Treasury law 
enforcement bureaus.

                          WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT

    The Committee understands that costs per student-week of 
training exceeded expected levels in fiscal year 1999 in large 
part because of a shortfall in the numbers of new students for 
FLETC core basic training, chiefly for U.S. Border Patrol. At 
the same time, FLETC has testified that it can accommodate 
Customs in-service training at FLETC, and noted that many 
agencies may not ask for such training, given their assumptions 
of FLETC limitations. The Committee strongly urges FLETC, 
working with Treasury and other federal law enforcement 
agencies, to seek ways to use FLETC facilities and services for 
more advanced training when possible, whether at Glynco and 
Artesia, or through distant learning technology. The Committee 
recognizes that FLETC must adjust when agencies fail to deliver 
the predicted number of new students for basic training. 
However, every effort should be made to have alternative 
arrangements for other training to be provided in order to most 
effectively and economically utilize FLETC space and resources. 
As FLETC works with Treasury and Justice to move all Border 
Patrol basic training to FLETC by fiscal year 2004, the 
Committee expects FLETC to take into account resource 
requirements needed to provide advanced training where it would 
be in the best interest of law enforcement and the federal 
government.

      CAPITAL METROPOLITAN AREA LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING FACILITY

    FLETC and the Treasury Department have testified that a 
review is underway of options for establishing a Washington 
metropolitan area facility for training in perishable skills, 
chiefly firearms qualification and vehicle operation. The 
Committee understands that this review is being conducted in 
concert with Treasury, the U.S. Park Police, the Capitol 
Police, the Washington Metropolitan Police and other federal 
and local law enforcement agencies. FLETC is directed to report 
to the Committee by August 31, 2000, on the status of planning 
for such a facility, including any business plans or similar 
planning analyses.

                    ADVANCED AND IN-SERVICE TRAINING

    The Committee is aware that the Customs Service, and 
possibly other agencies, are planning to establish new 
facilities to provide in-service training. One reason advanced 
for this is that FLETC lacks the capacity to accommodate the 
numbers of students, types of training, or schedule desired by 
Customs and other institutions. FLETC has stated that it could 
accommodate Customs at existing facilities, and has denied 
almost no requests to run advanced or specialized training at 
FLETC. However, agencies may not make requests for such 
training since they are aware that they may not get all their 
training needs met through FLETC. The Committee understands 
that FLETC cannot, and probably should not, be expected to 
provide all advanced training for agencies. In many cases 
agencies must exercise more control over in-service training 
and must integrate it into operations than could FLETC, as a 
non-operational entity.
    Before any new facility is established, the Committee 
expects that a detailed plan would be prepared that would first 
explore the use of existing FLETC facilities. FLETC must have a 
leadership role in such planning, given its expertise in 
training and its neutrality in terms of having no operational 
jurisdiction. The Committee understands that FLETC is working 
on using distance training technology to meet some of the 
requirements by remote classroom training. The Committee 
therefore directs FLETC to report to the Committee by August 
31, 2000, on what initiatives are underway to meet in-service 
advanced training requirements.

     Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $21,175,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        17,331,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        17,331,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -3,844,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................
                                                             ...........

                                MISSION

    This account provides for the acquisition, construction, 
improvements, equipment, furnishings and related costs for 
expansion and maintenance of facilities of the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $17,331,000 
for the FLETC Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and 
Related Expenses account, as requested by the President, and 
$3,844,000 below the fiscal year 2000 appropriation.

             MEETING THE MANDATE TO PROVIDE BASIC TRAINING

    The Committee remains fully committed to the principle of 
consolidated federal law enforcement training, and supports 
construction necessary to ensure that FLETC can provide all 
basic training required by federal law enforcement. The 
Committee is disappointed that it is unable to support new 
construction for FLETC in this bill, but is committed to 
support future requests to ensure FLETC can keep its schedule 
of meeting all basic training demands by fiscal year 2004.

                      Interagency Law Enforcement

                 INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $ 60,502,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       103,476,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       103,476,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       +42,974,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................
                                                             ...........

                                MISSION

    This program consists of nine regional task forces that 
consolidate resources and expertise of 11 member federal 
agencies, in cooperation with state and local investigators and 
prosecutors, to target and destroy major narcotic trafficking 
and money laundering organizations. The funding for Treasury 
Department participation was included in the Department of 
Justice appropriation prior to fiscal year 1998. Since then, 
Treasury has administered its portion of the program through 
its Departmental Offices to reimburse the three Treasury 
bureaus--the Customs Service, the Bureau of Alcohol and 
Tobacco, and the Internal Revenue Service--for the costs of 
their employees detailed to the task forces, as well as for 
operating expenses during investigative phases of cases.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $103,476,000, 
as requested by the President, and $42,974,000 above the amount 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000. Of this amount, $14,761,000 
was previously funded in the VCRTF. The Committee includes 
$25,000,000 to fund participation by the Internal Revenue 
Service (IRS) in the task forces that IRS had previously funded 
through its Tax Law Enforcement appropriation.

                      Financial Management Service

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $200,555,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       202,851,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       198,736,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -1,819,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -4,115,000

                                MISSION

    The Financial Management Service (FMS) is responsible for 
the management of Federal finances and the collection of 
Federal debt. As the Government's central financial agent, FMS 
receives and disburses public monies, maintains Government 
accounts, and reports on the status of the Government's 
finances. FMS is also accountable for developing and 
implementing the most reliable and efficient financial methods 
and systems to manage and improve the Government's cash 
management, credit management, and debt collection programs.
    Pursuant to the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, 
FMS became the primary agency for the collecting of Federal 
non-tax debt which is due and owed to the government. Through 
FMS, there is a coordinated effort to collect debt from those 
who have defaulted on agreements with the Federal government.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $198,736,000 
for Salaries and Expenses for the Financial Management Service, 
a decrease of $1,819,000 below the amount appropriated for 
fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of $4,115,000 below the budget 
estimate. Within the level provided are the following 
increases: $5,190,000 to cover increases in fixed costs so that 
the FMS can maintain current levels of service; $2,200,000 for 
replacing the electronic verification system with the secure 
payment system; $1,650,000 for the government-wide accounting 
and reporting modernization project; $1,500,000 to replace the 
check payment and reconciliation system; $500,000 to modernize 
the payment application system; and $1,665,000 for the computer 
security/disaster recovery project. The Committee denies 
without prejudice the funding requested for the other system 
modernization increases. The approved increases are offset by 
decreases as proposed in the budget justification: -$5,635,000 
associated with the closing of the Chicago regional finance 
center, -$7,989,000 from productivity savings in debt 
management, and -$900,000 in other non-recurring costs.

                            DEBT COLLECTION

    During the current legislative session, the House Committee 
on Government Reform held a hearing on, and the General 
Accounting Office is reviewing aspects of, the debt collection 
activities of the FMS, including the use of private collection 
agencies to assist in the collection of debt. The Committee on 
Appropriations believes that, used appropriately, the 
privatization of debt collection through performance-based 
contracts can result in increased debt collections. The 
Committee on Appropriations encourages FMS to ensure its 
appropriate use of private debt collection agencies by placing 
suitable delinquent accounts with private debt collection 
agencies in an equitable and competitive manner. In developing 
and placing new performance-based contracts in the future, FMS 
should consider all factors that may affect the efficient 
collection of debt and that may impact the goal of maximizing 
debt collection, such as the size or average balance of such 
debt and the age of individual debts referred for collection.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $564,773,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       760,051,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       731,325,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      +166,552,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -28,726,000

                                MISSION

    The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is 
responsible for the enforcement of laws designed to eliminate 
certain illicit activities and to regulate lawful activities 
relating to distilled spirits, beer, wine and nonbeverage 
alcohol products, tobacco, firearms, explosives, and arson. Its 
responsibilities are focused on reducing the future number and 
cost of violent crimes; collecting revenue, reducing taxpayer 
burden and improving service while preventing diversion; and 
protecting the public and preventing consumer deception in 
ATF's regulated commodities.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $731,325,000 
for Salaries and Expenses for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms, $166,552,000 above the amounts appropriated in 
fiscal year 2000, and $28,726,000 below the amount requested by 
the President. Of the amounts provided $47,467,000 covers 
activities previously funded in either the VCRTF or the 
Treasury Forfeiture Fund. The Committee's recommendation will 
fully fund all gun law enforcement initiatives requested by the 
President. The Committee has directed that $19,057,000 
requested for the National Integrated Ballistic Identification 
Network be funded through the Super Surplus. The Committee 
regrets that it is unable to fund the $5,521,000 requested to 
expand the effort related to tobacco tax compliance and 
diversion investigations. The Committee has not provided funds 
for the Counterterrorism Initiative.

                          INSPECTOR SHORTFALL

    The Committee recognizes that limited budgetary resources 
make it difficult to increase the number of inspectors to meet 
the optimal annual targets for inspecting licensees that have 
been stated by ATF: 33 percent annually for federal firearms 
licensees (FFLs), and 100 percent annually for explosives 
licensees. In fact, ATF testified before the Committee that the 
current rate of FFL inspection is only about 10 percent, and 
that it has inspected fewer than 67 percent of explosives 
licensees in the past three years. The Committee recognizes 
that, even with the significant increase in inspectors being 
provided for gun law enforcement in fiscal year 2001, there 
will continue to be shortfalls in meeting these targets; the 
Committee is also aware that the focused inspection strategy 
that ATF is implementing may compensate somewhat for this lower 
rate. Furthermore, ATF has indicated that it might find it 
difficult to absorb any increases larger than those proposed. 
However, the Committee is concerned that it has not yet 
received the report mandated by the fiscal year 2000 Conference 
Report on what must be done to achieve the rate of inspections 
needed, at least for explosives licensees. The Committee 
strongly urges the ATF and the Treasury Department to submit 
this report to the Committees on Appropriations as soon as 
possible.

                            alcohol labeling

    The Committee is concerned that the heavy volume of 
applications for label review by the Office of Alcohol and 
Tobacco (OAT)--more than 60,000 last year--has led to both 
increased turnaround times for label reviews as well as an 
increased number of complaints lodged due to the issuance of 
improper labels. The Committee directs the agency to take 
whatever steps it can, within existing resources, to ensure 
that alcohol products are properly labeled. The Committee also 
direct Treasury to include an assessment of the needs of the 
OAT in its law enforcement personnel review, including whether 
additional personnel or technical resources are required to 
manage projected workload.

                        GUN VIOLENCE INITIATIVES

    As requested by the President, the Committee recommends 
$19,078,000 to expand the Youth Crime Gun Interdiction 
Initiative (YCGII) from 38 to 50 cities, bringing total funding 
to $76,400,000, and $41,322,000 to expand the Integrated 
Violence Reduction Strategy (IVRS), bringing total funding to 
$62,200,000, as requested by the President. This will expand 
the IVRS for specially-designed programs to assist State and 
local governments to combat violent crime by prosecuting 
persons (1) illegally transferring firearms or ammunition to 
individuals, particularly those who have not attained 18 years 
of age, or in violation of the Youth Handgun Safety Act; and 
(2) illegally possessing firearms or ammunition, particularly 
in violation of section 922(g) (1) and (2) of title 18, United 
States Code, in connection with a serious drug offense or 
violent felony, as those terms are used in that section. The 
Committee also recommends $4,304,000 to expand the National 
Integrated Ballistic Identification Network. Together with 
$22,057,000 provided through the Super Surplus, these funds 
will be used to implement the Memorandum of Understanding 
between the Treasury and Justice Departments to carry out a 
combined effort to image, document and trace ballistic 
information about crime guns. In addition, the Committee 
recommends $9,990,000 to expand ATF's gun tracing effort, in 
particular through the National Tracing Center bringing total 
funding to approximately $25,000,000. ATF has indicated that 
such funding should make it possible to reduce the current mean 
trace time for crime weapons from 11.2 to 5.6 days by 2002.
    The Committee encourages aggressive enforcement of the 
nation's firearms laws, and understands that this funding 
requires no additional statutory authority. Although ATF did 
not detail how much of the IVRS funding would be applied to 
different elements of that strategy, it did indicate that 
approximately one third would be used to prevent unlicensed 
dealing and investigations of those who supply guns to 
prohibited individuals. The Committee directs that, beginning 
with the fiscal year 2002 budget request, and on a quarterly 
basis thereafter, ATF should provide the Committee a detailed 
correlation between the substantial increase in funding for 
this initiative over the past two years and the impact such 
funding has had on the number and effectiveness of 
investigations and interdiction efforts, including the 
disposition of cases, prosecutions accepted and declined, and 
other case resolution at the state and federal level. This 
report should also describe specific activities, and the level 
of obligations and FTE devoted to each major IVRS component.

                youth crime gun interdiction initiative

    The Committee is concerned about the performance and 
accountability of this program, and has withheld its request 
for a Government Accounting Office review pending completion of 
a current study by the Treasury Inspector General. The 
Committee will review this study and adjust its recommendation 
for the program accordingly.

                             GREAT PROGRAM

    The Committee recommends $13,000,000 to continue the Gang 
Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) program, equal to the 
President's request and to the amount available in fiscal year 
2000 through the Violent Crime Reduction Trust Fund. This 
includes $10,000,000 for grants to local law enforcement 
organizations and $3,000,000 for ATF administrative support. 
The Committee expects to receive the longitudinal impact study 
of the GREAT program that is to be completed this summer.

                       FIREARMS DATABASE ACCURACY

    The Treasury Inspector General, referring to its report 
OIG-99-018, recommended to Congress in a December 13, 1999, 
letter that ATF should (1) complete action to eliminate 
discrepancies in the National Firearms Registration and 
Transfer Record (NFRTR) database, (2) perform regular reviews 
to ensure accuracy and completeness, and (3) determine the 
extent to which it can legally obtain data to ensure that the 
registry correctly reflects all persons currently in possession 
of National Firearms Act (NFA) weapons. The Committee 
understands that some progress is being made in imaging and 
indexing NFA documents for the over 1.1 million weapons in the 
NFRTR. The Committee is aware that the Inspector General noted 
that it could not confirm that permits had been inadvertently 
destroyed, inappropriately added, or did not reflect that the 
person holding a registration was deceased. Such uncertainty 
could reduce confidence in ATF's ability to determine the 
validity of NFA registration; therefore the Committee strongly 
urges ATF to take whatever steps necessary to ensure that its 
records are accurate and complete, and requests that ATF report 
by September 30, 2000, on actions it has taken on the 
recommendations made by the Inspector General.

                   face-to-face exchange of firearms

    The Committee understands that there does not appear to be 
a specific statutory prohibition against direct, ``face-to-
face'' exchanges of firearms between licensed importers, 
manufacturers, dealers or collectors that reside in different 
states. The Gun Control Act of 1968 (GCA), 18 USC Sections 
922(a)(2) and (3), allows licensed dealers to ship or transport 
firearms in interstate commerce only to such licensees. 
However, ATF has a long-standing interpretation that the GCA 
prohibits federal firearms licensees from personally 
transferring firearms away from their licensed premises, with 
the result that licensees have been obliged to use common 
carriers for such exchanges. While lawful, such transport does 
not seem the best or safest way to lawfully exchange firearms 
between dealers. The Committee directs ATF to report by 
September 30, 2000, on the legal basis for this interpretation, 
and whether it would permit the face-to-face exchange of rifles 
and shotguns.

                     United States Customs Service

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............    $1,698,227,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................     1,887,866,000
Recommended in the bill...............................     1,821,415,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      +123,188,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -66,451,000

                                MISSION

    The United States Customs Service is the nation's principal 
border agency with responsibility to enforce the law, safeguard 
revenue, and support lawful international trade and travel. Its 
mission is to ensure that all goods that enter and exit the 
United States do so in accordance with all United States laws 
and regulations. This includes enforcing U.S. laws intended to 
stop trafficking in drugs and other contraband; protecting the 
American public and environment from the introduction of 
prohibited hazardous and noxious products; assessing and 
collecting revenue in the form of duties, taxes, and fees on 
imported merchandise; regulating the movement of persons, 
carriers, merchandise, and commodities between the United 
States and other nations, while facilitating the movement of 
all legitimate cargo, carriers, travelers, and mail; 
interdicting narcotics and other contraband; and enforcing 
certain provisions of the export control laws of the United 
States.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of 
$1,821,415,000, $123,188,000 above the amount appropriated in 
fiscal year 2000, and $66,451,000 below the level requested by 
the President. Of the amount provided, $92,741,000 covers 
activities previously funded either in the VCRTF or the 
Treasury Forfeiture Fund. The Committee recommendation will 
fund the Administration's request, with the following 
exceptions. The Committee regrets that it is unable to fund the 
initiatives for the narcotics illicit proceeds strategy, or to 
support Presidential Decision Directive 62. In addition, the 
Committee is disappointed that the Customs facility at the 
Louisville International Airport, for which the Committee 
provided $212,000 in fiscal year 2000, is not yet operational. 
Within existing funds, the Committee directs the Customs 
Service to use up to $388,000, if necessary, to complete the 
renovations to the airport necessary to permit Customs Service 
operations to begin. The recommendation includes $9,500,000 to 
attack drug smuggling organizations, instead of the requested 
$25,000,000, as well as an additional $2,000,000 for the forced 
child labor initiative, instead of the requested $5,000,000. 
The Committee regrets also that it is unable to fund $7,500,000 
for vehicle replacement, but notes that $11,000,000 of the 
Super Surplus in the Treasury Forfeiture Fund may be used for 
this purpose. The Committee has not provided funds for the 
Counterterrorism Initiative.

                         TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS

    The fiscal year 1999 appropriation included $134,000,000 
for inspection technology under the Customs Service technology 
plan to improve its ability to screen cargo and passengers 
along the southern tier of the United States. However, although 
the plan calls for an additional $77,000,000 to complete the 
program, no additional funding had been requested until the 
Administration budget amendment of May 18, 2000, which proposed 
$20,000,000 for northern border ports. No funding has been 
proposed for other ports, nor is there further funding for 
upgrading existing systems as may be required. Given the great 
potential of such technology to multiply Customs' inspection 
capability, the Committee strongly supports investments in 
technology such as mobile x-ray, gamma ray, and container x-ray 
systems, as well as pursuit of promising technologies such as 
neutron interrogation and pulsed fast neutron analysis. 
Although the Committee is unable to provide more resources at 
this time, it urges Customs to include additional funding for 
investment in inspection technology as it develops its fiscal 
year 2002 budget, and would be receptive to requests for 
reprogramming or the use of Super Surplus funds for this 
purpose in fiscal year 2001.
    The Committee is also aware of the potential impact that 
new technical developments may have for improving the ability 
of the Customs Service to provide physical security at ports of 
entry, or to assist in its investigative mission such as new 
technology that permits improved surveillance of suspect 
vehicles and other targets of investigations. The Committee 
encourages the Customs Service to continue to explore and test 
such technologies that may enhance their efforts, and to factor 
them into budget planning where appropriate.

        CUSTOMS INSPECTION SERVICES FOR INTERNATIONAL AIR CARGO

    The Committee remains concerned about the availability of 
Customs Service personnel to provide inspection services for 
airports that are experiencing increases in traffic or project 
such increases as a result of regional development patterns. In 
many locations, Customs has been asked to initiate or expand 
the level and availability of such services. The Committee 
recognizes that decisions to allocate inspectors and related 
personnel must be based on staff availability, funding 
considerations, levels of current or expected traffic, as well 
as the need to enforce trade laws and counter smuggling 
threats. It also recognizes that some airports such as Dulles, 
Louisville, or Miami International Airports are experiencing 
growth and may have good grounds to initiate or expand cargo 
traffic, which depends on the availability of specific Customs 
inspection services. In addition, the Committee is aware that 
trade growth is causing commercial traffic to spill over into 
airports that lack Customs services necessary to process that 
traffic. The Committee has received numerous requests for 
increases in staffing and facilities from Members of Congress, 
the trade community, and the general public. In some cases, 
airports and communities experiencing this growth are exploring 
novel ways to secure and finance these services. Given the 
enormous increase in commercial trade being experienced in this 
country, and in light of strong bipartisan support for measures 
to accommodate that increase, the Committee urges the Customs 
Service to identify and request the necessary personnel to meet 
this growing need. The Customs Service must avoid becoming 
itself a barrier to the growth of international trade. The 
Committee continues to await completion of a Customs staffing 
resource allocation model that can be used to guide staffing 
decisions, and direct staffing resources to where the need for 
Customs services are greatest. The Committee directs the 
Customs Service to work closely with airport authorities and 
the trade community to ensure that it will meet the 
requirements to provide new and expanded service.

                       RESOURCE ALLOCATION MODEL

    The Committee was told over a year ago that the Customs 
staffing resource allocation model was near completion, but it 
remains under review and not yet operational, nor has this 
Committee received any information about the characteristics of 
the model. Given the numerous requests to establish, expand, or 
preserve Customs presence at various ports, it is essential 
that Customs have such a model in place to permit a more 
transparent and consistent basis for making such decisions. The 
Committee therefore directs Customs and the Treasury Department 
to expedite completion of the model and to report to the 
Committee not later than September 1, 2000, on the status of 
implementation.

                            SEAPORT SECURITY

    The President's Commission on Seaport Security completed 
its work early this year, but the report has not been released. 
The urgency of making the Commission's report public should not 
be underestimated. America's seaports represent a major artery 
for critical trade and passenger traffic, and are vulnerable to 
threats both in terms of physical security and criminal 
activity such as narcotics trafficking and alien smuggling. The 
Committee expects this report to address problems related to 
the size and openness of seaport facilities, the potential 
pressure for rapid movement of cargo to come at the expense of 
enforcing border security, and the apparent lack of meaningful 
controls on access to such sites or requiring credentials to be 
displayed by employees and others, as is the rule at airports. 
In addition, the Committee expects some recommendations from 
the study relating to improving Customs Service physical 
proximity to the port areas for its cargo inspection 
operations, and enhancing the timeliness of manifest 
information or export documentation. The Committee strongly 
urges that the Commission report and its recommendations be 
released as soon as possible for consideration by the public 
and Congress.

                        Northern Border Security

    This Committee has frequently decried the inadequacy of the 
federal response to smuggling and other threats facing the 
southern border and ports of entry to the U.S. The security 
threat to the northern border of the U.S. was made plain last 
winter following the arrests of suspected terrorists attempting 
to enter the United States from Canada into Washington State 
and Vermont. The need for increased vigilance along our long, 
undefended border with Canada is beyond dispute. At the same 
time, commerce with Canada, our major bilateral trading 
partner, grows apace. Yet aging infrastructure and staffing 
shortages have created significant bottlenecks as well as 
increased the vulnerability to potential security threats at a 
number of ports of entry. The Committee is concerned about a 
lack of planning for and commitment to provide the necessary 
personnel, facilities and related infrastructure needed to keep 
our border crossings safe and yet facilitate the smooth 
movement of commerce and passengers. The Committee directs the 
Customs Service, working with the General Services 
Administration, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and 
other agencies with concerns for border inspection and 
facilities, to evaluate the inadequacies that presently exist 
and submit to the Congress a plan to address them with the 
submission of the fiscal year 2002 budget.

                     rural border crossing stations

    The Customs Service plays a critical role in protecting the 
nation's security interests and ensuring the efficient flow of 
international commerce and travel. The Remote Video Inspection 
System (RVIS) has operated at several northern crossings, such 
as Pittsburg, New Hampshire, in lieu of on-location inspectors 
to clear travelers, and has met with success in processing 
travelers at many of these small ports of entry. However, 
recent incidents at such small ports, including crossings by 
individuals with possible links to suspected terrorist 
organizations overseas, highlight the risk in using remote 
inspections at these rural sites. The Committee encourages the 
U.S. Customs Service to examine the hours of operation of all 
rural border crossings and the effectiveness of the RVIS in 
sparsely populated locations. The RVIS should be used primarily 
in locations with adequate populations and commercial activity 
proximate to the border sufficient to provide an appropriate 
level fo registrations and pre-screenings of frequent border 
travelers. Stations that do not fit this profile should be 
evaluated for operation on a 24 hours per day basis. A study of 
a station's hours of operation should also include an 
evaluation of any alternate crossing locations. Proximity to 
stations that are open 24 hours per day and the level of 
hardship caused by such routing should be considered as 
important fctors. The Committee also encourages the Customs 
Service to undertake more timely and thorough efforts to warn 
potentially affected populations and frequent users before 
changing the alert status or hours of operation of any station. 
Such efforts should include notification of this Committee and 
those Members representing affected districts.

                            Racial Profiling

    The Committee commends the Customs Service for its prompt 
response in appointing an advisory panel to investigate 
allegations that African-Americans were being targeted for 
Customs inspections, detention, and personal searches, at 
numerous ports of entry, based simply on their skin color.
    The Committee strongly condemns the practice of racial 
profiling and demands an unswerving commitment from all levels 
of law enforcement, including the Customs Service, to ensure 
equal treatment in their inspection and enforcement practices.
    Therefore, the Committee directs the Customs Service to 
provide the Committee with the findings and recommendations 
submitted by the advisory panel no later than July 31, 2000. In 
addition, Customs shall report on its proposed response to the 
panel's recommendations, a timetable for implementation of the 
recommendations that Customs accepts and justification for any 
recommendations not accepted.

          inspection of inbound and outbound mail and parcels

    The Committee is concerned about the number of packages and 
parcels that enter and exit the country without the deliberate 
and necessary scrutiny by the Customs Service. Therefore, the 
Committee directs the Customs Service and the U.S. Postal 
Service to draft a joint report outlining the problems and 
possible solutions affecting Customs' ability to properly and 
effectively screen, inspect, and review all parcels and 
packages entering and exiting the United States. These two 
agencies should work cooperatively to ensure the safety of our 
nation's borders from illegal drugs, money laundering, and 
other types of high-technological fraud. Further, the issue of 
electronic manifests, timely collection of fees, and other 
issues of parity in the treatment of the Postal Service and 
private carriers by the Customs Service should be addressed. 
This report should be transmitted to the appropriate 
authorizing and appropriation committees upon its completion, 
which should be no later than one hundred eighty (180) days 
after enactment of this legislation.

                     wait times on southwest border

    The Committee has received reports that wait times at ports 
of entry along the southwest border, particularly in Arizona 
and New Mexico, have become longer in recent years, coinciding 
with both growing traffic volume and strengthened border 
enforcement. The consequence for passenger and commercial 
traffic, particularly that entering the U.S., has been 
significantly longer delays for routine commuter and commercial 
processing. The Committee believes that Customs must maintain 
its alert posture to possible smuggling and trafficking along 
the border, but should also seek improvements in facilitating 
travel and commerce clearance. For example, in passenger 
processing Customs should consider expanding pre-enrollment 
programs, or providing additional passenger service 
representatives to help expedite routine border crossing. Since 
modernization of automated import processing and similar 
systems may be delayed, the Committee also urges Customs to 
evaluate ways to expedite clearance and physical processing of 
commercial traffic.

