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[Congressional Bills 114th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2577 Reported in Senate (RS)]

                                                       Calendar No. 138
114th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2577

                          [Report No. 114-75]

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 10, 2015

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

                             June 25, 2015

               Reported by Ms. Collins, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

 
   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
<DELETED>That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in 
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, 
namely:</DELETED>

                       <DELETED>TITLE I</DELETED>

            <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION</DELETED>

               <DELETED>Office of the Secretary</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$105,000,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by $500,000) (reduced by 
$4,000,000) (reduced by $4,000,000), of which not to exceed $2,734,000 
shall be available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to 
exceed $1,025,000 shall be available for the immediate Office of the 
Deputy Secretary; not to exceed $20,066,000 (reduced by $2,000,000) 
shall be available for the Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed 
$9,310,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (reduced by $500,000) shall be 
available for the Office of the Under Secretary of Transportation for 
Policy; not to exceed $12,808,000 (reduced by $4,000,000) (reduced by 
$1,000,000) shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed $2,500,000 (reduced by 
$250,000) shall be available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary 
for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed $26,029,000 (reduced by 
$500,000) (reduced by $2,000,000) shall be available for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $2,029,000 
shall be available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 
$1,769,000 (reduced by $250,000) shall be available for the Office of 
the Executive Secretariat; not to exceed $10,793,000 shall be available 
for the Office of Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response; and 
not to exceed $15,937,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Chief Information Officer:  Provided, That the Secretary of 
Transportation is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for any 
office of the Office of the Secretary to any other office of the Office 
of the Secretary:  Provided further, That no appropriation for any 
office shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 percent by all 
such transfers:  Provided further, That notice of any change in funding 
greater than 5 percent shall be submitted for approval to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations:  Provided further, That not to 
exceed $60,000 shall be for allocation within the Department for 
official reception and representation expenses as the Secretary may 
determine:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, excluding fees authorized in Public Law 107-71, there may be 
credited to this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received in 
user fees:  Provided further, That none of the funds provided in this 
Act shall be available for the position of Assistant Secretary for 
Public Affairs.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>research and technology</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses related to the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, $11,386,000, of which 
$8,218,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, 
That there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until 
expended, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training:  Provided further, That any reference in law, regulation, 
judicial proceedings, or elsewhere to the Research and Innovative 
Technology Administration shall continue to be deemed to be a reference 
to the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology of 
the Department of Transportation.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>national infrastructure investments</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For capital investments in surface transportation 
infrastructure, $100,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 
2018:  Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation shall distribute 
funds provided under this heading as discretionary grants to be awarded 
to a State, local government, transit agency, or a collaboration among 
such entities on a competitive basis for projects that will have a 
significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, or a region:  
Provided further, That projects eligible for funding provided under 
this heading shall include, but not be limited to, highway or bridge 
projects eligible under title 23, United States Code; public 
transportation projects eligible under chapter 53 of title 49, United 
States Code; passenger and freight rail transportation projects; and 
port infrastructure investments (including inland port infrastructure 
and land ports of entry):  Provided further, That the Secretary may use 
up to 20 percent of the funds made available under this heading for the 
purpose of paying the subsidy and administrative costs of projects 
eligible for Federal credit assistance under chapter 6 of title 23, 
United States Code, if the Secretary finds that such use of the funds 
would advance the purposes of this paragraph:  Provided further, That 
in distributing funds provided under this heading, the Secretary shall 
take such measures so as to ensure an equitable geographic distribution 
of funds, an appropriate balance in addressing the needs of urban and 
rural areas, and the investment in a variety of transportation modes:  
Provided further, That a grant funded under this heading shall be not 
less than $2,000,000 and not greater than $15,000,000:  Provided 
further, That not more than 20 percent of the funds made available 
under this heading may be awarded to projects in a single State:  
Provided further, That the Federal share of the costs for which an 
expenditure is made under this heading shall be, at the option of the 
recipient, up to 50 percent:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall give priority to projects that require a contribution of Federal 
funds in order to complete an overall financing package:  Provided 
further, That not less than 10 percent of the funds provided under this 
heading shall be for projects located in rural areas:  Provided 
further, That for projects located in rural areas, the minimum grant 
size shall be $1,000,000 and the Secretary may increase the Federal 
share of costs above 80 percent:  Provided further, That projects 
conducted using funds provided under this heading must comply with the 
requirements of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States 
Code:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall conduct a new 
competition to select the grants and credit assistance awarded under 
this heading:  Provided further, That the Secretary may retain up to 
$5,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading, and may transfer 
portions of those funds to the Administrators of the Federal Highway 
Administration, the Federal Transit Administration, the Federal 
Railroad Administration and the Maritime Administration, to fund the 
award and oversight of grants and credit assistance made under the 
National Infrastructure Investments program.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>financial management capital</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the 
Department of Transportation's financial systems and re-engineering 
business processes, $1,000,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2017.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>cyber security initiatives</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, 
including necessary upgrades to wide area network and information 
technology infrastructure, improvement of network perimeter controls 
and identity management, testing and assessment of information 
technology against business, security, and other requirements, 
implementation of Federal cyber security initiatives and information 
infrastructure enhancements, implementation of enhanced security 
controls on network devices, and enhancement of cyber security 
workforce training tools, $7,000,000 to remain available through 
September 30, 2017.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>office of civil rights</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, 
$9,600,000.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>transportation planning, research, and development</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation 
planning, research, systems development, development activities, and 
making grants, to remain available until expended, 
$5,976,000.</DELETED>

                <DELETED>working capital fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital 
outlays of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $181,500,000 shall 
be paid from appropriations made available to the Department of 
Transportation:  Provided, That such services shall be provided on a 
competitive basis to entities within the Department of Transportation:  
Provided further, That the above limitation on operating expenses shall 
not apply to non-DOT entities:  Provided further, That no funds 
appropriated in this Act to an agency of the Department shall be 
transferred to the Working Capital Fund without majority approval of 
the Working Capital Fund Steering Committee and approval of the 
Secretary:  Provided further, That no assessments may be levied against 
any program, budget activity, subactivity or project funded by this Act 
unless notice of such assessments and the basis therefor are presented 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved 
by such Committees.</DELETED>

      <DELETED>minority business resource center program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $336,000, as authorized 
by 49 U.S.C. 332:  Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That these funds 
are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is 
to be guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, $597,000.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>small and disadvantaged business utilization and 
                           outreach</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses for small and disadvantaged 
business utilization and outreach activities, $4,518,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That notwithstanding 49 
U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for business opportunities related 
to any mode of transportation.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>payments to air carriers</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(airport and airway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    In addition to funds made available from any other source 
to carry out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 41731 
through 41742, $155,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That in 
determining between or among carriers competing to provide service to a 
community, the Secretary may consider the relative subsidy requirements 
of the carriers:  Provided further, That basic essential air service 
minimum requirements shall not include the 15-passenger capacity 
requirement under subsection 41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States 
Code:  Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act or any 
other Act shall be used to enter into a new contract with a community 
located less than 40 miles from the nearest small hub airport before 
the Secretary has negotiated with the community over a local cost 
share:  Provided further, That amounts authorized to be distributed for 
the essential air service program under subsection 41742(b) of title 
49, United States Code, shall be made available immediately from 
amounts otherwise provided to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration:  Provided further, That the Administrator may reimburse 
such amounts from fees credited to the account established under 
section 45303 of title 49, United States Code.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>administrative provisions</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 101.  None of the funds made available in this Act to 
the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the 
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable 
agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal 
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date 
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have 
completed the normal reprogramming process for Congressional 
notification.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 102.  Notwithstanding section 3324 of title 31, 
United States Code, in addition to authority provided by section 327 of 
title 49, United States Code, the Department's Working Capital Fund is 
hereby authorized to provide payments in advance to vendors that are 
necessary to carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe 
benefit program under Executive Order No. 13150 and section 3049 of 
Public Law 109-59:  Provided, That the Department shall include 
adequate safeguards in the contract with the vendors to ensure timely 
and high-quality performance under the contract.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 103.  The Secretary shall post on the Web site of the 
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the Credit 
Council, including the agenda for each meeting, and require the Credit 
Council to record the decisions and actions of each meeting.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 104.  In addition to authority provided by section 
327 of title 49, United States Code, the Department's Working Capital 
Fund is hereby authorized to provide partial or full payments in 
advance and accept subsequent reimbursements from all Federal agencies 
for transit benefit distribution services that are necessary to carry 
out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit program 
under Executive Order No. 13150 and section 3049 of Public Law 109-59:  
Provided, That the Department shall maintain a reasonable operating 
reserve in the Working Capital Fund, to be expended in advance to 
provide uninterrupted transit benefits to Government employees, 
provided that such reserve will not exceed one month of benefits 
payable:  Provided further, that such reserve may be used only for the 
purpose of providing for the continuation of transit benefits, provided 
that the Working Capital Fund will be fully reimbursed by each customer 
agency for the actual cost of the transit benefit.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Aviation Administration</DELETED>

                     <DELETED>operations</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(airport and airway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation 
Administration, not otherwise provided for, including operations and 
research activities related to commercial space transportation, 
administrative expenses for research and development, establishment of 
air navigation facilities, the operation (including leasing) and 
maintenance of aircraft, subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts 
and maps sold to the public, lease or purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only, in addition to amounts made available by 
Public Law 112-95, $9,847,700,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) of which 
$8,831,250,000 shall be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
of which not to exceed $7,505,293,000 shall be available for air 
traffic organization activities; not to exceed $1,258,411,000 shall be 
available for aviation safety activities; not to exceed $16,605,000 
(increased by $250,000) shall be available for commercial space 
transportation activities; not to exceed $725,000,000 (reduced by 
$3,000,000) (reduced by $250,000) shall be available for finance and 
management activities; not to exceed $60,089,000 shall be available for 
NextGen and operations planning activities; and not to exceed 
$282,302,000 shall be available for staff offices:  Provided, That not 
to exceed 2 percent of any budget activity, except for aviation safety 
budget activity, may be transferred to any budget activity under this 
heading:  Provided further, That no transfer may increase or decrease 
any appropriation by more than 2 percent:  Provided further, That any 
transfer in excess of 2 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of 
funds under section 405 of this Act and shall not be available for 
obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
forth in that section:  Provided further, That not later than March 31 
of each fiscal year hereafter, the Administrator of the Federal 
Aviation Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual update to 
the report submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 
221 of Public Law 108-176:  Provided further, That the amount herein 
appropriated shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 31 
that such report has not been submitted to the Congress:  Provided 
further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, 
the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a companion report that 
describes a comprehensive strategy for staffing, hiring, and training 
flight standards and aircraft certification staff in a format similar 
to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan, including stated 
attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year:  
Provided further, That the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced 
by $100,000 per day for each day after March 31 that such report has 
not been submitted to Congress:  Provided further, That funds may be 
used to enter into a grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting 
organization to assist in the development of aviation safety standards: 
 Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be 
available for new applicants for the second career training program:  
Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for the Federal Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any 
regulation that would promulgate new aviation user fees not 
specifically authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this 
Act:  Provided further, That there may be credited to this 
appropriation as offsetting collections funds received from States, 
counties, municipalities, foreign authorities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred in the provision 
of agency services, including receipts for the maintenance and 
operation of air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or 
modification of certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair 
station certificates, or for tests related thereto, or for processing 
major repair or alteration forms:  Provided further, That of the funds 
appropriated under this heading, not less than $154,400,000 shall be 
for the contract tower program, including the contract tower cost share 
program:  Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act for 
aeronautical charting and cartography are available for activities 
conducted by, or coordinated through, the Working Capital 
Fund.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>facilities and equipment</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(airport and airway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
acquisition, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace systems and 
experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part A of 
subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and 
service testing, including construction of test facilities and 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction and 
furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and 
employees of the Federal Aviation Administration stationed at remote 
localities where such accommodations are not available; and the 
purchase, lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds available under 
this heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and 
certification; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$2,500,000,000 (increased by $3,000,000), of which $460,000,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2016, and $2,040,000,000 
(increased by $3,000,000) shall remain available until September 30, 
2018:  Provided, That there may be credited to this appropriation funds 
received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in the 
establishment, improvement, and modernization of national airspace 
systems:  Provided further, That upon initial submission to the 
Congress of the fiscal year 2017 President's budget, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall transmit to the Congress a comprehensive capital 
investment plan for the Federal Aviation Administration which includes 
funding for each budget line item for fiscal years 2017 through 2021, 
with total funding for each year of the plan constrained to the funding 
targets for those years as estimated and approved by the Office of 
Management and Budget:  Provided further, That the amount herein 
appropriated shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
the initial submission of the fiscal year 2017 President's budget that 
such report has not been submitted to Congress.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>research, engineering, and development</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(airport and airway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
research, engineering, and development, as authorized under part A of 
subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including construction of 
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or 
grant, $156,750,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections, 
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources, which shall be available for expenses 
incurred for research, engineering, and development.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>grants-in-aid for airports</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(airport and airway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in-aid 
for airport planning and development, and noise compatibility planning 
and programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 and 
subchapter I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, and under 
other law authorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, 
and commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices and systems at 
airports of such title; for grants authorized under section 41743 of 
title 49, United States Code; and for inspection activities and 
administration of airport safety programs, including those related to 
airport operating certificates under section 44706 of title 49, United 
States Code, $3,600,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended:  Provided, That none 
of the funds under this heading shall be available for the planning or 
execution of programs the obligations for which are in excess of 
$3,350,000,000 in fiscal year 2016, notwithstanding section 47117(g) of 
title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That none of the funds 
under this heading shall be available for the replacement of baggage 
conveyor systems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, or other 
airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk explosive 
detection systems:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, of funds limited under this heading, not more than 
$107,100,000 shall be obligated for administration, not less than 
$15,000,000 shall be available for the Airport Cooperative Research 
Program, and not less than $31,000,000 shall be available for Airport 
Technology Research.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>administrative provisions</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 110.  None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
compensate in excess of 600 technical staff-years under the federally 
funded research and development center contract between the Federal 
Aviation Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems 
Development during fiscal year 2016.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 111.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to 
pursue or adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to 
provide to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost building 
construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport 
sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, 
air navigation, or weather reporting:  Provided, That the prohibition 
of funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the 
agency and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on below-market rates 
for these items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to 
provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic control 
facilities.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 112.  The Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy 49 
U.S.C. 41742(a)(1) from fees credited under 49 U.S.C. 45303 and any 
amount remaining in such account at the close of that fiscal year may 
be made available to satisfy section 41742(a)(1) for the subsequent 
fiscal year.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 113.  Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of 
title 49, United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation 
current at the time of collection, to be merged with and available for 
the same purposes of such appropriation.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 114.  None of the funds in this Act shall be 
available for paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of title 5, 
United States Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee 
unless such employee actually performed work during the time 
corresponding to such premium pay.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 115.  None of the funds in this Act may be obligated 
or expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
purchase a store gift card or gift certificate through use of a 
Government-issued credit card.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 116.  None of the funds in this Act may be obligated 
or expended for retention bonuses for an employee of the Federal 
Aviation Administration without the prior written approval of the 
Assistant Secretary for Administration of the Department of 
Transportation.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 117.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be 
used to implement or to continue to implement any limitation on the 
ability of any owner or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon 
a request to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
a blocking of that owner's or operator's aircraft registration number 
from any display of the Federal Aviation Administration's Aircraft 
Situational Display to Industry data that is made available to the 
public, except data made available to a Government agency, for the 
noncommercial flights of that owner or operator.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 118.  None of the funds in this Act shall be 
available for salaries and expenses of more than nine political and 
Presidential appointees in the Federal Aviation 
Administration.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 119.  None of the funds made available under this Act 
may be used to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, 
United States Code, until the FAA provides to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations a report that justifies all fees related 
to aeronautical navigation products and explains how such fees are 
consistent with Executive Order No. 13642.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 119A.  None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
close a regional operations center of the Federal Aviation 
Administration or reduce its services unless the Administrator notifies 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 90 full 
business days in advance.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 119B.  None of the funds appropriated or limited by 
this Act may be used to change weight restrictions or prior permission 
rules at Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Highway Administration</DELETED>

        <DELETED>limitation on administrative expenses</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
not to exceed $426,100,000, together with advances and reimbursements 
received by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be obligated for 
necessary expenses for administration and operation of the Federal 
Highway Administration. In addition, not to exceed $3,248,000 shall be 
transferred to the Appalachian Regional Commission in accordance with 
section 104 of title 23, United States Code.</DELETED>

                <DELETED>federal-aid highways</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
funds available for the implementation or execution of Federal-aid 
highway and highway safety construction programs authorized under 
titles 23 and 49, United States Code, and the provisions of such 
authorization legislation shall not exceed total obligations of 
$40,256,000,000 for fiscal year 2016:  Provided, That the Secretary may 
collect and spend fees, as authorized by title 23, United States Code, 
to cover the costs of services of expert firms, including counsel, in 
the field of municipal and project finance to assist in the 
underwriting and servicing of Federal credit instruments and all or a 
portion of the costs to the Federal Government of servicing such credit 
instruments:  Provided further, That such fees are available until 
expended to pay for such costs:  Provided further, That such amounts 
are in addition to administrative expenses that are also available for 
such purpose, and are not subject to any obligation limitation or the 
limitation on administrative expenses under section 608 of title 23, 
United States Code.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
for the payment of obligations incurred in carrying out Federal-aid 
highway and highway safety construction programs authorized under title 
23, United States Code, $40,995,000,000 derived from the Highway Trust 
Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available until 
expended.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>administrative provisions--federal highway 
                        administration</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 120.  Contingent upon enactment of authorization 
legislation:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (a) For fiscal year 2016, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) not distribute from the obligation limitation 
        for Federal-aid highways--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) amounts authorized for administrative 
                expenses and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, 
                United States Code; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) amounts authorized for the Bureau of 
                Transportation Statistics;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) not distribute an amount from the obligation 
        limitation for Federal-aid highways that is equal to the 
        unobligated balance of amounts--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) made available from the Highway Trust 
                Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for Federal-
                aid highway and highway safety construction programs 
                for previous fiscal years the funds for which are 
                allocated by the Secretary (or apportioned by the 
                Secretary under sections 202 or 204 of title 23, United 
                States Code); and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) for which obligation limitation was 
                provided in a previous fiscal year;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) determine the proportion that--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) the obligation limitation for Federal-
                aid highways, less the aggregate of amounts not 
                distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this 
                subsection; bears to</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the total of the sums authorized to be 
                appropriated for the Federal-aid highway and highway 
                safety construction programs (other than sums 
                authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law 
                described in paragraphs (1) through (11) of subsection 
                (b) and sums authorized to be appropriated for section 
                119 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the 
                amount referred to in subsection (b)(12) for such 
                fiscal year), less the aggregate of the amounts not 
                distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this 
                subsection;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) distribute the obligation limitation for 
        Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not 
        distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2), for each of the 
        programs (other than programs to which paragraph (1) applies) 
        that are allocated by the Secretary under such authorization 
        legislation and title 23, United States Code, or apportioned by 
        the Secretary under sections 202 or 204 of that title, by 
        multiplying--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) the proportion determined under 
                paragraph (3); by</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the amounts authorized to be 
                appropriated for each such program for such fiscal 
                year; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) distribute the obligation limitation for 
        Federal-aid highways, less the aggregate amounts not 
        distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) and the amounts 
        distributed under paragraph (4), for Federal-aid highway and 
        highway safety construction programs that are apportioned by 
        the Secretary under such authorization legislation or title 23, 
        United States Code (other than the amounts apportioned for the 
        National Highway Performance Program in section 119 of title 
        23, United States Code, that are exempt from the limitation 
        under subsection (b)(12) and the amounts apportioned under 
        sections 202 and 204 of that title) in the proportion that--
        </DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) amounts authorized to be appropriated 
                for the programs that are apportioned under title 23, 
                United States Code, or such authorization legislation 
                to each State for such fiscal year; bears to</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the total of the amounts authorized to 
                be appropriated for the programs that are apportioned 
                under title 23, United States Code, or such 
                authorization legislation to all States for such fiscal 
                year.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Exceptions From Obligation Limitation.--The obligation 
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations 
under or for--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) section 125 of title 23, United States 
        Code;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation 
        Assistance Act of 1978 (23 U.S.C. 144 note; 92 Stat. 
        2714);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 
        1981 (95 Stat. 1701);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) subsections (b) and (j) of section 131 of the 
        Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 
        2119);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) subsections (b) and (c) of section 149 of the 
        Surface Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 
        1987 (101 Stat. 198);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal 
        Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 
        2027);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code 
        (as in effect on June 8, 1998);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) section 105 of title 23, United States Code 
        (as in effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but only in 
        an amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal 
        years);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) Federal-aid highway programs for which 
        obligation authority was made available under the 
        Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 107) 
        or subsequent Acts for multiple years or to remain available 
        until expended, but only to the extent that the obligation 
        authority has not lapsed or been used;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (10) section 105 of title 23, United States Code 
        (as in effect for fiscal years 2005 through 2012, but only in 
        an amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal 
        years);</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (11) section 1603 of SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 118 
        note; 119 Stat. 1248), to the extent that funds obligated in 
        accordance with that section were not subject to a limitation 
        on obligations at the time at which the funds were initially 
        made available for obligation; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (12) section 119 of title 23, United States Code 
        (but, for each of fiscal years 2013 through 2016, only in an 
        amount equal to $639,000,000).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Redistribution of Unused Obligation Authority.--
Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of 
such fiscal year--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) revise a distribution of the obligation 
        limitation made available under subsection (a) if an amount 
        distributed cannot be obligated during that fiscal year; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) redistribute sufficient amounts to those 
        States able to obligate amounts in addition to those previously 
        distributed during that fiscal year, giving priority to those 
        States having large unobligated balances of funds apportioned 
        under sections 144 (as in effect on the day before the date of 
        enactment of Public Law 112-141) and 104 of title 23, United 
        States Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (d) Applicability of Obligation Limitations to 
Transportation Research Programs.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph 
        (2), the obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways shall 
        apply to contract authority for transportation research 
        programs carried out under--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) chapter 5 of title 23, United States 
                Code; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the transportation research programs 
                sections of such authorization legislation.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Exception.--Obligation authority made 
        available under paragraph (1) shall--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) remain available for a period of 4 
                fiscal years; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) be in addition to the amount of any 
                limitation imposed on obligations for Federal-aid 
                highway and highway safety construction programs for 
                future fiscal years.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (e) Redistribution of Certain Authorized Funds.--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the 
        date of distribution of obligation limitation under subsection 
        (a), the Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds 
        (excluding funds authorized for the program under section 202 
        of title 23, United States Code) that--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) are authorized to be appropriated for 
                such fiscal year for Federal-aid highway programs; 
                and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) the Secretary determines will not be 
                allocated to the States (or will not be apportioned to 
                the States under section 204 of title 23, United States 
                Code), and will not be available for obligation, for 
                such fiscal year because of the imposition of any 
                obligation limitation for such fiscal year.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Ratio.--Funds shall be distributed under 
        paragraph (1) in the same proportion as the distribution of 
        obligation authority under subsection (a)(5).</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) Availability.--Funds distributed to each State 
        under paragraph (1) shall be available for any purpose 
        described in section 133(b) of title 23, United States 
        Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 121.  Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received 
by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data 
products, for necessary expenses incurred pursuant to chapter 63 of 
title 49, United States Code, may be credited to the Federal-aid 
highways account for the purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for such 
expenses:  Provided, That such funds shall be subject to the obligation 
limitation for Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction 
programs.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 122.  Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, under 
his or her statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for 
Federal-aid highways projects, the Secretary of Transportation shall 
make an informal public notice and comment opportunity on the intent to 
issue such waiver and the reasons therefor:  Provided, That the 
Secretary shall provide an annual report to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations on any waivers granted under the Buy 
America requirements.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 123.  None of the funds in this Act to the Department 
of Transportation may be used to provide credit assistance unless not 
less than 3 days before any application approval to provide credit 
assistance under sections 603 and 604 of title 23, United States Code, 
the Secretary of Transportation provides notification in writing to the 
following committees: the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations; the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the 
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives:  Provided, That such notification shall include, but 
not be limited to, the name of the project sponsor; a description of 
the project; whether credit assistance will be provided as a direct 
loan, loan guarantee, or line of credit; and the amount of credit 
assistance.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 124.  Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(m) Longer Combination Vehicles in Idaho.--No limit or 
other prohibition under this section, except as provided in this 
subsection, applies to a longer combination vehicle operating on a 
segment of the Interstate System in the State of Idaho if such 
vehicle--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) has a gross vehicle weight of 129,000 pounds 
        or less;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) complies with the single axle, tandem axle, 
        and bridge formula limits set forth in subsection (a); 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(3) is authorized to operate on such segment 
        under Idaho State Law.''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 125.  Section 31111(b)(1)(A) of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended by striking ``or of less than 28 feet on a 
semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer 
combination,'' and inserting ``or, notwithstanding section 31112, of 
less than 33 feet on a semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck 
tractor-semitrailer-trailer combination,''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 126. Exemption.--</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (a) In General.--Section 31112(c)(5) of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by striking ``Nebraska may'' and inserting 
        ``Nebraska and Kansas may''; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by striking ``the State of Nebraska'' and 
        inserting ``the relevant state''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Conforming and Technical Amendments.--Section 31112(c) 
of such title is amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by striking the subsection designation and 
        heading and inserting the following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(c) Special Rules for Wyoming, Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, 
Nebraska, and Kansas.--'';</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by striking ``; and'' at the end of paragraph 
        (3) and inserting a semicolon; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) by striking the period at the end of paragraph 
        (4) and inserting ``; and''.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 127.  Section 130(e)(1) of title 23, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``$220,000,000'' and inserting 
``$350,000,000''.</DELETED>

     <DELETED>Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration</DELETED>

    <DELETED>motor carrier safety operations and programs</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
for payment of obligations incurred in the implementation, execution 
and administration of motor carrier safety operations and programs 
pursuant to section 31104(i) of title 49, United States Code, and 
sections 4127 and 4134 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public Law 
112-141, and as extended by Public Law 113-159, $259,000,000, to be 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account), together with advances and reimbursements received by the 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the sum of which shall 
remain available until expended:  Provided, That funds available for 
implementation, execution or administration of motor carrier safety 
operations and programs authorized under title 49, United States Code, 
and sections 4127 and 4134 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public 
Law 112-141, and as extended by Public Law 113-159, shall not exceed 
total obligations of $259,000,000 for ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations 
and Programs'' for fiscal year 2016, of which $9,000,000, to remain 
available for obligation until September 30, 2018, is for the research 
and technology program, and of which $34,545,000, to remain available 
for obligation until September 30, 2018, is for information management: 
 Provided further, That $1,000,000 shall be made available for 
commercial motor vehicle operator grants to carry out section 4134 of 
Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public Law 112-141, and as extended by 
Public Law 113-159.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>motor carrier safety grants</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
for payment of obligations incurred in carrying out sections 31102, 
31104(a), 31106, 31107, 31109, 31309, 31313 of title 49, United States 
Code, and sections 4126 and 4128 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by 
Public Law 112-141, as extended by Public Law 113-159, $313,000,000, to 
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit 
Account) and to remain available until expended:  Provided, That funds 
available for the implementation or execution of motor carrier safety 
programs shall not exceed total obligations of $313,000,000 in fiscal 
year 2016 for ``Motor Carrier Safety Grants''; of which $218,000,000 
shall be available for the motor carrier safety assistance program, 
$30,000,000 shall be available for commercial driver's license program 
improvement grants, $32,000,000 shall be available for border 
enforcement grants, $5,000,000 shall be available for performance and 
registration information system management grants, $25,000,000 shall be 
available for the commercial vehicle information systems and networks 
deployment program, and $3,000,000 shall be available for safety data 
improvement grants:  Provided further, That, of the funds made 
available herein for the motor carrier safety assistance program, 
$32,000,000 shall be available for audits of new entrant motor 
carriers.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>administrative provisions--federal motor carrier safety 
                        administration</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 130.  Funds appropriated or limited in this Act shall 
be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in section 350 of 
Public Law 107-87 and section 6901 of Public Law 110-28.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 131.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration 
shall send notice of 49 CFR section 385.308 violations by certified 
mail, registered mail, or another manner of delivery, which records the 
receipt of the notice by the persons responsible for the 
violations.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 132.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act may be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce sections 395.3(c) and 395.3(d) of title 49, Code 
of Federal Regulations, and such section shall have no force or effect 
on submission of the final report issued by the Secretary, as required 
by section 133 of division K of Public Law 113-235, unless the 
Secretary and the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation 
each review and determine that the final report--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) meets the statutory requirements set forth in 
        such section; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) establishes that commercial motor vehicle 
        drivers who operated under the restart provisions in effect 
        between July 1, 2013, and the day before the date of enactment 
        of such Public Law demonstrated statistically significant 
        improvement in all outcomes related to safety, operator 
        fatigue, driver health and longevity, and work schedules, in 
        comparison to commercial motor vehicle drivers who operated 
        under the restart provisions in effect on June 30, 
        2013.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 133.  None of the funds limited or otherwise made 
available under the heading ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and 
Programs'' may be used to deny an application to renew a Hazardous 
Materials Safety Program permit for a motor carrier based on that 
carrier's Hazardous Materials Out-of-Service rate, unless the carrier 
has the opportunity to submit a written description of corrective 
actions taken, and other documentation the carrier wishes the Secretary 
to consider, including submitting a corrective action plan, and the 
Secretary determines the actions or plan is insufficient to address the 
safety concerns that resulted in that Hazardous Materials Out-of-
Service rate.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 134.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to develop, issue, or implement any regulation that 
increases levels of minimum financial responsibility for transporting 
passengers or property as in effect on January 1, 2014, under 
regulations issued pursuant to sections 31138 and 31139 of title 49, 
United States Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 135.  None of the funds made available by this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts under the heading ``Motor Carrier Safety 
Operations and Programs'' shall be used to pay for costs associated 
with design, development, testing, or implementation of a wireless 
roadside inspection program until 180 days after the Secretary of 
Transportation certifies to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations that such program does not conflict with existing non-
Federal electronic screening systems, create capabilities already 
available, or require additional statutory authority to incorporate 
generated inspection data into safety determinations or databases, and 
has restrictions to specifically address privacy concerns of affected 
motor carriers and operators:  Provided, That nothing in this section 
shall be construed as affecting the Department's ongoing research 
efforts in this area.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>National Highway Traffic Safety Administration</DELETED>

