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[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2020 Engrossed in House (EH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2020

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                                 AN ACT

 
 Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States 
  Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
 Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, 
                        and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Treasury Department, the 
United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, 
and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 1996, and for other purposes, namely:

                  TITLE I--DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

                          Departmental Offices

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices including 
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, when necessary for the performance of 
official business; not to exceed $2,900,000 for official travel 
expenses; not to exceed $2,950,000 to remain available until September 
30, 1998, shall be available for information technology modernization 
requirements; not to exceed $150,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; not to exceed $258,000 for unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended 
under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury and to be 
accounted for solely on his certificate; $104,000,500.
                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,000,000 for 
official travel expenses; not to exceed $100,000 for unforeseen 
emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated and expended 
under the direction of the Inspector General of the Treasury; 
$29,319,000.

                  Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel expenses of non-
Federal personnel to attend meetings concerned with financial 
intelligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regulation; not 
to exceed $14,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
$20,273,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network may procure up 
to $500,000 in specialized, unique or novel automatic data processing 
equipment, ancillary equipment, software, services, and related 
resources from commercial vendors without regard to otherwise 
applicable procurement laws and regulations and without full and open 
competition, utilizing procedures best suited under the circumstances 
of the procurement to efficiently fulfill the agency's requirements: 
Provided further, That funds appropriated in this account may be used 
to procure personal services contracts.
                Federal Law Enforcement Training Center

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforcement Training 
Center, as a bureau of the Department of the Treasury, including 
materials and support costs of Federal law enforcement basic training; 
purchase (not to exceed fifty-two for police-type use) and hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; for expenses for student athletic and related 
activities; uniforms without regard to the general purchase price 
limitation for the current fiscal year; the conducting of and 
participating in firearms matches and presentation of awards; for 
public awareness and enhancing community support of law enforcement 
training; not to exceed $7,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; room and board for student interns; and 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided, That the Center is 
authorized to accept and use gifts of property, both real and personal, 
and to accept services, for authorized purposes, including funding of a 
gift of intrinsic value which shall be awarded annually by the Director 
of the Center to the outstanding student who graduated from a basic 
training program at the Center during the previous fiscal year, which 
shall be funded only by gifts received through the Center's gift 
authority: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, students attending training at any Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Center site shall reside in on-Center or Center-provided 
housing, insofar as available and in accordance with Center policy: 
Provided further, That funds appropriated in this account shall be 
available for training United States Postal Service law enforcement 
personnel and Postal police officers, at the discretion of the 
Director; State and local government law enforcement training on a 
space-available basis; training of foreign law enforcement officials on 
a space-available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this 
appropriation (except that the Director may waive reimbursement and may 
pay travel expenses, not to exceed 75 percent of the total training and 
travel cost, when the Director determines that it is in the public 
interest to do so); training of private sector security officials on a 
space-available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this 
appropriation; travel expenses of non-Federal personnel to attend State 
and local course development meetings at the Center: Provided further, 
That the Center is authorized to obligate funds in anticipation of 
reimbursements from agencies receiving training at the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center, except that total obligations at the end 
of the fiscal year shall not exceed total budgetary resources available 
at the end of the fiscal year:  Provided further, That the Center is 
authorized to obligate funds to provide for site security and expansion 
of antiterrorism training facilities: Provided further, That the 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is authorized to provide short 
term medical services for students undergoing training at the Center; 
$36,070,000, of which $8,666,000 for materials and support costs of 
Federal law enforcement basic training shall remain available until 
September 30, 1998.
     acquisition, construction, improvements, and related expenses

    For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, for 
acquisition of necessary additional real property and facilities, and 
for ongoing maintenance, facility improvements, and related expenses, 
$8,163,000, to remain available until expended.
                      Financial Management Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Financial Management Service, 
$181,837,000, of which not to exceed $14,277,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 1988 for systems modernization initiatives. In 
addition, $90,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust 
Fund, to reimburse the Service for administrative and personnel 
expenses for financial management of the Fund, as authorized by section 
1012 of Public Law 101-380.

                Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed six hundred and fifty 
vehicles for police-type use for replacement only and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; and services of expert witnesses at 
such rates as may be determined by the Director; for payment of per 
diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees where an assignment to 
the National Response Team during the investigation of a bombing or 
arson incident requires an employee to work 16 hours or more per day or 
to remain overnight at his or her post of duty; not to exceed $10,000 
for official reception and representation expenses; for training of 
State and local law enforcement agencies with or without reimbursement; 
provision of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies, with or 
without reimbursement; $391,035,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 
shall be available for the payment of attorneys' fees as provided by 18 
U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $1,000,000 shall be available for the 
equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft available for 
official use by a State or local law enforcement agency if the 
conveyance will be used in drug-related joint law enforcement 
operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and for the 
payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equipment, and 
other similar costs of State and local law enforcement officers that 
are incurred in joint operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco 
and Firearms: Provided, That no funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used to implement any reorganization of the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms or transfer of the Bureau's functions, 
missions, or activities to other agencies or Departments in the fiscal 
year ending on September 30, 1996: Provided further, That no funds 
appropriated herein shall be available for salaries or administrative 
expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing, within the 
Department of the Treasury, the records, or any portion thereof, of 
acquisition and disposition of firearms maintained by Federal firearms 
licensees: Provided further, That no funds appropriated herein shall be 
used to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any officer 
or employee of the United States to implement an amendment or 
amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or to change the definition of ``Curios or 
relics'' in 27 CFR 178.11 or remove any item from ATF Publication 
5300.11 as it existed on January 1, 1994 without publishing prior 
notice in the Federal Register and allowing for public comment: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be 
available to investigate or act upon applications for relief from 
Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c): Provided further, 
That such funds shall be available to investigate and act upon 
applications filed by corporations for relief from Federal firearms 
disabilities under 18 U.S.C. section 925(c).
                     United States Customs Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service, 
including purchase of up to 1,000 motor vehicles of which 960 are for 
replacement only, including 990 for police-type use and commercial 
operations; hire of motor vehicles; not to exceed $20,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses; and awards of compensation to 
informers, as authorized by any Act enforced by the United States 
Customs Service; $1,392,429,000, of which such sums as become available 
in the Customs User Fee Account, except sums subject to section 
13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, as 
amended (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of 
the total, not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for 
rental space in connection with preclearance operations, and not to 
exceed $4,000,000 shall be available until expended for research: 
Provided, That uniforms may be purchased without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year: Provided 
further, That the Commissioner of the Customs Service designate a 
single individual to be port director of all United States Government 
activities at two ports of entry, one on the southern border and one on 
the northern border.
                   harbor maintenance fee collection

    For administrative expenses related to the collection of the Harbor 
Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law 103-182, $3,000,000, to be 
derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund and to be transferred to 
and merged with the Customs ``Salaries and Expenses'' account for such 
purposes.
    operation and maintenance, air and marine interdiction programs

    For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft, and other 
related equipment of the Air and Marine Programs, including operational 
training and mission-related travel, and rental payments for facilities 
occupied by the air or marine interdiction or demand reduction 
programs, the operations of which include: the interdiction of 
narcotics and other goods; the provision of support to Customs and 
other Federal, State, and local agencies in the enforcement or 
administration of laws enforced by the Customs Service; and, at the 
discretion of the Commissioner of Customs, the provision of assistance 
to Federal, State, and local agencies in other law enforcement and 
emergency humanitarian efforts; $60,993,000 of which $5,644,000 shall 
remain available until expended; in addition, $19,733,000 shall be 
transferred from the Customs Air and Marine Interdiction Programs, 
Procurement Account to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
no aircraft or other related equipment, with the exception of aircraft 
which is one of a kind and has been identified as excess to Customs 
requirements, and aircraft which has been damaged beyond repair, shall 
be transferred to any other Federal agency, Department, or office 
outside of the Department of the Treasury, during fiscal year 1996, 
without the prior approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
                   customs services at small airports

                  (to be derived from fees collected)

    Such sums as may be necessary, not to exceed $1,406,000, for 
expenses for the provision of Customs services at certain small 
airports or other facilities when authorized by law and designated by 
the Secretary of the Treasury, including expenditures for the salary 
and expenses of individuals employed to provide such services, to be 
derived from fees collected by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant 
to section 236 of Public Law 98-573 for each of these airports or other 
facilities when authorized by law and designated by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, and to remain available until expended.
                       Bureau of the Public Debt

                     administering the public debt

    For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues of the 
United States; $180,065,000: Provided, That the sum appropriated herein 
from the General Fund for fiscal year 1996 shall be reduced by not more 
than $600,000 as definitive security issue fees are collected and not 
more than $9,465,000 as Treasury Direct Investor Account Maintenance 
fees are collected, so as to result in a final fiscal year 1996 
appropriation from the General Fund estimated at $170,000,000.
                        Internal Revenue Service

                 processing, assistance, and management

    For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not 
otherwise provided for; including processing tax returns; revenue 
accounting; providing assistance to taxpayers, management services, and 
inspection; including purchase (not to exceed 150 for replacement only, 
for police-type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 
1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as 
may be determined by the Commissioner: $1,682,742,000, of which 
$3,700,000 shall be for the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, no 
amount of which shall be available for IRS administrative costs, and of 
which not to exceed $25,000 shall be for official reception and 
representation expenses.