                        foundry coke import data

    Prior to January 2000, there was no distinction in the 
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) between foundry coke and 
furnace coke. This has created a significant impediment in the 
ability of the Customs Service to properly track the amount of 
foundry coke entering the United States.
    Starting January 1, 2000, the Customs Service implemented a 
new category in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule for foundry 
coke, subheading 2704.00.0010. Unfortunately, there have been 
difficulties in accurately accounting for the foundry coke 
entering the United States even after the creation of the 
separate category for foundry coke. These difficulties may 
arise from importers not being aware of the new category or 
from the Customs Service having difficulty in recognizing the 
difference between foundry coke and furnace coke.
    It is essential that the U.S. Customs Service accurately 
track the actual amount of foundry coke entering U.S. ports. 
Therefore, the U.S. Customs Service is directed to make any and 
all necessary changes to ensure the accurate collection of 
customs data for foundry coke imports posted since January 1, 
2000, and for all future foundry coke imports. Customs will 
coordinate with the Bureau of the Census to insure transmission 
to and public reporting by Census of import data under this 
foundry coke enumeration.

                        Terminal Island Facility

    The Committee is concerned about the environmental 
conditions at the Customhouse at Terminal Island, 
California,where materials that circulate through the 
ventilation system may include asbestos, coal and petroleum 
coke particles. While many Customs employees have been moved 
from the Customhouse to healthier work environments, the 
Committee is concerned about the health and safety of the 
remaining employees. The Committee understands that employees 
in the office of the Special Agent In Charge will be moved by 
December, but is concerned that under current plans permanent 
relocation for all affected employees may not occur before May 
2001. The Committee directs GSA and Customs to expedite the 
lease procurement process on permanent space, and to develop a 
plan for temporary re-location if permanent re-location is not 
likely to be accomplished by November 30, 2000.

                        customs integrity report

    The Committee is concerned about the Department's 
responsiveness to issues raised by the Committee in the House 
Report 106-231 concerning the Treasury report entitled ``An 
Assessment of Vulnerabilities to Corruption and Effectiveness 
of the Office of Internal Affairs, U.S. Customs Service.'' The 
report related the opinion of ``senior Customs officials'' that 
inspectors hired locally along the Southwest border and 
assigned to local ports of entry, ``could be at greater risk of 
being compromised by family members and friends who may exploit 
the relationships to facilitate criminal activities.'' Customs 
offered but failed to provide the Committee evidence supporting 
these views, and statistics provided by Customs did not support 
the allegation described in the report. In addition, written 
responses from ATF, DEA, FBI and the Secret Service indicated 
that these agencies did not agree with the concern that such 
local hiring posed a greater risk of individuals being 
compromised. Although Treasury and Customs now agree that the 
passage from the report did not reflect accurately their 
beliefs or practices, the Committee is concerned that Treasury 
has been slow in taking steps to communicate this to senior 
managers and others involved with Customs integrity issues. The 
Committee continues to take strong exception to any implication 
that individuals of Hispanic background are particularly 
susceptible to corruption and directs Treasury and Customs to 
contest any such unsubstantiated bias by senior Customs 
officials as Customs implements its anti-corruption strategy.

                   Harbor Maintenance Fee Collection

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $3,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         3,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         3,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................  ................
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    The Harbor Maintenance Fee is established to provide 
resources to the Army Corps of Engineers for the improvement of 
American channels and harbors. It is assessed on the value of 
commercial imports and exports delivered to or from certain 
specified ports. The fee is collected by the U.S. Customs 
Service and deposited into the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund.

                             recommendation

    Although the President has submitted a proposal to 
establish a Harbor Services Fund, no legislative action has 
occurred as of the time this bill was drafted. Therefore, in 
fiscal year 2001, the Committee recommends that $3,000,000 be 
transferred from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund to the 
Customs Service Salaries and Expenses appropriation to offset 
costs incurred by Customs in collecting Harbor Maintenance 
Fees.

  Operation, Maintenance and Procurement, Air and Marine Interdiction 
                                Programs

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $108,688,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       156,875,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       125,778,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       +17,090,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -31,097,000

                                mission

    The Customs Air and Marine Interdiction Programs combat the 
illegal entry of narcotics and other items into the United 
States. This appropriation provides all operations, maintenance 
and procurement for the Customs air and marine program and 
support for the interdiction of narcotics by other Federal, 
state, and local agencies. Included in this mission is the 
requirement to support the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms and the U.S. Secret Service.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $125,778,000 
for the Customs Service Air and Marine Interdiction Programs, 
$17,090,000 above the amount appropriated in fiscal year 2000 
and $31,097,000 below the budget request. The Committee 
includes $2,174,000 million to maintain current levels, 
$9,916,000 million for base infrastructure for new P-3 aircraft 
being delivered, and $5 million for P-3 and Citation tracker 
source zone deployment. The Committee is unable to fund 
$19,814,000 million for enforcement infrastructure, and 
$11,283,000 million for Presidential Decision Directive 62 
national security special events.

               air and marine interdiction modernization

    For the past two years the Committee has directed Customs 
to provide its modernization plan for the Air and Marine 
Interdiction Programs. The report on that plan has not yet been 
released, as it remains under review within the Customs 
Service, the Treasury Department and the Office of Management 
and Budget. Until the plan has been completed and released, the 
Committee cannot consider approval of new initiatives for 
expanding or modernizing the programs. The Committee has been 
extremely supportive of Customs interdiction programs, and this 
lack of new funding should not be interpreted as reflecting any 
change in the view of the Committee that the air program 
requires continued and significant support, that operations 
must be properly budgeted and funded, that training must be 
adequate, and that the marine program requires a significant 
infusion of resources. However, the Committee cannot consider 
increasing funding until it has seen the plan underpinning such 
requests. It is unfortunate that, as a result of delays in 
releasing this plan, new funding will neither be available to 
address what appear to be important infrastructure improvements 
for operating Customs' tracking and navigational systems, such 
as for the Domestic Air and Marine Interdiction Coordination 
Center in Riverside, California, nor can additional resources 
be made available to offset Customs' costs related to 
supporting the Secret Service in its mission to coordinate 
security for national security special events under 
Presidential Decision Directive 62.

                     tethered aerostat radar system

    The Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) has been in 
operation along the southern border and coast of the United 
States since 1978. While at one time operated by both Customs 
and the Air Force, the Air Force was given responsibility for 
the entire system in 1991, which at the time included TARS in 
the Bahamas as well. Since that time there has been a reduction 
in the number of operational aerostats and in actual operating 
time. Recently aerostats along the Gulf of Mexico have been 
shut down either because they require repairs or replacement. 
The Committee understands that the Customs Service is in 
discussions with the Air Force and Department of Defense over 
management of TARS, and that consideration is being given to a 
transfer of TARS responsibility to the Customs Service. The 
Committee, while believing that TARS represents a significant 
asset in deterring air trafficking and in assisting 
interdiction in the arrival zone, must underscore that any 
consideration of new or changing costs or configuration for 
Customs interdiction operations must be based on the 
modernization plan that has yet to be presented to Congress.

                      passive detection technology

    The Committee is impressed by new developments in passive 
detection technology that could significantly improve the 
surveillance capabilities of the Customs Service, and improve 
the targeting of limited Customs Service Air and Marine 
Interdiction Division air and marine assets. The Committee also 
understands that such capability is a high priority for 
Customs, although it was unable to request funding this year. 
The Committee encourages Customs to continue to explore ways to 
fund such capability improvements as part of its strategic 
planning for its interdiction program.

                        Automation Modernization

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............  ................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................      $338,400,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       233,400,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      +233,400,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................      -105,000,000

                                mission

    The President has proposed a new account to include funding 
for major information technology projects for the Customs 
Service. The projects included in this request are the proposed 
Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), the existing Automated 
Commercial System (ACS), and the International Trade Data 
System (ITDS). Both ACE and ITDS had previously been funded 
through the Department's central account for automated systems, 
and ACS was funded in Customs' Salaries and Expenses account.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation for Automation 
Modernization of $233,400,000, an increase of $233,400,000 over 
the fiscal year 2000 appropriation and $105,000,000 below the 
amount requested by the President. This includes funding for 
ACS and $5,400,000 for ITDS, as well as not less than 
$105,000,000 to apply to the contract to begin work on ACE. In 
the absence of the user fee proposed in the budget request, the 
Committee is unable to fully fund the requests for this 
account. However, the Customs Service may choose to fund ACE at 
a higher level than the minimum provided in the bill.
    The Committee is persuaded that Customs has overcome 
questions about whether it has completed its systems 
architecture or whether it has in place the competencies or 
systems to manage a major software and hardware acquisition 
project. The Committee believes that Customs is greatly in need 
of resources to support an immediate investment in ACE, a 
system designed to take the place of its sixteen-year-old ACS, 
the principal system Customs uses for import processing. The 
Administration's request of $210,000,000 for ACE was to begin 
this project and permit the award of a contract to vendors who 
would actually manage the project for Customs. At the same 
time, the budget included $123,000,000 to continue to maintain 
ACS, and $5,400,000 for ITDS. As Customs and the Department 
field test the ITDS system, the Committee strongly encourages 
that such field testing be done at ports along both the 
northern and southern borders that represent the types of 
commercial and passenger traffic encountered there.
    The request also assumed that a user fee would be enacted, 
and thus provide a revenue offset for the $210,000,000 proposed 
for the ACE program. This does not appear likely to be enacted 
this year. However, the Committee does not believe that 
additional delays are acceptable in beginning to implement a 
replacement system to ensure the smooth handling of the growing 
volume of imports into this country. It is essential to begin 
replacing the aging, brownout- and blackout-prone ACS. In 
keeping with the Committee's long-standing insistence that 
major investments in information technology be made in 
accordance with statutory requirements and best government and 
industry practices, the release of funding for each phase of 
ACE development and procurement will occur only after the 
Customs Service submits and Congress approves a spending plan 
that meets investment control requirements of OMB, complies 
with the Customs Service enterprise information systems 
architecture, complies with federal acquisition rules, is 
approved by Customs' Investment Review Board, the Treasury 
Department, OMB, and is reviewed by the General Accounting 
Office.

                    Bureau of Engraving and Printing

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                                                                                      2000             2001
                                                                1999  (actual)     (estimate)       (estimate)
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Total revenue................................................     $567,395,000     $530,650,000     $580,000,000
    Revenue from currency....................................      501,075,000      472,000,000      518,700,000
    Revenue from stamps......................................       58,649,000       51,250,000       53,000,000
    Other revenue............................................        7,671,000        7,400,000        8,300,000
Cost of operations...........................................      529,414,000      501,650,000      550,000,000
Net revenue (to Treasury)....................................       37,981,000       29,000,000       30,000,000
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                                mission

    The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) designs, 
manufactures, and supplies Federal Reserve notes, various 
public debt instruments, as well as most evidences of a 
financial character issued by the United States, such as 
postage and internal revenue stamps. The BEP executes certain 
printings for various territories administered by the United 
States, particularly postage and revenue stamps.
    The operations of the BEP are financed by means of a 
revolving fund established in accordance with the provisions of 
Public Law 81-656, August 4, 1950 (31 U.S.C. 5142), which 
requires the BEP to be reimbursed by customer agencies for all 
costs of manufacturing products and services performed. The BEP 
is also authorized to assess amounts to acquire capital 
equipment and provide for working capital needs. The 
anticipated work volume is based on estimates of requirements 
submitted by agencies served.

                           United States Mint

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                                          Circulating coins         Numismatic coins            Protection
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1999 (actual):
    Number of coins..................  17.5 billion...........  2.9 billion............  .......................
    Cost of operations...............  $309 million...........  $1,034 million.........  $23 million
    Revenue..........................  $732 million...........  $1,685 million.........  .......................
    Net revenue (to Treasury)........  $423 million...........  $651 million...........  ($22 million)
2000 (estimate):
    Number of coins..................  21.2 billion...........  7.3 billion............  .......................
    Cost of operations...............  $377 million...........  $1,083 million.........  $25 million
    Revenue..........................  $863 million...........  $2,580 million.........  .......................
    Net revenue (to Treasury)........  $486 million...........  $1,497 million.........  ($25 million)
2001 (estimate):
    Number of coins..................  18.8 billion...........  7.6 billion............  .......................
    Cost of operations...............  $289 million...........  $886 million...........  $26 million
    Revenue..........................  $810 million...........  $2,433 million.........  .......................
    Net revenue (to Treasury)........  $521 million...........  $1,547 million.........  ($25 million)
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                                mission

    The United States Mint manufactures coins, receives 
deposits of gold and silver bullion, and safeguards the 
Government's holdings of monetary metals. In fiscal year 1997, 
Congress established the United States Mint Public Enterprise 
Fund which authorizes the U.S. Mint to use proceeds from the 
sale of coins to finance the cost of its operations. This has 
eliminated the need for appropriations to support the mission 
of the U.S. Mint.

                         new golden dollar coin

    The Committee is pleased to note the wide release and 
successful launch of the new ``Golden Dollar'' coin and 
commends the U.S. Mint on its promotional efforts. The true 
measure of success of the new coin, however, is the degree to 
which the new coin is used in commerce. Therefore, as part of 
the Golden Dollar Marketing Report required under Public Law 
105-124, which is due to the Congress on March 31, 2001, the 
Committee directs the U.S. Mint to provide information 
assessing the nature and extent to which the Golden Dollar is 
being used in commerce, along with any recommendations and 
plans the U.S. Mint may have to encourage and facilitate the 
use of the new coin in commerce.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

                     administering the public debt

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $177,143,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       182,901,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       182,901,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +5,758,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation provides funds for the conduct of all 
public debt operations and the promotion of the sale of U.S. 
savings-type securities.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $182,901,000 
for administering the public debt, an increase of $5,758,000 
above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level and the same as the 
budget estimate. The increase above the enacted level is for 
fixed costs to allow the Bureau of the Public Debt to maintain 
current service levels. The Committee has not included the new 
bill language proposed by the Administration concerning the 
management of certain trust funds for Native American Tribes in 
South Dakota. The Committee understands that the Department of 
the Treasury is discussing with other parts of the 
Administration possible legislative proposals for modifying the 
statutory authorities for managing these trust funds.

                              debt buyback

    The Bureau of the Public Debt is responsible for the 
Department of the Treasury's debt buyback regulations and 
operations. The Committee is pleased to note that four buyback 
operations have been completed recently, resulting in the 
retiring of a total of $7 billion in par amount of outstanding 
debt, and that the Department of the Treasury expects to buy 
back up to $30 billion in debt this year. This is the first 
series of debt buybacks conducted by the Treasury since 1928-
1930.

                        Internal Revenue Service

    In general, the Committee recommends a budget for the 
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that allows it to maintain most 
of its current services, providing a total net increase above 
the fiscal year 2000 enacted level for the IRS of $261,509,000 
as opposed to the increase of $727,185,000 proposed in the 
President's budget. Within the recommended funding level for 
the bureau is a total increase of $313,138,000. This consists 
of a net increase of $211,439,000 to cover anticipated 
adjustments to pay for the three primary operating accounts, an 
increase of $83,565,000 to cover other labor benefits and non-
labor items for the three primary operating accounts, an 
increase of $1,000,000 for the Earned Income Credit Compliance 
Initiative, and an increase of $17,134,000 for the organization 
modernization effort. These increases are partially offset by 
decreases of $51,629,000 proposed by the Administration that 
result from a transfer of $732,000 to the Treasury Inspector 
General for Tax Administration and from a reduction of 
$50,897,000 in non-recurring one-time costs associated with 
Y2K.
    The IRS buy-out authority extends through January 2003. The 
IRS has received early-out authority from the Office of 
Personnel Management for fiscal year 2000, and negotiations are 
underway to extend the early-out authority for the IRS through 
2001. The Committee urges these discussions to proceed with all 
due diligence and believes the continuing major modernization 
effort of the IRS warrants its access to early-out authority 
for fiscal year 2001.
    The Committee has not provided any funding for additional 
staff or for the other initiatives proposed by the 
Administration. The Committee notes that major pieces of the 
restructuring of the IRS will be complete before the beginning 
of calendar year 2001, and that funds currently being used for 
significant aspects of the organization modernization can be 
redirected to higher-priority needs. The Committee directs the 
IRS to review and modify, as warranted, its financial and 
business practices, such as its management of obligations, with 
a view toward identifying and capturing savings that can be 
applied toward priority needs.

                          budget restructuring

    The Committee understands that, as part of its current 
major modernization effort, the IRS is developing a proposal 
for restructuring its budget. The Committee applauds this 
effort and encourages the IRS to submit a budget restructuring 
proposal that is effective, informative, and improves 
accountability. The Committee looks forward to receiving a 
budget restructuring proposal for the IRS that captures the 
concepts of customer service and compliance, is compatible with 
the new organizational units, and is useful to management. The 
Committee believes a viable budget structure is critical to 
making informed and credible budget decisions and to providing 
enhanced financial management. The Committee encourages the IRS 
to move forward in finalizing its budget restructuring proposal 
for the Committee's review and approval.

                 Processing, Assistance, and Management

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............    $3,280,250,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................     3,699,499,000
Recommended in the bill...............................     3,512,232,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      +231,982,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................      -187,267,000

                                mission

    This appropriation provides for processing tax returns and 
related documents; processing data for compiling statistics of 
income; assisting taxpayers in correct filing of their returns 
and in paying taxes that are due; overall planning and 
direction of the Internal Revenue Service; and management of 
financial resources and procurement.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,512,232,000 
for Processing, Assistance, and Management, an increase of 
$231,982,000 above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level and a 
decrease of $187,267,000 below the budget estimate. The 
increase above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level includes 
inter-appropriation transfers of $98,000,000 ($60,000,000 
during fiscal year 2000 and $38,000,000 during fiscal year 
2001), an increase of $80,083,000 to cover anticipated 
increases in pay, an increase of $36,765,000 for other labor 
benefits and non-labor items, and an increase of $17,134,000 
for the organizational modernization effort. The Committee has 
not provided any increases in funding for the Staffing Tax 
Administration for Balance and Equity (STABLE) initiative, an 
electronic tax administration marketing effort, or increased 
operational support contracts. The Committee notes that 
$54,874,000 was appropriated to this account for fiscal year 
2000 to implement the new organizational structure and that 
these funds remain in the budget for fiscal year 2001.

                     Electronic Tax Administration

    In its June 30, 2000, annual report to Congress, the 
private-sector Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee 
(ETAAC) emphasizes its position that IRS should stress 
partnerships, not competition, with the private sector and 
state and local governments in achieving its electronic tax 
administration objectives. In this regard, ETAAC believes it is 
inappropriate for IRS to offer no-cost electronic filing over 
the Internet, either by developing its own software or aligning 
itself with a limited number of ``authorized e-file 
providers.'' IRS is directed to provide the House Committee on 
Appropriations a report commenting on this ETAAC position as 
well as making any recommendations to address the concerns 
raised by ETAAC within 60 days of the enactment of this Act. 
The Committee shares some of these concerns and further 
recommends that IRS delay implementing no-cost Internet tax 
filing services until such report has been submitted to the 
Committee for its review.

                          Tax Law Enforcement

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............    $3,336,838,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................     3,443,859,000
Recommended in the bill...............................     3,332,676,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -4,162,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................      -111,183,000

                                MISSION

    This appropriation provides for the examination of tax 
returns, both domestic and international; the administrative 
and judicial settlement of taxpayer appeals of examination 
findings; technical rulings; monitoring employee pension plans; 
determining qualifications of organizations seeking tax-exempt 
status; examining tax returns of exempt organizations; 
enforcing statutes relating to detection and investigation of 
criminal violations of the internal revenue laws; collecting 
unpaid accounts; compiling statistics of income and compliance 
research; and, securing unfiled tax returns and payments.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,332,676,000 
for Tax Law Enforcement, a decrease of $4,162,000 below the 
fiscal year 2000 enacted level and a decrease of $111,183,000 
below the budget estimate. Within the level provided is an 
increase above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level of 
$110,967,000 to cover anticipated increases in pay and an 
increase of $26,537,000 to cover other labor benefits and non-
labor items. Decreases to the enacted level include inter-
appropriation transfers of $141,000,000 ($100,000,000 during 
fiscal year 2000 and $41,000,000 during fiscal year 2001) and a 
transfer of $666,000 to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration. The Committee has not provided funds for the 
Counterterrorism Initiative. The Committee has not provided any 
increases for the Staffing Tax Administration for Balance and 
Equity (STABLE) initiative or for operational support 
contracts. The level of funding provided includes $6,000,000 
for low income taxpayer clinics, the same level of funding that 
was provided in fiscal year 2000 and that is included in the 
budget estimate. The Committee notes that $63,404,000 was 
appropriated to this account for fiscal year 2000 to implement 
the new organizational structure and that these funds remain in 
the budget for fiscal year 2001.
    The Committee also notes that the IRS Criminal 
Investigations Division will be funded at an increased level 
(+$25,000,000) through the Interagency Crime and Drug 
Enforcement appropriation. Previously, much of the IRS Criminal 
Investigations Division participation in Organized Crime Drug 
Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) cases was subsidized by the IRS 
Tax Law Enforcement appropriation. The increased funding in the 
Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement appropriation for IRS 
Criminal Investigations Division participation in OCDETF cases 
will, in effect, result in additional IRS resources being 
devoted to tax law enforcement.

             Earned Income Tax Credit Compliance Initiative

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $144,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       145,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       145,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,000,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    The Earned Income Tax Credit Compliance Initiative provides 
for expanded customer service and public outreach programs, 
strengthened enforcement programs, and enhanced research 
efforts to reduce overclaims and erroneous filings associated 
with the Earned Income Tax Credit.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $145,000,000 
for the Earned Income Tax Credit Compliance Initiative, an 
increase of $1,000,000 above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level 
and the same as the budget estimate. The increase is requested 
and provided as an adjustment to maintain current levels of 
service. The Committee directs that all of the funds necessary 
to conduct and support this initiative be contained in this 
appropriation. The Committee is concerned about the 
effectiveness of this program and directs that the Internal 
Revenue Service provide to the Committees on Appropriations, 
the House Ways and Means Committee, and the Senate Finance 
Committee within 60 days of enactment of this act a report on 
the results, effectiveness, and success of the program.

                          Information Systems

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............    $1,455,401,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................     1,583,565,000
Recommended in the bill...............................     1,488,090,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       +32,689,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -95,475,000

                                MISSION

    This appropriation provides for Service-wide data 
processing support, including the evaluation, development, and 
implementation of computer systems (including software and 
hardware) requirements.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,488,090,000 
for Information Systems, an increase of $32,689,000 above the 
fiscal year 2000 enacted level and a decrease of $95,475,000 
below the budget estimate. Within the funding provided are 
increases above the enacted level of $43,000,000 from inter-
appropriation transfers ($40,000,000 during fiscal year 2000 
and $3,000,000 during fiscal year 2001); $20,389,000 to cover 
anticipated increases in pay; and $20,263,000 for other labor 
benefits and non-labor items. Decreases from the fiscal year 
2000 enacted level include a transfer of $66,000 to the 
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration; a reduction 
of $15,015,000 from the operations and maintenance budget 
activity; and a reduction of $35,882,000 from the Y2K budget 
activity, with the balance of this budget activity transferred 
to the operations and maintenance budget activity. The 
Committee has not provided any increases for the Staffing Tax 
Administration for Balance and Equity (STABLE) initiative or 
for business line investments.
    The Committee notes that the first quarter report for 
fiscal year 2000 by the IRS on the mainframe consolidation 
project estimates operational and maintenance savings of 
$698,300,000 over the next ten years. These savings will be 
realized from staff reductions, reduced hardware and software 
maintenance costs, reduced utility and space costs, and other 
miscellaneous items.
    The Committee also notes that $21,722,000 was appropriated 
in this account for fiscal year 2000 to implement 
organizational modernization by funding employee relocations, 
voluntary separation incentives, outplacement services, and 
significant retraining costs. These funds are retained in the 
budget estimate and in the level of funding approved by the 
Committee.

                   Information Technology Investments

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............  ................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       $71,751,000
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................  ................
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -71,751,000

                                MISSION

    This appropriation provides for funding of the PRIME 
Systems Integration Services Contractor to moderize the 
mainframe information technology systems of the IRS.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends no appropriation for Information 
Technology Investments for fiscal year 2001, the same as the 
fiscal year 2000 enacted level and a decrease of $71,751,000 
below the budget estimate. The Committee has not provided the 
$422,249,000 requested by the Administration as an advanced 
appropriation. To date, a total of $505,670,000 has been 
appropriated into this account, and a total of $216,421,000 has 
been released by the Congress. The Committee notes that the 
rate of spending for this account is slower than originally 
planned and that a total of $289,249,000 remains available. The 
Committee encourages the IRS to move forward with the business 
systems modernization effort with all due diligence and 
prudence to mitigate against risks and avoid unnecessary risks.