               <DELETED>operations and research</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the 
Secretary, with respect to traffic and highway safety authorized under 
chapter 301 and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, 
$150,000,000 (increased by $4,000,000) (reduced by $1,200,000), of 
which $20,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 
2017.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>operations and research</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
for payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 
23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code, 
$125,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the 
Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until expended:  
Provided, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the 
planning or execution of programs the total obligations for which, in 
fiscal year 2016, are in excess of $125,000,000, of which $120,000,000 
shall be for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403 and $5,000,000 
shall be for the National Driver Register authorized under chapter 303 
of title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That within the 
$120,000,000 obligation limitation for operations and research, 
$20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2017, and shall 
be in addition to the amount of any limitation imposed on obligations 
for future years:  Provided further, That $6,500,000 of the total 
obligation limitation for operations and research in fiscal year 2016 
shall be applied toward unobligated balances of contract authority 
provided in prior Acts for carrying out the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 
403, and chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>highway traffic safety grants</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent on the enactment of authorization legislation, 
for payment of obligations incurred in carrying out provisions of 23 
U.S.C. 402 and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by 
Public Law 112-141, and section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112-141, to 
remain available until expended, $561,500,000, to be derived from the 
Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account):  Provided, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for the planning 
or execution of programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal 
year 2016, are in excess of $561,500,000 for programs authorized under 
23 U.S.C. 402 and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by 
Public Law 112-141, and section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112-141, of 
which $235,000,000 shall be for ``Highway Safety Programs'' under 23 
U.S.C. 402; $272,000,000 shall be for ``National Priority Safety 
Programs'' under 23 U.S.C. 405; $29,000,000 shall be for the ``High 
Visibility Enforcement Program'' under section 2009 of Public Law 109-
59, as amended by Public Law 112-141; $25,500,000 shall be for 
``Administrative Expenses'' under section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 
112-141:  Provided further, That none of these funds shall be used for 
construction, rehabilitation, or remodeling costs, or for office 
furnishings and fixtures for State, local or private buildings or 
structures:  Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the funds 
made available for ``National Priority Safety Programs'' under 23 
U.S.C. 405 for ``Impaired Driving Countermeasures'' (as described in 
subsection (d) of that section) shall be available for technical 
assistance to the States:  Provided further, That with respect to the 
``Transfers'' provision under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G), any amounts 
transferred to increase the amounts made available under section 402 
shall include the obligation authority for such amounts:  Provided 
further, That the Administrator shall notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations of any exercise of the authority granted 
under the previous proviso or under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G) within 60 
days.</DELETED>

  <DELETED>administrative provisions--national highway traffic safety 
                        administration</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 140.  An additional $130,000 shall be made available 
to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, out of the 
amount limited for section 402 of title 23, United States Code, to pay 
for travel and related expenses for State management reviews and to pay 
for core competency development training and related expenses for 
highway safety staff.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 141.  The limitations on obligations for the programs 
of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act 
shall not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made 
available in previous public laws but only to the extent that the 
obligation authority has not lapsed or been used.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 142.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to 
implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 143.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to obligate or award funds for the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration's National Roadside Survey.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 144.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to mandate global positioning system (GPS) tracking in 
private passenger motor vehicles without providing full and appropriate 
consideration of privacy concerns under 5 U.S.C. chapter 5, subchapter 
II.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Railroad Administration</DELETED>

                <DELETED>safety and operations</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad 
Administration, not otherwise provided for, $186,870,000 (increased by 
$3,500,000), of which $15,400,000 shall remain available until 
expended.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>railroad research and development</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses for railroad research and 
development, $39,100,000, to remain available until expended.</DELETED>

      <DELETED>railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing 
                           program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue 
direct loans and loan guarantees pursuant to sections 501 through 504 
of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 
(Public Law 94-210), as amended, such authority to exist as long as any 
such direct loan or loan guarantee is outstanding.  Provided, That 
pursuant to section 502 of such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or 
loan guarantee commitments shall be made using Federal funds for the 
credit risk premium during fiscal year 2016.</DELETED>

     <DELETED>operating grants to the national railroad passenger 
                         corporation</DELETED>

<DELETED>    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make 
quarterly grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, in 
amounts based on the Secretary's assessment of the Corporation's 
seasonal cash flow requirements, for the operation of intercity 
passenger rail, as authorized by section 101 of the Passenger Rail 
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110-
432), $288,500,000 (reduced by $1,000,000) (increased by $1,000,000), 
to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the amounts 
available under this paragraph shall be available for the Secretary to 
approve funding to cover operating losses for the Corporation only 
after receiving and reviewing a grant request for each specific train 
route:  Provided further, That each such grant request shall be 
accompanied by a detailed financial analysis, revenue projection, and 
capital expenditure projection justifying the Federal support to the 
Secretary's satisfaction:  Provided further, That not later than 60 
days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall transmit, in 
electronic format, to the Secretary and the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations the annual budget, business plan, the 5-Year 
Financial Plan for fiscal year 2016 required under section 204 of the 
Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 and the 
comprehensive fleet plan for all Amtrak rolling stock:  Provided 
further, That the budget, business plan and the 5-Year Financial Plan 
shall include annual information on the maintenance, refurbishment, 
replacement, and expansion for all Amtrak rolling stock consistent with 
the comprehensive fleet plan:  Provided further, That the Corporation 
shall provide monthly performance reports in an electronic format which 
shall describe the work completed to date, any changes to the business 
plan, and the reasons for such changes as well as progress against the 
milestones and target dates of the 2012 performance improvement plan:  
Provided further, That the Corporation's budget, business plan, 5-Year 
Financial Plan, semiannual reports, monthly reports, comprehensive 
fleet plan and all supplemental reports or plans comply with 
requirements in Public Law 112-55:  Provided further, That none of the 
funds provided in this Act may be used to support any route on which 
Amtrak offers a discounted fare of more than 50 percent off the normal 
peak fare:  Provided further, That the preceding proviso does not apply 
to routes where the operating loss as a result of the discount is 
covered by a State and the State participates in the setting of 
fares.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>capital and debt service grants to the national railroad 
                    passenger corporation</DELETED>

<DELETED>    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants 
to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for capital investments 
as authorized by sections 101(c), 102, and 219(b) of the Passenger Rail 
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110-
432), $850,000,000 (increased by $9,000,000), to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $160,200,000 shall be for debt service 
obligations as authorized by section 102 of such Act:  Provided, That 
of the amounts made available under this heading, not less than 
$50,000,000 shall be made available to bring Amtrak-served facilities 
and stations into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act:  
Provided further, That after an initial distribution of up to 
$200,000,000, which shall be used by the Corporation as a working 
capital account, all remaining funds shall be provided to the 
Corporation only on a reimbursable basis:  Provided further, That of 
the amounts made available under this heading, up to $20,000,000 may be 
used by the Secretary to subsidize operating losses of the Corporation 
should the funds provided under the heading ``Operating Grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation'' be insufficient to meet 
operational costs for fiscal year 2016:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary may retain up to one-half of 1 percent of the funds provided 
under this heading to fund the costs of project management and 
oversight of activities authorized by subsections 101(a) and 101(c) of 
division B of Public Law 110-432:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall approve funding for capital expenditures, including advance 
purchase orders of materials, for the Corporation only after receiving 
and reviewing a grant request for each specific capital project 
justifying the Federal support to the Secretary's satisfaction:  
Provided further, That except as otherwise provided herein, none of the 
funds under this heading may be used to subsidize operating losses of 
the Corporation:  Provided further, That none of the funds under this 
heading may be used for capital projects not approved by the Secretary 
of Transportation or on the Corporation's fiscal year 2016 business 
plan:  Provided further, That in addition to the project management 
oversight funds authorized under section 101(d) of division B of Public 
Law 110-432, the Secretary may retain up to an additional $3,000,000 of 
the funds provided under this heading to fund expenses associated with 
implementing section 212 of division B of Public Law 110-432, including 
the amendments made by section 212 to section 24905 of title 49, United 
States Code:  Provided further, That Amtrak shall conduct a business 
case analysis on capital investments that exceed $10,000,000 in life-
cycle costs:  Provided further, That each contract for a capital 
acquisition that exceeds $10,000,000 in life cycle costs shall state 
that funding is subject to the availability of appropriated funds 
provided by an appropriations Act.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>administrative provisions--federal railroad 
                        administration</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 150.  The Secretary of Transportation may receive and 
expend cash, or receive and utilize spare parts and similar items, from 
non-United States Government sources to repair damages to or replace 
United States Government owned automated track inspection cars and 
equipment as a result of third-party liability for such damages, and 
any amounts collected under this section shall be credited directly to 
the Safety and Operations account of the Federal Railroad 
Administration, and shall remain available until expended for the 
repair, operation and maintenance of automated track inspection cars 
and equipment in connection with the automated track inspection 
program.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 151.  None of the funds provided to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any overtime costs 
in excess of $35,000 for any individual employee:  Provided, That the 
President of Amtrak may waive the cap set in the previous proviso for 
specific employees when the President of Amtrak determines such a cap 
poses a risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the system:  
Provided further, That Amtrak shall report to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations each quarter of the calendar year on 
waivers granted to employees and amounts paid above the cap for each 
month within such quarter and delineate the reasons each waiver was 
granted:  Provided further, That the President of Amtrak shall report 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2016, 
a summary of all overtime payments incurred by the Corporation for 2015 
and the three prior calendar years:  Provided further, That such 
summary shall include the total number of employees that received 
waivers and the total overtime payments the Corporation paid to those 
employees receiving waivers for each month for 2015 and for the three 
prior calendar years.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Transit Administration</DELETED>

               <DELETED>administrative expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal 
Transit Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49, 
United States Code, $102,933,000 (reduced by $3,000,000) (reduced by 
$2,000,000), of which not more than $4,000,000 shall be available to 
carry out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5329 and not less than $750,000 
shall be available to carry out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5326:  
Provided, That none of the funds provided or limited in this Act may be 
used to create a permanent office of transit security under this 
heading:  Provided further, That upon submission to the Congress of the 
fiscal year 2017 President's budget, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall transmit to Congress the annual report on New Starts, including 
proposed allocations for fiscal year 2017.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>transit formula grants</DELETED>

       <DELETED>(liquidation of contract authorization)</DELETED>

             <DELETED>(limitation on obligations)</DELETED>

                <DELETED>(highway trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Contingent upon enactment of authorization legislation, 
for payment of obligations incurred in the Federal Public 
Transportation Assistance Program in this account, and for payment of 
obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 
5307, 5310, 5311, 5318, 5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 
5340, as amended by Public Law 112-141, and section 20005(b) of Public 
Law 112-141, $9,500,000,000, to be derived from the Mass Transit 
Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until 
expended:  Provided, That funds available for the implementation or 
execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 
5311, 5318, 5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, as amended 
by Public Law 112-141, and section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, 
shall not exceed total obligations of $8,595,000,000 in fiscal year 
2016.</DELETED>

                  <DELETED>transit research</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5312, 
$26,000,000.</DELETED>

          <DELETED>technical assistance and training</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5314 
$3,000,000 (increased by $2,000,000).</DELETED>

              <DELETED>capital investment grants</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5309, 
$1,921,395,000, to remain available until expended.</DELETED>

      <DELETED>grants to the washington metropolitan area transit 
                          authority</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 
Authority as authorized under section 601 of division B of Public Law 
110-432, $100,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That the Secretary shall approve grants for capital and preventive 
maintenance expenditures for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit 
Authority only after receiving and reviewing a request for each 
specific project:  Provided further, That prior to approving such 
grants, the Secretary shall certify that the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority is making significant progress in eliminating 
the material weaknesses, significant deficiencies, and minor control 
deficiencies identified in the most recent Financial Management 
Oversight Review:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall determine 
that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has placed the 
highest priority on those investments that will improve the safety of 
the system before approving such grants:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary, in order to ensure safety throughout the rail system, may 
waive the requirements of section 601(e)(1) of title VI of Public Law 
110-432 (112 Stat. 4968).</DELETED>

          <DELETED>administrative provisions--federal transit 
                        administration</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 160.  The limitations on obligations for the programs 
of the Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority 
under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to 
any other authority previously made available for obligation.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 161.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds appropriated or limited by this Act under the heading Fixed 
Guideway Capital Investment of the Federal Transit Administration for 
projects specified in this Act or identified in reports accompanying 
this Act not obligated by September 30, 2020, and other recoveries, 
shall be directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the 
purposes for which they were originally provided.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 162.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
funds appropriated before October 1, 2015, under any section of chapter 
53 of title 49, United States Code, that remain available for 
expenditure, may be transferred to and administered under the most 
recent appropriation heading for any such section.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 163.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available in this Act shall be used to enter 
into a full funding grant agreement for a project with a New Starts 
share greater than 50 percent.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 164. (a) Loss of Eligibility.--Except as provided in 
subsection (b), none of the funds in this or any other Act may be 
available to advance in any way a new light or heavy rail project 
towards a full funding grant agreement as defined by 49 U.S.C. 5309 for 
the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas if the 
proposed capital project is constructed on or planned to be constructed 
on Richmond Avenue west of South Shepherd Drive or on Post Oak 
Boulevard north of Richmond Avenue in Houston, Texas.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Exception for a New Election.--The Metropolitan 
Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, may attempt to construct or 
construct a new fixed guideway capital project, including light rail, 
in the locations referred to in subsection (a) if--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) voters in the jurisdiction that includes such 
        locations approve a ballot proposition that specifies routes on 
        Richmond Avenue west of South Shepherd Drive or on Post Oak 
        Boulevard north of Richmond Avenue in Houston, Texas; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the proposed construction of such routes is 
        part of a comprehensive, multi-modal, service-area wide 
        transportation plan that includes multiple additional segments 
        of fixed guideway capital projects, including light rail for 
        the jurisdiction set forth in the ballot proposition. The 
        ballot language shall include reasonable cost estimates, 
        sources of revenue to be used and the total amount of bonded 
        indebtedness to be incurred as well as a description of each 
        route and the beginning and end point of each proposed transit 
        project.</DELETED>

    <DELETED>Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation</DELETED>

<DELETED>    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is 
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds 
and borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and in accord 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying 
out the programs set forth in the Corporation's budget for the current 
fiscal year.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>operations and maintenance</DELETED>

           <DELETED>(harbor maintenance trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, 
maintenance, and capital asset renewal activities of those portions of 
the Saint Lawrence Seaway owned, operated, and maintained by the Saint 
Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, $32,042,000 (reduced by 
$3,000,000), to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, 
pursuant to Public Law 99-662.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>Maritime Administration</DELETED>

              <DELETED>maritime security program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-
flag merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the United 
States, $186,000,000, to remain available until expended.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>operations and training</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of operations and training 
activities authorized by law, $164,158,000, of which $22,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended for maintenance and repair of training 
ships at State Maritime Academies, and of which $5,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for National Security Multi-Mission Vessel 
design for State Maritime Academies and National Security, and of which 
$2,400,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, for the 
Student Incentive Program at State Maritime Academies, and of which 
$1,200,000 shall remain available until expended for training ship fuel 
assistance payments, and of which $19,700,000 shall remain available 
until expended for facilities maintenance and repair, equipment, and 
capital improvements at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and 
of which $3,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, 
for Maritime Environment and Technology Assistance grants, contracts, 
and cooperative agreement:  Provided, That amounts apportioned for the 
United States Merchant Marine Academy shall be available only upon 
allotments made personally by the Secretary of Transportation or the 
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs:  Provided further, That 
the Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent and the Director of the 
Office of Resource Management of the United States Merchant Marine 
Academy may not be allotment holders for the United States Merchant 
Marine Academy, and the Administrator of the Maritime Administration 
shall hold all allotments made by the Secretary of Transportation or 
the Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs under the previous 
proviso:  Provided further, That 50 percent of the funding made 
available for the United States Merchant Marine Academy under this 
heading shall be available only after the Secretary, in consultation 
with the Superintendent and the Maritime Administrator, completes a 
plan detailing by program or activity how such funding will be expended 
at the Academy, and this plan is submitted to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations.</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>ship disposal</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obsolete 
vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Maritime 
Administration, $4,000,000, to remain available until 
expended.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program account</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary administrative expenses of the maritime 
guaranteed loan program, $3,135,000 shall be paid to the appropriations 
for ``Maritime Administration--Operations and Training''.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>administrative provisions--maritime administration</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 170.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, in addition to any existing authority, the Maritime Administration 
is authorized to furnish utilities and services and make necessary 
repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or occupancy involving 
Government property under control of the Maritime Administration:  
Provided, That payments received therefor shall be credited to the 
appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall remain available 
until expended:  Provided further, That rental payments under any such 
lease, contract, or occupancy for items other than such utilities, 
services, or repairs shall be covered into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 171.  None of the funds available or appropriated in 
this Act shall be used by the United States Department of 
Transportation or the United States Maritime Administration to 
negotiate or otherwise execute, enter into, facilitate or perform fee-
for-service contracts for vessel disposal, scrapping or recycling, 
unless there is no qualified domestic ship recycler that will pay any 
sum of money to purchase and scrap or recycle a vessel owned, operated 
or managed by the Maritime Administration or that is part of the 
National Defense Reserve Fleet:  Provided, That such sales offers must 
be consistent with the solicitation and provide that the work will be 
performed in a timely manner at a facility qualified within the meaning 
of section 3502 of Public Law 106-398:  Provided further, That nothing 
contained herein shall affect the Maritime Administration's authority 
to award contracts at least cost to the Federal Government and 
consistent with the requirements of 54 U.S.C. 308704, section 3502, or 
otherwise authorized under the Federal Acquisition 
Regulation.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
                        Administration</DELETED>

                <DELETED> operational expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and 
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, $20,725,000 (increased by 
$500,000).</DELETED>

             <DELETED>hazardous materials safety</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous 
materials safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 
Safety Administration, $60,500,000, of which $7,570,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That up to $800,000 in 
fees collected under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in the 
general fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts:  Provided further, 
That there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until 
expended, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training, for reports publication and dissemination, and for travel 
expenses incurred in performance of hazardous materials exemptions and 
approvals functions.</DELETED>

                   <DELETED>pipeline safety</DELETED>

               <DELETED>(pipeline safety fund)</DELETED>

          <DELETED>(oil spill liability trust fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the 
pipeline safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline 
safety program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to discharge the 
pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$145,870,000, of which $19,500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 
2018; and of which $124,500,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline 
Safety Fund, of which $66,309,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018:  Provided, That not less than $1,000,000 of the 
funds provided under this heading shall be for the One-Call state grant 
program:  Provided further, That not less than $1,000,000 of the funds 
provided under this heading shall be for the finalization and 
implementation of rules required under section 60102(n) of title 49, 
United States Code, and section 8(b)(3) of the Pipeline Safety, 
Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 (49 U.S.C. 60108 
note; 125 Stat. 1911).</DELETED>

            <DELETED>emergency preparedness grants</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(emergency preparedness fund)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5128(b), 
$188,000, to be derived from the Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain 
available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That notwithstanding the 
fiscal year limitation specified in 49 U.S.C. 5116, not more than 
$28,318,000 shall be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2016 
from amounts made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), and 5128 (b) and (c): 
 Provided further, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5116(i)(4), not more 
than 4 percent of the amounts made available from this account shall be 
available to pay administrative costs:  Provided further, That none of 
the funds made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5128(b), or 5128(c) 
shall be made available for obligation by individuals other than the 
Secretary of Transportation, or his or her designee.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Office of Inspector General</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $86,223,000:  Provided, That the Inspector General 
shall have all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties 
specified in the Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), 
to investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to the 
government (18 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the Department:  Provided further, That the funds made 
available under this heading may be used to investigate, pursuant to 
section 41712 of title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or deceptive 
practices and unfair methods of competition by domestic and foreign air 
carriers and ticket agents; and (2) the compliance of domestic and 
foreign air carriers with respect to item (1) of this proviso:  
Provided further, That hereafter funds transferred to the Office of the 
Inspector General through forfeiture proceedings or from the Department 
of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund or the Department of the Treasury 
Forfeiture Fund, as a participating agency, as an equitable share from 
the forfeiture of property in investigations in which the Office of 
Inspector General participates, or through the granting of a Petition 
for Remission or Mitigation, shall be deposited to the credit of this 
account for law enforcement activities authorized under the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, to remain available until 
expended.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>Surface Transportation Board</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation 
Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $31,375,000:  
Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to 
exceed $1,250,000 from fees established by the Chairman of the Surface 
Transportation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses 
under this heading:  Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as 
such offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2016, to 
result in a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at no 
more than $30,125,000.</DELETED>

  <DELETED>General Provisions--Department of Transportation</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 180.  During the current fiscal year, applicable 
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available 
for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor 
vehicles operating in foreign countries on official department 
business; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 181.  Appropriations contained in this Act for the 
Department of Transportation shall be available for services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed 
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level 
IV.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 182.  None of the funds in this Act shall be 
available for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political and 
Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation:  Provided, 
That none of the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on 
temporary detail outside the Department of Transportation.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 183. (a) No recipient of funds made available in this 
Act shall disseminate personal information (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 
2725(3)) obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection 
with a motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as 
provided in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 
2721.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
not withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a State is 
in noncompliance with this provision.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 184.  Funds received by the Federal Highway 
Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Railroad 
Administration from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for training may 
be credited respectively to the Federal Highway Administration's 
``Federal-Aid Highways'' account, the Federal Transit Administration's 
``Technical Assistance and Training'' account, and to the Federal 
Railroad Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for 
State rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49 
U.S.C. 20105.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 185.  None of the funds in this Act to the Department 
of Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan guarantee, line of 
credit, or grant unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full 
business days before any project competitively selected to receive a 
discretionary grant award, any discretionary grant award, letter of 
intent, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line of credit 
commitment, or full funding grant agreement totaling $750,000 or more 
is announced by the department or its modal administrations from--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) any discretionary grant or federal credit 
        program of the Federal Highway Administration including the 
        emergency relief program;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the airport improvement program of the Federal 
        Aviation Administration;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) any program of the Federal Railroad 
        Administration;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) any program of the Federal Transit 
        Administration other than the formula grants and fixed guideway 
        modernization programs;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) any program of the Maritime Administration; 
        or</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) any funding provided under the headings 
        ``National Infrastructure Investments'' in this Act: </DELETED>
<DELETED>     Provided, That the Secretary gives concurrent 
notification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
any ``quick release'' of funds from the emergency relief program:  
Provided further, That no notification shall involve funds that are not 
available for obligation.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 186.  Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor 
fees and other funds received by the Department of Transportation from 
travel management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of 
building space, and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to 
appropriations of the Department of Transportation and allocated to 
elements of the Department of Transportation using fair and equitable 
criteria and such funds shall be available until expended.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 187.  Amounts made available in this or any other Act 
that the Secretary determines represent improper payments by the 
Department of Transportation to a third-party contractor under a 
financial assistance award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall 
be available--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred by 
        the Department of Transportation in recovering improper 
        payments; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) to pay contractors for services provided in 
        recovering improper payments or contractor support in the 
        implementation of the Improper Payments Information Act of 
        2002:  Provided, That amounts in excess of that required for 
        paragraphs (1) and (2)--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) shall be credited to and merged with 
                the appropriation from which the improper payments were 
                made, and shall be available for the purposes and 
                period for which such appropriations are available:  
                Provided further, That where specific project or 
                accounting information associated with the improper 
                payment or payments is not readily available, the 
                Secretary may credit an appropriate account, which 
                shall be available for the purposes and period 
                associated with the account so credited; or</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) if no such appropriation remains 
                available, shall be deposited in the Treasury as 
                miscellaneous receipts:  Provided further, That prior 
                to the transfer of any such recovery to an 
                appropriations account, the Secretary shall notify the 
                House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of the 
                amount and reasons for such transfer:  Provided 
                further, That for purposes of this section, the term 
                ``improper payments'' has the same meaning as that 
                provided in section 2(d)(2) of Public Law 107-
                300.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 188.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if 
any funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject to a 
reprogramming action that requires notice to be provided to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations, transmission of said 
reprogramming notice shall be provided solely to the Committees on 
Appropriations, and said reprogramming action shall be approved or 
denied solely by the Committees on Appropriations:  Provided, That the 
Secretary may provide notice to other congressional committees of the 
action of the Committees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but 
not sooner than 30 days following the date on which the reprogramming 
action has been approved or denied by the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 189.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation 
Board of the Department of Transportation to charge or collect any 
filing fee for rate or practice complaints filed with the Board in an 
amount in excess of the amount authorized for district court civil suit 
filing fees under section 1914 of title 28, United States 
Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 190.  Funds appropriated in this Act to the modal 
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Secretary for 
the costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when 
such amounts are for the costs of goods and services that are purchased 
to provide a direct benefit to the applicable modal administration or 
administrations.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 191.  The Secretary of Transportation is authorized 
to carry out a program that establishes uniform standards for 
developing and supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits 
authorized under section 7905 of title 5, United States Code, including 
distribution of transit benefits by various paper and electronic 
media.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 192.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
shall be used by the Surface Transportation Board to take any actions 
with respect to the construction of a high speed rail project in 
California unless the permit is issued by the Board with respect to the 
project in its entirety.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 193.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used to facilitate new scheduled air transportation originating 
from the United States if such flights would land on, or pass through, 
property confiscated by the Cuban Government, including property in 
which a minority interest was confiscated, as the terms confiscated, 
Cuban Government, and property are defined in paragraphs (4), (5), and 
(12)(A), respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023 (4), (5), and 
(12)(A)):  Provided, That for this section, new scheduled air 
transportation shall include any flights not already regularly 
scheduled prior to March 31, 2015.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    This title may be cited as the ``Department of 
Transportation Appropriations Act, 2016''.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>TITLE II</DELETED>

     <DELETED>DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT</DELETED>

            <DELETED>Management and Administration</DELETED>

                  <DELETED>executive offices</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Offices, 
which shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, Deputy 
Secretary, Adjudicatory Services, Congressional and Intergovernmental 
Relations, Public Affairs, Small and Disadvantaged Business 
Utilization, and the Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood 
Partnerships, $14,500,000:  Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of the 
amount made available under this heading shall be available to the 
Secretary for official reception and representation expenses as the 
Secretary may determine.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>administrative support offices</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative 
Support Offices, $547,000,000, of which $45,600,000, to remain 
available until expended, in addition to amounts made available under 
this heading for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer and the 
Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer, shall be for funding shared 
service agreements between the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development and the Department of the Treasury; $39,000,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; $93,000,000 
shall be available for the Office of the General Counsel; $199,000,000 
shall be available for the Office of Administration; $40,000,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; 
$49,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Field Policy and 
Management; $16,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Procurement Officer; $3,000,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; $4,000,000 shall be 
available for the Office of Strategic Planning and Management; 
$44,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer; and of which the remaining amount shall be available through 
September 30, 2017, for transfer to the appropriations for offices 
specified under this heading or the heading ``Program Office Salaries 
and Expenses'' in this title:  Provided, That funds provided under this 
heading may be used for necessary administrative and non-administrative 
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, not 
otherwise provided for, including purchase of uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated under this heading may be used for advertising and 
promotional activities that directly support program activities funded 
in this title:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall provide the 
Committees on Appropriations quarterly written notification regarding 
the status of pending congressional reports:  Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall provide in electronic form all signed reports 
required by Congress.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>Program Office Salaries and Expenses</DELETED>

              <DELETED>public and indian housing</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Public and Indian Housing, $203,000,000.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>community planning and development</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Community Planning and Development, $102,000,000.</DELETED>

                       <DELETED>housing</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Housing, $372,000,000.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>policy development and research</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Policy Development and Research, $22,700,000.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>fair housing and equal opportunity</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Fair 
Housing and Equal Opportunity, $73,000,000.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>office of lead hazard control and healthy homes</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Lead 
Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, $6,700,000.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>Public and Indian Housing Programs</DELETED>

