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Calendar No. 99 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1243 

[Report No. 113–45] 

Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing 

and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 

September 30, 2014, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 27, 2013 

Mrs. MURRAY, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following 

original bill; which was read twice and placed on the calendar 

A BILL 

Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 

2014, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 

4 money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 

5 Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
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1 Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year end2 ing September 30, 2014, and for other purposes, namely: 

3 TITLE I 

4 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

5 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

6 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

7 For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 

8 $109,340,000, of which not to exceed $2,652,000 shall be 

9 available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not 

10 to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the immediate 

11 Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to exceed $20,502,000 

12 shall be available for the Office of the General Counsel; 

13 not to exceed $10,271,000 shall be available for the Office 

14 of the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not 

15 to exceed $13,026,000 shall be available for the Office of 

16 the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to 

17 exceed $2,627,000 shall be available for the Office of the 

18 Assistant Secretary for Governmental Affairs; not to ex19 ceed $26,686,000 shall be available for the Office of the 

20 Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed 

21 $2,051,000 shall be available for the Office of Public Af22 fairs; not to exceed $1,714,000 shall be available for the 

23 Office of the Executive Secretariat; not to exceed 

24 $1,386,000 shall be available for the Office of Small and 

25 Disadvantaged Business Utilization; not to exceed 
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1 $10,849,000 shall be available for the Office of Intel2 ligence, Security, and Emergency Response; and not to ex3 ceed $16,576,000 shall be available for the Office of the 

4 Chief Information Officer: Provided, That the Secretary 

5 of Transportation is authorized to transfer funds appro6 priated for any office of the Office of the Secretary to any 

7 other office of the Office of the Secretary: Provided fur8 ther, That no appropriation for any office shall be in9 creased or decreased by more than 5 percent by all such 

10 transfers: Provided further, That notice of any change in 

11 funding greater than 5 percent shall be submitted for ap12 proval to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria13 tions: Provided further, That not to exceed $60,000 shall 

14 be for allocation within the Department for official recep15 tion and representation expenses as the Secretary may de16 termine: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 

17 provision of law, excluding fees authorized in Public Law 

18 107–71, there may be credited to this appropriation up 

19 to $2,500,000 in funds received in user fees: Provided fur20 ther, That none of the funds provided in this Act shall 

21 be available for the position of Assistant Secretary for 

22 Public Affairs. 

23 NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS

24 For capital investments in surface transportation in25 frastructure, $550,000,000, to remain available through 
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1 September 30, 2016: Provided, That the Secretary of 

2 Transportation shall distribute funds provided under this 

3 heading as discretionary grants to be awarded to a State, 

4 local government, transit agency, or a collaboration among 

5 such entities on a competitive basis for projects that will 

6 have a significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan 

7 area, or a region: Provided further, That projects eligible 

8 for funding provided under this heading shall include, but 

9 not be limited to, highway or bridge projects eligible under 

10 title 23, United States Code; public transportation 

11 projects eligible under chapter 53 of title 49, United 

12 States Code; passenger and freight rail transportation 

13 projects; and port infrastructure investments: Provided 

14 further, That the Secretary may use up to 35 percent of 

15 the funds made available under this heading for the pur16 pose of paying the subsidy and administrative costs of 

17 projects eligible for Federal credit assistance under chap18 ter 6 of title 23, United States Code, if the Secretary finds 

19 that such use of the funds would advance the purposes 

20 of this paragraph: Provided further, That in distributing 

21 funds provided under this heading, the Secretary shall 

22 take such measures so as to ensure an equitable geo23 graphic distribution of funds, an appropriate balance in 

24 addressing the needs of urban and rural areas, and the 

25 investment in a variety of transportation modes: Provided 
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1 further, That a grant funded under this heading shall be 

2 not less than $10,000,000 and not greater than 

3 $200,000,000: Provided further, That not more than 25 

4 percent of the funds made available under this heading 

5 may be awarded to projects in a single State: Provided 

6 further, That the Federal share of the costs for which an 

7 expenditure is made under this heading shall be, at the 

8 option of the recipient, up to 80 percent: Provided further, 

9 That the Secretary shall give priority to projects that re10 quire a contribution of Federal funds in order to complete 

11 an overall financing package: Provided further, That not 

12 less than 20 percent of the funds provided under this 

13 heading shall be for projects located in rural areas: Pro14 vided further, That for projects located in rural areas, the 

15 minimum grant size shall be $1,000,000 and the Secretary 

16 may increase the Federal share of costs above 80 percent: 

17 Provided further, That of the amount made available 

18 under this heading, the Secretary may use an amount not 

19 to exceed $35,000,000 for the planning, preparation or de20 sign of projects eligible for funding under this heading: 

21 Provided further, That grants awarded under the previous 

22 proviso shall not be subject to a minimum grant size: Pro23 vided further, That projects conducted using funds pro24 vided under this heading must comply with the require25 ments of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United 
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1 States Code: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 

2 conduct a new competition to select the grants and credit 

3 assistance awarded under this heading: Provided further, 

4 That the Secretary may retain up to $20,000,000 of the 

5 funds provided under this heading, and may transfer por6 tions of those funds to the Administrators of the Federal 

7 Highway Administration, the Federal Transit Administra8 tion, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Federal 

9 Maritime Administration, to fund the award and oversight 

10 of grants and credit assistance made under the National 

11 Infrastructure Investments program. 

12 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT CAPITAL

13 For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing 

14 the Department of Transportation’s financial systems and 

15 re-engineering business processes, $10,000,000, to remain 

16 available through September 30, 2015. 

17 CYBER SECURITY INITIATIVES

18 For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, 

19 including necessary upgrades to wide area network and 

20 information technology infrastructure, improvement of 

21 network perimeter controls and identity management, 

22 testing and assessment of information technology against 

23 business, security, and other requirements, implementa24 tion of Federal cyber security initiatives and information 

25 infrastructure enhancements, implementation of enhanced 
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1 security controls on network devices, and enhancement of 

2 cyber security workforce training tools, $6,000,000, to re3 main available through September 30, 2015. 

4 OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS

5 For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 

6 $9,551,000. 

7 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND

8 DEVELOPMENT

9 (INCLUDING RESCISSION)

10 For necessary expenses for conducting transportation 

11 planning, research, systems development, development ac12 tivities, and making grants, to remain available until ex13 pended, $9,750,000: Provided, That of the unobligated 

14 balances made available by Public Law 111–117, 

15 $750,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided further, That of 

16 the unobligated balances made available by section 195 of 

17 Public Law 111–117, $2,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 

18 WORKING CAPITAL FUND

19 For necessary expenses for operating costs and cap20 ital outlays of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed 

21 $178,000,000 shall be paid from appropriations made 

22 available to the Department of Transportation: Provided, 

23 That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 

24 to entities within the Department of Transportation: Pro25 vided further, That the above limitation on operating ex-
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1 penses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided fur2 ther, That no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency 

3 of the Department shall be transferred to the Working 

4 Capital Fund without majority approval of the Working 

5 Capital Fund Steering Committee and approval of the 

6 Secretary: Provided further, That no assessments may be 

7 levied against any program, budget activity, subactivity or 

8 project funded by this Act unless notice of such assess9 ments and the basis therefor are presented to the House 

10 and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are ap11 proved by such Committees. 

12 MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM

13 For the cost of guaranteed loans, $333,000, as au14 thorized by 49 U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, in15 cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de16 fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

17 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 

18 subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 

19 guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000. 

20 In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 

21 the guaranteed loan program, $592,000. 

22 MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH

23 For necessary expenses of Minority Business Re24 source Center outreach activities, $3,088,000, to remain 

25 available until September 30, 2015: Provided, That not-
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1 withstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for 

2 business opportunities related to any mode of transpor3 tation. 

4 PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS

5 (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

6 In addition to funds made available from any other 

7 source to carry out the essential air service program under 

8 49 U.S.C. 41731 through 41742, $146,000,000, to be de9 rived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain 

10 available until expended: Provided, That in determining 

11 between or among carriers competing to provide service 

12 to a community, the Secretary may consider the relative 

13 subsidy requirements of the carriers: Provided further, 

14 That basic essential air service minimum requirements 

15 shall not include the 15-passenger capacity requirement 

16 under subsection 41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States 

17 Code: Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer 

18 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the essential 

19 air service program from any available amounts appro20 priated to or directly administered by the Office of the 

21 Secretary for fiscal year 2014: Provided further, That in 

22 fiscal year 2014 the Secretary shall replenish amounts 

23 transferred under the previous proviso with amounts 

24 transferred by the Federal Aviation Administration from 

25 fees imposed under the authority contained in section 
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1 45301(a) of title 49, United States Code, and credited to 

2 the account established under section 45303 of such title. 

3 RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

4 For necessary expenses related to the Office of the 

5 Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, 

6 $14,765,000, of which $8,218,000 shall remain available 

7 until September 30, 2016: Provided, That there may be 

8 credited to this appropriation, to be available until ex9 pended, funds received from States, counties, municipali10 ties, other public authorities, and private sources for ex11 penses incurred for training: Provided further, That not12 withstanding any other provision of law, the powers and 

13 duties, functions, authorities and personnel of the Re14 search and Innovative Technology Administration are 

15 hereby transferred to the Office of the Assistant Secretary 

16 for Research and Technology in the Office of the Sec17 retary: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 102 

18 of title 49 and section 5315 of title 5, United States Code, 

19 there shall be an Assistant Secretary for Research and 

20 Technology within the Office of the Secretary, appointed 

21 by the President with the advice and consent of the Sen22 ate, to lead such office: Provided further, That any ref23 erence in law, regulation, judicial proceedings, or else24 where to the Research and Innovative Technology Admin25 istration shall be deemed to be a reference to the Office 
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1 of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology 

2 of the Department of Transportation. 

3 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE

4 SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION

5 SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this 

6 Act to the Department of Transportation may be obligated 

7 for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation to ap8 prove assessments or reimbursable agreements pertaining 

9 to funds appropriated to the modal administrations in this 

10 Act, except for activities underway on the date of enact11 ment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements 

12 have completed the normal reprogramming process for 

13 Congressional notification. 

14 SEC. 102. None of the funds made available under 

15 this Act may be obligated or expended to establish or im16 plement a program under which essential air service com17 munities are required to assume subsidy costs commonly 

18 referred to as the EAS local participation program. 

19 SEC. 103. The Secretary or his designee may engage 

20 in activities with States and State legislators to consider 

21 proposals related to the reduction of motorcycle fatalities. 

22 SEC. 104. Notwithstanding section 3324 of title 31, 

23 United States Code, in addition to authority provided by 

24 section 327 of title 49, United States Code, the Depart25 ment’s Working Capital Fund is hereby authorized to pro-
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1 vide payments in advance to vendors that are necessary 

2 to carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe 

3 benefit program under Executive Order 13150 and section 

4 3049 of Public Law 109–59: Provided, That the Depart5 ment shall include adequate safeguards in the contract 

6 with the vendors to ensure timely and high-quality per7 formance under the contract. 

8 SEC. 105. The Secretary shall post on the Web site 

9 of the Department of Transportation a schedule of all 

10 meetings of the Credit Council, including the agenda for 

11 each meeting, and require the Credit Council to record the 

12 decisions and actions of each meeting. 

13 FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION

14 OPERATIONS

15 (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

16 For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Ad17 ministration, not otherwise provided for, including oper18 ations and research activities related to commercial space 

19 transportation, administrative expenses for research and 

20 development, establishment of air navigation facilities, the 

21 operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft, 

22 subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold 

23 to the public, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehi24 cles for replacement only, in addition to amounts made 

25 available by Public Law 108–176, $9,707,000,000, of 
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1 which $6,121,000,000 shall be derived from the Airport 

2 and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed 

3 $7,311,790,000 shall be available for air traffic organiza4 tion activities; not to exceed $1,216,777,000 shall be avail5 able for aviation safety activities; not to exceed 

6 $17,011,000 shall be available for commercial space trans7 portation activities; not to exceed $802,520,000 shall be 

8 available for finance and management activities; not to ex9 ceed $59,477,000 shall be available for NextGen and oper10 ations planning activities; not to exceed $192,780,000 

11 shall be available for staff offices; and not to exceed 

12 $106,645,000 shall be available for human resource man13 agement activities: Provided, That not to exceed 2 percent 

14 of any budget activity, except for aviation safety budget 

15 activity, may be transferred to any budget activity under 

16 this heading: Provided further, That no transfer may in17 crease or decrease any appropriation by more than 2 per18 cent: Provided further, That any transfer in excess of 2 

19 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds 

20 under section 405 of this Act and shall not be available 

21 for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the 

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

23 not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, the 

24 Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 

25 shall transmit to Congress an annual update to the report 
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1 submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to sec2 tion 221 of Public Law 108–176: Provided further, That 

3 the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced by 

4 $100,000 for each day after March 31 that such report 

5 has not been submitted to the Congress: Provided further, 

6 That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, 

7 the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a companion 

8 report that describes a comprehensive strategy for staff9 ing, hiring, and training flight standards and aircraft cer10 tification staff in a format similar to the one utilized for 

11 the controller staffing plan, including stated attrition esti12 mates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year: Provided 

13 further, That the amount herein appropriated shall be re14 duced by $100,000 per day for each day after March 31 

15 that such report has not been submitted to Congress: Pro16 vided further, That funds may be used to enter into a 

17 grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting organi18 zation to assist in the development of aviation safety 

19 standards: Provided further, That none of the funds in this 

20 Act shall be available for new applicants for the second 

21 career training program: Provided further, That none of 

22 the funds in this Act shall be available for the Federal 

23 Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any regu24 lation that would promulgate new aviation user fees not 

25 specifically authorized by law after the date of the enact-
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1 ment of this Act: Provided further, That there may be 

2 credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections 

3 funds received from States, counties, municipalities, for4 eign authorities, other public authorities, and private 

5 sources for expenses incurred in the provision of agency 

6 services, including receipts for the maintenance and oper7 ation of air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal 

8 or modification of certificates, including airman, aircraft, 

9 and repair station certificates, or for tests related thereto, 

10 or for processing major repair or alteration forms: Pro11 vided further, That of the funds appropriated under this 

12 heading, not less than $10,350,000 shall be for the con13 tract tower cost-sharing program: Provided further, That 

14 none of the funds in this Act for aeronautical charting 

15 and cartography are available for activities conducted by, 

16 or coordinated through, the Working Capital Fund. 

17 FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

18 (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

19 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 

20 for acquisition, establishment, technical support services, 

21 improvement by contract or purchase, and hire of national 

22 airspace systems and experimental facilities and equip23 ment, as authorized under part A of subtitle VII of title 

24 49, United States Code, including initial acquisition of 

25 necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and service 
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1 testing, including construction of test facilities and acqui2 sition of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction 

3 and furnishing of quarters and related accommodations 

4 for officers and employees of the Federal Aviation Admin5 istration stationed at remote localities where such accom6 modations are not available; and the purchase, lease, or 

7 transfer of aircraft from funds available under this head8 ing, including aircraft for aviation regulation and certifi9 cation; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 

10 Fund, $2,730,000,000, of which $481,000,000 shall re11 main available until September 30, 2014, and 

12 $2,249,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 

13 2016: Provided, That there may be credited to this appro14 priation funds received from States, counties, municipali15 ties, other public authorities, and private sources, for ex16 penses incurred in the establishment, improvement, and 

17 modernization of national airspace systems: Provided fur18 ther, That upon initial submission to the Congress of the 

19 fiscal year 2015 President’s budget, the Secretary of 

20 Transportation shall transmit to the Congress a com21 prehensive capital investment plan for the Federal Avia22 tion Administration which includes funding for each budg23 et line item for fiscal years 2015 through 2019, with total 

24 funding for each year of the plan constrained to the fund-
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1 ing targets for those years as estimated and approved by 

2 the Office of Management and Budget. 

3 RESEARCH, ENGINEERING, AND DEVELOPMENT

4 (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

5 (INCLUDING RESCISSION)

6 For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 

7 for research, engineering, and development, as authorized 

8 under part A of subtitle VII of title 49, United States 

9 Code, including construction of experimental facilities and 

10 acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant, 

11 $160,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway 

12 Trust Fund and to remain available until September 30, 

13 2016: Provided, That there may be credited to this appro14 priation as offsetting collections, funds received from 

15 States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, 

16 and private sources, which shall be available for expenses 

17 incurred for research, engineering, and development: Pro18 vided further, That of the unobligated balances from prior 

19 year appropriations available under this heading, 

20 $26,183,998 are rescinded. 
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1 GRANTS-IN-AID FOR AIRPORTS

2 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

3 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

4 (AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)

5 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

6 For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in7 aid for airport planning and development, and noise com8 patibility planning and programs as authorized under sub9 chapter I of chapter 471 and subchapter I of chapter 475 

10 of title 49, United States Code, and under other law au11 thorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, 

12 and commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices 

13 and systems at airports of such title; for grants authorized 

14 under section 41743 of title 49, United States Code; and 

15 for inspection activities and administration of airport safe16 ty programs, including those related to airport operating 

17 certificates under section 44706 of title 49, United States 

18 Code, $3,200,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and 

19 Airway Trust Fund and to remain available until ex20 pended: Provided, That none of the funds under this head21 ing shall be available for the planning or execution of pro22 grams the obligations for which are in excess of 

23 $3,350,000,000 in fiscal year 2014, notwithstanding sec24 tion 47117(g) of title 49, United States Code: Provided 

25 further, That none of the funds under this heading shall 
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1 be available for the replacement of baggage conveyor sys2 tems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, or other 

3 airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk ex4 plosive detection systems: Provided further, That notwith5 standing section 47109(a) of title 49, United States Code, 

6 the Government’s share of allowable project costs under 

7 paragraph (2) for subgrants or paragraph (3) of that sec8 tion shall be 95 percent for a project that is a successive 

9 phase of a multi-phased construction project for which the 

10 project sponsor received a grant in fiscal year 2011 for 

11 the construction project: Provided further, That notwith12 standing any other provision of law, of funds limited under 

13 this heading, not more than $106,600,000 shall be obli14 gated for administration, not less than $15,000,000 shall 

15 be available for the Airport Cooperative Research Pro16 gram, not less than $29,500,000 shall be available for Air17 port Technology Research, and $6,000,000, to remain 

18 available until expended, shall be available and transferred 

19 to ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Salaries and Expenses’’ to 

20 carry out the Small Community Air Service Development 

21 Program. 

22 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL AVIATION

23 ADMINISTRATION

24 SEC. 110. None of the funds in this Act may be used 

25 to compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under 
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1 the federally funded research and development center con2 tract between the Federal Aviation Administration and the 

3 Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development dur4 ing fiscal year 2014. 

5 SEC. 111. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 

6 to pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring air7 port sponsors to provide to the Federal Aviation Adminis8 tration without cost building construction, maintenance, 

9 utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned 

10 buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air 

11 navigation, or weather reporting: Provided, That the pro12 hibition of funds in this section does not apply to negotia13 tions between the agency and airport sponsors to achieve 

14 agreement on ‘‘below-market’’ rates for these items or to 

15 grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide 

16 land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control facili17 ties. 

18 SEC. 112. The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 

19 Administration may reimburse amounts made available to 

20 satisfy 49 U.S.C. 41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 

21 49 U.S.C. 45303 and any amount remaining in such ac22 count at the close of that fiscal year may be made available 

23 to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) for the subsequent fiscal 

24 year. 
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1 SEC. 113. Amounts collected under section 40113(e) 

2 of title 49, United States Code, shall be credited to the 

3 appropriation current at the time of collection, to be 

4 merged with and available for the same purposes of such 

5 appropriation. 

6 SEC. 114. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail7 able for paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of 

8 title 5, United States Code, to any Federal Aviation Ad9 ministration employee unless such employee actually per10 formed work during the time corresponding to such pre11 mium pay. 

12 SEC. 115. None of the funds in this Act may be obli13 gated or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation 

14 Administration to purchase a store gift card or gift certifi15 cate through use of a Government-issued credit card. 

16 SEC. 116. The Secretary shall apportion to the spon17 sor of an airport that received scheduled or unscheduled 

18 air service from a large certified air carrier (as defined 

19 in part 241 of title 14 Code of Federal Regulations, or 

20 such other regulations as may be issued by the Secretary 

21 under the authority of section 41709) an amount equal 

22 to the minimum apportionment specified in 49 U.S.C. 

23 47114(c), if the Secretary determines that airport had 

24 more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the preceding 
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1 calendar year, based on data submitted to the Secretary 

2 under part 241 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations. 

3 SEC. 117. None of the funds in this Act may be obli4 gated or expended for retention bonuses for an employee 

5 of the Federal Aviation Administration without the prior 

6 written approval of the Assistant Secretary for Adminis7 tration of the Department of Transportation. 

8 SEC. 118. Subparagraph (D) of section 47124(b)(3) 

9 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by striking 

10 ‘‘benefit.’’ and inserting ‘‘benefit, with the maximum al11 lowable local cost share capped at 20 percent.’’. 

12 SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

13 law, none of the funds made available under this Act or 

14 any prior Act may be used to implement or to continue 

15 to implement any limitation on the ability of any owner 

16 or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon a request 

17 to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administra18 tion, a blocking of that owner’s or operator’s aircraft reg19 istration number from any display of the Federal Aviation 

20 Administration’s Aircraft Situational Display to Industry 

21 data that is made available to the public, except data made 

22 available to a Government agency, for the noncommercial 

23 flights of that owner or operator. 

24 SEC. 119A. None of the funds in this Act shall be 

25 available for salaries and expenses of more than 8 political 
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1 and Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation Ad2 ministration. 

3 SEC. 119B. None of the funds made available under 

4 this Act may be used to increase fees pursuant to section 

5 44721 of title 49, United States Code, until the FAA pro6 vides to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria7 tions the report related to aeronautical navigation prod8 ucts described in the explanatory statement accompanying 

9 this Act. 

10 SEC. 119C. None of the funds appropriated or limited 

11 by this Act may be used to change weight restrictions or 

12 prior permission rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, 

13 New Jersey. 

14 SEC. 119D. The Secretary shall (1) evaluate and ad15 just existing helicopter routes above Los Angeles, and 

16 make adjustments to such routes if the adjustments would 

17 lessen impacts on residential areas and noise-sensitive 

18 landmarks; (2) analyze whether helicopters could safely fly 

19 at higher altitudes in certain areas above Los Angeles 

20 County; (3) develop and promote best practices for heli21 copter hovering and electronic news gathering; (4) conduct 

22 outreach to helicopter pilots to inform them of voluntary 

23 policies and to increase awareness of noise sensitive areas 

24 and events; (5) work with local stakeholders to develop a 

25 more comprehensive noise complaint system; and (6) con-
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1 tinue to participate in collaborative engagement between 

2 community representatives and helicopter operators: Pro3 vided, That not later than one year after enactment of 

4 this Act, the Secretary shall begin the development of reg5 ulations related to the impact of helicopter use on the 

6 quality of life and safety of the people of Los Angeles 

7 County unless the Secretary can demonstrate the effective8 ness of actions taken under the previous proviso to address 

9 helicopter noise. 

10 SEC. 119E. None of the funds in this Act may be 

11 used to issue regulations on the integration of unmanned 

12 aerial systems into the national airspace until the Sec13 retary submits to the House and Senate Committees on 

14 Appropriations the report related to the privacy implica15 tions of unmanned aerial systems described in the explan16 atory statement accompanying this Act. 