               BUSINESS SYSTEMS MODERNIZATION MANAGEMENT

    The Committee believes that the IRS is starting to take the 
right steps to review, redirect, and restructure its systems 
modernization decisions and decision processes. However, the 
Committee also has concerns about lingering IRS management 
weaknesses: its ability to adhere to an approved spending plan, 
the delay in providing full staffing for and staff turnover in 
the business systems modernization office, the continuing need 
for mature software acquisition capabilities, the validating or 
renegotiating of contractor-provided cost estimates, the 
creation of performance-based contractor task orders, the full 
implementation of the enterprise life cycle methodology, and 
the completion and use of the Blueprint 2000 enterprise 
architecture. The Committee looks forward to continuing to work 
closely with the IRS on its business systems modernization 
effort.

          Administrative Provisions--Internal Revenue Service

    Section 101. The Committee continues the provision that 
allows the transfer of 5 percent of any appropriation, made 
available to the IRS to any other IRS appropriation, subject to 
prior Congressional approval.
    Section 102. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires the IRS to maintain a training program in taxpayer's 
rights, dealing courteously with taxpayers, and cross cultural 
relations.
    Section 103. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires the IRS to institute policies and procedures, which 
will safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer information.

                      United States Secret Service

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $687,312,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       824,500,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       823,800,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      +136,488,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -700,000

                                MISSION

    The Secret Service is responsible for the security of the 
President, the Vice President and other dignitaries and 
designated individuals; for enforcement of laws relating to 
obligations and securities of the United States and financial 
crimes such as financial institution fraud and other fraud; and 
for protection of the White House and other buildings within 
Washington, DC. It also has responsibility to provide security 
for national security special events, as designated by the 
President.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $823,800,000 
for the U.S. Secret Service Salaries and Expenses, $136,488,000 
above the amount appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and $700,000 
below the budget request. Of this amount $36,266,000 covers 
activities previously funded in the VCRTF or the Treasury 
Forfeiture Fund. Included in the Committee's recommendation is 
$1,767,000 not requested by the Administration for support of 
the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC). These funds will 
allow the Secret Service to extend its mission in threat 
assessment and protective intelligence by providing training 
for federal, state and local law enforcement officials; 
consulting with such officials on complex threat assessment 
cases; conducting research on threat assessment and violence 
prevention; and facilitating information sharing between 
agencies with protective responsibilities. The Committee 
commends the Secret Service for its work to prevent school 
violence through its NTAC initiative. The Committee also 
includes $3,633,000 for support of the National Center for 
Missing and Exploited Children, an increase of $437,000 above 
the President's request. Finally, the recommendation includes 
$3,500,000 to permit the Secret Service to increase staffing to 
meet its requirements to provide security for national security 
special events. The Committee recommendation fully funds the 
request with the exception of the Counterterrorism Initiative, 
for which no funds are provided.

                    AGENT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

    The Secret Service has been facing an increasing attrition 
rate of young agents in the face of rapidly increasing 
protective duty workloads and overtime. To correct this, 
Congress last year provided assistance to increase staffing to 
meet this expanded workload, and to allow the Secret Service to 
continue its essential investigative mission without unduly 
sacrificing it to the protective mission. Most importantly, it 
permitted the Service to begin a national recruitment campaign 
that now appears to be very successful in bringing in strong 
candidates for careers with the Service, and essential to 
retaining a pool of skilled and experienced agents for the 
critical missions performed by the Secret Service.
    The Committee has included funding to permit a second 
increase in new agents as part of a three-year plan to reduce 
overtime for agents from as much as 79 hours per month to a 
more manageable 60 hours per month, as was true in 1994. 
However, the Committee is aware that meeting this target and 
ensuring that the Secret Service can adjust its workforce to 
optimize scheduling and balance workload for its agents is not 
assured when critical activities are not fully taken into 
account in budget planning. For example, costs associated with 
increased space requirements, and therefore moves or 
renovations, have not been budgeted. Unfunded administrative 
costs have been deferred, and the funding provided by Congress 
in fiscal year 2000 for that purpose are not included in the 
base budget for fiscal year 2001.
    In addition, no funding was requested for the costs of 
planning for and carrying out the event-specific 
responsibilities of the Secret Service under PDD 62. The 
Committee is extremely concerned that the Administration failed 
to request funding for security for the 2002 Salt Lake City 
Winter Olympics, although the Secret Service has primary 
responsibility for such planning. However, the Committee is 
aware that budget requests were made for the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
which are responsible for crisis and consequence management, 
not overall planning and security. Lack of a balanced, 
comprehensive approach to costs produces budget shortfalls and 
reactive policies. The Committee urges that the Secret Service, 
with the Treasury Department and the Office of Management & 
Budget, ensure that future budget submissions not only 
reconcile staffing with workload and fixed cost administrative 
requirements, but also address such major mission requirements.

     Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, and Related Expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $4,185,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         5,021,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         5,021,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +836,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    This account supports the acquisition, construction, 
improvement, equipment, furnishing and related costs for 
maintenance and support of Secret Service facilities, including 
the Secret Service Headquarters Building and the Rowley 
Training Center.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $5,021,000 for 
U.S. Secret Service Acquisition, Construction, Improvements, 
and Related Expenses, $836,000 above the amount appropriated in 
fiscal year 2000 and equal to the budget request. In addition, 
the Committee approves the request to use $3,920,000 in Super 
Surplus funding for security improvements to the Vice 
President's residence.

             General Provisions--Department of the Treasury

    Section 110. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires the Secretary of the Treasury to comply with certain 
reprogramming guidelines when obligating or expending funds for 
law enforcement activities.
    Section 111. The Committee continues the provision that 
allows the Department of the Treasury to purchase uniforms, 
insurance, and motor vehicles without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation, and enter into contracts with the 
State Department for health and medical services for Treasury 
employees in overseas locations.
    Section 112. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires expenditures of funds so as not to diminish efforts 
under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.
    Section 113. The Committee continues the provision that 
authorizes transfers, up to 2 percent, between law enforcement 
appropriations under certain circumstances.
    Section 114. The Committee continues the provision that 
authorizes transfers, up to 2 percent, between Departmental 
Offices, Office of the Inspector General, Financial Management 
Service, and the Bureau of the Public Debt appropriations under 
certain circumstances.
    Section 115. The Committee includes a new provision that 
authorizes transfer, up to 2 percent, between the Internal 
Revenue Service and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration under certain circumstances.
    Section 116. The Committee continues the provision that 
provides that no funds may be obligated for the purchase of law 
enforcement vehicles until the Secretary of the Treasury 
certifies that the purchase is consistent with Departmental 
vehicle management principles.
    Section 117. The Committee continues the provision that 
prohibits the Department of the Treasury from undertaking a 
redesign of the $1 Federal Reserve note.
    Section 118. The Committee continues and makes permanent 
the provision which amends Title 5 USC 5547 and authorizes 
Federal Law Enforcement agencies to pay their employees premium 
pay in excess of the pay period limitation for protective 
services authorized by Section 3056 (a) of title 18, United 
States Code.
    Section 119. The Committee includes a new provision that 
provides for transfers from and reimbursements to the Salaries 
and Expenses appropriation of the Financial Management Service 
for the purposes of debt collection.
    Section 120. The Committee includes a new provision that 
requires that no reorganization of the US Customs Service shall 
result in a reduction in service to the area served by the Port 
of Racine, Wisconsin, below the level of service provided in 
fiscal year 2000.
    Section 121. The Committee includes a new provision 
authorizing and directing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms to reimburse the subcontractor that provided services 
in 1993 and 1994 pursuant to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms contract number TATF 93-3 out of fiscal year 2001 
appropriations or prior year unobligated balances.
    Section 122. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds by the Department of the Treasury 
for the purpose of establishing and operating a new Federal law 
enforcement training facility, until an assessment of the need 
for, and cost effectiveness of such a facility, is completed by 
the General Accounting Office, and the establishment of said 
facility has been approved by the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations.

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE

                   Payment to the Postal Service Fund

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $93,056,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        96,093,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        96,093,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +3,037,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    Funds provided to the Postal Service in the Payment to the 
Postal Service Fund include the costs of revenue forgone on 
free and reduce-rate mail for the blind and overseas voters; 
reconciliation adjustments for amounts appropriated for free 
and reduced rate mail and the actual amounts required; and 
partial reimbursement for losses which the Postal Service 
incurred as a result of insufficient appropriations in fiscal 
years 1991 through 1993 and the additional revenues it would 
have received between 1993 and 1998 in the absence of certain 
rate phasing provisions of the Revenue Forgone Act of 1993.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $96,093,000 
for Payment to the Postal Service Fund, the same as the amount 
requested by the President and $3,037,000 above the amounts 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000. Of this amount, $66,473,000 
is provided for free mail for the blind and overseas voters and 
$620,000 is assumed as a reconciliation adjustment for 
differences between estimated free mail volumes and final 
audited volumes for fiscal year 1998. The total appropriation 
of $67,093,000 for free mail for the blind and overseas voters 
is made available on October 1, 2001. The Committee also 
includes $29,000,000 as reimbursements to the Postal Service 
for prior year reimbursement shortfalls due to insufficient 
appropriations and rate phasing provisions of the Revenue 
Forgone Act of 1993.

            RELOCATION BENEFITS FOR POSTAL SERVICE OFFICERS

    The Committee is extremely disappointed by the recent 
misuse of relocation benefits by the United States Postal 
Service (USPS), paying two executives $248,000 for local moves 
that did not involve a transfer in duty station. Based on the 
USPS Office of Inspector General Report issued on May 2, 2000, 
it is clear that, not only were internal controls inadequate at 
the time that these benefits were approved but also that 
established controls were not carefully followed. The Committee 
is pleased with the action taken by the Postal Board of 
Governors to strengthen USPS policy on the approval and 
administration of relocation benefits. Furthermore, the 
Committee strongly endorses ongoing work by the Office of the 
Inspector General to review the relocation program as well as 
officer benefits in general.

       us postal service weather emergency policies and practices

    The Committee is concerned that during Hurricanes Irene and 
Floyd, the US Postal Service may have put the health and safety 
of South Florida postal employees at risk by continuing 
business as usual for an unreasonable period and failing to 
curtail postal operations in a timely manner. The Committee 
believes that the health and safety of postal employees must 
never be at risk in order to deliver the mail.
    The US Postal Service is urged to report to the Committee, 
by October 1, 2000, on its weather emergency policies and 
practices. The Committee urges the US Postal Service to adopt a 
policy and practice of following the recommendations and 
directives of federal, state and local emergency management and 
weather authorities in all locations served by the US Postal 
Service when weather emergencies arise.
    In its October 1, 2000 report, the US Postal Service shall 
describe any variation between US Postal Service weather 
emergency policies and practices and those used by federal, 
state, and local authorities, including the justification for 
each variation and shall indicate whether it will agree to 
follow the recommendations and directives of federal, state and 
local emergency management and weather authorities in all 
locations served by the US Postal Service when weather 
emergencies arise.

 USPS/CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION HAZARDOUS CHILDREN'S PRODUCTS 
                      RECALL INFORMATION CAMPAIGN

    In FY 2000 the U.S. Postal Service partnered with the U.S. 
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to post recall 
information on hazardous children's products in post offices 
nationwide. As part of CPSC's annual recall round-up, the 
Postal Service agreed to put up CPSC posters with information 
on ``most wanted'' recalled products in 33,000 post offices. 
The Committee applauds this public-spirited campaign to prevent 
injuries and save lives and encourages all post offices to 
continue providing this important information to the American 
public.

                        ROXBORO, NORTH CAROLINA

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of the 
citizens of Roxboro, North Carolina. In addition to having 
inadequate parking, the current facility is crowded and 
understaffed. The Committee recommends that the US Postal 
Service evaluate the existing facility, determine the need for 
additional parking, additional staff, and a new Post Office in 
Roxboro and reports its findings to the Committee.

                      CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of the 
citizens of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The Committee supports 
the US Postal Service's effort to construct a new carrier/
retail facility that would relieve overcrowding at existing 
post offices and recommends that the US Postal Service report 
to the Committee on the status of this effort. The Committee 
also recommends that the US Postal Service evaluate the need 
for a contract facility in the Southern Village development and 
report its findings to the Committee.

                        SKIDAWAY ISLAND, GEORGIA

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of 
Skidaway Island, Georgia, located in Chatham County. The 
Committee, recognizing the community's rapid growth and the 
existing one-window contract site in a food market, recommends 
that the US Postal Service reevaluate the need for a Post 
Office facility on Skidaway Island, Georgia, working with local 
community leaders and officials. The Committee further 
recommends that the US Postal Service report its findings to 
the Committee.

                            stilson, georgia

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of 
Stilson, Georgia, located in Bulloch County. The Committee 
recommends that the US Postal Service evaluate the need for 
improved Post Office facilities in Stilson, Georgia, working 
with local community leaders and officials. The Committee 
further recommends that the US Postal Service report its 
findings to the Committee.

                           SOUTHSIDE, ALABAMA

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of 
Southside, Alabama, located in Etowah County. The Committee 
recommends that the US Postal Service evaluate the need for a 
classified post office in Southside, Alabama, working with 
local officials and community leaders. The Committee further 
recommends that the US Postal Service report its findings to 
the Committee.

                         SPRING GARDEN, ALABAMA

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of Spring 
Garden, Alabama, located in Cherokee County. Residents of 
Spring Garden on rural route one (36275) receive their mail via 
rural route one out of the Piedmont Post Office (36272) located 
in Calhoun County, Alabama. The Committee recommends that the 
US Postal Service, working with local officials and community 
leaders, evaluate the need for relocating Piedmont rural route 
one (36272) to Spring Garden rural route one (36275), as well 
as the need for constructing a new Post Office in Spring 
Garden. The Committee further recommends that the US Postal 
Service report is findings to the Committee.

                        SIGNAL HILL, CALIFORNIA

    The Committee is concerned about the postal needs of Signal 
Hill, California, particularly that the zip codes do not 
correspond to the City's jurisdictional boundaries. This 
situation has led to incorrectly delivered mail, insurance rate 
problems, and other zip code related problems. The Committee is 
also aware that the USPS could consolidate local mail routes in 
order to create a unique zip code for Signal Hill. The 
Committee urges the US Postal Service to evaluate the proposal 
for a single Signal Hill zip code and to report its findings to 
the Committee no later than August 1, 2000.

TITLE III--EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 
                             THE PRESIDENT

        Compensation of The President and the White House Office

                     COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............          $250,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................           390,000
Recommended in the bill...............................           390,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +140,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    These funds provide for the compensation of the President 
as well as official expenses, as authorized by Title 3.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $390,000 for 
Compensation of the President, $140,000 above the amounts 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and the same as the amount 
requested by the President. In accordance with Section 644 of 
Public Law 106-58, the Treasury and General Government 
Appropriations Act, 2000, this increase will cover the 
additional costs of increasing compensation for the President 
to $400,000 per year, effective at noon on January 20, 2001.

                         Salaries and Expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $52,243,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        53,288,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        52,135,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          -108,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -1,153,000

                                MISSION

    The Salaries and Expenses account of the White House Office 
supports staff and administrative services necessary for the 
direct support of the President. This account also includes 
reimbursements to the White House Communications Agency.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $52,135,000 
for White House Office Salaries and Expenses, $108,000 below 
the amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of 
$1,153,000 from the President's request. The Committee denies 
the requests of $201,000 to restore the fiscal year 2000 
rescission, $450,000 for anticipated severance payments, 
$500,000 for costs associated with replacing equipment during 
the transition and $2,000 in unspecified increases to the 
object class ``Other Services''. The Committee recommends that 
all White House Office transition related costs not included in 
the fiscal year 2001 appropriation be submitted as a 
supplemental request by the incoming Administration. Finally, 
the Committee assumes a transfer of $500,000 to the Office of 
Administration for costs associated with upgrading the 
Executive Office of the President's (EOP) web page, as 
requested by the President.

                           FIRST LADY TRAVEL

    The Committee continues to have significant concerns 
regarding the use of the government aircraft for political 
travel associated with the Senatorial campaign of the First 
Lady. Since June 9, 1999, the White House has reported that the 
First Lady has taken 77 political trips associated with her 
campaign on government aircraft. There were approximately 250 
flight hours at a cost of $3,705 per hour, the cost of 
operating a C-20, for a total cost of $925,076. To date, the 
First Lady's campaign has reimbursed the taxpayer $145,611, 
consistent with all current laws and regulations governing 
First Family travel. The Committee believes that full 
disclosure of these costs is justified. The Committee has been 
extremely displeased with the lack of cooperation by the White 
House in this regard and, in particular, that it took the White 
House six months to respond to requests for information on this 
matter. The Committee is also extremely displeased that the 
information has been provided on a piecemeal basis and 
continues to believe that it has not received all of the 
information requested. At best, the White House has been both 
uncooperative and intentionally ambiguous in its responses to 
questions related to First Lady travel.
    On May 3, 2000, the Committee directed the White House to 
provide monthly reports on First Lady political travel. These 
reports, due the 15th of each month, are to include the 
following for each political trip: date, destination, type of 
aircraft used, total flight hours, passenger manifest 
(excluding Secret Service personnel), invoice generated by 
Airlift Operations, amount and date of reimbursement received 
by Airlift Operations, and operating cost per hour for each 
type of aircraft utilized, as determined by the Department of 
Defense. The Committee has received three reports but remains 
concerned that the White House continues to resist submitting 
these reports in a timely and complete manner. The Committee 
reminds the White House that it will be difficult to provide 
federal appropriations in support of political travel of the 
First Lady in the event that future reports do not include 
complete, timely, and accurate documentation.

                 Executive Residence at the White House

                           OPERATING EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $9,225,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        10,900,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        10,286,470
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,061,470
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -613,530

                                MISSION

    These funds provide for the care, maintenance, and 
operation of the Executive Residence.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $10,286,470 
for the operating expenses of the Executive Residence, an 
increase of $1,061,470 from the amounts appropriated in fiscal 
year 2000 and a reduction of $613,530 from the amounts 
requested by the President. The Committee denies the 
President's request of $278,500 for supplies and materials 
recognizing that there is approximately $450,000 in the base 
appropriation for these requirements; the Committee also denies 
the request of $300,050 for an additional 4 FTE and $35,000 to 
restore the FY 2000 rescission.

                   White House Repair and Restoration

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............          $808,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         5,510,000
Recommended in the bill...............................           658,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          -150,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -4,852,000

                                MISSION

    To provide for the repair, alteration, and improvement of 
the Executive Residence at the White House, a separate account 
was established in fiscal year 1996 to program and track 
expenditures for capital improvement projects at the Executive 
Residence at the White House.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $658,000 for 
necessary repair and restoration work within the Executive 
Residence, a reduction of $150,000 from the amounts 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of $4,852,000 
from the amounts requested by the President. The Committee 
denies the following requests: $4,542,000 for renovation and 
replacement of the concrete raceway containing communication 
lines, $100,000 for costs associated with the upcoming 
transition, $150,000 for linen replacement, $60,000 for 
computer modernization, and $2,000 to restore the fiscal year 
2000 rescission. The Committee recommends that Executive 
Residence transition related costs not funded in the fiscal 
year 2001 appropriation be submitted as a supplemental request 
by the incoming Administration.

                     COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS REPAIRS

    The Committee provides $458,000 for the design of the 
renovation and replacement of the existing concrete raceway 
containing voice and communication lines serving the East Wing 
and the Executive Residence, as requested by the President. 
Nonetheless, the Committee is extremely concerned by the total 
estimated costs of this project. The Committee understands that 
project design will be complete within nine months and that the 
fiscal year 2001 request assumes construction would begin in 
August of 2001. Although the lack of construction funding may 
cause a project delay of approximately two months, the 
Committee believes that, absent a final design, the 
construction costs are difficult to estimate. The Committee 
directs the Executive Residence to submit the completed design 
to the Committee for review, including an estimate of total 
construction costs.

 Special Assistance to the President and the Official Residence of the 
                             Vice President

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $3,609,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         3,673,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         3,664,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................           +55,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................            -9,000

                                MISSION

    These funds support the official duties and functions of 
the Office of the Vice President.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,664,000 for 
the Office of the Vice President, an increase of $55,000 from 
amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of 
$9,000 from amounts requested by the President. The Committee 
denies the request of $9,000 for the costs associated with 
replacing equipment during the upcoming transition. The 
Committee recommends that transition related costs within the 
Office of the Vice President not funded in the fiscal year 2001 
appropriation be submitted as a supplemental request by the 
incoming Administration.

                           Operating Expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............          $330,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................           354,000
Recommended in the bill...............................           354,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................           +24,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    These funds support the care and operation of the Vice 
President's residence and specifically support equipment, 
furnishings, dining facilities, and services required to 
perform and discharge the Vice President's official duties, 
functions and obligations.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $354,000 for 
the Operating Expenses of the Vice President's residence, an 
increase of $24,000 above fiscal year 2000 enacted levels and 
the same as the amount requested by the President.

                      Council of Economic Advisers

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $3,825,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         4,110,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         3,997,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +172,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -113,000

                                MISSION

    The Council of Economic Advisers analyzes the national 
economy and its various segments, advises the President on 
economic developments, recommends policies for economic growth 
and stability, appraises economic programs and policies of the 
Federal Government, and assists in preparation of the annual 
Economic Report of the President to Congress.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $3,997,000, an 
increase of $172,000 above the amounts appropriated in fiscal 
year 2000, and a decrease of $113,000 from amounts requested by 
the President. The Committee denies the request of $106,000 for 
two additional FTE and $7,000 for increased travel expenses.

                      Office of Policy Development

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $4,017,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         4,032,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         4,030,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................           +13,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................            -2,000

                                MISSION

    The Office of Policy Development supports the National 
Economic Council and the Domestic Policy Council in carrying 
out their responsibilities to advise and assist the President 
in the formulation, coordination, and implementation of 
economic and domestic policy. The Office of Policy Development 
also provides support for other domestic policy development and 
implementation activities, as directed by the President.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $4,030,000 for 
the Office of Policy Development, an increase of $13,000 from 
amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of 
$2,000 from amounts requested by the President. The Committee 
denies the request of $2,000 for increased travel expenses.

                       National Security Council

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $6,970,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         7,165,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         7,148,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +178,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................           -17,000

                                MISSION

    The National Security Council advises the President on the 
integration of domestic, foreign, and military policies 
relating to national security.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $7,148,000 for 
the National Security Council, an increase of $178,000 from 
amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of 
$17,000 from amounts requested by the President. The Committee 
denies the request of $17,000 to partially restore the fiscal 
year 2000 rescission.

                        Office of Administration

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $39,050,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        43,737,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        41,185,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +2,135,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -2,552,000

                                MISSION

    The Office of Administration is responsible for providing 
cost-effective, administrative services to the Executive Office 
of the President (EOP). These services, defined by Executive 
Order 12028 of 1977, include financial, personnel, library and 
records services, information management systems support, and 
general office services.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $41,185,000 
for the Office of Administration, an increase of $2,135,000 
from amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction 
of $2,552,000 from amounts requested by the President. Of this 
amount, the Committee provides $8,893,000 for the Capital 
Investment Plan, an increase of $121,000 from amounts 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of $1,012,000 
from amounts requested by the President.
    For Salaries and Expenses, the Committee denies the 
requests of $406,000 and 5 FTE for additional information 
technology staff, $360,000 in new money for the next generation 
of the EOP web page, $660,000 and 5 FTE for implementation of 
the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act and $114,000 to restore 
the fiscal year 2000 rescission. The Committee includes a new 
general provision (Section 637) delaying the effective date of 
the CFO Act until May 1, 2001, giving the President until 
October 1, 2001 to appoint a Chief Financial Officer for the 
EOP. For the Capital Investment Plan, the Committee denies the 
following requests: +$100,000 for video-teleconferencing; 
+$288,000 for telecommuting access; $85,000 for internet 
service improvements; $250,000 for travel laptops replacement; 
$175,000 for web page growth; $80,000 for contractor overhead; 
and $34,000 for restoration of the fiscal year 2000 rescission.

                        CAPITAL INVESTMENT PLAN

    The Committee remains concerned that the current 
Information Technology Architecture lacks a defined target 
architectural environment and that investments are being made 
that will ultimately not support the institutional business 
requirements of the EOP. In February 2000, the General 
Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed the EOP's 1999 Annual Update 
to the Information Technology Architecture (ITA) and concluded 
that, although the EOP's target architecture defines principles 
and goals governing how the EOP wants to operate in both 
business and technical terms, it does not define specific 
future business requirements and relationships. The Committee 
believes it is critical for the EOP to have both its current 
and future core business requirements defined. The Committee 
directs the EOP to include, as part of the 2000 Annual Update 
to the ITA: a definition of future core business processes for 
each of the component organizations within the EOP; an 
identification of systems applications to support business 
requirements; and a defined implementation plan for 
transitioning to the target environment.

                         Information Technology

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $8,400,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................  ................
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -8,400,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    This account was established as part of the fiscal year 
2000 emergency supplemental appropriations bill (P.L. 106-246) 
for costs associated with the restoration and reconstruction of 
certain electronic mail messages and for the inclusion of such 
messages in the Automated Records Management System.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    No funds were requested for this account in fiscal year 
2001 and none have been provided.

                    Office of Management and Budget

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $63,256,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        68,786,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        67,143,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +3,887,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -1,643,000

                                MISSION

    The Office of Management and Budget assists the President 
in the discharge of budgetary, economic, management, and other 
executive responsibilities.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $67,143,000 
for the Office of Management and Budget, an increase of 
$3,887,000 above fiscal year 2000 appropriated levels and a 
reduction of $1,643,000 from amounts requested by the 
President. The Committee denies without prejudice the request 
of $613,000 for an additional 9 FTE as well as the request of 
$1,030,000 for information technology enhancements.