           <DELETED>tenant-based rental assistance</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-
based rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act 
of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act'' herein), not 
otherwise provided for, $15,918,643,000 to remain available until 
September 30, 2018, shall be available on October 1, 2015 (in addition 
to the $4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading that 
became available on October 1, 2015), and $4,000,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2019, shall be available on October 1, 
2016:  Provided, That the amounts made available under this heading are 
provided as follows:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) $18,151,000,000 shall be available for 
        renewals of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual 
        contributions contracts (including renewals of enhanced 
        vouchers under any provision of law authorizing such assistance 
        under section 8(t) of the Act) and including renewal of other 
        special purpose or incremental vouchers:  Provided, That 
        notwithstanding any other provision of law, from amounts 
        provided under this paragraph and any carryover, the Secretary 
        for the calendar year 2016 funding cycle shall provide renewal 
        funding for each public housing agency based on validated 
        voucher management system (VMS) leasing and cost data for the 
        prior calendar year and by applying an inflation factor as 
        established by the Secretary, by notice published in the 
        Federal Register, and by making any necessary adjustments for 
        the costs associated with the first-time renewal of vouchers 
        under this paragraph including tenant protection, HOPE VI, and 
        Choice Neighborhoods vouchers:  Provided further, That in 
        determining calendar year 2016 funding allocations under this 
        heading for public housing agencies, including agencies 
        participating in the Moving To Work (MTW) demonstration, the 
        Secretary may take into account the anticipated impact of 
        changes in targeting and utility allowances, on public housing 
        agencies' contract renewal needs:  Provided further, That none 
        of the funds provided under this paragraph may be used to fund 
        a total number of unit months under lease which exceeds a 
        public housing agency's authorized level of units under 
        contract, except for public housing agencies participating in 
        the MTW demonstration, which are instead governed by the terms 
        and conditions of their MTW agreements:  Provided further, That 
        the Secretary shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the 
        amount specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise 
        modified under this paragraph), prorate each public housing 
        agency's allocation otherwise established pursuant to this 
        paragraph:  Provided further, That except as provided in the 
        following provisos, the entire amount specified under this 
        paragraph (except as otherwise modified under this paragraph) 
        shall be obligated to the public housing agencies based on the 
        allocation and pro rata method described above, and the 
        Secretary shall notify public housing agencies of their annual 
        budget by the latter of 60 days after enactment of this Act or 
        March 1, 2016:  Provided further, That the Secretary may extend 
        the notification period with the prior written approval of the 
        House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:  Provided 
        further, That public housing agencies participating in the MTW 
        demonstration shall be funded pursuant to their MTW agreements 
        and shall be subject to the same pro rata adjustments under the 
        previous provisos:  Provided further, That the Secretary may 
        offset public housing agencies' calendar year 2016 allocations 
        based on the excess amounts of public housing agencies' net 
        restricted assets accounts, including HUD held programmatic 
        reserves (in accordance with VMS data in calendar year 2015 
        that is verifiable and complete), as determined by the 
        Secretary:  Provided further, That public housing agencies 
        participating in the MTW demonstration shall also be subject to 
        the offset, as determined by the Secretary, excluding amounts 
        subject to the single fund budget authority provisions of their 
        MTW agreements, from the agencies' calendar year 2016 MTW 
        funding allocation:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
        use any offset referred to in the previous two provisos 
        throughout the calendar year to prevent the termination of 
        rental assistance for families as the result of insufficient 
        funding, as determined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce 
        the proration of renewal funding allocations:  Provided 
        further, That up to $75,000,000 shall be available only: (A) 
        for adjustments in the allocations for public housing agencies, 
        after application for an adjustment by a public housing agency 
        that experienced a significant increase, as determined by the 
        Secretary, in renewal costs of vouchers resulting from 
        unforeseen circumstances or from portability under section 8(r) 
        of the Act; (B) for vouchers that were not in use during the 
        12-month period in order to be available to meet a commitment 
        pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the Act; (C) for adjustments 
        for costs associated with HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive 
        Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers; (D) for adjustments for public 
        housing agencies with voucher leasing rates at the end of the 
        calendar year that exceed the average leasing for the 12-month 
        period used to establish the allocation, and for additional 
        leasing of vouchers that were issued but not leased prior to 
        the end of such calendar year; (E) for public housing agencies 
        that despite taking reasonable cost savings measures, as 
        determined by the Secretary, would otherwise be required to 
        terminate rental assistance for families as a result of 
        insufficient funding; and (F) for adjustments in the 
        allocations for public housing agencies that experienced a 
        significant increase, as determined by the Secretary, in 
        renewal costs as a result of participation in the Small Area 
        Fair Market Rent demonstration:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary shall allocate amounts under the previous proviso 
        based on need, as determined by the Secretary;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) $130,000,000 shall be for section 8 rental 
        assistance for relocation and replacement of housing units that 
        are demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the 
        Act, conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under 
        section 8, the family unification program under section 8(x) of 
        the Act, relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts to 
        combat crime in public and assisted housing pursuant to a 
        request from a law enforcement or prosecution agency, enhanced 
        vouchers under any provision of law authorizing such assistance 
        under section 8(t) of the Act, HOPE VI and Choice Neighborhood 
        vouchers, mandatory and voluntary conversions, and tenant 
        protection assistance including replacement and relocation 
        assistance or for project-based assistance to prevent the 
        displacement of unassisted elderly tenants currently residing 
        in section 202 properties financed between 1959 and 1974 that 
        are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 106-569, as amended, or 
        under the authority as provided under this Act:  Provided, That 
        when a public housing development is submitted for demolition 
        or disposition under section 18 of the Act, the Secretary may 
        provide section 8 rental assistance when the units pose an 
        imminent health and safety risk to residents:  Provided 
        further, That the Secretary may only provide replacement 
        vouchers for units that were occupied within the previous 24 
        months that cease to be available as assisted housing, subject 
        only to the availability of funds:  Provided further, That of 
        the amounts made available under this paragraph, $5,000,000 may 
        be available to provide tenant protection assistance, not 
        otherwise provided under this paragraph, to residents residing 
        in low vacancy areas and who may have to pay rents greater than 
        30 percent of household income, as the result of: (A) the 
        maturity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or section 202 loan that 
        requires the permission of the Secretary prior to loan 
        prepayment; (B) the expiration of a rental assistance contract 
        for which the tenants are not eligible for enhanced voucher or 
        tenant protection assistance under existing law; or (C) the 
        expiration of affordability restrictions accompanying a 
        mortgage or preservation program administered by the Secretary: 
         Provided further, That such tenant protection assistance made 
        available under the previous proviso may be provided under the 
        authority of section 8(t) or section 8(o)(13) of the United 
        States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)):  Provided 
        further, That the Secretary shall issue guidance to implement 
        the previous provisos, including, but not limited to, 
        requirements for defining eligible at-risk households within 
        120 days of the enactment of this Act:  Provided further, That 
        any tenant protection voucher made available from amounts under 
        this paragraph shall not be reissued by any public housing 
        agency, except the replacement vouchers as defined by the 
        Secretary by notice, when the initial family that received any 
        such voucher no longer receives such voucher, and the authority 
        for any public housing agency to issue any such voucher shall 
        cease to exist:  Provided further, That the Secretary, for the 
        purpose under this paragraph, may use unobligated balances, 
        including recaptures and carryovers, remaining from amounts 
        appropriated in prior fiscal years under this heading for 
        voucher assistance for nonelderly disabled families and for 
        disaster assistance made available under Public Law 110-
        329;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) $1,530,000,000 shall be for administrative and 
        other expenses of public housing agencies in administering the 
        section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which up 
        to $10,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to allocate 
        to public housing agencies that need additional funds to 
        administer their section 8 programs, including fees associated 
        with section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, the 
        administration of disaster related vouchers, Veterans Affairs 
        Supportive Housing vouchers, and other special purpose 
        incremental vouchers:  Provided, That no less than 
        $1,520,000,000 of the amount provided in this paragraph shall 
        be allocated to public housing agencies for the calendar year 
        2016 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act (and 
        related Appropriation Act provisions) as in effect immediately 
        before the enactment of the Quality Housing and Work 
        Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-276):  Provided 
        further, That if the amounts made available under this 
        paragraph are insufficient to pay the amounts determined under 
        the previous proviso, the Secretary may decrease the amounts 
        allocated to agencies by a uniform percentage applicable to all 
        agencies receiving funding under this paragraph or may, to the 
        extent necessary to provide full payment of amounts determined 
        under the previous proviso, utilize unobligated balances, 
        including recaptures and carryovers, remaining from funds 
        appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
        under this heading from prior fiscal years, excluding special 
        purpose vouchers, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 
        amounts were appropriated:  Provided further, That all public 
        housing agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall 
        be funded pursuant to their MTW agreements, and shall be 
        subject to the same uniform percentage decrease as under the 
        previous proviso:  Provided further, That amounts provided 
        under this paragraph shall be only for activities related to 
        the provision of tenant-based rental assistance authorized 
        under section 8, including related development 
        activities;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) $107,643,210 for the renewal of tenant-based 
        assistance contracts under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
        National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), including 
        necessary administrative expenses:  Provided, That 
        administrative and other expenses of public housing agencies in 
        administering the special purpose vouchers in this paragraph 
        shall be funded under the same terms and be subject to the same 
        pro rata reduction as the percent decrease for administrative 
        and other expenses to public housing agencies under paragraph 
        (3) of this heading;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) the Secretary shall separately track all 
        special purpose vouchers funded under this heading.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>housing certificate fund</DELETED>

               <DELETED>(including rescissions)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development under this heading, the heading ``Annual 
Contributions for Assisted Housing'' and the heading ``Project-Based 
Rental Assistance'', for fiscal year 2016 and prior years may be used 
for renewal of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and 
for performance-based contract administrators, notwithstanding the 
purposes for which such funds were appropriated:  Provided, That any 
obligated balances of contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and 
prior that have been terminated shall be rescinded:  Provided further, 
That amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the current 
fiscal year, from section 8 project-based contracts from source years 
fiscal year 1975 through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an 
amount of additional new budget authority, equivalent to the amount 
rescinded is hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended, 
for the purposes set forth under this heading, in addition to amounts 
otherwise available.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>public housing capital fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out 
capital and management activities for public housing agencies, as 
authorized under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437g) (``the Act''), $1,681,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2019:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2016 the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may not delegate to any Department official other 
than the Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and 
Indian Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) 
regarding the extension of the time periods under such section:  
Provided further, That for purposes of such section 9(j), the term 
``obligate'' means, with respect to amounts, that the amounts are 
subject to a binding agreement that will result in outlays, immediately 
or in the future:  Provided further, That up to $3,000,000 shall be to 
support ongoing Public Housing Financial and Physical Assessment 
activities:  Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading, not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be available for the 
Secretary to make grants, notwithstanding section 204 of this Act, to 
public housing agencies for emergency capital needs including safety 
and security measures necessary to address crime and drug-related 
activity as well as needs resulting from unforeseen or unpreventable 
emergencies and natural disasters excluding Presidentially declared 
emergencies and natural disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal 
year 2016:  Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading $30,000,000 shall be for supportive services, service 
coordinator and congregate services as authorized by section 34 of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437z-6) and the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.):  Provided 
further, That of the total amount made available under this heading, up 
to $15,000,000 may be used for a Jobs-Plus initiative modeled after the 
Jobs-Plus demonstration:  Provided further, That the funding provided 
under the previous proviso shall provide competitive grants to 
partnerships between public housing authorities, local workforce 
investment boards established under section 117 of the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998, and other agencies and organizations that 
provide support to help public housing residents obtain employment and 
increase earnings:  Provided further, That applicants must demonstrate 
the ability to provide services to residents, partner with workforce 
investment boards, and leverage service dollars:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary may set aside a portion of the funds provided for 
the Resident Opportunity and Self-Sufficiency program to support the 
services element of the Jobs-Plus Pilot initiative:  Provided further, 
That the Secretary may allow PHAs to request exemptions from rent and 
income limitation requirements under sections 3 and 6 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 as necessary to implement the Jobs-Plus 
program, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may approve upon 
a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative 
requirements are necessary for the effective implementation of the 
Jobs-Plus initiative as a voluntary program for residents:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal 
Register any waivers or alternative requirements pursuant to the 
preceding proviso no later than 10 days before the effective date of 
such notice:  Provided further, That for funds provided under this 
heading, the limitation in section 9(g)(1) of the Act shall be 25 
percent:  Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the limitation 
in the previous proviso to allow public housing agencies to fund 
activities authorized under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act:  Provided 
further, That from the funds made available under this heading, the 
Secretary shall provide bonus awards in fiscal year 2016 to public 
housing agencies that are designated high performers:  Provided 
further, That the Department shall notify public housing agencies of 
their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this 
Act.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>public housing operating fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For 2016 payments to public housing agencies for the 
operation and management of public housing, as authorized by section 
9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), 
$4,440,000,000.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>choice neighborhoods initiative</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For competitive grants under the Choice Neighborhoods 
Initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v), unless otherwise specified under this heading), 
for transformation, rehabilitation, and replacement housing needs of 
both public and HUD-assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of 
poverty into functioning, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods with 
appropriate services, schools, public assets, transportation and access 
to jobs, $20,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018:  
Provided, That grant funds may be used for resident and community 
services, community development, and affordable housing needs in the 
community, and for conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties to 
affordable housing:  Provided further, That the use of funds made 
available under this heading shall not be deemed to be public housing 
notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) of such Act:  Provided further, That 
grantees shall commit to an additional period of affordability 
determined by the Secretary of not fewer than 20 years:  Provided 
further, That grantees shall undertake comprehensive local planning 
with input from residents and the community, and that grantees shall 
provide a match in State, local, other Federal or private funds:  
Provided further, That grantees may include local governments, tribal 
entities, public housing authorities, and nonprofits:  Provided 
further, That for-profit developers may apply jointly with a public 
entity:  Provided further, That for purposes of environmental review, a 
grantee shall be treated as a public housing agency under section 26 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437x), and grants 
under this heading shall be subject to the regulations issued by the 
Secretary to implement such section:  Provided further, That such 
grantees shall create partnerships with other local organizations 
including assisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident 
organizations:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall consult with 
the Secretaries of Education, Labor, Transportation, Health and Human 
Services, Agriculture, and Commerce, the Attorney General, and the 
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate and 
leverage other appropriate Federal resources:  Provided further, That 
unobligated balances, including recaptures, remaining from funds 
appropriated under the heading ``Revitalization of Severely Distressed 
Public Housing (HOPE VI)'' in fiscal year 2011 and prior fiscal years 
may be used for purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the 
purposes for which such amounts were appropriated.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>family self-sufficiency</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the Family Self-Sufficiency program to support family 
self-sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, to promote the development of local strategies to 
coordinate the use of assistance under sections 8 and 9 of such Act 
with public and private resources, and enable eligible families to 
achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency, $75,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That the 
Secretary may, by Federal Register notice, waive or specify alternative 
requirements under section b(3), b(4), b(5), or c(1) of section 23 of 
such Act in order to facilitate the operation of a unified self-
sufficiency program for individuals receiving assistance under 
different provisions of the Act, as determined by the Secretary:  
Provided further, That owners of multifamily properties with project-
based subsidy contracts under section 8 may compete for funding under 
this heading and/or voluntarily make a Family Self-Sufficiency program 
available to the assisted tenants of such property in accordance with 
procedures established by the Secretary:  Provided further, That such 
procedures established pursuant to the previous proviso shall permit 
participating tenants to accrue escrow funds in accordance with section 
23(d)(2) and shall allow owners to use funding from residual receipt 
accounts to hire coordinators for their own Family Self-Sufficiency 
program.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>native american housing block grants</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the Native American Housing Block Grants program, as 
authorized under title I of the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), 
$650,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2020:  Provided, 
That, notwithstanding the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996, to determine the amount of the allocation 
under title I of such Act for each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall 
apply the formula under section 302 of such Act with the need component 
based on single-race census data and with the need component based on 
multi-race census data, and the amount of the allocation for each 
Indian tribe shall be the greater of the two resulting allocation 
amounts:  Provided further, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, $3,500,000 shall be contracted for assistance for 
national or regional organizations representing Native American housing 
interests for providing training and technical assistance to Indian 
housing authorities and tribally designated housing entities as 
authorized under NAHASDA:  Provided further, That of the funds made 
available under the previous proviso, not less than $2,000,000 shall be 
made available for a national organization as authorized under section 
703 of NAHASDA (25 U.S.C. 4212):  Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be to support the 
inspection of Indian housing units, contract expertise, training, and 
technical assistance in the training, oversight, and management of such 
Indian housing and tenant-based assistance, including up to $300,000 
for related travel:  Provided further, That of the amount provided 
under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of 
guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of 
NAHASDA:  Provided further, That such costs, including the costs of 
modifying such notes and other obligations, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended:  
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize the total 
principal amount of any notes and other obligations, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $17,452,007:  Provided further, That 
the Department will notify grantees of their formula allocation within 
60 days of the date of enactment of this Act:  Provided further, 
notwithstanding section 302(d) of NAHASDA, if on January 1, 2016, a 
recipient's total amount of undisbursed block grants in the 
Department's line of credit control system is greater than three times 
the formula allocation it would otherwise receive under this heading, 
the Secretary shall adjust that recipient's formula allocation down by 
the difference between its total amount of undisbursed block grants in 
the Department's line of credit control system on January 1, 2016, and 
three times the formula allocation it would otherwise receive:  
Provided further, That grant amounts not allocated to a recipient 
pursuant to the previous proviso shall be allocated under the need 
component of the formula proportionately among all other Indian tribes 
not subject to an adjustment:  Provided further, That the 2 previous 
provisos shall not apply to any Indian tribe that would otherwise 
receive a formula allocation of less than $5,000,000:  Provided 
further, That to take effect, the three previous provisos do not 
require the issuance of any regulation.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>indian housing loan guarantee fund program account</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 
184 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 
1715z-13a), $8,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That such costs, including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be 
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, up to 
$1,269,841,270, to remain available until expended:  Provided further, 
That up to $750,000 of this amount may be for administrative contract 
expenses including management processes and systems to carry out the 
loan guarantee program.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>Community Planning and Development</DELETED>

     <DELETED>housing opportunities for persons with aids</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons 
with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act 
(42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), $332,000,000 (increased by $3,000,000), to 
remain available until September 30, 2017, except that amounts 
allocated pursuant to section 854(c)(3) of such Act shall remain 
available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That the Secretary shall 
renew all expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing that 
initially were funded under section 854(c)(3) of such Act from funds 
made available under this heading in fiscal year 2010 and prior fiscal 
years that meet all program requirements before awarding funds for new 
contracts under such section:  Provided further, That the Department 
shall notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days of 
enactment of this Act.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>community development fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For assistance to units of State and local government, and 
to other entities, for economic and community development activities, 
and for other purposes, $3,060,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2018, unless otherwise specified:  Provided, That of the 
total amount provided, $3,000,000,000 is for carrying out the community 
development block grant program under title I of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (``the Act'' herein) (42 
U.S.C. 5301 et seq.):  Provided further, That unless explicitly 
provided for under this heading, not to exceed 20 percent of any grant 
made with funds appropriated under this heading shall be expended for 
planning and management development and administration:  Provided 
further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, unit of general local 
government, or Indian tribe, or insular area that directly or 
indirectly receives funds under this heading may not sell, trade, or 
otherwise transfer all or any portion of such funds to another such 
entity in exchange for any other funds, credits or non-Federal 
considerations, but must use such funds for activities eligible under 
title I of the Act:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
105(e)(1) of the Act, no funds provided under this heading may be 
provided to a for-profit entity for an economic development project 
under section 105(a)(17) unless such project has been evaluated and 
selected in accordance with guidelines required under subparagraph 
(e)(2):  Provided further, That none of the funds made available under 
this heading may be used for grants for the Economic Development 
Initiative (``EDI'') or Neighborhood Initiatives activities, Rural 
Innovation Fund, or for grants pursuant to section 107 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5307):  Provided 
further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their formula 
allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act:  Provided further, 
That of the total amount provided under this heading $60,000,000 shall 
be for grants to Indian tribes notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) of 
such Act, of which, notwithstanding any other provision of law 
(including section 204 of this Act), up to $3,960,000 may be used for 
emergencies that constitute imminent threats to health and 
safety.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>community development loan guarantees program 
                           account</DELETED>

               <DELETED>(including rescission)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, during fiscal year 2016, commitments to guarantee loans under 
section 108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5308), any part of which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a total 
principal amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate 
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in subsection (k) of 
such section 108:  Provided, That the Secretary shall collect fees from 
borrowers, notwithstanding subsection (m) of such section 108, to 
result in a credit subsidy cost of zero for guaranteeing such loans, 
and any such fees shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That all 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development under this heading are hereby permanently 
rescinded.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>home investment partnerships program</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the HOME investment partnerships program, as 
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act, as amended, $767,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2019:  Provided, That notwithstanding the amount made 
available under this heading, the threshold reduction requirements in 
sections 216(10) and 217(b)(4) of such Act shall not apply to 
allocations of such amount:  Provided further, That the requirements 
under provisos 2 through 6 under this heading for fiscal year 2012 and 
such requirements applicable pursuant to the ``Full-Year Continuing 
Appropriations Act, 2013'', shall not apply to any project to which 
funds were committed on or after August 23, 2013, but such projects 
shall instead be governed by the Final Rule titled ``Home Investment 
Partnerships Program; Improving Performance and Accountability; 
Updating Property Standards'' which became effective on such date:  
Provided further, That notwithstanding paragraph (1)(B)(i) or (2)(B)(i) 
of section 1337(a) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 
(12 U.S.C. 4567(a)), amounts allocated under such paragraphs shall be 
credited to, made available, and merged with this account:  Provided 
further, That no amounts made available by any provision of law may be 
transferred, reprogrammed, or credited to the Housing Trust 
Fund.</DELETED>

       <DELETED>self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity 
                           program</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity 
Program, as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity 
Program Extension Act of 1996, as amended, $50,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That of the total amount 
provided under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be made available to the 
Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program as authorized 
under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 
1996, as amended:  Provided further, That of the total amount provided 
under this heading, $35,000,000 shall be made available for the second, 
third, and fourth capacity building activities authorized under section 
4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note), of 
which not less than $5,000,000 shall be made available for rural 
capacity building activities:  Provided further, That of the total 
amount provided under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be made available 
for capacity building by national rural housing organizations with 
experience assessing national rural conditions and providing financing, 
training, technical assistance, information, and research to local 
nonprofits, local governments and Indian Tribes serving high need rural 
communities.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>homeless assistance grants</DELETED>

            <DELETED>(including transfer of funds)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the emergency solutions grants program as authorized 
under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act, as amended; the continuum of care program as authorized under 
subtitle C of title IV of such Act; and the rural housing stability 
assistance program as authorized under subtitle D of title IV of such 
Act, $2,185,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018:  
Provided, That any rental assistance amounts that are recaptured under 
such continuum of care program shall remain available until expended:  
Provided further, That not less than $250,000,000 of the funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for such emergency 
solutions grants program:  Provided further, That not less than 
$1,905,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available for such continuum of care and rural housing stability 
assistance programs:  Provided further, That up to $5,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for the 
national homeless data analysis project:  Provided further, That all 
funds awarded for supportive services under the continuum of care 
program and the rural housing stability assistance program shall be 
matched by not less than 25 percent in cash or in kind by each grantee: 
 Provided further, That for all match requirements applicable to funds 
made available under this heading for this fiscal year and prior years, 
a grantee may use (or could have used) as a source of match funds other 
funds administered by the Secretary and other Federal agencies unless 
there is (or was) a specific statutory prohibition on any such use of 
any such funds:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall establish 
minimum project performance thresholds for each grantee under the 
continuum of care program based on program performance data:  Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided under this heading shall be 
available to renew any expiring contract or amendment to a contract 
funded under the continuum of care program unless the Secretary 
determines that the expiring contract or amendment to a contract is 
needed under the applicable continuum of care and meets appropriate 
program requirements, financial standards, and performance measures, 
including the minimum performance thresholds established in the 
previous proviso:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall 
prioritize funding under the continuum of care program to grant 
applications that demonstrate a capacity to reallocate funding from 
lower performing projects to higher performing projects:  Provided 
further, That all awards of assistance under this heading shall be 
required to coordinate and integrate homeless programs with other 
mainstream health, social services, and employment programs for which 
homeless populations may be eligible:  Provided further, That with 
respect to funds provided under this heading for the continuum of care 
program for fiscal years 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 provision of 
permanent housing rental assistance may be administered by private 
nonprofit organizations:  Provided further, That any unobligated 
amounts remaining from funds appropriated under this heading in fiscal 
year 2012 and prior years for project-based rental assistance for 
rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant terms may be used for 
purposes under this heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such funds were appropriated:  Provided further, That all balances for 
Shelter Plus Care renewals previously funded from the Shelter Plus Care 
Renewal account and transferred to this account shall be available, if 
recaptured, for continuum of care renewals in fiscal year 2016:  
Provided further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their 
formula allocation from amounts allocated (which may represent initial 
or final amounts allocated) for the emergency solutions grant program 
within 60 days of enactment of this Act.</DELETED>

                  <DELETED>Housing Programs</DELETED>

           <DELETED>project-based rental assistance</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For activities and assistance for the provision of 
project-based subsidy contracts under the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act''), not otherwise provided 
for, $10,254,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
available on October 1, 2015 (in addition to the $400,000,000 
previously appropriated under this heading that became available 
October 1, 2015), and $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
shall be available on October 1, 2016:  Provided, That the amounts made 
available under this heading shall be available for expiring or 
terminating section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including 
section 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to section 
8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate 
rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant to 
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for units in projects that 
are subject to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low Income 
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation 
and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administrative and 
other expenses associated with project-based activities and assistance 
funded under this paragraph:  Provided further, That of the total 
amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed $150,000,000 shall 
be available for performance-based contract administrators for section 
8 project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f):  
Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may also use such amounts in the previous proviso for performance-based 
contract administrators for the administration of: (1) interest 
reduction payments pursuant to section 236(a) of the National Housing 
Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(a)); (2) rent supplement payments pursuant to 
section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 
1701s); (3) section 236(f)(2) rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 
1715z-1(f)(2)); (4) project rental assistance contracts for the elderly 
under section 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); 
(5) project rental assistance contracts for supportive housing for 
persons with disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); (6) 
project assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing 
Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667); and (7) loans under 
section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 
667):  Provided further, That amounts recaptured under this heading, 
the heading ``Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing'', or the 
heading ``Housing Certificate Fund'', may be used for renewals of or 
amendments to section 8 project-based contracts or for performance-
based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such amounts were appropriated:  Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the request of the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, project funds that are held 
in residual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 8 
project-based Housing Assistance Payments contract that authorizes HUD 
or a Housing Finance Agency to require that surplus project funds be 
deposited in an interest-bearing residual receipts account and that are 
in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be 
remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, to be 
available until expended:  Provided further, That amounts deposited 
pursuant to the previous proviso shall be available in addition to the 
amount otherwise provided by this heading for uses authorized under 
this heading.</DELETED>

               <DELETED>housing for the elderly</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For amendments to capital advance contracts for housing 
for the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 
1959, as amended, and for project rental assistance for the elderly 
under section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including amendments to contracts 
for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for such 
assistance for up to a 1-year term, and for senior preservation rental 
assistance contracts, including renewals, as authorized by section 
811(e) of the American Housing and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, as 
amended, and for supportive services associated with the housing, 
$414,000,000 (increased by $2,500,000) to remain available until 
September 30, 2019:  Provided, That of the amount provided under this 
heading, up to $77,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and the 
continuation of existing congregate service grants for residents of 
assisted housing projects:  Provided further, That amounts under this 
heading shall be available for Real Estate Assessment Center 
inspections and inspection-related activities associated with section 
202 projects:  Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the 
provisions of section 202 governing the terms and conditions of project 
rental assistance, except that the initial contract term for such 
assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration:  Provided further, 
That upon request of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 
project funds that are held in residual receipts accounts for any 
project subject to a section 202 project rental assistance contract, 
and that upon termination of such contract are in excess of an amount 
to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the Department 
and deposited in this account, to be available until September 30, 
2019, for purposes under this heading, and shall be in addition to the 
amounts otherwise provided under this heading for such purposes:  
Provided further, That in addition, of the prior year unobligated 
balances of funds, including recaptures and carryover, made available 
under this heading, $47,000,000 shall be used for an additional amount 
for the purposes provided under this heading, notwithstanding any 
purpose for which originally appropriated.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>housing for persons with disabilities</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For amendments to capital advance contracts for supportive 
housing for persons with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of 
the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), 
for project rental assistance for supportive housing for persons with 
disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of such Act and for project 
assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 
1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667), including amendments to 
contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for 
such assistance for up to a 1-year term, for project rental assistance 
to State housing finance agencies and other appropriate entities as 
authorized under section 811(b)(3) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Housing Act, and for supportive services associated with the housing 
for persons with disabilities as authorized by section 811(b)(1) of 
such Act, $152,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019:  
Provided, That amounts made available under this heading shall be 
available for Real Estate Assessment Center inspections and inspection-
related activities associated with section 811 projects:  Provided 
further, That, in this fiscal year, upon the request of the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development, project funds that are held in 
residual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 811 
project rental assistance contract and that upon termination of such 
contract are in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary 
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, to 
be available until September 30, 2019:  Provided further, That amounts 
deposited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso shall be 
available in addition to the amounts otherwise provided by this heading 
for the purposes authorized under this heading:  Provided further, That 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds transferred to or appropriated under this heading may be 
used for the current purposes authorized under this heading 
notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds originally were 
appropriated.</DELETED>

            <DELETED>Housing Counseling Assistance</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding 
loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1968, as amended, $47,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2017, including up to $4,500,000 for administrative 
contract services:  Provided, That grants made available from amounts 
provided under this heading shall be awarded within 180 days of 
enactment of this Act:  Provided further, That funds shall be used for 
providing counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current 
and prospective, with respect to property maintenance, financial 
management/literacy, and such other matters as may be appropriate to 
assist them in improving their housing conditions, meeting their 
financial needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or 
homeownership; for program administration; and for housing counselor 
training:  Provided further, That for purposes of providing such grants 
from amounts provided under this heading, the Secretary may enter into 
multiyear agreements as is appropriate, subject to the availability of 
annual appropriations.</DELETED>