                          tax law enforcement

    For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for 
determining and establishing tax liabilities; tax and enforcement 
litigation; technical rulings; examining employee plans and exempt 
organizations; investigation and enforcement activities; securing 
unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts; statistics of income 
and compliance research; the purchase (for police-type use, not to 
exceed 850), and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); 
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
determined by the Commissioner $4,254,476,000, of which not to exceed 
$1,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 1998 for 
research: Provided, That $13,000,000 shall be used to initiate a 
program to utilize private sector debt collection agencies in the 
collection activities of the Internal Revenue Service in compliance 
with section 104 of this Act.
                          information systems

    For necessary expenses for data processing and telecommunications 
support for Internal Revenue Service activities, including: tax systems 
modernization (modernized developmental systems), modernized 
operational systems, services and compliance, and support systems; and 
for the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be 
determined by the Commissioner; $1,571,616,000, of which up to 
$185,000,000 for tax and information systems development projects shall 
remain available until September 30, 1998: Provided, That of the funds 
appropriated for tax systems modernization, $70,000,000 may not be 
obligated until the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service 
reports to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate on 
the implementation of Tax Systems Modernization.

          administrative provisions--internal revenue service

    Section 1. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriation made 
available to the Internal Revenue Service for the current fiscal year 
by this Act may be transferred to any other Internal Revenue Service 
appropriation upon the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of this Act, the Internal Revenue Service is authorized to 
transfer such sums as may be necessary between appropriations with 
advance approval of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees: 
Provided further, That no funds shall be transferred from the ``Tax Law 
Enforcement'' account during fiscal year 1996.
    Sec. 2. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and maintain a 
training program to insure that Internal Revenue Service employees are 
trained in taxpayers' rights, in dealing courteously with the 
taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations.
                      United States Secret Service

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service, 
including purchase (not to exceed 665 vehicles for police-type use for 
replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire of 
aircraft; training and assistance requested by State and local 
governments, which may be provided without reimbursement; services of 
expert witnesses at such rates as may be determined by the Director; 
rental of buildings in the District of Columbia, and fencing, lighting, 
guard booths, and other facilities on private or other property not in 
Government ownership or control, as may be necessary to perform 
protective functions; for payment of per diem and/or subsistence 
allowances to employees where a protective assignment during the actual 
day or days of the visit of a protectee require an employee to work 16 
hours per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty; the 
conducting of and participating in firearms matches; presentation of 
awards; and for travel of Secret Service employees on protective 
missions without regard to the limitations on such expenditures in this 
or any other Act: Provided, That approval is obtained in advance from 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; for repairs, 
alterations, and minor construction at the James J. Rowley Secret 
Service Training Center; for research and development; for making 
grants to conduct behavioral research in support of protective research 
and operations; not to exceed $12,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses; not to exceed $50,000 to provide technical 
assistance and equipment to foreign law enforcement organizations in 
counterfeit investigations; for payment in advance for commercial 
accommodations as may be necessary to perform protective functions; and 
for uniforms without regard to the general purchase price limitation 
for the current fiscal year; $542,461,000.
                    Violent Crime Reduction Programs
    For activities authorized by Public Law 103-322, to remain 
available until expended, which shall be derived from the Violent Crime 
Reduction Trust Fund, as follows:
    (a) As authorized by section 190001(e), $51,686,000, of which: 
$33,865,000 shall be available to the United States Customs Service for 
expenses associated with ``Operation Hardline''; $2,221,000 to the 
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; $3,100,000 to the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for the development and dissemination of 
ballistic technologies as part of the ``Ceasefire'' program; 
$10,000,000 to the United States Secret Service; and $2,500,000 to the 
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia; and
    (b) As authorized by section 32401, $12,200,000, for disbursement 
through grants, cooperative agreements or contracts, to local 
governments for Gang Resistance Education and Training: Provided, That 
notwithstanding sections 32401 and 310001, such funds shall be 
allocated only to the affected State and local law enforcement and 
prevention organizations participating in such projects.
             General Provisions--Department of the Treasury

    Section 101. Any obligation or expenditure by the Secretary in 
connection with law enforcement activities of a Federal agency or a 
Department of the Treasury law enforcement organization in accordance 
with 31 U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B) from unobligated balances remaining in the 
Fund on September 30, 1996, shall be made in compliance with the 
reprogramming guidelines contained in the House and Senate reports 
accompanying this Act.
    Sec. 102. Appropriations to the Treasury Department in this Act 
shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 
by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning; 
purchase of insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign 
countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the general 
purchase price limitation for vehicles purchased and used overseas for 
the current fiscal year; entering into contracts with the Department of 
State for the furnishing of health and medical services to employees 
and their dependents serving in foreign countries; and services 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
    Sec. 103. Not to exceed 2 per centum of any appropriations in this 
Act for the Department of the Treasury may be transferred between such 
appropriations. Notwithstanding any authority to transfer funds between 
appropriations contained in this or any other Act, no transfer may 
increase or decrease any appropriation in this Act by more than 2 per 
centum and any such proposed transfers shall be approved in advance by 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate.
    Sec. 104. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall be 
used in connection with the collection of any underpayment of any tax 
imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless the conduct of 
officers and employees of the Internal Revenue Service in connection 
with such collection, including any private sector employees under 
contract to the Internal Revenue Service, complies with subsection (a) 
of section 805 (relating to communications in connection with debt 
collection), and section 806 (relating to harassment or abuse), of the 
Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (15 U.S.C. 1692).
    Sec. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute policies and 
procedures which will safeguard the confidentiality of taxpayer 
information.
    Sec. 106. The funds provided to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and 
Firearms for fiscal year 1996 in this Act for the enforcement of the 
Federal Alcohol Administration Act shall be expended in a manner so as 
not to diminish enforcement efforts with respect to section 105 of the 
Federal Alcohol Administration Act.
    This title may be cited as the ``Treasury Department Appropriations 
Act, 1996''.

                        TITLE II--POSTAL SERVICE
                     Payments to the Postal Service

                   payment to the postal service fund

    For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue forgone on free 
and reduced rate mail, pursuant to subsections (c) and (d) of section 
2401 of title 39, United States Code; $85,080,000: Provided, That mail 
for overseas voting and mail for the blind shall continue to be free: 
Provided further, That six-day delivery and rural delivery of mail 
shall continue at not less than the 1983 level: Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available to the Postal Service by this Act 
shall be used to implement any rule, regulation, or policy of charging 
any officer or employee of any State or local child support enforcement 
agency, or any individual participating in a State or local program of 
child support enforcement, a fee for information requested or provided 
concerning an address of a postal customer: Provided further, That none 
of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to consolidate or close 
small rural and other small post offices in the fiscal year ending on 
September 30, 1996.
      payment to the postal service fund for nonfunded liabilities

    For payment to the Postal Service Fund for meeting the liabilities 
of the former Post Office Department to the Employees' Compensation 
Fund pursuant to 39 U.S.C. 2004, $36,828,000.
    This title may be cited as the ``Postal Service Appropriations Act, 
1996''.

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

                     Compensation of the President

    For compensation of the President, including an expense allowance 
at the rate of $50,000 per annum as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 102; 
$250,000: Provided, That none of the funds made available for official 
expenses shall be expended for any other purpose and any unused amount 
shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 1552 of title 31 of 
the United States Code: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available for official expenses shall be considered as taxable to the 
President.
                         The White House Office

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses for the White House as authorized by law, 
including not to exceed $3,850,000 for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105; including subsistence expenses as 
authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which shall be expended and accounted for 
as provided in that section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
newspapers, periodicals, teletype news service, and travel (not to 
exceed $100,000 to be expended and accounted for as provided by 3 
U.S.C. 103); not to exceed $19,000 for official entertainment expenses, 
to be available for allocation within the Executive Office of the 
President; $39,459,000.
                 Executive Residence at the White House

                           operating expenses

    For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, refurnishing, 
improvement, heating and lighting, including electric power and 
fixtures, of the Executive Residence at the White House and official 
entertainment expenses of the President; $7,522,000, to be expended and 
accounted for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109-110, 112-114.
                Official Residence of the Vice President

                           operating expenses

    For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, heating and 
lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the official 
residence of the Vice President, the hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
and not to exceed $90,000 for official entertainment expenses of the 
Vice President, to be accounted for solely on his certificate; 
$324,000: Provided, That advances or repayments or transfers from this 
appropriation may be made to any department or agency for expenses of 
carrying out such activities.
                  Special Assistance to the President

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President to provide 
assistance to the President in connection with specially assigned 
functions, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, 
including subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which 
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that section; and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; $3,175,000.
                      Office of Policy Development

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Development, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, and 3 U.S.C. 107; 
$3,867,000.