                   LAW ENFORCEMENT JOURNEYMAN LEVELS

    The Committee is concerned that the President's fiscal year 
2001 budget request proposed upgrading the journeyman level pay 
grade of Officers of the Immigration and Naturalization Service 
(INS) but omitted the men and women who work side by side with 
INS at our nation's ports of entry--US Customs Inspectors. The 
Committee is concerned that this inequity will seriously 
detract from Custom's effort to attract and retain quality 
personnel. Therefore, the Committee directs the Office of 
Management and Budget to submit, as part of its fiscal year 
2002 budget request for the U.S. Customs Service, a proposal to 
upgrade the journeyman levels of Customs employees to bring 
them into parity with their INS counterparts.

                      COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION

    The Committee urges the OMB to follow historical precedence 
and law in releasing Commodity Credit Corporation funds upon 
the request and emergency designation of the Secretary of 
Agriculture in a timely fashion, as discussed in House Report 
106-619 of HR 4461.

                  southwest border coordination study

    Section 629 of P.L. 105-277 required the Director of ONDCP, 
the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General to 
conduct a study on Southwest Border counterdrug coordination, 
in consultation with other federal agencies, to include an 
assessment and action plan, including mechanisms and 
recommendations for planning, organization, staffing, funding, 
infrastructure and technology. That study was to be submitted 
in July 1999. The Committee understands that the Customs 
Service forwarded its contribution to the study to the Treasury 
Department in April 1999, and ONDCP forwarded the completed 
study to OMB on April 14, 2000, for interagency coordination. 
The Committee directs OMB to expedite this review and submit 
the study, which is now a year late, as soon as possible.

                              data quality

    The Committee has included statutory language (Section 515) 
which requires the Office of Management and Budget to develop, 
with public and federal agency involvement, guidelines 
providing policy and procedural guidance to Federal agencies 
for ensuring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, 
and integrity of information disseminated by Federal agencies, 
and information disseminated by non-Federal entities with 
financial support from the Federal government, in fulfillment 
of the purposes and provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (P.L. 104-13). Committee reconfirms its instructions 
with language directing OMB to issue such guidelines no later 
than the end of the fiscal year 2001, with a copy forwarded to 
the Committee on Appropriations.

        Apportionment for International Food Assistance Programs

    The Committee is concerned that the Office of Management 
and Budget is inappropriately involved in the detailed review 
of applications filed with the Department of Agriculture for 
international food assistance, particularly as a member of the 
Food Assistance Policy Council. While OMB does have a 
responsibility to be certain that funds are expended for the 
purposes for which they are appropriated, OMB's role is not to 
interfere with the policy determinations made by USDA, 
including the policy decision to allow for the monetization of 
commodities. The allocation and review process that has been in 
place has resulted in delays in the provision of food 
assistance that has hampered efforts to provide food assistance 
around the world in a timely fashion. It has also hindered 
USDA's ability to acquire commodities in a fashion designed to 
have a positive effect on the prices received by producers. The 
Committee directs OMB to apportion not less than 75% of funds 
for all of the food assistance programs operated by USDA no 
later than December 31, 2000, and to restrict its involvement 
with the Food Assistance Policy Council to administrative 
monitoring.

                 Office of National Drug Control Policy

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $22,823,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        25,400,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        24,759,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,936,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -641,000

                                MISSION

    The Office of National Drug Control Policy, established by 
the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, is charged with developing 
policies, objectives and priorities for the National Drug 
Control Program as defined by the Act and Executive Order 
12880, and by the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
Reauthorization Act of 1998.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $24,759,000 
for the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Salaries and 
Expenses, $1,936,000 above the fiscal year 2000 appropriation 
and $641,000 below the President's request. This includes 
funding for 125 full time equivalent (FTE) positions, including 
a new FTE to staff the Counterdrug Intelligence Secretariat 
(CDX). Funding is also included to restore base levels of 
personnel, operating costs, and equipment replacement, and 
$1,000,000 is provided to continue funding for model state drug 
law conferences. The Committee is unable to fund $641,000 of 
the amounts requested for communications ($172,000), other 
services ($313,000) and equipment ($156,000).

            COUNTERDRUG ENFORCEMENT IN U.S. NATIONAL FORESTS

    The Customs Service testified that they seized 1.5 million 
pounds of narcotics at U.S. ports of entry in fiscal year 1999. 
During that same period, the U.S. Forest Service destroyed the 
equivalent of 1 million pounds of marijuana growing in our 
national forests. The Committee directs the Office of National 
Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), in consultation with the U.S. 
Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and other 
relevant agencies, to review the issue of marijuana and the 
cultivation and production of controlled substances in our 
national forests. The Committee further directs ONDCP to submit 
a plan to address this problem, including legislative and 
funding recommendations, to the Committee by February 1, 2001.

                Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $32,052,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        20,400,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        29,750,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -2,302,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        +9,350,000

                                MISSION

    Pursuant to the Office of National Drug Control Policy 
Reauthorization Act of 1998 (title VII of Division C of Public 
Law 105-277), the Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center 
serves as the central counterdrug research and development 
organization for the United States Government.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $29,750,000 
for the Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center (CTAC), 
$2,302,000 below the fiscal year 2000 appropriation and 
$9,350,000 above the President's request. This includes 
$13,050,000 to maintain the current level of funding for the 
counterdrug technology transfer program, $16,000,000 to support 
CTAC's core research programs, and $700,000 to continue support 
for the U.S. Olympic Committee's anti-doping program.

                     CTAC RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

    The Committee recommends $16,000,000 for the basic research 
and development program. These funds will support four main 
programs: (1) the non-intrusive inspection technology program, 
which will examine jointly with the U.S. Customs Service long 
range technology alternatives for border and seaport inspection 
systems; (2) tactical technology for law enforcement 
organizations; (3) demand reduction, in particular providing 
support for brain imaging technology to bring about major 
advances in understanding how drug dependency affects the 
brain; and (4) testing of prototype counterdrug systems.

                      TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM

    The Committee remains strongly supportive of the technology 
transfer program, which allows CTAC to provide technologies 
developed with federal funding directly to state and local law 
enforcement agencies that might otherwise be unable to benefit 
from the developments due to limited budgets or technological 
expertise. Priority is given to candidates in High Intensity 
Drug Trafficking Areas, and on the ability and willingness of 
candidates to share in costs, either through in-kind or direct 
contributions. The basic technology for transfer includes 
information technology, analytical tools, communications, 
tracking and surveillance, and drug detection devices. The 
program has gained significant support from state and local law 
enforcement agencies, and the Committee understands that the 
funding provided in this bill addresses less than a quarter of 
the unmet demand. As of March 2000, the program has delivered 
over 1,570 pieces of equipment to 1,159 state and local law 
enforcement agencies. The program has demonstrated a very low 
administrative cost, with equipment purchases making up 84 
percent of costs. The program, which has received very high 
evaluation ratings from its users, is also heavily represented 
in local police and sheriff's organizations and in communities 
with populations under 500,000 (80 percent). Given the 
substantial unmet need for this relatively low-cost and high-
payoff program, the Committee strongly encourages ONDCP and the 
Administration to increase the funding level for this program 
as it develops its fiscal year 2002 budget.

                     Federal Drug Control Programs

             HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $191,271,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       192,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       192,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +729,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    The High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Program 
was established by the Director, ONDCP pursuant to section 1005 
of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988, and now as reauthorized by 
section 707 of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Act 
of 1998 to provide assistance to Federal and state and local 
law enforcement entities operating in those areas most 
adversely affected by drug trafficking.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $192,000,000 
for the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, $729,000 
above the fiscal year 2000 appropriation and the same as the 
President's request.

                     MEASURES OF HIDTA PERFORMANCE

    The Committee recognizes the high demand to add new HIDTAs 
and to expand existing ones, particularly recently established 
HIDTAs that have not received the base annual funding level 
funding of $2.5 million. There is also strong pressure to 
prevent any reduction in funding for existing HIDTAs. In almost 
any budget scenario, the HIDTA Program must function within 
realistic constraints--and so some tradeoff between growth and 
stasis must be found.
    The Committee supports a vigorous HIDTA Program, and last 
year provided two more FTE for the program office. The 
Committee underscores the need for performance-based management 
of the HIDTA Program, ensuring that HIDTAs that demonstrate 
performance and need are provided adequate resources. At the 
same time, the Committee believes that it is essential to 
identify HIDTAs where a change in the threat may have altered 
the requirements or where performance or management require 
additional attention.
    The Committee regrets that it is unable to provide funding 
above the President's request, and does not earmark the HIDTA 
program in order to give HIDTA management the flexibility and 
responsibility to allocate resources to where the greatest need 
lies. However, the Committee directs the Administration, as it 
develops its FY 2001 allocation plan and its FY 2002 budget, to 
budget adequately for support of existing HIDTAs, including 
funding additional program or expansion costs, and to allow for 
adding new HIDTAs as needed. The Committee is aware of areas 
facing increased drug trafficking that may be appropriate 
candidates for designation as a HIDTA, inclusion in an existing 
HIDTA, or increased funding, such as expanding the Northwest 
HIDTA to counties in Southwest Washington; increasing the Gulf, 
West Texas, and Central Florida HIDTAs; and fully funding new 
HIDTA base costs. While the Committee does not establish 
ceilings or floors on funding for specific programs or HIDTAs, 
it directs ONDCP to make its designation and funding decisions 
based on its performance measures of effectiveness, and to 
report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
prior to any decision to reduce such funding.

                        Special Forfeiture Fund

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $215,297,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       259,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       219,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +3,703,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -40,000,000

                                MISSION

    The Special Forfeiture Fund was established by the Anti-
Drug Abuse Act of 1988, as amended, to be administered by the 
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. While 
the fund was originally authorized to receive deposits from the 
Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund and the Treasury 
Forfeiture Fund, its current source of funding is direct 
appropriations.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $219,000,000 
for the Special Forfeiture Fund, $3,703,000 above the fiscal 
year 2000 appropriation and $40,000,000 below the President's 
request. This includes $185,000,000 for the National Youth 
Anti-Drug Media Campaign; $1,000,000 for the National Drug 
Court Institute; $30,000,000 to carry out the Drug Free 
Communities Act (DFCA); and $3,000,000 for the costs of space 
and operations of the counter drug intelligence executive 
secretariat (CDX) established as part of the General 
Counterdrug Intelligence Plan (GCIP). The Committee denies 
without prejudice $10,000,000 for increased funding for the 
Youth Media Campaign, $5,000,000 for the DFCA, and $25,000,000 
for additional funding for a national criminal justice 
treatment demonstration project.

                NATIONAL YOUTH ANTI-DRUG MEDIA CAMPAIGN

    The Committee recommendation would bring total funding for 
the youth media campaign to $750,000,000 over fiscal years 
1998-2001. The Committee has held annual budget hearings on the 
progress of the campaign as it has developed and grown, as well 
as several hearings on particular issues of interest to the 
Committee such as the evaluation methodology and the 
involvement of the campaign with the entertainment industry in 
placing campaign messages in entertainment programming. The 
first of regular semi-annual evaluation reports on the 
performance of the campaign will be submitted in July 2000, by 
the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In addition, the 
Committee is awaiting a report by GAO on the performance by 
ONDCP and its contractors in initiating the campaign and 
meeting statutory and other guidance provided by Congress, as 
well as in setting up a meaningful assessment mechanism. Given 
ONDCP testimony that the campaign can be expected to last 
longer than the original five-year period for which it was 
planned, the Committee intends to use such findings to assess 
the impact this significant campaign has had and can be 
expected to have on reducing the use of drugs and dangerous 
substances by youth and teens. There is no doubt that the 
campaign has become very visible, gaining both admirers and 
detractors. The proof of the utility of this particular project 
will lie in its impact on behavior, however, and not just in 
whether it has been noticed or gained a special niche in 
advertising or popular culture. The Committee notes that future 
funding for this program will depend on concrete, verifiable 
and scientifically valid evidence of such impact.

             media campaign target audiences and minorities

    The Committee is aware of concerns regarding whether the 
content and media outlets utilized by the National Anti-Drug 
Youth Media Campaign will adequately convey the anti-drug 
message to African-American and other minority youth. The 
Committee therefore directs ONDCP, in its oversight of the 
media campaign, to ensure that the diversity of the target 
audiences is fully addressed, and to report to the Committee 
specifically on this issue by September 1, 2000.

                       drug free communities act

    The Drug Free Communities Act of 1998 (DFCA) established 
the basis for a partnership between community coalitions and 
the federal government, sharing costs and experience towards 
creating strong local organizations to advance local solutions 
to reducing drug use. A key element of DFCA was the requirement 
that participating coalitions demonstrate some degree of 
financial viability apart from the grants provided them. As the 
program has developed, the expectation is that participants 
will gradually increase their share of costs and ``graduate'' 
from the program after approximately five years. In the 
meantime, there has been no end to the number of interested 
organizations that can meet these criteria. The Committee 
regrets that it cannot fully fund the authorized $40,000,000 
program level, and recognizes that the need for administration 
and evaluation costs will further reduce available grant 
funding. The Committee encourages ONDCP to explore ways to 
fully fund the DFCA at its authorized level as it prepares its 
fiscal year 2002 budget.

             counterdrug intelligence executive secretariat

    The General Counterdrug Intelligence Plan (GCIP) was 
initiated in February 2000 after several years of effort by 
departments, the intelligence community, and ONDCP to create a 
counterdrug intelligence architecture that would permit and 
coordinate the sharing of intelligence gathered and analyzed by 
the various agencies engaged in counterdrug intelligence 
gathering. In part, this was a response to the mandate included 
in the 1998 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government 
Appropriation Act. In the past, it has been extremely difficult 
to cross the barrier between national, foreign intelligence 
gathering agencies and law enforcement intelligence agencies. 
As a result, much useful information relating to drug 
organizations and trafficking has not been accessible by the 
very law enforcement and policy officials who most need it. The 
GCIP establishes a formal mechanism for sharing such 
information. This organization, based on a cabinet-level 
council, senior working group, and a counterdrug intelligence 
executive secretariat (CDX), will promote the active sharing 
and coordination of such information. As a result, more useful, 
timely, and actionable information should reach law enforcement 
agencies and the quality of information policy makers need for 
strategic analysis and decisions should improve. The Committee 
includes $3,000,000 for the first full year of operation for 
the CDX, and encourages the cabinet, the intelligence 
community, and other executive agencies involved to inform the 
Committee of progress in achieving better coordination within 
the federal government, as well as with state, local and 
foreign law enforcement organizations.

                  Funds Appropriated to the President

                          unanticipated needs

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............          $996,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         3,500,000
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          -996,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -3,500,000

                                mission

    These funds enable the President to meet unanticipated 
exigencies in support of the national interest, security or 
defense.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends no appropriation for Unanticipated 
Needs of the President, a reduction of $966,000 from amounts 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a reduction of $3,500,000 
from amounts requested by the President.

        elections commission of the commonwealth of puerto rico

    The Committee is aware of the long-standing question of 
Puerto Rico's political status. Congress and Puerto Rico have a 
shared interest and responsibility in addressing this matter 
and have been considering the island's future political status 
since 1917 when Congress granted Puerto Ricans United States 
citizenship. The Committee understands the need for the people 
of Puerto Rico to fully participate in any decision on their 
future. This matter can only be resolved through a cooperative 
effort by the Congress, the President, and the people of Puerto 
Rico. However, the Committee also is aware of the December 13, 
1998, political status plebiscite in Puerto Rico, which yielded 
inconclusive results, and urges the people of Puerto Rico to 
continue working to develop a consensus on what the island's 
future political status should be.

                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

 Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $2,664,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         4,158,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         4,158,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,494,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    The Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
Severely Disabled administers the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act of 
1971, as amended. Its primary objective is to increase the 
employment opportunities for people who are blind or have other 
severe disabilities and, whenever possible, to prepare them to 
engage in competitive employment.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $4,158,000 for 
the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
Severely Disabled, an increase of $1,494,000 from amounts 
appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and the same as the amount 
requested by the President.

                      Federal Election Commission

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $38,008,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        40,500,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        40,240,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +2,232,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -260,000

                                mission

    The Commission administers the disclosure of campaign 
finance information, enforces limitations on contributions and 
expenditures, supervises the public funding of Presidential 
elections, and performs other tasks related to Federal 
elections.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $40,240,000 
for the Federal Election Commission (FEC), an increase of 
$2,232,000 from amounts appropriated in fiscal year 2000 and a 
reduction of $260,000 from amounts requested by the President. 
The recommended appropriation is also a reduction of $720,000 
from amounts requested by the FEC through its bypass authority. 
The Committee denies the requests of $100,000 for legal 
document imaging, $100,000 for the completion of Voting Systems 
Standards, and $60,000 for a national conference on Voting 
Systems Standards. Finally, the Committee denies the FEC's 
request of $460,000 for an additional 4 FTE within the 
Commissioner's offices.
    The Committee has included additional language (Section 
637) regarding certain reforms within the FEC, including: a 
clarification of election cycle reporting of certain 
expenditures, a clarification of permissible use of facsimile 
machines and electronic mail to file reports, a clarification 
of the treatment of lines of credit obtained by candidates as 
commercially reasonable loans, and a change in the deadline for 
reporting of major campaign contributions received within the 
last 20 days of an election from 48 hours to 24 hours. These 
reforms are applicable with respect to elections occurring 
after January 2001.

                        enforcement initiatives

    The Committee is pleased with FEC's progress in 
implementing two reforms targeted to enhancing enforcement 
procedures: establishing an administrative fine system for 
straightforward reporting violations and exploring options to 
establish an Alternative Dispute Resolution pilot program. The 
Committee directs FEC to provide periodic status reports to the 
House Committee on Appropriations on both initiatives including 
their impact on workloads within the Office of General Counsel 
and the numbers of cases dismissed.

                   Federal Labor Relations Authority

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $23,737,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        25,058,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        25,058,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,321,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    The Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA), established 
by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, serves as a neutral 
party in the settlement of disputes that arise between unions, 
employees, and agencies on matters outlined in the Federal 
Service Labor Management Relations statute, decides major 
policy issues, prescribes regulations, and disseminates 
information appropriate to the needs of agencies, labor 
organizations, and the public. Establishment of the FLRA gives 
full recognition to the role of the Federal Government as an 
employer. Pursuant to the Foreign Service Act of 1980, FLRA 
also supports the Foreign Service Impasse Disputes Panel and 
the Foreign Service Labor Relations Board.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $25,058,000 
for the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the same as the 
amount requested by the President and $1,321,000 above the 
fiscal year 2000 appropriated level.

                    General Services Administration

                         federal buildings fund

Appropriation:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...........      -$20,022,000
    Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       681,871,000
    Recommended in the bill...........................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       +20,022,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................      -681,871,000
Limitations on Availability of Revenue (not an
 appropriation):
    Limitation on availability, fiscal year 2000 to       $5,321,634,000
     date.............................................
    Limitation on availability, budget estimate,           6,326,621,000
     fiscal year 2001.................................
    Recommended in the bill...........................     5,272,370,000
Bill compared with:
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2000 to date.       -49,264,000
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2001 estimate    -1,054,251,000

                                mission

    The Federal Buildings Fund (FBF) finances the activities of 
the Public Buildings Service, which provides space and services 
for Federal agencies in a relationship similar to that of 
landlord and tenant. The FBF, established in 1975, replaces 
direct appropriations by using income derived from rent 
assessments, which approximate commercial rates for comparable 
space and services. The Committee on Appropriations makes funds 
available through a process of placing limitations on 
obligations from the FBF as a way of allocating funds for 
various FBF activities. The Committee may also appropriate 
funds into the FBF as a way of covering the difference between 
the total revenues coming into the FBF and the total limitation 
on the expenditure from the FBF.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends that no funds be appropriated to 
the Federal Buildings Fund for fiscal year 2001. The Committee 
also has not provided the $477,484,000 requested by the 
Administration as advanced appropriations. The Committee 
acknowledges major unmet infrastructure construction needs, 
particularly for law enforcement and related facilities, but is 
fiscally constrained from providing for any of these needs by 
direct appropriations.
    The Committee, in not recommending any direct 
appropriations for the Federal Buildings Fund, has specifically 
not provided any appropriations for reimbursing the fund for 
the costs incurred by the General Services Administration (GSA) 
of moving the Federal Communications Commission to the Portals 
II building in Washington. These moving and relocation costs 
are the responsibility of the agency being moved.

                         african burial ground

    The Committee recognizes the efforts of GSA to memorialize 
the 17th and 18th century African Americans whose remains were 
discovered during the excavation for a new federal building at 
Foley Square in lower Manhattan. Since 1992, significant work 
has been conducted on the memorialization but additional work 
is required prior to and including the reinterment of the 
remains. The Committee expects GSA to complete the project 
using funds made available from the Federal Buildings Fund or 
from the borrowing authority remaining for the building project 
at Foley Square.

                      Construction and Acquisition

Limitations on Availability of Revenue (not an
 appropriation):
    Limitation on availability, fiscal year 2000 to          $54,197,000
 date.................................................
    Limitation on availability, budget estimate,             779,788,000
 fiscal year 2001.....................................
    Recommended in the bill:                            ................
Bill compared with:
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2000 to date.       -54,197,000
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2001 estimate      -779,788,000

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends no new obligational authority for 
construction and acquisition, a decrease of $54,197,000 below 
the amount provided in fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of 
$779,788,000 below the amount requested in the budget estimate. 
In setting overall spending priorities for the Federal 
Buildings Fund, the Committee believes that, given the limited 
funds available, it is essential to maintain to the greatest 
extent possible the inventory of existing Federal facilities.

                        COURTHOUSE CONSTRUCTION

    The Committee is strongly aware of the need for new 
courthouse construction and is disappointed that it is not able 
to provide any funds for this effort. The Committee notes that 
the fiscal year 2001 budget request was the first in three 
years (since fiscal year 1998) to include funds for the 
construction of new courthouses. However, the Committee is 
concerned about several aspects of the budget submission for 
courthouse construction. The request submitted by the 
Administration differs from the request of the Judicial 
Conference of the United States in both project priorities and 
in funding amounts for specific projects. This Committee is not 
accustomed or anxious to arbitrate between the executive branch 
and the judicial branch in this matter. This bill carries a 
provision, similar to a provision carried in past bills and 
enacted into law, aimed at ensuring that the judicial branch 
and the executive branch reach an agreement regarding 
courthouse construction prior to the GSA budget request being 
submitted to Congress.
    It is the intent of this Committee in funding new 
courthouse construction to strictly follow the project 
priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States. 
This Committee has worked with the courts and encouraged them 
to develop a system for ranking new courthouse construction 
projects in priority order. The budget estimate submitted by 
the Administration for new courthouse construction did not 
follow the exact priorities of the courts. The Committee is not 
persuaded as to the reasons or rationales behind all of the 
deviations from the priorities of the courts by the 
Administration.
    With respect to courtroom sharing, the Committee notes that 
the Judicial Conference has contracted with Ernst and Young to 
conduct a study of courtroom utilization issues. The Committee 
directs GAO to provide a review of the Ernst and Young study as 
it relates to utilization and courtroom sharing to the House 
Committee on Appropriations and the House Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure 180 days after the Ernst and 
Young study is made publicly available. This review is to focus 
on the methodologies and procedures used by the Ernst and Young 
study and is to comment on the objectivity and general utility 
of the results of the study.
    In explaining the Administration's decision to impose a 
``two courtrooms for every three judges'' policy at a hearing 
before the Committee, the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget cited a 1997 GAO report on courthouse construction. 
The Committee, while conscious of the continuing need for sound 
fiscal management, questions the unilateral application made by 
the Administration of the GAO findings in formulating its 
courtroom sharing policy and notes that the GAO itself 
concludes in the same report that the results of its 1997 
analysis on courtroom usage cannot be projected across all 
federal district courts and that more study is needed. The 
blanket application of a ``two courtrooms for every three 
judges'' courtroom sharing policy precludes consideration of 
significant differences among the various courthouse projects 
in court caseloads and court operations. Also of significant 
concern to the Committee is the added construction costs that 
would be incurred, according to GSA and the courts, were the 
OMB policy applied to projects that are designed and ready for 
construction, such as the new courthouse projects in the 
District of Columbia and in Miami, Florida. The Committee is 
also very concerned about other changes proposed by OMB to 
projects previously agreed upon by GSA and the Judicial 
Conference, such as changing the Los Angeles, California, 
courthouse project from a free-standing courthouse to an annex 
facility.

                       MIAMI, FLORIDA, COURTHOUSE

    The Committee directs the General Services Administration 
to make every effort to include minority contractors, vendors, 
and employees in every phase of the design, construction, and 
operation of the new courthouse to be constructed in Miami, 
Florida. The Committee further directs the General Services 
Administration to provide a report by February 1, 2001, on its 
plans for achieving this essential objective and its progress 
to date.

                        past courthouse projects

    The Committee is aware that project cost estimates by GSA 
for a number of courthouses over the past several years had 
been below the amounts necessary to award construction of the 
project as designed. Several of these projects have been able 
to move forward using additional funds provided through 
reprogramming or internal transfers. The Committee acknowledges 
that delays in funding for courthouses may have an impact on 
accuracy of cost estimating but recommends that GSA review its 
methodology and process for making project cost estimates and 
quickly move forward to address any remaining issues that might 
stem from the low estimates for courthouse projects.