              <DELETED>rental housing assistance</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For amendments to contracts under section 101 of the 
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 
236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) in State-
aided, noninsured rental housing projects, $30,000,000, to remain 
available until expended:  Provided, That such amount, together with 
unobligated balances from recaptured amounts appropriated prior to 
fiscal year 2006 from terminated contracts under such sections of law, 
and any unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated under this heading after fiscal year 
2005, shall also be available for extensions of up to one year for 
expiring contracts under such sections of law.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>payment to manufactured housing fees trust fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses as authorized by the National 
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 
U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to $11,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $11,000,000 is to be derived from the Manufactured 
Housing Fees Trust Fund:  Provided, That not to exceed the total amount 
appropriated under this heading shall be available from the general 
fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and 
make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund 
pursuant to section 620 of such Act:  Provided further, That the amount 
made available under this heading from the general fund shall be 
reduced as such collections are received during fiscal year 2016 so as 
to result in a final fiscal year 2016 appropriation from the general 
fund estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such section 620 shall be 
modified as necessary to ensure such a final fiscal year 2016 
appropriation:  Provided further, That for the dispute resolution and 
installation programs, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may assess and collect fees from any program participant:  Provided 
further, That such collections shall be deposited into the Fund, and 
the Secretary, as provided herein, may use such collections, as well as 
fees collected under section 620, for necessary expenses of such Act:  
Provided further, That, notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 
of such Act, the Secretary may carry out responsibilities of the 
Secretary under such Act through the use of approved service providers 
that are paid directly by the recipients of their services.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Federal Housing Administration</DELETED>

      <DELETED>mutual mortgage insurance program account</DELETED>

<DELETED>    New commitments to guarantee single family loans insured 
under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not exceed 
$400,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017:  
Provided, That during fiscal year 2016, obligations to make direct 
loans to carry out the purposes of section 204(g) of the National 
Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed $5,000,000:  Provided 
further, That the foregoing amount in the previous proviso shall be for 
loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with sales 
of single family real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly 
insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund:  Provided Further, 
That for administrative contract expenses of the Federal Housing 
Administration, $130,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2017.</DELETED>

      <DELETED>general and special risk program account</DELETED>

<DELETED>    New commitments to guarantee loans insured under the 
General and Special Risk Insurance Funds, as authorized by sections 238 
and 519 of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 and 1735c), 
shall not exceed $30,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of 
which is to be guaranteed, to remain available until September 30, 
2017:  Provided, That during fiscal year 2016, gross obligations for 
the principal amount of direct loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 
207(l), 238, and 519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed 
$5,000,000, which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental 
entities in connection with the sale of single family real properties 
owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under such Act.</DELETED>

      <DELETED>Government National Mortgage Association</DELETED>

   <DELETED>guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee 
                       program account</DELETED>

<DELETED>    New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the 
purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 
U.S.C. 1721(g)), shall not exceed $500,000,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That $23,000,000 shall be 
available for necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Government National Mortgage Association:  Provided further, That 
receipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees collected pursuant to 
title III of the National Housing Act, as amended, shall be credited as 
offsetting collections to this account.</DELETED>

           <DELETED>Policy Development and Research</DELETED>

               <DELETED>research and technology</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs 
of research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), including 
carrying out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 
1968, $52,500,000 (reduced by $2,500,000), to remain available until 
September 30, 2017:  Provided, That with respect to amounts made 
available under this heading, notwithstanding section 204 of this 
title, the Secretary may enter into cooperative agreements funded with 
philanthropic entities, other Federal agencies, or State or local 
governments and their agencies for research projects:  Provided 
further, That with respect to the previous proviso, such partners to 
the cooperative agreements must contribute at least a 50 percent match 
toward the cost of the project:  Provided further, That for non-
competitive agreements entered into in accordance with the previous two 
provisos, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall comply 
with section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282, 31 U.S.C. note) in lieu 
of compliance with section 102(a)(4)(C) with respect to documentation 
of award decisions:  Provided further, That prior to obligation of 
technical assistance funding, the Secretary shall submit a plan, for 
approval, to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on how 
it will allocate funding for this activity.</DELETED>

         <DELETED>Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity</DELETED>

               <DELETED>fair housing activities</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise 
provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 
1968, as amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and 
section 561 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, as 
amended, $65,300,000 (reduced by $28,375,000) (increased by 
$28,375,000), to remain available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, 
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary may assess and 
collect fees to cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training Academy, 
and may use such funds to provide such training:  Provided further, 
That no funds made available under this heading shall be used to lobby 
the executive or legislative branches of the Federal Government in 
connection with a specific contract, grant, or loan:  Provided further, 
That of the funds made available under this heading, $300,000 
(increased by $150,000) shall be available to the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development for the creation and promotion of translated 
materials and other programs that support the assistance of persons 
with limited English proficiency in utilizing the services provided by 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development.</DELETED>

   <DELETED>Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes</DELETED>

                <DELETED>lead hazard reduction</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as authorized by 
section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act 
of 1992, $75,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017:  
Provided, That up to $15,000,000 of that amount shall be for the 
Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and 502 of the 
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 that shall include research, 
studies, testing, and demonstration efforts, including education and 
outreach concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other housing-
related diseases and hazards:  Provided further, That for purposes of 
environmental review, pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and other provisions of the law that 
further the purposes of such Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes 
Initiative, or the Lead Technical Studies program under this heading or 
under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under this heading, 
shall be considered to be funds for a special project for purposes of 
section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property Disposition Reform 
Act of 1994:  Provided further, That amounts made available under this 
heading in this or prior appropriations Acts, and that still remain 
available, may be used for any purpose under this heading 
notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were appropriated if 
a program competition is undersubscribed and there are other program 
competitions under this heading that are oversubscribed.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>information technology fund</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For the development of, modifications to, and 
infrastructure for Department-wide and program-specific information 
technology systems, for the continuing operation and maintenance of 
both Department-wide and program-specific information systems, and for 
program-related maintenance activities, $100,000,000 (reduced by 
$3,000,000):  Provided, That any amounts transferred to this Fund under 
this Act shall remain available until expended:  Provided further, That 
any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts appropriated by 
previously enacted appropriations Acts may be used for the purposes 
specified under this Fund, in addition to any other information 
technology purposes for which such amounts were appropriated.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Office of Inspector General</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Inspector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $126,000,000:  Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
independent authority over all personnel issues within this 
office.</DELETED>

     <DELETED>General Provisions--Department of Housing and Urban 
                         Development</DELETED>

               <DELETED>(including rescissions)</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 201.  Eighty five percent of the amounts of budget 
authority, or in lieu thereof 85 percent of the cash amounts associated 
with such budget authority, that are recaptured from projects described 
in section 1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance 
Amendments Act of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded or in 
the case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury. Notwithstanding 
the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 percent of the 
budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to 
the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to refinance 
their project at a lower interest rate. Any amounts of budget authority 
or cash recaptured and not rescinded, returned to the Treasury, or 
otherwise awarded by September 30, 2016, shall be rescinded or in the 
case of cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 202.  None of the amounts made available under this 
Act may be used during fiscal year 2016 to investigate or prosecute 
under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by 
one or more persons, including the filing or maintaining of a 
nonfrivolous legal action, that is engaged in solely for the purpose of 
achieving or preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a 
court of competent jurisdiction.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 203.  Sections 203 and 209 of division C of Public 
Law 112-55 (125 Stat. 693-694) shall apply during fiscal year 2016 as 
if such sections were included in this title, except that during such 
fiscal year such sections shall be applied by substituting ``fiscal 
year 2016'' for ``fiscal year 2011'' and for ``fiscal year 2012'' each 
place such terms appear, and shall be amended to reflect revised 
delineations of statistical areas established by the Office of 
Management and Budget pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3504(e)(3), 31 U.S.C. 
1104(d), and Executive Order No. 10253.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 204.  Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title 
II of this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance 
with section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Reform Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 205.  Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or 
section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without 
regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal 
services on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making 
payment for the services and facilities of the Federal National 
Mortgage Association, Government National Mortgage Association, Federal 
Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve 
banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured 
bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-11).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 206.  Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or 
through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any 
program, project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the 
budget estimates submitted to Congress.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 207.  Corporations and agencies of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the Government 
Corporation Control Act are hereby authorized to make such 
expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority 
available to each such corporation or agency and in accordance with 
law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of such Act as may 
be necessary in carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for 
2016 for such corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided:  
Provided, That collections of these corporations and agencies may be 
used for new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent 
expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in support of 
other forms of assistance provided for in this or prior appropriations 
Acts), except that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage 
insurance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or where loans 
or mortgage purchases are necessary to protect the financial interest 
of the United States Government.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 208.  The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
shall provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and 
excess funds in each program and activity within the jurisdiction of 
the Department and shall submit additional, updated budget information 
to these Committees upon request.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 209.  The President's formal budget request for 
fiscal year 2017, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development's congressional budget justifications to be submitted to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate, shall use the identical account and sub-account structure 
provided under this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 210.  A public housing agency or such other entity 
that administers Federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority 
of the county of Los Angeles, California, and the States of Alaska, 
Iowa, and Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of 
public housing or a recipient of assistance provided under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 on the board of directors or a 
similar governing board of such agency or entity as required under 
section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public housing agency or other entity 
that administers Federal housing assistance under section 8 for the 
Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, California, and the 
States of Alaska, Iowa, and Mississippi that chooses not to include a 
resident of public housing or a recipient of section 8 assistance on 
the board of directors or a similar governing board shall establish an 
advisory board of not less than six residents of public housing or 
recipients of section 8 assistance to provide advice and comment to the 
public housing agency or other administering entity on issues related 
to public housing and section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not 
less than quarterly.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 211.  No funds provided under this title may be used 
for an audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that makes 
applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 
U.S.C. 661 et seq.).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 212. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
subject to the conditions listed under this section, for fiscal years 
2016 and 2017, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may 
authorize the transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt 
held or insured by the Secretary and statutorily required low-income 
and very low-income use restrictions if any, associated with one or 
more multifamily housing project or projects to another multifamily 
housing project or projects.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Transfers of project-based assistance under this 
section may be done in phases to accommodate the financing and other 
requirements related to rehabilitating or constructing the project or 
projects to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure that such 
project or projects meet the standards under subsection (c).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject 
to the following conditions:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) Number and bedroom size of units:</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) For occupied units in the transferring 
                project: the number of low-income and very low-income 
                units and the configuration (i.e., bedroom size) 
                provided by the transferring project shall be no less 
                than when transferred to the receiving project or 
                projects and the net dollar amount of Federal 
                assistance provided to the transferring project shall 
                remain the same in the receiving project or 
                projects.</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) For unoccupied units in the 
                transferring project the Secretary may authorize a 
                reduction in the number of dwelling units in the 
                receiving project or projects to allow for a 
                reconfiguration of bedroom sizes to meet current market 
                demands, as determined by the Secretary and provided 
                there is no increase in the project-based assistance 
                budget authority.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) The transferring project shall, as determined 
        by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically 
        nonviable.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) The receiving project or projects shall meet 
        or exceed applicable physical standards established by the 
        Secretary.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
        project shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in 
        the transferring project and provide a certification of 
        approval by all appropriate local governmental 
        officials.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) The tenants of the transferring project who 
        remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving 
        project or projects shall not be required to vacate their units 
        in the transferring project or projects until new units in the 
        receiving project are available for occupancy.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is 
        in the best interest of the tenants.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) If either the transferring project or the 
        receiving project or projects meets the condition specified in 
        subsection (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project 
        resulting from additional financing obtained by the owner shall 
        be subordinate to any FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, 
        or placed on, such project by the Secretary, except that the 
        Secretary may waive this requirement upon determination that 
        such a waiver is necessary to facilitate the financing of 
        acquisition, construction, and/or rehabilitation of the 
        receiving project or projects.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) If the transferring project meets the 
        requirements of subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of 
        the receiving project or projects shall execute and record 
        either a continuation of the existing use agreement or a new 
        use agreement for the project where, in either case, any use 
        restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser duration than 
        the existing use restrictions.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as 
        defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
        as amended) of any FHA-insured mortgage, except to the extent 
        that appropriations are provided in advance for the amount of 
        any such increased cost.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (d) For purposes of this section--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the terms ``low-income'' and ``very low-
        income'' shall have the meanings provided by the statute and/or 
        regulations governing the program under which the project is 
        insured or assisted;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the term ``multifamily housing project'' means 
        housing that meets one of the following conditions--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
                insured under the National Housing Act;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) housing that has project-based 
                assistance attached to the structure including projects 
                undergoing mark to market debt restructuring under the 
                Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability 
                Housing Act;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) housing that is assisted under section 
                202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by section 
                801 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable 
                Housing Act;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) housing that is assisted under section 
                202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as such section existed 
                before the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzales National 
                Affordable Housing Act;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (E) housing that is assisted under section 
                811 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable 
                Housing Act; or</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (F) housing or vacant land that is subject 
                to a use agreement;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) the term ``project-based assistance'' means--
        </DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
                of the United States Housing Act of 1937;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) assistance for housing constructed or 
                substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
                provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as such 
                section existed immediately before October 1, 
                1983);</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) rent supplement payments under section 
                101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
                1965;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) interest reduction payments under 
                section 236 and/or additional assistance payments under 
                section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing 
                Act;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (E) assistance payments made under section 
                202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (F) assistance payments made under section 
                811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
                Housing Act;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) the term ``receiving project or projects'' 
        means the multifamily housing project or projects to which some 
        or all of the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily 
        required low-income and very low-income use restrictions are to 
        be transferred;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) the term ``transferring project'' means the 
        multifamily housing project which is transferring some or all 
        of the project-based assistance, debt, and the statutorily 
        required low-income and very low-income use restrictions to the 
        receiving project or projects; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of 
        Housing and Urban Development.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (e) Public Notice and Research Report.--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) The Secretary shall publish by notice in the 
        Federal Register the terms and conditions, including criteria 
        for HUD approval, of transfers pursuant to this section no 
        later than 30 days before the effective date of such 
        notice.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation of 
        the transfer authority under this section, including the effect 
        of such transfers on the operational efficiency, contract 
        rents, physical and financial conditions, and long-term 
        preservation of the affected properties.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 213. (a) No assistance shall be provided under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to 
any individual who--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of 
        higher education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher 
        Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002));</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) is under 24 years of age;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) is not a veteran;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) is unmarried;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) does not have a dependent child;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) is not a person with disabilities, as such 
        term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States 
        Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not 
        receiving assistance under such section 8 as of November 30, 
        2005; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has 
        parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to 
        receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing 
        Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a 
person to receive assistance under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in 
excess of amounts received for tuition and any other required fees and 
charges) that an individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), from private sources, or an institution 
of higher education (as defined under the Higher Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered income to that individual, 
except for a person over the age of 23 with dependent 
children.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 214.  The funds made available for Native Alaskans 
under the heading ``Native American Housing Block Grants'' in title II 
of this Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing block 
grant recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 215.  Notwithstanding the limitation in the first 
sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 
1715z-20(g)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, until 
September 30, 2016, insure and enter into commitments to insure 
mortgages under such section 255.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 216.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in 
fiscal year 2016, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property 
that is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development, and during the process of foreclosure on any 
property with a contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or other Federal programs, the 
Secretary shall maintain any rental assistance payments under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and other programs that are 
attached to any dwelling units in the property. To the extent the 
Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants and the local 
government, that such a multifamily property owned or held by the 
Secretary is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments 
under such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration of: (1) 
the costs of rehabilitating and operating the property and all 
available Federal, State, and local resources, including rent 
adjustments under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing 
Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (``MAHRAA''); and (2) 
environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effective 
fashion, the Secretary may, in consultation with the tenants of that 
property, contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an 
owner or owners of other existing housing properties, or provide other 
rental assistance. The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to 
ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect prior to 
foreclosure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies 
to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats to health 
and safety after written notice to and informed consent of the affected 
tenants and use of other available remedies, such as partial abatements 
or receivership. After disposition of any multifamily property 
described under this section, the contract and allowable rent levels on 
such properties shall be subject to the requirements under section 524 
of MAHRAA.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 217.  The commitment authority funded by fees as 
provided under the heading ``Community Development Loan Guarantees 
Program Account'' may be used to guarantee, or make commitments to 
guarantee, notes or other obligations issued by any State on behalf of 
non-entitlement communities in the State in accordance with the 
requirements of section 108 of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1974:  Provided, That any State receiving such a guarantee or 
commitment shall distribute all funds subject to such guarantee to the 
units of general local government in non-entitlement areas that 
received the commitment.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 218.  Public housing agencies that own and operate 
400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any asset 
management requirement imposed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development in connection with the operating fund rule:  Provided, That 
an agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the 
operating fund formula shall not be exempt from asset management 
requirements.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 219.  With respect to the use of amounts provided in 
this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement and 
management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g (d) and (e)), 
the Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to 
asset management that restricts or limits in any way the use of capital 
funds for central office costs pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g) (1) and 
(2)):  Provided, That a public housing agency may not use capital funds 
authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are eligible under 
section 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the operating fund in 
excess of the amounts permitted under section 9(g)(1) or 
9(g)(2).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 220.  No official or employee of the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment 
holder unless the Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined 
that such allotment holder has implemented an adequate system of funds 
control and has received training in funds control procedures and 
directives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a 
trained allotment holder for each HUD sub-office under the accounts 
``Executive Offices'' and ``Administrative Support Offices'', as well 
as each account receiving appropriations for ``Program Office Salaries 
and Expenses'', ``Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees 
of Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account'', and 
``Office of Inspector General'' within the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 221.  The Secretary of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2016, notify the public 
through the Federal Register and other means, as determined 
appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability of 
assistance or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program or 
discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that is to be 
competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
fiscal year 2016, the Secretary may make the NOFA available only on the 
Internet at the appropriate Government web site or through other 
electronic media, as determined by the Secretary.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 222.  Payment of attorney fees in program-related 
litigation must be paid from the individual program office and Office 
of General Counsel personnel funding. The annual budget submissions for 
program offices and Office of General Counsel personnel funding must 
include program-related litigation costs for attorney fees as a 
separate line item request.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 223.  The Disaster Housing Assistance Programs, 
administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall 
be considered a ``program of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development'' under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose of 
income verifications and matching.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 224. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall take the required actions under subsection (b) when a 
multifamily housing project with a section 8 contract or contract for 
similar project-based assistance--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) receives a Real Estate Assessment Center 
        (REAC) score of 30 or less; or</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) receives a REAC score between 31 and 59; and--
        </DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) fails to certify in writing to HUD 
                within 60 days that all deficiencies have been 
                corrected; or</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) receives consecutive scores of less 
                than 60 on REAC inspections.</DELETED>
<DELETED>Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured 
projects with assistance attached to the units under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply 
to such units assisted under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) 
or to public housing units assisted with capital or operating funds 
under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    </DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) The Secretary shall take the following required 
actions as authorized under subsection (a):</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) The Secretary shall notify the owner and 
        provide an opportunity for response within 30 days. If the 
        violations remain, the Secretary shall develop a Compliance, 
        Disposition and Enforcement Plan within 60 days, with a 
        specified timetable for correcting all deficiencies. The 
        Secretary shall provide notice of the Plan to the owner, 
        tenants, the local government, any mortgagees, and any contract 
        administrator.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) At the end of the term of the Compliance, 
        Disposition and Enforcement Plan, if the owner fails to fully 
        comply with such plan, the Secretary may require immediate 
        replacement of project management with a management agent 
        approved by the Secretary, and shall take one or more of the 
        following actions, and provide additional notice of those 
        actions to the owner and the parties specified above--
        </DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) impose civil money 
                penalties;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) abate the section 8 contract, 
                including partial abatement, as determined by the 
                Secretary, until all deficiencies have been 
                corrected;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) pursue transfer of the project to an 
                owner, approved by the Secretary under established 
                procedures, which will be obligated to promptly make 
                all required repairs and to accept renewal of the 
                assistance contract as long as such renewal is offered; 
                or</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (D) seek judicial appointment of a 
                receiver to manage the property and cure all project 
                deficiencies or seek a judicial order of specific 
                performance requiring the owner to cure all project 
                deficiencies.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to 
ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, subject to the 
exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of 
tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety after written 
notice to and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of other 
remedies set forth above. To the extent the Secretary determines, in 
consultation with the tenants and the local government, that the 
property is not feasible for continued rental assistance payments under 
such section 8 or other programs, based on consideration of: (1) the 
costs of rehabilitating and operating the property and all available 
Federal, State, and local resources, including rent adjustments under 
section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and 
Affordability Act of 1997 (``MAHRAA''); and (2) environmental 
conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the 
Secretary may, in consultation with the tenants of that property, 
contract for project-based rental assistance payments with an owner or 
owners of other existing housing properties, or provide other rental 
assistance. The Secretary shall report semi-annually on all properties 
covered by this section that are assessed through the Real Estate 
Assessment Center and have physical inspection scores of less than 30 
or have consecutive physical inspection scores of less than 60. The 
report shall include--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the enforcement actions being taken to address 
        such conditions, including imposition of civil money penalties 
        and termination of subsidies, and identify properties that have 
        such conditions multiple times; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) actions that the Department of Housing and 
        Urban Development is taking to protect tenants of such 
        identified properties.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 225.  None of the funds made available by this Act, 
or any other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with 
respect to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 9 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be 
used by any public housing agency for any amount of salary, including 
bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, or any other 
official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual rate of basic 
pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule at any 
time during any public housing agency fiscal year 2016.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 226.  None of the funds in this Act may be available 
for the doctoral dissertation research grant program at the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 227.  None of the funds in this Act provided to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development may be used to make a grant 
award unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any project, 
State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or 
other entity selected to receive a grant award is announced by the 
Department or its offices.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 228.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs Assessment 
(PNA).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 229.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government 
National Mortgage Administration, or the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal 
guarantee of any mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances 
or otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject to eminent 
domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, or any other 
political subdivision of a State.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 230.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to terminate the status of a unit of general local 
government as a metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with 
respect to grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
5306).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 231.  Amounts made available under this Act which are 
either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a reimbursable basis, or 
transferred to the Office of Policy Development and Research in the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development and functions thereof, for 
research, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are unexpended 
at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or cooperative 
agreement, may be deobligated and shall immediately become available 
and may be reobligated in that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal 
year for the research, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which 
the amounts are made available to that Office subject to reprogramming 
requirements in section 405 of this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 232.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to 
require a recipient or sub-recipient of funding for the purpose of land 
acquisition, affordable housing construction, or affordable housing 
rehabilitation to meet Energy Star standards or any other energy 
efficiency standards that exceed the requirements of applicable State 
and local building codes.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 233.  Of the unobligated balances, including 
recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated in section 
1497(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection 
Act (Public Law 111-203; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note) and section 2301(a) of 
title III of division B of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110-289; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note), $7,000,000 is hereby 
rescinded.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 234. (a) All unobligated balances, including 
recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development under the heading ``Rural 
Housing and Economic Development'' are hereby rescinded.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Effective October 1, 2015, all unobligated balances, 
including recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated 
to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for accounts under 
the headings ``Management and Administration'' and ``Program Office 
Salaries and Expenses'' in division K of Public Law 113-235 are 
rescinded.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2016''.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>TITLE III--RELATED AGENCIES</DELETED>

                    <DELETED>Access Board</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized 
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 
$7,548,000:  Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds received for 
publications and training expenses.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>Federal Maritime Commission</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission 
as authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
amended (46 U.S.C. 307), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902, $25,660,000:  Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses.</DELETED>

 <DELETED>National Railroad Passenger Corporation Office of Inspector 
                           General</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out the 
provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
$23,999,000 (increased by $500,000):  Provided, That the Inspector 
General shall have all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties 
specified in the Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), 
to investigate allegations of fraud, including false statements to the 
government (18 U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation:  Provided 
further, That the Inspector General may enter into contracts and other 
arrangements for audits, studies, analyses, and other services with 
public agencies and with private persons, subject to the applicable 
laws and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services within 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation:  Provided further, That 
the Inspector General may select, appoint, and employ such officers and 
employees as may be necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, 
and duties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the 
applicable laws and regulations that govern such selections, 
appointments, and employment within Amtrak:  Provided further, That 
concurrent with the President's budget request for fiscal year 2017, 
the Inspector General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2017 in similar 
format and substance to those submitted by executive agencies of the 
Federal Government.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>National Transportation Safety Board</DELETED>

                <DELETED>salaries and expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses of the National Transportation 
Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS-15; 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-
5902), $103,981,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 may be used for 
official reception and representation expenses. The amounts made 
available to the National Transportation Safety Board in this Act 
include amounts necessary to make lease payments on an obligation 
incurred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease.</DELETED>

        <DELETED>Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation</DELETED>

<DELETED>payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), 
$135,000,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental 
housing program:  Provided, That in addition, $42,000,000 shall be made 
available until expended to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
for mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities, under the following 
terms and conditions:</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
        (NRC) shall make grants to counseling intermediaries approved 
        by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) (with 
        match to be determined by NRC based on affordability and the 
        economic conditions of an area; a match also may be waived by 
        NRC based on the aforementioned conditions) to provide mortgage 
        foreclosure mitigation assistance primarily to States and areas 
        with high rates of defaults and foreclosures to help eliminate 
        the default and foreclosure of mortgages of owner-occupied 
        single-family homes that are at risk of such foreclosure. Other 
        than areas with high rates of defaults and foreclosures, grants 
        may also be provided to approved counseling intermediaries 
        based on a geographic analysis of the Nation by NRC which 
        determines where there is a prevalence of mortgages that are 
        risky and likely to fail, including any trends for mortgages 
        that are likely to default and face foreclosure. A State 
        Housing Finance Agency may also be eligible where the State 
        Housing Finance Agency meets all the requirements under this 
        paragraph. A HUD-approved counseling intermediary shall meet 
        certain mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance counseling 
        requirements, as determined by NRC, and shall be approved by 
        HUD or NRC as meeting these requirements.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
        shall only be made available to homeowners of owner-occupied 
        homes with mortgages in default or in danger of default. These 
        mortgages shall likely be subject to a foreclosure action and 
        homeowners will be provided such assistance that shall consist 
        of activities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and 
        result in the long-term affordability of the mortgage retained 
        pursuant to such activity or another positive outcome for the 
        homeowner. No funds made available under this paragraph may be 
        provided directly to lenders or homeowners to discharge 
        outstanding mortgage balances or for any other direct debt 
        reduction payments.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) The use of mortgage foreclosure mitigation 
        assistance by approved counseling intermediaries and State 
        Housing Finance Agencies shall involve a reasonable analysis of 
        the borrower's financial situation, an evaluation of the 
        current value of the property that is subject to the mortgage, 
        counseling regarding the assumption of the mortgage by another 
        non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible purchase 
        of the mortgage by a non-Federal third party, counseling and 
        advice of all likely restructuring and refinancing strategies 
        or the approval of a work-out strategy by all interested 
        parties.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the total 
        funds under this paragraph to its own charter members with 
        expertise in foreclosure prevention counseling, subject to a 
        certification by NRC that the procedures for selection do not 
        consist of any procedures or activities that could be construed 
        as a conflict of interest or have the appearance of 
        impropriety.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) HUD-approved counseling entities and State 
        Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds under this paragraph 
        shall have demonstrated experience in successfully working with 
        financial institutions as well as borrowers facing default, 
        delinquency and foreclosure as well as documented counseling 
        capacity, outreach capacity, past successful performance and 
        positive outcomes with documented counseling plans (including 
        post mortgage foreclosure mitigation counseling), loan workout 
        agreements and loan modification agreements. NRC may use other 
        criteria to demonstrate capacity in underserved 
        areas.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) Of the total amount made available under this 
        paragraph, up to $2,000,000 may be made available to build the 
        mortgage foreclosure and default mitigation counseling capacity 
        of counseling intermediaries through NRC training courses with 
        HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their partners, 
        except that private financial institutions that participate in 
        NRC training shall pay market rates for such 
        training.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) Of the total amount made available under this 
        paragraph, up to 5 percent may be used for associated 
        administrative expenses for NRC to carry out activities 
        provided under this section.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
        grants may include a budget for outreach and advertising, and 
        training, as determined by NRC.</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) NRC shall continue to report bi-annually to 
        the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as well as 
        the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services 
        Committee on its efforts to mitigate mortgage 
        default.</DELETED>

  <DELETED>United States Interagency Council on Homelessness</DELETED>

                 <DELETED>operating expenses</DELETED>

<DELETED>    For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, 
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of 
conference rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code) of the United States 
Interagency Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions 
pursuant to title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as 
amended, $3,530,000.</DELETED>