                       National Security Council

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Security Council, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $6,459,000.

                        Office of Administration

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration; 
$25,736,000, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 
U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles.

                    Office of Management and Budget

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Management and Budget, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; $55,426,000, of which no more than $6,631,000 shall be 
available for the Office of National Security and International 
Affairs, no more than $6,699,000 shall be available for the Office of 
General Government and Finance, no more than $7,368,000 shall be 
available for the Office of Natural Resources, Energy and Science, no 
more than $4,085,000 shall be available for the Office of Health and 
Personnel, no more than $3,867,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Human Resources, no more than $2,325,000 shall be available for the 
Office of Federal Financial Management, no more than $5,198,000 shall 
be available for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, no 
more than $2,407,000 shall be available for the Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy, no more than $16,912,000 shall be available for the 
Office of the Director, the Office of the Deputy Director, the Office 
of the Deputy Director for Management, the Office of Communications, 
the Office of the General Counsel, the Office of Legislative Affairs, 
the Office of Economic Policy, the Office of Administration, the 
Legislative Reference Division, and the Budget Review Division, of 
which not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be available to carry out the 
provisions of 44 U.S.C. chapter 35: Provided, That, as provided in 31 
U.S.C. 1301(a), appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for 
which appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for 
the Office of Management and Budget may be used for the purpose of 
reviewing any agricultural marketing orders or any activities or 
regulations under the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing 
Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.): Provided further, That 
none of the funds made available for the Office of Management and 
Budget by this Act may be expended for the altering of the transcript 
of actual testimony of witnesses, except for testimony of officials of 
the Office of Management and Budget, before the Committee on 
Appropriations or the Committee on Veterans' Affairs or their 
subcommittees: Provided further, That this proviso shall not apply to 
printed hearings released by the Committee on Appropriations or the 
Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
                 Office of National Drug Control Policy

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy; for research activities pursuant to title I of Public Law 100-
690; not to exceed $8,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses; for participation in joint projects or in the provision of 
services on matters of mutual interest with nonprofit, research, or 
public organizations or agencies, with or without reimbursement; 
$20,062,000, of which $10,200,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be available to the Counter-Drug Technology Assessment Center for 
counternarcotics research and development projects and shall be 
available for transfer to other Federal departments or agencies, and of 
which $600,000 shall be transferred to the Drug Enforcement 
Administration for the El Paso Intelligence Center: Provided, That the 
Office is authorized to accept, hold, administer, and utilize gifts, 
both real and personal, for the purpose of aiding or facilitating the 
work of the Office.

                          Unanticipated Needs

    For expenses necessary to enable the President to meet 
unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national interest, security, 
or defense which may arise at home or abroad during the current fiscal 
year; $1,000,000.

                     Federal Drug Control Programs

             high intensity drug trafficking areas program

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy's High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Program, $104,000,000 
for drug control activities consistent with the approved strategy for 
each of the designated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, of which 
no less than $52,000,000 shall be transferred to State and local 
entities for drug control activities; and of which up to $52,000,000 
may be transferred to Federal agencies and departments at a rate to be 
determined by the Director; and of which up to $3,000,000 may be 
available to the Director for transfer to Federal agencies, or State 
and local entities, or non-profit organizations to support special 
demonstration projects that provide systematic programming to reduce 
drug use and trafficking in designated targeted areas: Provided, That 
the funds made available under this head shall be obligated within 90 
days of the date of enactment of this Act, except those funds made 
available to the Director to support special demonstration projects 
which shall be obligated by June 1, 1996.
    This title may be cited as the ``Executive Office Appropriations 
Act, 1996''.

                     TITLE IV--INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
 Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Committee for Purchase From People 
Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established by the Act of June 23, 
1971, Public Law 92-28; $1,682,000.
                      Federal Election Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of the Federal 
Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amended; $26,521,000, of which no 
less than $1,500,000 shall be available for internal automated data 
processing systems,  of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be available 
for reception and representation expenses: Provided, That none of the 
funds appropriated for automated data processing systems may be 
obligated until the Chairman of the Federal Election Commission 
provides to the House Committee on Appropriations a systems 
requirements analysis on the development of such a system.
                   Federal Labor Relations Authority

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Federal Labor 
Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 
1978, and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, including hire of experts and consultants, 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, rental of conference rooms in the 
District of Columbia and elsewhere; $19,742,000: Provided, That public 
members of the Federal Service Impasses Panel may be paid travel 
expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law (5 
U.S.C. 5703) for persons employed intermittently in the Government 
service, and compensation as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received from fees 
charged to non-Federal participants at labor-management relations 
conferences shall be credited to and merged with this account, to be 
available without further appropriation for the costs of carrying out 
these conferences.