                        Repairs and Alterations

Limitations on Availability of Revenue (not an
 appropriation):
    Limitation on availability, fiscal year 2000 to         $598,674,000
 date.................................................
    Limitation on availability, budget estimate,             721,193,000
 fiscal year 2001.....................................
    Recommended in the bill...........................       490,592,000
Bill compared with:
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2000 to date.      -108,082,000
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2001 estimate      -230,601,000

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends a limitation of $490,592,000 for 
repairs and alterations, a decrease of $108,082,000 below the 
enacted limitation level for fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of 
$230,601,000 below the budget estimate. Within the amount 
provided are $290,000,000 for non-prospectus repair projects, 
$174,639,000 for prospectus repair projects, $10,953,000 for 
project design, and $5,000,000 each for the energy program, 
glass fragment retention program, and the chloroflurocarbon 
program. The Committee urges GSA to move forward as 
expeditiously as possible with the glass fragment retention 
program for addressing the physical threats and public safety 
issues associated with shattering glass windows and further 
directs GSA to conduct a study of the benefits that would 
result from and the costs that would be incurred by extending 
the glass fragment retention program to all federal buildings 
within GSA's inventory of owned space, including any 
recommendations for future action that might be appropriate, 
and provide this study to the Committee on Appropriations and 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure within 120 days 
of the enactment of this Act. The Committee has not identified 
in the bill which specific prospectus repair projects or design 
projects are to be conducted with the funds provided; it is the 
expectation of the Committee that the General Services 
Administration will make the most efficient use of the funds 
and move forward on those prospectus projects that are the 
highest priority.

 FEDERAL BUILDING AT 300 NORTH LOS ANGELES ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

    Repairs and improvements to the federal building located at 
300 North Los Angeles Street in Los Angeles, California, is a 
priority of the Committee. While the Committee understands the 
funding constraints within GSA's repair and alterations 
program, this federal building has been slated for renovation 
for several years and design funding for this project was 
provided in fiscal year 1994. Therefore, the Committee expects 
funding for this important project to be included in GSA's 
fiscal year 2002 budget estimate.

                          terre haute, indiana

    The Committee is aware of a memorandum of understanding 
between the Postal Service and the General Services 
Administration concerning a building in Terre Haute, Indiana, 
that is owned by the Postal Service but is no longer needed by 
the Postal Service. The Committee also is cognizant of pending 
legislation that would transfer the control and responsibility 
for the building from the Postal Service to the General 
Services Administration. The Committee encourages the Postal 
Service and the General Services Administration to continue 
working towards developing an appropriate and economically 
justifiable use as well as a management plan for the building.

                    Installment Acquisition Payments

Limitations on Availability of Revenue (not an
 appropriation)
    Limitation on availability, fiscal year 2000 to         $205,668,000
 date.................................................
    Limitation on availability, budget estimate,             185,369,000
 fiscal year 2001.....................................
    Recommended in the bill...........................       185,369,000
Bill compared with:
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2000 to date.       -20,299,000
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2001 estimate  ................

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends a limitation of $185,369,000 for 
installation acquisition payments, a decrease of $20,299,000 
below the enacted limitation level for fiscal year 2000 and the 
same as the budget estimate.

                            Rental of Space

Limitations on Availability of Revenue (not an
 appropriation)
    Limitation on availability, fiscal year 2000 to       $2,782,186,000
 date.................................................
    Limitation on availability, budget estimate,           2,944,905,000
 fiscal year 2001.....................................
    Recommended in the bill...........................     2,944,905,000
Bill compared with:
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2000 to date.      +162,719,000
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2001 estimate  ................

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends a limitation of $2,944,905,000 for 
rental of space, an increase of $162,719,000 above the enacted 
limitation level for fiscal year 2000 and the same as the 
budget estimate.

                             lease scoring

    GSA's rental of space program has steadily grown over the 
years, not only in dollar value but also as a percentage of 
obligations for the Federal Buildings Fund. The fiscal year 
2001 estimate of $2.945 billion for Rental of Space represents 
54 percent of the Federal Buildings Fund receipts. Eight years 
ago, the leasing costs were $1.889 billion and represented 
about 44 percent of the Federal Buildings Fund receipts.
    One of the principal reasons for this growth is GSA's 
reliance on shorter-term leases in order to meet scoring rules 
as set forth in the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 and the 
Deficit Reduction Act of 1997. These rules make it financially 
impossible for GSA to sign longer-term leases. A lease that 
violates any of these scoring rules is treated as a capital 
lease for budget scoring purposes, resulting in the entire cost 
of the lease being scored as budget authority in the first year 
of the lease. Leases not violating these rules are treated as 
operating leases and are scored annually as payments become 
due. Because of the budget scoring restrictions, GSA relies on 
10-year leases that cost 33 percent more on a comparable per-
square-foot basis than do 20-year leases.
    This budget scoring restriction effects GSA's ability to 
fund other important programs, such as repairs for maintaining 
the integrity of the federal building inventory and critically 
needed new construction. Continued reliance by GSA on short-
term leases will only lead to greater demands on the Federal 
Buildings Fund to cover rental costs. This vicious cycle can 
and must be broken by establishing a policy that does not 
restrict the use of long-term leases and that allows, where 
cost effective, for the prudent development and maintenance of 
federally owned buildings. Such a policy is not possible 
without relief from the current budget rules that govern lease 
transaction scoring.
    To that end, the General Accounting Office is directed to 
submit a comprehensive report on the effects that current 
scoring rules have had on GSA's leasing program. The report 
also is to contain recommendations on ways to address this 
problem. This report shall be submitted within 180 days of 
enactment of this Act to the House Committee on Appropriations 
and to the House Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure.

                          Building Operations

Limitations on Availability of Revenue (not an
 appropriation).......................................
    Limitation on availability, fiscal year 2000 to       $1,580,909,000
 date.................................................
    Limitation on availability, budget estimate,           1,624,771,000
 fiscal year 2001.....................................
    Recommended in the bill...........................     1,580,909,000
Bill compared with:
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2000 to date.  ................
    Availability limitation, fiscal year 2001 estimate       -43,862,000

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends a limitation of $1,580,909,000 for 
building operations for fiscal year 2001, the same limitation 
level as provided for fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of 
$43,862,000 below the budget estimate. Within this limitation 
level, the Committee has included $500,000 to conduct a site 
selection analysis for a replacement facility for the National 
Center for Environmental Prediction of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, currently located in Camp Springs, 
Maryland. The delineated area shall be in the Washington, D.C. 
Metropolitan area and include the consideration of appropriate 
educational institutions qualified to be project partners. A 
report on the findings of the study shall be provided to the 
Committee within 120 days of the enactment of this Act.
    Within the limitation level provided are funds to maintain 
GSA's support for telecommuting work centers in the Washington, 
DC, metropolitan area. The Committee looks forward to receiving 
the evaluation study required by last year's report (House 
Report 106-231), which GSA projects will be completed before 
the end of fiscal year 2000. The Committee encourages GSA to 
consider using, if warranted, a portion of the funds available 
for supporting telecommuting centers or other funds to identify 
and develop a plan to resolve technology barrier issues that 
impede the creation of home workstations for federal employees.
    The Committee recommends that GSA study the need for 
additional secure parking for the U.S. Courts and related 
federal agencies in the Solomon Building in Chattanooga, 
Tennessee, determine whether land is currently available, and 
estimate the cost of leasing or acquiring land for such 
purposes. The Committee further directs the GSA to analyze 
plans for the continued occupancy of the old U.S. Post Office 
building now occupied by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and to 
report its findings to the Committee within 90 days of the 
enactment of this Act.
    The Committee encourages GSA to work with the city of 
Ardmore, Oklahoma, and appropriately support its Streetscape 
Project for renovating sidewalks and parks.
    The Committee understands that GSA plans to conduct a 
Physical Security Review of the Terry Sanford Federal Building, 
located at 310 New Bern Avenue in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 
fiscal year 2001. The Committee is aware that the Building 
Security Committee has recommended some security enhancements 
to bring this building in line with the minimum standards for 
Level 4 facilities, and that GSA anticipates the Physical 
Security Review will confirm these recommendations. The 
Committee expects GSA to complete the Physical Security Review 
by January 1, 2001, and to implement any needed security 
enhancements expeditiously.

                 access to telecommunications services

    The Committee is aware that significant cost savings to the 
government are being achieved by the FTS 2001 and the 
Metropolitan Area Acquisition programs administered by GSA as a 
result of increased competition among communications services. 
The Committee notes that legislation has been introduced in 
Congress intended to help stimulate competition and promote 
fair and reasonable access to telecommunications services for 
federal agencies. The Committee encourages the Executive branch 
to continue working towards the goals of stimulating 
marketplace completition and ensuring fair and reasonable 
access to telecommunications services for federal agencies.

                         Policy and Operations

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $119,523,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       136,980,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       115,434,000
Bill compared with:
      Appropriation, fiscal year 2000.................        -4,089,000
      Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001...............       -21,546,000

                                mission

    This appropriations account provides for Government-wide 
policy, planning, and oversight associated with real and 
personal property asset management, supplies, information 
technology, electronic commerce, transportation and travel 
management, acquisition, and Federal advisory committees 
management. In addition, this activity provides for the 
internal policy, management, oversight, and coordination of all 
GSA programs.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $115,434,000 
for Policy and Operations, a decrease of $4,089,000 below the 
level provided for fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of 
$21,546,000 below the budget estimate. Increases to the fiscal 
year 2000 enacted level include $3,285,000 to cover increases 
in fixed costs so that the current levels of service can be 
maintained and $3,300,000 for protection and maintenance of the 
Lorton complex, bringing the total fiscal year 2001 GSA funding 
for the Lorton complex to $6,058,000. Decreases from the fiscal 
year 2000 enacted level include $2,000,000 for the digital 
learning centers, $275,000 for the virtual archive storage 
facility feasibility study, $1,399,000 as a result of reduced 
requirements at Governors Island, $3,300,000 associated with 
one-time costs of the fiscal year 2000 emergency supplemental 
appropriation, and $3,700,000 for the Federal Information 
Center, the funding responsibility for which has been 
transferred to the VA-HUD-Independent Agencies appropriations 
bill.
    GSA has in the past provided administrative and logistical 
support to the Olympics, Pan-American Games, and other 
international events. GSA performs these functions under 
authorities of the Department of the Army on a reimbursable 
basis. No direct appropriations have been requested or provided 
to GSA for these functions. The Committee encourages GSA assist 
the Salt Lake City Organizing Committee for the winter and 
Paralympic Games in 2002 as well as the 2001 World Police and 
Fire Games in Indiana.

                    public service recognition week

    The Committee recognizes that Public Service Recognition 
Week, a program of the Public Employees Roundtable, has 
educated America about the value of the career workforce, which 
carries out the daily operations of government. This program, 
which has existed for over 10 years, plays an important role in 
educating our nation's youth by providing them with timely 
information about their government. The Committee urges the 
General Services Administration to support the mission of the 
Public Employees Roundtable and provide $100,000 in 
administrative and logistical assistance to Public Service 
Recognition Week activities, the same level as was provided for 
fiscal year 2000.

                          electronic commerce

    The Committee encourages the use of Internet technology for 
electronic commerce as a cost effective and efficient method 
for federal agencies to purchase needed products and services 
from many qualified vendors. The Committee requests GSA to 
provide a report to the Committee by December 31, 2000, 
assessing GSA's progress in using Internet technology for 
electronic commerce as a purchasing tool for the federal 
government. The report should compare the general costs, 
accessibility, and timeliness among the major options available 
to federal agencies for making purchases (including Internet 
access to electronic commerce and more traditional purchase 
venues), and the report should discuss cost and other factors 
related to the use of government versus commercial Internet 
websites for electronic commerce.

                      badger army ammunition plant

    The Committee is aware that GSA is overseeing the disposal 
of the Badger Army Ammunition Plant near Baraboo, Wisconsin. 
The Committee recognizes that the GSA has delayed the 
development of a reuse plan since May 1999 to allow the 
community to develop a consensus for the reuse of the property 
at the Badger Army Ammunition Plant. The Committee also 
acknowledges the recent appointment of the Sauk County Badger 
Army Ammunition Plant Reuse Committee made up of various 
government and non-government stakeholders whose purpose is to 
develop such a consensus plan for the reuse of the property. 
The Committee urges GSA to work with the Sauk County Badger 
Army Ammunition Plant Reuse Committee in the development of a 
mutually acceptable reuse plan for this property.

                      Office of Inspector General

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $33,317,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        34,520,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        34,520,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,203,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation provides agencywide audit and 
investigative functions to identify and correct management and 
administrative deficiencies within GSA which create conditions 
for existing or potential instances of fraud, waste, and 
mismanagement. The audit function provides internal audit and 
contract audit services. Contract audits provide professional 
advice to GSA contracting officials on accounting and financial 
matters relative to the negotiation, award, administration, 
repricing, and settlement of contracts. Internal audits review 
and evaluate all facets of GSA operations and programs, test 
internal control systems, and develop information to improve 
operating efficiencies and enhance customer services. The 
investigative function provides for the detection and 
investigation of improper and illegal activities involving GSA 
programs, personnel, and operations.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $34,520,000 
for the Office of Inspector General, an increase of $1,203,000 
above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level and the same as the 
budget estimate. The increase provided is to cover increases in 
fixed costs so that the Office of Inspector General can 
maintain current levels of service.

           Allowances and Office Staff for Former Presidents

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $2,241,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         2,517,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         2,517,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +276,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation provides support consisting of pensions, 
office staffs, and related expenses for former Presidents 
Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush and 
Bill Clinton (after he leaves office) and for pension and 
postal franking privileges for the widow of former President 
Lyndon B. Johnson. Also, this appropriation is authorized to 
provide funding for security and travel related expenses for 
each former President and the spouse of a former President 
pursuant to Section 531 of Public Law 103-329.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,517,000 for 
Allowances and Office Staff for Former Presidents, an increase 
of $276,000 above the fiscal year 2000 enacted level and the 
same as the budget estimate. The increase is to cover 
authorized expenses to be incurred by President Clinton after 
he leaves office ($256,000) and for a pension increase for 
former Presidents ($20,000). The following table displays a 
breakdown for this account for fiscal year 2001.

                        FY 2001 BUDGET ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER PRESIDENTS
                                            [In thousands of dollars]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                     Ford    Carter   Reagan    Bush   Clinton   Widow    Total
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Personal Compensation............................       96       96       96       96       30        0      414
Personal Benefits................................       24        5       24       35       11        0       99
Benefits for Former Personnel:
    Pensions.....................................      157      157      157      157      111       20      759
    Travel.......................................       50        2       16       57       11        0      136
Rental Payments to GSA...........................       99       93      285      147       57        0      681
Communications, Utilities and Miscellaneous
 charges:
    Telephone....................................       17       28       15       17        6        0       83
    Postage......................................        2       22       10       11        4        2       51
Printing.........................................        3        8       14       11        3        0       39
Other Services...................................       14       79       44       12       16        0      165
Supplies & Materials.............................        9       10       20       11        4        0       54
Equipment........................................        5        9        3       16        3        0       36
                                                  --------------------------------------------------------------
      Total Obligations..........................      476      509      684      570      256       22    2,517
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                   Expenses, Presidential Transition

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............  ................
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        $7,100,000
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................  ................
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -7,100,000

                                mission

    The Presidential Transition Act of 1963, Public Law 88-277 
(3 U.S.C. 102 note), as amended, was enacted to provide for the 
orderly transfer of executive power in connection with the 
expiration of the term of office of a President and the 
inauguration of a new President. Funds provided by this 
appropriation are for Presidential transition activities 
associated with the incoming Administration and the outgoing 
Administration, pursuant to statute.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends no funding for this appropriation, 
the same level as was provided in fiscal year 2000 and a 
decrease of $7,100,000 below the budget estimate. The Committee 
recommends the incoming Administration submit, if determined to 
be needed, a supplemental appropriation following the 
inauguration. The Committee encourages the General Services 
Administration and the other executive agencies to support the 
outgoing and incoming Administrations during the transition 
using available funds.

          General Provisions--General Services Administration

    Section 401. The Committee continues the provision that 
provides that costs included in rent received from government 
corporations for operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, 
repair and improvement shall be credited to the Federal 
Buildings Fund.
    Section 402. The Committee continues the provision 
providing authority for the use of funds for the hire of motor 
vehicles.
    Section 403. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that funds made available for activities of the 
Federal Buildings Fund may be transferred between 
appropriations with advance approval of the Congress.
    Section 404. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for developing courthouse 
construction requests that do not meet GSA standards and 
priorities of the Judicial Conference.
    Section 405. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that no funds may be used to increase the amount of 
occupiable square feet, provide cleaning services, security 
enhancements, or any other service usually provided, to any 
agency which does not pay the requested rent.
    Section 406. The Committee continues the provision 
providing for Information Technology Fund repayment from 
sponsored projects that realize program savings.
    Section 407. The Committee continues the provision that 
permits GSA to pay small claims (up to $250,000) made against 
the government.
    Section 408. The Committee modifies a provision of the 
fiscal year 2000 appropriations act to provide a one-year 
extension to the period for which voluntary separation 
incentive payments may be offered by the Administrator of the 
General Services Administration to qualified employees.

                     Merit Systems Protection Board

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $27,481,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        29,437,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        28,857,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,376,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -580,000

                                mission

    The Merit Systems Protection Board performs the 
adjudicatory functions necessary to maintain the civil service 
merit system. These include hearing appeals on adverse actions, 
reduction-in-force actions, and retirement. The Board reports 
to the President on whether merit systems are sufficiently free 
from prohibited personnel practices to protect the public 
interest.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $28,857,000 
for the Merit Systems Protection Board, $1,376,000 above the 
fiscal year 2000 appropriated level and $580,000 below the 
amount requested by the President. The Committee is unable to 
fully fund the request, as modified by the President's June 5, 
2000, budget amendment.

 Federal Payment to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in 
                National Environmental Policy Foundation

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $1,992,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         3,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         2,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................            +8,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -1,000,000

                                mission

    Public Law 102-259 established the Morris K. Udall 
Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy 
Trust Fund. General Fund payments to that fund are invested in 
Treasury securities. Interest earnings from the investments are 
used to carry out the activities of the Morris K. Udall 
Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy 
Foundation. The Foundation awards scholarships, fellowships, 
and grants and funds activities of the Udall Center for Studies 
in Public Policy.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,000,000 for 
Federal Payment to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and 
Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation, an 
increase of $8,000 above the amount appropriated for fiscal 
year 2000 and a decrease of $1,000,000 below the budget 
estimate. The Committee is aware and supportive of pending 
legislation to establish the Native Nations Institute and 
encourages the Administration, should this legislation become 
enacted, to submit a reprogramming proposal for funding the 
Native Nations Institute for fiscal year 2001.

                 Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $1,245,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         1,250,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         1,250,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................            +5,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    Public Law 105-156 established the United States Institute 
for Environmental Conflict Resolution as part of the Morris K. 
Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental 
Policy Foundation. It also established in the Treasury an 
Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund to be available to 
establish and operate the Institute. The purpose of the 
Institute is to conduct environmental conflict resolution and 
training.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,250,000 for 
the Environmental Dispute Resolution Fund, an increase of 
$5,000 above the level appropriated for fiscal year 2000 and 
the same as the budget estimate.

              National Archives and Records Administration

                           operating expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............      $179,674,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       209,393,000
Recommended in the bill...............................       195,119,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       +15,445,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -14,274,000

                                MISSION

    The National Archives and Records Administration provides 
for basic operations dealing with management of the 
Government's archives and records, operation of Presidential 
libraries, and for the review for declassification of 
classified security information.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $195,119,000 
for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 
Operating Expenses, an increase of $15,445,000 above the level 
appropriated for fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of $14,274,000 
below the budget estimate. The increase above the enacted level 
includes $6,782,000 to cover increases in fixed costs, 
$5,923,000 to cover NARA expenses associated with the 
Presidential transition ($950,000 to begin processing records 
of the Clinton Administration and $4,973,000 for the costs of 
moving and storing records of the Clinton Administration), and 
$2,740,000 for improving veteran records management ($1,685,000 
to expand access to veteran records and $1,055,000 for 
enhancing storage and preservation of veteran records). The 
Committee denies without prejudice the other requested program 
increases.

                        Repairs and Restoration

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $22,296,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        99,560,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         5,650,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       -16,646,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................       -93,910,000

                                MISSION

    This appropriation provides for the repair, alteration, and 
improvement of Archives facilities and Presidential libraries 
nationwide. It enables the National Archives to maintain its 
facilities in proper condition for visitors, researchers, and 
employees, and also maintain the structural integrity of the 
buildings.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $5,650,000 for 
NARA Repairs and Restoration, a decrease of $16,646,000 below 
the level appropriated for fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of 
$93,910,000 below the budget estimate. The funds include 
$700,000 for the design of a 10,000-square-foot extension to 
the Gerald R. Ford Museum, part of the Gerald R. Ford Library 
and Museum, and $4,950,000 to maintain the base-level budget 
for NARA repairs and restorations.
    The Committee has been strongly supportive of the major 
renovation effort that is underway to repair and restore the 
main National Archives building and to better preserve and 
safeguard the Charters of Freedom. The Committee is very 
disappointed that it was not able to provide the funds 
necessary to continue progress on this important effort during 
fiscal year 2001. The Committee approves of the planning and 
management of this effort by the National Archives and Records 
Administration and denies without prejudice the requested 
funding solely on the basis of fiscal constraints.

                     Records Center Revolving Fund

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $22,000,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................  ................
Recommended in the bill...............................  ................
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................       -22,000,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 
Records Center Revolving Fund provides the mechanism for the 
operation of NARA's records centers on a reimbursable basis 
without direct appropriations. The Fund is available for 
expenses and equipment necessary to provide for storage and 
related services for all temporary and pre-archival Federal 
records which are stored at Federal National and Regional 
Records Centers. Resources in the Fund are derived from user 
charges received from Federal agencies as payment for storage 
of records.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends no appropriation for the Records 
Center Revolving Fund, a decrease of $22,000,000 below the 
level enacted for fiscal year 2000 and the same as the budget 
estimate.

        National Historical Publications and Records Commission

                             Grants Program

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $4,250,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         6,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         6,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +1,750,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    This program provides for grants funding that the 
Commission makes, nationwide, to preserve and publish records 
that document American history. Administered within the 
National Archives and Records Administration, which preserves 
Federal records, the NHPRC helps state, local, and private 
institutions preserve non-Federal records, helps publish the 
papers of major figures in American history, and helps 
archivists and records managers improve their techniques, 
training, and ability to serve a range of information users.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $6,000,000 for 
the National Historical Publications and Records Commission--
Grants Program, an increase of $1,750,000 above the net level 
appropriated for fiscal year 2000 and the same as the budget 
estimate.

                      Office of Government Ethics

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $9,080,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         9,684,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         9,684,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +604,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                MISSION

    The Office of Government Ethics (OGE), established by the 
Ethics in Government Act of 1978, provides overall direction of 
executive branch policies designed to prevent conflicts of 
interest and insure high ethical standards. The OGE discharges 
its responsibilities to preserve and promote public confidence 
in the integrity of executive branch officials by developing 
rules and regulations pertaining to conflicts of interest, post 
employment restrictions, standards of conduct, and public and 
confidential financial disclosure in the executive branch. It 
monitors compliance with public and confidential financial 
disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 
and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, to determine possible 
violations of applicable laws or regulations and recommending 
appropriate corrective action. OGE also consults with and 
assists various officials in evaluating the effectiveness of 
applicable laws and the resolution of individual problems, and 
prepares formal advisory opinions, informal letter opinions, 
policy memoranda, and Federal Register entries on how to 
interpret and comply with the requirements on conflicts of 
interest, post employment, standards of conduct, and financial 
disclosure. Finally, OGE issues and amends regulations 
implementing the procurement integrity provisions relating to 
negotiating for employment, post employment, and gratuities in 
the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 
1988, P.L. 100-679.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $9,684,000 for 
the Office of Government Ethics, the same amount requested by 
the President and $604,000 above the fiscal year 2000 
appropriated level.

                     Office of Personnel Management

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $90,240,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................       100,558,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        93,471,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +3,231,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................        -7,087,000

                                MISSION

    The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is the Government 
agency responsible for management of Federal human resource 
policy and oversight of the merit civil service system. 
Although individual agencies are increasingly responsible for 
personnel operations, OPM provides a Governmentwide policy 
framework for personnel matters, advises and assists agencies 
(often on a reimbursable basis), and ensures that agency 
operations are consistent with requirements of law, with 
emphasis on such issues as veterans preference. OPM oversees 
examining of applicants for employment, issues regulations and 
policies on hiring, classification and pay, training, 
investigations, and many other aspects of personnel management, 
and operates a reimbursable training program for the 
Government's managers and executives. OPM is also responsible 
for administering the retirement, health benefits and life 
insurance programs affecting most Federal employees, retired 
Federal employees, and their survivors.

                             RECOMMENDATION

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $93,471,000 
for the Office of Personnel Management, Salaries and Expenses, 
$7,087,000 below the amount requested by the President and an 
increase of $3,231,000 above fiscal year 2000 appropriated 
levels. The recommended increase includes $237,000 for expanded 
oversight of ``non-Title 5'' agency merit systems, half of the 
requested level. The increase also includes $400,000 for new 
qualification standards to simplify hiring and assessment; 
$313,000 to maintain current levels; $800,000 for on-going 
information technology support; $700,000 for agency wide 
information technology architecture; $181,000 for NARA costs; 
and $1,900,000 for administrative financial systems support to 
ensure an unqualified audit opinion. The Committee denies 
without prejudice the President's request of $6,150,000 for the 
Federal Cyber-Service program; $300,000 to develop a workforce 
planning model; $300,000 for improvements in setting 
compensation rates; and $100,000 to research best practices in 
compensation systems.

                              locality pay

    The Committee is concerned that, due to a dispute among the 
President's Pay Agent, the Federal Salary Council, and the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) over the methodology used to 
compile the National Compensation Survey (NCS), the President's 
Pay Agent has not surveyed any potential new locality pay areas 
since 1996. Although the Pay Agent has reached an agreement 
with the BLS to study areas of concern and make possible 
modifications to the National Compensation Survey (NCS) 
program, this review, revision, and implementation period will 
last an estimated 8-10 years.
    The Committee is aware that the Federal Employees Pay 
Comparability Act (FEPCA) requires the Council and the Pay 
Agent to utilize BLS data in making locality pay designations 
and respects the concerns that this data be accurate. However, 
the Committee finds it unacceptable that locality pay 
designations, which have already been suspended for several 
years, may be postponed for another decade. This is certainly 
not in keeping with the intent of FEPCA.
    The Committee therefore has included bill language (Section 
639) that will permit the President's Pay Agent to utilize 
appropriate data from sources other than BLS in making new 
locality pay designations. The bill language also directs the 
President's Pay Agent to report on the status of efforts to 
resolve the methodological concerns with the NCS program and on 
the efficacy of utilizing non-BLS data in making comparability 
payment recommendations.