                      <DELETED>TITLE IV</DELETED>

            <DELETED>GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 401.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used for 
the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or 
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 402.  None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, 
nor may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so 
provided herein.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 403.  The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through a procurement contract pursuant 
to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to 
those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record 
and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant 
to existing law.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be obligated or expended for any employee training that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, 
        skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of 
        official duties;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels 
        of emotional response or psychological stress in some 
        participants;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) does not require prior employee notification 
        of the content and methods to be used in the training and 
        written end of course evaluation;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) contains any methods or content associated 
        with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
        belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; 
        or</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, 
        participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the 
        workplace.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly 
upon the performance of official duties.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 405.  Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none 
of the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations 
Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2016, or 
provided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of 
fees and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of 
funds that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) creates a new program;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) eliminates a program, project, or 
        activity;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) increases funds or personnel for any program, 
        project, or activity for which funds have been denied or 
        restricted by the Congress;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
        activity by either the House or Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations for a different purpose;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) augments existing programs, projects, or 
        activities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 
        less;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or 
        activities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; 
        or</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a 
        branch, division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency, 
        administration, or department different from the budget 
        justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or 
        the table accompanying the explanatory statement accompanying 
        this Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
        received from the House and Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations:  Provided, That not later than 60 days after 
        the date of enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this 
        Act shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations 
        of the Senate and of the House of Representatives to establish 
        the baseline for application of reprogramming and transfer 
        authorities for the current fiscal year:  Provided further, 
        That the report shall include--</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (A) a table for each appropriation with a 
                separate column to display the prior year enacted 
                level, the President's budget request, adjustments made 
                by Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
                appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted 
                level;</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (B) a delineation in the table for each 
                appropriation and its respective prior year enacted 
                level by object class and program, project, and 
                activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the 
                respective appropriation; and</DELETED>
                <DELETED>    (C) an identification of items of special 
                congressional interest.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 406.  Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining 
available at the end of fiscal year 2016 from appropriations made 
available for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2016 in this Act, 
shall remain available through September 30, 2017, for each such 
account for the purposes authorized:  Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
approval prior to the expenditure of such funds:  Provided further, 
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming 
guidelines under section 405 of this Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 407.  No funds in this Act may be used to support any 
Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent 
domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use:  
Provided, That for purposes of this section, public use shall not be 
construed to include economic development that primarily benefits 
private entities:  Provided further, That any use of funds for mass 
transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects, as well as 
utility projects which benefit or serve the general public (including 
energy-related, communication-related, water-related and wastewater-
related infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the 
general public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility 
functions that serve the general public and are subject to regulation 
and oversight by the government, and projects for the removal of an 
immediate threat to public health and safety or brownfields as defined 
in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107-118) shall be considered a public use for purposes 
of eminent domain.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 408.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or 
transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations 
Act.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 409.  No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a 
position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee 
who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has 
satisfactorily completed his or her period of active military or naval 
service, and has within 90 days after his or her release from such 
service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period 
of not more than 1 year, made application for restoration to his or her 
former position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel 
Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her 
former position and has not been restored thereto.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 410.  No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may 
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the 
assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act 
of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, popularly known as the ``Buy 
American Act'').</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 411.  No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any person or 
entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 
U.S.C. 10a-10c).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 412.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of 
sections 301-10.122 and 301-10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal 
Regulations.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 413. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under sections 
41301 through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or exemption 
application under section 40109 of that title of an air carrier already 
holding an air operators certificate issued by a country that is party 
to the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such 
approval would contravene United States law or Article 17 bis of the 
U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or 
otherwise preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a 
foreign air carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where 
such authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air 
Transport Agreement and United States law.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 414.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Federal Maritime Commission or the Administrator of 
the Maritime Administration to issue a license or certificate for a 
commercial vessel that docked or anchored within the previous 180 days 
within 7 miles of a port on property that was confiscated, in whole or 
in part, by the Cuban Government, as the terms confiscated, Cuban 
Government, and property are defined in paragraphs (4), (5), and 
(12)(A), respectively, of section 4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic 
Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 415.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Federal Transit Administration to implement, 
administer, or enforce section 18.36(c)(2) of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, for construction hiring purposes.</DELETED>

             <DELETED>spending reduction account</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Sec. 416.  The amount by which the applicable allocation 
of new budget authority made by the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives under Section 302(b) of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974 exceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority 
is $0.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 417.  None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror or any of its 
principals if the offeror certifies, as required by the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or any of its principals--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) within a 3-year period preceding this offer 
        has been convicted of or had a civil judgment rendered against 
        it for: commission of fraud or a criminal offense in connection 
        with obtaining, attempting to obtain, or performing a public 
        (Federal, State, or local) contract or subcontract; violation 
        of Federal or State antitrust statutes relating to the 
        submission of offers; or commission of embezzlement, theft, 
        forgery, bribery, falsification or destruction of records, 
        making false statements, tax evasion, violating Federal 
        criminal tax laws, or receiving stolen property;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
        criminally or civilly charged by a governmental entity with, 
        commission of any of the offenses enumerated in paragraph (1); 
        or</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) within a 3-year period preceding this offer, 
        has been notified of any delinquent Federal taxes in an amount 
        that exceeds $3,000 for which the liability remains 
        unsatisfied.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 418.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used in contravention of section 121.584 of title 14, Code of 
Federal Regulations.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 419.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to make incentive payments pursuant to 48 CFR 16.4 to 
contractors for contracts that are behind schedule under the terms of 
the contract as prescribed by 48 CFR 52.211 or over the contract amount 
indicated in Standard Form 33, box 20.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 420.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used in contravention of the 5th or 14th Amendment to the 
Constitution or title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 421.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used for the Federal Transit Administration's Rapid Growth Area 
Transit Program.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 422.  None of these funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to redesign 
the Phoenix Metroplex regional airspace.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 423.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to carry out section 210 of this Act with respect to the 
Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, California.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 424.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used for the Private Enforcement Initiative of the Fair Housing 
Initiatives Program under section 561(b) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1987 (42 U.S.C. 3616a(b)) and section 125.401 of the 
regulations of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (24 CFR 
125.401).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 425.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to carry out the rule entitled ``Affirmatively Furthering 
Fair Housing'', published by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development in the Federal Register on July 19, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 
43710; Docket No. FR-5173-P-01) or to carry out the notice entitled 
``Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assessment Tool'', published by 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Federal Register 
on September 26, 2014 (79 Fed. Reg. 57949; Docket No. FR-5173-
02).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 426.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used in contravention of section 5309 of title 49, United States 
Code.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 427.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Department of Transportation, the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development, or any other Federal agency to lease or 
purchase new light duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an 
agency's fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential 
Memorandum--Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 428.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to issue, implement, or enforce regulations by the Federal 
Aviation Administration entitled ``Operations and Certification of 
Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems'' (FAA-2015-0150) in contravention to 
14 CFR 21.25(b)(1).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 429.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
to institute an administrative or civil action (as defined in section 
47107 of title 49, United States Code) against the sponsor of the East 
Hampton Airport in East Hampton, New York.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 430.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used for high-speed rail in the State of California or for the 
California High-Speed Rail Authority, nor may any be used by the 
Federal Railroad Administration to administer a grant agreement with 
the California High-Speed Rail Authority that contains a tapered 
matching requirement.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 431.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to enforce subpart B of part 750 of title 23, Code of 
Federal Regulations, regarding signs for service clubs and religious 
notices as defined in section 153(p) of such part.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 432.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used in contravention of subpart E of part 5 of the regulations 
of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (24 CFR part 5, 
subpart E, relating to restrictions on assistance to 
noncitizens).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 433.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to provide financial assistance in contravention of section 
214(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 
1436a(d)).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 434.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used by the Federal Aviation Administration for the bio-data 
assessment in the hiring of Air Traffic Control Specialists.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 435.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the final rule 
entitled ``Implementation of the Fair Housing Act's Discriminatory 
Effects Standard'', published by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development in the Federal Register on February 15, 2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 
11460; Docket No. FR-5508-F-02).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 436.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used in contravention of Executive Order No. 11246 (relating to 
Equal Employment Opportunity).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    Sec. 437.  None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to acquire a camera for the purpose of collecting or 
storing vehicle license plate numbers.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation, Housing and 
Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2016''.</DELETED>
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes, 
namely:

                                TITLE I

                      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

                        Office of the Secretary

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$110,738,000, of which not to exceed $2,734,000 shall be available for 
the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $1,025,000 shall 
be available for the immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary; not to 
exceed $20,109,000 shall be available for the Office of the General 
Counsel; not to exceed $10,141,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed 
$13,867,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed $2,546,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Governmental 
Affairs; not to exceed $27,411,000 shall be available for the Office of 
the Assistant Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $2,029,000 
shall be available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 
$1,769,000 shall be available for the Office of the Executive 
Secretariat; not to exceed $1,434,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization; not to exceed 
$10,793,000 shall be available for the Office of Intelligence, 
Security, and Emergency Response; and not to exceed $16,880,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the Chief Information Officer:  
Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation is authorized to 
transfer funds appropriated for any office of the Office of the 
Secretary to any other office of the Office of the Secretary:  Provided 
further, That no appropriation for any office shall be increased or 
decreased by more than 5 percent by all such transfers:  Provided 
further, That notice of any change in funding greater than 5 percent 
shall be submitted for approval to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations:  Provided further, That not to exceed $60,000 shall be 
for allocation within the Department for official reception and 
representation expenses as the Secretary may determine:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, excluding 
fees authorized in Public Law 107-71, there may be credited to this 
appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received in user fees:  
Provided further, That none of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
available for the position of Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs:  
Provided further, That not later than 60 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit 
to Congress the final Comprehensive Truck Size and Weight Limits Study, 
as required by section 32801 of Public Law 112-141:  Provided further, 
That the amount herein appropriated for the Office of the Under 
Secretary for Transportation Policy shall be reduced by $100,000 for 
each day after 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act that 
such report has not been submitted to Congress:  Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall provide the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations quarterly written notification regarding the status of 
pending reports required to be submitted to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide in electronic form all signed reports required by 
Congress.

                        research and technology

    For necessary expenses related to the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Research and Technology, $13,000,000, of which $8,218,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That there 
may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until expended, 
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for training:  
Provided further, That any reference in law, regulation, judicial 
proceedings, or elsewhere to the Research and Innovative Technology 
Administration shall continue to be deemed to be a reference to the 
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology of the 
Department of Transportation.

                  national infrastructure investments

    For capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure, 
$500,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2019:  
Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation shall distribute funds 
provided under this heading as discretionary grants to be awarded to a 
State, local government, transit agency, or a collaboration among such 
entities on a competitive basis for projects that will have a 
significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, or a region:  
Provided further, That projects eligible for funding provided under 
this heading shall include, but not be limited to, highway or bridge 
projects eligible under title 23, United States Code; public 
transportation projects eligible under chapter 53 of title 49, United 
States Code; passenger and freight rail transportation projects; and 
port infrastructure investments (including inland port infrastructure): 
 Provided further, That the Secretary may use up to 20 percent of the 
funds made available under this heading for the purpose of paying the 
subsidy and administrative costs of projects eligible for Federal 
credit assistance under chapter 6 of title 23, United States Code, if 
the Secretary finds that such use of the funds would advance the 
purposes of this paragraph:  Provided further, That in distributing 
funds provided under this heading, the Secretary shall take such 
measures so as to ensure an equitable geographic distribution of funds, 
an appropriate balance in addressing the needs of urban and rural 
areas, and the investment in a variety of transportation modes:  
Provided further, That a grant funded under this heading shall be not 
less than $10,000,000 and not greater than $100,000,000:  Provided 
further, That not more than 25 percent of the funds made available 
under this heading may be awarded to projects in a single State:  
Provided further, That the Federal share of the costs for which an 
expenditure is made under this heading shall be, at the option of the 
recipient, up to 80 percent:  Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall give priority to projects that require a contribution of Federal 
funds in order to complete an overall financing package:  Provided 
further, That not less than 30 percent of the funds provided under this 
heading shall be for projects located in rural areas:  Provided 
further, That for projects located in rural areas, the minimum grant 
size shall be $1,000,000 and the Secretary may increase the Federal 
share of costs above 80 percent:  Provided further, That of the amount 
made available under this heading, the Secretary may use an amount not 
to exceed $25,000,000 for the planning, preparation or design of 
projects eligible for funding under this heading:  Provided further, 
That grants awarded under the previous proviso shall not be subject to 
a minimum grant size:  Provided further, That projects conducted using 
funds provided under this heading must comply with the requirements of 
subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall conduct a new competition to select 
the grants and credit assistance awarded under this heading:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary may retain up to $20,000,000 of the funds 
provided under this heading, and may transfer portions of those funds 
to the Administrators of the Federal Highway Administration, the 
Federal Transit Administration, the Federal Railroad Administration, 
and the Maritime Administration, to fund the award and oversight of 
grants and credit assistance made under the National Infrastructure 
Investments program.

                      financial management capital

    For necessary expenses for upgrading and enhancing the Department 
of Transportation's financial systems and re-engineering business 
processes, $5,000,000, to remain available through September 30, 2017.

                       cyber security initiatives

    For necessary expenses for cyber security initiatives, including 
necessary upgrades to wide area network and information technology 
infrastructure, improvement of network perimeter controls and identity 
management, testing and assessment of information technology against 
business, security, and other requirements, implementation of Federal 
cyber security initiatives and information infrastructure enhancements, 
implementation of enhanced security controls on network devices, and 
enhancement of cyber security workforce training tools, $8,000,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2017.

                         office of civil rights

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $9,678,000.

           transportation planning, research, and development

    For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $6,000,000.

        interagency infrastructure permitting improvement center

    For necessary expenses to establish an Interagency Infrastructure 
Permitting Improvement Center (IIPIC) that will implement reforms to 
improve interagency coordination and the expediting of projects related 
to the permitting and environmental review of major transportation 
infrastructure projects including one-time expenses to develop and 
deploy information technology tools to track project schedules and 
metrics and improve the transparency and accountability of the 
permitting process, $4,000,000, to remain available until expended:  
Provided, That there may be transferred to this appropriation, to 
remain available until expended, amounts from other Federal agencies 
for expenses incurred under this heading for activities not related to 
transportation infrastructure:  Provided further, That the tools and 
analysis developed by the IIPIC shall be available to other Federal 
agencies for the permitting and review of major infrastructure projects 
not related to transportation only to the extent that other Federal 
agencies provide funding to the Department as provided for under the 
previous proviso.

                          working capital fund

    For necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of 
the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $190,039,000 shall be paid from 
appropriations made available to the Department of Transportation:  
Provided, That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 
to entities within the Department of Transportation:  Provided further, 
That the above limitation on operating expenses shall not apply to non-
DOT entities:  Provided further, That no funds appropriated in this Act 
to an agency of the Department shall be transferred to the Working 
Capital Fund without majority approval of the Working Capital Fund 
Steering Committee and approval of the Secretary:  Provided further, 
That no assessments may be levied against any program, budget activity, 
subactivity or project funded by this Act unless notice of such 
assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved by such 
Committees.

               minority business resource center program

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, $336,000, as authorized by 49 
U.S.C. 332:  Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974:  Provided further, That these funds are available 
to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000.
    In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the 
guaranteed loan program, $597,000.

                       minority business outreach

    For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource Center 
outreach activities, $3,084,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2017:  Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these funds 
may be used for business opportunities related to any mode of 
transportation.

                        payments to air carriers

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    In addition to funds made available from any other source to carry 
out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 41731 through 
41742, $175,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That in 
determining between or among carriers competing to provide service to a 
community, the Secretary may consider the relative subsidy requirements 
of the carriers:  Provided further, That basic essential air service 
minimum requirements shall not include the 15-passenger capacity 
requirement under subsection 41732(b)(3) of title 49, United States 
Code:  Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act or any 
other Act shall be used to enter into a new contract with a community 
located less than 40 miles from the nearest small hub airport before 
the Secretary has negotiated with the community over a local cost 
share:  Provided further, That amounts authorized to be distributed for 
the essential air service program under subsection 41742(b) of title 
49, United States Code, shall be made available immediately from 
amounts otherwise provided to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration:  Provided further, That the Administrator may reimburse 
such amounts from fees credited to the account established under 
section 45303 of title 49, United States Code.

  administrative provisions--office of the secretary of transportation

    Sec. 101.  None of the funds made available in this Act to the 
Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office of the 
Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or reimbursable 
agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the modal 
administrations in this Act, except for activities underway on the date 
of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have 
completed the normal reprogramming process for Congressional 
notification.
    Sec. 102.  The Secretary or his or her designee may engage in 
activities with States and State legislators to consider proposals 
related to the reduction of motorcycle fatalities.
    Sec. 103.  Notwithstanding section 3324 of title 31, United States 
Code, in addition to authority provided by section 327 of title 49, 
United States Code, the Department's Working Capital Fund is hereby 
authorized to provide payments in advance to vendors that are necessary 
to carry out the Federal transit pass transportation fringe benefit 
program under Executive Order 13150 and section 3049 of Public Law 109-
59:  Provided, That the Department shall include adequate safeguards in 
the contract with the vendors to ensure timely and high-quality 
performance under the contract.
    Sec. 104.  The Secretary shall post on the Web site of the 
Department of Transportation a schedule of all meetings of the Credit 
Council, including the agenda for each meeting, and require the Credit 
Council to record the decisions and actions of each meeting.
    Sec. 105.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds appropriated or made available under this Act shall be used to 
finalize or implement sections 256.1 through 256.5 and 399.80 of the 
Department of Transportation's proposed rulemaking, as published in the 
Federal Register on Friday, May 23, 2014 (79 FR 29969), relating to 
Transparency of Airline Ancillary Fees and Other Consumer Protection 
Issues.

                    Federal Aviation Administration

                               operations

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, including operations and research activities 
related to commercial space transportation, administrative expenses for 
research and development, establishment of air navigation facilities, 
the operation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft, 
subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to the 
public, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for replacement 
only, in addition to amounts made available by Public Law 112-95, 
$9,897,818,000 of which $8,180,000,000 shall be derived from the 
Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which not to exceed $7,505,293,000 
shall be available for air traffic organization activities; not to 
exceed $1,258,411,000 shall be available for aviation safety 
activities; not to exceed $17,425,000 shall be available for commercial 
space transportation activities; not to exceed $748,969,000 shall be 
available for finance and management activities; not to exceed 
$60,089,000 shall be available for NextGen and operations planning 
activities; not to exceed $100,880,000 shall be available for security 
and hazardous materials safety; and not to exceed $206,751,000 shall be 
available for staff offices:  Provided, That not to exceed 2 percent of 
any budget activity, except for aviation safety budget activity, may be 
transferred to any budget activity under this heading:  Provided 
further, That no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation by 
more than 2 percent:  Provided further, That any transfer in excess of 
2 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 
405 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or 
expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 
section:  Provided further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal 
year hereafter, the Administrator of the Federal Aviation 
Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual update to the 
report submitted to Congress in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 
of Public Law 108-176:  Provided further, That the amount herein 
appropriated shall be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 31 
that such report has not been submitted to the Congress:  Provided 
further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, 
the Administrator shall transmit to Congress a companion report that 
describes a comprehensive strategy for staffing, hiring, and training 
flight standards and aircraft certification staff in a format similar 
to the one utilized for the controller staffing plan, including stated 
attrition estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year:  
Provided further, That the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced 
by $100,000 per day for each day after March 31 that such report has 
not been submitted to Congress:  Provided further, That funds may be 
used to enter into a grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting 
organization to assist in the development of aviation safety standards: 
 Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be 
available for new applicants for the second career training program:  
Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act shall be available 
for the Federal Aviation Administration to finalize or implement any 
regulation that would promulgate new aviation user fees not 
specifically authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this 
Act:  Provided further, That there may be credited to this 
appropriation, as offsetting collections, funds received from States, 
counties, municipalities, foreign authorities, other public 
authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred in the provision 
of agency services, including receipts for the maintenance and 
operation of air navigation facilities, and for issuance, renewal or 
modification of certificates, including airman, aircraft, and repair 
station certificates, or for tests related thereto, or for processing 
major repair or alteration forms:  Provided further, That of the funds 
appropriated under this heading, not less than $154,400,000 shall be 
for the contract tower program, including the contract tower cost share 
program:  Provided further, That none of the funds in this Act for 
aeronautical charting and cartography are available for activities 
conducted by, or coordinated through, the Working Capital Fund.

                        facilities and equipment

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
acquisition, establishment, technical support services, improvement by 
contract or purchase, and hire of national airspace systems and 
experimental facilities and equipment, as authorized under part A of 
subtitle VII of title 49, United States Code, including initial 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; engineering and 
service testing, including construction of test facilities and 
acquisition of necessary sites by lease or grant; construction and 
furnishing of quarters and related accommodations for officers and 
employees of the Federal Aviation Administration stationed at remote 
localities where such accommodations are not available; and the 
purchase, lease, or transfer of aircraft from funds available under 
this heading, including aircraft for aviation regulation and 
certification; to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, 
$2,600,000,000, of which $467,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2016, and $2,133,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018:  Provided, That there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received from States, counties, municipalities, 
other public authorities, and private sources, for expenses incurred in 
the establishment, improvement, and modernization of national airspace 
systems:  Provided further, That no later than March 31, the Secretary 
of Transportation shall transmit to the Congress an investment plan for 
the Federal Aviation Administration which includes funding for each 
budget line item for fiscal years 2017 through 2021, with total funding 
for each year of the plan constrained to the funding targets for those 
years as estimated and approved by the Office of Management and Budget: 
 Provided further, That the amount herein appropriated shall be reduced 
by $100,000 per day for each day after March 31 that such report has 
not been submitted to Congress.

                 research, engineering, and development

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

    For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for research, 
engineering, and development, as authorized under part A of subtitle 
VII of title 49, United States Code, including construction of 
experimental facilities and acquisition of necessary sites by lease or 
grant, $163,325,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust 
Fund and to remain available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation as offsetting collections, 
funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other public 
authorities, and private sources, which shall be available for expenses 
incurred for research, engineering, and development.

                       grants-in-aid for airports

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                    (airport and airway trust fund)

                     (including transfer of funds)

                         (including rescission)

    For liquidation of obligations incurred for grants-in-aid for 
airport planning and development, and noise compatibility planning and 
programs as authorized under subchapter I of chapter 471 and subchapter 
I of chapter 475 of title 49, United States Code, and under other law 
authorizing such obligations; for procurement, installation, and 
commissioning of runway incursion prevention devices and systems at 
airports of such title; for grants authorized under section 41743 of 
title 49, United States Code; and for inspection activities and 
administration of airport safety programs, including those related to 
airport operating certificates under section 44706 of title 49, United 
States Code, $3,600,000,000, to be derived from the Airport and Airway 
Trust Fund and to remain available until expended:  Provided, That none 
of the funds under this heading shall be available for the planning or 
execution of programs the obligations for which are in excess of 
$3,350,000,000 in fiscal year 2016, notwithstanding section 47117(g) of 
title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That none of the funds 
under this heading shall be available for the replacement of baggage 
conveyor systems, reconfiguration of terminal baggage areas, or other 
airport improvements that are necessary to install bulk explosive 
detection systems:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
47109(a) of title 49, United States Code, the Government's share of 
allowable project costs under paragraph (2) for subgrants or paragraph 
(3) of that section shall be 95 percent for a project at other than a 
large or medium hub airport that is a successive phase of a multi-
phased construction project for which the project sponsor received a 
grant in fiscal year 2011 for the construction project:  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, of funds 
limited under this heading, not more than $107,100,000 shall be 
obligated for administration, not less than $15,000,000 shall be 
available for the Airport Cooperative Research Program, not less than 
$31,000,000 shall be available for Airport Technology Research, and 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be available and 
transferred to ``Office of the Secretary, Salaries and Expenses'' to 
carry out the Small Community Air Service Development Program:  
Provided further, That in addition to airports eligible under section 
41743 of title 49, such program may include the participation of an 
airport that serves a community or consortium that is not larger than a 
small hub airport, according to FAA hub classifications effective at 
the time the Office of the Secretary issues a request for proposals.

                              (rescission)

    Of the amounts authorized for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2016, under section 48112 of title 49, United States Code, all 
unobligated balances are permanently rescinded.

       administrative provisions--federal aviation administration

    Sec. 110.  None of the funds in this Act may be used to compensate 
in excess of 600 technical staff-years under the federally funded 
research and development center contract between the Federal Aviation 
Administration and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development 
during fiscal year 2016.
    Sec. 111.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to pursue or 
adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide 
to the Federal Aviation Administration without cost building 
construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport 
sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, 
air navigation, or weather reporting:  Provided, That the prohibition 
of funds in this section does not apply to negotiations between the 
agency and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on ``below-market'' 
rates for these items or to grant assurances that require airport 
sponsors to provide land without cost to the FAA for air traffic 
control facilities.
    Sec. 112.  The Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration 
may reimburse amounts made available to satisfy 49 U.S.C. 41742(a)(1) 
from fees credited under 49 U.S.C. 45303 and any amount remaining in 
such account at the close of that fiscal year may be made available to 
satisfy section 41742(a)(1) for the subsequent fiscal year.
    Sec. 113.  Amounts collected under section 40113(e) of title 49, 
United States Code, shall be credited to the appropriation current at 
the time of collection, to be merged with and available for the same 
purposes of such appropriation.
    Sec. 114.  None of the funds in this Act shall be available for 
paying premium pay under subsection 5546(a) of title 5, United States 
Code, to any Federal Aviation Administration employee unless such 
employee actually performed work during the time corresponding to such 
premium pay.
    Sec. 115.  None of the funds in this Act may be obligated or 
expended for an employee of the Federal Aviation Administration to 
purchase a store gift card or gift certificate through use of a 
Government-issued credit card.
    Sec. 116.  The Secretary shall apportion to the sponsor of an 
airport that received scheduled or unscheduled air service from a large 
certified air carrier (as defined in part 241 of title 14 Code of 
Federal Regulations, or such other regulations as may be issued by the 
Secretary under the authority of section 41709) an amount equal to the 
minimum apportionment specified in 49 U.S.C. 47114(c), if the Secretary 
determines that airport had more than 10,000 passenger boardings in the 
preceding calendar year, based on data submitted to the Secretary under 
part 241 of title 14, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 117.  None of the funds in this Act may be obligated or 
expended for retention bonuses for an employee of the Federal Aviation 
Administration without the prior written approval of the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration of the Department of Transportation.
    Sec. 118.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds made available under this Act or any prior Act may be used to 
implement or to continue to implement any limitation on the ability of 
any owner or operator of a private aircraft to obtain, upon a request 
to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, a blocking 
of that owner's or operator's aircraft registration number from any 
display of the Federal Aviation Administration's Aircraft Situational 
Display to Industry data that is made available to the public, except 
data made available to a Government agency, for the noncommercial 
flights of that owner or operator.
    Sec. 119.  None of the funds in this Act shall be available for 
salaries and expenses of more than 9 political and Presidential 
appointees in the Federal Aviation Administration.
    Sec. 119A.  None of the funds made available under this Act may be 
used to increase fees pursuant to section 44721 of title 49, United 
States Code, until the FAA provides to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations a report that justifies all fees related to 
aeronautical navigation products and explains how such fees are 
consistent with Executive Order 13642.
    Sec. 119B.  None of the funds appropriated or limited by this Act 
may be used to change weight restrictions or prior permission rules at 
Teterboro airport in Teterboro, New Jersey.
    Sec. 119C.  None of the funds in this Act may be used to close a 
regional operations center of the Federal Aviation Administration or 
reduce its services unless the Administrator notifies the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 90 full business days 
in advance.

                     Federal Highway Administration

                 limitation on administrative expenses

                          (highway trust fund)

                     (including transfer of funds)

    Not to exceed $429,348,000, together with advances and 
reimbursements received by the Federal Highway Administration, shall be 
obligated for necessary expenses for administration and operation of 
the Federal Highway Administration or transferred to the Appalachian 
Regional Commission in accordance with section 104 of title 23, United 
States Code.

                          federal-aid highways

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    Funds available for the implementation or execution of Federal-aid 
highways and highway safety construction programs authorized under 
titles 23 and 49, United States Code, and the provisions of Public Law 
112-141 shall not exceed total obligations of $40,256,000,000 for 
fiscal year 2016:  Provided, That the Secretary may collect and spend 
fees, as authorized by title 23, United States Code, to cover the costs 
of services of expert firms, including counsel, in the field of 
municipal and project finance to assist in the underwriting and 
servicing of Federal credit instruments and all or a portion of the 
costs to the Federal Government of servicing such credit instruments:  
Provided further, That such fees are available until expended to pay 
for such costs:  Provided further, That such amounts are in addition to 
administrative expenses that are also available for such purpose, and 
are not subject to any obligation limitation or the limitation on 
administrative expenses under section 608 of title 23, United States 
Code.