                    General Services Administration

                         Federal Buildings Fund

                 limitations on availability of revenue

    The revenues and collections deposited into the Fund established 
pursuant to section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(f)), shall be available 
for necessary expenses of real property management and related 
activities not otherwise provided for, including operation, 
maintenance, and protection of Federally owned and leased buildings; 
rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased 
premises; moving governmental agencies (including space adjustments and 
telecommunications relocation expenses) in connection with the 
assignment, allocation and transfer of space; contractual services 
incident to cleaning or servicing buildings, and moving; repair and 
alteration of federally owned buildings including grounds, approaches 
and appurtenances; care and safeguarding of sites; maintenance, 
preservation, demolition, and equipment; acquisition of buildings and 
sites by purchase, condemnation, or as otherwise authorized by law; 
acquisition of options to purchase buildings and sites; conversion and 
extension of Federally owned buildings; preliminary planning and design 
of projects by contract or otherwise; construction of new buildings 
(including equipment for such buildings); and payment of principal, 
interest, taxes, and any other obligations for public buildings 
acquired by installment purchase and purchase contract, in the 
aggregate amount of $5,066,822,000, of which (1) not to exceed 
$367,777,000 shall remain available until expended for construction of 
additional projects at locations and at maximum construction 
improvement costs (including funds for sites and expenses and 
associated design and construction services) as follows:
    New Construction:
            Colorado:
                    Lakewood, Denver Federal Center, U.S. Geological 
                Survey Lab Building, $10,321,000
            Florida:
                    Tallahassee, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $9,606,000
            Georgia:
                    Savannah, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $1,039,000
            Louisiana:
                    Lafayette, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
                $11,826,000
            Maryland:
                    Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Food and 
                Drug Administration, Phase II, $65,764,000
            Nebraska:
                    Omaha, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
                $21,370,000
            Nevada:
                    Las Vegas, U.S. Courthouse, $38,404,000
            New Mexico:
                    Albuquerque, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
                $2,450,000
            New York:
                    Brooklyn, U.S. Courthouse, $49,040,000
                    Central Islip, Federal Building and U.S. 
                Courthouse, $75,641,000
            North Dakota:
                    Pembina, Border Station, $4,445,000
            Ohio:
                    Youngstown, U.S. Courthouse, $6,974,000
            Pennsylvania:
                    Scranton, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse 
                Annex, $9,638,000
            South Carolina:
                    Columbia, U.S. Courthouse Annex, $1,425,000
            Texas:
                    Austin, Veterans Affairs Annex, $3,176,000
                    Brownsville, Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse, 
                $10,981,000
            Washington:
                    Blaine, U.S. Border Station, $6,168,000
                    Point Roberts, U.S. Border Station, $1,406,000
            West Virginia:
                    Martinsburg, Internal Revenue Service Computer 
                Center, $25,363,000
            Non-Prospectus Projects Program, $12,740,000:
Provided, That each of the immediately foregoing limits of costs on new 
construction projects may be exceeded to the extent that savings are 
effected in other such projects, but not to exceed 10 per centum unless 
advanced approval is obtained from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations of a greater amount: Provided further, That the 
$6,000,000 under the heading of non-prospectus construction projects, 
made available in Public Laws 102-393 and 103-123 for the acquisition, 
lease, construction and equipping of flexiplace work telecommuting 
centers, is hereby increased by $5,000,000 from funds made available in 
this Act for non-prospectus construction projects, all of which shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That of the 
$5,000,000 made available by this Act, half shall be used for 
telecommuting centers in the State of Virginia and half shall be used 
for telecommuting centers in the State of Maryland: Provided further, 
That all funds for direct construction projects shall expire on 
September 30, 1997, and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund except 
funds for projects as to which funds for design or other funds have 
been obligated in whole or in part prior to such date: Provided 
further, That claims against the Government of less than $250,000 
arising from direct construction projects, acquisitions of buildings 
and purchase contract projects pursuant to Public Law 92-313, be 
liquidated with prior notification to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House and Senate to the extent savings are effected in other 
such projects; (2) not to exceed $713,086,000 shall remain available 
until expended, for repairs and alterations which includes associated 
design and construction services: Provided further, That funds in the 
Federal Buildings Fund for Repairs and Alterations shall, for 
prospectus projects, be limited to the amount by project as follows, 
except each project may be increased by an amount not to exceed 10 per 
centum unless advance approval is obtained from the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House and Senate of a greater amount:
    Repairs and Alterations:
    Arkansas:
            Little Rock, Federal Building, $7,551,000
    California:
            Sacramento, Federal Building (2800 Cottage Way), 
        $13,636,000
    Colorado:
            Lakewood, Denver Federal Center Building 25, $29,351,000
    District of Columbia:
            Heating Plant Stacks, $11,141,000
            Lafayette Building, $33,157,000
            ICC/Connecting Wing Complex/Customs (phase 2/3), 
        $58,275,000
            Treasury Department Building, Repair and Alteration, 
        $7,194,000
            White House, Roof Repair and Restoration, $2,220,000
    Illinois:
            Chicago, Federal Center, $45,971,000
    Maryland:
            Woodlawn, SSA East High-Low Buildings, $17,422,000
    New York:
            New York, Silvio V. Mollo Federal Building, $4,182,000
    North Dakota:
            Bismarck, Federal Building, Post Office and U.S. 
        Courthouse, $7,119,000
    Pennsylvania:
            Philadelphia, SSA Building, Mid-Atlantic Program Service 
        Center, $11,376,000
    Puerto Rico:
            Old San Juan, Post Office and U.S. Courthouse, $25,701,000
    Texas:
            Dallas, Federal Building (Griffin St.), $5,641,000
    Washington:
            Richland, Federal Building, U.S. Post Office and 
        Courthouse, $12,724,000
    Nationwide:
            Chlorofluorocarbons Program, $50,430,000
            Elevator Program, $13,109,000
            Energy Program, $25,000,000
    Advance Design, $24,608,000
    Basic Repairs and Alterations, $307,278,000: Provided further, That 
additional projects for which prospectuses have been fully approved may 
be funded under this category only if advance approval is obtained from 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate: Provided 
further, That the difference between the funds appropriated and 
expended on any projects in this or any prior Act, under the heading 
``Repairs and Alterations'', may be transferred to Basic Repairs and 
Alterations or used to fund authorized increases in prospectus 
projects: Provided further, That all funds for repairs and alterations 
prospectus projects shall expire on September 30, 1997, and remain in 
the Federal Buildings Fund except funds for projects as to which funds 
for design or other funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior 
to such date: Provided further, That of the funds provided for Advanced 
Design, $100,000 shall be made available for architectural design 
studies for renovation of the National Veterinary Services Laboratory 
and a biocontainment facility at the National Animal Disease Center, 
Ames, Iowa: Provided further, That the amount provided in this or any 
prior Act for Basic Repairs and Alterations may be used to pay claims 
against the Government arising from any projects under the heading 
``Repairs and Alterations'' or used to fund authorized increases in 
prospectus projects; (3)  not to exceed $181,963,000 for installment 
acquisition payments including payments on purchase contracts which 
shall remain available until expended; (4) not to exceed $2,341,100,000 
for rental of space which shall remain available until expended; and 
(5) not to exceed $1,389,463,000 for building operations which shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That funds available 
to the General Services Administration shall not be available for 
expenses in connection with any construction, repair, alteration, and 
acquisition project for which a prospectus, if required by the Public 
Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, has not been approved, except that 
necessary funds may be expended for each project for required expenses 
in connection with the development of a proposed prospectus: Provided 
further, That the General Services Administration shall establish a 
``Federal Triangle Office'' reporting directly to the Commissioner of 
the Public Buildings Service for the purpose of completing the design 
and construction of the Federal Triangle Building: Provided further, 
That the Federal Triangle Office shall continue to utilize the 
procurement and operating procedures established for the project 
pursuant to the Federal Triangle Development Act (40 U.S.C. 1104), and 
to implement and enforce the Development Agreement and other contracts 
and agreements developed for the project: Provided further, That the 
Administrator is authorized to enter into and perform such leases, 
contracts, or other transactions with any agency or instrumentality of 
the United States, the several States or the District of Columbia, or 
with any person, firm, association, or corporation as may be necessary 
to implement the Federal Triangle Project: Provided further, That for 
the purposes of this authorization, buildings constructed pursuant to 
the purchase contract authority of the Public Buildings Amendments of 
1972 (40 U.S.C. 602a), buildings occupied pursuant to installment 
purchase contracts, and buildings under the control of another 
department or agency where alterations of such buildings are required 
in connection with the moving of such other department or agency from 
buildings then, or thereafter to be, under the control of the General 
Services Administration shall be considered to be federally owned 
buildings: Provided further, That funds available in the Federal 
Buildings Fund may be expended for emergency repairs when advance 
approval is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
and Senate: Provided further, That amounts necessary to provide 
reimbursable special services to other agencies under section 210(f)(6) 
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as 
amended (40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) and amounts to provide such reimbursable 
fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on private or 
other property not in Government ownership or control as may be 
appropriate to enable the United States Secret Service to perform its 
protective functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 3056, as amended, shall be 
available from such revenues and collections: Provided further, That 
revenues and collections and any other sums accruing to this Fund 
during fiscal year 1996, excluding reimbursements under section 
210(f)(6) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949 (40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) in excess of $5,066,822,000 shall remain in 
the Fund and shall not be available for expenditure except as 
authorized in appropriations Acts.
                          policy and oversight

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for government-wide 
policy and oversight activities associated with asset management, 
property management, supply management, travel and transportation, 
telecommunications and information technology; to fund the Board of 
Contract Appeals; services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and not to 
exceed $5,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
$62,499,000.
                           operating expenses

    For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise provided for, 
necessary for utilization of excess and surplus personal property; 
transportation; procurement; supply; and information technology 
activities; the utilization survey, deed compliance inspection, 
appraisal, environmental and cultural analysis, and land use planning 
functions pertaining to excess and surplus real property; accounting, 
records management, and other support services incident to adjudication 
of Indian Tribal Claims by the United States Court of Federal Claims; 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $49,130,000.

                      office of inspector general

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General and 
services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $32,549,000: Provided, That not 
to exceed $5,000 shall be available for payment for information and 
detection of fraud against the Government, including payment for 
recovery of stolen Government property: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards to employees of other 
Federal agencies and private citizens in recognition of efforts and 
initiatives resulting in enhanced Office of Inspector General 
effectiveness.

           allowances and office staff for former presidents

    For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1958, as 
amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public Law 95-138; $2,181,000: 
Provided, That the Administrator of General Services shall transfer to 
the Secretary of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of such Acts.

          general provisions--general services administration

    Section 1. The appropriate appropriation or fund available to the 
General Services Administration shall be credited with the cost of 
operation, protection, maintenance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, 
included as part of rentals received from Government corporations 
pursuant to law (40 U.S.C. 129).
    Sec. 2. Funds available to the General Services Administration 
shall be available for the hire of passenger motor vehicles.
    Sec. 3. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund made available for 
fiscal year 1996 for Federal Buildings Fund activities may be 
transferred between such activities only to the extent necessary to 
meet program requirements. Any proposed transfers shall be approved in 
advance by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate.
    Sec. 4. No funds made available by this Act shall be used to 
transmit a fiscal year 1997 request for United States Courthouse 
construction that does not meet the standards for construction as 
established by the General Services Administration and the Office of 
Management and Budget and does not reflect the priorities of the 
Administrative Office of the Courts as set out in its approved five-
year construction plan.
    Sec. 5. The Administrator of General Services is authorized to 
accept and retain income received by the General Services 
Administration on or after October 1, 1993, from Federal agencies and 
non-Federal sources, to defray costs directly associated with the 
functions of flexiplace work telecommuting centers.
    Sec. 6. Of the $11,000,000 made available by this Act and Public 
Laws 102-393 and 103-123 for flexiplace work telecommuting centers, not 
less than $2,200,000 shall be available for immediate transfer to the 
Charles County Community College, to provide facilities, equipment, and 
other services to the General Services Administration for the purposes 
of establishing telecommuting work centers in Southern Maryland 
(Charles, Calvert, and St. Mary's County) for use by Government 
agencies designated by the Administrator of General Services: Provided, 
That the language providing authority to pay a public entity in the 
State of Maryland, not to exceed $1,300,000 for the purpose of 
establishing telecommuting work centers in Southern Maryland, under the 
heading ``Federal Buildings Fund Limitations on Availability of 
Revenue'' in Public Law 103-329 (108 Stat. 2400), is hereby repealed.
    Sec. 7. Not to exceed 5 percent of funds made available under the 
heading ``Operating Expenses'' and ``Office of Policy and Oversight'' 
may be transferred between such appropriations upon the advance 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.