17 FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION

18 LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

19 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

20 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

21 Not to exceed $429,855,000, together with advances 

22 and reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Ad23 ministration, shall be paid in accordance with law from 

24 appropriations made available by this Act to the Federal 

25 Highway Administration for necessary expenses for ad-
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1 ministration and operation. In addition, not to exceed 

2 $3,248,000 shall be paid from appropriations made avail3 able by this Act and transferred to the Appalachian Re4 gional Commission in accordance with section 104 of title 

5 23, United States Code. 

6 FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS

7 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

8 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

9 Funds available for the implementation or execution 

10 of programs of Federal-aid highways and highway safety 

11 construction programs authorized under titles 23 and 49, 

12 United States Code, and the provisions of Public Law 

13 112–141 shall not exceed total obligations of 

14 $40,256,000,000 for fiscal year 2014: Provided, That the 

15 Secretary may collect and spend fees, as authorized by 

16 title 23, United States Code, to cover the costs of services 

17 of expert firms, including counsel, in the field of municipal 

18 and project finance to assist in the underwriting and serv19 icing of Federal credit instruments and all or a portion 

20 of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing such 

21 credit instruments: Provided further, That such fees are 

22 available until expended to pay for such costs: Provided 

23 further, That such amounts are in addition to administra24 tive expenses that are also available for such purpose, and 

25 are not subject to any obligation limitation or the limita-
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1 tion on administrative expenses under section 608 of title 

2 23, United States Code. 

3 BRIDGES IN CRITICAL CORRIDORS

4 For an additional amount for projects eligible under 

5 sections 133(b)(2) or 133(b)(3) of title 23, United States 

6 Code, $500,000,000 to remain available through Sep7 tember 30, 2015: Provided, That the Secretary shall dis8 tribute funds provided under this heading as discretionary 

9 grants to States, giving priority to projects that are lo10 cated on the national highway system or that the Sec11 retary expects will provide significant safety or economic 

12 benefits: Provided further, That funds provided under this 

13 heading shall be administered as if apportioned under 

14 chapter 1 of such title and shall be subject to section 

15 1101(b) of Public Law 112–141: Provided further, That 

16 the Federal share of the cost of a project funded under 

17 this heading shall be determined in accordance with sec18 tion 120 of such title. 

19 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

20 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

21 For the payment of obligations incurred in carrying 

22 out Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction 

23 programs authorized under title 23, United States Code, 

24 $40,995,000,000 derived from the Highway Trust Fund 
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1 (other than the Mass Transit Account), to remain avail2 able until expended. 

3 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL HIGHWAY

4 ADMINISTRATION

5 SEC. 120. (a) For fiscal year 2014, the Secretary of 

6 Transportation shall— 

7 (1) not distribute from the obligation limitation 

8 for Federal-aid highways— 

9 (A) amounts authorized for administrative 

10 expenses and programs by section 104(a) of 

11 title 23, United States Code; and 

12 (B) amounts authorized for the Bureau of 

13 Transportation Statistics; 

14 (2) not distribute an amount from the obliga15 tion limitation for Federal-aid highways that is equal 

16 to the unobligated balance of amounts— 

17 (A) made available from the Highway 

18 Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Ac19 count) for Federal-aid highway and highway 

20 safety construction programs for previous fiscal 

21 years the funds for which are allocated by the 

22 Secretary (or apportioned by the Secretary 

23 under sections 202 or 204 of title 23, United 

24 States Code); and 
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1 (B) for which obligation limitation was 

2 provided in a previous fiscal year; 

3 (3) determine the proportion that— 

4 (A) the obligation limitation for Federal5 aid highways, less the aggregate of amounts not 

6 distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of 

7 this subsection; bears to 

8 (B) the total of the sums authorized to be 

9 appropriated for the Federal-aid highway and 

10 highway safety construction programs (other 

11 than sums authorized to be appropriated for 

12 provisions of law described in paragraphs (1) 

13 through (11) of subsection (b) and sums au14 thorized to be appropriated for section 119 of 

15 title 23, United States Code, equal to the 

16 amount referred to in subsection (b)(12) for 

17 such fiscal year), less the aggregate of the 

18 amounts not distributed under paragraphs (1) 

19 and (2) of this subsection; 

20 (4) distribute the obligation limitation for Fed21 eral-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not 

22 distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2), for each 

23 of the programs (other than programs to which 

24 paragraph (1) applies) that are allocated by the Sec25 retary under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 
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1 21st Century Act and title 23, United States Code, 

2 or apportioned by the Secretary under sections 202 

3 or 204 of that title, by multiplying— 

4 (A) the proportion determined under para5 graph (3); by 

6 (B) the amounts authorized to be appro7 priated for each such program for such fiscal 

8 year; and 

9 (5) distribute the obligation limitation for Fed10 eral-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not 

11 distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) and the 

12 amounts distributed under paragraph (4), for Fed13 eral-aid highway and highway safety construction 

14 programs that are apportioned by the Secretary 

15 under title 23, United States Code (other than the 

16 amounts apportioned for the national highway per17 formance program in section 119 of title 23, United 

18 States Code, that are exempt from the limitation 

19 under subsection (b)(12) and the amounts appor20 tioned under sections 202 and 204 of that title) in 

21 the proportion that— 

22 (A) amounts authorized to be appropriated 

23 for the programs that are apportioned under 

24 title 23, United States Code, to each State for 

25 such fiscal year; bears to 
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1 (B) the total of the amounts authorized to 

2 be appropriated for the programs that are ap3 portioned under title 23, United States Code, to 

4 all States for such fiscal year. 

5 (b) EXCEPTIONS FROM OBLIGATION LIMITATION.— 

6 The obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways shall 

7 not apply to obligations under or for— 

8 (1) section 125 of title 23, United States Code; 

9 (2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation 

10 Assistance Act of 1978 (23 U.S.C. 144 note; 92 

11 Stat. 2714); 

12 (3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act 

13 of 1981 (95 Stat. 1701); 

14 (4) subsections (b) and (j) of section 131 of the 

15 Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 

16 Stat. 2119); 

17 (5) subsections (b) and (c) of section 149 of the 

18 Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation As19 sistance Act of 1987 (101 Stat. 198); 

20 (6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Inter21 modal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 

22 1991 (105 Stat. 2027); 

23 (7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code 

24 (as in effect on June 8, 1998); 
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1 (8) section 105 of title 23, United States Code 

2 (as in effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but 

3 only in an amount equal to $639,000,000 for each 

4 of those fiscal years); 

5 (9) Federal-aid highway programs for which ob6 ligation authority was made available under the 

7 Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century 

8 (112 Stat. 107) or subsequent Acts for multiple 

9 years or to remain available until expended, but only 

10 to the extent that the obligation authority has not 

11 lapsed or been used; 

12 (10) section 105 of title 23, United States Code 

13 (but, for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2012, 

14 only in an amount equal to $639,000,000 for each 

15 of those fiscal years); 

16 (11) section 1603 of SAFETEA–LU (23 

17 U.S.C. 118 note; 119 Stat. 1248), to the extent that 

18 funds obligated in accordance with that section were 

19 not subject to a limitation on obligations at the time 

20 at which the funds were initially made available for 

21 obligation; and 

22 (12) section 119 of title 23, United States Code 

23 (but, for fiscal years 2013 and 2014, only in an 

24 amount equal to $639,000,000 for such fiscal year). 
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1 (c) REDISTRIBUTION OF UNUSED OBLIGATION AU2 THORITY.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary 

3 shall, after August 1 of such fiscal year— 

4 (1) revise a distribution of the obligation limita5 tion made available under subsection (a) if an 

6 amount distributed cannot be obligated during that 

7 fiscal year; and 

8 (2) redistribute sufficient amounts to those 

9 States able to obligate amounts in addition to those 

10 previously distributed during that fiscal year, giving 

11 priority to those States having large unobligated bal12 ances of funds apportioned under sections 144 (as in 

13 effect on the day before the date of enactment of the 

14 Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act) 

15 and 104 of title 23, United States Code. 

16 (d) APPLICABILITY OF OBLIGATION LIMITATIONS TO

17 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PROGRAMS.— 

18 (1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para19 graph (2), the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 

20 highways shall apply to contract authority for trans21 portation research programs carried out under— 

22 (A) chapter 5 of title 23, United States 

23 Code; and 

24 (B) division E of the Moving Ahead for 

25 Progress in the 21st Century Act. 
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1 (2) EXCEPTION.—Obligation authority made 

2 available under paragraph (1) shall— 

3 (A) remain available for a period of 4 fis4 cal years; and 

5 (B) be in addition to the amount of any 

6 limitation imposed on obligations for Federal7 aid highway and highway safety construction 

8 programs for future fiscal years. 

9 (e) REDISTRIBUTION OF CERTAIN AUTHORIZED

10 FUNDS.— 

11 (1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 

12 the date of distribution of obligation limitation 

13 under subsection (a), the Secretary shall distribute 

14 to the States any funds (excluding funds authorized 

15 for the program under section 202 of title 23, 

16 United States Code) that— 

17 (A) are authorized to be appropriated for 

18 such fiscal year for Federal-aid highway pro19 grams; and 

20 (B) the Secretary determines will not be 

21 allocated to the States (or will not be appor22 tioned to the States under section 204 of title 

23 23, United States Code), and will not be avail24 able for obligation, for such fiscal year because 
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1 of the imposition of any obligation limitation for 

2 such fiscal year. 

3 (2) RATIO.—Funds shall be distributed under 

4 paragraph (1) in the same proportion as the dis5 tribution of obligation authority under subsection 

6 (a)(5). 

7 (3) AVAILABILITY.—Funds distributed to each 

8 State under paragraph (1) shall be available for any 

9 purpose described in section 133(b) of title 23, 

10 United States Code. 

11 SEC. 121. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds re12 ceived by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the 

13 sale of data products, for necessary expenses incurred pur14 suant to chapter 63 of title 49, United States Code, may 

15 be credited to the Federal-aid Highways account for the 

16 purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for such expenses: 

17 Provided, That such funds shall be subject to the obliga18 tion limitation for Federal-aid Highways and highway 

19 safety construction programs. 

20 SEC. 122. Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, 

21 under his statutory authority, any Buy America require22 ment for Federal-aid highway projects, the Secretary of 

23 Transportation shall make an informal public notice and 

24 comment opportunity on the intent to issue such waiver 

25 and the reasons therefor: Provided, That the Secretary 
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1 shall provide an annual report to the House and Senate 

2 Committees on Appropriations on any waivers granted 

3 under the Buy America requirements. 

4 SEC. 123. (a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in 

5 subsection (b), none of the funds made available, limited, 

6 or otherwise affected by this Act shall be used to approve 

7 or otherwise authorize the imposition of any toll on any 

8 segment of highway located on the Federal-aid system in 

9 the State of Texas that— 

10 (1) as of the date of enactment of this Act, is 

11 not tolled; 

12 (2) is constructed with Federal assistance pro13 vided under title 23, United States Code; and 

14 (3) is in actual operation as of the date of en15 actment of this Act. 

16 (b) EXCEPTIONS.— 

17 (1) NUMBER OF TOLL LANES.—Subsection (a) 

18 shall not apply to any segment of highway on the 

19 Federal-aid system described in that subsection that, 

20 as of the date on which a toll is imposed on the seg21 ment, will have the same number of nontoll lanes as 

22 were in existence prior to that date. 

23 (2) HIGH-OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANES.—A 

24 high-occupancy vehicle lane that is converted to a 

25 toll lane shall not be subject to this section, and 
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1 shall not be considered to be a nontoll lane for pur2 poses of determining whether a highway will have 

3 fewer nontoll lanes than prior to the date of imposi4 tion of the toll, if— 

5 (A) high-occupancy vehicles occupied by 

6 the number of passengers specified by the enti7 ty operating the toll lane may use the toll lane 

8 without paying a toll, unless otherwise specified 

9 by the appropriate county, town, municipal or 

10 other local government entity, or public toll 

11 road or transit authority; or 

12 (B) each high-occupancy vehicle lane that 

13 was converted to a toll lane was constructed as 

14 a temporary lane to be replaced by a toll lane 

15 under a plan approved by the appropriate coun16 ty, town, municipal or other local government 

17 entity, or public toll road or transit authority. 

18 SEC. 124. From the unobligated balances of funds 

19 apportioned among the States prior to October 1, 2012, 

20 under sections 104(b) of title 23, United States Code (as 

21 in effect on the day before the date of enactment of Public 

22 Law 112–141), the amount of $26,103,000 shall be made 

23 available in fiscal year 2014 for the administrative ex24 penses of the Federal Highway Administration: Provided, 

25 That this provision shall not apply to funds distributed 
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1 in accordance with section 104(b)(5) of title 23, United 

2 States Code (as in effect on the day before the date of 

3 enactment of Public Law 112–141); section 133(d)(1) of 

4 such title (as in effect on the day before the date of enact5 ment of Public Law 109–59); and the first sentence of 

6 section 133(d)(3)(A) of such title (as in effect on the day 

7 before the date of enactment of Public Law 112–141): 

8 Provided further, That such amount shall be derived on 

9 a proportional basis from the unobligated balances of ap10 portioned funds to which this provision applies: Provided 

11 further, That the amount made available by this provision 

12 in fiscal year 2014 for the administrative expenses of the 

13 Federal Highway Administration shall be in addition to 

14 the amount made available in fiscal year 2014 for such 

15 purposes under section 104(a) of title 23, United States 

16 Code: Provided further, That the amount made available 

17 by this provision in fiscal year 2014 for the administrative 

18 expenses of the Federal Highway Administration shall 

19 have the same period of availability and characteristics of 

20 the contract authority made available under section 104(a) 

21 of title 23, United States Code. 

22 SEC. 125. None of the funds in this Act to the De23 partment of Transportation may be used to provide credit 

24 assistance unless not less than 3 days before any applica25 tion approval to provide credit assistance under sections 
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1 603 and 604 of title 23, United States Code, the Secretary 

2 of Transportation provides notification in writing to the 

3 following committees: the House and Senate Committees 

4 on Appropriations; the Committee on Environment and 

5 Public Works and the Committee on Banking, Housing 

6 and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the Committee on 

7 Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep8 resentatives: Provided, That such notification shall in9 clude, but not be limited to, the name of the project spon10 sor; a description of the project; whether credit assistance 

11 will be provided as a direct loan, loan guarantee, or line 

12 of credit; and the amount of credit assistance. 

13 SEC. 126. Section 149(m) of title 23, United States 

14 Code, is amended by striking ‘‘that was previously eligible 

15 under this section’’ and replacing with ‘‘for which CMAQ 

16 funding was made available, obligated or expended in fis17 cal year 2012, and shall have no imposed time limitation’’. 

18 FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

19 MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS

20 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

21 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

22 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

23 For payment of obligations incurred in the implemen24 tation, execution and administration of motor carrier safe25 ty operations and programs pursuant to section 31104(i) 
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1 of title 49, United States Code, and sections 4127 and 

2 4134 of Public Law 109–59, as amended by Public Law 

3 112–141, $259,000,000, to be derived from the Highway 

4 Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account), to5 gether with advances and reimbursements received by the 

6 Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and to re7 main available until expended: Provided, That funds avail8 able for implementation, execution or administration of 

9 motor carrier safety operations and programs authorized 

10 under title 49, United States Code, shall not exceed total 

11 obligations of $259,000,000, for ‘‘Motor Carrier Safety 

12 Operations and Programs’’ for fiscal year 2014, of which 

13 $9,000,000, to remain available for obligation until Sep14 tember 30, 2016, is for the research and technology pro15 gram, and of which $1,000,000 shall be available for com16 mercial motor vehicle operator’s grants to carry out sec17 tion 4134 of Public Law 109–59, and of which 

18 $34,545,000, to remain available for obligation until Sep19 tember 30, 2016, is for information management: Pro20 vided further, That the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Ad21 ministration shall transmit to Congress a report by March 

22 28, 2014, on the agency’s ability to meet its requirement 

23 to conduct compliance reviews on mandatory carriers: Pro24 vided further, That the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Ad25 ministration’s obligation limitation shall be reduced by 
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1 $100,000 per day for each day any report required under 

2 this heading or accompanying report is past the deadlines 

3 specified herein. 

4 NATIONAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY

5 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

6 (LIMITATION OF OBLIGATIONS)

7 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

8 For payment of obligations incurred in the implemen9 tation, execution, and administration of national motor 

10 carrier safety programs pursuant to section 31104(i) of 

11 title 49, United States Code, and sections 4127 and 4134 

12 of Public Law 109–59, $19,000,000, to be derived from 

13 the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 

14 Account), together with advances and reimbursements re15 ceived by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administra16 tion, the sum of which shall remain available until ex17 pended: Provided, That none of the funds derived from 

18 the Highway Trust Fund under this heading shall be 

19 available for the implementation, execution or administra20 tion of programs, the obligations for which are in excess 

21 of $19,000,000, of which $13,000,000 shall be made avail22 able for the use of border facilities and $6,000,000 shall 

23 be made available for information technology moderniza24 tion efforts: Provided further, That of the $19,000,000 of 

25 unobligated contract authority provided in the Transpor-
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1 tation Equity Act for the 21st Century (Public Law 105– 

2 178) or other appropriation or authorization acts for the 

3 national motor carrier safety program, $13,000,000 shall 

4 be made available for the use of border facilities and 

5 $6,000,000 shall be made available for information tech6 nology and data analysis activities. 

7 MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY GRANTS

8 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

9 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

10 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

11 For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 

12 sections 31102, 31104(a), 31106, 31107, 31109, 31309, 

13 31313 of title 49, United States Code, and sections 4126 

14 and 4128 of Public Law 109–59, as amended by Public 

15 Law 112–141, $317,000,000, to be derived from the 

16 Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Ac17 count) and to remain available until expended: Provided, 

18 That funds available for the implementation or execution 

19 of motor carrier safety programs shall not exceed total ob20 ligations of $317,000,000 in fiscal year 2014 for ‘‘Motor 

21 Carrier Safety Grants’’; of which $222,000,000 shall be 

22 available for the motor carrier safety assistance program, 

23 $30,000,000 shall be available for the commercial driver’s 

24 license improvements program, $32,000,000 shall be avail25 able for border enforcement grants, $5,000,000 shall be 
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1 available for the performance and registration information 

2 system management program, $25,000,000 shall be avail3 able for the commercial vehicle information systems and 

4 networks deployment program, and $3,000,000 shall be 

5 available for the safety data improvement program: Pro6 vided further, That, of the funds made available herein for 

7 the motor carrier assistance program, $36,000,000 shall 

8 be available for audits of new entrant motor carriers. 

9 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER

10 SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

11 SEC. 130. Funds appropriated or limited in this Act 

12 shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in 

13 section 350 of Public Law 107–87 and section 6901 of 

14 Public Law 110–28. 

15 SEC. 131. Section 4144(d) of Public Law 109–59 is 

16 amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2013’’ and replacing 

17 with ‘‘September 30, 2014’’. 

18 SEC. 132. Section 4138 of Public Law 109–59 is 

19 amended by striking ‘‘category A or B’’ and inserting 

20 ‘‘high-risk’’. 

21 NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

22 OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH

23 For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of 

24 the Secretary, with respect to traffic and highway safety 

25 authorized under chapter 301 and part C of subtitle VI 
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1 of title 49, United States Code, $148,343,000, of which 

2 $20,000,000 shall remain available through September 

3 30, 2015. 

4 OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH

5 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

6 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

7 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

8 For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 

9 the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 

10 49, United States Code, $138,500,000, to be derived from 

11 the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 

12 Account) and to remain available until expended: Pro13 vided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available 

14 for the planning or execution of programs the total obliga15 tions for which, in fiscal year 2014, are in excess of 

16 $138,500,000, of which $133,500,000 shall be for pro17 grams authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403 and $5,000,000 

18 shall be for the National Driver Register authorized under 

19 and chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code: Provided 

20 further, That within the $133,500,000 obligation limita21 tion for operations and research, $20,000,000 shall re22 main available until September 30, 2015 and shall be in 

23 addition to the amount of any limitation imposed on obli24 gations for future years: Provided further, That 

25 $20,000,000 of the total obligation limitation for oper-
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1 ations and research in fiscal year 2014 shall be applied 

2 toward unobligated balances of contract authority pro3 vided in prior Acts for carrying out the provisions of 23 

4 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 49, United States 

5 Code. 

6 HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY GRANTS

7 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)

8 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

9 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

10 For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 

11 the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 402 and 405, section 2009 

12 of Public Law 109–59 as amended by Public Law 112– 

13 141, and section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112–141, to 

14 remain available until expended, $561,500,000 to be de15 rived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass 

16 Transit Account): Provided, That none of the funds in this 

17 Act shall be available for the planning or execution of pro18 grams the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 2014, 

19 are in excess of $561,500,000 for programs authorized 

20 under 23 U.S.C. 402 and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 

21 109–59 as amended by Public Law 112–141, and section 

22 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112–141, of which 

23 $235,000,000 shall be for ‘‘Highway Safety Programs’’ 

24 under 23 U.S.C. 402; $272,000,000 shall be for ‘‘National 

25 Priority Safety Programs’’ under 23 U.S.C. 405; 
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1 $29,000,000 shall be for the ‘‘High Visibility Enforcement 

2 Program’’ under section 2009 of Public Law 109–59 as 

3 amended by Public Law 112–141; $25,500,000 shall be 

4 for ‘‘Administrative Expenses’’ under section 31101(a)(6) 

5 of Public Law 112–141: Provided further, That none of 

6 these funds shall be used for construction, rehabilitation, 

7 or remodeling costs, or for office furnishings and fixtures 

8 for State, local or private buildings or structures: Provided 

9 further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the funds made 

10 available for ‘‘National Priority Safety Programs’’ under 

11 23 U.S.C. 405 for ‘‘Impaired Driving Countermeasures’’ 

12 (as described in subsection (d) of that section) shall be 

13 available for technical assistance to the States: Provided 

14 further, That with respect to the ‘‘Transfers’’ provision 

15 under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G), any amounts transferred 

16 to increase the amounts made available under section 402 

17 shall include the obligation authority for such amounts: 

18 Provided further, That the Administrator shall notify the 

19 House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of any 

20 exercise of the authority granted under the previous pro21 viso or under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G) within 60 days. 

22 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—NATIONAL HIGHWAY

23 TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION

24 SEC. 140. An additional $130,000 shall be made 

25 available to the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis-
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1 tration, out of the amount limited for section 402 of title 

2 23, United States Code, to pay for travel and related ex3 penses for State management reviews and to pay for core 

4 competency development training and related expenses for 

5 highway safety staff. 

6 SEC. 141. The limitations on obligations for the pro7 grams of the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis8 tration set in this Act shall not apply to obligations for 

9 which obligation authority was made available in previous 

10 public laws but only to the extent that the obligation au11 thority has not lapsed or been used. 

12 SEC. 142. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 

13 to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code. 

14 FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION

15 SAFETY AND OPERATIONS

16 For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Ad17 ministration, not otherwise provided for, $184,500,000, of 

18 which $12,400,000 shall remain available until expended. 