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For the payment of obligations incurred in carrying out Federal-aid 
highways and highway safety construction programs authorized under 
title 23, United States Code, $40,995,000,000 derived from the Highway 
Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account), to remain available 
until expended.

       administrative provisions--federal highway administration

    Sec. 120. (a) For fiscal year 2016, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall--
            (1) not distribute from the obligation limitation for 
        Federal-aid highways--
                    (A) amounts authorized for administrative expenses 
                and programs by section 104(a) of title 23, United 
                States Code; and
                    (B) amounts authorized for the Bureau of 
                Transportation Statistics;
            (2) not distribute an amount from the obligation limitation 
        for Federal-aid highways that is equal to the unobligated 
        balance of amounts--
                    (A) made available from the Highway Trust Fund 
                (other than the Mass Transit Account) for Federal-aid 
                highways and highway safety construction programs for 
                previous fiscal years the funds for which are allocated 
                by the Secretary (or apportioned by the Secretary under 
                section 202 or 204 of title 23, United States Code); 
                and
                    (B) for which obligation limitation was provided in 
                a previous fiscal year;
            (3) determine the proportion that--
                    (A) the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
                highways, less the aggregate of amounts not distributed 
                under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection; bears 
                to
                    (B) the total of the sums authorized to be 
                appropriated for the Federal-aid highways and highway 
                safety construction programs (other than sums 
                authorized to be appropriated for provisions of law 
                described in paragraphs (1) through (11) of subsection 
                (b) and sums authorized to be appropriated for section 
                119 of title 23, United States Code, equal to the 
                amount referred to in subsection (b)(12) for such 
                fiscal year), less the aggregate of the amounts not 
                distributed under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this 
                subsection;
            (4) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
        highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under 
        paragraphs (1) and (2), for each of the programs (other than 
        programs to which paragraph (1) applies) that are allocated by 
        the Secretary under the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st 
        Century Act and title 23, United States Code, or apportioned by 
        the Secretary under sections 202 or 204 of that title, by 
        multiplying--
                    (A) the proportion determined under paragraph (3); 
                by
                    (B) the amounts authorized to be appropriated for 
                each such program for such fiscal year; and
            (5) distribute the obligation limitation for Federal-aid 
        highways, less the aggregate amounts not distributed under 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) and the amounts distributed under 
        paragraph (4), for Federal-aid highways and highway safety 
        construction programs that are apportioned by the Secretary 
        under title 23, United States Code (other than the amounts 
        apportioned for the National Highway Performance Program in 
        section 119 of title 23, United States Code, that are exempt 
        from the limitation under subsection (b)(12) and the amounts 
        apportioned under sections 202 and 204 of that title) in the 
        proportion that--
                    (A) amounts authorized to be appropriated for the 
                programs that are apportioned under title 23, United 
                States Code, to each State for such fiscal year; bears 
                to
                    (B) the total of the amounts authorized to be 
                appropriated for the programs that are apportioned 
                under title 23, United States Code, to all States for 
                such fiscal year.
    (b) Exceptions From Obligation Limitation.--The obligation 
limitation for Federal-aid highways shall not apply to obligations 
under or for--
            (1) section 125 of title 23, United States Code;
            (2) section 147 of the Surface Transportation Assistance 
        Act of 1978 (23 U.S.C. 144 note; 92 Stat. 2714);
            (3) section 9 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1981 (95 
        Stat. 1701);
            (4) subsections (b) and (j) of section 131 of the Surface 
        Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 (96 Stat. 2119);
            (5) subsections (b) and (c) of section 149 of the Surface 
        Transportation and Uniform Relocation Assistance Act of 1987 
        (101 Stat. 198);
            (6) sections 1103 through 1108 of the Intermodal Surface 
        Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (105 Stat. 2027);
            (7) section 157 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect on June 8, 1998);
            (8) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect for fiscal years 1998 through 2004, but only in an 
        amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
            (9) Federal-aid highways programs for which obligation 
        authority was made available under the Transportation Equity 
        Act for the 21st Century (112 Stat. 107) or subsequent Acts for 
        multiple years or to remain available until expended, but only 
        to the extent that the obligation authority has not lapsed or 
        been used;
            (10) section 105 of title 23, United States Code (as in 
        effect for fiscal years 2005 through 2012, but only in an 
        amount equal to $639,000,000 for each of those fiscal years);
            (11) section 1603 of SAFETEA-LU (23 U.S.C. 118 note; 119 
        Stat. 1248), to the extent that funds obligated in accordance 
        with that section were not subject to a limitation on 
        obligations at the time at which the funds were initially made 
        available for obligation; and
            (12) section 119 of title 23, United States Code (but, for 
        each of fiscal years 2013 through 2016, only in an amount equal 
        to $639,000,000).
    (c) Redistribution of Unused Obligation Authority.--Notwithstanding 
subsection (a), the Secretary shall, after August 1 of such fiscal 
year--
            (1) revise a distribution of the obligation limitation made 
        available under subsection (a) if an amount distributed cannot 
        be obligated during that fiscal year; and
            (2) redistribute sufficient amounts to those States able to 
        obligate amounts in addition to those previously distributed 
        during that fiscal year, giving priority to those States having 
        large unobligated balances of funds apportioned under sections 
        144 (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
        Public Law 112-141) and 104 of title 23, United States Code.
    (d) Applicability of Obligation Limitations to Transportation 
Research Programs.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        obligation limitation for Federal-aid highways shall apply to 
        contract authority for transportation research programs carried 
        out under--
                    (A) chapter 5 of title 23, United States Code; and
                    (B) division E of the Moving Ahead for Progress in 
                the 21st Century Act.
            (2) Exception.--Obligation authority made available under 
        paragraph (1) shall--
                    (A) remain available for a period of 4 fiscal 
                years; and
                    (B) be in addition to the amount of any limitation 
                imposed on obligations for Federal-aid highways and 
                highway safety construction programs for future fiscal 
                years.
    (e) Redistribution of Certain Authorized Funds.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 30 days after the date of 
        distribution of obligation limitation under subsection (a), the 
        Secretary shall distribute to the States any funds (excluding 
        funds authorized for the program under section 202 of title 23, 
        United States Code) that--
                    (A) are authorized to be appropriated for such 
                fiscal year for Federal-aid highways programs; and
                    (B) the Secretary determines will not be allocated 
                to the States (or will not be apportioned to the States 
                under section 204 of title 23, United States Code), and 
                will not be available for obligation, for such fiscal 
                year because of the imposition of any obligation 
                limitation for such fiscal year.
            (2) Ratio.--Funds shall be distributed under paragraph (1) 
        in the same proportion as the distribution of obligation 
        authority under subsection (a)(5).
            (3) Availability.--Funds distributed to each State under 
        paragraph (1) shall be available for any purpose described in 
        section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 121.  Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received by the 
Bureau of Transportation Statistics from the sale of data products, for 
necessary expenses incurred pursuant to chapter 63 of title 49, United 
States Code, may be credited to the Federal-aid highways account for 
the purpose of reimbursing the Bureau for such expenses:  Provided, 
That such funds shall be subject to the obligation limitation for 
Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs.
    Sec. 122.  Not less than 15 days prior to waiving, under his or her 
statutory authority, any Buy America requirement for Federal-aid 
highways projects, the Secretary of Transportation shall make an 
informal public notice and comment opportunity on the intent to issue 
such waiver and the reasons therefor:  Provided, That the Secretary 
shall provide an annual report to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations on any waivers granted under the Buy America 
requirements.
    Sec. 123.  None of the funds in this Act to the Department of 
Transportation may be used to provide credit assistance unless not less 
than 3 days before any application approval to provide credit 
assistance under sections 603 and 604 of title 23, United States Code, 
the Secretary of Transportation provides notification in writing to the 
following committees: the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations; the Committee on Environment and Public Works and the 
Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs of the Senate; and the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of 
Representatives:  Provided, That such notification shall include, but 
not be limited to, the name of the project sponsor; a description of 
the project; whether credit assistance will be provided as a direct 
loan, loan guarantee, or line of credit; and the amount of credit 
assistance.
    Sec. 124.  From the unobligated balances of funds apportioned among 
the States prior to October 1, 2012, under sections 104(b) of title 23, 
United States Code (as in effect on the day before the date of 
enactment of Public Law 112-141), the amount of $22,348,000 shall be 
made available in fiscal year 2016 for the administrative expenses of 
the Federal Highway Administration:  Provided, That this provision 
shall not apply to funds distributed in accordance with section 
104(b)(5) of title 23, United States Code (as in effect on the day 
before the date of enactment of Public Law 112-141); section 133(d)(1) 
of such title (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
Public Law 109-59); and the first sentence of section 133(d)(3)(A) of 
such title (as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
Public Law 112-141):  Provided further, That such amount shall be 
derived on a proportional basis from the unobligated balances of 
apportioned funds to which this provision applies:  Provided further, 
That the amount made available by this provision in fiscal year 2016 
for the administrative expenses of the Federal Highway Administration 
shall be in addition to the amount made available in fiscal year 2016 
for such purposes under section 104(a) of title 23, United States Code.
    Sec. 125.  Section 127 of title 23, United States Code, is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(m) Operation of Certain Specialized Hauling Vehicles on Certain 
Texas Highways.--
            ``(1) In general.--If any segment of United States Route 
        59, United States Route 77, United States Route 281, United 
        States Route 84, or routes otherwise made eligible for 
        designation as Interstate Route 69, is designated as Interstate 
        Route 69, a vehicle that could operate legally on that segment 
        before the date of such designation may continue to operate on 
        that segment, without regard to any requirement under 
        subsection (a).
            ``(2) Description of highway segments.--The highway 
        segments referred to in paragraph (1) are any segment of United 
        States Route 59, United States Route 77, United States Route 
        281, United States Route 84, and routes otherwise made eligible 
        for designation as Interstate Route 69 in Texas.
    ``(n) Operation of Certain Specialized Vehicles on Certain Highways 
in the State of Arkansas.--If any segment of United States Route 63 
between the exits for Arkansas Highway 14 and Arkansas Highway 75 is 
designated as part of the Interstate System--
            ``(1) a vehicle that could legally operate on the segment 
        before the date of such designation at the posted speed limit 
        may continue to operate on that segment; and
            ``(2) a vehicle that can only travel slower than the posted 
        speed limit on the segment and could otherwise legally operate 
        on the segment before the date of such designation may continue 
        to operate on that segment during daylight hours.''.
    Sec. 126. (a) A State or territory, as defined in section 165 of 
title 23, United States Code, may use for any project eligible under 
section 133(b) of title 23 or section 165 of title 23 and located 
within the boundary of the State or territory any earmarked amount, and 
any associated obligation limitation, provided that the Department of 
Transportation for the State or territory for which the earmarked 
amount was originally designated or directed notifies the Secretary of 
Transportation of its intent to use its authority under this section 
and submits a quarterly report to the Secretary identifying the 
projects to which the funding would be applied. Notwithstanding the 
original period of availability of funds to be obligated under this 
section, such funds and associated obligation limitation shall remain 
available for obligation for a period of 3 fiscal years after the 
fiscal year in which the Secretary of Transportation is notified. The 
Federal share of the cost of a project carried out with funds made 
available under this section shall be the same as associated with the 
earmark.
    (b) In this section, the term ``earmarked amount'' means--
            (1) congressionally directed spending, as defined in rule 
        XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, identified in a prior 
        law, report, or joint explanatory statement, which was 
        authorized to be appropriated or appropriated more than 10 
        fiscal years prior to the fiscal year in which this Act becomes 
        effective, and administered by the Federal Highway 
        Administration; or
            (2) a congressional earmark, as defined in rule XXI of the 
        Rules of the House of Representatives identified in a prior 
        law, report, or joint explanatory statement, which was 
        authorized to be appropriated or appropriated more than 10 
        fiscal years prior to the fiscal year in which this Act becomes 
        effective, and administered by the Federal Highway 
        Administration.
    (c) The authority under subsection (a) may be exercised only for 
those projects or activities that have obligated less than 10 percent 
of the amount made available for obligation as of the effective date of 
this Act, and shall be applied to projects within the same general 
geographic area within 50 miles for which the funding was designated, 
except that a State or territory may apply such authority to unexpended 
balances of funds from projects or activities the State or territory 
certifies have been closed and for which payments have been made under 
a final voucher.
    (d) The Secretary shall submit consolidated reports of the 
information provided by the States and territories each quarter to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 127. (a) In General.--Section 31112(c)(5) of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking ``Nebraska may'' and inserting ``Nebraska 
        and Kansas may''; and
            (2) by striking ``the State of Nebraska'' and inserting 
        ``the relevant state''.
    (b) Conforming and Technical Amendments.--Section 31112(c) of such 
title is amended--
            (1) by striking the subsection designation and heading and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(c) Special Rules for Wyoming, Ohio, Alaska, Iowa, Nebraska, and 
Kansas.--'';
            (2) by striking ``; and'' at the end of paragraph (3) and 
        inserting a semicolon; and
            (3) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (4) and 
        inserting ``; and''.

              Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

              motor carrier safety operations and programs

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in the implementation, 
execution and administration of motor carrier safety operations and 
programs pursuant to section 31104(i) of title 49, United States Code, 
and sections 4127 and 4134 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public 
Law 112-141, $259,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund 
(other than the Mass Transit Account), together with advances and 
reimbursements received by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, the sum of which shall remain available until expended: 
 Provided, That funds available for implementation, execution or 
administration of motor carrier safety operations and programs 
authorized under title 49, United States Code, shall not exceed total 
obligations of $259,000,000 for ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and 
Programs'' for fiscal year 2016, of which $9,000,000, to remain 
available for obligation until September 30, 2018, is for the research 
and technology program, and of which $34,545,000, to remain available 
for obligation until September 30, 2018, is for information management: 
 Provided further, That $1,000,000 shall be made available for 
commercial motor vehicle operator grants to carry out section 4134 of 
Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public Law 112-141.

                      motor carrier safety grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out sections 31102, 
31104(a), 31106, 31107, 31109, 31309, 31313 of title 49, United States 
Code, and sections 4126 and 4128 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by 
Public Law 112-141, $313,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust 
Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) and to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That funds available for the implementation 
or execution of motor carrier safety programs shall not exceed total 
obligations of $313,000,000 in fiscal year 2016 for ``Motor Carrier 
Safety Grants''; of which $218,000,000 shall be available for the motor 
carrier safety assistance program, $30,000,000 shall be available for 
commercial driver's license program improvement grants, $32,000,000 
shall be available for border enforcement grants, $5,000,000 shall be 
available for performance and registration information system 
management grants, $25,000,000 shall be available for the commercial 
vehicle information systems and networks deployment program, and 
$3,000,000 shall be available for safety data improvement grants:  
Provided further, That, of the funds made available herein for the 
motor carrier safety assistance program, $32,000,000 shall be available 
for audits of new entrant motor carriers.

 administrative provisions--federal motor carrier safety administration

    Sec. 130. (a) Funds appropriated or limited in this Act shall be 
subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in section 350 of Public 
Law 107-87 and section 6901 of Public Law 110-28.
    (b) Section 350(d) of the Department of Transportation and Related 
Agencies Appropriation Act, 2002 (Public Law 107-87) is hereby 
repealed.
    Sec. 131.  The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall 
send notice of 49 CFR section 385.308 violations by certified mail, 
registered mail, or another manner of delivery which records the 
receipt of the notice by the persons responsible for the violations.
    Sec. 132.  None of the funds limited or otherwise made available 
under this Act, or any other Act, hereafter, shall be used by the 
Secretary to enforce any regulation prohibiting a State from issuing a 
commercial learner's permit to individuals under the age of eighteen if 
the State had a law authorizing the issuance of commercial learner's 
permits to individuals under eighteen years of age as of May 9, 2011.
    Sec. 133.  None of the funds limited or otherwise made available 
under the heading ``Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs'' may 
be used to deny an application to renew a Hazardous Materials Safety 
Program permit for a motor carrier based on that carrier's Hazardous 
Materials Out-of-Service rate, unless the carrier has the opportunity 
to submit a written description of corrective actions taken, and other 
documentation the carrier wishes the Secretary to consider, including 
submitting a corrective action plan, and the Secretary determines the 
actions or plan is insufficient to address the safety concerns that 
resulted in that Hazardous Materials Out-of-Service rate.
    Sec. 134.  Funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this 
Act or any other Act shall be used hereafter to enforce sections 
395.3(c) and 395.3(d) of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, only if 
the final report issued by the Secretary required by section 133 of 
division K of Public Law 113-235 finds that the July 1, 2013 restart 
provisions resulted in statistically significant net safety benefits 
and the Inspector General certifies that the final report meets the 
statutory requirements of Public Law 113-235.
    Sec. 135.  Funds made available by this Act or any other Act may be 
used to develop, issue, or implement any regulation that increases 
levels of minimum financial responsibility for transporting passengers 
or property as in effect on January 1, 2014, under regulations issued 
pursuant to sections 31138 and 31139 of title 49, United States Code, 
only 60 days after the Secretary provides a report to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure, and the Senate Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation on the impact of raising the 
minimum financial responsibility for transporting passengers or 
property. The report shall include an assessment of catastrophic 
crashes in which damages exceeded the insurance limits, the impact of 
higher insurance premiums on carriers, and the capacity of the 
insurance industry to underwrite increases in current minimum financial 
responsibility limits.
    Sec. 136.  Section 13506(a) of title 49, United States Code, is 
amended:
            (1) in subsection (14) by striking ``or'';
            (2) in subsection (15) by striking ``.'' and inserting ``; 
        or''; and
            (3) by inserting at the end, ``(16) the transportation of 
        passengers by motor vehicles operated by youth or family camps 
        that provide overnight accommodations and recreational or 
        educational activities at fixed locations.''.
    Sec. 137. (a) Section 31111(b)(1)(A) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended by striking ``or of less than 28 feet on a semitrailer 
or trailer operating in a truck tractor semitrailer-trailer 
combination,'' and inserting ``or, notwithstanding section 31112, of 
less than 33 feet on a semitrailer or trailer operating in a truck 
tractor semitrailer-trailer combination,''.
    (b) Section 31111(f) of title 49, United States Code, the term 
``chief executive officer of a State'' shall include ``chief executive 
officer of a State Department of Transportation''.
    (c) The Secretary of Transportation is directed to conduct a study 
comparing crash data between 28 foot and 33 foot semitrailers or 
trailers operating in a truck tractor-semitrailer-trailer 
configuration. The Secretary shall submit its study to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations no later than three years after the 
date of enactment of this Act.

             National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

                        operations and research

    For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the Secretary, 
with respect to traffic and highway safety authorized under chapter 301 
and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, 
$130,500,000, of which $20,000,000 shall remain available through 
September 30, 2017.

                        operations and research

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions 
of 23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code, 
$118,500,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the 
Mass Transit Account) and to remain available until expended:  
Provided, That none of the funds under this heading shall be available 
for the planning or execution of programs the total obligations for 
which, in fiscal year 2016, are in excess of $118,500,000, of which 
$113,500,000 shall be for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403 and 
$5,000,000 shall be for the National Driver Register authorized under 
chapter 303 of title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, That 
within the $118,500,000 obligation limitation for operations and 
research, $20,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 2017, 
and shall be in addition to the amount of any limitation imposed on 
obligations for future years.

            highway traffic safety grants and other purposes

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out provisions of 
23 U.S.C. 402, 403, and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 109-59, as 
amended by Public Law 112-141, section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112-
141, chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, and part C of 
subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code, to remain available until 
expended, $575,500,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust Fund 
(other than the Mass Transit Account):  Provided, That none of the 
funds in this Act shall be available for the planning or execution of 
programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 2016, are in 
excess of $575,500,000 for programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 402, 
403, and 405, section 2009 of Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public 
Law 112-141, section 31101(a)(6) of Public Law 112-141, chapter 301 of 
title 49, United States Code, and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, 
United States Code, of which $235,000,000 shall be for ``Highway Safety 
Programs'' under 23 U.S.C. 402; $272,000,000 shall be for ``National 
Priority Safety Programs'' under 23 U.S.C. 405; $29,000,000 shall be 
for ``High Visibility Enforcement Program'' under section 2009 of 
Public Law 109-59, as amended by Public Law 112-141; $25,500,000 shall 
be for ``Administrative Expenses'' under section 31101(a)(6) of Public 
Law 112-141:  Provided further, That none of these funds shall be used 
for construction, rehabilitation, or remodeling costs, or for office 
furnishings and fixtures for State, local or private buildings or 
structures:  Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the funds 
made available for ``National Priority Safety Programs'' under 23 
U.S.C. 405 for ``Impaired Driving Countermeasures'' (as described in 
subsection (d) of that section) shall be available for technical 
assistance to the States:  Provided further, That with respect to the 
``Transfers'' provision under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G), any amounts 
transferred to increase the amounts made available under section 402 
shall include the obligation authority for such amounts:  Provided 
further, That the Administrator shall notify the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations of any exercise of the authority granted 
under the previous proviso or under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(1)(G) within 5 
days:  Provided further, That $10,000,000 of the total obligation 
limitation made available shall be applied toward unobligated balances 
of contract authority under the program for which funds were authorized 
in section 2005 of Public Law 109-59, as amended, and shall be used for 
programs authorized under 23 U.S.C. 403:  Provided further, That 
$4,000,000 of the total obligation limitation made available shall be 
applied toward unobligated balances of contract authority under the 
program for which funds were authorized in section 2005 of Public Law 
109-59, as amended, and shall be used to cover the expenses necessary 
to discharge the functions of the Secretary, with respect to traffic 
and highway safety under chapter 301 of title 49, United States Code, 
and part C of subtitle VI of title 49, United States Code:  Provided 
further, That the additional $14,000,000 made available for obligation 
from unobligated balances of contract authority under section 2005 of 
Public Law 109-59, as amended, shall be available in the same manner as 
though such funds were apportioned under chapter 1 of title 23, United 
States Code, except that the Federal share payable on account of any 
program, project, or activity carried out with such funds made 
available under this heading shall be 100 percent and such funds shall 
remain available for obligation until expended.

      administrative provisions--national highway traffic safety 
                             administration

    Sec. 140.  An additional $130,000 shall be made available to the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, out of the amount 
limited for section 402 of title 23, United States Code, to pay for 
travel and related expenses for State management reviews and to pay for 
core competency development training and related expenses for highway 
safety staff.
    Sec. 141.  The limitations on obligations for the programs of the 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set in this Act shall 
not apply to obligations for which obligation authority was made 
available in previous public laws but only to the extent that the 
obligation authority has not lapsed or been used.
    Sec. 142.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used to implement 
section 404 of title 23, United States Code.

                    Federal Railroad Administration

                         safety and operations

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Administration, not 
otherwise provided for, $199,000,000, of which $15,900,000 shall remain 
available until expended.

                   railroad research and development

    For necessary expenses for railroad research and development, 
$39,100,000, to remain available until expended.

       railroad rehabilitation and improvement financing program

    The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue direct loans 
and loan guarantees pursuant to sections 501 through 504 of the 
Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 
94-210), as amended, such authority to exist as long as any such direct 
loan or loan guarantee is outstanding:  Provided, That pursuant to 
section 502 of such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or loan 
guarantee commitments shall be made using Federal funds for the credit 
risk premium during fiscal year 2016.

                         railroad safety grants

    For necessary expenses related to railroad safety grants, 
$50,000,000, of which not to exceed $25,000,000 shall be available to 
carry out 49 U.S.C. 20167; not to exceed $15,000,000 shall be made 
available to carry out 49 U.S.C. 20158; and not to exceed $10,000,000 
shall be made available for projects as defined in section 22501 of 
title 49, United States Code, to remain available until expended.

    operating grants to the national railroad passenger corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make quarterly grants 
to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, in amounts based on the 
Secretary's assessment of the Corporation's seasonal cash flow 
requirements, for the operation of intercity passenger rail, as 
authorized by section 101 of the Passenger Rail Investment and 
Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110-432), 
$288,500,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the 
amounts available under this paragraph shall be available for the 
Secretary to approve funding to cover operating losses for the 
Corporation only after receiving and reviewing a grant request for each 
specific train route:  Provided further, That each such grant request 
shall be accompanied by a detailed financial analysis, revenue 
projection, and capital expenditure projection justifying the Federal 
support to the Secretary's satisfaction:  Provided further, That not 
later than 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Corporation shall 
transmit, in electronic format, to the Secretary and the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations the annual budget, business plan, 
the 5-Year Financial Plan for fiscal year 2016 required under section 
204 of the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 and 
the comprehensive fleet plan for all Amtrak rolling stock:  Provided 
further, That the budget, business plan and the 5-Year Financial Plan 
shall include annual information on the maintenance, refurbishment, 
replacement, and expansion for all Amtrak rolling stock consistent with 
the comprehensive fleet plan:  Provided further, That the Corporation 
shall provide monthly performance reports in an electronic format which 
shall describe the work completed to date, any changes to the business 
plan, and the reasons for such changes as well as progress against the 
milestones and target dates of the 2012 performance improvement plan:  
Provided further, That the Corporation's budget, business plan, 5-Year 
Financial Plan, semiannual reports, monthly reports, comprehensive 
fleet plan and all supplemental reports or plans comply with 
requirements in Public Law 112-55:  Provided further, That none of the 
funds provided in this Act may be used to support any route on which 
Amtrak offers a discounted fare of more than 50 percent off the normal 
peak fare:  Provided further, That the preceding proviso does not apply 
to routes where the operating loss as a result of the discount is 
covered by a State and the State participates in the setting of fares.

  capital and debt service grants to the national railroad passenger 
                              corporation

    To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation for capital investments as 
authorized by sections 101(c), 102, and 219(b) of the Passenger Rail 
Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 110-
432), $1,101,500,000, to remain available until expended, of which not 
to exceed $160,200,000 shall be for debt service obligations as 
authorized by section 102 of such Act:  Provided, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, not less than $50,000,000 shall be 
made available to bring Amtrak-served facilities and stations into 
compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act:  Provided further, 
That after an initial distribution of up to $200,000,000, which shall 
be used by the Corporation as a working capital account, all remaining 
funds shall be provided to the Corporation only on a reimbursable 
basis:  Provided further, That of the amounts made available under this 
heading, up to $50,000,000 may be used by the Secretary to subsidize 
operating losses of the Corporation should the funds provided under the 
heading ``Operating Grants to the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation'' be insufficient to meet operational costs for fiscal year 
2016:  Provided further, That the Secretary may retain up to one-half 
of 1 percent of the funds provided under this heading to fund the costs 
of project management and oversight of activities authorized by 
subsections 101(a) and 101(c) of division B of Public Law 110-432, of 
which up to $500,000 may be available for technical assistance for 
States, the District of Columbia, and other public entities responsible 
for the implementation of section 209 of division B of Public Law 110-
432:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall approve funding for 
capital expenditures, including advance purchase orders of materials, 
for the Corporation only after receiving and reviewing a grant request 
for each specific capital project justifying the Federal support to the 
Secretary's satisfaction:  Provided further, That except as otherwise 
provided herein, none of the funds under this heading may be used to 
subsidize operating losses of the Corporation:  Provided further, That 
none of the funds under this heading may be used for capital projects 
not approved by the Secretary of Transportation or on the Corporation's 
fiscal year 2015 business plan:  Provided further, That in addition to 
the project management oversight funds authorized under section 101(d) 
of division B of Public Law 110-432, the Secretary may retain up to an 
additional $5,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading to fund 
expenses associated with implementing section 212 of division B of 
Public Law 110-432, including the amendments made by section 212 to 
section 24905 of title 49, United States Code.

       administrative provisions--federal railroad administration

    Sec. 150.  The Secretary of Transportation may receive and expend 
cash, or receive and utilize spare parts and similar items, from non-
United States Government sources to repair damages to or replace United 
States Government owned automated track inspection cars and equipment 
as a result of third-party liability for such damages, and any amounts 
collected under this section shall be credited directly to the Safety 
and Operations account of the Federal Railroad Administration, and 
shall remain available until expended for the repair, operation and 
maintenance of automated track inspection cars and equipment in 
connection with the automated track inspection program.
    Sec. 151.  None of the funds provided to the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any overtime costs in excess 
of $35,000 for any individual employee:  Provided, That the President 
of Amtrak may waive the cap set in the previous proviso for specific 
employees when the President of Amtrak determines such a cap poses a 
risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the system:  Provided 
further, That the President of Amtrak shall report to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations each quarter of the calendar year 
on waivers granted to employees and amounts paid above the cap for each 
month within such quarter and delineate the reasons each waiver was 
granted:  Provided further, That the President of Amtrak shall report 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 2016, 
a summary of all overtime payments incurred by the Corporation for 2015 
and the three prior calendar years:  Provided further, That such 
summary shall include the total number of employees that received 
waivers and the total overtime payments the Corporation paid to those 
employees receiving waivers for each month for 2015 and for the three 
prior calendar years.
    Sec. 152.  Of the unobligated balances of funds available to the 
Federal Railroad Administration, the following funds are hereby 
rescinded: $4,201,385 of the unobligated balances of funds made 
available from the following accounts in the specified amounts--``Rail 
Line Relocation and Improvement Program'', $2,241,385; and ``Railroad 
Research and Development'', $1,960,000:  Provided, That such amounts 
are made available to enable the Secretary of Transportation to assist 
Class II and Class III railroads with eligible projects pursuant to 
sections 501 through 504 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory 
Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94-210), as amended:  Provided further, 
That such funds shall be available for applicant expenses in preparing 
to apply and applying for direct loans and loan guarantees as well as 
the credit risk premiums notwithstanding any other restriction against 
the use of Federal funds for such credit risk premiums:  Provided 
further, That these funds shall remain available until expended.
    Sec. 153.  Of the unobligated balances of funds available to the 
Federal Railroad Administration, the following funds are hereby 
rescinded: $5,000,000 of the unobligated balances of funds made 
available to fund expenses associated with implementing section 212 of 
division B of Public Law 110-432 in the Capital and Debt Service Grants 
to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation account of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 and 
$11,922,000 of the unobligated balances of funds made available from 
the following accounts in the specified amounts--``Grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation'', $267,019; ``Next Generation 
High-Speed Rail'', $4,944,504; and ``Safety and Operations'', 
$6,710,477:  Provided, That such amounts are made available to enable 
the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation as authorized by section 101(c) of the Passenger 
Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 (division B of Public Law 
110-432) for state-of-good-repair backlog and infrastructure 
improvements on Northeast Corridor shared-use infrastructure identified 
in the Northeast Corridor Infrastructure and Operations Advisory 
Commission's approved 5-year capital plan:  Provided further, That 
these funds shall remain available until expended and shall be 
available for grants in an amount not to exceed 50 percent of the total 
project cost, with the required matching funds to be provided 
consistent with the Commission's cost allocation policy.