           John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board

    For necessary expenses to carry out the John F. Kennedy 
Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, $2,150,000.
                     Merit Systems Protection Board

                         salaries and expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Merit Systems 
Protection Board pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and 
the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and direct 
procurement of survey printing, $21,129,000, together with not to 
exceed $2,430,000 for administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement 
appeals to be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit Systems Protection 
Board.
              National Archives and Records Administration

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses in connection with the administration of the 
National Archives and records and related activities, as provided by 
law, and for expenses necessary for the review and declassification of 
documents, and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles, $193,291,000: 
Provided, That the Archivist of the United States is authorized to use 
any excess funds available from the amount borrowed for construction of 
the National Archives facility, for expenses necessary to move into the 
facility.
        National Historical Publications and Records Commission

                             grants program

    For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for historical 
publications and records as authorized by 44 U.S.C. 2504, as amended, 
$4,000,000 to remain available until expended.
                      Office of Government Ethics

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as 
amended by Public Law 100-598, and the Ethics Reform Act of 1989, 
Public Law 101-194, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $1,500 for official 
reception and representation expenses; $7,776,000.

                     Office of Personnel Management

                         salaries and expenses

                  (including transfer of trust funds)

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Personnel Management pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 
and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, including services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, medical examinations performed for 
veterans by private physicians on a fee basis, rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses, and advances for reimbursements to applicable 
funds of the Office of Personnel Management and the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation for expenses incurred under Executive Order 10422 of 
January 9, 1953, as amended; $85,524,000 and in addition $102,536,000 
for administrative expenses, to be transferred from the appropriate 
trust funds of the Office of Personnel Management without regard to 
other statutes, including direct procurement of health benefits 
printing, for the retirement and insurance programs, of which 
$11,300,000 shall be transferred at such times as the Office of 
Personnel Management deems appropriate, and shall remain available 
until expended for the costs of automating the retirement recordkeeping 
systems, together with remaining amounts authorized in previous Acts 
for the recordkeeping systems: Provided, That the provisions of this 
appropriation shall not affect the authority to use applicable trust 
funds as provided by section 8348(a)(1)(B) of title 5, United States 
Code: Provided further, That, except as may be consistent with 5 U.S.C. 
8902a(f)(1) and (i), no payment may be made from the Employees Health 
Benefits Fund to any physician, hospital, or other provider of health 
care services or supplies who is, at the time such services or supplies 
are provided to an individual covered under chapter 89 of title 5, 
United States Code, excluded, pursuant to section 1128 or 1128A of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a-7-1320a-7a), from participation in 
any program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1395 et seq.): Provided further, That no part of this appropriation 
shall be available for salaries and expenses of the Legal Examining 
Unit of the Office of Personnel Management established pursuant to 
Executive Order 9358 of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit of like 
purpose: Provided further, That the President's Commission on White 
House Fellows, established by Executive Order 11183 of October 3, 1964, 
may, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations 
of money, property, and personal services in connection with the 
development of a publicity brochure to provide information about the 
White House Fellows, except that no such donations shall be accepted 
for travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, or for the salaries of 
employees of such Commission: Provided further, That no funds 
appropriated herein shall be used to pay administrative expenses or the 
compensation of any officer or employee of the United States to 
implement a reduction in force in the Office of Federal Investigations 
prior to June 30, 1996.

                      office of inspector general

                         salaries and expenses

                  (including transfer of trust funds)

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act, as amended, 
including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger 
motor vehicles: $4,009,000, and in addition, not to exceed $6,181,000 
for administrative expenses to audit the Office of Personnel 
Management's retirement and insurance programs, to be transferred from 
the appropriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel Management, as 
determined by the Inspector General: Provided, That the Inspector 
General is authorized to rent conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia and elsewhere.

      government payment for annuitants, employees health benefits

    For payment of Government contributions with respect to retired 
employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code, 
and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), 
as amended, $3,746,337,000 to remain available until expended.

       government payment for annuitants, employee life insurance

    For payment of Government contributions with respect to employees 
retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter 87 of title 5, 
United States Code, such sums as may be necessary.

        payment to civil service retirement and disability fund

    For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased annuity 
benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969, as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under special Acts to be credited to 
the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, such sums as may be 
necessary: Provided, That annuities authorized by the Act of May 29, 
1944, as amended, and the Act of August 19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 
771-75), may hereafter be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund.

           General Provisions--Office of Personnel Management

    Section 1. Section 1104 of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by striking ``(except competitive 
                        examinations for administrative law judges 
                        appointed under section 3105 of this title)''; 
                        and
                            (ii) by striking the semicolon at the end 
                        of paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof 
                        a period; and
                    (B) by striking the matter following paragraph (2) 
                through ``principles.''; and
            (2) in subsection (b) by adding at the end the following 
        new paragraph:
            ``(4) At the request of the head of an agency to whom a 
        function has been delegated under subsection (a)(2), the Office 
        may provide assistance to the agency in performing such 
        function. Such assistance shall, to the extent determined 
        appropriate by the Director of the Office, be performed on a 
        reimbursable basis through the revolving fund established under 
        section 1304(e).''.
    Sec. 2. Subparagraph (B) of section 8348(a)(1) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``in making an allotment or assignment 
        made by an individual under section 8345(h) or 8465(b) of this 
        title,'' after ``law),''; and
            (2) by striking ``title 26;'' and inserting ``title 26 or 
        section 8345(k) or 8469 of this title;''.
    Sec. 3. Section 4(a) of the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 
1994 (Public Law 103-226; 108 Stat. 111) is amended--
            (1) by deleting ``Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995'' and 
        inserting in lieu thereof: ``Voluntary Separation Incentive 
        Payments.--''; and
            (2) in paragraph (1)(A) by striking ``and before October 1, 
        1995,''.
    Sec. 4. Title 5, United States Code, is amended--
            (1) in the second section designated as section 3329 (as 
        added by section 4431(a) of Public Law 102-484)--
                    (A) by redesignating such section as section 3330; 
                and
                    (B) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
                subsection:
    ``(f) The Office may, to the extent it determines appropriate, 
charge such fees to agencies for services provided under this section 
and for related Federal employment information. The Office shall retain 
such fees to pay the costs of providing such services and 
information.''; and
            (2) in the table of sections for chapter 33 by amending the 
        second item relating to section 3329 to read as follows:

``3330. Government-wide list of vacant positions.''.
                       Office of Special Counsel

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office of 
Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, the 
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-454), the Whistleblower 
Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101-12), Public Law 103-424, and the 
Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994 (Public Law 
103-353), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of 
fees and expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the 
District of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; $7,840,000.

                        United States Tax Court

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; $32,899,000: Provided, That 
travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written 
certificate of the judge.
    This title may be cited as the ``Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1996''.

                      TITLE V--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                                This Act