                               elder care

    The Committee is aware that the Office of Personnel 
Management (OPM) is reviewing a variety of issues relating to 
elder care. The changing demographics of the federal workforce 
make it clear that employers need to recognize the demands on 
federal employees, which often make it difficult to balance 
conflicting work and family demands. However, when employers 
provide family friendly programs, they increase employee 
morale, productivity, and retention. Therefore, the Committee 
directs OPM to provide a report on options for addressing 
federal employees' elder care needs, including any legislative 
recommendations that may be appropriate, to the Committee no 
later than March 1, 2001.

                      Office of Inspector General

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............          $956,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................         1,360,000
Recommended in the bill...............................         1,360,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +404,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation provides agencywide audit, 
investigative, evaluation, and inspection functions to identify 
management and administrative deficiencies, which may create 
conditions for fraud, waste and mismanagement. The audits 
function provides internal agency audit, insurance audit, and 
contract audit services. Contract audits provide professional 
advice to agency contracting officials on accounting and 
financial matters regarding the negotiation, award, 
administration, repricing, and settlement of contracts. 
Internal audits review and evaluate all facets of agency 
operations, including financial statements. Evaluation and 
inspection services provide detailed technical evaluations of 
agency operations. Insurance audits review the operations of 
health and life insurance carriers, health care providers, and 
insurance subscribers. The investigative function provides for 
the detection and investigation of improper and illegal 
activities involving programs, personnel, and operations.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $1,360,000 for 
the Office of Inspector General, the same amount requested by 
the President and $404,000 above the fiscal year 2000 
appropriated level.

      Government Payment for Annuitants, Employees Health Benefits

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............    $5,105,395,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................     5,427,166,000
Recommended in the bill...............................     5,427,166,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      +321,771,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation covers: (1) the Government's share of 
the cost of health insurance for 1,851,000 annuitants as 
defined in sections 8901 and 8906 of title 5, United States 
Code; (2) the Government's share of the cost of health 
insurance for about 12,000 annuitants (who were retired when 
the Federal employees health benefits law became effective), as 
defined in the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 
1960; and (3) the government's contribution for payment of 
administrative expenses incurred by the Office of Personnel 
Management in administration of the act.

      Government Payment for Annuitants, Employees Life Insurance

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $36,200,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        35,000,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        35,000,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        -1,200,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation finances the Government's share of 
premiums, which is one-third the cost, for basic life insurance 
for annuitants retiring after December 31, 1989, and who are 
less than 65 years old.

        Payment to Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............    $9,120,558,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................     8,940,051,000
Recommended in the bill...............................     8,940,051,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................      -180,507,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................  ................

                                mission

    This appropriation provides for payment of annuities, 
including the payment of annuities under special acts for 
persons employed on the construction of the Panama Canal or 
their widows and widows of employees of the Lighthouse Service; 
payment of the government share of retirement costs of the 
unfunded liability resulting from any statute authorizing new 
or liberalized benefits, extension of retirement coverage, or 
pay increases; transfers for interest on unfunded liability and 
payment of military service annuities covering interest on the 
unfunded liability and annuity disbursements for military 
service; payments for spouse equity providing survivor 
annuities to eligible former spouses of annuitants who died 
between September 1978 and May 1986 and did not elect survivor 
coverage; and transfers for payment of FERS supplemental 
liability covering annual amortization payments financing 
supplemental liabilities for FERS.

                       Office of Special Counsel

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............        $9,703,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        11,147,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        10,319,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................          +616,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -828,000

                                mission

    The Office of Special Counsel: (1) investigates Federal 
employee allegations of prohibited personnel practices 
(including reprisal for whistleblowing) and, when appropriate, 
prosecutes before the Merit Systems Protection Board; (2) 
provides a channel for whistleblowing by Federal employees; and 
(3) enforces the Hatch Act. The Office may transmit 
whistleblower allegations to the agency head concerned and 
require an agency investigation and a report to the Congress 
and the President when appropriate.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $10,319,000 
for the Office of Special Counsel, $828,000 below the amount 
requested by the President and an increase of $616,000 above 
the fiscal year 2000 appropriated level. The Committee denies 
without prejudice the President's request of $772,000 for 
additional personnel to reduce case backlog, and $56,000 for 
related equipment, travel and training.

                        United States Tax Court

                         salaries and expenses

Appropriation, fiscal year 2000 to date...............       $35,045,000
Budget estimate, fiscal year 2001.....................        37,439,000
Recommended in the bill...............................        37,305,000
Bill compared with:
    Appropriation, fiscal year 2000...................        +2,260,000
    Budget Estimate, fiscal year 2001.................          -134,000

                                mission

    The bulk of the Court's work is the trial and adjudication 
of controversies involving deficiencies in income, estate, and 
gift taxes. The Court also has jurisdiction to redetermine 
deficiencies in certain excise taxes; to issue declaratory 
judgments in the areas of qualification of retirement plans, 
exemption of charitable organizations and the status of certain 
governmental obligations; and to decide certain cases involving 
disclosure of tax information by the Commissioner of Internal 
Revenue.

                             recommendation

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $37,305,000 
for the U.S. Tax Court, an increase of $2,260,000 above the 
level enacted for fiscal year 2000 and a decrease of $134,000 
below the budget estimate. The increase is provided to cover 
increases in fixed costs so that the U.S. Tax Court can 
maintain the current level of service.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                This Act

    Section 501. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the expenditure of funds to the current year unless expressly 
provided in this Act.
    Section 502. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the expenditure of funds for consulting services under certain 
conditions.
    Section 503. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to engage in activities which 
would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the 1930 
Tariff Act.
    Section 504. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the transfer of control over the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center out of the Department of the 
Treasury.
    Section 505. The Committee continues the provision 
concerning employment rights of Federal employees who return to 
their civilian jobs after assignment with the Armed Forces.
    Section 506. The Committee continues the provision 
concerning compliance with the Buy American Act.
    Section 507. The Committee continues the provision 
concerning prohibition of contracts which use certain goods not 
made in America.
    Section 508. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting contract eligibility where fraudulent intent has 
been proven in affixing ``Made in America'' labels.
    Section 509. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for abortions under the 
FEHBP.
    Section 510. The Committee continues the provision which 
would authorize the expenditure of funds for abortions under 
the FEHBP if the life of the mother is in danger or the 
pregnancy is a result of an act of rape or incest.
    Section 511. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that fifty percent of unobligated balances may remain 
available for certain purposes.
    Section 512. The Committee continues the provision 
restricting the use of funds for the White House to request 
official background reports without the written consent of the 
individual who is the subject of the report.
    Section 513. The Committee continues the provision that 
cost accounting standards under the Federal Procurement Policy 
Act shall not apply to the FEHBP.
    Section 514. The Committee includes a new provision that 
transfers a parcel of land from the Gerald R. Ford Library and 
Museum to the Gerald R. Ford Foundation as trustee, with 
reversionary interest.
    Section 515. The Committee includes a new provision 
requiring OMB to develop guidelines for ensuring and maximizing 
the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information 
disseminated by federal agencies.
    Section 516. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to give preference for the 
acquisition of a firearm or ammunition based on whether the 
manufacturer or vendor of the firearm or ammunition is party to 
an agreement with a department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States regarding codes of conduct, operating 
practices, or product design.
    Section 517. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to allow placement in interstate 
or foreign commerce of diamonds that have been mined in Burkina 
Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the Republics of 
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, or Angola, except for 
diamonds certified as originating in the Republic of Sierra 
Leone.
    Section 518. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for the purpose of implementation, 
or in preparation for implementation, or the Kyoto Protocol. 
This provision shall not be read to restrict the President's 
constitutional authority to negotiate international agreements 
and shall not apply to any activities authorized under existing 
United States law. The Committee notes that the ratified United 
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is not 
self-executing. The Committee also notes that mechanisms found 
solely in the Kyoto Protocol have never been authorized. The 
Byrd-Hagel Resolution (S. Res. 105-98), which passed with a 
vote of 95-0 in July 1997, remains the clearest statement of 
the will of the Senate with regard to the Kyoto Protocol. 
Through the prohibition contained herein, the Committee is 
committed to ensuring that the Administration not implement the 
Kyoto Protocol without prior Congressional consent, including 
approval of any implementing legislation, regulation, programs, 
or initiatives. To the extent that technical assistance and 
training, research and policy analysis, dissemination of 
findings of research and policy analysis, and the sponsoring of 
conferences are approved by Congress and funded by the American 
taxpayer, these activities must be balanced. Balance does not 
mean merely that there is an acknowledgment of viewpoints 
different from those of the Administration, but that qualified 
viewpoints are included in numbers equal to those representing 
the Administration's positions. The Committee encourages the 
commercial export of United States technology that have 
positive effects on energy use and the environment. The 
Committee notes with disapproval that nearly three years after 
the Kyoto Protocol was adopted on December 11, 1997, it still 
has not been submitted to the Senator for advise and consent as 
to ratification The Committee also notes that the Kyoto 
Protocol has not yet entered into force pursuant to Article 25 
of the Protocol.
    Section 519. The Committee includes a new provision 
regarding the use of alternative fuels by the Department of the 
Treasury and the General Services Administration.
    Section 520. The Committee includes a new provision 
regarding apportionment for International Food Assistance 
Programs.

              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

    Section 601. The Committee continues the provision 
authorizing agencies to pay costs of travel to the United 
States for the immediate families of Federal employees assigned 
to foreign duty in the event of a death or a life threatening 
illness of the employee.
    Section 602. The Committee continues the provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use of 
controlled substances.
    Section 603. The Committee continues the provision 
regarding price limitations on vehicles to be purchased by the 
Federal Government.
    Section 604. The Committee continues the provision allowing 
funds made available to agencies for travel, to also be used 
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances.
    Section 605. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the government, with certain specified exceptions, 
from employing non-U.S. citizens whose posts of duty would be 
in the continental U.S.
    Section 606. The Committee continues the provision ensuring 
that agencies will have authority to pay GSA bills for space 
renovation and other services.
    Section 607. The Committee continues the provision allowing 
agencies to finance the costs of recycling and waste prevention 
programs with proceeds from the sale of materials recovered 
through such programs.
    Section 608. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that funds may be used by certain groups to pay rent 
and other service costs in the District of Columbia.
    Section 609. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that no funds may be used to pay any person filling a 
nominated position who has been rejected by the Senate.
    Section 610. The Committee continues the provision 
precluding the financing of groups by more than one Federal 
agency absent prior and specific statutory approval.
    Section 611. The Committee continues the provision 
authorizing the Postal Service to employ guards and give them 
the same special police powers as GSA guards.
    Section 612. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for enforcing regulations 
disapproved in accordance with the applicable law of the U.S.
    Section 613. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the pay increases of certain prevailing rate employees.
    Section 614. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the amount of funds that can be used for redecoration of 
offices under certain circumstances.
    Section 615. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for the acquisition of 
additional law enforcement training facilities.
    Section 616. The Committee continues the provision to allow 
for interagency funding of national security and emergency 
telecommunications initiatives.
    Section 617. The Committee continues the provision 
requiring agencies to certify that a Schedule C appointment was 
not created solely or primarily to detail the employee to the 
White House.
    Section 618. The Committee continues the provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual 
harassment.
    Section 619. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the importation of any goods manufactured by forced 
or indentured child labor.
    Section 620. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the payment of any employee who prohibits, 
threatens or prevents another employee from communicating with 
Congress.
    Section 621. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting Federal training not directly related to the 
performance of official duties.
    Section 622. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for implementation of 
agreements in nondisclosure policies unless certain provisions 
are included.
    Section 623. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting propaganda, publicity and lobbying by executive 
agency personnel in support or defeat of legislative 
initiatives.
    Section 624. The Committee continues the provision 
directing OMB to provide an accounting statement and report on 
the cumulative costs and benefits of Federal regulatory 
programs.
    Section 625. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting any Federal agency from disclosing an employee's 
home address to any labor organization, absent employee 
authorization or court order.
    Section 626. The Committee continues and makes permanent 
the provision authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to 
establish scientific canine explosive detection standards.
    Section 627. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting funds to be used to provide non-public information 
such as mailing or telephone lists to any person or 
organization outside the government without the approval of the 
Committees on Appropriations.
    Section 628. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for propaganda and publicity 
purposes not authorized by Congress.
    Section 629. The Committee continues the provision 
directing agency employees to use official time in an honest 
effort to perform official duties.
    Section 630. The Committee includes a new provision which 
delays enactment of Section 638 of Public Law 106-58, 
establishing a Chief Financial Officer within the Executive 
Office of the President, until May 1, 2001.
    Section 631. The Committee continues and includes technical 
modifications to the provision addressing contraceptive 
coverage in health plans participating in the FEHBP, making it 
identical to current law as enacted by Section 625 of the 
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2000 and deleting the 
names of two plans that no longer participate in the program.
    Section 632. The Committee continues the provision 
authorizing the use of funds to finance an appropriate share of 
the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program.
    Section 633. The Committee continues and modifies the 
provision authorizing agencies to transfer funds to the Policy 
and Operations account of GSA to finance a variety of efforts, 
with specific limitations.
    Section 634. The Committee continues a provision, with 
technical modifications, authorizing an Executive agency to use 
certain funds to improve the affordability of child care for 
lower income Federal employees. The Provision was initially 
included in the Treasury and General Government Appropriations 
Act, 2000, to provide a one-year demonstration program that 
could be evaluated for its effectiveness. However, the Office 
of Personnel Management did not finalize regulations until 
March 14, 2000, almost half way through the fiscal year. In 
addition, many Federal employees plan their child care needs 
annually in relation to the school year, preventing full 
participation in this program for fiscal year 2000. Based on 
these and other factors, the Committee believes that a proper 
evaluation of this program requires that this demonstration 
project be available to Federal agencies for one complete 
fiscal year.
    Section 635. The Committee continues the provision that 
permits breast feeding in a Federal building or on Federal 
property if the woman and child are authorized to be there.
    Section 636. The Committee includes a new provision which 
permits interagency funding of the National Science and 
Technology Council and provides for a report on the budget and 
resources of the National Science and Technology Council.
    Section 637. The Committee includes a new provision 
regarding certain reforms within the FEC, including: a 
clarification of election cycle reporting of certain 
expenditures, a clarification of permissible use of facsimile 
machines and electronic mail to file reports, a clarification 
of the treatment of lines of credit obtained by candidates as 
commercially reasonably loans, and a change in the deadline for 
reporting of major campaign contributions received within the 
last 20 days of an election from 48 hours to 24 hours. These 
reforms are applicable with respect to elections occurring 
after January 2001.
    Section 638. The Committee includes a new provision 
concerning retirement provisions relating to certain members of 
the police force of the Metropolitan Washington Airports 
Authority.
    Section 639. The Committee has included a new provision 
authorizing the President's Pay Agent to use appropriate data 
from sources other than the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 
making new locality pay designations.
    Section 640. The Committee includes a new provision to 
restore the federal employee retirement contribution share to 
pre-1999 levels.
    Section 641. The Committee includes a new provision that 
amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to strengthen 
the reporting requirements related to the use of federal 
aircraft for campaign purposes. Specifically, the language 
would require a candidate who uses federal aircraft to travel 
to a campaign event to report the type of aircraft used, the 
number of people related to the campaign event, and the amount 
of reimbursement along with the method used in determining that 
amount. This provision does not in any way alter the current 
reimbursement provisions as outlined in section 106.3 of 
Chapter 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations, ``Allocation of 
expenses between campaign and non-campaign related travel,'' 
but does strengthen the reporting requirements of that use.
    Section 642. The Committee includes a new provision making 
a modification to the calculation of disability pay for federal 
firefighters.
    Section 643. The Committee includes a technical provision 
modifying the basis for using inactive duty military leave.

    Appropriations Can Be Used Only for the Purposes for Which Made

    Title 31 of the United States Code makes clear that 
appropriations can be used only for the purposes for which they 
were appropriated as follows:
    Section 1301. Application.
    (a) Appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for 
which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided 
by law.

                      Compliance With House Rules

                           TRANSFER OF FUNDS

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(2), rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the following is submitted describing 
the transfer of funds provided in the accompanying bill.
    The table shows, by title, department and agency, the 
appropriations affected by such transfers:

                                 APPROPRIATION TRANSFERS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL
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                                                                Account from which transfer is to
    Account to which transfer is to be made         Amount                   be made                   Amount
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Customs, Salaries and Expenses.................    $3,000,000  Harbor Maintenance Fee Collection..    $3,000,000
Federal Departments............................     1,100,000  Office of National Drug Control         1,100,000
                                                                Policy.
State and local entities.......................    97,920,000  Federal Drug Programs--HIDTA.......    97,920,000
Federal Departments............................    94,080,000  Federal Drug Programs--HIDTA.......    94,080,000
State and local entities.......................    13,050,000  Counterdrug Technology Assessment      13,050,000
                                                                Center.
Federal Departments............................    16,000,000  Counterdrug Technology Assessment      16,000,000
                                                                Center.
Federal Departments............................   219,000,000  Special Forfeiture Fund............   219,000,000
Personnel Management...........................   101,986,000  Trust Funds of the Office of          101,986,000
                                                                Personnel Management.
Inspector General, OPM.........................     9,745,000  Trust Funds of the Office of            9,745,000
                                                                Personnel Management.
Merit System Protection Board..................     2,430,000  Civil Service Retirement and            2,430,000
                                                                Disability Trust Fund.
Treasury Department offices, bureaus and other     41,787,000  Department-Wide Systems and Capital    41,787,000
 organizations.                                                 Investments programs.
Treasury Department offices, bureaus and other        759,000  General Services Administration,          759,000
 organizations.                                                 Allowances and Office Staff for
                                                                Former Presidents.
Treasury Department offices, bureaus, and other     2,000,000  Expanded Access to Financial            2,000,000
 organizations.                                                 Services.
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                          RESCISSION OF FUNDS

    In compliance with clause 3(f)(2) of rule XIII of the Rules 
of the House of Representatives, the Committee reports that it 
recommends no rescissions in the bill.

                        CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY

    Clause 3(d)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of 
Representatives states that:
    ``Each report of a committee on a bill or joint resolution 
of a public character, shall include a statement citing the 
specific powers granted to the Congress in the Constitution to 
enact the law proposed by the bill or joint resolution.''
    The Committee on Appropriations bases its authority to 
report this legislation from Clause 7 of Section 9 of Article I 
of the Constitution of the United States of America that 
states:

          No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in 
        consequence of Appropriations made by law * * *

    Appropriations contained in this Act are made pursuant to 
this specific power granted by the Constitution.

            COMPLIANCE WITH RULE XIII, CL. 3 (RAMSEYER RULE)

    In compliance with clause 3(e) of rule XIII of the Rules of 
the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by 
the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law 
proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new 
matter is printed in italic, existing law in which no change is 
proposed is shown in roman):

TITLE 5, UNITED STATES CODE

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PART III--EMPLOYEES

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Subpart D--Pay and Allowances

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CHAPTER 55--PAY ADMINISTRATION

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SUBCHAPTER V--PREMIUM PAY

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Sec. 5545b. Pay for firefighters

  (a) * * *

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  (d)(1) * * *

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  (4) Notwithstanding section 8114(e)(1), overtime pay for a 
firefighter subject to this section for hours in a regular tour 
of duty shall be included in any computation pay under section 
8114.

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Sec. 5547. Limitation on premium pay

  (a)  * * *

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  (c)(1)  * * *

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  (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), premium 
pay for protective services authorized by section 3056(a) of 
title 18, United States Code, may be paid without regard to the 
biweekly limitation on premium pay except that such premium pay 
shall not be payable to an employee to the extent that the 
aggregate of the employee's basic and premium pay for the year 
would otherwise exceed the annual equivalent of that 
limitation. The term premium pay refers to pay authorized by 
sections 5542, 5545 (a), (b), and (c), and 5546 (a) and (b) of 
this title. Pay authorized by section 5545a of this title will 
be treated as basic pay for the purpose of this paragraph to 
the extent that it does not cause an employee's biweekly pay to 
exceed the limitation in paragraph (2). Payment of additional 
premium pay payable under this section may be made in a lump 
sum on the last payday of the calendar year.

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CHAPTER 63--LEAVE

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SUBCHAPTER II--OTHER PAID LEAVE

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Sec. 6323. Military leave; Reserves and National Guardsmen

  (a)(1) * * *

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  (3) The minimum charge for leave under this subsection is one 
hour, and additional charges are in multiples thereof.

Subpart G--Insurance and Annuities

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CHAPTER 83--RETIREMENT

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SUBCHAPTER III--CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT

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Sec. 8334. Deductions, contributions, and deposits

  (a) * * *

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  (c) Each employee or Member credited with civilian service 
after July 31, 1920, for which retirement deductions or 
deposits have not been made, may deposit with interest an 
amount equal to the following percentages of his basic pay 
received for that service:

                                         Percentage of basic pay
                                                                                   Service period

Employee...............................  2\1/2\...................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [7.5.....................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [7.......................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         7........................  After December 31, 2000.
Member or employee for Congressional     2\1/2\...................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
 employee service.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.......................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [7.5.....................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         7.5......................  After December 31, 2000.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
Law enforcement officer for law          2\1/2\...................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
 enforcement service and firefighter     3\1/2\...................  July 1, 1926, to June 30, 1942.
 for firefighter service.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.......................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [7.5.....................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         7.5......................  After December 31, 2000.
Bankruptcy judge.......................  2\1/2\...................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.5.....................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [8.......................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         8........................  After December 31, 2000.
Judge of the United States Court of      6........................  May 5, 1950, to October 31, 1956.
 Appeals for the Armed Forces for        6\1/2\...................  November 1, 1956, to December 31, 1969.
 service as a judge of that court.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.5.....................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [8.......................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         8........................  After December 31, 2000.
United States magistrate...............  2\1/2\...................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.5.....................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [8.......................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         8........................  After December 31, 2000.
Court of Federal Claims Judge..........  2\1/2\...................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.5.....................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [8.......................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         8........................  After December 31, 2000.
Member of the Capitol Police...........  2.5......................  August 1, 1920, to June 30, 1926.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.......................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                         [7.5.....................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         7.5......................  After December 31, 2000.
Nuclear materials courier..............  7........................  October 1, 1977 to October 16, 1998.
                          *         *         *         *         *         *         *
                                         [8.......................  January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2002.
                                         [7.5.....................  After December 31, 2002.]
                                         7.5......................  After December 31, 2000.

                                                                    

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CHAPTER 84--FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT SYSTEM

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SUBCHAPTER II--BASIC ANNUITY

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Sec. 8422. Deductions from pay; contributions for military service

  (a)(1) * * *

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  [(3) The applicable percentage under this paragraph for 
civilian service shall be as follows:
      

[Employee...............................  7......................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.25...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.4....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          7.5....................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                          7......................  After December 31, 2002.
Congressional employee..................  7.5....................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          8......................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2002.
Member..................................  7.5....................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          8......................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2002.
Law enforcement officer, firefighter,     7.5....................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
 member of the Capitol Police, or air
 traffic controller.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          8......................  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2002.]

  (3) The applicable percentage under this paragraph for 
civilian service shall be as follows:
      

Employee................................  7......................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.25...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.4....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          7......................  After December 31, 2000.
Congressional employee..................  7.5....................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2000.
Member..................................  7.5....................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          8......................  January 1 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2002.
Law enforcement officer, firefighter,     7.5....................  January 1, 1987, to December 31, 1998.
 member of the Capitol Police, or air
 traffic controller.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2000.
Nuclear materials courier...............  7......................  January 1, 1987, to October 16, 1998.
                                          7.5....................  October 17, 1998, to December 31, 1998.
                                          7.75...................  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                          7.9....................  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                          7.5....................  After December 31, 2000.

  (e)(1) * * *

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  (6) The percentage of basic pay under section 204 of title 37 
payable under paragraph (1), with respect to any period of 
military service performed during--
          (A) January 1, 1999, through December 31, 1999, shall 
        be 3.25 percent; and
          (B) January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2000, shall 
        be 3.4 percent[; and].
          [(C) January 1, 2001, through December 31, 2002, 
        shall be 3.5 percent.]
  (f)(1) * * *

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  (4) The percentage of the readjustment allowance or stipend 
(as the case may be) payable under paragraph (1), with respect 
to any period of volunteer service performed during--
          (A) January 1, 1999, through December 31, 1999, shall 
        be 3.25 percent; and
          (B) January 1, 2000, through December 31, 2000, shall 
        be 3.4 percent[; and].
          [(C) January 1, 2001, through December 31, 2002, 
        shall be 3.5 percent.]

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        TREASURY AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2000

PUBLIC LAW 106-58

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TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

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  Sec. 411. Voluntary Separation Incentive Payment for 
Employees of the General Services Administration. (a) 
Authority.--During the period October 1, 1999, through [April 
30, 2001] April 30, 2002, the Administrator of General Services 
is authorized to offer a voluntary separation incentive in 
order to provide the necessary flexibility to carry out the 
closing of the Federal Supply Service distribution centers, 
forward supply points, and associated programs in a manner 
which the Administrator shall deem most efficient, equitable to 
all employees, and cost effective for the Government.

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  (e) Eligibility for Payments.--Payments under this section 
may be made to any qualifying employee who voluntarily 
separates, whether by retirement or resignation, between 
October 1, 1999 through [April 30, 2001] April 30, 2002.