                     Federal Transit Administration

                        administrative expenses

    For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal Transit 
Administration's programs authorized by chapter 53 of title 49, United 
States Code, $107,000,000, of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be 
available to carry out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5329 and not less 
than $1,000,000 shall be available to carry out the provisions of 49 
U.S.C. 5326:  Provided, That none of the funds provided or limited in 
this Act may be used to create a permanent office of transit security 
under this heading:  Provided further, That upon submission to the 
Congress of the fiscal year 2017 President's budget, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall transmit to Congress the annual report on New 
Starts, including proposed allocations for fiscal year 2017.

                         transit formula grants

                (liquidation of contract authorization)

                      (limitation on obligations)

                          (highway trust fund)

    For payment of obligations incurred in the Federal Public 
Transportation Assistance Program in this account, and for payment of 
obligations incurred in carrying out the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 
5307, 5310, 5311, 5318, 5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 
5340, as amended by Public Law 112-141, and section 20005(b) of Public 
Law 112-141, $9,500,000,000, to be derived from the Mass Transit 
Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until 
expended:  Provided, That funds available for the implementation or 
execution of programs authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 
5311, 5318, 5322(d), 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, as amended 
by Public Law 112-141, and section 20005(b) of Public Law 112-141, 
shall not exceed total obligations of $8,595,000,000 in fiscal year 
2016.

                            transit research

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5312 and 5313, 
$32,500,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
$30,000,000 shall be for activities authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5312 and 
$2,500,000 shall be for activities authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5313.

                   technical assistance and training

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5314 and 5322(a), (b) 
and (e), $3,153,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, 
That $2,653,000 shall be for activities authorized under 49 U.S.C. 5314 
and $500,000 shall be for activities authorized under 49 U.S.C. 
5322(a), (b) and (e).

                       capital investment grants

    For necessary expenses to carry out 49 U.S.C. 5309, $1,585,000,000, 
to remain available until expended:  Provided, That when distributing 
funds among Recommended New Starts Projects, the Administrator shall 
first fully fund those projects covered by a full funding grant 
agreement, then fully fund those projects whose section 5309 share is 
less than 40 percent, and then distribute the remaining funds so as to 
protect as much as possible the projects' budgets and schedules.

      grants to the washington metropolitan area transit authority

    For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority as 
authorized under section 601 of division B of Public Law 110-432, 
$150,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the 
Secretary of Transportation shall approve grants for capital and 
preventive maintenance expenditures for the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority only after receiving and reviewing a request for 
each specific project:  Provided further, That prior to approving such 
grants, the Secretary shall certify that the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority is making progress to improve its safety 
management system in response to the Federal Transit Administration's 
2015 safety management inspection:  Provided further, That prior to 
approving such grants, the Secretary shall certify that the Washington 
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority is making progress toward full 
implementation of the corrective actions identified in the 2014 
Financial Management Oversight Review Report:  Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall determine that the Washington Metropolitan Area 
Transit Authority has placed the highest priority on those investments 
that will improve the safety of the system before approving such 
grants:  Provided further, That the Secretary, in order to ensure 
safety throughout the rail system, may waive the requirements of 
section 601(e)(1) of title VI of Public Law 110-432 (112 Stat. 4968).

       administrative provisions--federal transit administration

                         (including rescission)

    Sec. 160.  The limitations on obligations for the programs of the 
Federal Transit Administration shall not apply to any authority under 
49 U.S.C. 5338, previously made available for obligation, or to any 
other authority previously made available for obligation.
    Sec. 161.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
appropriated or limited by this Act under the heading ``Fixed Guideway 
Capital Investment'' of the Federal Transit Administration for projects 
specified in this Act or identified in reports accompanying this Act 
not obligated by September 30, 2020, and other recoveries, shall be 
directed to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for 
which they were originally provided.
    Sec. 162.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any funds 
appropriated before October 1, 2015, under any section of chapter 53 of 
title 49, United States Code, that remain available for expenditure, 
may be transferred to and administered under the most recent 
appropriation heading for any such section.
    Sec. 163.  The Secretary may not enforce regulations related to 
charter bus service under part 604 of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, for any transit agency that during fiscal year 2008 was 
both initially granted a 60-day period to come into compliance with 
part 604, and then was subsequently granted an exception from said 
part.
    Sec. 164.  Notwithstanding the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5334 and 2 
CFR 200.313, conditions imposed as a result of any and all Federal 
public transportation assistance related to and for the use, 
encumbrance, transfer or disposition of property originally built as a 
prototype having icebreaking capabilities will be fully and completely 
satisfied by the property's use--
            (1) in the areas of Arctic research;
            (2) to map the Arctic;
            (3) to collect and analyze data in the Arctic;
            (4) to support activities that further Arctic exploration, 
        research, or development; or
            (5) for educational purposes or humanitarian relief 
        efforts.
    Sec. 165.  Projects selected for the pilot program for expedited 
project delivery under section 20008(b) of MAP-21 shall be exempt from 
the requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5309(d), (e), (g), and (h). 
Notwithstanding this exemption, in determining whether a recipient has 
the financial capacity to carry out the eligible project, the Secretary 
of Transportation shall apply the requirements and considerations of 49 
U.S.C. 5309(f).
    Sec. 166.  Of the unobligated amounts made available for fiscal 
year 2011 or prior fiscal years to carry out the discretionary bus and 
bus facilities program under 49 U.S.C. 5309, $10,000,000 is hereby 
rescinded.

             Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

    The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and 
borrowing authority available to the Corporation, and in accordance 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government 
Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in carrying 
out the programs set forth in the Corporation's budget for fiscal year 
2016.

                       operations and maintenance

                    (harbor maintenance trust fund)

    For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, maintenance, and 
capital asset renewal activities of those portions of the St. Lawrence 
Seaway owned, operated, and maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway 
Development Corporation, $28,400,000, to be derived from the Harbor 
Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99-662.

                        Maritime Administration

                       maritime security program

    For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a U.S.-flag 
merchant fleet to serve the national security needs of the United 
States, $186,000,000, to remain available until expended.

                        operations and training

    For necessary expenses of operations and training activities 
authorized by law, $170,000,000, of which $22,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for maintenance and repair of training ships 
at State Maritime Academies, and of which $5,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for National Security Multi-Mission Vessel 
design for State Maritime Academies and National Security, and of which 
$2,400,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, for the 
Student Incentive Program at State Maritime Academies, and of which 
$1,000,000 shall remain available until expended for training ship fuel 
assistance payments, and of which $18,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended for facilities maintenance and repair, equipment, and 
capital improvements at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, and 
of which $2,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 2017, 
for Maritime Environment and Technology Assistance grants, contracts, 
and cooperative agreements, and of which $5,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for the Short Sea Transportation Program 
(America's Marine Highways) to make grants for the purposes provided in 
title 46 section 55601(b)(1) and 55601(b)(3):  Provided, That 50 
percent of the funding made available for the United States Merchant 
Marine Academy under this heading shall be available only after the 
Secretary of Transportation, in consultation with the Superintendent 
and the Maritime Administrator, completes a plan detailing by program 
or activity how such funding will be expended at the Academy, and this 
plan is submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: 
 Provided further, That not later than January 12, 2016, the 
Administrator of the Maritime Administration shall transmit to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations the annual report on 
sexual assault and sexual harassment at the United States Merchant 
Marine Academy as required pursuant to section 3507 of Public Law 110-
417.

                     assistance to small shipyards

    To make grants to qualified shipyards as authorized under section 
54101 of title 46, United States Code, as amended by Public Law 113-
281, $5,000,000 to remain available until expended:  Provided, That the 
Secretary shall issue the Notice of Funding Availability no later than 
15 days after enactment of this Act:  Provided further, That from 
applications submitted under the previous proviso, the Secretary of 
Transportation shall make grants no later than 120 days after enactment 
of this Act in such amounts as the Secretary determines:  Provided 
further, That not to exceed 2 percent of the funds appropriated under 
this heading shall be available for necessary costs of grant 
administration.

                             ship disposal

    For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obsolete vessels 
in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Maritime Administration, 
$4,000,000, to remain available until expended.

          maritime guaranteed loan (title xi) program account

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized, $8,135,000, of 
which $5,000,000 shall remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
such costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
amended:  Provided further, That not to exceed $3,135,000 shall be 
available for administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan 
program, which shall be transferred to and merged with the 
appropriations for ``Operations and Training'', Maritime 
Administration.

           administrative provisions--maritime administration

    Sec. 170.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the 
Maritime Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and services 
and make necessary repairs in connection with any lease, contract, or 
occupancy involving Government property under control of the Maritime 
Administration:  Provided, That payments received therefor shall be 
credited to the appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall 
remain available until expended:  Provided further, That rental 
payments under any such lease, contract, or occupancy for items other 
than such utilities, services, or repairs shall be covered into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.

         Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

                          operational expenses

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and Hazardous 
Materials Safety Administration, $22,500,000:  Provided, That 
$1,500,000 shall be transferred to ``Pipeline Safety'' in order to fund 
``Pipeline Safety Information Grants to Communities'' as authorized 
under section 60130 of title 49, United States Code:  Provided further, 
That no later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall initiate a rulemaking to expand the 
applicability of comprehensive oil spill response plans, and shall 
issue a final rule no later than one year after the date of enactment 
of this Act.

                       hazardous materials safety

    For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous materials safety 
functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, $49,000,000, of which $2,300,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That up to $800,000 in fees 
collected under 49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in the general 
fund of the Treasury as offsetting receipts:  Provided further, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available until 
expended, funds received from States, counties, municipalities, other 
public authorities, and private sources for expenses incurred for 
training, for reports publication and dissemination, and for travel 
expenses incurred in performance of hazardous materials exemptions and 
approvals functions.

                            pipeline safety

                         (pipeline safety fund)

                    (oil spill liability trust fund)

    For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the pipeline 
safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a pipeline safety 
program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, and to discharge the 
pipeline program responsibilities of the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 
$146,623,000, of which $19,500,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill 
Liability Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 
2018; and of which $127,123,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline 
Safety Fund, of which $66,309,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018:  Provided, That not less than $1,058,000 of the 
funds provided under this heading shall be for the One-Call state grant 
program.

                     emergency preparedness grants

                     (emergency preparedness fund)

    For necessary expenses to carryout 49 U.S.C. 5128(b), $188,000, to 
be derived from the Emergency Preparedness Fund, to remain available 
until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That notwithstanding the fiscal 
year limitation specified in 49 U.S.C. 5116, not more than $28,318,000 
shall be made available for obligation in fiscal year 2016 from amounts 
made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), and 5128(b) and (c):  Provided 
further, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5116(i)(4), not more than 4 
percent of the amounts made available from this account shall be 
available to pay administrative costs:  Provided further, That none of 
the funds made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(i), 5128(b), or 5128(c) 
shall be made available for obligation by individuals other than the 
Secretary of Transportation, or his or her designee:  Provided further, 
That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5128(b) and (c) and the current year 
obligation limitation, prior year recoveries recognized in the current 
year shall be available to develop a hazardous materials response 
training curriculum for emergency responders, including response 
activities for the transportation of crude oil, ethanol and other 
flammable liquids by rail, consistent with National Fire Protection 
Association standards, and to make such training available through an 
electronic format:  Provided further, That the prior year recoveries 
made available under this heading shall also be available to carry out 
49 U.S.C. 5116(b) and (j).

  administrative provisions--pipeline and hazardous materials safety 
                             administration

    Sec. 180.  The Secretary of Transportation is directed to evaluate 
and report to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 
60 days of enactment of this Act an alternative risk-based compliance 
regime for the siting of small-scale liquefaction facilities that 
generate and package liquefied natural gas for use as a fuel or 
delivery to consumers by non-pipeline modes of transportation. In 
evaluating such alternative risk-based compliance regime, the Secretary 
should consider the value of adopting quantitative risk assessment 
methods, the benefit of incorporating modern industry standards and 
best practices, including the provisions in the 2013 edition of the 
National Fire Protection Association Standard 59A, and the need to 
encourage the use of the best available technology.

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General to 
carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as 
amended, $87,472,000:  Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
all necessary authority, in carrying out the duties specified in the 
Inspector General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate 
allegations of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by 
the Department of Transportation:  Provided further, That the funds 
made available under this heading may be used to investigate, pursuant 
to section 41712 of title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or 
deceptive practices and unfair methods of competition by domestic and 
foreign air carriers and ticket agents; and (2) the compliance of 
domestic and foreign air carriers with respect to item (1) of this 
proviso.

                      Surface Transportation Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board, 
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $32,375,000:  Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to exceed 
$1,250,000 from fees established by the Chairman of the Surface 
Transportation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as 
offsetting collections and used for necessary and authorized expenses 
under this heading:  Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
from the general fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as 
such offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 2016, to 
result in a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at no 
more than $31,125,000.

            General Provisions--Department of Transportation

    Sec. 190.  During the current fiscal year, applicable 
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall be available 
for maintenance and operation of aircraft; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles and aircraft; purchase of liability insurance for motor 
vehicles operating in foreign countries on official department 
business; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 
U.S.C. 5901-5902).
    Sec. 191.  Appropriations contained in this Act for the Department 
of Transportation shall be available for services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the rate for an Executive Level IV.
    Sec. 192.  None of the funds in this Act shall be available for 
salaries and expenses of more than 110 political and Presidential 
appointees in the Department of Transportation:  Provided, That none of 
the personnel covered by this provision may be assigned on temporary 
detail outside the Department of Transportation.
    Sec. 193. (a) No recipient of funds made available in this Act 
shall disseminate personal information (as defined in 18 U.S.C. 
2725(3)) obtained by a State department of motor vehicles in connection 
with a motor vehicle record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as 
provided in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721.
    (b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary of Transportation 
shall not withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee if a 
State is in noncompliance with this provision.
    Sec. 194.  Funds received by the Federal Highway Administration, 
Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Railroad Administration 
from States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, and 
private sources for expenses incurred for training may be credited 
respectively to the Federal Highway Administration's ``Federal-Aid 
Highways'' account, the Federal Transit Administration's ``Technical 
Assistance and Training'' account, and to the Federal Railroad 
Administration's ``Safety and Operations'' account, except for State 
rail safety inspectors participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 
20105.
    Sec. 195.  None of the funds in this Act to the Department of 
Transportation may be used to make a loan, loan guarantee, line of 
credit, or grant unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not less than 3 full 
business days before any project competitively selected to receive a 
discretionary grant award, any discretionary grant award, letter of 
intent, loan commitment, loan guarantee commitment, line of credit 
commitment, or full funding grant agreement is announced by the 
department or its modal administrations from:
            (1) any discretionary grant or federal credit program of 
        the Federal Highway Administration including the emergency 
        relief program;
            (2) the airport improvement program of the Federal Aviation 
        Administration;
            (3) any program of the Federal Railroad Administration;
            (4) any program of the Federal Transit Administration other 
        than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization 
        programs;
            (5) any program of the Maritime Administration; or
            (6) any funding provided under the headings ``National 
        Infrastructure Investments'' in this Act:
  Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation gives concurrent 
notification to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
any ``quick release'' of funds from the emergency relief program:  
Provided further, That no notification shall involve funds that are not 
available for obligation.
    Sec. 196.  Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor fees and 
other funds received by the Department of Transportation from travel 
management centers, charge card programs, the subleasing of building 
space, and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropriations 
of the Department of Transportation and allocated to elements of the 
Department of Transportation using fair and equitable criteria and such 
funds shall be available until expended.
    Sec. 197.  Amounts made available in this or any other Act that the 
Secretary of Transportation determines represent improper payments by 
the Department of Transportation to a third-party contractor under a 
financial assistance award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall 
be available--
            (1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred by the 
        Department of Transportation in recovering improper payments; 
        and
            (2) to pay contractors for services provided in recovering 
        improper payments or contractor support in the implementation 
        of the Improper Payments Information Act of 2002:  Provided, 
        That amounts in excess of that required for paragraphs (1) and 
        (2)--
                    (A) shall be credited to and merged with the 
                appropriation from which the improper payments were 
                made, and shall be available for the purposes and 
                period for which such appropriations are available:  
                Provided further, That where specific project or 
                accounting information associated with the improper 
                payment or payments is not readily available, the 
                Secretary may credit an appropriate account, which 
                shall be available for the purposes and period 
                associated with the account so credited; or
                    (B) if no such appropriation remains available, 
                shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous 
                receipts:  Provided further, That prior to the transfer 
                of any such recovery to an appropriations account, the 
                Secretary shall notify the House and Senate Committees 
                on Appropriations of the amount and reasons for such 
                transfer:  Provided further, That for purposes of this 
                section, the term ``improper payments'' has the same 
                meaning as that provided in section 2(d)(2) of Public 
                Law 107-300.
    Sec. 198.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any funds 
provided in or limited by this Act are subject to a reprogramming 
action that requires notice to be provided to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations, transmission of said reprogramming notice 
shall be provided solely to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations, and said reprogramming action shall be approved or 
denied solely by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations:  
Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation may provide notice to 
other congressional committees of the action of the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not sooner than 
30 days following the date on which the reprogramming action has been 
approved or denied by the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations.
    Sec. 199.  None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation 
Board of the Department of Transportation to charge or collect any 
filing fee for rate or practice complaints filed with the Board in an 
amount in excess of the amount authorized for district court civil suit 
filing fees under section 1914 of title 28, United States Code.
    Sec. 199A.  Funds appropriated in this Act to the modal 
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Secretary for 
the costs related to assessments or reimbursable agreements only when 
such amounts are for the costs of goods and services that are purchased 
to provide a direct benefit to the applicable modal administration or 
administrations.
    Sec. 199B.  The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to carry 
out a program that establishes uniform standards for developing and 
supporting agency transit pass and transit benefits authorized under 
section 7905 of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of 
transit benefits by various paper and electronic media.
    Sec. 199C.  The Department of Transportation may use funds provided 
by this Act, or any other Act, to implement a pilot program under title 
49 U.S.C. or title 23 U.S.C. for geographic, economic, or any other 
hiring preference not otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a rule, 
regulation, policy or other measure that forbids a recipient of a 
Federal Highway Administration or Federal Transit Administration grant 
from imposing such hiring preference on a construction project with 
which the Department of Transportation is assisting, only if the grant 
recipient certifies the following:
            (1) that except with respect to apprentices or trainees, a 
        pool of readily available but unemployed individuals possessing 
        the knowledge, skill, and ability to perform the work that the 
        project requires resides in the jurisdiction;
            (2) that the grant recipient will include appropriate 
        provisions in its bid document ensuring that the contractor 
        does not displace any of its existing employees in order to 
        satisfy such hiring preference; and
            (3) that any increase in the cost of labor, training, or 
        delays resulting from the use of such hiring preference does 
        not delay or displace any transportation project in the 
        applicable Statewide Transportation Improvement Program or 
        Transportation Improvement Program.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Transportation 
Appropriations Act, 2016''.

                                TITLE II

              DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

                     Management and Administration

                           executive offices

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Offices, which 
shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, Deputy Secretary, 
Adjudicatory Services, Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations, 
Public Affairs, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the 
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, $14,500,000:  
Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made available under 
this heading shall be available to the Secretary for official reception 
and representation expenses as the Secretary may determine.

                     administrative support offices

    For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative Support 
Offices, $568,244,000, of which not to exceed $44,657,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; not to exceed 
$96,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the General Counsel; 
not to exceed $208,604,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Administration; not to exceed $61,475,000 shall be available for the 
Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; not to exceed $50,000,000 
shall be available for the Office of Field Policy and Management; not 
to exceed $17,036,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Procurement Officer; not to exceed $3,270,000 shall be available for 
the Office of Departmental Equal Employment Opportunity; not to exceed 
$4,400,000 shall be available for the Office of Strategic Planning and 
Management; and not to exceed $82,802,000 shall be available for the 
Office of the Chief Information Officer:  Provided, That funds provided 
under this heading may be used for necessary administrative and non-
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, not otherwise provided for, including purchase of 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901-5902; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109:  Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, funds appropriated under this heading may be used for 
advertising and promotional activities that support the housing mission 
area:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall provide the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations quarterly written notification 
regarding the status of pending congressional reports:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall provide in electronic form all signed 
reports required by Congress.

                  Program Office Salaries and Expenses

                       public and indian housing

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Public and 
Indian Housing, $207,000,000.

                   community planning and development

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Community 
Planning and Development, $107,000,000.

                                housing

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Housing, 
$382,000,000.

                    policy development and research

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Policy 
Development and Research, $23,100,000.

                   fair housing and equal opportunity

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Fair Housing 
and Equal Opportunity, $69,500,000.

            office of lead hazard control and healthy homes

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Lead Hazard 
Control and Healthy Homes, $6,800,000.

                       Public and Indian Housing

                     tenant-based rental assistance

    For activities and assistance for the provision of tenant-based 
rental assistance authorized under the United States Housing Act of 
1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act'' herein), not 
otherwise provided for, $15,934,643,000, to remain available until 
expended, shall be available on October 1, 2015 (in addition to the 
$4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading that shall be 
available on October 1, 2015), and $4,000,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, shall be available on October 1, 2016:  Provided, That 
the amounts made available under this heading are provided as follows:
            (1) $17,982,000,000 shall be available for renewals of 
        expiring section 8 tenant-based annual contributions contracts 
        (including renewals of enhanced vouchers under any provision of 
        law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) 
        and including renewal of other special purpose incremental 
        vouchers:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
        of law, from amounts provided under this paragraph and any 
        carryover, the Secretary for the calendar year 2016 funding 
        cycle shall provide renewal funding for each public housing 
        agency based on validated voucher management system (VMS) 
        leasing and cost data for the prior calendar year and by 
        applying an inflation factor as established by the Secretary, 
        by notice published in the Federal Register, and by making any 
        necessary adjustments for the costs associated with the first-
        time renewal of vouchers under this paragraph including tenant 
        protection, HOPE VI, and Choice Neighborhoods vouchers:  
        Provided further, That in determining calendar year 2016 
        funding allocations under this heading for public housing 
        agencies, including agencies participating in the Moving To 
        Work (MTW) demonstration, the Secretary may take into account 
        the anticipated impact of changes in targeting and utility 
        allowances, on public housing agencies' contract renewal needs: 
         Provided further, That none of the funds provided under this 
        paragraph may be used to fund a total number of unit months 
        under lease which exceeds a public housing agency's authorized 
        level of units under contract, except for public housing 
        agencies participating in the MTW demonstration, which are 
        instead governed by the terms and conditions of their MTW 
        agreements:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to the 
        extent necessary to stay within the amount specified under this 
        paragraph (except as otherwise modified under this paragraph), 
        prorate each public housing agency's allocation otherwise 
        established pursuant to this paragraph:  Provided further, That 
        except as provided in the following provisos, the entire amount 
        specified under this paragraph (except as otherwise modified 
        under this paragraph) shall be obligated to the public housing 
        agencies based on the allocation and pro rata method described 
        above, and the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies 
        of their annual budget by the latter of 60 days after enactment 
        of this Act or March 1, 2016:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary may extend the notification period with the prior 
        written approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations:  Provided further, That public housing agencies 
        participating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded pursuant 
        to their MTW agreements and shall be subject to the same pro 
        rata adjustments under the previous provisos:  Provided 
        further, That the Secretary may offset public housing agencies' 
        calendar year 2016 allocations based on the excess amounts of 
        public housing agencies' net restricted assets accounts, 
        including HUD held programmatic reserves (in accordance with 
        VMS data in calendar year 2015 that is verifiable and 
        complete), as determined by the Secretary:  Provided further, 
        That public housing agencies participating in the MTW 
        demonstration shall also be subject to the offset, as 
        determined by the Secretary, excluding amounts subject to the 
        single fund budget authority provisions of their MTW 
        agreements, from the agencies' calendar year 2016 MTW funding 
        allocation:  Provided further, That the Secretary shall use any 
        offset referred to in the previous two provisos throughout the 
        calendar year to prevent the termination of rental assistance 
        for families as the result of insufficient funding, as 
        determined by the Secretary, and to avoid or reduce the 
        proration of renewal funding allocations:  Provided further, 
        That up to $75,000,000 shall be available only: (1) for 
        adjustments in the allocations for public housing agencies, 
        after application for an adjustment by a public housing agency 
        that experienced a significant increase, as determined by the 
        Secretary, in renewal costs of vouchers resulting from 
        unforeseen circumstances or from portability under section 8(r) 
        of the Act; (2) for vouchers that were not in use during the 
        previous 12-month period in order to be available to meet a 
        commitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the Act; (3) for 
        adjustments for costs associated with HUD-Veterans Affairs 
        Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) vouchers; and (4) for public 
        housing agencies that despite taking reasonable cost savings 
        measures, as determined by the Secretary, would otherwise be 
        required to terminate rental assistance for families as a 
        result of insufficient funding:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary shall allocate amounts under the previous proviso 
        based on need, as determined by the Secretary;
            (2) $130,000,000 shall be for section 8 rental assistance 
        for relocation and replacement of housing units that are 
        demolished or disposed of pursuant to section 18 of the Act, 
        conversion of section 23 projects to assistance under section 
        8, the family unification program under section 8(x) of the 
        Act, relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts to 
        combat crime in public and assisted housing pursuant to a 
        request from a law enforcement or prosecution agency, enhanced 
        vouchers under any provision of law authorizing such assistance 
        under section 8(t) of the Act, HOPE VI and Choice Neighborhood 
        Initiative vouchers, mandatory and voluntary conversions, and 
        tenant protection assistance including replacement and 
        relocation assistance or for project-based assistance to 
        prevent the displacement of unassisted elderly tenants 
        currently residing in section 202 properties financed between 
        1959 and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Public Law 106-
        569, as amended, or under the authority as provided under this 
        Act:  Provided, That when a public housing development is 
        submitted for demolition or disposition under section 18 of the 
        Act, the Secretary may provide section 8 rental assistance when 
        the units pose an imminent health and safety risk to residents: 
         Provided further, That the Secretary may only provide 
        replacement vouchers for units that were occupied within the 
        previous 24 months that cease to be available as assisted 
        housing, subject only to the availability of funds:  Provided 
        further, That any tenant protection voucher made available from 
        amounts under this paragraph shall not be reissued by any 
        public housing agency, except the replacement vouchers as 
        defined by the Secretary by notice, when the initial family 
        that received any such voucher no longer receives such voucher, 
        and the authority for any public housing agency to issue any 
        such voucher shall cease to exist:  Provided further, That the 
        Secretary, for the purposes under this paragraph, may use 
        unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryovers, 
        remaining from amounts appropriated in prior fiscal years under 
        this heading for voucher assistance for nonelderly disabled 
        families and for disaster assistance made available under 
        Public Law 110-329;
            (3) $1,620,000,000 shall be for administrative and other 
        expenses of public housing agencies in administering the 
        section 8 tenant-based rental assistance program, of which up 
        to $10,000,000 shall be available to the Secretary to allocate 
        to public housing agencies that need additional funds to 
        administer their section 8 programs, including fees associated 
        with section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, the 
        administration of disaster related vouchers, Veterans Affairs 
        Supportive Housing vouchers, and other special purpose 
        incremental vouchers:  Provided, That no less than 
        $1,610,000,000 of the amount provided in this paragraph shall 
        be allocated to public housing agencies for the calendar year 
        2016 funding cycle based on section 8(q) of the Act (and 
        related Appropriation Act provisions) as in effect immediately 
        before the enactment of the Quality Housing and Work 
        Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-276):  Provided 
        further, That if the amounts made available under this 
        paragraph are insufficient to pay the amounts determined under 
        the previous proviso, the Secretary may decrease the amounts 
        allocated to agencies by a uniform percentage applicable to all 
        agencies receiving funding under this paragraph or may, to the 
        extent necessary to provide full payment of amounts determined 
        under the previous proviso, utilize unobligated balances, 
        including recaptures and carryovers, remaining from funds 
        appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
        under this heading from prior fiscal years, excluding special 
        purpose vouchers, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 
        amounts were appropriated:  Provided further, That all public 
        housing agencies participating in the MTW demonstration shall 
        be funded pursuant to their MTW agreements, and shall be 
        subject to the same uniform percentage decrease as under the 
        previous proviso:  Provided further, That amounts provided 
        under this paragraph shall be only for activities related to 
        the provision of tenant-based rental assistance authorized 
        under section 8, including related development activities;
            (4) $107,643,000 for the renewal of tenant-based assistance 
        contracts under section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
        Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), including necessary 
        administrative expenses:  Provided, That administrative and 
        other expenses of public housing agencies in administering the 
        special purpose vouchers in this paragraph shall be funded 
        under the same terms and be subject to the same pro rata 
        reduction as the percent decrease for administrative and other 
        expenses to public housing agencies under paragraph (3) of this 
        heading;
            (5) $75,000,000 for incremental rental voucher assistance 
        for use through a supported housing program administered in 
        conjunction with the Department of Veterans Affairs as 
        authorized under section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing 
        Act of 1937:  Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
        Development shall make such funding available, notwithstanding 
        section 204 (competition provision) of this title, to public 
        housing agencies that partner with eligible VA Medical Centers 
        or other entities as designated by the Secretary of the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs, based on geographical need for 
        such assistance as identified by the Secretary of the 
        Department of Veterans Affairs, public housing agency 
        administrative performance, and other factors as specified by 
        the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in consultation 
        with the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs:  
        Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
        Development may waive, or specify alternative requirements for 
        (in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of 
        Veterans Affairs), any provision of any statute or regulation 
        that the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development administers 
        in connection with the use of funds made available under this 
        paragraph (except for requirements related to fair housing, 
        nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environment), upon 
        a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative 
        requirements are necessary for the effective delivery and 
        administration of such voucher assistance:  Provided further, 
        That assistance made available under this paragraph shall 
        continue to remain available for homeless veterans upon turn-
        over;
            (6) $20,000,000 shall be made available for new incremental 
        voucher assistance through the Family Unification Program as 
        authorized by section 8(x) of the Act:  Provided, That the 
        assistance made available under this paragraph shall continue 
        to remain available for family unification upon turnover; and
            (7) The Secretary shall separately track all special 
        purpose vouchers funded under this heading.