19 RAILROAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

20 For necessary expenses for railroad research and de21 velopment, $35,250,000, to remain available until ex22 pended. 
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1 RAILROAD REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT

2 FINANCING PROGRAM

3 The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to 

4 issue direct loans and loan guarantees pursuant to sec5 tions 501 through 504 of the Railroad Revitalization and 

6 Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–210), as 

7 amended, such authority to exist as long as any such di8 rect loan or loan guarantee is outstanding: Provided, That, 

9 pursuant to section 502 of such Act, as amended, no new 

10 direct loans or loan guarantee commitments shall be made 

11 using Federal funds for the credit risk premium during 

12 fiscal year 2014. 

13 GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER

14 CORPORATION

15 To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make 

16 grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation as 

17 authorized by the Passenger Rail Investment and Im18 provement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110– 

19 432, hereafter referred to as ‘‘such law’’ for purposes of 

20 this heading), $1,452,000,000 to remain available until 

21 expended: Provided, That of the amounts available under 

22 this heading, up to $199,000,000 shall be for debt service 

23 obligations, up to $390,000,000 shall be for the operation 

24 of intercity passenger rail, and not less than $75,000,000 

25 shall be made available to bring Amtrak served facilities 
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1 and stations into compliance with the Americans with Dis2 abilities Act: Provided further, That after an initial dis3 tribution of up to $200,000,000, which shall be used by 

4 Amtrak as a working capital account, all remaining capital 

5 and debt service funds shall be provided only on a reim6 bursable basis: Provided further, That funding for the op7 eration of intercity passenger rail, as authorized by section 

8 101 of such law, shall be distributed no more frequently 

9 than quarterly: Provided further, That the Secretary may 

10 retain up to one-half of 1 percent of the funds provided 

11 under this heading to fund the costs of project manage12 ment and oversight of activities authorized by subsections 

13 101(a) and 101(c) of such law: Provided further, That in 

14 addition to the project management oversight funds au15 thorized under section 101(d) of such law, the Secretary 

16 may retain up to an additional one-half of 1 percent of 

17 the funds provided under this heading to fund expenses 

18 associated with section 24905 of title 49, United States 

19 Code: Provided further, That not later than 60 days after 

20 the date of enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall 

21 transmit, in electronic format, to the House and Senate 

22 Committees on Appropriations a business plan and 5-year 

23 Financial Plan for fiscal year 2014 as required under sec24 tion 204 of such law. 
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1 CAPITAL ASSISTANCE FOR NATIONAL HIGH

2 PERFORMANCE PASSENGER RAIL SERVICE

3 To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make 

4 grants for projects that solely improve existing passenger 

5 rail corridor services as authorized under sections 24402, 

6 and 24105 of title 49, United States Code, $100,000,000, 

7 to remain available until expended: Provided, That up to 

8 $20,000,000 of the funds provided under this paragraph 

9 may be used for planning activities that lead directly to 

10 the development of a passenger rail corridor investment 

11 plan consistent with the requirements established by the 

12 Administrator or a state rail plan consistent with chapter 

13 227 of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That 

14 the Secretary may retain a portion of the funds made 

15 available for planning activities under the previous proviso 

16 to facilitate the preparation of a service development plan 

17 and related environmental impact statement for high per18 formance rail corridors located in multiple States: Pro19 vided further, That the Secretary shall issue a notice of 

20 funding availability that shall provide interim guidance to 

21 applicants covering application procedures and administer 

22 the grants provided under this heading pursuant to that 

23 guidance: Provided further, That the Federal share pay24 able of the costs for which a grant or cooperative agree25 ments is made under this heading shall not exceed 80 per-
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1 cent: Provided further, That a project need not be in a 

2 State rail plan developed under Chapter 227 of title 49, 

3 United States Code, to be eligible for assistance under this 

4 heading: Provided further, That up to 2 percent of the 

5 funds provided under this heading are available to the Ad6 ministrator of the Federal Railroad Administration to 

7 fund the award and oversight by the Administrator of 

8 grants and cooperative agreements made under this head9 ing: Provided further, That recipients of grants under this 

10 paragraph shall conduct all procurement transactions 

11 using such grant funds in a manner that provides full and 

12 open competition, as determined by the Secretary, in com13 pliance with existing labor agreements. 

14 NEXT GENERATION HIGH SPEED RAIL

15 (RESCISSION)

16 Of the funds made available for Next Generation 

17 High Speed Rail, as authorized by sections 1103 and 7201 

18 of Public Law 105–178, $1,973,000 are hereby perma19 nently rescinded. 

20 NORTHEAST CORRIDOR IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

21 (RESCISSION)

22 Of the funds made available for the Northeast Cor23 ridor Improvement Program, as authorized by Public Law 

24 94–210, $4,419,000 are hereby permanently rescinded. 
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1 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL RAILROAD

2 ADMINISTRATION

3 SEC. 150. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other pro4 vision of law, funds provided in this Act for the National 

5 Railroad Passenger Corporation shall immediately cease 

6 to be available to said Corporation in the event that the 

7 Corporation contracts to have services provided at or from 

8 any location outside the United States. For purposes of 

9 this section, the word ‘‘services’’ shall mean any service 

10 that was, as of July 1, 2006, performed by a full-time 

11 or part-time Amtrak employee whose base of employment 

12 is located within the United States. 

13 SEC. 151. The Secretary of Transportation may re14 ceive and expend cash, or receive and utilize spare parts 

15 and similar items, from non-United States Government 

16 sources to repair damages to or replace United States 

17 Government owned automated track inspection cars and 

18 equipment as a result of third-party liability for such dam19 ages, and any amounts collected under this section shall 

20 be credited directly to the Safety and Operations account 

21 of the Federal Railroad Administration, and shall remain 

22 available until expended for the repair, operation and 

23 maintenance of automated track inspection cars and 

24 equipment in connection with the automated track inspec25 tion program. 
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1 SEC. 152. None of the funds provided to the National 

2 Railroad Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any 

3 overtime costs in excess of $35,000 for any individual em4 ployee: Provided, That the president of Amtrak may waive 

5 the cap set in the previous proviso for specific employees 

6 when the president of Amtrak determines such a cap poses 

7 a risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the sys8 tem: Provided further, That Amtrak shall notify the House 

9 and Senate Committees on Appropriations quarterly of 

10 any waivers to such cap and delineate the reasons for 

11 granting such waiver. 

12 SEC. 153. The amounts available to the National 

13 Railroad Passenger Corporation for the operation of inter14 city passenger rail shall be available for distribution by 

15 the Secretary only after receiving and reviewing a grant 

16 request for each specific train route accompanied by a de17 tailed financial analysis, revenue projection, and capital 

18 asset plan justifying the Federal support to the Sec19 retary’s satisfaction. 

20 SEC. 154. Of the funds made available under Public 

21 Law 113–2 under the heading ‘‘Federal Railroad Adminis22 tration, Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Cor23 poration’’, the second proviso is amended by deleting ‘‘or 

24 any other Act’’. 
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1 FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION

2 ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

3 For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal 

4 Transit Administration’s programs authorized by chapter 

5 53 of title 49, United States Code, $109,888,000, of which 

6 not less than $5,000,000 shall be available to carry out 

7 the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5329 and not less than 

8 $1,000,000 shall be available to carry out the provisions 

9 of 49 U.S.C. 5326: Provided, That upon submission to the 

10 Congress of the fiscal year 2015 President’s budget, the 

11 Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress 

12 the annual report on Capital Investment Grants, including 

13 proposed allocations of funds for fiscal year 2015. 

14 FORMULA GRANTS

15 (LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORITY)

16 (LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS)

17 (HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)

18 For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 

19 the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 

20 5318, 5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, 

21 as amended by Public Law 112–141, and 20005(b) of 

22 Public Law 112–141, $9,500,000,000, to be derived from 

23 the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund 

24 and to remain available until expended: Provided, That 

25 funds available for the implementation or execution of pro-
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1 grams authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 

2 5311, 5318, 5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 

3 5340, as amended by Public Law 112–141, and 20005(b) 

4 of Public Law 112–141, shall not exceed total obligations 

5 of $8,595,000,000 in fiscal year 2014. 

6 TRANSIT RESEARCH PROGRAMS

7 For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5312, 

8 5313, 5314, and 5322(a), (b) and (e), $55,300,000, to 

9 remain available until September 30, 2015: Provided, 

10 That not less than $43,300,000 shall be for activities au11 thorized under 49 U.S.C. 5312; Provided further, That the 

12 Federal share for contracts and cooperative agreements 

13 under the program referred to in the previous proviso may 

14 be up to 100 percent. 

15 CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS

16 For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5309, 

17 $1,942,938,000, to remain available until expended. 

18 GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA

19 TRANSIT AUTHORITY

20 For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area 

21 Transit Authority as authorized under section 601 of divi22 sion B of Public Law 110–432, $150,000,000, to remain 

23 available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary 

24 shall approve grants for capital and preventive mainte25 nance expenditures for the Washington Metropolitan Area 
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1 Transit Authority only after receiving and reviewing a re2 quest for each specific project: Provided further, That 

3 prior to approving such grants, the Secretary shall deter4 mine that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Au5 thority has placed the highest priority on those invest6 ments that will improve the safety of the system: Provided 

7 further, That the Secretary, to ensure safety throughout 

8 the rail system, may waive the requirements of section 

9 601(e)(1)(B) of Public Law 110–432 for fiscal years 2014 

10 and 2015. 

11 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION EMERGENCY RELIEF PROGRAM

12 For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5324, 

13 $15,000,000, to remain available until expended. 

14 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL TRANSIT

15 ADMINISTRATION

16 (INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)

17 SEC. 160. The limitations on obligations for the pro18 grams of the Federal Transit Administration shall not 

19 apply to any authority under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously 

20 made available for obligation, or to any other authority 

21 previously made available for obligation. 

22 SEC. 161. Funds appropriated or limited by this Act 

23 under the heading ‘‘Fixed Guideway Capital Investment’’ 

24 of the Federal Transit Administration for projects speci25 fied in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this 
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1 Act not obligated by September 30, 2018, and other recov2 eries, may be directed to any project eligible under 49 

3 U.S.C. 5309. 

4 SEC. 162. Any funds appropriated before October 1, 

5 2013, under any section of chapter 53 of title 49, United 

6 States Code, that remain available for expenditure, may 

7 be transferred to and administered under the most recent 

8 appropriation heading for any such section. 

9 SEC. 163. Hereafter, the Secretary may not enforce 

10 regulations related to charter bus service under part 604 

11 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, for any transit 

12 agency who during fiscal year 2008 was both initially 

13 granted a 60-day period to come into compliance with part 

14 604, and then was subsequently granted an exception from 

15 said part. 

16 SEC. 164. For purposes of applying the project jus17 tification and local financial commitment criteria of 49 

18 U.S.C. 5309(d) to a New Starts project, the Secretary 

19 may consider the costs and ridership of any connected 

20 project in an instance in which private parties are making 

21 significant financial contributions to the construction of 

22 the connected project; additionally, the Secretary may con23 sider the significant financial contributions of private par24 ties to the connected project in calculating the non-Federal 
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1 share of net capital project costs for the New Starts 

2 project. 

3 SEC. 165. Unobligated and recovered fiscal year 2010 

4 through 2012 funds that were made available to carry out 

5 49 U.S.C. 5339 shall be available to carry out 49 U.S.C. 

6 5309, as amended by Public Law 112–141, subject to the 

7 terms and conditions required under such section. 

8 SEC. 166. New bus rapid transit projects rec9 ommended in the President’s budget submission to the 

10 Congress of the United States for funds appropriated 

11 under the heading ‘‘CAPITAL INVESTMENT GRANTS’’ in 

12 this Act shall be funded from $93,269,369 in unobligated 

13 amounts that were made available to carry out the discre14 tionary bus and bus facilities program under 49 U.S.C. 

15 5309 in fiscal years 1999 through 2010: Provided, That 

16 all such projects shall remain subject to the Capital In17 vestment Grants Program requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

18 5309 for New Starts, Small Starts, or Core Capacity 

19 projects as applicable. 

20 SEC. 167. Of the funds made available for the For21 mula Grants program, as authorized by Public Law 97– 

22 424, as amended, $63,465,775 are hereby permanently re23 scinded: Provided, That of the funds made available for 

24 the Formula Grants program, as authorized by Public 

25 Law 91–453, as amended, $795,307 are hereby perma-
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1 nently rescinded: Provided further, That of the funds made 

2 available for the Formula Grants program as authorized 

3 by Public Law 95–599, as amended, $928,838 are hereby 

4 permanently rescinded: Provided further, That of the 

5 funds made available for the University Transportation 

6 Research program, as authorized by Public Law 91–453, 

7 as amended, and by Public Law 102–240, as amended, 

8 $511,130 are hereby permanently rescinded: Provided fur9 ther, That of the funds made available for the Job Access 

10 and Reverse Commute program, as authorized by Public 

11 Law 105–178, as amended, $14,989,839 are hereby per12 manently rescinded: Provided further, That of the funds 

13 made available for the Capital Investment Grants pro14 gram, as authorized by Public Law 105–178, as amended, 

15 $11,429,055 are hereby permanently rescinded: Provided 

16 further, That of the funds made available for the Research, 

17 Training, and Human Resources program, as authorized 

18 by Public Law 95–599, as amended, $247,579 are hereby 

19 permanently rescinded: Provided further, That of the 

20 funds made available for the Interstate Transfer Grants 

21 program, as authorized by 23 U.S.C. 103(e)(4), 

22 $2,687,207 are hereby permanently rescinded: Provided 

23 further, That of the funds made available for the Wash24 ington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, as authorized 

25 by section 14 of Public Law 96–184, as amended, and 
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1 by Public Law 101–551, as amended, $523,107 are here2 by permanently rescinded: Provided further, That of the 

3 funds made available for the Urban Discretionary Grants 

4 program, as authorized by Public Law 88–365, as amend5 ed, $578,353 are hereby permanently rescinded: Provided 

6 further, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 

7 that were designated by the Congress as an emergency re8 quirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 

9 budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 

10 Control Act of 1985, as amended. 

11 SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT

12 CORPORATION

13 The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corpora14 tion is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, with15 in the limits of funds and borrowing authority available 

16 to the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make 

17 such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal 

18 year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Govern19 ment Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be 

20 necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the 

21 Corporation’s budget for the current fiscal year. 

22 OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

23 (HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND)

24 For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, 

25 maintenance, and capital asset renewal activities of those 
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1 portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway owned, operated, and 

2 maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 

3 Corporation, $33,000,000, to be derived from the Harbor 

4 Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99– 

5 662. 

6 MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

7 MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM

8 For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a 

9 U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security 

10 needs of the United States, $186,000,000, to remain avail11 able until expended. 

12 OPERATIONS AND TRAINING

13 For necessary expenses of operations and training ac14 tivities authorized by law, $153,803,000, of which 

15 $11,100,000 shall remain available until expended for 

16 maintenance and repair of training ships at State Mari17 time Academies, and of which $2,400,000 shall remain 

18 available through September 30, 2015 for Student Incen19 tive Program payments at State Maritime Academies, and 

20 of which $18,000,000 shall remain available until ex21 pended for facilities maintenance and repair, equipment, 

22 and capital improvements at the United State Merchant 

23 Marine Academy: Provided, That amounts apportioned for 

24 the United States Merchant Marine Academy shall be 

25 available only upon allotments made personally by the Sec-
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1 retary of Transportation or the Assistant Secretary for 

2 Budget and Programs: Provided further, That the Super3 intendent, Deputy Superintendent and the Director of the 

4 Office of Resource Management of the United State Mer5 chant Marine Academy may not be allotment holders for 

6 the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and the Ad7 ministrator of the Maritime Administration shall hold all 

8 allotments made by the Secretary of Transportation or the 

9 Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs under the 

10 previous proviso: Provided further, That 50 percent of the 

11 funding made available for the United States Merchant 

12 Marine Academy under this heading shall be available only 

13 after the Secretary, in consultation with the Super14 intendent and the Maritime Administrator, completes a 

15 plan detailing by program or activity how such funding 

16 will be expended at the Academy, and this plan is sub17 mitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appro18 priations: Provided further, That the Committee directs 

19 the Administrator to submit a report to the Appropria20 tions Committee within 90 days of the date of enactment 

21 of this Act detailing the current and future impacts of re22 ductions in government impelled cargo on the U.S. Mer23 chant Marine as a result of changes to cargo preference 

24 requirements included in the Moving Ahead for Progress 

25 in the 21st Century Act (MAP–21), the historical reduc-
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1 tions in the Public Law 480 Food for Peace program, and 

2 the winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: 

3 Provided further, That the Committee also directs the Sec4 retary of Transportation and the Administrator, in col5 laboration with the Department of Defense, to further de6 velop a national sealift strategy that ensures the long-term 

7 viability of the U.S. Merchant Marine. 

8 SHIP DISPOSAL

9 For necessary expenses related to the disposal of ob10 solete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the 

11 Maritime Administration, $4,800,000, to remain available 

12 until expended. 

13 ASSISTANCE TO SMALL SHIPYARDS

14 To make grants to qualified shipyards as authorized 

15 under section 3508 of Public Law 110–417 or section 

16 54101 of title 46, United States Code, $10,000,000, to 

17 remain available until expended: Provided, That to be con18 sidered for assistance, a qualified shipyard shall submit 

19 an application for assistance no later than 60 days after 

20 enactment of this Act: Provided further, That from appli21 cations submitted under the previous proviso, the Sec22 retary of Transportation shall make grants no later than 

23 120 days after enactment of this Act in such amounts as 

24 the Secretary determines. 
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1 MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) PROGRAM

2 ACCOUNT

3 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

4 For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized, 

5 $38,500,000, of which $35,000,000 shall remain available 

6 until expended: Provided, That such costs, including the 

7 cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 

8 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amend9 ed: Provided further, That not to exceed $3,500,000 shall 

10 be available for administrative expenses to carry out the 

11 guaranteed loan program, which shall be transferred to 

12 and merged with the appropriations for ‘‘Operations and 

13 Training’’, Maritime Administration. 

14 ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—MARITIME

15 ADMINISTRATION

16 SEC. 170. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

17 this Act, the Maritime Administration is authorized to fur18 nish utilities and services and make necessary repairs in 

19 connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving 

20 Government property under control of the Maritime Ad21 ministration, and payments received therefor shall be cred22 ited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof: 

23 Provided, That rental payments under any such lease, con24 tract, or occupancy for items other than such utilities, 
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1 services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as 

2 miscellaneous receipts. 

3 PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY

4 ADMINISTRATION

5 OPERATIONAL EXPENSES

6 (PIPELINE SAFETY FUND)

7 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

8 For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline 

9 and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 

10 $21,654,000, of which $639,000 shall be derived from the 

11 Pipeline Safety Fund: Provided, That $1,500,000 shall be 

12 transferred to ‘‘Pipeline Safety’’ in order to fund ‘‘Pipeline 

13 Safety Information Grants to Communities’’ as authorized 

14 under section 60130 of title 49, United States Code. 

15 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY

16 For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous 

17 materials safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous 

18 Materials Safety Administration, $45,000,000, of which 

19 $2,300,000 shall remain available until September 30, 

20 2016: Provided, That up to $800,000 in fees collected 

21 under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in the general 

22 fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided fur23 ther, That there may be credited to this appropriation, to 

24 be available until expended, funds received from States, 

25 counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and pri-
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1 vate sources for expenses incurred for training, for reports 

2 publication and dissemination, and for travel incurred in 

3 performance of hazardous materials exemptions and ap4 provals functions. 

5 PIPELINE SAFETY

6 (PIPELINE SAFETY FUND)

7 (OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND)

8 (PIPELINE SAFETY DESIGN REVIEW FUND)

9 For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of 

10 the pipeline safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out 

11 a pipeline safety program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 

12 60107, and to discharge the pipeline program responsibil13 ities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $151,427,000, of 

14 which $18,573,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Li15 ability Trust Fund and shall remain available until Sep16 tember 30, 2016; and of which $130,854,000 shall be de17 rived from the Pipeline Safety Fund, of which 

18 $82,569,000 shall remain available until September 30, 

19 2016; and of which $2,000,000, to remain available until 

20 expended, shall be derived as provided in this Act from 

21 the Pipeline Safety Design Review Fund, as established 

22 in the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Cre23 ation Act of 2011 (Public Law 112–90). 
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1 EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS

2 (EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND)

3 For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 

4 5128(b), $188,000, to be derived from the Emergency 

5 Preparedness Fund, to remain available until September 

6 30, 2015: Provided, That not more than $28,318,000 shall 

7 be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2014 from 

8 amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i) and 

9 5128(b)–(c): Provided further, That none of the funds 

10 made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5128(b), or 5128(c) 

11 shall be made available for obligation by individuals other 

12 than the Secretary of Transportation, or his designee. 

13 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

14 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

15 For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 

16 General to carry out the provisions of the Inspector Gen17 eral Act of 1978, as amended, $86,605,000: Provided, 

18 That the Inspector General shall have all necessary au19 thority, in carrying out the duties specified in the Inspec20 tor General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to inves21 tigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to 

22 the government (18 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity 

23 that is subject to regulation by the Department: Provided 

24 further, That the funds made available under this heading 

25 may be used to investigate, pursuant to section 41712 of 
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1 title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or deceptive prac2 tices and unfair methods of competition by domestic and 

3 foreign air carriers and ticket agents; and (2) the compli4 ance of domestic and foreign air carriers with respect to 

5 item (1) of this proviso: Provided further, That hereafter 

6 funds transferred to the Office of the Inspector General 

7 through forfeiture proceedings or from the Department of 

8 Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund or the Department of the 

9 Treasury Forfeiture Fund, as a participating agency, as 

10 an equitable share from the forfeiture of property in inves11 tigations in which the Office of Inspector General partici12 pates, or through the granting of a Petition for Remission 

13 or Mitigation, shall be deposited to the credit of this ac14 count for law enforcement activities authorized under the 

15 Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, to remain 

16 available until expended. 

17 SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD

18 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

19 For necessary expenses of the Surface Transpor20 tation Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 

21 3109, $32,250,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 

22 other provision of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees 

23 established by the Chairman of the Surface Transpor24 tation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as off25 setting collections and used for necessary and authorized 
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1 expenses under this heading: Provided further, That the 

2 sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be 

3 reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting col4 lections are received during fiscal year 2013, to result in 

5 a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at 

6 no more than $31,000,000. 

7 GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF

8 TRANSPORTATION

9 SEC. 180. During the current fiscal year, applicable 

10 appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall 

11 be available for maintenance and operation of aircraft; 

12 hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; purchase of 

13 liability insurance for motor vehicles operating in foreign 

14 countries on official department business; and uniforms or 

15 allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901– 

16 5902). 

17 SEC. 181. Appropriations contained in this Act for 

18 the Department of Transportation shall be available for 

19 services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for 

20 individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to 

21 the rate for an Executive Level IV. 

22 SEC. 182. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail23 able for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political 

24 and Presidential appointees in the Department of Trans25 portation: Provided, That none of the personnel covered 
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1 by this provision may be assigned on temporary detail out2 side the Department of Transportation. 

3 SEC. 183. (a) No recipient of funds made available 

4 in this Act shall disseminate personal information (as de5 fined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(3)) obtained by a State depart6 ment of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle 

7 record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as provided 

8 in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 

9 2721. 

10 (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary 

11 shall not withhold funds provided in this Act for any 

12 grantee if a State is in noncompliance with this provision. 