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TITLE VI--GENERAL PROVISIONS

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  Sec. 638. (a)  * * *

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  (h) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect [at noon 
on January 20, 2001] on May 1, 2001.

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FEDERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN ACT OF 1971

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            TITLE III--DISCLOSURE OF FEDERAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS

                              definitions

  Sec. 301. When used in this Act:
  (1)  * * *

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  (8)(A)  * * *

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  (B) The term ``contribution'' does not include--
          (i)  * * *

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          (xiii) payments made by a candidate or the authorized 
        committee of a candidate as a condition of ballot 
        access and payments received by any political party 
        committee as a condition of ballot access; [and]
          (xiv) any honorarium (within the meaning of section 
        323 of this Act)[.]; and
          (xv) any loan of money derived from an advance on a 
        candidate's brokerage account, credit card, home equity 
        line of credit, or other line of credit available to 
        the candidate, if such loan is made in accordance with 
        applicable law and under commercially reasonable terms 
        and if the person making such loan makes loans in the 
        normal course of the person's business.

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                                reports

  Sec. 304. (a)(1)  * * *

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  (5) If a designation, report, or statement filed pursuant to 
this Act (other than under paragraph (2)(A)(i) [or (4)(A)(ii)] 
or (4)(A)(ii), or the second sentence of subsection (c)(2) is 
sent by registered or certified mail, the United States 
postmark shall be considered the date of filing of the 
designation, report, or statement.
  (6)(A) The principal campaign committee of a candidate shall 
notify the Secretary or the Commission, and the Secretary of 
State, as appropriate, in writing, of any contribution of 
$1,000 or more received by any authorized committee of such 
candidate [after the 20th day, but more than 48 hours before 
any election] during the period which begins after the 20th day 
before an election and ends at the time the polls close for 
such election. This notification shall be made [within 48 hours 
after the receipt of such contribution] not later than 24 hours 
after the receipt of such contribution or midnight of the day 
on which the contribution is deposited (whichever is earlier), 
and shall include the name of the candidate and the office 
sought by the candidate, the indentification of the 
contributor, and the date of receipt and amount of the 
contribution.

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  (b) Each report under this section shall disclose--
          (1)  * * *

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          (5) the name and address of each--
                  (A) person to whom an expenditure in an 
                aggregate amount or value in excess of $200 
                within the calendar year (or election cycle, in 
                the case of an authorized committee of a 
                candidate for Federal office) is made by the 
                reporting committee to meet a candidate or 
                committee operating expense, together with the 
                date, amount, and purpose of such operating 
                expenditure;

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          (6)(A) for an authorized committee, the name and 
        address of each person who has received any 
        disbursement not disclosed under paragraph (5) in an 
        aggregate amount or value in excess of $200 within the 
        [calendar year (or election cycle, in the case of an 
        authorized committee of a candidate for Federal 
        office)] election cycle, together with the date and 
        amount of any such disbursement;
          (B) for any other political committee, the name and 
        address of each--
                  (i)  * * *

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                  (iii) person who receives any disbursement 
                during the reporting period in an aggregate 
                amount or value in excess of $200 within the 
                calendar year [(or election cycle, in the case 
                of an authorized committee of a candidate for 
                Federal office)] in connection with an 
                independent expenditure by the reporting 
                committee, together with the date, amount, and 
                purpose of any such independent expenditure and 
                a statement which indicates whether such 
                independent expenditure is in support of, or in 
                opposition to, a candidate, as well as the name 
                and office sought by such candidate, and a 
                certification, under penalty of perjury, 
                whether such independent expenditure is made in 
                cooperation, consultation, or concert, with, or 
                at the request or suggestion of, any candidate 
                or any authorized committee or agent of such 
                committee;

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                  (v) person who has received any disbursement 
                not otherwise disclosed in this paragraph or 
                paragraph (5) in an aggregate amount or value 
                in excess of $200 within the calendar year [(or 
                election cycle, in the case of an authorized 
                committee of a candidate for Federal office)] 
                from the reporting committee within the 
                reporting period, together with the date, 
                amount, and purpose of any such disbursement;

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  (c)(1)  * * *
  (2) Statements required to be filed by this subsection shall 
be filed in accordance with subsection (a)(2), and shall 
include--

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Any independent expenditure (including those described in 
subsection (b)(6)(B)(iii) aggregating $1,000 or more made after 
the 20th day, but more than 24 hours, before any election 
[shall be reported] shall be filed within 24 hours after such 
independent expenditure is made. Such statement shall be filed 
with the Secretary or the Commission and the Secretary of State 
and shall contain the information required by subsection 
(b)(6)(B)(iii) indicating whether the independent expenditure 
is in support of, or in opposition to, the candidate involved. 
Notwithstanding subsection (a)(5), the time at which the 
statement under this subsection is received by the Secretary, 
the Commission, or any other recipient to whom the notification 
is required to be sent shall be considered the time of filing 
of the statement with the recipient.

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  (d)(1) Any person who is required to file a report, 
designation, or statement under this Act, except those required 
to file electronically pursuant to subsection (a)(11)(A)(i), 
with respect to a contribution or expenditure not later than 24 
hours after the contribution or expenditure is made or received 
may file the report, designation, or statement by facsimile 
device or electronic mail, in accordance with such regulations 
as the Commission may promulgate.
  (2) The Commission shall make a document which is filed 
electronically with the Commission pursuant to this paragraph 
accessible to the public on the Internet not later than 24 
hours after the document is received by the Commission.
  (3) In promulgating a regulation under this paragraph, the 
Commission shall provide methods (other than requiring a 
signature on the document being filed) for verifying the 
documents covered by the regulation. Any document verified 
under any of the methods shall be treated for all purposes 
(including penalties for perjury) in the same manner as a 
document verified by signature.
  (e)(1) In addition to any other information required to be 
reported under this section, the principal campaign committee 
of a candidate for the House of Representatives or for the 
Senate who uses any aircraft of the Federal government for any 
purpose which includes (in whole or in part) carrying out the 
candidate's campaign for election for Federal office (including 
using an aircraft of the Federal government for transportation 
to or from a campaign event), shall file with the Commission a 
statement containing the following information:
          (A) A description of the aircraft used, including the 
        type or model.
          (B) The number of individuals who used the aircraft, 
        including the candidate and those whose use of the 
        aircraft was paid for (in whole or in part) by the 
        committee.
          (C) The amount the candidate paid to reimburse the 
        Federal government for the use of the aircraft, 
        together with the methodology used to determine such 
        amount, in accordance with section 106.3 of title 11, 
        Code of Federal Regulations.
  (2) The statements required under this subsection shall be 
included with the reports filed by the principal campaign 
committee under subsection (a)(2), except that any statement 
with respect to the use of any aircraft after the 20th day, but 
more than 48 hours before the election shall be filed in 
accordance with subsection (a)(6).

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            SECTION 7001 OF THE BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 1997

SEC. 7001. INCREASED CONTRIBUTIONS TO FEDERAL CIVILIAN RETIREMENT 
                    SYSTEMS.

  (a) * * *

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  (c) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability 
System.--
          (1) * * *
          (2) Individual deductions, withholdings, and 
        deposits.--Notwithstanding section 211(a)(1) of the 
        Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act (50 U.S.C. 
        2021(a)(1)) beginning on January 1, 1999, through 
        [December 31, 2002] December 31, 2000, the percentage 
        deducted and withheld from the basic pay of an employee 
        participating in the Central Intelligence Agency 
        Retirement and Disability System shall be as follows:

      

                                   7.25............  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                   7.4.............  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                   [7.5............  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.]

                                                     

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  (d) Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System.--
          (1) * * *
          (2) Individual deductions, withholdings, and 
        deposits.--
                  (A) In general.--Notwithstanding section 
                805(a)(1) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
                (22 U.S.C. 4045(a)(1)), beginning on January 1, 
                1999, through [December 31, 2002] December 31, 
                2000, the amount withheld and deducted from the 
                basic pay of a participant in the Foreign 
                Service Retirement and Disability System shall 
                be as follows:

      

                                   7.25............  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                   7.4.............  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                   [7.5............  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.]

                  (B) Foreign service criminal investigators/
                inspectors of the office of the inspector 
                general, agency for international 
                development.--Notwithstanding section 805(a)(2) 
                of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 
                4045(a)(2)), beginning on January 1, 1999, 
                through [December 31, 2002] December 31, 2000, 
                the amount withheld and deducted from the basic 
                pay of an eligible Foreign Service criminal 
                investigator/inspector of the Office of the 
                Inspector General, Agency for International 
                Development participating in the Foreign 
                Service Retirement and Disability System shall 
                be as follows:

      

                                   7.75............  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                   7.9.............  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                   [8..............  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.]

                                                     

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     SECTION 252 OF THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT ACT

SEC. 252. PRIOR SERVICE CREDIT.

  (a) * * *

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  (h)(1)(A) Each participant who has performed military service 
before the date of separation on which entitlement to an 
annuity under this title is based may pay to the Agency an 
amount equal to 7 percent of the amount of basic pay paid under 
section 204 of title 37, United States Code, to the participant 
for each period of military service after December 1956; 
except, the amount to be paid for military service performed 
beginning on January 1, 1999, through [December 31, 2002] 
December 31, 2000, shall be as follows:

                                7.25 percent of basic   January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                 pay.
                                7.4 percent of basic    January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                 pay.
                                [7.5 percent of basic   January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.]
                                 pay.

                                                        

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                      FOREIGN SERVICE ACT OF 1980

          Chapter 8--Foreign Service Retirement and Disability

subchapter i--foreign service retirement and disability system

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  Sec. 805. Contributions to the Fund.--(a) * * *

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  (d)(1) Any participant credited with civilian service after 
July 1, 1924--
          (A) for which no retirement contributions, 
        deductions, or deposits have been made, or
          (B) for which a refund of such contributions, 
        deductions, or deposits has been made which has not 
        been redeposited,
may make a special contribution to the Fund. Special 
contributions for purposes of subparagraph (A) shall equal the 
following percentages of basic salary received for such 
service:
                                                              Percent of
                                                            basic salary
Time of service:
    July 1, 1924, through October 15, 1960, inclusive.............    5 
          * * * * * * *
    [January 1, 2001, through December 31, 2002, inclusive........  7.5 
    [After December 31, 2002......................................   7] 
    After December 31, 2000.......................................    7 

Special contributions for refunds under subparagraph (B) shall 
equal the amount of the refund received by the participant.

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subchapter ii--foreign service pension system

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  Sec. 854. Creditable Service.--(a) * * *

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  (c)(1) Credit shall be given under this System to a 
participant for a period of prior satisfactory service as--
          (A) * * *

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if the participant makes a payment to the Fund equal to 3 
percent of pay received for the volunteer service; except, the 
amount to be paid for volunteer service beginning on January 1, 
1999, through [December 31, 2002] December 31, 2000, shall be 
as follows:

                                  3.25.............  January 1, 1999, to December 31, 1999.
                                  3.4..............  January 1, 2000, to December 31, 2000.
                                  [3.5.............  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.]

                                                     

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  Sec. 856. Deductions and Withholdings From Pay.--(a)(1) * * *
  (2) The applicable percentage under this subsection shall be 
as follows:

                                  7.5..............  Before January 1, 1999.
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                                  [8...............  January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.
                                  [7.5.............  After December 31, 2002.]
                                  7.5..............  After December 31, 2000.

                                                     

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          FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

    In accordance with section 308(a)(1)(C) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, the financial assistance to State and local 
governments is as follows:
                                                                Millions
FY 2001 new budget authority..................................       192
 2001 outlays resulting therefrom.............................       158

                   COMPARISON WITH BUDGET RESOLUTION

    Clause 3(c)(2) of rule XIII of the House of Representatives 
requires an explanation of compliance with section 308(a)(1)(A) 
of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 
(Public Law 93-344), as amended, detailing how the authority 
compares with the reports submitted under section 302(b) of the 
Act for the most recently agreed to concurrent resolution on 
the budget for the fiscal year. This information follows:

                                            [In millions of dollars]
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                                                                  302(b) allocation            This bill--
                                                             ---------------------------------------------------
                                                                 Budget                    Budget
                                                               authority     Outlays     authority     Outlays
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Discretionary...............................................       14,257       14,713       14,402       14,726
Mandatory...................................................       14,708       14,628       14,679       14,713
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Note.--Pursuant to section 314 of the Congresssional Budget Act of 1974, as amended, increases to the
  Committee's section 302(a) allocation are authorized for funding in the reported bill for the Earned Income
  Tax Credit Compliance Initiative. After the bill is reported to the House, the Chairman of the Committee on
  the Budget will provide an increased section 302(a) allocation consistent with the funding provided in the
  bill.

                      FIVE-YEAR OUTLAY PROJECTIONS

    In compliance with section 308(a)(1)(B) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344), as 
amended, the following table contains five-year projections 
associated with the budget authority provided in the 
accompanying bill:
                                                                Millions
Budget Authority..............................................   $29,082
Outlays:
    Fiscal year 2001..........................................    25,955
    Fiscal year 2002..........................................     2,027
    Fiscal year 2003..........................................       358
    Fiscal year 2004..........................................       131
    Fiscal year 2005 and future years.........................        61

Note.--The above table includes mandatory appropriations and 
discretionary approporiations.
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               COMPLIANCE WITH RULE XIII, CLAUSE 3(f)(1)

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1) of rule XIII of the Rules of the 
House of Representatives, the Committee has inserted at the 
appropriate place in the report a description of the effects of 
provisions proposed in the accompanying bill which may be 
considered, under certain circumstances, to change the 
application of existing law, either directly or indirectly.
    The bill provides, in some instances, for funding of 
agencies and activities where legislation has not yet been 
finalized. In addition, the bill carries language, in some 
instances, permitting activities not authorized by law, or 
exempting agencies from certain provisions of law, but which 
has been carried in appropriations acts for many years. 
Additionally, the Committee includes a number of new general 
provisions.
    In title IV of the bill, in connection with the General 
Services Administration, certain limitations on availability of 
revenue in the Federal Buildings Fund and certain legislative 
provisions have been carried forward from last year.
    The bill continues a number of general provisions applying 
to agencies covered by the bill as well as certain provisions 
applying Government-wide. These provisions have been carried in 
the prior year appropriations bill, and a number of them have 
been carried for many years. Additionally, the Committee 
includes a number of new general provisions.

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for operation and maintenance of the Treasury Building and 
Annex, hire of passenger motor vehicles; maintenance, repairs, 
and improvements of, and purchase of commercial insurance 
policies for real properties leased or owned overseas; official 
travel expenses, official reception and representation 
expenses; and unforeseen emergencies of a confidential nature. 
The Committee includes new language providing funds for grants 
to state and local law enforcement groups to help fight money 
laundering.

        DEPARTMENT-WIDE SYSTEMS AND CAPITAL INVESTMENTS PROGRAM

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the development and acquisition of automated data 
processing equipment, software, and services, providing 
transfer authority, and prohibiting expenditures for IRS's 
Information Technology Systems.

                      OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds to 
carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
the hire of vehicles, official travel expenses, and unforeseen 
emergencies.

                INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX ADMINISTRATION

    The Committee has continued language that provides for the 
purchase and hire of motor vehicles, services by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
travel expenses, and unforeseen emergencies.

          TREASURY BUILDINGS AND ANNEX REPAIR AND RESTORATION

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Treasury 
Building and Annex.

                  FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for hire of vehicles and official reception and representation 
expenses; the travel of non-federal personnel attending 
conferences or meetings involving financial law enforcement, 
intelligence, and regulation; the purchase of personal services 
contracts; and allowing FinCEN to provide assistance to federal 
law enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement.

                 EXPANDED ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SERVICES

    The Committee recommends an appropriation of $2,000,000 for 
the Secretary of the Treasury to develop and implement a pilot 
program to expand access to financial services to low-income 
individuals who do not currently utilize bank accounts or other 
financial service opportunities.

                FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for: material and support costs of basic training; the purchase 
and hire of vehicles; student athletic and related activities; 
uniform purchases; for the conduct of and participation in 
firearms matches, and presentation of awards; room and board 
for interns; training U.S. Postal Service, State and local law 
enforcement personnel; training of foreign law enforcement 
personnel on a space available, reimbursable basis with 
discretion by the Secretary to waive reimbursement; training of 
private sector security officials on a reimbursable space 
available basis; travel expenses of non-federal personnel to 
attend course development meetings and training sponsored by 
the Center; training for the GREAT program; and the provision 
of short term medical services for students undergoing training 
at the center. It has also continued language authorizing 
acceptance of gifts, including funding of a gift for certain 
honor graduate students, and to authorize obligation of funds 
in anticipation of reimbursements from agencies receiving 
training at the Center, provided that total obligations do not 
exceed total budgetary resources at the end of the fiscal year.

     ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND RELATED EXPENSES

    The Committee has continued language for acquisition of 
necessary additional real property and facilities, and for 
ongoing maintenance, facility improvements, and related 
expenses, to remain available until expended.

                 INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT

    The Committee has continued language funding Treasury 
participation in and contribution to regional crime and drug 
enforcement task forces.

                      FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service 
and provides that funds for systems modernization will remain 
available for three years.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
for the purchase of vehicles, the hire of aircraft, the 
services of expert witnesses, official reception and 
representation expenses, training of State and local law 
enforcement agencies, the provision of laboratory assistance to 
State and local agencies, the payment of attorney's fees, the 
equipping of certain vessels, vehicles, equipment or aircraft. 
The Committee has continued language that provides that no 
funds shall be used to consolidate or centralize the records 
pertaining to firearms licenses; and prohibits the payment of 
administrative expenses in changing the definition of curios or 
relics; prohibiting the transfer of ATF's functions to another 
federal agency; prohibiting electronic retrieval of information 
gathered pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 923(g)(4) by name or personal 
identification; and prohibiting ATF from acting upon 
applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities. The 
Committee modifies language relating to payment of per diem 
and/or subsistence allowances to cover situations where a major 
investigative assignment requires an employee to work 16 hours 
or more per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of 
duty; and includes new language providing not to exceed $50,000 
for cooperative research and development programs for 
Laboratory Services and Fire Research Center activities.

                     United States Customs Service

                         SALARIES AND EXPENSES

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the purchase and hire of vehicles, official reception and 
representation expenses, personal services contracts abroad, 
compensation to informers, rental space for pre-clearance 
operations, special operations, procurement of automation 
infrastructure items, research, uniforms, repairs to Customs 
facilities, the child pornography tipline and Project Alert. 
The Committee continues the provision establishing the 
aggregate overtime limitation.

                   HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEE COLLECTION

    The Committee has continued language relating to the 
appropriations of funds to be transferred to and merged with 
the Customs Salaries and Expenses account to be used for the 
collection of the Harbor Maintenance Fee pursuant to Public Law 
103-182.

 OPERATION, MAINTENANCE, AND PROCUREMENT, AIR AND MARINE INTERDICTION 
                                PROGRAMS

    The Committee has continued language providing funds for 
the operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft and 
other equipment; operational training and mission-related 
travel; rental payments; operations for interdiction of 
narcotics and other goods; provision of support to Customs and 
other federal, state, or local agencies in enforcement or 
administration of laws enforced by Customs; and for other law 
enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; and prohibiting 
transfer of certain aircraft without prior Committee approval.

                        AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION

    The Committee has included new language funding major 
information technology projects for the U.S. Customs Service, 
providing that funds are available until expended and 
prohibiting the obligation of funds for the Automated 
Commercial Environment program until certain conditions are 
met.

                       Bureau of the Public Debt

    The Committee has continued language which provides funds 
may be used for reception and representation expenses and 
language which provides that a portion of the funds will remain 
available until expended. The Committee has also continued 
language which provides that appropriations from the General 
Fund will be reduced as fees are collected and language which 
provides that funds are to be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability Trust Fund for administration of the Fund.

                        Internal Revenue Service

                 PROCESSING, ASSISTANCE, AND MANAGEMENT

    The Committee has continued language providing funds for 
the management services, rent and utilities, services 
authorized by 5 USC 3109, and official reception and 
representation expenses. The Committee has also continued 
language providing funds for the Tax Counseling for the Elderly 
program, and has included new language providing an independent 
taxpayer advocate within the Service.

                          TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the purchase and hire of vehicles, and services authorized 
by 5 USC 3109. The Committee continues language providing that 
funds provided for research shall be available for two fiscal 
years. The Committee includes new language referencing tax 
exempt customers.

             EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE

    The Committee has continued language providing that funds 
may be used to reimburse the Social Security Administration.

                          INFORMATION SYSTEMS

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for information systems and telecommunications support and 
funds for the hire of motor vehicles.

          ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE

    Section 101. The Committee continues the provision that 
allows the transfer of 5 percent of any appropriation, made 
available to the IRS to any other IRS appropriation, subject to 
prior Congressional approval.
    Section 102. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires the IRS to maintain a training program in taxpayer's 
rights, dealing courteously with taxpayers, and cross cultural 
relations.
    Section 103. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires the IRS to institute policies and procedures, which 
will safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer information.

                      United States Secret Service

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the purchase and hire of motor vehicles, the hire of 
aircraft, training and assistance requested by State and local 
governments, services of expert witnesses, rental of certain 
buildings, improvements to buildings as may be necessary for 
protective functions, per diem and subsistence allowance, the 
conduct of firearms matches, presentation of awards, travel of 
employees on protective missions, for repairs, alterations, and 
minor construction, making grants to conduct behavioral 
research, uniforms, research reimbursement for protection as 
authorized by law, reception and representation expenses, 
assistance to foreign law enforcement for counterfeit 
investigations. The Committee continues language permitting 
some funding for protective travel to remain available for two 
years. The Committee includes new language making funds 
available as a grant for activities related to the 
investigations of exploited children.

      ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, AND RELATED EXPENSES

    The Committee has continued language providing funds for 
the acquisition, construction, improvement, and related 
expenses of Secret Service facilities.

             GENERAL PROVISIONS--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

    Section 110. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires the Secretary of the Treasury to comply with certain 
reprogramming guidelines when obligating or expending funds for 
law enforcement activities.
    Section 111. The Committee continues the provision that 
allows the Department of the Treasury to purchase uniforms, 
insurance, and motor vehicles without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation, and enter in to contracts with the 
State Department for health and medical services for Treasury 
employees in overseas locations.
    Section 112. The Committee continues the provision that 
requires expenditures of funds so as not to diminish efforts 
under the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.
    Section 113. The Committee continues the provision that 
authorizes transfers, up to 2 percent, between law enforcement 
appropriations under certain circumstances.
    Section 114. The Committee continues the provision that 
authorizes transfers, up to 2 percent, between Departmental 
Offices, Office of the Inspector General, Financial Management 
Service, and the Bureau of the Public Debt appropriations under 
certain circumstances.
    Section 115. The Committee includes a new provision that 
authorizes transfer, up to 2 percent, between the Internal 
Revenue Service and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax 
Administration under certain circumstances.
    Section 116. The Committee continues the provision that 
provides that no funds may be obligated for the purchase of law 
enforcement vehicles until the Secretary of the Treasury 
certifies that the purchase is consistent with Departmental 
vehicle management principles.
    Section 117. The Committee continues the provision that 
prohibits the Department of the Treasury from undertaking a 
redesign of the $1 Federal Reserve note.
    Section 118. The Committee continues and makes permanent 
the provision which amends Title 5 USC 5547 and authorizes 
Federal Law Enforcement agencies to pay their employees premium 
pay in excess of the pay period limitation for protective 
services authorized by Section 3056 (a) of title 18, United 
States Code.
    Section 119. The Committee includes a new provision that 
provides for transfers from and reimbursements to the Salaries 
and Expenses appropriation of the Financial Management Service 
for the purposes of debt collection.
    Section 120. The Committee includes a new provision that 
requires that no reorganization of the US Customs Service shall 
result in a reduction in service to the area served by the Port 
of Racine, Wisconsin, below the level of service provided in 
fiscal year 2000.
    Section 121. The Committee includes a new provision 
authorizing and directing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms to reimburse the subcontractor that provided services 
in 1993 and 1994 pursuant to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms contract number TAFF 93-3 out of fiscal year 2001 
appropriations or prior year unobligated balances.
    Section 122. The Committee has included a new provision 
making obligation or expenditure of funds by the Treasury 
Department for new law enforcement training facilities 
contingent on approval by House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees, after submission to the Committee of a General 
Accounting Office assessment of the need for, and cost 
effectiveness of, such a facility.

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE

                   Payment to the Postal Service Fund

    The Committee has continued language that prohibits funds 
made available to the Postal Service from being used to close 
or consolidate certain post offices, from charging employees of 
local and child support agencies a fee for information, 
provides funds for free mail for the blind, and for six day 
mail delivery and rural delivery of mail at existing levels. 
The Committee has continued language making certain funds 
available on October 1, 2001.

TITLE III--EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO 
                             THE PRESIDENT

        Compensation of the President and the White House Office

    The Committee has continued language that mandates that 
unused amounts of the President's expense allowance will revert 
to the Treasury and not be taxable to the President and which 
provides funds for service authorized by 5 USC 3109, 
subsistence expenses, hire of vehicles, newspapers, 
periodicals, teletype news service, travel, and official 
entertainment expenses. The Committee has continued language 
making funds available for reimbursement to the White House 
Communications Agency.

                 Executive Residence at the White House

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for operation and maintenance of the White House for official 
entertainment expenses; language specifying the authorized use 
of funds; language specifying that reimbursable expenses are 
the exclusive authority of the Executive Residence to incur 
obligations and receive offsetting collections; language 
requiring the sponsors of political events to make advance 
payments; language requiring the national committee of the 
political party of the President to maintain $25,000 on 
deposit; language requiring the Executive Residence to ensure 
that amounts owed are billed within 60 days of a reimbursable 
event and collected within 30 days of the bill notice; language 
authorizing the Executive Residence to charge and assess 
interest and penalties on late payments; language authorizing 
all reimbursements to be deposited into the Treasury as a 
miscellaneous receipt; language requiring a report to the 
Committee on the reimbursable expenses within 90 days of the 
end of the fiscal year; language requiring the Executive 
Residence to maintain a system for tracking and classifying 
reimbursable events; and language specifying that the Executive 
Residence is not exempt from the requirements of subchapter I 
or II of chapter 37 of title 31, United States Code.