    Section 501. No part of any appropriation made available in this 
Act shall be used for the purchase or sale of real estate or for the 
purpose of establishing new offices inside or outside the District of 
Columbia: Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to programs 
which have been approved by the Congress and appropriations made 
therefor.
    Sec. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein.
    Sec. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 
U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public 
inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or 
under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
    Sec. 504. None of the funds made available to the General Services 
Administration pursuant to section 210(f) of the Federal Property and 
Administrative Services Act of 1949 shall be obligated or expended 
after the date of enactment of this Act for the procurement by contract 
of any guard, elevator operator, messenger or custodial services if any 
permanent veterans preference employee of the General Services 
Administration at said date, would be terminated as a result of the 
procurement of such services, except that such funds may be obligated 
or expended for the procurement by contract of the covered services 
with sheltered workshops employing the severely handicapped under 
Public Law 92-28. Only if such workshops decline to contract for the 
provision of the covered services may the General Services 
Administration procure the services by competitive contract, for a 
period not to exceed 5 years. At such time as such competitive contract 
expires or is terminated for any reason, the General Services 
Administration shall again offer to contract for the services from a 
sheltered workshop prior to offering such services for competitive 
procurement.
    Sec. 505. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for any activity or for paying the salary of any Government 
employee where funding an activity or paying a salary to a Government 
employee would result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, 
or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930.
    Sec. 506. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available for the purpose of transferring control over the Federal Law 
Enforcement Training Center located at Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia, 
New Mexico, out of the Treasury Department.
    Sec. 507. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States 
not heretofore authorized by the Congress.
    Sec. 508. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee 
of the United States Postal Service, who--
            (1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threatens to 
        prohibit or prevent, any officer or employee of the United 
        States Postal Service from having any direct oral or written 
        communication or contact with any Member or committee of 
        Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the 
        employment of such officer or employee or pertaining to the 
        United States Postal Service in any way, irrespective of 
        whether such communication or contact is at the initiative of 
        such officer or employee or in response to the request or 
        inquiry of such Member or committee; or
            (2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, demotes, 
        reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or performance of 
        efficiency rating, denies promotion to, relocates, reassigns, 
        transfers, disciplines, or discriminates in regard to any 
        employment right, entitlement, or benefit, or any term or 
        condition of employment of, any officer or employee of the 
        United States Postal Service, or attempts or threatens to 
        commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to such 
        officer or employee, by reason of any communication or contact 
        of such officer or employee with any Member or committee of 
        Congress as described in paragraph (1) of this subsection.
    Sec. 509. Funds under this Act shall be available as authorized by 
sections 4501-4506 of title 5, United States Code, when the achievement 
involved is certified, or when an award for such achievement is 
otherwise payable, in accordance with such sections. Such funds may not 
be used for any purpose with respect to which the preceding sentence 
relates beyond fiscal year 1996.
    Sec. 510. The Office of Personnel Management may, during the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations of supplies, services, 
land and equipment for the Federal Executive Institute, the Federal 
Quality Institute, and Management Development Centers to assist in 
enhancing the quality of Federal management.
    Sec. 511. The United States Secret Service may, during the fiscal 
year ending September 30, 1996, accept donations of money to off-set 
costs incurred while protecting former Presidents and spouses of former 
Presidents when the former President or spouse travels for the purpose 
of making an appearance or speech for a payment of money or any thing 
of value.
    Sec. 512. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to withdraw the designation of the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal, 
Virginia, as a United States Customs Service port of entry.
    Sec. 513. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other 
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to 
enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily 
completed his period of active military or naval service and has within 
ninety days after his release from such service or from hospitalization 
continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year made 
application for restoration to his former position and has been 
certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to 
perform the duties of his former position and has not been restored 
thereto.
    Sec. 514. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to provide any non-public information such as mailing or telephone 
lists to any person or any organization outside of the Federal 
Government without the approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Sec. 515. Compliance With Buy American Act.--No funds appropriated 
pursuant to this Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity 
agrees that in expending the assistance the entity will comply with 
sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, 
popularly known as the ``Buy American Act'').
    Sec. 516. Sense of Congress; Requirement Regarding Notice.--(a) 
Purchase of American-Made Equipment and Products.--In the case of any 
equipment or products that may be authorized to be purchased with 
financial assistance provided under this Act, it is the sense of the 
Congress that entities receiving such assistance should, in expending 
the assistance, purchase only American-made equipment and products.
    (b) Notice to Recipients of Assistance.--In providing financial 
assistance under this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall provide 
to each recipient of the assistance a notice describing the statement 
made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
    Sec. 517. Prohibition of Contracts.--If it has been finally 
determined by a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally 
affixed a label bearing a ``Made in America'' inscription, or any 
inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to 
the United States that is not made in the United States, such person 
shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with 
funds provided pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, 
suspension, and ineligibility procedures described in section 9.400 
through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 518. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to 
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the 
end of fiscal year 1996 from appropriations made available for salaries 
and expenses for fiscal year 1996 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 1997 for each such account for the purposes 
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval  prior to the 
expenditure of such funds.
    Sec. 519. Where appropriations in this Act are expendable for 
travel expenses of employees and no specific limitation has been placed 
thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not exceed the 
amount set forth therefore in the budget estimates submitted for 
appropriations without the advance approval of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not 
apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local boards 
and appeal boards in the Selective Service System; to travel performed 
directly in connection with care and treatment of medical beneficiaries 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs; to travel of the Office of 
Personnel Management in carrying out its observation responsibilities 
of the Voting Rights Act; or to payments to interagency motor pools 
separately set forth in the budget schedules.
    Sec. 520. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation: 
(1) The authority of the special police officers of the Bureau of 
Engraving and Printing, in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area, 
extends to buildings and land under the custody and control of the 
Bureau; to buildings and land acquired by or for the Bureau through 
lease, unless otherwise provided by the acquisition agency; to the 
streets, sidewalks and open areas immediately adjacent to the Bureau 
along Wallenberg Place (15th Street) and 14th Street between 
Independence and Maine Avenues and C and D Streets between 12th and 
14th Streets; to areas which include surrounding parking facilities 
used by Bureau employees, including the lots at 12th and C Streets, SW, 
Maine Avenue and Water Streets, SW, Maiden Lane, the Tidal Basin and 
East Potomac Park; to the protection in transit of United States 
securities, plates and dies used in the production of United States 
securities, or other products or implements of the Bureau of Engraving 
and Printing which the Director of that agency so designates; (2) The 
exercise of police authority by Bureau officers, with the exception of 
the exercise of authority upon property under the custody and control 
of the Bureau, shall be deemed supplementary to the Federal police 
force with primary jurisdictional responsibility. This authority shall 
be in addition to any other law enforcement authority which has been 
provided to these officers under other provisions of law or 
regulations.
    Sec. 521. Section 5378 of Title 5, United States Code, is amended 
by adding: ``(8) Chief--not more than the maximum rate payable for GS-
14.''
    Sec. 522. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is 
hereby established in the Treasury of the United States, a United 
States Mint Public Enterprise Fund (the ``Fund''): Provided, That all 
receipts from Mint operations and programs, including the production 
and sale of numismatic items, the production and sale of circulating 
coinage, the protection of Government assets, and gifts and bequests of 
property, real or personal shall be deposited into the Fund and shall 
be available without fiscal year limitations: Provided further, That 
all expenses incurred by the Secretary of the Treasury for operations 
and programs of the United States Mint that the Secretary of the 
Treasury determines, in the Secretary's sole discretion, to be ordinary 
and reasonable incidents of Mint operations and programs, and any 
expense incurred pursuant to any obligation or other commitment of Mint 
operations and programs that was entered into before the establishment 
of the Fund, shall be paid out of the Fund: Provided further, That not 
to exceed 6.2415 percent of the nominal value of the coins minted, 
shall be paid out of the Fund for the circulating coin operations and 
programs: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may 
borrow such funds from the General Fund as may be necessary to meet 
existing liabilities and obligations incurred prior to the receipt of 
revenues into the Fund and the General Fund shall be reimbursed for 
such funds by the Fund within one year of the date of the loan and 
retain receipts from the Federal Reserve System from the sale of 
circulating coins at face value for deposit into the Fund; and transfer 
to the Fund all assets and liabilities of the Mint operations and 
programs, including all Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund assets and 
liabilities, all receivables, unpaid obligations and unobligated 
balances from the Mint's appropriation, the Coinage Profit Fund, and 
the Coinage Metal Fund, and the land and buildings of the Philadelphia 
Mint, Denver Mint, and the Fort Knox Bullion Depository: Provided 
further, That the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund, the Coinage Profit 
Fund and the Coinage Metal Fund shall cease to exist as separate funds 
as their activites and functions are subsumed under and subject to the 
Fund, and the requirements of 31 USC 5134(c)(4), (c)(5)(B), and (d) and 
(e) of the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund shall apply to the Fund: 
Provided further, That at such times as the Secretary of the Treasury 
determines appropriate, but not less than annually, any amount in the 
Fund that is determined to be in excess of the amount required by the 
Fund shall be transferred to the Treasury for deposit as miscellaneous 
receipts: Provided further, That the term ``Mint operations and 
programs'' means (1) the activities concerning, and assets utilized in, 
the production, administration, distribution, marketing, purchase, 
sale, and management of coinage, numismatic items, the protection and 
safeguarding of Mint assets and those non-Mint assets in the custody of 
the Mint, and the Fund; and (2) includes capital, personnel salaries 
and compensation, functions relating to operations, marketing, 
distribution, promotion, advertising, official reception and 
representation, the acquisition or replacement of equipment, the 
renovation or modernization of facilities, and the construction or 
acquisition of new buildings: Provided further, That the term 
``numismatic item'' means any medal, proof coin, uncirculated coin, 
bullion coin, or other coin specifically designated by statute as a 
numismatic item, including products and accessories related to any such 
medal, coin, or item.
    Sec. 523. Section 531 of Public Law 103-329, is amended by 
inserting, ``of the first section'', after ``adding at the end''.
    Sec. 524. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to 
pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection with 
any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit program 
which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions.
    Sec. 525. The provision of section 524 shall not apply where the 
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to 
term.
    Sec. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Administrator of General Services shall delegate the authority to 
procure automatic data processing equipment for the Tax Systems 
Modernization Program to the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That 
the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall have the 
authority to revoke such delegation upon the written recommendation of 
the Administrator that the Secretary's actions under such delegation 
are inconsistent with the goals of economic and efficient procurement 
and utilization of automatic data processing equipment: Provided 
further, That for all other purposes, a procurement conducted under 
such delegation shall be treated as if made under a delegation by the 
Administrator pursuant to 40 U.S.C. 759.
    Sec. 527. Relief of Certain Periodical Publications.--For mail 
classification purposes under section 3626 of title 39, United States 
Code, and any regulations of the United States Postal Service for the 
administration of that section, a weekly second-class periodical 
publication which--
            (i) is eligible to publish legal notices under any 
        applicable laws of the State where it is published;
            (ii) is eligible to be mailed at the rates for mail under 
        former subsection 4358 (a), (b), and (c) of title 39, United 
        States Code, as limited by current subsection 3626(g) of that 
        title; and
            (iii) the pages of which were customarily secured by 2 
        staples before March 19, 1989;
shall not be considered to be a bound publication solely because its 
pages continue to be secured by 2 staples after that date.
    Sec. 528. None of the funds in this Act may be obligated or 
expended for employee training that does not meet identified needs for 
knowledge, skills and abilities bearing directly upon the performance 
of official duties.
    Sec. 529. (a) Prior to February 15, 1996, none of the funds 
appropriated by this Act may, with respect to an individual employed by 
the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington metropolitan region on 
April 10, 1991, be used to separate, reduce the grade or pay of, or 
carry out any other adverse personnel action against such individual 
for declining to accept a directed reassignment to a position outside 
such region, pursuant to a transfer of any such Bureau's operations or 
functions to Parkersburg, West Virginia.
    (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any individual 
who, prior to February 15, 1996, declines an offer of another position 
in the Department of the Treasury which is of at least equal pay and 
which is within the Washington metropolitan region.