13 SEC. 184. Funds received by the Federal Highway 

14 Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Fed15 eral Railroad Administration from States, counties, mu16 nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources 

17 for expenses incurred for training may be credited respec18 tively to the Federal Highway Administration’s ‘‘Federal19 Aid Highways’’ account, the Federal Transit Administra20 tion’s ‘‘Transit Research Programs’’ account, and to the 

21 Federal Railroad Administration’s ‘‘Safety and Oper22 ations’’ account, except for State rail safety inspectors 

23 participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 20105. 

24 SEC. 185. None of the funds in this Act to the De25 partment of Transportation may be used to make a grant 
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1 unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the House 

2 and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 

3 3 full business days before any project competitively se4 lected to receive a discretionary grant award, any discre5 tionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant 

6 agreement is announced by the department or its modal 

7 administrations from: 

8 (1) any discretionary grant program of the Fed9 eral Highway Administration including the emer10 gency relief program; 

11 (2) the airport improvement program of the 

12 Federal Aviation Administration; 

13 (3) any program of the Federal Railroad Ad14 ministration; 

15 (4) any program of the Federal Transit Admin16 istration other than the formula grants and fixed 

17 guideway modernization programs; or 

18 (5) any funding provided under the headings 

19 ‘‘National Infrastructure Investments’’ and ‘‘Assist20 ance to Small Shipyards’’ in this Act: Provided, 

21 That the Secretary gives concurrent notification to 

22 the House and Senate Committees on Appropria23 tions for any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds from the 

24 emergency relief program: Provided further, That no 
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1 notification shall involve funds that are not available 

2 for obligation. 

3 SEC. 186. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, 

4 minor fees and other funds received by the Department 

5 of Transportation from travel management centers, 

6 charge card programs, the subleasing of building space, 

7 and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropria8 tions of the Department of Transportation and allocated 

9 to elements of the Department of Transportation using 

10 fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be avail11 able until expended. 

12 SEC. 187. Amounts made available in this or any 

13 other Act that the Secretary determines represent im14 proper payments by the Department of Transportation to 

15 a third-party contractor under a financial assistance 

16 award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall be avail17 able— 

18 (1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred 

19 by the Department of Transportation in recovering 

20 improper payments; and 

21 (2) to pay contractors for services provided in 

22 recovering improper payments or contractor support 

23 in the implementation of the Improper Payments In24 formation Act of 2002: Provided, That amounts in 

25 excess of that required for paragraphs (1) and (2)— 
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1 (A) shall be credited to and merged with 

2 the appropriation from which the improper pay3 ments were made, and shall be available for the 

4 purposes and period for which such appropria5 tions are available: Provided further, That 

6 where specific project or accounting information 

7 associated with the improper payment or pay8 ments is not readily available, the Secretary 

9 may credit an appropriate account, which shall 

10 be available for the purposes and period associ11 ated with the account so credited; or 

12 (B) if no such appropriation remains avail13 able, shall be deposited in the Treasury as mis14 cellaneous receipts: Provided further, That prior 

15 to the transfer of any such recovery to an ap16 propriations account, the Secretary shall notify 

17 the House and Senate Committees on Appro18 priations of the amount and reasons for such 

19 transfer: Provided further, That for purposes of 

20 this section, the term ‘‘improper payments’’ has 

21 the same meaning as that provided in section 

22 2(d)(2) of Public Law 107–300. 

23 SEC. 188. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

24 law, if any funds provided in or limited by this Act are 

25 subject to a reprogramming action that requires notice to 
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1 be provided to the House and Senate Committees on Ap2 propriations, transmission of said reprogramming notice 

3 shall be provided solely to the Committees on Appropria4 tions, and said reprogramming action shall be approved 

5 or denied solely by the Committees on Appropriations: 

6 Provided, That the Secretary may provide notice to other 

7 congressional committees of the action of the Committees 

8 on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not sooner 

9 than 30 days following the date on which the reprogram10 ming action has been approved or denied by the House 

11 and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 

12 SEC. 189. None of the funds appropriated or other13 wise made available under this Act may be used by the 

14 Surface Transportation Board of the Department of 

15 Transportation to charge or collect any filing fee for rate 

16 or practice complaints filed with the Board in an amount 

17 in excess of the amount authorized for district court civil 

18 suit filing fees under section 1914 of title 28, United 

19 States Code. 

20 SEC. 190. Funds appropriated in this Act to the 

21 modal administrations may be obligated for the Office of 

22 the Secretary for the costs related to assessments or reim23 bursable agreements only when such amounts are for the 

24 costs of goods and services that are purchased to provide 
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1 a direct benefit to the applicable modal administration or 

2 administrations. 

3 SEC. 191. The Secretary of Transportation is author4 ized to carry out a program that establishes uniform 

5 standards for developing and supporting agency transit 

6 pass and transit benefits authorized under section 7905 

7 of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of 

8 transit benefits by various paper and electronic media. 

9 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans10 portation Appropriations Act, 2014’’. 

11 TITLE II 

12 DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 

13 DEVELOPMENT 

14 MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION

15 ADMINISTRATION, OPERATIONS, AND MANAGEMENT

16 For necessary salaries and expenses for administra17 tion, management and operations of the Department of 

18 Housing and Urban Development, $521,375,000, of which 

19 not to exceed $3,810,000 shall be available for the imme20 diate Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $1,290,000 

21 shall be available for the Office of the Deputy Secretary; 

22 not to exceed $1,760,000 shall be available for the Office 

23 of Adjudicatory Services; not to exceed $745,000 shall be 

24 available for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Busi25 ness Utilization; not to exceed $48,300,000 shall be avail-
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1 able for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; not to 

2 exceed $94,510,000 shall be available for the Office of the 

3 General Counsel; not to exceed $2,410,000 shall be avail4 able for the Office of Congressional and Intergovern5 mental Relations; not to exceed $3,530,000 shall be avail6 able for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 

7 $51,810,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 

8 Human Capital Officer; not to exceed $193,600,000 shall 

9 be available for the Office of Administration; not to exceed 

10 $52,700,000 shall be available for the Office of Field Pol11 icy and Management; not to exceed $17,360,000 shall be 

12 available for the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer; 

13 not to exceed $3,150,000 shall be available for the Office 

14 of Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; not to 

15 exceed $1,400,000 shall be available for the Center for 

16 Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships; not to ex17 ceed $5,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Stra18 tegic Planning and Management; and not to exceed 

19 $40,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 

20 Information Officer: Provided, That funds provided under 

21 this heading may be used for necessary administrative and 

22 non-administrative expenses of the Department of Hous23 ing and Urban Development, not otherwise provided for, 

24 including purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefore, 

25 as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger 
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1 motor vehicles; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109: 

2 Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi3 sion of law, funds appropriated under this heading may 

4 be used for advertising and promotional activities that 

5 support the housing mission area: Provided further, That 

6 the Secretary shall provide the Committees on Appropria7 tions quarterly written notification regarding the status 

8 of pending congressional reports: Provided further, That 

9 the Secretary shall provide all signed reports required by 

10 Congress electronically: Provided further, That not to ex11 ceed $25,000 of the amount made available under this 

12 paragraph for the immediate Office of the Secretary shall 

13 be available for official reception and representation ex14 penses as the Secretary may determine. 

15 PROGRAM OFFICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES

16 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING

17 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

18 Public and Indian Housing, $212,000,000. 

19 COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

20 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

21 Community Planning and Development, $107,000,000. 

22 HOUSING

23 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

24 Housing, $390,000,000, of which at least $8,000,000 shall 

25 be for the Office of Risk and Regulatory Affairs. 
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1 POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH

2 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

3 Policy Development and Research, $23,000,000. 

4 FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

5 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

6 Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, $75,000,000. 

7 OFFICE OF HEALTHY HOMES AND LEAD HAZARD

8 CONTROL

9 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

10 Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, $7,642,000. 

11 PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING

12 RENTAL ASSISTANCE DEMONSTRATION

13 For continuing activities under the heading ‘‘Rental 

14 Assistance Demonstration’’ in the Department of Housing 

15 and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public 

16 Law 112–55), and in accordance with guidance issued by 

17 the Secretary, $10,000,000, to remain available through 

18 September 30, 2017: Provided, That such funds shall only 

19 be available to properties converting from assistance under 

20 section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

21 U.S.C. 1437g). 

22 TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE

23 For activities and assistance for the provision of ten24 ant-based rental assistance authorized under the United 

25 States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 
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1 et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’ herein), not otherwise provided for, 

2 $15,592,216,000, to remain available until expended, shall 

3 be available on October 1, 2013 (in addition to the 

4 $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this head5 ing that became available on October 1, 2013), and 

6 $4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 

7 be available on October 1, 2014: Provided, That the 

8 amounts made available under this heading are provided 

9 as follows: 

10 (1) $17,568,278,000 shall be available for re11 newals of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual 

12 contributions contracts (including renewals of en13 hanced vouchers under any provision of law author14 izing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) 

15 and including renewal of other special purpose incre16 mental vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding 

17 any other provision of law, from amounts provided 

18 under this paragraph and any carryover, the Sec19 retary for the calendar year 2014 funding cycle shall 

20 provide renewal funding for each public housing 

21 agency based on validated voucher management sys22 tem (VMS) leasing and cost data for the prior cal23 endar year and by applying an inflation factor as es24 tablished by the Secretary, by notice published in 

25 the Federal Register, and by making any necessary 
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1 adjustments for the costs associated with the first2 time renewal of vouchers under this paragraph in3 cluding tenant protection and HOPE VI vouchers: 

4 Provided further, That in determining calendar year 

5 2014 funding allocation under this heading for pub6 lic housing agencies, including agencies participating 

7 in the Moving To Work (MTW) demonstration, the 

8 Secretary may take into account the anticipated im9 pact of changes in targeting and utility allowances, 

10 to public housing agencies’ contract renewal needs: 

11 Provided further, That none of the funds provided 

12 under this paragraph may be used to fund a total 

13 number of unit months under lease which exceeds a 

14 public housing agency’s authorized level of units 

15 under contract, except for public housing agencies 

16 participating in the Moving to Work (MTW) dem17 onstration, which are instead governed by the terms 

18 and conditions of their MTW agreements: Provided 

19 further, That the Secretary shall, to the extent nec20 essary to stay within the amount specified under this 

21 paragraph, pro rate each public housing agency’s al22 location otherwise established pursuant to this para23 graph: Provided further, That except as provided in 

24 the following provisos, the entire amount specified 

25 under this paragraph shall be obligated to the public 
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1 housing agencies based on the allocation and pro 

2 rata method described above, and the Secretary shall 

3 notify public housing agencies of their annual budget 

4 by the latter of 60 days after enactment of this Act 

5 or March 1, 2014: Provided further, That the Sec6 retary may extend the notification period with the 

7 prior written approval of the House and Senate 

8 Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 

9 That public housing agencies participating in the 

10 MTW demonstration shall be funded pursuant to 

11 their MTW agreements and shall be subject to the 

12 same pro rata adjustments under the previous pro13 visos: Provided further, That up to $50,000,000 

14 shall be available only: (1) for adjustments in the al15 locations for public housing agencies, after applica16 tion for an adjustment by a public housing agency 

17 that experienced a significant increase, as deter18 mined by the Secretary, in renewal costs of vouchers 

19 resulting from unforeseen circumstances or from 

20 portability under section 8(r) of the Act; (2) for 

21 vouchers that were not in use during the 12-month 

22 period in order to be available to meet a commit23 ment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the Act; (3) for 

24 adjustments for costs associated with HUD-Veterans 

25 Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD–VASH) vouch-
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1 ers; and (4) for public housing agencies that despite 

2 taking reasonable cost savings measures, as deter3 mined by the Secretary, would otherwise be required 

4 to terminate rental assistance for families as a result 

5 of insufficient funding: Provided further, That the 

6 Secretary shall allocate amounts under the previous 

7 proviso based on need, as determined by the Sec8 retary; 

9 (2) $150,000,000 shall be for section 8 rental 

10 assistance for relocation and replacement of housing 

11 units that are demolished or disposed of pursuant to 

12 section 18 of the Act, conversion of section 23 

13 projects to assistance under section 8, the family 

14 unification program under section 8(x) of the Act, 

15 relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts to 

16 combat crime in public and assisted housing pursu17 ant to a request from a law enforcement or prosecu18 tion agency, enhanced vouchers under any provision 

19 of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) 

20 of the Act, HOPE VI and Choice Neighborhood 

21 vouchers, mandatory and voluntary conversions, and 

22 tenant protection assistance including replacement 

23 and relocation assistance or for project-based assist24 ance to prevent the displacement of unassisted elder25 ly tenants currently residing in section 202 prop-
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1 erties financed between 1959 and 1974 that are refi2 nanced pursuant to Public Law 106–569, as amend3 ed, or under the authority as provided under this 

4 Act: Provided, That when a public housing develop5 ment is submitted for demolition or disposition 

6 under section 18 of the Act, the Secretary may pro7 vide section 8 rental assistance when the units pose 

8 an imminent health and safety risk to residents: 

9 Provided further, That the Secretary may only pro10 vide replacement vouchers for units that were occu11 pied within the previous 24 months that cease to be 

12 available as assisted housing, subject only to the 

13 availability of funds; 

14 (3) $1,685,374,000 shall be for administrative 

15 and other expenses of public housing agencies in ad16 ministering the section 8 tenant-based rental assist17 ance program, of which up to $15,000,000 shall be 

18 available to the Secretary to allocate to public hous19 ing agencies that need additional funds to admin20 ister their section 8 programs, including fees associ21 ated with section 8 tenant protection rental assist22 ance, the administration of disaster related vouchers, 

23 Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers, and 

24 other special purpose incremental vouchers: Pro25 vided, That no less than $1,670,374,000 of the 
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1 amount provided in this paragraph shall be allocated 

2 to public housing agencies for the calendar year 

3 2014 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act 

4 (and related Appropriation Act provisions) as in ef5 fect immediately before the enactment of the Quality 

6 Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (Pub7 lic Law 105–276): Provided further, That if the 

8 amounts made available under this paragraph are 

9 insufficient to pay the amounts determined under 

10 the previous proviso, the Secretary may decrease the 

11 amounts allocated to agencies by a uniform percent12 age applicable to all agencies receiving funding 

13 under this paragraph or may, to the extent nec14 essary to provide full payment of amounts deter15 mined under the previous proviso, utilize unobligated 

16 balances, including recaptures and carryovers, re17 maining from funds appropriated to the Department 

18 of Housing and Urban Development under this 

19 heading from prior fiscal years, notwithstanding the 

20 purposes for which such amounts were appropriated: 

21 Provided further, That all public housing agencies 

22 participating in the MTW demonstration shall be 

23 funded pursuant to their MTW agreements, and 

24 shall be subject to the same uniform percentage de25 crease as under the previous proviso: Provided fur-
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1 ther, That amounts provided under this paragraph 

2 shall be only for activities related to the provision of 

3 tenant-based rental assistance authorized under sec4 tion 8, including related development activities; 

5 (4) $110,564,000 for the renewal of tenant6 based assistance contracts under section 811 of the 

7 Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act 

8 (42 U.S.C. 8013), including necessary administra9 tive expenses; 

10 (5) $78,000,000 for incremental rental voucher 

11 assistance for use through a supported housing pro12 gram administered in conjunction with the Depart13 ment of Veterans Affairs as authorized under section 

14 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937: 

15 Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban 

16 Development shall make such funding available, not17 withstanding section 204 (competition provision) of 

18 this title, to public housing agencies that partner 

19 with eligible VA Medical Centers or other entities as 

20 designated by the Secretary of the Department of 

21 Veterans Affairs, based on geographical need for 

22 such assistance as identified by the Secretary of the 

23 Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing 

24 agency administrative performance, and other fac25 tors as specified by the Secretary of Housing and 
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1 Urban Development in consultation with the Sec2 retary of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Pro3 vided further, That the Secretary of Housing and 

4 Urban Development may waive, or specify alter5 native requirements for (in consultation with the 

6 Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs), 

7 any provision of any statute or regulation that the 

8 Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ad9 ministers in connection with the use of funds made 

10 available under this paragraph (except for require11 ments related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, 

12 labor standards, and the environment), upon a find13 ing by the Secretary that any such waivers or alter14 native requirements are necessary for the effective 

15 delivery and administration of such voucher assist16 ance: Provided further, That up to $3,000,000 of the 

17 amounts provided under this paragraph shall be for 

18 a rental assistance and supportive housing dem19 onstration program for Native American veterans 

20 that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness living 

21 on or near a reservation or other Indian areas: Pro22 vided further, That such demonstration program 

23 shall be modeled after, with necessary and appro24 priate adjustments for Native American grant recipi25 ents and veterans, the rental assistance and sup-
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1 portive housing program funded under this para2 graph, including administration in conjunction with 

3 the Department of Veterans Affairs and overall im4 plementation of section 8(o)(19) of the Act: Provided 

5 further, That amounts for rental assistance and as6 sociated administrative costs shall be made available 

7 by grants to recipients eligible to receive block 

8 grants under the Native American Housing Assist9 ance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 

10 § 4101 et seq.): Provided further, That funds shall be 

11 awarded based on need, administrative capacity, and 

12 any other funding criteria established by the Sec13 retary in a Notice published in the Federal Register 

14 after coordination with the Secretary of the Depart15 ment of Veterans Affairs within 180 days of enact16 ment of this Act: Provided further, That such rental 

17 assistance shall be administered by block grant re18 cipients in accordance with program requirements 

19 under the Native American Housing Assistance and 

20 Self-Determination Act of 1996: Provided further, 

21 That the second and third provisos under this para22 graph shall apply to use of funds made available for 

23 this demonstration, as appropriate: Provided further, 

24 That the Secretary, in coordination with the Sec25 retary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, shall 
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1 coordinate with block grant recipients and any other 

2 appropriate tribal organizations on the design of 

3 such demonstration and shall ensure the effective 

4 delivery of supportive services to Native American 

5 veterans that are homeless or at-risk of homeless6 ness eligible to receive assistance under this dem7 onstration: Provided further, That grant recipients 

8 shall report to the Secretary, as prescribed by the 

9 Secretary, utilization of such rental assistance pro10 vided under this demonstration: Provided further, 

11 That assistance made available under this paragraph 

12 shall continue to remain available for homeless vet13 erans upon turn-over; and 

14 (6) The Secretary shall separately track all spe15 cial purpose vouchers funded under this heading. 

16 HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND

17 (INCLUDES RESCISSIONS)

18 Unobligated balances, including recaptures and car19 ryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Depart20 ment of Housing and Urban Development under this 

21 heading, the heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted 

22 Housing’’ and the heading ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assist23 ance’’, for fiscal year 2014 and prior years may be used 

24 for renewal of or amendments to section 8 project-based 

25 contracts and for performance-based contract administra-
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1 tors, notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds 

2 were appropriated: Provided, That any obligated balances 

3 of contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that 

4 have been terminated shall be rescinded: Provided further, 

5 That amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during 

6 the current fiscal year, from section 8 project-based con7 tracts from source years fiscal year 1975 through fiscal 

8 year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount of addi9 tional new budget authority, equivalent to the amount re10 scinded is hereby appropriated, to remain available until 

11 expended, for the purposes set forth under this heading, 

12 in addition to amounts otherwise available. 

13 PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND

14 For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to 

15 carry out capital and management activities for public 

16 housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the 

17 United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) 

18 (the ‘‘Act’’) $2,000,000,000, to remain available until 

19 September 30, 2017: Provided, That notwithstanding any 

20 other provision of law or regulation, during fiscal year 

21 2014 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 

22 may not delegate to any Department official other than 

23 the Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for 

24 Public and Indian Housing any authority under paragraph 

25 (2) of section 9(j) regarding the extension of the time peri-
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1 ods under such section: Provided further, That for pur2 poses of such section 9(j), the term ‘‘obligate’’ means, with 

3 respect to amounts, that the amounts are subject to a 

4 binding agreement that will result in outlays, immediately 

5 or in the future: Provided further, That up to $8,000,000 

6 shall be to support the ongoing Public Housing Financial 

7 and Physical Assessment activities of the Real Estate As8 sessment Center (REAC): Provided further, That of the 

9 total amount provided under this heading, not to exceed 

10 $20,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to make 

11 grants, notwithstanding section 204 of this Act, to public 

12 housing agencies for emergency capital needs including 

13 safety and security measures necessary to address crime 

14 and drug-related activity as well as needs resulting from 

15 unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies and natural dis16 asters excluding Presidentially declared emergencies and 

17 natural disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 

18 Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occur19 ring in fiscal year 2014: Provided further, That of the total 

20 amount provided under this heading $50,000,000 shall be 

21 for supportive services, service coordinator and congregate 

22 services as authorized by section 34 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 

23 1437z–6) and the Native American Housing Assistance 

24 and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et 

25 seq.): Provided further, That of the total amount made 
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1 available under this heading, up to $15,000,000 may be 

2 used for incentives as part of a Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative 

3 modeled after the Jobs-Plus demonstration: Provided fur4 ther, That the funding provided under the previous proviso 

5 shall provide competitive grants to partnerships between 

6 public housing authorities, local workforce investment 

7 boards established under section 117 of the Workforce In8 vestment Act of 1998, and other agencies and organiza9 tions that provide support to help public housing residents 

10 obtain employment and increase earnings: Provided fur11 ther, That applicants must demonstrate the ability to pro12 vide services to residents, partner with workforce invest13 ments boards, and leverage service dollars: Provided fur14 ther, That the Secretary may set aside a portion of the 

15 funds provided for the Resident Opportunity and Self-Suf16 ficiency program to support the services element of the 

17 Jobs Plus Initiative Pilot: Provided further, That the Sec18 retary may allow PHAs to request exemptions from rent 

19 and income limitation requirements under sections 3 and 

20 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 as necessary 

21 to implement the Jobs-Plus program, on such terms and 

22 conditions as the Secretary may approve upon a finding 

23 by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative re24 quirements are necessary for the effective implementation 

25 of the Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative as a voluntary program 
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1 for residents: Provided further, That the Secretary shall 

2 publish by notice in the Federal Register any waivers or 

3 alternative requirements pursuant to the preceding proviso 

4 no later than 10 days before the effective date of such 

5 notice: Provided further, That from the funds made avail6 able under this heading, the Secretary shall provide bonus 

7 awards in fiscal year 2014 to public housing agencies that 

8 are designated high performers. 

9 PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND

10 For 2014 payments to public housing agencies for the 

11 operation and management of public housing, as author12 ized by section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 

13 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), $4,600,000,000: Provided, 

14 That in determining public housing agencies’, including 

15 Moving to Work agencies’, calendar year 2014 funding al16 locations under this heading, the Secretary shall take into 

17 account the impact of changes to flat rents on public hous18 ing agencies’ formula income levels. 