                  White House Repairs and Restoration

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the repair, alteration, and improvement of the Executive 
Residence at the White House and includes new language which 
allows the funds to be used for Presidential transition and 
telecommunications infrastructure repair.

Special Assistance to the President and Official Residence of the Vice 
                               President

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for operation and maintenance of the official residence of the 
Vice President, the hire of vehicles, official entertainment 
expenses and provides for the transfer of funds as necessary. 
The Committee has continued language that enables the Vice 
President to provide assistance to the President, services 
authorized by 5 USC 3109, subsistence, and the hire for 
vehicles.

                      Council of Economic Advisers

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the expenses of the Council of Economic Advisers.

                      Office of Policy Development

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses of the Office of Policy Development.

                       National Security Council

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses of the National Security Council.

                        Office of Administration

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses of the Office and the hire of vehicles and funds 
for a capital investment plan which provides for the continued 
modernization of the information technology infrastructure.

                    Office of Management and Budget

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses, the hire of vehicles, carrying out provisions of 
chapter 35 of 44 USC, directs that funds shall be applied only 
to items for which appropriations were made, prohibits the 
review of agricultural marketing orders and the alteration of 
certain testimony.

                 Office of National Drug Control Policy

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses, research, official reception and representation 
expenses, participation in joint projects, and allows for the 
acceptance of gifts. The Committee has continued language 
providing funds for model state drug law conferences and policy 
research and evaluation and include new language making these 
funds available until expended.

                Counterdrug Technology Assessment Center

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for counternarcotics research and development and the 
technology transfer program. The Committee includes new 
language that provides funds for a grant to the U.S. Olympic 
Committee for its anti-doping program.

 Federal Drug Control Programs--High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas 
                                Program

    The Committee has continued language that provides a 
certain level of funding for drug control activities for state, 
local and federal drug control efforts, and requires obligation 
of funds within a specified period of time. The Committee 
includes new language allowing federal funds to remain 
available until September 30, 2002.

         Federal Drug Control Programs--Special Forfeiture Fund

    The Committee has continued language that provides a 
certain level of funding for national youth anti-drug media 
campaign, for the Drug-Free Communities Act, and to provide a 
grant to the National Drug Court Institute. The Committee 
includes new funding available for transfer or reimbursement 
for the costs of operating the Counterdrug Intelligence 
Executive Secretariat.

                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES

 Commission for Purchase From People Who are Blind or Severely Disabled

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses of the Committee.

                      Federal Election Commission

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses of the Commission and specifying a level of 
funding for internal automated data processing systems and 
reception and representation expenses.

                   Federal Labor Relations Authority

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the expenses of the authority, including authorized 
services, hire of experts and consultants, hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, and rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia. The Committee has also continued a provision that 
public members of the Federal Service Impasse Panel may be paid 
travel expenses and that fees charged to non-Federal 
participants at labor-management relations conferences shall be 
credited and merged with this account.

                    General Services Administration

                         federal buildings fund

    The Committee has continued language dealing with the 
conditions under which funds made available to the Federal 
Buildings Fund can be used. Many technical provisions have been 
included regarding use of funds in the Federal Buildings Fund 
which are not specifically authorized by law.
    The Committee has included language to limit funds 
available for building projects not authorized by law. A more 
detailed analysis of the Federal Buildings Funds can be found 
in the General Services Administration chapter of this report.

                         policy and operations

    The Committee continues language which provides funds for 
government-wide policy and oversight activities, the Board of 
Contract Appeals, accounting records management and other 
services incident to adjudication of Indian Tribal Claims, 
services authorized by 5 USC 3109, and official reception and 
representation expenses. The Committee continues language which 
provides that a portion of the funds appropriated will remain 
available until expended.

                      office of inspector general

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for services authorized by 5 USC 3109 expenses for the Office, 
payment for information and detection of fraud, and awards.

           allowances and office staff for former presidents

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for compliance with Public Law 95-138.

          general provisions--general services administration

    Section 401. The Committee continues the provision that 
provides that costs included in rent received from government 
corporations for operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, 
repair and improvement shall be credited to the Federal 
Buildings Fund.
    Section 402. The Committee continues the provision 
providing authority for the use of funds for the hire of motor 
vehicles.
    Section 403. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that funds made available for activities of the 
Federal Buildings Fund may be transferred between 
appropriations with advance approval of the Congress.
    Section 404. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for developing courthouse 
construction requests that do not meet GSA standards and 
priorities of the Judicial Conference.
    Section 405. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that no funds may be used to increase the amount of 
occupiable square feet, provide cleaning services, security 
enhancements, or any other service usually provided, to any 
agency which does not pay the requested rent.
    Section 406. The Committee continues the provision 
providing for Information Technology Fund repayment from 
sponsored projects that realize program savings.
    Section 407. The Committee continues the provision that 
permits GSA to pay small claims (up to $250,000) made against 
the government.
    Section 408. The Committee modifies a provision of the 
fiscal year 2000 appropriations act to provide a one-year 
extension to the period for which voluntary separation 
incentive payments may be offered by the Administrator of the 
General Services Administration to qualified employees.

                     Merit Systems Protection Board

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the Board.

              National Archives and Records Administration

                           operating expenses

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the review and declassification of documents, the hire of 
passenger vehicles, and language that authorizes the Archivist 
to use excess funds available from the amount borrowed for 
construction of the National Archives facility for expenses 
necessary to provide storage for holdings.

                        repairs and restoration

    The Committee has included language that provides funds for 
the repair, alteration, and improvement of archives facilities 
and presidential libraries.

                      Office of Government Ethics

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the Office.

                     Office of Personnel Management

    The Committee has continued language that provides for 
expenses of the Office, services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
medical examinations under certain conditions, rental of 
conference rooms, hire of vehicles, official reception, and 
representation expenses, advances for reimbursement per diem 
and/or subsistence allowances for employees affected by Voting 
Rights Act activities, transfers to appropriate trust funds, 
prohibition of funds for the Legal Examining Unit, authority to 
accept donations for the White House Fellows program, and 
making funds available until expended for automating retirement 
record keeping.

                      Office of Inspector General

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for expenses of the Office, audit of the retirement and 
insurance programs, and the rental of conference rooms.

      government payment for annuitants, employee health benefits

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the payment of government contributions.

       government payment for annuitants, employee life insurance

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the payment of government contributions.

        PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the payment of government contributions.

                       Office of Special Counsel

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for the Office.

                        United States Tax Court

    The Committee has continued language that provides funds 
for services authorized by 5 USC 3109 and language which 
provides that travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon 
written certification of the judge.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                This Act

    Section 501. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the expenditure of funds to the current year unless expressly 
provided in this Act.
    Section 502. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the expenditure of funds for consulting services under certain 
conditions.
    Section 503. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to engage in activities which 
would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the 1930 
Tariff Act.
    Section 504. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the transfer of control over the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center out of the Department of the 
Treasury.
    Section 505. The Committee continues the provision 
concerning employment rights of Federal employees who return to 
their civilian jobs after assignment with the Armed Forces.
    Section 506. The Committee continues the provision 
concerning compliance with the Buy American Act.
    Section 507. The Committee continues the provision 
concerning prohibition of contracts which use certain goods not 
made in America.
    Section 508. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting contract eligibility where fraudulent intent has 
been proven in affixing ``Made in America'' labels.
    Section 509. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for abortions under the 
FEHBP.
    Section 510. The Committee continues the provision which 
would authorize the expenditure of funds for abortions under 
the FEHBP if the life of the mother is in danger or the 
pregnancy is a result of an act of rape or incest.
    Section 511. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that fifty percent of unobligated balances may remain 
available for certain purposes.
    Section 512. The Committee continues the provision 
restricting the use of funds for the White House to request 
official background reports without the written consent of the 
individual who is the subject of the report.
    Section 513. The Committee continues the provision that 
cost accounting standards under the Federal Procurement Policy 
Act shall not apply to the FEHBP.
    Section 514. The Committee includes a new provision that 
transfers a parcel of land from the Gerald R. Ford Library and 
Museum to the Gerald R. Ford Foundation as trustee, with 
reversionary interest.
    Section 515. The Committee includes a new provision 
requiring OMB to develop guidelines for ensuring and maximizing 
the quality, objectivity, utility, and integrity of information 
disseminated by federal agencies.
    Section 516. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to give preference for the 
acquisition of a firearm or ammunition based on whether the 
manufacturer or vendor of the firearm or ammunition is party to 
an agreement with a department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States regarding codes of conduct, operating 
practices, or product design.
    Section 517. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds to allow placement in interstate 
or foreign commerce of diamonds that have been mined in Burkina 
Faso, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the Republics of 
Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, or Angola, except for 
diamonds certified as originating in the Republic of Sierra 
Leone.
    Section 518. The Committee includes a new provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for the purpose of implementation, 
or in preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol.
    Section 519. The Committee includes a new provision 
regarding the use of alternative fuels by the Department of the 
Treasury and the General Services Administration.
    Section 520. The Committee includes a new provision 
regarding apportionment for International Food Assistance 
Programs.

              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENT WIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

    Section 601. The Committee continues the provision 
authorizing agencies to pay costs of travel to the United 
States for the immediate families of Federal employees assigned 
to foreign duty in the event of a death or a life threatening 
illness of the employee.
    Section 602. The Committee continues the provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use of 
controlled substances.
    Section 603. The Committee continues the provision 
regarding price limitations on vehicles to be purchased by the 
Federal Government.
    Section 604. The Committee continues the provision allowing 
funds made available to agencies for travel, to also be used 
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances.
    Section 605. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the government, with certain specified exceptions, 
from employing non-U.S. citizens whose posts of duty would be 
in the continental U.S.
    Section 606. The Committee continues the provision ensuring 
that agencies will have authority to pay GSA bills for space 
renovation and other services.
    Section 607. The Committee continues the provision allowing 
agencies to finance the costs of recycling and waste prevention 
programs with proceeds from the sale of materials recovered 
through such programs.
    Section 608. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that funds may be used by certain groups to pay rent 
and other service costs in the District of Columbia.
    Section 609. The Committee continues the provision 
providing that no funds may be used to pay any person filling a 
nominated position who has been rejected by the Senate.
    Section 610. The Committee continues the provision 
precluding the financing of groups by more than one Federal 
agency absent prior and specific statutory approval.
    Section 611. The Committee continues the provision 
authorizing the Postal Service to employ guards and give them 
the same special police powers as GSA guards.
    Section 612. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for enforcing regulations 
disapproved in accordance with the applicable law of the U.S.
    Section 613. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the pay increases of certain prevailing rate employees.
    Section 614. The Committee continues the provision limiting 
the amount of funds that can be used for redecoration of 
offices under certain circumstances.
    Section 615. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for the acquisition of 
additional law enforcement training facilities.
    Section 616. The Committee continues the provision to allow 
for interagency funding of national security and emergency 
telecommunications initiatives.
    Section 617. The Committee continues the provision 
requiring agencies to certify that a Schedule C appointment was 
not created solely or primarily to detail the employee to the 
White House.
    Section 618. The Committee continues the provision 
requiring agencies to administer a policy designed to ensure 
that all workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual 
harassment.
    Section 619. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the importation of any goods manufactured by forced 
or indentured child labor.
    Section 620. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the payment of any employee who prohibits, 
threatens or prevents another employee from communicating with 
Congress.
    Section 621. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting Federal training not directly related to the 
performance of official duties.
    Section 622. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the expenditure of funds for implementation of 
agreements in nondisclosure policies unless certain provisions 
are included.
    Section 623. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting propaganda, publicity and lobbying by executive 
agency personnel in support or defeat of legislative 
initiatives.
    Section 624. The Committee continues the provision 
directing OMB to provide an accounting statement and report on 
the cumulative costs and benefits of Federal regulatory 
programs.
    Section 625. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting any Federal agency from disclosing an employee's 
home address to any labor organization, absent employee 
authorization or court order.
    Section 626. The Committee continues and makes permanent 
the provision authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to 
establish scientific canine explosive detection standards.
    Section 627. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting funds to be used to provide non-public information 
such as mailing or telephone lists to any person or 
organization outside the government without the approval of the 
Committees on Appropriations.
    Section 628. The Committee continues the provision 
prohibiting the use of funds for propaganda and publicity 
purposes not authorized by Congress.
    Section 629. The Committee continues the provision 
directing agency employees to use official time in an honest 
effort to perform official duties.
    Section 630. The Committee includes a new provision which 
delays enactment of Section 638 of Public Law 106-58, 
establishing a Chief Financial Officer within the Executive 
Office of the President, until May 1, 2001.
    Section 631. The Committee continues and includes technical 
modifications to the provision addressing contraceptive 
coverage in health plans participating in the FEHBP, making it 
identical to current law as enacted by Section 625 of the 
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2000 and deleting the 
names of two plans that no longer participate in the program.
    Section 632. The Committee continues the provision 
authorizing the use of funds to finance an appropriate share of 
the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program.
    Section 633. The Committee continues and modifies the 
provision authorizing agencies to transfer funds to the Policy 
and Operations account of GSA to finance a variety of efforts 
with specific limitations.
    Section 634. The Committee continues a provision, with 
technical modifications, authorizing an Executive agency to use 
certain funds to improve the affordability of child care for 
lower income Federal employees. The Provision was initially 
included in the Treasury and General Government Appropriations 
Act, 2000, to provide a one-year demonstration program that 
could be evaluated for its effectiveness. However, the Office 
of Personnel Management did not finalize regulations until 
March 14, 2000, almost half way through the fiscal year. In 
addition, many Federal employees plan their child care needs 
annually in relation to the school year, preventing full 
participation in this program for fiscal year 2000. Based on 
these and other factors, the Committee believes that a proper 
evaluation of this program requires that this demonstration 
project be available to Federal agencies for one complete 
fiscal year.
    Section 635. The Committee continues the provision that 
permits breast feeding in a Federal building or on Federal 
property if the woman and child are authorized to be there.
    Section 636. The Committee includes a new provision which 
permits interagency funding of the National Science and 
Technology Council and provides for a report on the budget and 
resources of the National Science and Technology Council.
    Section 637. The Committee includes a new provision 
regarding certain reforms within the FEC, including: a 
clarification of election cycle reporting of certain 
expenditures, a clarification of permissible use of facsimile 
machines and electronic mail to file reports, a clarification 
of the treatment of lines of credit obtained by candidates as 
commercially reasonable loans, and a change in the deadline for 
reporting of major campaign contributions received within the 
last 20 days of an election from 48 hours to 24 hours. These 
reforms are applicable with respect to elections occurring 
after January 2001.
    Section 638. The Committee includes a new provision 
concerning retirement provisions relating to certain members of 
the police force of the Metropolitan Washington Airports 
Authority.
    Section 639. The Committee has included a new provision 
authorizing the President's Pay Agent to use appropriate data 
from sources other than the Bureau of Labor Statistics in 
making new locality pay designations.
    Section 640. The Committee includes a new provision to 
restore the federal employee retirement contribution share to 
pre-1999 levels.
    Section 641. The Committee includes a new provision that 
amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to strengthen 
the reporting requirements related to the use of federal 
aircraft for campaign purposes. Specifically, the language 
would require a candidate who uses federal aircraft to travel 
to a campaign event to report the type of aircraft used, the 
number of people related to the campaign event, and the amount 
of reimbursement along with the method used in determining that 
amount. This provision does not in any way alter the current 
reimbursement provisions as outlined in section 106.3 of 
Chapter 11 of the Code of Federal Regulations, ``Allocation of 
expenses between campaign and non-campaign related travel,'' 
but does strengthen the reporting requirements of that use.
    Section 642. The Committee includes a new provision making 
a modification to the calculation of disability pay for federal 
firefighters.
    Section 643. The Committee includes a technical provision 
modifying the basis for using inactive duty military leave.

                    detailed explanations in report

    It should be emphasized again that a more detailed 
statement detailed statement describing the effect of the above 
provisions inserted or continued this year by the Committee 
which directly or indirectly change the application of existing 
law may be found at the appropriate place in this report.

                  appropriations not authorized by law

    Pursuant to clause 3(f)(1) of rule XIII of the House of 
Representatives, the following table lists the appropriations 
in the accompanying bill that are not authorized by law:
    Treasury Department
          Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
          Expanded Access to Financial Services
          Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
                  Salaries And Expenses
                  Acquisition, Construction, Improvements & 
                Related Expenses
          Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, except those 
        activities related to the enforcement of tobacco 
        smuggling and regulation of explosives
          U.S. Customs Service
                  Salaries & Expenses
                  Operation, Maintenance, and Procurement, Air 
                & Marine Interdiction Programs
                  Automation Modernization
          U.S. Secret Service--except the Uniformed Division
    Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs
    Federal Election Commission
    General Services Administration, Policy and Operations

                          Full Committee Votes

    Pursuant to the provisions of clause 3(b) of rule XIII of 
the House of Representatives, the results of each roll call 
vote on an amendment or on the motion to report, together with 
the names of those voting for and those voting against. There 
were no recorded votes.

  ADDITIONAL VIEWS OF HON. STENY H. HOYER, HON. CARRIE P. MEEK, HON. 
             LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD, AND HON. DAVID R. OBEY

    We cannot support this bill not because of what is included 
in the bill, but because of what is left out: $2.1 billion in 
critically needed activities and projects throughout the Untied 
States that are the Federal Government's responsibility. The 
302(b) spending allocation for fiscal year 2001 for this bill 
is $2.1 billion below the requested level. Chairman Kolbe was 
faced with very difficult choices in order to mark up a bill 
within this level of funding, and we wish to express our 
appreciation to Chairman Kolbe and the subcommittee staff for 
the constructive way in which the subcommittee has operated 
this year.
    Chairman Kolbe has decided to fund law enforcement 
functions at the expense of the other general government 
responsibilities this subcommittee has. For example, Treasury's 
law enforcement bureaus are funded at or near the 
Administration's request, including funding for additional ATF 
agents to enforce our gun laws, funding to begin development of 
the U.S. Customs Service automated commercial system while 
maintaining their current system, and funding to continue the 
Secret Service workload balancing initiative. We applaud the 
robust funding for Treasury's important law enforcement 
bureaus.
    The problem is money: the allocation for this bill is not 
adequate to fund Federal Government responsibilities that are 
critical to the American people. The Chairman acknowledges this 
funding problem with these statements in this Report on pages 4 
and 5, ``With these * * * responsibilities in mind, the 
allocation is short by approximately $1.3 billion.'' and ``The 
Committee acknowledges that IRS, GSA, and the National Archives 
have borne the brunt of the restraint on spending found in the 
bill, requiring denial of requested increases for the upcoming 
year.'' The Administration acknowledges the funding crisis in 
this bill with a veto threat.
    This is not the only bill which is ``short;'' several other 
appropriation bills are already facing veto threats from the 
President because of spending amounts that are inadequate to 
serve the American people. The Republicans are using this 
strategy in order to push their tax cut agenda--one that will 
cost $175 billion over five years, and a $1 trillion over ten 
years. Are our national priorities so out of whack that we're 
willing to sacrifice our responsibility to fund core government 
functions on the altar of irresponsible tax cuts? The majority 
party apparently thinks so.
    Last year, they pushed their huge tax cut through Congress, 
even though it could have put at risk the healthiest economy in 
our lifetimes. This year, they're back with equally 
irresponsible tax cuts. That's what this funding cut of $2.1 
billion in core government functions is all about--funding tax 
cuts that would benefit the wealthiest among us. All of these 
vital programs face the budget ax because the Republican Party 
would rather pass tax-cuts than invest in our nation's future. 
We must bring our national priorities back into focus.
    In this bill we must have adequate funding not only for 
important law enforcement functions but also for the Federal 
Government's responsibilities to construct Federal Courthouses 
and other Government buildings, to collect taxes from the 
American people efficiently and effectively, and to provide for 
the functioning of the Government, ensuring that records are 
not lost in a National Archives building that has become a 
firetrap.
    This bill underfunds the Internal Revenue Service by $466 
million, the General Services Administration including 
courthouse and other government construction and repair 
projects by over $1 billion, and the National Archives by $108 
million. These cuts are devastating and fiscally irresponsible.
    Two years ago the House voted overwhelmingly for the IRS 
Reform and Restructuring Act. That act followed recommendations 
of the Commission that studied the IRS, which stated concerning 
budgets that ``theIRS should receive stable funding for the 
next three years so that the leaders can undertake the proper planning 
to rebuild its foundation'' and ``furthermore, a stable budget will 
allow the IRS leadership to plan and implement operations which will 
improve taxpayer service and compliance.'' And now the Republican 
Majority is cutting funding for the IRS even below current services 
level. We can't have it both ways. This cut of $466 million will 
jeopardize IRS's ability to reorganize, protect taxpayer rights and 
improve taxpayer service. This level would not even cover mandatory 
inflation resulting in a loss of almost 5000 FTE's; successful 
completion of the 2001 filing season would be at risk; customer service 
would be reduced; audit coverage would decline to all time record low 
levels (reducing revenue to the government by up to $2 billion); and 
the modernization of the IRS, its computer systems and business 
practices would be threatened.
    In a recent letter, IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti 
stated the following concerning the impact of this funding 
reduction: ``It would stop the IRS modernization effort, as 
mandated by the Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 (RRA 98), 
would also lead to a further decline in the already low levels 
of compliance activity, and would lock the IRS into its 30 year 
old technology.''
    The General Services Administration funding for its 
government-wide construction and building repair activities has 
been reduced by over $1 billion in order to fit this bill 
within the low allocation. And delaying for one year the 
requested construction projects will cost the taxpayer almost 
$100 million in additional inflationary construction costs and 
extended lease costs. This hardly seems like the fiscally 
responsible course of funding.
    No funding is provided for courthouse or other construction 
projects requested by the Administration. We have a serious 
crisis going on across the country in terms of our federal 
courthouses. We have spent billions of dollars over the last 
10-15 years on the war against drugs and crime resulting in a 
hefty increase in the Judiciary's caseload. The number of 
judges and court employees has grown substantially; however, 
our court facilities have not even come close to keeping pace 
with this growth. This lack of space has created delays, 
inefficiencies, and large backlogs of cases. Moreover, security 
is insufficient to protect those who work in and utilize the 
court facilities. Current facilities have critical security 
concerns, including life-threatening security deficiencies 
documented by the U.S. Marshals Service in some cases. These 
conditions are simply unacceptable to U.S. taxpayers; 
nevertheless, this bill funds no courthouse construction 
projects, effectively ignoring the critical workload and 
security concerns of the U.S. Courts.
    In addition, we object to the assumption on courtroom 
sharing in the President's request for funding for courthouse 
construction, based on OMB's unilateral, ``one size fits all'' 
plan that only two courtrooms should be built for every three 
judges. We could not determine the basis for OMB's proposed 
courtroom sharing plan and are concerned about the impact that 
the reductions in courtrooms would have on the administration 
of justice, particularly in Miami and Los Angeles. No one with 
significant federal court case management experience was 
involved in OMB's decision to limit courtrooms in new 
courthouse projects to two courtrooms for every three judges. 
The sheer number of cases, the number of large multi-party 
defendant cases, and the complexity of various cases must be 
considered when determining whether courtroom sharing is 
feasible in a particular location.
    All other construction projects are zeroed out in this 
bill, including among others the continuation of the Food and 
Drug Administration Consolidation project, the new Alcohol, 
Tobacco, and Firearms Headquarters in a secure location, and 
the renovation of our National Archives.
    We have been made aware that the threat of fire in the 
National Archives building is high. Delaying this project will 
put the lives of visitors and staff at risk and endanger 
irreplaceable archival records, including the Charters of 
Freedom as long as they remain on display in the unrenovated 
building. Delaying this project will cost the taxpayers 
millions of dollars in added costs. Some members might agree 
that this rises to the level of a funding emergency.
    We have many other concerns about unfunded programs in this 
bill, including the irresponsible lack of funding for 
Presidential transition expenses, a 32% cut in critically 
needed funding for Repairs of Federal buildings, no funding for 
the ongoing information technology enhancement programs 
(including computer security staffing) in the Executive Office 
of the President and the IRS, lack of funding for the 
Unanticipated Needs of the President and for $2.5 million for 
clarification of the options for a Puerto Rican referendum. In 
addition, the bill eliminates $77 million in requested funding 
for counterterrorism and funding for the President's critical 
infrastructure protection initiative that would ensure the 
Federal Government is protected from acts of cyber-terrorism. 
These and other unfunded programs are Federal responsibilities 
on which the American taxpayer depends.
    We with to correct misleading statements from the Committee 
markup concerning reports on the First Lady's travel. The White 
House is required by this Committee to submit monthly reports 
on the 15th of each month following the preceding month on the 
First Lady's travel. Normally reports involving general ledger 
accounting in the Executive Branch require 32 to 41 days to 
produce after the reporting period is complete. In its June 26, 
2000 report to Congress, the White House report reflects that 
the First Lady travel bills, on average, were paid within 32 
days of the date of the trip. The July 15, 2000 report 
indicates that bills, on average, were paid within 31 days of 
the trip. Finally, it was incorrectly stated that the First 
Lady uses the 747 aircraft for travel. The First Lady only 
boards the 747 as a passenger accompanying the President of the 
United States.
    For these and other reasons, we cannot support this FY 2001 
Treasury-Postal Service-General Government Appropriation bill. 
We continue to hope that additional funding will be restored to 
this bill to enable responsible funding of core government 
functions.

                                   Lucille Roybal-Allard.
                                   Steny H. Hoyer.
                                   Dave Obey.
                                   Carrie P. Meek.

                                
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