              TITLE VI--GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS

                Departments, Agencies, and Corporations

    Section  601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act may be 
used to pay travel to the United States for the immediate family of 
employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threatening illness 
of said employee.
    Sec. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other Act for 
fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any such funds, unless such 
department, agency, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue 
to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that 
all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, or 
distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the Controlled 
Substances Act) by the officers and employees of such department, 
agency, or instrumentality.
    Sec. 603. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1345, any agency, department or 
instrumentality of the United States which provides or proposes to 
provide child care services for Federal employees may reimburse any 
Federal employee or any person employed to provide such services for 
travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training 
classes, conferences or other meetings in connection with the provision 
of such services: Provided, That any per diem allowance made pursuant 
to this section shall not exceed the rate specified in regulations 
prescribed pursuant to section 5707 of title 5, United States Code.
    Sec. 604. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum 
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with 
section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the 
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, 
ambulances, law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is 
hereby fixed at $8,100 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by not to 
exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to exceed $4,000 for 
special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further, That the limits set 
forth in this section may not be exceeded by more than five percent for 
electric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under the 
provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, 
and Demonstration Act of 1976: Provided further, That the limits set 
forth in this section may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean 
alternative fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101-549 over 
the cost of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles.
    Sec. 605. Appropriations of the executive departments and 
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available for 
expenses of travel or for the expenses of the activity concerned, are 
hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-living 
allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922-24.
    Sec. 606. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal year 
no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other Act shall 
be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee of the 
Government of the United States (including any agency the majority of 
the stock of which is owned by the Government of the United States) 
whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such 
person (1) is a citizen of the United States, (2) is a person in the 
service of the United States on the date of enactment of this Act who, 
being eligible for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to 
become a citizen of the United States prior to such date and is 
actually residing in the United States, (3) is a person who owes 
allegiance to the United States, (4) is an alien from Cuba, Poland, 
South Vietnam, the countries of the former Soviet Union, or the Baltic 
countries lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent 
residence, or (5) South Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian refugees 
paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975, or (6) nationals of 
the People's Republic of China that qualify for adjustment of status 
pursuant to the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992: Provided, That 
for the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such person 
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the requirements of this 
section with respect to his or her status have been complied with: 
Provided further, That any person making a false affidavit shall be 
guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction, shall be fined no more than 
$4,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided 
further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, and not 
in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided 
further, That any payment made to any officer or employee contrary to 
the provisions of this section shall be recoverable in action by the 
Federal Government. This section shall not apply to citizens of 
Ireland, Israel, the Republic of the Philippines or to nationals of 
those countries allied with the United States in the current defense 
effort, or to international broadcasters employed by the United States 
Information Agency, or to temporary employment of translators, or to 
temporary employment in the field service (not to exceed sixty days) as 
a result of emergencies.
    Sec. 607. Appropriations available to any department or agency 
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including 
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for payment 
to the General Services Administration for charges for space and 
services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings 
and facilities which constitute public improvements performed in 
accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 749), the 
Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat. 216), or other applicable 
law.
    Sec. 608. In addition to funds provided in this or any other Act, 
all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds resulting 
from the sale of materials recovered through recycling or waste 
prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until expended for 
the following purposes:
            (1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention and 
        recycling programs as described in Executive Order 12873 
        (October 20, 1993), including any such programs adopted prior 
        to the effective date of the Executive Order.
            (2) Other Federal agency environmental management programs, 
        including but not limited to, the development and 
        implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution 
        prevention programs.
            (3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as 
        deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency.
    Sec. 609. Funds made available by this or any other Act for 
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corporations 
and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States Code, 
shall be available, in addition to objects for which such funds are 
otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia; services in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the Act by 
which they are made available: Provided, That in the event any 
functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subsequently 
transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations on 
administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced.
    Sec. 610. No part of any appropriation for the current fiscal year 
contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any person for the 
filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated after 
the Senate has voted not to approve the nomination of said person.
    Sec. 611. Any department or agency to which the Administrator of 
General Services has delegated the authority to operate, maintain or 
repair any building or facility pursuant to section 205(d) of the 
Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, 
shall retain that portion of the GSA rental payment available for 
operation, maintenance or repair of the building or facility, as 
determined by the Administrator, and expend such funds directly for the 
operation, maintenance or repair of the building or facility. Any funds 
retained under this section shall remain available until expended for 
such purposes.
    Sec. 612. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Act of July 15, 1952 (66 
Stat. 662), foreign credits (including currencies) owed to or owned by 
the United States may be used by Federal agencies for any purpose for 
which appropriations are made for the current fiscal year (including 
the carrying out of Acts requiring or authorizing the use of such 
credits), only when reimbursement therefor is made to the Treasury from 
applicable appropriations of the agency concerned: Provided, That such 
credits received as exchanged allowances or proceeds of sales of 
personal property may be used in whole or part payment for acquisition 
of similar items, to the extent and in the manner authorized by law, 
without reimbursement to the Treasury.
    Sec. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in this or any 
other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards, 
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups (whether or not 
they are interagency entities) which do not have a prior and specific 
statutory approval to receive financial support from more than one 
agency or instrumentality.
    Sec. 614. Funds made available by this or any other Act to the 
``Postal Service Fund'' (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be available for 
employment of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied by 
the Postal Service and under the charge and control of the Postal 
Service, and such guards shall have, with respect to such property, the 
powers of special policemen provided by the first section of the Act of 
June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318), and, as to 
property owned or occupied by the Postal Service, the Postmaster 
General may take the same actions as the Administrator of General 
Services may take under the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act 
of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a, 318b), 
attaching thereto penal consequences under the authority and within the 
limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 
Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c).
    Sec. 615. None of the funds made available pursuant to the 
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or 
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to a 
resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance with the 
applicable law of the United States.
    Sec. 616. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any of the 
funds appropriated for the fiscal year ending on September 30, 1996, by 
this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing rate employee 
described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code--
            (1) during the period from the date of expiration of the 
        limitation imposed by section 617 of the Treasury, Postal 
        Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1995, until 
        the normal effective date of the applicable wage survey 
        adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal year 1996, in an 
        amount that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade 
        and step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance with 
        such section 617; and
            (2) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal 
        year 1996, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage 
        survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1) by more 
        than the sum of--
                    (A) the percentage adjustment taking effect in 
                fiscal year 1996 under section 5303 of title 5, United 
                States Code, in the rates of pay under the General 
                Schedule; and
                    (B) the difference between the overall average 
                percentage of the locality-based comparability payments 
                taking effect in fiscal year 1996 under section 5304 of 
                such title (whether by adjustment or otherwise), and 
                the overall average percentage of such payments which 
                was effective in fiscal year 1995 under such section.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing rate 
employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section 5342(a)(2) of 
title 5, United States Code, and no employee covered by section 5348 of 
such title, may be paid during the periods for which subsection (a) is 
in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under 
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such employee.
    (c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable to an 
employee who is covered by this section and who is paid from a schedule 
not in existence on September 30, 1995, shall be determined under 
regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management.
    (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of premium 
pay for employees subject to this section may not be changed from the 
rates in effect on September 30, 1995, except to the extent determined 
by the Office of Personnel Management to be consistent with the purpose 
of this section.
    (e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for service 
performed after September 30, 1995.
    (f) For the purpose of administering any provision of law 
(including section 8431 of title 5, United States Code, and any rule or 
regulation that provides premium pay, retirement, life insurance, or 