19 CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS

20 For competitive grants under the Choice Neighbor21 hoods Initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States 

22 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v), unless otherwise 

23 specified under this heading), for transformation, rehabili24 tation, and replacement housing needs of both public and 

25 HUD-assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of 
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1 poverty into functioning, sustainable mixed income neigh2 borhoods with appropriate services, schools, public assets, 

3 transportation and access to jobs, $250,000,000, to re4 main available until September 30, 2016: Provided, That 

5 grant funds may be used for resident and community serv6 ices, community development, and affordable housing 

7 needs in the community, and for conversion of vacant or 

8 foreclosed properties to affordable housing: Provided fur9 ther, That the use of funds made available under this 

10 heading shall not be deemed to be public housing notwith11 standing section 3(b)(1) of such Act: Provided further, 

12 That grantees shall commit to an additional period of af13 fordability determined by the Secretary of not fewer than 

14 20 years: Provided further, That grantees shall undertake 

15 comprehensive local planning with input from residents 

16 and the community, and that grantees shall provide a 

17 match in State, local, other Federal or private funds: Pro18 vided further, That grantees may include local govern19 ments, tribal entities, public housing authorities, and non20 profits: Provided further, That for-profit developers may 

21 apply jointly with a public entity: Provided further, That 

22 of the amount provided, not less than $165,000,000 shall 

23 be awarded to public housing authorities: Provided further, 

24 That such grantees shall create partnerships with other 

25 local organizations including assisted housing owners, 
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1 service agencies, and resident organizations: Provided fur2 ther, That the Secretary shall consult with the Secretaries 

3 of Education, Labor, Transportation, Health and Human 

4 Services, Agriculture, and Commerce, the Attorney Gen5 eral, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protec6 tion Agency to coordinate and leverage other appropriate 

7 Federal resources: Provided further, That no more than 

8 $5,000,000 of funds made available under this heading 

9 may be provided to assist communities in developing com10 prehensive strategies for implementing this program or 

11 implementing other revitalization efforts in conjunction 

12 with community notice and input: Provided further, That 

13 the Secretary shall develop and publish guidelines for the 

14 use of such competitive funds, including but not limited 

15 to eligible activities, program requirements, and perform16 ance metrics. 

17 FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY

18 For the Family Self-Sufficiency program to support 

19 family self-sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the 

20 United States Housing Act of 1937, to promote the devel21 opment of local strategies to coordinate the use of assist22 ance under sections 8(o) and 9 of such Act with public 

23 and private resources, and enable eligible families to 

24 achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency, 

25 $75,000,000: Provided, That the Secretary may, by Fed-
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1 eral Register notice, waive or specify alternative require2 ments (except for requirements related to fair housing, 

3 nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment) 

4 for any provision of section 23 of such Act in order to 

5 better fulfill the purposes of section 23 of such Act, as 

6 determined by the Secretary. 

7 NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT

8 For the Native American Housing Block Grant pro9 gram, as authorized under title I of the Native American 

10 Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 

11 (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $675,000,000, to 

12 remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, 

13 That, notwithstanding the Native American Housing As14 sistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996, to determine 

15 the amount of the allocation under title I of such Act for 

16 each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the formula 

17 under section 302 of such Act with the need component 

18 based on single-race census data and with the need compo19 nent based on multi-race census data, and the amount of 

20 the allocation for each Indian tribe shall be the greater 

21 of the two resulting allocation amounts: Provided further, 

22 That of the amounts made available under this heading, 

23 $4,000,000 shall be contracted for assistance for a na24 tional organization representing Native American housing 

25 interests for providing training and technical assistance to 
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1 Indian housing authorities and tribally designated housing 

2 entities as authorized under NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 

3 4212); and $2,000,000 shall be to support the inspection 

4 of Indian housing units, contract expertise, training, and 

5 technical assistance in the training, oversight, and man6 agement of such Indian housing and tenant-based assist7 ance, including up to $300,000 for related travel: Provided 

8 further, That of the amount provided under this heading, 

9 $2,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of guaran10 teed notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI 

11 of NAHASDA: Provided further, That such costs, includ12 ing the costs of modifying such notes and other obliga13 tions, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres14 sional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further, 

15 That these funds are available to subsidize the total prin16 cipal amount of any notes and other obligations, any part 

17 of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $16,530,000: 

18 Provided further, That the Department will notify grantees 

19 of their formula allocation within 60 days of the date of 

20 enactment of this Act. 

21 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT

22 For the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant pro23 gram, as authorized under title VIII of the Native Amer24 ican Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 

25 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $13,000,000, to remain 
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1 available until expended: Provided, That of this amount, 

2 $300,000 shall be for training and technical assistance ac3 tivities, including up to $100,000 for related travel by Ha4 waii-based employees of the Department of Housing and 

5 Urban Development. 

6 INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM

7 ACCOUNT

8 For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by 

9 section 184 of the Housing and Community Development 

10 Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13a), $6,000,000, to re11 main available until expended: Provided, That such costs, 

12 including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as 

13 defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 

14 of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available 

15 to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to 

16 be guaranteed, up to $1,818,000,000, to remain available 

17 until expended: Provided further, That up to $750,000 of 

18 this amount may be for administrative contract expenses 

19 including management processes and systems to carry out 

20 the loan guarantee program. 

21 NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND

22 PROGRAM ACCOUNT

23 For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by 

24 section 184A of the Housing and Community Develop25 ment Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13b) and for such 
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1 costs for loans used for refinancing, $385,000, to remain 

2 available until expended: Provided, That such costs, in3 cluding the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as de4 fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 

5 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available to 

6 subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 

7 guaranteed, up to $41,500,000 to remain available until 

8 expended. 

9 COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

10 HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS

11 For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per12 sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS 

13 Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), 

14 $332,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

15 2015, except that amounts allocated pursuant to section 

16 854(c)(3) of such Act shall remain available until Sep17 tember 30, 2016: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew 

18 all expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing 

19 that were funded under section 854(c)(3) of such Act that 

20 meet all program requirements before awarding funds for 

21 new contracts and activities authorized under this section: 

22 Provided further, That the Department will notify grantees 

23 of their formula allocation within 60 days of the date of 

24 enactment of this Act. 
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1 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND

2 For assistance to units of State and local govern3 ment, and to other entities, for economic and community 

4 development activities, and for other purposes, 

5 $3,295,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

6 2016, unless otherwise specified: Provided, That of the 

7 total amount provided, $3,150,000,000 is for carrying out 

8 the community development block grant program under 

9 title I of the Housing and Community Development Act 

10 of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’ herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301 

11 et seq.): Provided further, That unless explicitly provided 

12 for under this heading not to exceed 20 percent of any 

13 grant made with funds appropriated under this heading 

14 shall be expended for planning and management develop15 ment and administration: Provided further, That a metro16 politan city, urban county, unit of general local govern17 ment, or Indian tribe, or insular area that directly or indi18 rectly receives funds under this heading may not sell, 

19 trade, or otherwise transfer all or any portion of such 

20 funds to another such entity in exchange for any other 

21 funds, credits or non-Federal considerations, but must use 

22 such funds for activities eligible under title I of the Act: 

23 Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) 

24 of the Act, no funds provided under this heading may be 

25 provided to a for-profit entity for an economic develop-
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1 ment project under section 105(a)(17) unless such project 

2 has been evaluated and selected in accordance with guide3 lines required under subparagraph (e)(2): Provided fur4 ther, That the Department shall notify grantees of their 

5 formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act: 

6 Provided further, That $70,000,000 shall be for grants to 

7 Indian tribes notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of such 

8 Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision of law 

9 (including section 204 of this Act), up to $3,960,000 may 

10 be used for emergencies that constitute imminent threats 

11 to health and safety: Provided further, That of the 

12 amounts made available under the previous proviso, 

13 $10,000,000 shall be for grants for mold remediation and 

14 prevention that shall be awarded through one national 

15 competition to Native American tribes with the greatest 

16 need. 

17 Of the amounts made available under this heading, 

18 $75,000,000 shall be made available for Integrated Plan19 ning and Investment Grants to support local and regional 

20 public investment plans and implementation efforts that 

21 align public and private investments in development and 

22 infrastructure to better attract businesses and improve 

23 quality of life, modernize zoning and building codes, re24 duce barriers to achieve affordable and economically vital 

25 communities, attract private capital to community revital-
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1 ization efforts, and sponsor community engagement ef2 forts: Provided, That not less than $18,750,000 of the 

3 funding made available under this heading shall be award4 ed to metropolitan areas of less than 500,000: Provided 

5 further, That the Secretary will consult with the Secretary 

6 of Transportation and the heads of other relevant agencies 

7 in evaluating grant proposals awarded under this para8 graph. 

9 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOAN GUARANTEES

10 PROGRAM ACCOUNT

11 Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget 

12 Act of 1974, during fiscal year 2014 commitments to 

13 guarantee loans under section 108 of the Housing and 

14 Community Development Act of 1974, any part of which 

15 is guaranteed, shall not exceed a total principal amount 

16 of $500,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate limita17 tion on outstanding obligations guaranteed in subsection 

18 (k) of such section 108: Provided, That the Secretary shall 

19 collect fees from borrowers, notwithstanding subsection 

20 (m) of such section 108, to result in a credit subsidy cost 

21 of zero, and such fees shall be collected in accordance with 

22 section 502(7) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 

23 HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM

24 For the HOME investment partnerships program, as 

25 authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
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1 tional Affordable Housing Act, as amended, 

2 $1,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

3 2016: Provided, That notwithstanding the amount made 

4 available under this heading, the threshold reduction re5 quirements in sections 216(10) and 217(b)(4) of such Act 

6 shall not apply to allocations of such amount: Provided 

7 further, That funds made available under this heading 

8 used for projects not completed within 4 years of the com9 mitment date, as determined by a signature of each party 

10 to the agreement, shall be repaid: Provided further, That 

11 the Secretary may extend the deadline for 1 year if the 

12 Secretary determines that the failure to complete the 

13 project is beyond the control of the participating jurisdic14 tion: Provided further, That no funds provided under this 

15 heading may be committed to any project included as part 

16 of a participating jurisdiction’s plan under section 105(b), 

17 unless each participating jurisdiction certifies that it has 

18 conducted an underwriting review, assessed developer ca19 pacity and fiscal soundness, and examined neighborhood 

20 market conditions to ensure adequate need for each 

21 project: Provided further, That any homeownership units 

22 funded under this heading which cannot be sold to an eli23 gible homeowner within 6 months of project completion 

24 shall be rented to an eligible tenant: Provided further, 

25 That no funds provided under this heading may be award-
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1 ed for development activities to a community housing de2 velopment organization that cannot demonstrate that it 

3 has staff with demonstrated development experience: Pro4 vided further, That funds provided in prior appropriations 

5 Acts for technical assistance, that were made available for 

6 Community Housing Development Organizations technical 

7 assistance, and that still remain available, may be used 

8 for HOME technical assistance notwithstanding the pur9 poses for which such amounts were appropriated: Provided 

10 further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their 

11 formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act. 

12 SELF-HELP AND ASSISTED HOMEOWNERSHIP

13 OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM

14 For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Op15 portunity Program, as authorized under section 11 of the 

16 Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as 

17 amended, $53,500,000, to remain available until Sep18 tember 30, 2017: Provided, That of the total amount pro19 vided under this heading, $13,500,000 shall be made 

20 available to the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership 

21 Opportunity Program as authorized under section 11 of 

22 the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, 

23 as amended: Provided further, That $35,000,000 shall be 

24 made available for the second, third and fourth capacity 

25 building activities authorized under section 4(a) of the 
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1 HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note), 

2 of which not less than $5,000,000 may be made available 

3 for rural capacity-building activities: Provided further, 

4 That $5,000,000 shall be made available for capacity5 building activities by national rural organizations with ex6 perience assessing national rural conditions and providing 

7 financing, training, technical assistance, and research to 

8 local nonprofit organizations, local governments, and In9 dian tribes serving high-need rural communities. 

10 HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS

11 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

12 For the emergency solutions grants program as au13 thorized under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney14 Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended; the con15 tinuum of care program as authorized under subtitle C 

16 of title IV of such Act; and the rural housing stability as17 sistance program as authorized under subtitle D of title 

18 IV of such Act, $2,261,190,000, to remain available until 

19 September 30, 2016: Provided, That any rental assistance 

20 amounts that are recaptured under such continuum of 

21 care program shall remain available until expended: Pro22 vided further, That not less than $336,000,000 of the 

23 funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 

24 for such emergency solutions grants program of which 

25 $50,000,000 shall be for rapid re-housing for high need 
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1 communities, as determined by the Secretary: Provided 

2 further, That not less than $1,910,000,000 of the funds 

3 appropriated under this heading shall be available for such 

4 continuum of care and rural housing stability assistance 

5 programs: Provided further, That up to $7,000,000 of the 

6 funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 

7 for the national homeless data analysis project: Provided 

8 further, That all funds awarded for supportive services 

9 under the continuum of care program and the rural hous10 ing stability assistance program shall be matched by not 

11 less than 25 percent in cash or in kind by each grantee: 

12 Provided further, That for all match requirements applica13 ble to funds made available under this heading for this 

14 fiscal year and prior years, a grantee may use (or could 

15 have used) as a source of match funds other funds admin16 istered by the Secretary and other Federal agencies unless 

17 there is (or was) a specific statutory prohibition on any 

18 such use of any such funds: Provided further, That the 

19 Secretary may renew on an annual basis expiring con20 tracts or amendments to contracts funded under the con21 tinuum of care program if the program is determined to 

22 be needed under the applicable continuum of care and 

23 meets appropriate program requirements, performance 

24 measures, and financial standards, as determined by the 

25 Secretary: Provided further, That all awards of assistance 
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1 under this heading shall be required to coordinate and in2 tegrate homeless programs with other mainstream health, 

3 social services, and employment programs for which home4 less populations may be eligible, including Medicaid, State 

5 Children’s Health Insurance Program, Temporary Assist6 ance for Needy Families, Food Stamps, and services fund7 ing through the Mental Health and Substance Abuse 

8 Block Grant, Workforce Investment Act, and the Welfare9 to-Work grant program: Provided further, That all bal10 ances for Shelter Plus Care renewals previously funded 

11 from the Shelter Plus Care Renewal account and trans12 ferred to this account shall be available, if recaptured, for 

13 continuum of care renewals in fiscal year 2014: Provided 

14 further, That with respect to funds provided under this 

15 heading for the continuum of care program for fiscal years 

16 2012 and 2013, provision of permanent housing rental as17 sistance may be administered by private nonprofit organi18 zations: Provided further, That not later than 180 days 

19 after awarding fiscal year 2013 funds described in the pre20 vious proviso to private nonprofit organizations, the Sec21 retary of Housing and Urban Development shall submit 

22 to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, 

23 the House Committee on Financial Services, and the Sen24 ate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs 

25 a report that includes a review of the history of and need 
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1 for the authority provided in the previous proviso, the 

2 number and geographic distribution of persons assisted 

3 under such actions, an analysis of the effectiveness, advan4 tages, and disadvantages of the authority under the pre5 vious proviso and such other information as may be nec6 essary to assess the ongoing need for such authority: Pro7 vided further, That the Department shall notify grantees 

8 of their formula allocation from amounts allocated (which 

9 may represent initial or final amounts allocated) for the 

10 emergency solutions grant program within 60 days of en11 actment of this Act. 

12 HOUSING PROGRAMS

13 PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE

14 For activities and assistance for the provision of 

15 project-based subsidy contracts under the United States 

16 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (‘‘the 

17 Act’’), not otherwise provided for, $10,372,000,000, to re18 main available until expended, shall be available on Octo19 ber 1, 2013 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously 

20 appropriated under this heading that became available Oc21 tober 1, 2013), and $400,000,000, to remain available 

22 until expended, shall be available on October 1, 2014: Pro23 vided, That the amounts made available under this head24 ing shall be available for expiring or terminating section 

25 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 
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1 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to sec2 tion 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 

3 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered 

4 into pursuant to section 441 of the McKinney-Vento 

5 Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11401), for renewal 

6 of section 8 contracts for units in projects that are subject 

7 to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low In8 come Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-In9 come Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership 

10 Act of 1990, and for administrative and other expenses 

11 associated with project-based activities and assistance 

12 funded under this paragraph: Provided further, That of 

13 the total amounts provided under this heading, not to ex14 ceed $265,000,000 shall be available for assistance agree15 ments with performance-based contract administrators for 

16 section 8 project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 

17 U.S.C. 1437(f): Provided further, That the Secretary of 

18 Housing and Urban Development may also use such 

19 amounts in the previous proviso for performance-based 

20 contract administrators for the administration of: interest 

21 reduction payments pursuant to section 236(a) of the Na22 tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(a)); rent supple23 ment payments pursuant to section 101 of the Housing 

24 and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); 

25 section 236(f)(2) rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 
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1 1715z–1(f)(2)); project rental assistance contracts for the 

2 elderly under section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 

3 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental assistance con4 tracts for supportive housing for persons with disabilities 

5 under section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na6 tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); 

7 project assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of 

8 the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 

9 667); and loans under section 202 of the Housing Act of 

10 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667): Provided fur11 ther, That amounts recaptured under this heading, the 

12 heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’, or 

13 the heading ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’, may be used for 

14 renewals of or amendments to section 8 project-based con15 tracts or for performance-based contract administrators, 

16 notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts 

17 were appropriated: Provided further, That, notwith18 standing any other provision of law, upon the request of 

19 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, project 

20 funds that are held in residual receipts accounts for any 

21 project subject to a section 8 project-based Housing As22 sistance Payments contract that authorizes HUD to re23 quire that surplus project funds be deposited in an inter24 est-bearing residual receipts account and that are in ex25 cess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall 
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1 be remitted to the Department and deposited in this ac2 count, to be available until expended: Provided further, 

3 That amounts deposited pursuant to the previous proviso 

4 shall be available in addition to the amount otherwise pro5 vided by this heading for uses authorized under this head6 ing. 

7 HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

8 For amendments to capital advance contracts for 

9 housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of 

10 the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for project 

11 rental assistance for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) 

12 of such Act, including amendments to contracts for such 

13 assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for such as14 sistance for up to a 1-year term, and for senior preserva15 tion rental assistance contracts, as authorized by section 

16 811(e) of the American Housing and Economic Oppor17 tunity Act of 2000, as amended, and for supportive serv18 ices associated with the housing, $400,000,000 to remain 

19 available until September 30, 2017: Provided, That of the 

20 amount provided under this heading, up to $70,000,000 

21 shall be for service coordinators and the continuation of 

22 existing congregate service grants for residents of assisted 

23 housing projects: Provided further, That amounts under 

24 this heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment 

25 Center inspections and inspection-related activities associ-
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1 ated with section 202 projects: Provided further, That the 

2 Secretary may waive the provisions of section 202 gov3 erning the terms and conditions of project rental assist4 ance, except that the initial contract term for such assist5 ance shall not exceed 5 years in duration: Provided further, 

6 That upon the request of the Secretary of the Housing 

7 and Urban Development, project funds that are held in 

8 residual receipts accounts for any project subject to a sec9 tion 202 project rental assistance contract, and that upon 

10 termination of such contract are in excess of an amount 

11 to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to 

12 the Department and deposited in this account, to be avail13 able until expended: Provided further, That amounts de14 posited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso 

15 shall be available in addition to the amounts otherwise 

16 provided by this heading for the purposes authorized 

17 under this heading and, together with such funds, may 

18 be used by the Secretary for demonstration programs to 

19 test housing with services models for the elderly that dem20 onstrate the potential to delay or avoid the need for nurs21 ing home care: Provided further, That unobligated bal22 ances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from 

23 funds transferred to or appropriated under this heading 

24 may be used for the current purposes authorized under 
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1 this heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 

2 funds were originally appropriated. 

3 HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

4 For amendments to capital advance contracts for 

5 supportive housing for persons with disabilities, as author6 ized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af7 fordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), for project rental 

8 assistance for supportive housing for persons with disabil9 ities under section 811(d)(2) of such Act and for project 

10 assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the 

11 Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667), 

12 including amendments to contracts for such assistance 

13 and renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance for 

14 up to a 1-year term, for project rental assistance to State 

15 housing finance agencies and other appropriate entities as 

16 authorized under section 811(b)(3) of the Cranston-Gon17 zalez National Housing Act, and for supportive services 

18 associated with the housing for persons with disabilities 

19 as authorized by section 811(b)(1) of such Act, 

20 $126,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 

21 2017: Provided, That amounts made available under this 

22 heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment 

23 Center inspections and inspection-related activities associ24 ated with section 811 Projects: Provided further, That, in 

25 this fiscal year and hereafter, upon the request of the Sec-
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1 retary of Housing and Urban Development, project funds 

2 that are held in residual receipts accounts for any project 

3 subject to a section 811 project rental assistance contract 

4 and that upon termination of such contract are in excess 

5 of an amount to be determined by the Secretary shall be 

6 remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, 

7 to be available until expended: Provided further, That 

8 amounts deposited in this account pursuant to the pre9 vious proviso shall be available in addition to the amounts 

10 otherwise provided by this heading for the purposes au11 thorized under this heading: Provided further, That unobli12 gated balances, including recaptures and carryover, re13 maining from funds transferred to or appropriated under 

14 this heading may be used for the current purposes author15 ized under this heading notwithstanding the purposes for 

16 which such funds originally were appropriated. 

17 HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE

18 For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding 

19 loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and 

20 Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, 

21 $55,000,000, including up to $4,500,000 for administra22 tive contract services: Provided, That grants made avail23 able from amounts provided under this heading shall be 

24 awarded within 120 days of enactment of this Act: Pro25 vided further, That funds shall be used for providing coun-
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1 seling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current 

2 and prospective, with respect to property maintenance, fi3 nancial management/literacy, and such other matters as 

4 may be appropriate to assist them in improving their hous5 ing conditions, meeting their financial needs, and fulfilling 

6 the responsibilities of tenancy or homeownership; for pro7 gram administration; and for housing counselor training. 

8 OTHER ASSISTED HOUSING PROGRAMS

9 RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE

10 For amendments to contracts under section 101 of 

11 the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 

12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 236(f)(2) of the National 

13 Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) in State-aided, non14 insured rental housing projects, $21,000,000, to remain 

15 available until expended. 

16 RENT SUPPLEMENT

17 (INCLUDES RESCISSIONS)

18 Of the amounts recaptured from terminated con19 tracts under section 101 of the Housing and Urban Devel20 opment Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 236 

21 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) 

22 $3,500,000 are rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may 

23 be cancelled from amounts that were designated by the 

24 Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 

25 Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced 
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1 Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as 

2 amended. 

3 PAYMENT TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING FEES TRUST

4 FUND

5 For necessary expenses as authorized by the National 

6 Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Stand7 ards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to 

8 $7,530,000, to remain available until expended, of which 

9 $6,530,000 which is to be derived from the Manufactured 

10 Housing Fees Trust Fund: Provided, That not to exceed 

11 the total amount appropriated under this heading shall be 

12 available from the general fund of the Treasury to the ex13 tent necessary to incur obligations and make expenditures 

14 pending the receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant 

15 to section 620 of such Act: Provided further, That the 

16 amount made available under this heading from the gen17 eral fund shall be reduced as such collections are received 

18 during fiscal year 2014 so as to result in a final fiscal 

19 year 2014 appropriation from the general fund estimated 

20 at not more than $1,000,000 and fees pursuant to such 

21 section 620 shall be modified as necessary to ensure such 

22 a final fiscal year 2014 appropriation: Provided further, 

23 That for the dispute resolution and installation programs, 

24 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may 

25 assess and collect fees from any program participant: Pro-
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1 vided further, That such collections shall be deposited into 

2 the Fund, and the Secretary, as provided herein, may use 

3 such collections, as well as fees collected under section 

4 620, for necessary expenses of such Act: Provided further, 

5 That, notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 of 

6 such Act, the Secretary may carry out responsibilities of 

7 the Secretary under such Act through the use of approved 

8 service providers that are paid directly by the recipients 

9 of their services. 

10 FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION

11 MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

12 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

13 New commitments to guarantee single family loans 

14 insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall 

15 not exceed $400,000,000,000, to remain available until 

16 September 30, 2015: Provided, That during fiscal year 

17 2014, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the 

18 purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, 

19 as amended, shall not exceed $20,000,000: Provided fur20 ther, That the foregoing amount in the previous proviso 

21 shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities 

22 in connection with sales of single family real properties 

23 owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under the 

24 Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund. For administrative 

25 contract expenses of the Federal Housing Administration, 
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1 $198,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 

2 2015, of which up to $71,500,000 may be transferred to 

3 and merged with the Information Technology Fund: Pro4 vided further, That to the extent guaranteed loan commit5 ments exceed $200,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 

6 2014, an additional $1,400 for administrative contract ex7 penses shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional 

8 guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata 

9 amount for any amount below $1,000,000), but in no case 

10 shall funds made available by this proviso exceed 

11 $30,000,000. 

12 GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT

13 New commitments to guarantee loans insured under 

14 the General and Special Risk Insurance Funds, as author15 ized by sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act 

16 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), shall not exceed 

17 $30,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which 

18 is to be guaranteed, to remain available until September 

19 30, 2015: Provided, That during fiscal year 2014 gross 

20 obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, as au21 thorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of 

22 the National Housing Act, shall not exceed $20,000,000, 

23 which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental en24 tities in connection with the sale of single family real prop-
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1 erties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under 

2 such Act. 

3 GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION

4 GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN

5 GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT

6 New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out 

7 the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, 

8 as amended (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)), shall not exceed 

9 $500,000,000,000, to remain available until September 

10 30, 2015: Provided, That $21,200,000 shall be available 

11 for necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Gov12 ernment National Mortgage Association: Provided further, 

13 That to the extent that guaranteed loan commitments will 

14 and do exceed $155,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 

15 2014, an additional $100 for necessary salaries and ex16 penses shall be available until expended for each 

17 $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed loan commitments 

18 (including a pro rata amount for any amount below 

19 $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made available by 

20 this proviso exceed $3,000,000: Provided further, That re21 ceipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees collected pur22 suant to title III of the National Housing Act, as amend23 ed, shall be credited as offsetting collections to this ac24 count. 
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1 POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH

2 RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

3 For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro4 grams of research and studies relating to housing and 

5 urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized 

6 by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act 

7 of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), including carrying 

8 out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 

9 Development under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization 

10 Plan No. 2 of 1968, $48,000,000, to remain available 

11 until September 30, 2015: Provided, That with respect to 

12 amounts made available under this heading, notwith13 standing section 204 of this title, the Secretary may enter 

14 into cooperative agreements funded with philanthropic en15 tities, other Federal agencies, or State or local govern16 ments and their agencies for research projects: Provided 

17 further, That with respect to the previous proviso, such 

18 partners to the cooperative agreements must contribute at 

19 least a 50 percent match toward the cost of the project: 

20 Provided further, That for non-competitive agreements en21 tered into in accordance with the previous two provisos, 

22 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 

23 comply with section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Account24 ability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– 

25 282, 31 U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section 
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1 102(a)(4)(C) with respect to documentation of award deci2 sions. 

3 FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

4 FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES

5 For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not oth6 erwise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil 

7 Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing 

8 Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of the Housing 

9 and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 

10 $70,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 

11 2015, of which $44,100,000 shall be to carry out activities 

12 pursuant to such section 561: Provided, That notwith13 standing 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary may assess and 

14 collect fees to cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training 

15 Academy, and may use such funds to provide such train16 ing: Provided further, That no funds made available under 

17 this heading shall be used to lobby the executive or legisla18 tive branches of the Federal Government in connection 

19 with a specific contract, grant or loan: Provided further, 

20 That of the funds made available under this heading, 

21 $300,000 shall be available to the Secretary of Housing 

22 and Urban Development for the creation and promotion 

23 of translated materials and other programs that support 

24 the assistance of persons with limited English proficiency 
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1 in utilizing the services provided by the Department of 

2 Housing and Urban Development. 

3 OFFICE OF HEALTHY HOMES AND LEAD HAZARD

4 CONTROL

5 LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION

6 For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as author7 ized by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint 

8 Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, $120,000,000, to remain 

9 available until September 30, 2015: Provided, That up to 

10 $25,000,000 of that amount shall be for the Healthy 

11 Homes Initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the 

12 Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 that shall 

13 include research, studies, testing, and demonstration ef14 forts, including education and outreach concerning lead15 based paint poisoning and other housing-related diseases 

16 and hazards: Provided further, That for purposes of envi17 ronmental review, pursuant to the National Environ18 mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

19 other provisions of the law that further the purposes of 

20 such Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, or 

21 the Lead Technical Studies program under this heading 

22 or under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes 

23 under this heading, shall be considered to be funds for 

24 a special project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Mul25 tifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 
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1 1994: Provided further, That of the total amount made 

2 available under this heading, $45,000,000 shall be made 

3 available on a competitive basis for areas with the highest 

4 lead paint abatement needs: Provided further, That each 

5 recipient of funds provided under the second proviso shall 

6 make a matching contribution in an amount not less than 

7 25 percent: Provided further, That each applicant shall 

8 certify adequate capacity that is acceptable to the Sec9 retary to carry out the proposed use of funds pursuant 

10 to a notice of funding availability: Provided further, That 

11 amounts made available under this heading in this or prior 

12 appropriations Acts, and that still remain available, may 

13 be used for any purpose under this heading notwith14 standing the purpose for which such amounts were appro15 priated if a program competition is undersubscribed and 

16 there are other program competitions under this heading 

17 that are oversubscribed. 

18 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND

19 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

20 For additional capital for the Working Capital Fund 

21 (42 U.S.C. 3535) for the development of, modifications 

22 to, and infrastructure for Department-wide and program23 specific information technology systems, for the continuing 

24 operation and maintenance of both Department-wide and 

25 program-specific information systems, and for program-re-
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1 lated maintenance activities, $210,000,000, of which 

2 $164,960,000 shall remain available until September 30, 

3 2015, and of which $45,040,000 shall remain available 

4 until September 30, 2016 for Development Modernization 

5 and Enhancement: Provided, That any amounts trans6 ferred to this Fund under this Act shall remain available 

7 until expended: Provided further, That any amounts trans8 ferred to this Fund from amounts appropriated by pre9 viously enacted appropriations Acts may be used for the 

10 purposes specified under this Fund, in addition to any 

11 other information technology the purposes for which such 

12 amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That not 

13 more than 40 percent of the funds made available under 

14 this heading for Development, Modernization and En15 hancement, including development and deployment of a 

16 Next Generation Management System and development 

17 and deployment of modernized Federal Housing Adminis18 tration systems may be obligated until the Secretary sub19 mits to the Committees on Appropriations and the Comp20 troller General of the United States a plan for expenditure 

21 that—(A) provides for all IT investments: (i) the cost and 

22 schedule baselines with explanations for each associated 

23 variance, (ii) the status of functional and performance ca24 pabilities delivered or planned to be delivered, and (iii) 

25 mitigation strategies to address identified risks; (B) out-
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1 lines activities to ensure strategic, consistent, and effective 

2 application of IT management controls: (i) enterprise ar3 chitecture, (ii) project management, (iii) investment man4 agement, and (iv) human capital management. 

5 OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

6 For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 

7 Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General 

8 Act of 1978, as amended, $127,000,000: Provided, That 

9 the Inspector General shall have independent authority 

10 over all personnel issues within this office. 

11 TRANSFORMATION INITIATIVE

12 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

13 Of the amounts made available in this Act under each 

14 of the following headings under this title, the Secretary 

15 may transfer to, and merge with, this account up to 0.5 

16 percent from each such account, and such transferred 

17 amounts shall be available until September 30, 2016, for 

18 (1) research, evaluation, and program metrics; (2) pro19 gram demonstrations; and (3) technical assistance and ca20 pacity building: ‘‘Choice Neighborhoods Initiative’’, ‘‘Com21 munity Development Fund’’, ‘‘Fair Housing Activities’’, 

22 ‘‘Family Self-Sufficiency’’, ‘‘HOME Investment Partner23 ships Program’’, ‘‘Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership 

24 Opportunity Program’’, ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’, 

25 ‘‘Housing Counseling Assistance’’, ‘‘Housing for Persons 
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1 with Disabilities’’, ‘‘Housing for the Elderly’’, ‘‘Housing 

2 Opportunities for Persons with AIDS’’, ‘‘Lead Hazard Re3 duction’’, ‘‘Mutual Mortgage Insurance Program Ac4 count’’, ‘‘Native American Housing Block Grants’’, ‘‘Na5 tive Hawaiian Housing Block Grant’’, ‘‘Project-Based 

6 Rental Assistance’’, ‘‘Public Housing Capital Fund’’, 

7 ‘‘Public Housing Operating Fund’’, ‘‘Rental Assistance 

8 Demonstration’’, ‘‘Rental Housing Assistance’’, and ‘‘Ten9 ant-Based Rental Assistance’’: Provided, That the Sec10 retary may not transfer more than $60,000,000 to this 

11 account under the authority provided in the previous pro12 viso: Provided further, That any such amounts, or portion 

13 thereof, transferred to this account, may be transferred 

14 back to be merged with any such other account and to 

15 be available for the same purpose and same time period 

16 as provided under this Act: Provided further, That with 

17 respect to amounts made available under this heading for 

18 research, evaluation and program metrics or program 

19 demonstrations, notwithstanding section 204 of this title, 

20 the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements fund21 ed with philanthropic entities, other Federal agencies, or 

22 State or local governments and their agencies for research 

23 projects: Provided further, That with respect to the pre24 vious proviso, such partners to the cooperative agreements 
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1 must contribute at least a 50 percent match toward the 

2 cost of the project. 

3 GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

4 URBAN DEVELOPMENT

5 (INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

6 SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au7 thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 

8 associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 

9 from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 

10 B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 

11 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded or in the 

12 case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such 

13 amounts of budget authority or cash recaptured and not 

14 rescinded or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by 

15 State housing finance agencies or local governments or 

16 local housing agencies with projects approved by the Sec17 retary of Housing and Urban Development for which set18 tlement occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance 

19 with such section. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, 

20 the Secretary may award up to 15 percent of the budget 

21 authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted 

22 to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives 

23 to refinance their project at a lower interest rate. 

24 SEC. 202. None of the amounts made available under 

25 this Act may be used during fiscal year 2014 to investigate 
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1 or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise 

2 lawful activity engaged in by one or more persons, includ3 ing the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action, 

4 that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 

5 preventing action by a Government official or entity, or 

6 a court of competent jurisdiction. 

7 SEC. 203. Sections 203 and 209 of division C of Pub8 lic Law 112–55 (125 Stat. 693–694) shall apply during 

9 fiscal year 2014 as if such sections were included in this 

10 title, except that during such fiscal year such sections shall 

11 be applied by substituting ‘‘fiscal year 2014’’ for ‘‘fiscal 

12 year 2011’’ and ‘‘fiscal year 2012’’ each place such terms 

13 appear. 

14 SEC. 204. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 

15 grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made 

16 pursuant to title II of this Act shall be made on a competi17 tive basis and in accordance with section 102 of the De18 partment of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act 

19 of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545). 

20 SEC. 205. Funds of the Department of Housing and 

21 Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora22 tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of 

23 1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations 

24 on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract 

25 or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for 
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1 services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage 

2 Association, Government National Mortgage Association, 

3 Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Fi4 nancing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any member 

5 thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank 

6 within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor7 poration Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1). 

8 SEC. 206. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 

9 or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any ap10 propriation for the Department of Housing and Urban 

11 Development shall be available for any program, project 

12 or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget 

13 estimates submitted to Congress. 

14 SEC. 207. Corporations and agencies of the Depart15 ment of Housing and Urban Development which are sub16 ject to the Government Corporation Control Act are here17 by authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits 

18 of funds and borrowing authority available to each such 

19 corporation or agency and in accordance with law, and to 

20 make such contracts and commitments without regard to 

21 fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of such 

22 Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 

23 forth in the budget for 2014 for such corporation or agen24 cy except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collec25 tions of these corporations and agencies may be used for 
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1 new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the 

2 extent expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans 

3 are in support of other forms of assistance provided for 

4 in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this pro5 viso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 

6 operations of these corporations, or where loans or mort7 gage purchases are necessary to protect the financial in8 terest of the United States Government. 

9 SEC. 208. The Secretary of Housing and Urban De10 velopment shall provide quarterly reports to the House 

11 and Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all 

12 uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in 

13 each program and activity within the jurisdiction of the 

14 Department and shall submit additional, updated budget 

15 information to these Committees upon request. 

16 SEC. 209. Paragraph (2)(B)(i) of section 3(a) of the 

17 United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)) 

18 is amended— 

19 (1) in the matter preceding subclause (I)— 

20 (A) by striking ‘‘Except as otherwise pro21 vided under this clause, each’’ and inserting 

22 ‘‘Each’’; and 

23 (B) by inserting after ‘‘which shall’’ the 

24 following: ‘‘not be lower than 80 percent of the 
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1 applicable fair market rental established under 

2 section 8(c) of this Act and which shall’’; and 

3 (2) by striking the undesignated matter fol4 lowing subclause (II) and inserting the following: 

5 ‘‘Public housing agencies must comply by June 1, 

6 2014, with the requirement of this clause, except 

7 that if a new flat rental amount for a dwelling unit 

8 will increase a family’s existing rental payment by 

9 more than 35 percent, the new flat rental amount 

10 shall be phased in as necessary to ensure that the 

11 family’s existing rental payment does not increase by 

12 more than 35 percent annually. The preceding sen13 tence shall not be construed to require establishment 

14 of rental amounts equal to 80 percent of the fair 

15 market rental in years when the fair market rental 

16 falls from the prior year.’’. 

17 SEC. 210. Subparagraph (A) of section 3(b)(6) of the 

18 United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

19 1437a(b)(6)(A)) is amended by inserting before the period 

20 at the end the following: ‘‘, or a consortium of such enti21 ties or bodies as approved by the Secretary’’. 

22 SEC. 211. A public housing agency or such other enti23 ty that administers Federal housing assistance for the 

24 Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, Cali25 fornia, the States of Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi shall 
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1 not be required to include a resident of public housing or 

2 a recipient of assistance provided under section 8 of the 

3 United States Housing Act of 1937 on the board of direc4 tors or a similar governing board of such agency or entity 

5 as required under section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public 

6 housing agency or other entity that administers Federal 

7 housing assistance under section 8 for the Housing Au8 thority of the county of Los Angeles, California and the 

9 States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi that chooses not 

10 to include a resident of public housing or a recipient of 

11 section 8 assistance on the board of directors or a similar 

12 governing board shall establish an advisory board of not 

13 less than six residents of public housing or recipients of 

14 section 8 assistance to provide advice and comment to the 

15 public housing agency or other administering entity on 

16 issues related to public housing and section 8. Such advi17 sory board shall meet not less than quarterly. 

18 SEC. 212. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 

19 of law, subject to the conditions listed in subsections (c) 

20 and (e), for fiscal years 2014 and 2015, the Secretary of 

21 Housing and Urban Development may authorize the 

22 transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt held 

23 or insured by the Secretary and statutorily required low24 income and very low-income use if any restrictions, associ25 ated with one or more multifamily housing project or 
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1 projects to another multifamily housing project or 

2 projects. 

3 (b) PHASED TRANSFERS.—Transfers of project4 based assistance under this section may be done in phases 

5 to accommodate the financing and other requirements re6 lated to rehabilitating or constructing the project or 

7 projects to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure 

8 that such project or projects meet the standards under 

9 section (c). 

10 (c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is sub11 ject to the following conditions: 

12 (1) NUMBER AND BEDROOM SIZE OF UNITS.— 

13 (A) For occupied units in the transferring 

14 project: the number of low-income and very low15 income units and the configuration (i.e. bed16 room size) provided by the transferring project 

17 shall be no less than when transferred to the re18 ceiving project or projects and the net dollar 

19 amount of Federal assistance provided to the 

20 transferring project shall remain the same in 

21 the receiving project or projects. 

22 (B) For unoccupied units in the transfer23 ring project: the Secretary may authorize a re24 duction in the number of dwelling units in the 

25 receiving project or projects to allow for a re-
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1 configuration of bedroom sizes to meet current 

2 market demands, as determined by the Sec3 retary and provided there is no increase in the 

4 project-based assistance budget authority. 

5 (2) The transferring project shall, as deter6 mined by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete 

7 or economically nonviable. 

8 (3) The receiving project or projects shall meet 

9 or exceed applicable physical standards established 

10 by the Secretary. 

11 (4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring 

12 project shall notify and consult with the tenants re13 siding in the transferring project and provide a cer14 tification of approval by all appropriate local govern15 mental officials. 

16 (5) The tenants of the transferring project who 

17 remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the 

18 receiving project or projects shall not be required to 

19 vacate their units in the transferring project or 

20 projects until new units in the receiving project are 

21 available for occupancy. 

22 (6) The Secretary determines that this transfer 

23 is in the best interest of the tenants. 

24 (7) If either the transferring project or the re25 ceiving project or projects meets the condition speci-
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1 fied in subsection (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiv2 ing project resulting from additional financing ob3 tained by the owner shall be subordinate to any 

4 FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed 

5 on, such project by the Secretary, except that the 

6 Secretary may waive this requirement upon deter7 mination that such a waiver is necessary to facilitate 

8 the financing of acquisition, construction, and/or re9 habilitation of the receiving project or projects. 

10 (8) If the transferring project meets the re11 quirements of subsection (d)(2)(F), the owner or 

12 mortgagor of the receiving project or projects shall 

13 execute and record either a continuation of the exist14 ing use agreement or a new use agreement for the 

15 project where, in either case, any use restrictions in 

16 such agreement are of no lesser duration than the 

17 existing use restrictions. 

18 (9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as 

19 defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget 

20 Act of 1974, as amended) of any FHA-insured 

21 mortgage, except to the extent that appropriations 

22 are provided for the amount of any such increased 

23 cost. 

24 (d) For purposes of this section— 
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1 (1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in2 come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the stat3 ute and/or regulations governing the program under 

4 which the project is insured or assisted; 

5 (2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 

6 means housing that meets one of the following con7 ditions— 

8 (A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 

9 insured under the National Housing Act; 

10 (B) housing that has project-based assist11 ance attached to the structure including 

12 projects undergoing mark to market debt re13 structuring under the Multifamily Assisted 

14 Housing Reform and Affordability Housing Act; 

15 (C) housing that is assisted under section 

16 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 as amended by 

17 section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales National 

18 Affordable Housing Act; 

19 (D) housing that is assisted under section 

20 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as such sec21 tion existed before the enactment of the Cran22 ston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; 

23 (E) housing that is assisted under section 

24 811 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Afford25 able Housing Act; or 
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1 (F) housing or vacant land that is subject 

2 to a use agreement; 

3 (3) the term ‘‘project-based assistance’’ 

4 means— 

5 (A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 

6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; 

7 (B) assistance for housing constructed or 

8 substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assist9 ance provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act 

10 (as such section existed immediately before Oc11 tober 1, 1983); 

12 (C) rent supplement payments under sec13 tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Develop14 ment Act of 1965; 

15 (D) interest reduction payments under sec16 tion 236 and/or additional assistance payments 

17 under section 236(f)(2) of the National Hous18 ing Act; 

19 (E) assistance payments made under sec20 tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and 

21 (F) assistance payments made under sec22 tion 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na23 tional Affordable Housing Act; 

24 (4) the term ‘‘receiving project or projects’’ 

25 means the multifamily housing project or projects to 
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1 which some or all of the project-based assistance, 

2 debt, and statutorily required low-income and very 

3 low-income use restrictions are to be transferred; 

4 (5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 

5 multifamily housing project which is transferring 

6 some or all of the project-based assistance, debt and 

7 the statutorily required low-income and very low-in8 come use restrictions to the receiving project or 

9 projects; and 

10 (6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 

11 of Housing and Urban Development. 

12 (e) PUBLIC NOTICE AND RESEARCH REPORT.— 

13 (1) The Secretary shall publish by notice in the 

14 Federal Register the terms and conditions, including 

15 criteria for HUD approval, of transfers pursuant to 

16 this section no later than 30 days before the effec17 tive date of such notice. 

18 (2) The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation 

19 of the transfer authority under this section, includ20 ing the effect of such transfers on the operational ef21 ficiency, contract rents, physical and financial condi22 tions, and long-term preservation of the affected 

23 properties. 

24 SEC. 213. No funds provided under this title may be 

25 used for an audit of the Government National Mortgage 
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1 Association that makes applicable requirements under the 

2 Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.). 

3 SEC. 214. (a) No assistance shall be provided under 

4 section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

5 U.S.C. 1437f) to any individual who— 

6 (1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of 

7 higher education (as defined under section 102 of 

8 the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 

9 1002)); 

10 (2) is under 24 years of age; 

11 (3) is not a veteran; 

12 (4) is unmarried; 

13 (5) does not have a dependent child; 

14 (6) is not a person with disabilities, as such 

15 term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United 

16 States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

17 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance 

18 under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; and 

19 (7) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has 

20 parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, 

21 to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 

22 States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 

23 (b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a 

24 person to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 

25 States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any finan-
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1 cial assistance (in excess of amounts received for tuition 

2 and any other required fees and charges) that an indi3 vidual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965 

4 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), from private sources, or an insti5 tution of higher education (as defined under the Higher 

6 Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be consid7 ered income to that individual, except for a person over 

8 the age of 23 with dependent children. 

9 SEC. 215. The funds made available for Native Alas10 kans under the heading ‘‘Native American Housing Block 

11 Grants’’ in title II of this Act shall be allocated to the 

12 same Native Alaskan housing block grant recipients that 

13 received funds in fiscal year 2005. 

14 SEC. 216. Notwithstanding the limitation in the first 

15 sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act 

16 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–g), the Secretary of Housing and Urban 

17 Development may, until September 30, 2014, insure and 

18 enter into commitments to insure mortgages under section 

19 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z– 

20 20). 