any other employee benefit) that requires any deduction or 
contribution, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the 
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic pay 
payable after the application of this section shall be treated as the 
rate of salary or basic pay.
    (g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to permit or 
require the payment to any employee covered by this section at a rate 
in excess of the rate that would be payable were this section not in 
effect.
    (h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for exceptions 
to the limitations imposed by this section if the Office determines 
that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment or 
retention of qualified employees.
    Sec. 617. During the period in which the head of any department or 
agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the Government 
appointed by the President of the United States, holds office, no funds 
may be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or 
redecorate the office of such department head, agency head, officer or 
employee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for any such 
office, unless advance notice of such furnishing or redecoration is 
expressly approved by the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
Senate. For the purposes of this section, the word ``office'' shall 
include the entire suite of offices assigned to the individual, as well 
as any other space used primarily by the individual or the use of which 
is directly controlled by the individual.
    Sec. 618. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no executive 
branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any additional 
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, to be 
used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement training 
without the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Sec. 619. (a) No amount of any grant made by a Federal agency shall 
be used to finance the acquisition of goods or services (including 
construction services) unless the recipient of the grant agrees, as a 
condition for the receipt of such grant, to--
            (1) specify in any announcement of the awarding of the 
        contract for the procurement of the goods and services involved 
        (including construction services) the amount of Federal funds 
        that will be used to finance the acquisition; and
            (2) express the amount announced pursuant to paragraph (1) 
        as a percentage of the total costs of the planned acquisition.
    (b) The requirements of subsection (a) shall not apply to a 
procurement for goods or services (including construction services) 
that has an aggregate value of less than $500,000.
    Sec. 620. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United States 
Code, funds made available for fiscal year 1996 by this or any other 
Act shall be available for the interagency funding of national security 
and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit 
multiple Federal departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by 
Executive Order Numbered 12472 (April 3, 1984).
    Sec. 621. Notwithstanding any provisions of this or any other Act, 
during the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, and hereafter, any 
department, division, bureau, or office may use funds appropriated by 
this or any other Act to install telephone lines, and necessary 
equipment, and to pay monthly charges, in any private residence or 
private apartment of an employee who has been authorized to work at 
home in accordance with guidelines issued by the Office of Personnel 
Management: Provided, That the head of the department, division, 
bureau, or office certifies that adequate safeguards against private 
misuse exist, and that the service is necessary for direct support of 
the agency's mission.
    Sec. 622. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, agency, or 
other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of any employee 
appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-determining 
character excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section 
3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the 
Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Federal department, 
agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C appointee 
that the Schedule C position was not created solely or primarily in 
order to detail the employee to the White House.
    (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal 
employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from--
            (1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
            (2) the National Security Agency;
            (3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
            (4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the 
        collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through 
        reconnaissance programs;
            (5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the 
        Department of State;
            (6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air 
        Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
        and the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of 
        Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department of 
        the Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing 
        intelligence functions; and
            (7) the Director of Central Intelligence.
    Sec. 623. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other Act for 
fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any such funds, unless such 
department, agency or instrumentality has in place, and will continue 
to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that 
all of its workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual 
harassment and that all of its workplaces are not in violation of title 
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination 
in Employment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
    Sec. 624. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act may be 
used to pay for the expenses of travel of employees, including 
employees of the Executive Office of the President, not directly 
responsible for the discharge of official governmental tasks and 
duties: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to the family 
of the President, Members of Congress or their spouses, Heads of State 
of a foreign country or their designee(s), persons providing assistance 
to the President for official purposes, or other individuals so 
designated by the President.
    Sec. 625. Notwithstanding any provision of law, the President, or 
his designee, must certify to Congress, annually, that no person or 
persons with direct or indirect responsibility for administering the 
Executive Office of the President's Drug-Free Workplace Plan are 
themselves subject to a program of individual random drug testing.
    Sec. 626. (a) Beginning in fiscal year 1996 and thereafter, for 
each Federal agency, except the Department of Defense (which has 
separate authority), an amount equal to 50 percent of--
            (1) the amount of each utility rebate received by the 
        agency for energy efficiency and water conservation measures, 
        which the agency has implemented; and
            (2) the amount of the agency's share of the measured energy 
        savings resulting from energy-savings performance contracts
may be retained and credited to accounts that fund energy and water 
conservation activities at the agency's facilities, and shall remain 
available until expended for additional specific energy efficiency or 
water conservation projects or activities, including improvements and 
retrofits, facility surveys, additional or improved utility metering, 
and employee training and awareness programs, as authorized by section 
152(f) of the Energy Policy Act (Public Law 102-486).
    (b) The remaining 50 percent of each rebate, and the remaining 50 
percent of the amount of the agency's share of savings from energy-
savings performance contracts, shall be transferred to the General Fund 
of the Treasury at the end of the fiscal year in which received.
    Sec. 627. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there is 
hereby established a Commission which shall be known as the 
``Commission on Federal Mandates'' (hereafter referred to as the 
``Commission''): Provided, That the Commission shall be composed of 
nine Members appointed from individuals who possess extensive 
leadership experience in and knowledge of State, local, and tribal 
governments and intergovernmental relations, including State and local 
elected officials, as follows: (1) three Members appointed by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, in consultation with the 
minority leader of the House of Representatives; (2) three Members 
appointed by the majority leader of the Senate, in consultation with 
the minority leader of the Senate: and (3) three Members appointed by 
the President: Provided further, That appointments may be made under 
this section without regard to section 5311(b) of title 5, United 
States Code: Provided further, That in general, each member of the 
Commission shall be appointed for the life of the Commission and a 
vacancy in the Commission shall be filled in the manner in which the 
original appointment was made: Provided further, That (1) Members of 
the Commission shall serve without pay; (2) Members of the Commission 
who are full-time officers or employees of the United States may not 
receive additional pay, allowances or benefits by reason of their 
service on the Commission; and (3) Each Member of the Commission may 
receive travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, in 
accordance with sections 5702 and 5703 of title 5, United States Code: 
Provided further, That the Commission shall convene its first meeting 
by not later than 15 days after the date of the completion of 
appointment of the Members of the Commission: Provided further, That 
the Commission shall report on Federal mandates as specified in 
sections 302 (a), (c), (d), (e), and (f) of Public Law 104-4: Provided 
further, That the Commission shall have all authorities specified under 
section 303 of Public Law 104-4: Provided further, That the term 
``Federal mandate'' shall have the same meaning as specified in section 
305 of Public Law 104-4, notwithstanding sections 3 and 4 of that law: 
Provided further, That the Commission shall terminate 90 days after 
making the final report identified above.
    Sec. 628. The amounts otherwise provided in this Act under the 
heading ``General Services Administration--Federal Buildings Fund--
Limitations on Availablity of Revenue'' for the following purposes are 
each reduced by $65,764,000:
            (1) Aggregate amount available from the Fund.
            (2) Total amount available from the Fund for construction 
        of additional projects.
            (3) Amount available for new construction, Maryland, 
        Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Food and Drug 
        Administration, Phase II.
            (4) Amount in excess of which revenues and collections 
        accruing to the Fund shall remain in the Fund.
    Sec. 629. None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
obligated or expended for any employee training when it is made known 
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or expend such 
funds that such employee training--
            (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
        and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
        duties;
            (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
        emotional response or psychological stress in some 
        participants;
            (3) does not require prior employee notification of the 
        content and methods to be used in the training and written end 
        of course evaluations;
            (4) contains any methods or content associated with 
        religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
        belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988;
            (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
        personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or
            (6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency 
        virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) other than 
        that necessary to make employees more aware of the medical 
        ramifications of HIV/AIDS and the workplace rights of HIV-
        positive employees.
    Sec. 630. No amount made available in this Act may be used for the 
salaries or expenses of any employee, including any employee of the 
Executive Office of the President, in connection with the obligation or 
expenditure of funds in the exchange stabilization fund when it is made 
known to the Federal official to whom such amounts are made available 
in this Act that such obligation or expenditure is for the purpose of 
bolstering any foreign currency.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Treasury, Postal Service, and 
General Government Appropriations Act, 1996''.

            Passed the House of Representatives July 19, 1995.

            Attest:

                                                                 Clerk.
                                     
104th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2020

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                                 AN ACT

 Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States 
  Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain 
 Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1996, 
                        and for other purposes.
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