21 SEC. 217. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

22 law, in fiscal year 2014, in managing and disposing of any 

23 multifamily property that is owned or has a mortgage held 

24 by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and 

25 during the process of foreclosure on any property with a 
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1 contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 

2 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or other Fed3 eral programs, the Secretary shall maintain any rental as4 sistance payments under section 8 of the United States 

5 Housing Act of 1937 and other programs that are at6 tached to any dwelling units in the property. To the extent 

7 the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants 

8 and the local government, that such a multifamily prop9 erty owned or held by the Secretary is not feasible for con10 tinued rental assistance payments under such section 8 

11 or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs 

12 of rehabilitating and operating the property and all avail13 able Federal, State, and local resources, including rent ad14 justments under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted 

15 Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 

16 (‘‘MAHRAA’’) and (2) environmental conditions that can17 not be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary 

18 may, in consultation with the tenants of that property, 

19 contract for project-based rental assistance payments with 

20 an owner or owners of other existing housing properties, 

21 or provide other rental assistance. The Secretary shall also 

22 take appropriate steps to ensure that project-based con23 tracts remain in effect prior to foreclosure, subject to the 

24 exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relo25 cation of tenants for imminent major threats to health and 
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1 safety after written notice to and informed consent of the 

2 affected tenants and use of other available remedies, such 

3 as partial abatements or receivership. After disposition of 

4 any multifamily property described under this section, the 

5 contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall 

6 be subject to the requirements under section 524 of 

7 MAHRAA. 

8 SEC. 218. (a) INSPECTIONS.—Section 8(o)(8) of the 

9 United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

10 1437f(o)(8)) is amended— 

11 (1) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as sub12 paragraph (G); and 

13 (2) by striking subparagraph (D) and inserting 

14 the following new subparagraphs: 

15 ‘‘(D) BIENNIAL INSPECTIONS.— 

16 ‘‘(i) REQUIREMENT.—Each public 

17 housing agency providing assistance under 

18 this subsection (or other entity, as pro19 vided in paragraph (11)) shall, for each as20 sisted dwelling unit, make inspections not 

21 less often than biennially during the term 

22 of the housing assistance payments con23 tract for the unit to determine whether the 

24 unit is maintained in accordance with the 

25 requirements under subparagraph (A). 
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1 ‘‘(ii) USE OF ALTERNATIVE INSPEC2 TION METHOD.—The requirements under 

3 clause (i) may be complied with by use of 

4 inspections that qualify as an alternative 

5 inspection method pursuant to subpara6 graph (E). 

7 ‘‘(iii) RECORDS.—The public housing 

8 agency (or other entity) shall retain the 

9 records of the inspection for a reasonable 

10 time, as determined by the Secretary, and 

11 shall make the records available upon re12 quest to the Secretary, the Inspector Gen13 eral for the Department of Housing and 

14 Urban Development, and any auditor con15 ducting an audit under section 5(h). 

16 ‘‘(iv) MIXED-FINANCE PROPERTIES.— 

17 The Secretary may adjust the frequency of 

18 inspections for mixed-finance properties as19 sisted with vouchers under paragraph (13) 

20 to facilitate the use of the alternative in21 spections in subparagraph (E). 

22 ‘‘(E) ALTERNATIVE INSPECTION METH23 OD.—An inspection of a property shall qualify 

24 as an alternative inspection method for pur25 poses of this subparagraph if— 
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1 ‘‘(i) the inspection was conducted pur2 suant to requirements under a Federal, 

3 State, or local housing program (including 

4 the Home investment partnership program 

5 under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez 

6 National Affordable Housing Act and the 

7 low-income housing tax credit program 

8 under section 42 of the Internal Revenue 

9 Code of 1986); and 

10 ‘‘(ii) pursuant to such inspection, the 

11 property was determined to meet the 

12 standards or requirements regarding hous13 ing quality or safety applicable to prop14 erties assisted under such program, and, if 

15 a non-Federal standard or requirement 

16 was used, the public housing agency has 

17 certified to the Secretary that such stand18 ard or requirement provides the same (or 

19 greater) protection to occupants of dwell20 ing units meeting such standard or re21 quirement as would the housing quality 

22 standards under subparagraph (B). 

23 ‘‘(F) INTERIM INSPECTIONS.—Upon notifi24 cation to the public housing agency, by a family 

25 (on whose behalf tenant-based rental assistance 
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1 is provided under this subsection) or by a gov2 ernment official, that the dwelling unit for 

3 which such assistance is provided does not com4 ply with the housing quality standards under 

5 subparagraph (B), the public housing agency 

6 shall inspect the dwelling unit— 

7 ‘‘(i) in the case of any condition that 

8 is life-threatening, within 24 hours after 

9 the agency’s receipt of such notification, 

10 unless waived by the Secretary in extraor11 dinary circumstances; and 

12 ‘‘(ii) in the case of any condition that 

13 is not life-threatening, within a reasonable 

14 time frame, as determined by the Sec15 retary.’’. 

16 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments in sub17 section (a) shall take effect upon such date as the Sec18 retary determines, in the Secretary’s sole discretion, 

19 through the Secretary’s publication of such date in the 

20 Federal Register, as part of regulations promulgated, or 

21 a notice issued, by the Secretary to implement such 

22 amendments. 

23 SEC. 219. Notwithstanding any other provision of 

24 law, the recipient of a grant under section 202b of the 

25 Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q) after December 
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1 26, 2000, in accordance with the unnumbered paragraph 

2 at the end of section 202(b) of such Act, may, at its op3 tion, establish a single-asset nonprofit entity to own the 

4 project and may lend the grant funds to such entity, which 

5 may be a private nonprofit organization described in sec6 tion 831 of the American Homeownership and Economic 

7 Opportunity Act of 2000. 

8 SEC. 220. The commitment authority funded by fees 

9 as provided under the subheading ‘‘Program Account’’ 

10 under the heading ‘‘Community Development Loan Guar11 antees’’ may be used to guarantee, or make commitments 

12 to guarantee, notes, or other obligations issued by any 

13 State on behalf of non-entitlement communities in the 

14 State in accordance with the requirements of section 108 

15 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974: 

16 Provided, That any State receiving such a guarantee or 

17 commitment shall distribute all funds subject to such 

18 guarantee to the units of general local government in non19 entitlement areas that received the commitment. 

20 SEC. 221. Public housing agencies that own and oper21 ate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be ex22 empt from any asset management requirement imposed by 

23 the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in con24 nection with the operating fund rule: Provided, That an 

25 agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy 
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1 under the operating fund formula shall not be exempt 

2 from asset management requirements. 

3 SEC. 222. With respect to the use of amounts pro4 vided in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, cap5 ital improvement and management of public housing as 

6 authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the United States 

7 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the 

8 Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline 

9 relating to asset management that restricts or limits in 

10 any way the use of capital funds for central office costs 

11 pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States 

12 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Pro13 vided, That a public housing agency may not use capital 

14 funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are 

15 eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts 

16 from the operating fund in excess of the amounts per17 mitted under section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 

18 SEC. 223. No official or employee of the Department 

19 of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated 

20 as an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Fi21 nancial Officer has determined that such allotment holder 

22 has implemented an adequate system of funds control and 

23 has received training in funds control procedures and di24 rectives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that, not 

25 later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
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1 a trained allotment holder shall be designated for each 

2 HUD subaccount under the heading ‘‘Administration, Op3 erations, and Management’’ as well as each account receiv4 ing appropriations for ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Ex5 penses’’ within the Department of Housing and Urban 

6 Development. 

7 SEC. 224. Payment of attorney fees in program-re8 lated litigation must be paid from individual program of9 fice personnel benefits and compensation funding. The an10 nual budget submission for program office personnel ben11 efit and compensation funding must include program-re12 lated litigation costs for attorney fees as a separate line 

13 item request. 

14 SEC. 225. The Secretary of the Department of Hous15 ing and Urban Development shall for fiscal year 2014 and 

16 subsequent fiscal years, notify the public through the Fed17 eral Register and other means, as determined appropriate, 

18 of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assistance 

19 or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program 

20 or discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that 

21 is to be competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other 

22 provision of law, for fiscal year 2014 and subsequent fiscal 

23 years, the Secretary may make the NOFA available only 

24 on the Internet at the appropriate Government Web site 
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1 or through other electronic media, as determined by the 

2 Secretary. 

3 SEC. 226. The Secretary of the Department of Hous4 ing and Urban Development is authorized to transfer up 

5 to 5 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of the funds 

6 appropriated for any office funded under the heading ‘‘Ad7 ministration, Operations, and Management’’ to any other 

8 office funded under such heading: Provided, That no ap9 propriation for any office funded under the heading ‘‘Ad10 ministration, Operations, and Management’’ shall be in11 creased or decreased by more than 5 percent or 

12 $5,000,000, whichever is less, without prior written ap13 proval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropria14 tions: Provided further, That the Secretary is authorized 

15 to transfer up to 5 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is 

16 less, of the funds appropriated for any account funded 

17 under the general heading ‘‘Program Office Salaries and 

18 Expenses’’ to any other account funded under such head19 ing: Provided further, That no appropriation for any ac20 count funded under the general heading ‘‘Program Office 

21 Salaries and Expenses’’ shall be increased or decreased by 

22 more than 5 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, 

23 without prior written approval of the House and Senate 

24 Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the 

25 Secretary may transfer funds made available for salaries 
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1 and expenses between any office funded under the heading 

2 ‘‘Administration, Operations and Management’’ and any 

3 account funded under the general heading ‘‘Program Of4 fice Salaries and Expenses’’, but only with the prior writ5 ten approval of the House and Senate Committees on Ap6 propriations. 

7 SEC. 227. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban 

8 Development shall take the required actions under sub9 section (b) when a multifamily housing project with a sec10 tion 8 contract or contract for similar project-based assist11 ance: 

12 (1) receives a Real Estate Assessment Center 

13 (REAC) score of 30 or less; or 

14 (2) receives a REAC score between 31 and 59 

15 and: 

16 (A) fails to certify in writing to HUD with17 in 60 days that all deficiencies have been cor18 rected; or 

19 (B) receives consecutive scores of less than 

20 60 on REAC inspections. 

21 Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured 

22 projects with assistance attached to the units under sec23 tion 8 of the united States housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

24 1437f), but do not apply to such units assisted under sec25 tion 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) or to public hous-
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1 ing units assisted with capital or operating funds under 

2 section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

3 U.S.C. 1437g). 

4 (b) The Secretary shall take the following required 

5 actions as authorized under subsection (a)— 

6 (1) The Secretary shall notify the owner and 

7 provide an opportunity for response within 30 days. 

8 If the violations remain, the Secretary shall develop 

9 a Compliance, Disposition and Enforcement Plan 

10 within 60 days, with a specified timetable for cor11 recting all deficiencies. The Secretary shall provide 

12 notice of the Plan to the owner, tenants, the local 

13 government, any mortgagees, and any contract ad14 ministrator. 

15 (2) At the end of the term of the Compliance, 

16 Disposition and Enforcement Plan, if the owner fails 

17 to fully comply with such plan, the Secretary may 

18 require immediate replacement of project manage19 ment with a management agent approved by the 

20 Secretary, and shall take one or more of the fol21 lowing actions, and provide additional notice of those 

22 actions to the owner and the parties specified above: 

23 (A) impose civil money penalties; 
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1 (B) abate the section 8 contract, including 

2 partial abatement, as determined by the Sec3 retary, until all deficiencies have been corrected; 

4 (C) pursue transfer of the project to an 

5 owner, approved by the Secretary under estab6 lished procedures, which will be obligated to 

7 promptly make all required repairs and to ac8 cept renewal of the assistance contract as long 

9 as such renewal is offered; or 

10 (D) seek judicial appointment of a receiver 

11 to manage the property and cure all project de12 ficiencies or seek a judicial order of specific per13 formance requiring the owner to cure all project 

14 deficiencies. 

15 (c) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps 

16 to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, 

17 subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies 

18 to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats 

19 to health and safety after written notice to and informed 

20 consent of the affected tenants and use of other remedies 

21 set forth above. To the extent the Secretary determines, 

22 in consultation with the tenants and the local government, 

23 that the property is not feasible for continued rental as24 sistance payments under such section 8 or other programs, 

25 based on consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating 
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1 and operating the property and all available Federal, 

2 State, and local resources, including rent adjustments 

3 under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing 

4 Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’) and 

5 (2) environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in 

6 a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may, in consultation 

7 with the tenants of that property, contract for project8 based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners 

9 of other existing housing properties, or provide other rent10 al assistance. The Secretary shall report semi-annually on 

11 all properties covered by this section that are assessed 

12 through the Real Estate Assessment Center and have 

13 physical inspection scores of less than 30 or have consecu14 tive physical inspection scores of less than 60. The report 

15 shall include: 

16 (1) The enforcement actions being taken to ad17 dress such conditions, including imposition of civil 

18 money penalties and termination of subsidies, and 

19 identify properties that have such conditions mul20 tiple times; and 

21 (2) Actions that the Department of Housing 

22 and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants 

23 of such identified properties. 

24 SEC. 228. The Disaster Housing Assistance Pro25 grams, administered by the Department of Housing and 
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1 Urban Development, shall be considered a ‘‘program of 

2 the Department of Housing and Urban Development’’ 

3 under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose 

4 of income verifications and matching. 

5 SEC. 229. (a) PHA COMPENSATION.—Section 2(b) of 

6 the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 

7 1437(b)) is amended by adding the following new para8 graph at the end: 

9 ‘‘(4) SALARY.— 

10 ‘‘(A) GENERAL.—This paragraph estab11 lishes the maximum salary that a public hous12 ing agency may provide to its employees and 

13 the maximum annual contract amounts that 

14 may be paid to its contract personnel using 

15 funds provided under this Act. A public housing 

16 agency shall use the same salary structure as 

17 described in this paragraph and follow the re18 quirements of uniform administrative rules for 

19 Federal grants and cooperative agreements and 

20 principles and standards for determining costs 

21 for Federal awards for all payments that it 

22 makes to its employees and for personnel hired 

23 as contractors when funds provided under this 

24 Act are used for such payments. 

25 ‘‘(B) SALARY STRUCTURE.— 
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1 ‘‘(i) The base salary of public housing 

2 agency employees and the contract amount 

3 paid to contracted personnel from funds 

4 provided under this Act shall be based on 

5 the Federal General Schedule (GS) basic 

6 rate of pay, including locality adjustment, 

7 established under sections 5303 and 5304 

8 of title 5, United States Code as follows: 

9 ‘‘(I) For public housing agencies 

10 with fewer than 250 total units (pub11 lic housing and section 8 housing 

12 vouchers), the base salary of a public 

13 housing agency employee or total an14 nual payment to each contracted per15 sonnel shall not exceed the basic rate 

16 of pay, including a locality adjust17 ment, for GS–11, step 10; 

18 ‘‘(II) For public housing agencies 

19 with 250 to 1249 total units (public 

20 housing and section 8 housing vouch21 ers), the base salary of a public hous22 ing employee or total annual payment 

23 to each contracted personnel shall not 

24 exceed the basic rate of pay, including 
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1 locality adjustment, for GS–13, step 

2 10; 

3 ‘‘(III) For public housing agen4 cies with 1250 or more total units 

5 (public housing and section 8 housing 

6 vouchers), the base salary of a public 

7 housing agency employee or total an8 nual payment to each contracted per9 sonnel shall not exceed the basic rate 

10 of pay, including locality adjustment, 

11 for GS–15, step 10. 

12 ‘‘(ii) Any amount of salary paid to an 

13 employee or of total annual payment to 

14 each contracted personnel that exceeds the 

15 amount provided under the structure of 

16 this paragraph must be from non-Act 

17 sources. 

18 ‘‘(iii) The salary structure provided in 

19 subparagraph (B)(i) shall be subject to any 

20 requirements that may be established for 

21 the General Schedule by an appropriations 

22 Act or by Presidential executive order for 

23 any Federal fiscal year. 

24 ‘‘(iv) A public housing agency must 

25 certify that it has established detailed per-
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1 formance measures that describe how pub2 lic housing agency employees or personnel 

3 hired as contractors may receive a salary 

4 or contract increase within the limits of 

5 subparagraph (B)(i). The certification 

6 shall be transmitted to the Secretary in a 

7 format as determined by the Secretary. 

8 ‘‘(C) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this 

9 section— 

10 ‘‘(i) Employee includes any member of 

11 a public housing agency organization 

12 whose salary is paid in whole or in part 

13 from funds provided under this Act, and 

14 regardless of whether such employee is 

15 full-time or part-time, temporary or perma16 nent. 

17 ‘‘(ii) Contracted personnel includes 

18 any member of a public housing agency or19 ganization whose position is procured 

20 under uniform administrative rules for 

21 Federal grants and cooperative agreements 

22 and who is paid in whole or in part from 

23 funds provided under this Act, and regard24 less of whether such individual is full-time 

25 or part-time, hourly, temporary or perma-
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1 nent. No such position shall be for a period 

2 beyond 5 years without re-procurement. 

3 ‘‘(iii) Salary includes the annual basic 

4 rate of pay, including a locality adjust5 ment, as provided in sub-paragraph (B) 

6 and any additional adjustments, such as 

7 may be provided for overtime or shift dif8 ferentials, bonuses, or contract payments 

9 including bonuses. Salary does not include 

10 fringe benefits as defined in principles and 

11 standards for determining costs for Fed12 eral awards. 

13 ‘‘(D) DISCLOSURE OF RECORDS.—Each 

14 public housing agency shall make available to 

15 the Secretary upon request such financial and 

16 other records as the Secretary deems necessary 

17 for purpose of review and monitoring compli18 ance with this section.’’. 

19 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 

20 subsection (a) shall take effect on January 1, 2014 except 

21 that for contract personnel the amendment should be ef22 fective upon the expiration of any contract in effect on 

23 the date of enactment of the amendment. 

24 SEC. 230. Paragraph (1) of section 242(i) of the Na25 tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–7(i)(1)) is amended 
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1 by striking ‘‘July 31, 2011’’ and inserting ‘‘July 31, 

2 2016’’. 

3 SEC. 231. The Secretary of Housing and Urban De4 velopment shall report quarterly to the House and Senate 

5 Committees on Appropriations on the status of all section 

6 8 project-based housing, including the number of all 

7 project-based units by region as well as an analysis of all 

8 federally subsidized housing being refinanced under the 

9 Mark-to-Market program. The Secretary shall identify in 

10 the report all existing units maintained by region as sec11 tion 8 project-based units and all project-based units that 

12 have opted out of section 8 or have otherwise been elimi13 nated as section 8 project-based units. The Secretary shall 

14 identify in detail and by project all efforts made by the 

15 Department to preserve all section 8 project-based housing 

16 units and all the reasons for any units which opted out 

17 or otherwise were lost as section 8 project-based units. 

18 Such analysis shall include a review of the impact of the 

19 loss of any subsidized units in that housing market includ20 ing the cost impact of the loss of available subsidized, low21 income housing in areas with scarce housing resources for 

22 low income families. 

23 SEC. 232. (a) Subsection (b) of section 225 of the 

24 Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 

25 U.S.C. 12755) is amended by inserting at the end the fol-
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1 lowing sentence: ‘‘Such 30 day waiting period is not re2 quired if the grounds for the termination or refusal to 

3 renew involve a direct threat to the safety of the tenants 

4 or employees of the housing, or an imminent and serious 

5 threat to the property (and the termination or refusal to 

6 renew is in accordance with the requirements of State or 

7 local law).’’. 

8 (b) Section 231 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 

9 Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12771) is amended— 

10 (1) in subsection (b) by striking ‘‘make such 

11 funds available by direct reallocation’’ and all that 

12 follows through ‘‘were recaptured’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘reallocate the funds by formula in accordance with 

14 section 217(d) of this Act (42 U.S.C. 12747(d))’’; 

15 and 

16 (2) by striking subsection (c). 

17 SEC. 233. Section 24 of the United States Housing 

18 Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended— 

19 (1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘fiscal 

20 year’’ and all that follows through the period at the 

21 end and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2014.’’; and 

22 (2) in subsection (o), by striking ‘‘September’’ 

23 and all that follows through the period at the end 

24 and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2014.’’. 
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1 SEC. 234. Of the amounts made available for salaries 

2 and expenses under all accounts under this title (except 

3 for the Office of Inspector General account), a total of 

4 up to $10,000,000 may be transferred to and merged with 

5 amounts made available in the ‘‘Information Technology 

6 Fund’’ account under this title. 

7 SEC. 235. The proviso under the ‘‘Community Devel8 opment Fund’’ heading in Public Laws 109–148, 109– 

9 234, 110–252, and 110–329 which requires the Secretary 

10 to establish procedures to prevent duplication of benefits 

11 and to report to the Committees on Appropriations on all 

12 steps to prevent fraud and abuse is amended by striking 

13 ‘‘quarterly’’ and inserting ‘‘annually’’. 

14 SEC. 236. Title II of division K of Public Law 110– 

15 161 is amended by striking the item related to ‘‘Flexible 

16 Subsidy Fund’’. 

17 SEC. 237. (a) Section 3(b) of the United States 

18 Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a) is amended— 

19 (1) in paragraph (2), by designating the first 

20 sentence as subparagraph (A), the second sentence 

21 as subparagraph (B), and the remaining sentences 

22 as subparagraph (D), and by inserting after sub23 paragraph (B) the following new subparagraph (C): 
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1 ‘‘(C) The term extremely low-income fami2 lies means very low-income families whose in3 comes do not exceed the higher of— 

4 ‘‘(i) the poverty guidelines updated 

5 periodically by the Department of Health 

6 and Human Services under the authority 

7 of section 673(2) of the Community Serv8 ices Block Grant Act applicable to a family 

9 of the size involved (except that this clause 

10 shall not apply in the case of public hous11 ing agencies or projects located in Puerto 

12 Rico or any other territory or possession of 

13 the United States); or 

14 ‘‘(ii) 30 percent of the median family 

15 income for the area, as determined by the 

16 Secretary, with adjustments for smaller 

17 and larger families (except that the Sec18 retary may establish income ceilings higher 

19 or lower than 30 percent of the median for 

20 the area on the basis of the Secretary’s 

21 findings that such variations are necessary 

22 because of unusually high or low family in23 comes).’’; and 

24 (b) Section 16 of the United States Housing Act of 

25 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437n) is amended— 
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1 (1) in subsection (a)(2)(A); 

2 (2) in subsection (b)(1); and 

3 (3) in subsection (c)(3), by striking ‘‘families 

4 whose incomes’’ and all that follows through ‘‘low 

5 family incomes’’ and inserting ‘‘extremely low-in6 come families’’. 

7 SEC. 238. The language under the heading Rental 

8 Assistance Demonstration in the Department of Housing 

9 and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public 

10 Law 112–55) is amended— 

11 (1) by striking ‘‘(except for funds allocated 

12 under such section for single room occupancy dwell13 ings as authorized by title IV of the McKinney14 Vento Homeless Assistance Act)’’ in both places 

15 such language appears; 

16 (2) in the third proviso by inserting ‘‘in excess 

17 of amounts made available under this heading’’ after 

18 ‘‘associated with such conversion’’; 

19 (3) in the fourth proviso— 

20 (A) by striking ‘‘60,000’’ and inserting 

21 ‘‘120,000’’; and 

22 (B) by striking ‘‘or section 8(e)(2)’’; 

23 (4) in the penultimate proviso— 

24 (A) by inserting ‘‘with respect to applica25 tions submitted’’ after ‘‘That’’; 
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1 (B) by striking ‘‘and 2013,’’ and inserting 

2 ‘‘through 2015’’; 

3 (C) by striking ‘‘and agreement of the ad4 ministering public housing agency,’’ and insert5 ing ‘‘, either’’; 

6 (D) by inserting ‘‘, subject to the agree7 ment of the administering public housing agen8 cy,’’ after ‘‘available for such vouchers’’; 

9 (E) by inserting ‘‘or for conversion of as10 sistance available for such tenant protection 

11 vouchers to assistance under a project-based 

12 subsidy contract under section 8 of the Act, 

13 which shall have a term of no less than 20 

14 years, with rent adjustments limited to an oper15 ating cost factor established by the Secretary, 

16 and shall be subject to the availability of appro17 priations for each year of such term, and which 

18 shall be eligible for renewal under section 524 

19 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 

20 and Affordability of 1997 (42 U.S.C. 1437f 

21 note): Provided further, That amounts made 

22 available under the headings ‘Project-Based 

23 Rental Assistance’ and ‘Other Assisted Housing 

24 Programs, Rental Housing Assistance’ during 

25 the period of conversion under the previous pro-
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1 viso, which may extend beyond fiscal year 2015 

2 as necessary to allow processing of all timely 

3 applications, shall be available for project-based 

4 subsidy contracts entered into pursuant to the 

5 previous proviso: Provided further, That 

6 amounts, including contract authority, recap7 tured from contracts following a conversion 

8 under the previous two provisos are hereby re9 scinded and an amount of additional new budg10 et authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded 

11 is hereby appropriated, to remain available until 

12 expended for such conversions: Provided further, 

13 That the Secretary may transfer amounts 

14 under the heading ‘Other Assisted Housing 

15 Programs, Rental Housing Assistance’, 

16 amounts made available for tenant protection 

17 vouchers under the heading ‘Tenant-Based 

18 Rental Assistance’, and amounts made available 

19 under the previous proviso as needed to the ac20 count under the ‘Project-Based Rental Assist21 ance’ heading to facilitate conversion under the 

22 three previous provisos and any increase in cost 

23 for ‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’ associated 

24 with such conversion shall be equal to amounts 
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1 so transferred’’ after ‘‘subparagraphs (C) and 

2 (D) of section 8(o)(13) of the Act’’; and 

3 (5) in the final proviso, by striking ‘‘proviso’’ 

4 and inserting ‘‘four provisos’’ in both places such 

5 language appears. 

6 SEC. 239. None of the funds in this Act provided to 

7 the Department of Housing and Urban Development may 

8 be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary noti9 fies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 

10 not less than 3 full business days before any project, 

11 State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organi12 zation, or other entity selected to receive a grant award 

13 is announced by the Department or its offices. 

14 SEC. 240. Section 202(f)(2) of the Housing Act of 

15 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q(f)(2)) is amended— 

16 (a) in paragraph (A)— 

17 (1) by striking the matter before clause (i) and 

18 inserting the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall estab19 lish procedures to delegate the award, review and 

20 processing of projects, selected by the Secretary in 

21 a national competition, to a State or local housing 

22 agency that—’’; and 

23 (2) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘capital advance’’ 

24 and inserting ‘‘funding’’, and by replacing the 

25 comma with a semi-colon; 
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1 (b) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘capital ad2 vances’’ and inserting ‘‘funding under this section’’; 

3 (c) in subparagraph (C), by striking the first sen4 tence; 

5 (d) by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subpara6 graph (E), and in the redesignated subparagraph (E)— 

7 (1) by striking ‘‘a capital advance’’ and insert8 ing ‘‘funding under this section’’; and 

9 (2) by striking ‘‘capital advance amounts or 

10 project rental assistance’’ and inserting ‘‘funding 

11 under this section’’; and 

12 (e) by inserting the following new subparagraph after 

13 subparagraph (C): 

14 ‘‘(D) Assistance under subsection (c)(2) 

15 may be provided for projects which identify in 

16 the application for assistance a defined health 

17 and other supportive services program including 

18 sources of financing the services for eligible 

19 residents and memoranda of understanding 

20 with service provision agencies and organiza21 tions to provide such services for eligible resi22 dents at their request. Such supportive services 

23 plan and memoranda of understating shall— 

24 ‘‘(i) identify the target populations to 

25 be served by the project; 
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1 ‘‘(ii) set forth methods for outreach 

2 and referral; 

3 ‘‘(iii) identify the health and other 

4 supportive services to be provided; and 

5 ‘‘(iv) identify the terms under which 

6 such services will be made available to resi7 dents of the project.’’. 

8 SEC. 241. Section 11 of the Housing Opportunity 

9 Program Extension Act of 1996 (42 U.S.C. 12805 note) 

10 is amended— 

11 (1) in subsection (b)(1) after ‘‘new dwelling’’ 

12 insert ‘‘or the rehabilitation of existing dwellings’’; 

13 (2) in subsection (b)(2) after ‘‘new’’ insert ‘‘or 

14 rehabilitated’’; 

15 (3) in subsection (d)(1) after ‘‘dwellings’’ insert 

16 ‘‘or rehabilitating existing dwellings to make them 

17 decent, safe and sanitary’’; 

18 (4) in subsection (d)(2) by inserting at the end 

19 the following new subparagraph: 

20 ‘‘(C) PLANNING, ADMINISTRATION, AND

21 MANAGEMENT.—Planning, administration, and 

22 management of grant programs and activities, 

23 provided that such expenses do not exceed 20 

24 percent of any grant made under this section.’’; 

25 (5) in subsection (i)(5) by— 
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1 (A) striking ‘‘24’’ and inserting ‘‘36’’; and 

2 (B) striking ‘‘except that’’ and all that fol3 low through ‘‘such grant amounts’’; 

4 (6) in subsection (j) by— 

5 (A) inserting after the heading ‘‘(1) REDIS6 TRIBUTION OF FUNDS.—’’; 

7 (B) striking ‘‘24’’ and inserting ‘‘36’’; 

8 (C) striking ‘‘(or, in the case’’ and all that 

9 follows through ‘‘within 36 months)’’; and 

10 (D) inserting at the end the following new 

11 paragraph: 

12 ‘‘(2) DEADLINE FOR COMPLETION AND CON13 VEYANCE.—The Secretary shall establish a deadline 

14 (which may be extended for good cause as deter15 mined by the Secretary) by which time all units that 

16 have been assisted with grant funds under this sec17 tion must be completed and conveyed.’’. 

18 SEC. 242. Section 8(o)(2) of the United States Hous19 ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(2)), is amended by 

20 adding at the end the following new subparagraph: 

21 ‘‘(D) UTILITY ALLOWANCE.— 

22 ‘‘(i) GENERAL.—In determining the 

23 monthly assistance payment for a family 

24 under subparagraphs (A) and (B), the 

25 amount allowed for tenant-paid utilities 
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1 shall not exceed the appropriate utility al2 lowance for the family unit size as deter3 mined by the public housing agency re4 gardless of the size of the dwelling unit 

5 leased by the family. 

6 ‘‘(ii) EXCEPTION FOR FAMILIES IN IN7 CLUDING PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.— 

8 Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), upon 

9 request by a family that includes a person 

10 with disabilities, the public housing agency 

11 shall approve a utility allowance that is 

12 higher than the applicable amount on the 

13 utility allowance schedule if a higher utility 

14 allowance is needed as a reasonable accom15 modation to make the program accessible 

16 to and usable by the family member with 

17 a disability.’’. 

18 SEC. 243. Paragraph (1) of section 8(c) of the United 

19 States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437) is amend20 ed— 

21 (1) by inserting ‘‘(A)’’ after the paragraph des22 ignation; 

23 (2) by striking the fourth, seventh, eighth, 

24 ninth sentences; and 

25 (3) by adding at the end the following: 
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1 ‘‘(B) PUBLICATION OF FAIR MARKET

2 RENTALS.—Not less than annually: 

3 ‘‘(i) The Secretary shall publish a no4 tice in the Federal Register that proposed 

5 fair market rentals for an area have been 

6 published on the site of the Department on 

7 the Internet and in any other manner spec8 ified by the Secretary. Such notice shall 

9 describe proposed material changes in the 

10 methodology for estimating fair market 

11 rentals and shall provide reasonable time 

12 for public comment. 

13 ‘‘(ii) The Secretary shall publish a no14 tice in the Federal Register that final fair 

15 market rentals have been published on the 

16 site of the Department on the Internet and 

17 in any other manner specified by the Sec18 retary. Such notice shall include the final 

19 decisions regarding proposed substantial 

20 methodological changes for estimating fair 

21 market rentals and responses to public 

22 comments.’’ 

23 This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous24 ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2014’’. 
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1 TITLE III 

2 RELATED AGENCIES 

3 ACCESS BOARD

4 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

5 For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as au6 thorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 

7 as amended, $7,448,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 

8 any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 

9 appropriation funds received for publications and training 

10 expenses. 

11 FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

12 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

13 For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 

14 Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Mer15 chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), in16 cluding services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of 

17 passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 

18 1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as author19 ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $24,669,000: Provided, That 

20 not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for official recep21 tion and representation expenses. 
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1 NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION OFFICE

2 OF INSPECTOR GENERAL

3 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

4 For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 

5 General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 

6 to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 

7 of 1978, as amended, $21,000,000: Provided, That the In8 spector General shall have all necessary authority, in car9 rying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, 

10 as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 

11 of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 

12 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 

13 regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corpora14 tion: Provided further, That the Inspector General may 

15 enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, 

16 studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies 

17 and with private persons, subject to the applicable laws 

18 and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 

19 within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Pro20 vided further, That the Inspector General may select, ap21 point, and employ such officers and employees as may be 

22 necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and du23 ties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the appli24 cable laws and regulations that govern such selections, ap25 pointments, and employment within Amtrak: Provided fur-
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1 ther, That concurrent with the President’s budget request 

2 for fiscal year 2015, the Inspector General shall submit 

3 to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 

4 a budget request for fiscal year 2015 in similar format 

5 and substance to those submitted by executive agencies 

6 of the Federal Government. 

7 NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD

8 SALARIES AND EXPENSES

9 For necessary expenses of the National Transpor10 tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve11 hicles and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 

12 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 

13 diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, 

14 or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 

15 5901–5902), $103,027,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 

16 may be used for official reception and representation ex17 penses. The amounts made available to the National 

18 Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 

19 necessary to make lease payments on an obligation in20 curred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease. 

21 NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION

22 PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT

23 CORPORATION

24 For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor25 poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
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1 as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora2 tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $138,300,000, of which 

3 $5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing pro4 gram: Provided, That in addition, $77,000,000 shall be 

5 made available until expended to the Neighborhood Rein6 vestment Corporation for mortgage foreclosure mitigation 

7 activities, under the following terms and conditions: 

8 (1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora9 tion (‘‘NRC’’) shall make grants to counseling inter10 mediaries approved by the Department of Housing 

11 and Urban Development (HUD) (with match to be 

12 determined by the NRC based on affordability and 

13 the economic conditions of an area; a match also 

14 may be waived by the NRC based on the aforemen15 tioned conditions) to provide mortgage foreclosure 

16 mitigation assistance primarily to States and areas 

17 with high rates of defaults and foreclosures to help 

18 eliminate the default and foreclosure of mortgages of 

19 owner-occupied single-family homes that are at risk 

20 of such foreclosure. Other than areas with high rates 

21 of defaults and foreclosures, grants may also be pro22 vided to approved counseling intermediaries based on 

23 a geographic analysis of the Nation by the NRC 

24 which determines where there is a prevalence of 

25 mortgages that are risky and likely to fail, including 
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1 any trends for mortgages that are likely to default 

2 and face foreclosure. A State Housing Finance 

3 Agency may also be eligible where the State Housing 

4 Finance Agency meets all the requirements under 

5 this paragraph. A HUD-approved counseling inter6 mediary shall meet certain mortgage foreclosure 

7 mitigation assistance counseling requirements, as de8 termined by the NRC, and shall be approved by 

9 HUD or the NRC as meeting these requirements. 

10 (2) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 

11 shall only be made available to homeowners of 

12 owner-occupied homes with mortgages in default or 

13 in danger of default. These mortgages shall likely be 

14 subject to a foreclosure action and homeowners will 

15 be provided such assistance that shall consist of ac16 tivities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and re17 sult in the long-term affordability of the mortgage 

18 retained pursuant to such activity or another posi19 tive outcome for the homeowner. No funds made 

20 available under this paragraph may be provided di21 rectly to lenders or homeowners to discharge out22 standing mortgage balances or for any other direct 

23 debt reduction payments. 

24 (3) The use of Mortgage Foreclosure Mitigation 

25 Assistance by approved counseling intermediaries 
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1 and State Housing Finance Agencies shall involve a 

2 reasonable analysis of the borrower’s financial situa3 tion, an evaluation of the current value of the prop4 erty that is subject to the mortgage, counseling re5 garding the assumption of the mortgage by another 

6 non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible 

7 purchase of the mortgage by a non-Federal third 

8 party, counseling and advice of all likely restruc9 turing and refinancing strategies or the approval of 

10 a work-out strategy by all interested parties. 

11 (4) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the 

12 total funds under this paragraph to its own charter 

13 members with expertise in foreclosure prevention 

14 counseling, subject to a certification by the NRC 

15 that the procedures for selection do not consist of 

16 any procedures or activities that could be construed 

17 as an unacceptable conflict of interest or have the 

18 appearance of impropriety. 

19 (5) HUD-approved counseling entities and 

20 State Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds 

21 under this paragraph shall have demonstrated expe22 rience in successfully working with financial institu23 tions as well as borrowers facing default, delin24 quency and foreclosure as well as documented coun25 seling capacity, outreach capacity, past successful 
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1 performance and positive outcomes with documented 

2 counseling plans (including post mortgage fore3 closure mitigation counseling), loan workout agree4 ments and loan modification agreements. NRC may 

5 use other criteria to demonstrate capacity in under6 served areas. 

7 (6) Of the total amount made available under 

8 this paragraph, up to $3,000,000 may be made 

9 available to build the mortgage foreclosure and de10 fault mitigation counseling capacity of counseling 

11 intermediaries through NRC training courses with 

12 HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their 

13 partners, except that private financial institutions 

14 that participate in NRC training shall pay market 

15 rates for such training. 

16 (7) Of the total amount made available under 

17 this paragraph, up to 5 percent may be used for as18 sociated administrative expenses for the NRC to 

19 carry out activities provided under this section. 

20 (8) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 

21 grants may include a budget for outreach and adver22 tising, and training, as determined by the NRC. 

23 (9) The NRC shall continue to report bi-annu24 ally to the House and Senate Committees on Appro25 priations as well as the Senate Banking Committee 
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1 and House Financial Services Committee on its ef2 forts to mitigate mortgage default. 

3 UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON

4 HOMELESSNESS

5 OPERATING EXPENSES

6 For necessary expenses (including payment of sala7 ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 

8 the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex9 perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 

10 States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 

11 Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 

12 title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 

13 as amended, $3,595,000. Title II of the McKinney-Vento 

14 Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11319) is amended 

15 by striking ‘‘October 1, 2015’’ in section 209 and inserting 

16 ‘‘October 1, 2020’’, and in section 204(a) by striking 

17 ‘‘level V’’ and inserting ‘‘level IV’’. 

18 TITLE IV 

19 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 

20 SEC. 401. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 

21 year 2014 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall 

22 be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or 

23 previous appropriations Acts. 

24 SEC. 402. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 

25 for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
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1 expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 

2 intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 

3 funded in this Act. 

4 SEC. 403. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 

5 shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 

6 fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria7 tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 

8 SEC. 404. The expenditure of any appropriation 

9 under this Act for any consulting service through procure10 ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 

11 States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 

12 expenditures are a matter of public record and available 

13 for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 

14 under existing law, or under existing Executive order 

15 issued pursuant to existing law. 

16 SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 

17 none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre18 vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund19 ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex20 penditure in fiscal year 2014, or provided from any ac21 counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 

22 and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 

23 available for obligation or expenditure through a re24 programming of funds that: 

25 (1) creates a new program; 
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1 (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 

2 (3) increases funds or personnel for any pro3 gram, project, or activity for which funds have been 

4 denied or restricted by the Congress; 

5 (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 

6 activity by either the House or Senate Committees 

7 on Appropriations for a different purpose; 

8 (5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac9 tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, which10 ever is less; 

11 (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or ac12 tivities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 

13 less; or 

14 (7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a 

15 branch, division, office, bureau, board, commission, 

16 agency, administration, or department different from 

17 the budget justifications submitted to the Commit18 tees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 

19 the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, 

20 whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 

21 received from the House and Senate Committees on 

22 Appropriations: Provided, That not later than 60 

23 days after the date of enactment of this Act, each 

24 agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to 

25 the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
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1 of the House of Representatives to establish the 

2 baseline for application of reprogramming and trans3 fer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided 

4 further, That the report shall include: 

5 (A) a table for each appropriation with a 

6 separate column to display the prior year en7 acted level, the President’s budget request, ad8 justments made by Congress, adjustments due 

9 to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 

10 fiscal year enacted level; 

11 (B) a delineation in the table for each ap12 propriation and its respective prior year enacted 

13 level by object class and program, project, and 

14 activity as detailed in the budget appendix for 

15 the respective appropriation; and 

16 (C) an identification of items of special 

17 congressional interest: Provided further, That 

18 the amount appropriated or limited for salaries 

19 and expenses for an agency shall be reduced by 

20 $100,000 per day for each day after the re21 quired date that the report has not been sub22 mitted to the Congress. 

23 SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided 

24 by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 

25 remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2014 from 
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1 appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 

2 for fiscal year 2014 in this Act, shall remain available 

3 through September 30, 2015, for each such account for 

4 the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 

5 be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Ap6 propriations for approval prior to the expenditure of such 

7 funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made 

8 in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under sec9 tion 405 of this Act. 

10 SEC. 407. All Federal agencies and departments that 

11 are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House 

12 and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all sole13 source contracts by no later than July 30, 2014. Such re14 port shall include the contractor, the amount of the con15 tract and the rationale for using a sole-source contract. 

16 SEC. 408. (a) None of the funds made available in 

17 this Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 

18 training that— 

19 (1) does not meet identified needs for knowl20 edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 

21 performance of official duties; 

22 (2) contains elements likely to induce high lev23 els of emotional response or psychological stress in 

24 some participants; 
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1 (3) does not require prior employee notification 

2 of the content and methods to be used in the train3 ing and written end of course evaluation; 

4 (4) contains any methods or content associated 

5 with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 

6 ‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em7 ployment Opportunity Commission Notice N– 

8 915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 

9 (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par10 ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 

11 workplace. 

12 (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 

13 otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 

14 bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 

15 SEC. 409. No funds in this Act may be used to sup16 port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 

17 the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 

18 employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur19 poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 

20 include economic development that primarily benefits pri21 vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 

22 mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects 

23 as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the gen24 eral public (including energy-related, communication-re25 lated, water-related and wastewater-related infrastruc-
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1 ture), other structures designated for use by the general 

2 public or which have other common-carrier or public-util3 ity functions that serve the general public and are subject 

4 to regulation and oversight by the government, and 

5 projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 

6 health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small 

7 Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization 

8 Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 

9 use for purposes of eminent domain. 

10 SEC. 410. None of the funds made available in this 

11 Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in12 strumentality of the United States Government, except 

13 pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro14 vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 

15 SEC. 411. No part of any appropriation contained in 

16 this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 

17 filling a position, other than a temporary position, for18 merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 

19 Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com20 pleted his period of active military or naval service, and 

21 has within 90 days after his release from such service or 

22 from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe23 riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora24 tion to his former position and has been certified by the 

25 Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
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1 form the duties of his former position and has not been 

2 restored thereto. 

3 SEC. 412. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 

4 Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 

5 that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 

6 with chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 

7 SEC. 413. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 

8 available under this Act shall be made available to any 

9 person or entity that has been convicted of violating chap10 ter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 

11 SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this 

12 Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 

13 contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 

14 title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 

15 SEC. 415. None of the funds made available under 

16 this Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Associa17 tion of Community Organizations for Reform Now 

18 (ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied 

19 organizations. 

20 SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 

21 Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 

22 of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 

23 grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any cor24 poration that was convicted of a felony criminal violation 

25 under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, 
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1 where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, un2 less the agency has considered suspension or debarment 

3 of the corporation and has made a determination that this 

4 further action is not necessary to protect the interests of 

5 the Government. 

6 SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this 

7 Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 

8 of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 

9 grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor10 poration with any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 

11 been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 

12 remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 

13 is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree14 ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 

15 liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 

16 tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 

17 or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter18 mination that this further action is not necessary to pro19 tect the interests of the Government. 

20 SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this 

21 Act may be used to purchase a light bulb for an office 

22 building unless the light bulb has, to the extent prac23 ticable, an Energy Star or Federal Energy Management 

24 Program designation. 
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1 SEC. 419. All agencies and departments funded by 

2 the Act shall send to Congress at the end of the fiscal 

3 year a report containing a complete inventory of the total 

4 number of vehicles owned, leased, permanently retired, 

5 and purchased during fiscal year 2014, as well as the total 

6 cost of the vehicle fleet, including maintenance, fuel, stor7 age, purchasing, and leasing. 

8 SEC. 420. (a) The head of any Executive branch de9 partment, agency, board, commission, or office funded by 

10 this Act shall submit annual reports to the Inspector Gen11 eral or senior ethics official for any entity without an In12 spector General, regarding the costs and contracting pro13 cedures related to each conference held by any such de14 partment, agency, board, commission, or office during fis15 cal year 2014 for which the cost to the United States Gov16 ernment was more than $100,000. 

17 (b) Each report submitted shall include, for each con18 ference described in subsection (a) held during the applica19 ble period— 

20 (1) a description of its purpose; 

21 (2) the number of participants attending; 

22 (3) a detailed statement of the costs to the 

23 United States Government, including— 

24 (A) the cost of any food or beverages; 

25 (B) the cost of any audio-visual services; 
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1 (C) the cost of employee or contractor 

2 travel to and from the conference; and 

3 (D) a discussion of the methodology used 

4 to determine which costs relate to the con5 ference; and 

6 (4) a description of the contracting procedures 

7 used including— 

8 (A) whether contracts were awarded on a 

9 competitive basis; and 

10 (B) a discussion of any cost comparison 

11 conducted by the departmental component or 

12 office in evaluating potential contractors for the 

13 conference. 

14 (c) Within 15 days of the date of a conference held 

15 by any Executive branch department, agency, board, com16 mission, or office funded by this Act during fiscal year 

17 2014 for which the cost to the United States Government 

18 was more than $20,000, the head of any such department, 

19 agency, board, commission, or office shall notify the In20 spector General or senior ethics official for any entity 

21 without an Inspector General, of the date, location, and 

22 number of employees attending such conference. 

23 (d) A grant or contract funded by amounts appro24 priated by this Act to an Executive branch agency may 

25 not be used for the purpose of defraying the costs of a 
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1 conference described in subsection (c) that is not directly 

2 and programmatically related to the purpose for which the 

3 grant or contract was awarded, such as a conference held 

4 in connection with planning, training, assessment, review, 

5 or other routine purposes related to a project funded by 

6 the grant or contract. 

7 (e) None of the funds made available in this Act may 

8 be used for travel and conference activities that are not 

9 in compliance with Office of Management and Budget 

10 Memorandum M–12–12 dated May 11, 2012. 

11 SEC. 421. None of the funds made available in this 

12 Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend13 ance of more than 50 employees of a single agency or de14 partment of the United States Government, who are sta15 tioned in the United States, at any single international 

16 conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the 

17 Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance 

18 that such attendance is important to the national interest: 

19 Provided, That for purposes of this section the term 

20 ‘‘international conference’’ shall mean a conference occur21 ring outside of the United States attended by representa22 tives of the United States Government and of foreign gov23 ernments, international organizations, or nongovern24 mental organizations. 
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1 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous2 ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro3 priations Act, 2014’’. 
Calendar No. 99 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 1243 

[Report No. 113–45] 

A BILL 

Making appropriations for the Departments of 

poses. ending September 30, 2014, and for other puropment, and related agencies for the fiscal year Transportation, and Housing and Urban DevelJUNE 27, 2013 

Read twice and placed on the calendar