                        housing certificate fund

                        (including rescissions)

    Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development under this heading, the heading ``Annual Contributions for 
Assisted Housing'' and the heading ``Project-Based Rental Assistance'', 
for fiscal year 2016 and prior years may be used for renewal of or 
amendments to section 8 project-based contracts and for performance-
based contract administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such funds were appropriated:  Provided, That any obligated balances of 
contract authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that have been 
terminated shall be rescinded:  Provided further, That amounts 
heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the current fiscal year, 
from section 8 project-based contracts from source years fiscal year 
1975 through fiscal year 1987 are hereby rescinded, and an amount of 
additional new budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded is 
hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended, for the 
purposes set forth under this heading, in addition to amounts otherwise 
available.

                      public housing capital fund

    For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to carry out capital 
and management activities for public housing agencies, as authorized 
under section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437g) (the ``Act'') $1,742,870,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2019:  Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2016, the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development may not delegate to any Department official other 
than the Deputy Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and 
Indian Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) 
regarding the extension of the time periods under such section:  
Provided further, That for purposes of such section 9(j), the term 
``obligate'' means, with respect to amounts, that the amounts are 
subject to a binding agreement that will result in outlays, immediately 
or in the future:  Provided further, That up to $3,000,000 shall be to 
support ongoing Public Housing Financial and Physical Assessment 
activities:  Provided further, That up to $1,000,000 shall be to 
support the costs of administrative and judicial receiverships:  
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under this heading, 
not to exceed $23,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary to make 
grants, notwithstanding section 204 of this Act, to public housing 
agencies for emergency capital needs including safety and security 
measures necessary to address crime and drug-related activity as well 
as needs resulting from unforeseen or unpreventable emergencies and 
natural disasters excluding Presidentially declared emergencies and 
natural disasters under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal year 2016:  
Provided further, That of the amount made available under the previous 
proviso, not less than $6,000,000 shall be for safety and security 
measures:  Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading $35,000,000 shall be for supportive services, service 
coordinator and congregate services as authorized by section 34 of the 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1437z-6) and the Native American Housing Assistance and 
Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.):  Provided 
further, That of the total amount made available under this heading, 
$15,000,000 shall be for a Jobs-Plus initiative modeled after the Jobs-
Plus demonstration:  Provided further, That the funding provided under 
the previous proviso shall provide competitive grants to partnerships 
between public housing authorities, local workforce investment boards 
established under section 117 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 
and other agencies and organizations that provide support to help 
public housing residents obtain employment and increase earnings:  
Provided further, That applicants must demonstrate the ability to 
provide services to residents, partner with workforce investment 
boards, and leverage service dollars:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary may allow public housing agencies to request exemptions from 
rent and income limitation requirements under sections 3 and 6 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 as necessary to implement the Jobs-
Plus program, on such terms and conditions as the Secretary may approve 
upon a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alternative 
requirements are necessary for the effective implementation of the 
Jobs-Plus initiative as a voluntary program for residents:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal 
Register any waivers or alternative requirements pursuant to the 
preceding proviso no later than 10 days before the effective date of 
such notice:  Provided further, That for funds provided under this 
heading, the limitation in section 9(g)(1)(A) of the Act shall be 25 
percent:  Provided further, That the Secretary may waive the limitation 
in the previous proviso to allow public housing agencies to fund 
activities authorized under section 9(e)(1)(C) of the Act:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies 
requesting waivers under the previous proviso if the request is 
approved or denied within 14 days of submitting the request:  Provided 
further, That from the funds made available under this heading, the 
Secretary shall provide bonus awards in fiscal year 2016 to public 
housing agencies that are designated high performers:  Provided 
further, That the Department shall notify public housing agencies of 
their formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act.

                     public housing operating fund

    For 2016 payments to public housing agencies for the operation and 
management of public housing, as authorized by section 9(e) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), $4,500,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2017.

                    choice neighborhoods initiative

    For competitive grants under the Choice Neighborhoods Initiative 
(subject to section 24 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437v), unless otherwise specified under this heading), for 
transformation, rehabilitation, and replacement housing needs of both 
public and HUD-assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of 
poverty into functioning, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods with 
appropriate services, schools, public assets, transportation and access 
to jobs, $65,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018:  
Provided, That grant funds may be used for resident and community 
services, community development, and affordable housing needs in the 
community, and for conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties to 
affordable housing:  Provided further, That the use of funds made 
available under this heading shall not be deemed to be public housing 
notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) of such Act:  Provided further, That 
grantees shall commit to an additional period of affordability 
determined by the Secretary of not fewer than 20 years:  Provided 
further, That grantees shall undertake comprehensive local planning 
with input from residents and the community, and that grantees shall 
provide a match in State, local, other Federal or private funds:  
Provided further, That grantees may include local governments, tribal 
entities, public housing authorities, and nonprofits:  Provided 
further, That for-profit developers may apply jointly with a public 
entity:  Provided further, That for purposes of environmental review, a 
grantee shall be treated as a public housing agency under section 26 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437x), and grants 
under this heading shall be subject to the regulations issued by the 
Secretary to implement such section:  Provided further, That of the 
amount provided, not less than $40,000,000 shall be awarded to public 
housing agencies:  Provided further, That such grantees shall create 
partnerships with other local organizations including assisted housing 
owners, service agencies, and resident organizations:  Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall consult with the Secretaries of 
Education, Labor, Transportation, Health and Human Services, 
Agriculture, and Commerce, the Attorney General, and the Administrator 
of the Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate and leverage other 
appropriate Federal resources:  Provided further, That no more than 
$5,000,000 of funds made available under this heading may be provided 
to assist communities in developing comprehensive strategies for 
implementing this program or implementing other revitalization efforts 
in conjunction with community notice and input:  Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall develop and publish guidelines for the use of such 
competitive funds, including but not limited to eligible activities, 
program requirements, and performance metrics.

                        family self-sufficiency

    For the Family Self-Sufficiency program to support family self-
sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937, to promote the development of local strategies to 
coordinate the use of assistance under sections 8(o) and 9 of such Act 
with public and private resources, and enable eligible families to 
achieve economic independence and self-sufficiency, $75,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That the 
Secretary may, by Federal Register notice, waive or specify alternative 
requirements under sections b(3), b(4), b(5), or c(1) of section 23 of 
such Act in order to facilitate the operation of a unified self-
sufficiency program for individuals receiving assistance under 
different provisions of the Act, as determined by the Secretary:  
Provided further, That owners of a privately owned multifamily property 
with a section 8 contract may voluntarily make a Family Self-
Sufficiency program available to the assisted tenants of such property 
in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary:  Provided 
further, That such procedures established pursuant to the previous 
proviso shall permit participating tenants to accrue escrow funds in 
accordance with section 23(d)(2) and shall allow owners to use funding 
from residual receipt accounts to hire coordinators for their own 
Family Self-Sufficiency program.

                          indian block grants

    For the Indian Housing Block Grants program, as authorized under 
title I of the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996 (NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), 
$650,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2020:  Provided, 
That, notwithstanding the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-
Determination Act of 1996, to determine the amount of the allocation 
under title I of such Act for each Indian tribe, the Secretary shall 
apply the formula under section 302 of such Act with the need component 
based on single-race census data and with the need component based on 
multi-race census data, and the amount of the allocation for each 
Indian tribe shall be the greater of the two resulting allocation 
amounts:  Provided further, That notwithstanding the previous proviso, 
no Indian tribe shall receive an allocation amount greater than 10 
percent:  Provided further, That of the amount provided under this 
heading, $2,000,000 shall be made available for the cost of guaranteed 
notes and other obligations, as authorized by title VI of NAHASDA:  
Provided further, That such costs, including the costs of modifying 
such notes and other obligations, shall be as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended:  Provided further, 
That these funds are available to subsidize the total principal amount 
of any notes and other obligations, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $17,452,007:  Provided further, That the 
Department will notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 
days of the date of enactment of this Act.
    In addition to amounts made available under the first paragraph 
under this heading, $60,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2018, shall be for grants to Indian tribes for carrying out the 
Community Development Block Grant program under title I of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 notwithstanding section 106(a)(1) 
of such Act, of which, up to $4,000,000 may be used for emergencies 
that constitute imminent threats to health and safety notwithstanding 
any other provision of law (including section 204 of this title):  
Provided, That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds 
appropriated under this paragraph shall be expended for planning and 
management development and administration.

           indian housing loan guarantee fund program account

    For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by section 184 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z-
13a), $7,000,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided, That 
such costs, including the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as 
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:  
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, up to 
$1,111,111,000, to remain available until expended:  Provided further, 
That up to $750,000 of this amount may be for administrative contract 
expenses including management processes and systems to carry out the 
loan guarantee program.

                   Community Planning and Development

              housing opportunities for persons with aids

    For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS 
program, as authorized by the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
12901 et seq.), $330,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2017, except that amounts allocated pursuant to section 854(c)(3) of 
such Act shall remain available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, 
That the Secretary shall renew all expiring contracts for permanent 
supportive housing that initially were funded under section 854(c)(3) 
of such Act from funds made available under this heading in fiscal year 
2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all program requirements before 
awarding funds for new contracts under such section:  Provided further, 
That notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 12903, the Secretary shall allocate 90 
percent of the funds by formula, of which 75 percent shall be among 
cities that are the most populous unit of general local government in a 
metropolitan statistical area with a population greater than 500,000 
and have more than 2,000 persons living with the human immunodeficiency 
virus (HIV), and States with more than 2,000 persons living with HIV 
outside of metropolitan statistical areas, as reported to and confirmed 
by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 
as of December 31 of the most recent calendar year for which such data 
is available, and of which 25 percent shall be among States and 
metropolitan statistical areas based on fair market rents and area 
poverty indexes, as determined by the Secretary:  Provided further, 
That a grantee's share shall not reflect a loss greater than 10 percent 
or a gain greater than 20 percent of the share of total available 
formula funds that the grantee received in the preceding fiscal year:  
Provided further, That any grantee that received a formula allocation 
in fiscal year 2015 shall continue to be eligible for formula 
allocation in this fiscal year:  Provided further, That the Department 
shall notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days of 
enactment of this Act.

                       community development fund

    For carrying out the Community Development Block Grant program 
under title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as 
amended (the ``Act'' herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.), $2,900,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That unless 
explicitly provided for under this heading, not to exceed 20 percent of 
any grant made with funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
expended for planning and management development and administration:  
Provided further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, unit of 
general local government, or insular area that directly or indirectly 
receives funds under this heading may not sell, trade, or otherwise 
transfer all or any portion of such funds to another such entity in 
exchange for any other funds, credits or non-Federal considerations, 
but must use such funds for activities eligible under title I of the 
Act:  Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of the 
Act, no funds provided under this heading may be provided to a for-
profit entity for an economic development project under section 
105(a)(17) unless such project has been evaluated and selected in 
accordance with guidelines required under subparagraph (e)(2):  
Provided further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their 
formula allocation within 60 days of enactment of this Act.

         community development loan guarantees program account

    Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
during fiscal year 2016, commitments to guarantee loans under section 
108 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 
5308), any part of which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a total 
principal amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate 
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in subsection (k) of 
such section 108:  Provided, That the Secretary shall collect fees from 
borrowers, notwithstanding section 108(m), to result in a credit 
subsidy cost of zero for guaranteeing such loans, and any such fees 
shall be collected in accordance with section 502(7) of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974.

                  home investment partnerships program

    For the HOME Investment Partnerships program, as authorized under 
title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as 
amended, $66,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019:  
Provided, That notwithstanding the amount made available under this 
heading, the threshold reduction requirements in sections 216(10) and 
217(b)(4) of such Act shall not apply to allocations of such amount:  
Provided further, That the requirements under provisos 2 through 6 
under this heading for fiscal year 2012 and such requirements 
applicable pursuant to the ``Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 
2013'', shall not apply to any project to which funds were committed on 
or after August 23, 2013, but such projects shall instead be governed 
by the Final Rule titled ``Home Investment Partnerships Program; 
Improving Performance and Accountability; Updating Property Standards'' 
which became effective on such date:  Provided further, That with 
respect to funds made available under this heading pursuant to such Act 
and funds provided in prior and subsequent appropriations acts that 
were or are used by community land trusts for the development of 
affordable homeownership housing pursuant to section 215(b) of such 
Act, such community land trusts, notwithstanding section 215(b)(3)(A) 
of such Act, may hold and exercise purchase options, rights of first 
refusal or other preemptive rights to purchase the housing to preserve 
affordability, including but not limited to the right to purchase the 
housing in lieu of foreclosure:  Provided further, That the Department 
shall notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days of 
enactment of this Act.

        self-help and assisted homeownership opportunity program

    For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program, 
as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program 
Extension Act of 1996, as amended, $50,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018:  Provided, That of the total amount provided 
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be made available to the Self-
Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program as authorized under 
section 11 of the Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as 
amended:  Provided further, That $35,000,000 shall be made available 
for the second, third, and fourth capacity building activities 
authorized under section 4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (42 
U.S.C. 9816 note), of which not less than $5,000,000 shall be made 
available for rural capacity building activities:  Provided further, 
That $5,000,000 shall be made available for capacity building by 
national rural housing organizations with experience assessing national 
rural conditions and providing financing, training, technical 
assistance, information, and research to local nonprofits, local 
governments and Indian Tribes serving high need rural communities:  
Provided further, That an additional $5,700,000, to remain available 
until expended, shall be for a program to rehabilitate and modify homes 
of disabled and low-income veterans as authorized under section 1079 of 
Public Law 113-291.

                       homeless assistance grants

    For the Emergency Solutions Grants program as authorized under 
subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended; the continuum of care program as authorized under subtitle 
C of title IV of such Act; and the Rural Housing Stability Assistance 
program as authorized under subtitle D of title IV of such Act, 
$2,235,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018:  
Provided, That any rental assistance amounts that are recaptured under 
such Continuum of Care program shall remain available until expended:  
Provided further, That not less than $250,000,000 of the funds 
appropriated under this heading shall be available for such Emergency 
Solutions Grants program:  Provided further, That not less than 
$1,918,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available for such Continuum of Care and Rural Housing Stability 
Assistance programs:  Provided further, That up to $7,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available for the 
national homeless data analysis project:  Provided further, That up to 
$2,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
available to the Secretary, in coordination with the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, for a national study on the prevalence, 
needs, and characteristics of homelessness among youth as authorized 
under section 345 of the Runaway Homeless Youth Act (42 U.S.C. 5714-
25), notwithstanding section 204 of this title:  Provided further, That 
up to $33,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be 
to implement projects to demonstrate how a comprehensive approach to 
serving homeless youth, age 24 and under, in up to 10 communities, 
including at least four rural communities, can dramatically reduce 
youth homelessness:  Provided further, That such projects shall be 
eligible for renewal under the Continuum of Care program subject to the 
same terms and conditions as other renewal applicants:  Provided 
further, That up to $5,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this 
heading shall be available to provide technical assistance on youth 
homelessness, and collection, analysis, and reporting of data and 
performance measures under the comprehensive approaches to serve 
homeless youth, in addition to and in coordination with other technical 
assistance funds provided under this title:  Provided further, That all 
funds awarded for supportive services under the Continuum of Care 
program and the Rural Housing Stability Assistance program shall be 
matched by not less than 25 percent in cash or in kind by each grantee: 
 Provided further, That for all match requirements applicable to funds 
made available under this heading for this fiscal year and prior years, 
a grantee may use (or could have used) as a source of match funds other 
funds administered by the Secretary and other Federal agencies unless a 
specific statutory prohibition on any such use of any such funds 
exists:  Provided further, That the Secretary may renew on an annual 
basis expiring contracts or amendments to contracts funded under the 
Continuum of Care program if the program is determined to be needed 
under the applicable Continuum of Care and meets appropriate program 
requirements, performance measures, and financial standards, as 
determined by the Secretary:  Provided further, That all awards of 
assistance under this heading shall be required to coordinate and 
integrate homeless programs with other mainstream health, social 
services, and employment programs for which homeless populations may be 
eligible:  Provided further, That with respect to funds provided under 
this heading for the Continuum of Care program for fiscal years 2016 
and 2017, permanent housing rental assistance may be administered by 
private nonprofit organizations:  Provided further, That youth aged 24 
and under seeking assistance under this heading shall not be required 
to provide third party documentation to establish their eligibility 
under 42 U.S.C. 11302(a) or (b) to receive services:  Provided further, 
That unaccompanied youth aged 24 and under or families headed by youth 
aged 24 and under who are living in unsafe situations may be served by 
youth-serving providers funded under this heading:  Provided further, 
That in awarding grants with funds appropriated under this heading, the 
Secretary shall ensure that incentives created through the application 
process fairly balance priorities for different populations, including 
youth, families, veterans, and people experiencing chronic 
homelessness:  Provided further, That any unobligated amounts remaining 
from funds appropriated under this heading in fiscal year 2012 and 
prior years for project-based rental assistance for rehabilitation 
projects with 10-year grant terms may be used for purposes under this 
heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds were 
appropriated:  Provided further, That all balances for Shelter Plus 
Care renewals previously funded from the Shelter Plus Care Renewal 
account and transferred to this account shall be available, if 
recaptured, for Continuum of Care renewals in fiscal year 2016:  
Provided further, That the Department shall notify grantees of their 
formula allocation from amounts allocated (which may represent initial 
or final amounts allocated) for the Emergency Solutions Grant program 
within 60 days of enactment of this Act.

                            Housing Programs

                    project-based rental assistance

    For activities and assistance for the provision of project-based 
subsidy contracts under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (``the Act''), not otherwise provided for, 
$10,426,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be available 
on October 1, 2015 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously 
appropriated under this heading that became available October 1, 2015), 
and $400,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be 
available on October 1, 2016:  Provided, That the amounts made 
available under this heading shall be available for expiring or 
terminating section 8 project-based subsidy contracts (including 
section 8 moderate rehabilitation contracts), for amendments to section 
8 project-based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate 
rehabilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant to 
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for units in projects that 
are subject to approved plans of action under the Emergency Low Income 
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation 
and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administrative and 
other expenses associated with project-based activities and assistance 
funded under this paragraph:  Provided further, That of the total 
amounts provided under this heading, not to exceed $215,000,000 shall 
be available for performance-based contract administrators for section 
8 project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f):  
Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may also use such amounts in the previous proviso for performance-based 
contract administrators for the administration of: interest reduction 
payments pursuant to section 236(a) of the National Housing Act (12 
U.S.C. 1715z-1(a)); rent supplement payments pursuant to section 101 of 
the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); 
section 236(f)(2) rental assistance payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1(f)(2)); 
project rental assistance contracts for the elderly under section 
202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental 
assistance contracts for supportive housing for persons with 
disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)); project assistance 
contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public 
Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667); and loans under section 202 of the Housing 
Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667):  Provided further, That 
amounts recaptured under this heading, the heading ``Annual 
Contributions for Assisted Housing'', or the heading ``Housing 
Certificate Fund'', may be used for renewals of or amendments to 
section 8 project-based contracts or for performance-based contract 
administrators, notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts 
were appropriated:  Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, upon the request of the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development, project funds that are held in residual receipts 
accounts for any project subject to a section 8 project-based Housing 
Assistance Payments contract that authorizes HUD or a Housing Finance 
Agency to require that surplus project funds be deposited in an 
interest-bearing residual receipts account and that are in excess of an 
amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the 
Department and deposited in this account, to be available until 
expended:  Provided further, That amounts deposited pursuant to the 
previous proviso shall be available in addition to the amount otherwise 
provided by this heading for uses authorized under this heading.

                        housing for the elderly

    For amendments to capital advance contracts for housing for the 
elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as 
amended, and for project rental assistance for the elderly under 
section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including amendments to contracts for 
such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for such assistance 
for up to a 1-year term, and for senior preservation rental assistance 
contracts, including renewals, as authorized by section 811(e) of the 
American Housing and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, as amended, and 
for supportive services associated with the housing, $420,000,000 to 
remain available until September 30, 2019:  Provided, That of the 
amount provided under this heading, up to $77,000,000 shall be for 
service coordinators and the continuation of existing congregate 
service grants for residents of assisted housing projects:  Provided 
further, That amounts under this heading shall be available for Real 
Estate Assessment Center inspections and inspection-related activities 
associated with section 202 projects:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary may waive the provisions of section 202 governing the terms 
and conditions of project rental assistance, except that the initial 
contract term for such assistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration: 
 Provided further, That upon request of the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development, project funds that are held in residual receipts 
accounts for any project subject to a section 202 project rental 
assistance contract, and that upon termination of such contract are in 
excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall be 
remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, to be 
available until September 30, 2019:  Provided further, That amounts 
deposited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso shall be 
available, in addition to the amounts otherwise provided by this 
heading, for the purposes funded under this heading, and if such 
purposes have been fully funded, may be used by the Secretary to 
support demonstration programs to test housing with services models for 
the elderly:  Provided further, That unobligated balances, including 
recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds transferred to or 
appropriated under this heading may be used for the current purposes 
authorized under this heading notwithstanding the purposes for which 
such funds originally were appropriated.

                 housing for persons with disabilities

    For amendments to capital advance contracts for supportive housing 
for persons with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the 
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), for 
project rental assistance for supportive housing for persons with 
disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of such Act and for project 
assistance contracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 
1959 (Public Law 86-372; 73 Stat. 667), including amendments to 
contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring contracts for 
such assistance for up to a 1-year term, for project rental assistance 
to State housing finance agencies and other appropriate entities as 
authorized under section 811(b)(3) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Housing Act, and for supportive services associated with the housing 
for persons with disabilities as authorized by section 811(b)(1) of 
such Act, $137,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2019:  
Provided, That amounts made available under this heading shall be 
available for Real Estate Assessment Center inspections and inspection-
related activities associated with section 811 projects:  Provided 
further, That, in this fiscal year, upon the request of the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development, project funds that are held in 
residual receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 811 
project rental assistance contract and that upon termination of such 
contract are in excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary 
shall be remitted to the Department and deposited in this account, to 
be available until September 30, 2019:  Provided further, That amounts 
deposited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso shall be 
available in addition to the amounts otherwise provided by this heading 
for the purposes authorized under this heading:  Provided further, That 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds transferred to or appropriated under this heading may be 
used for the current purposes authorized under this heading 
notwithstanding the purposes for which such funds originally were 
appropriated.

                     housing counseling assistance

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding loans, as 
authorized under section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development Act 
of 1968, as amended, $47,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2017, including up to $4,500,000 for administrative contract 
services:  Provided, That grants made available from amounts provided 
under this heading shall be awarded within 180 days of enactment of 
this Act:  Provided further, That funds shall be used for providing 
counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners, both current and 
prospective, with respect to property maintenance, financial 
management/literacy, and such other matters as may be appropriate to 
assist them in improving their housing conditions, meeting their 
financial needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or 
homeownership; for program administration; and for housing counselor 
training:  Provided further, That for purposes of providing such grants 
from amounts provided under this heading, the Secretary may enter into 
multiyear agreements as appropriate, subject to the availability of 
annual appropriations.

                       rental housing assistance

    For amendments to contracts under section 101 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s) and section 236(f)(2) 
of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-1) in State-aided, 
noninsured rental housing projects, $30,000,000, to remain available 
until expended:  Provided, That such amount, together with unobligated 
balances from recaptured amounts appropriated prior to fiscal year 2006 
from terminated contracts under such sections of law, and any 
unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated under this heading after fiscal year 2005, 
shall also be available for extensions of up to one year for expiring 
contracts under such sections of law.

                 manufactured housing standards program

            payment to manufactured housing fees trust fund

    For necessary expenses as authorized by the National Manufactured 
Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 
et seq.), up to $10,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $10,000,000 is to be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees 
Trust Fund:  Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appropriated 
under this heading shall be available from the general fund of the 
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and make 
expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the Fund pursuant to 
section 620 of such Act:  Provided further, That the amount made 
available under this heading from the general fund shall be reduced as 
such collections are received during fiscal year 2016 so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 2016 appropriation from the general fund 
estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such section 620 shall be 
modified as necessary to ensure such a final fiscal year 2016 
appropriation:  Provided further, That for the dispute resolution and 
installation programs, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may assess and collect fees from any program participant:  Provided 
further, That such collections shall be deposited into the Fund, and 
the Secretary, as provided herein, may use such collections, as well as 
fees collected under section 620, for necessary expenses of such Act:  
Provided further, That, notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 
of such Act, the Secretary may carry out responsibilities of the 
Secretary under such Act through the use of approved service providers 
that are paid directly by the recipients of their services.

                     Federal Housing Administration

               mutual mortgage insurance program account

    New commitments to guarantee single family loans insured under the 
Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not exceed $400,000,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, That during 
fiscal year 2016, obligations to make direct loans to carry out the 
purposes of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, 
shall not exceed $5,000,000:  Provided further, That the foregoing 
amount in the previous proviso shall be for loans to nonprofit and 
governmental entities in connection with sales of single family real 
properties owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual 
Mortgage Insurance Fund:  Provided further, That for administrative 
contract expenses of the Federal Housing Administration, $130,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2017:  Provided further, That 
to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed $200,000,000,000 on or 
before April 1, 2016, an additional $1,400 for administrative contract 
expenses shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional 
guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for any amount 
below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made available by this 
proviso exceed $30,000,000.

                general and special risk program account

    New commitments to guarantee loans insured under the General and 
Special Risk Insurance Funds, as authorized by sections 238 and 519 of 
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-3 and 1735c), shall not 
exceed $30,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which is to 
be guaranteed, to remain available until September 30, 2017:  Provided, 
That during fiscal year 2016, gross obligations for the principal 
amount of direct loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, 
and 519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed $5,000,000, 
which shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in 
connection with the sale of single family real properties owned by the 
Secretary and formerly insured under such Act.

                Government National Mortgage Association

guarantees of mortgage-backed securities loan guarantee program account

    New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the purposes of 
section 306 of the National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 
1721(g)), shall not exceed $500,000,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2017:  Provided, That $23,000,000 shall be available for 
necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Government National 
Mortgage Association:  Provided further, That to the extent that 
guaranteed loan commitments exceed $155,000,000,000 on or before April 
1, 2016, an additional $100 for necessary salaries and expenses shall 
be available until expended for each $1,000,000 in additional 
guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for any amount 
below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds made available by this 
proviso exceed $3,000,000:  Provided further, That receipts from 
Commitment and Multiclass fees collected pursuant to title III of the 
National Housing Act, as amended, shall be credited as offsetting 
collections to this account.

                    Policy Development and Research

                        research and technology

                     (including transfer of funds)

    For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of programs of 
research and studies relating to housing and urban problems, not 
otherwise provided for, as authorized by title V of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z-1 et seq.), including 
carrying out the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 
1968, $50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017.
    Of the amounts made available in this title under each of the 
headings specified in the report accompanying this Act, the Secretary 
may transfer to this account up to 0.1 percent from each such account, 
and such transferred amounts shall be available until September 30, 
2017, for (1) technical assistance and capacity building; and (2) 
research, evaluation, and program metrics:  Provided, That the 
Secretary may not transfer more than $40,000,000 to this account.
    With respect to amounts made available under this heading, 
notwithstanding section 204 of this title, the Secretary may enter into 
cooperative agreements funded with philanthropic entities, other 
Federal agencies, or State or local governments and their agencies for 
research projects:  Provided, That any such partners to any such 
cooperative agreements must contribute at least 50 percent of the cost 
of the project:  Provided further, That for any such cooperative 
agreements, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall comply 
with section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability and 
Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109-282, 31 U.S.C. note) in lieu 
of compliance with section 102(a)(4)(C) with respect to documentation 
of award decisions.

                   Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity

                        fair housing activities

    For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not otherwise provided 
for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as 
amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of 
the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$65,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017, of which 
$38,600,000 shall be to carry out activities pursuant to such section 
561:  Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary may 
assess and collect fees to cover the costs of the Fair Housing Training 
Academy, and may use such funds to provide such training:  Provided 
further, That no funds made available under this heading shall be used 
to lobby the executive or legislative branches of the Federal 
Government in connection with a specific contract, grant, or loan:  
Provided further, That of the funds made available under this heading, 
$300,000 shall be available to the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development for the creation and promotion of translated materials and 
other programs that support the assistance of persons with limited 
English proficiency in utilizing the services provided by the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development.

            Office of Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes

                         lead hazard reduction

    For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as authorized by section 
1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, 
$110,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2017, of which 
$25,000,000 shall be for the Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to 
sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970 
that shall include research, studies, testing, and demonstration 
efforts, including education and outreach concerning lead-based paint 
poisoning and other housing-related diseases and hazards:  Provided, 
That for purposes of environmental review, pursuant to the National 
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and other 
provisions of the law that further the purposes of such Act, a grant 
under the Healthy Homes Initiative, or the Lead Technical Studies 
program under this heading or under prior appropriations Acts for such 
purposes under this heading, shall be considered to be funds for a 
special project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily 
Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994:  Provided further, 
That of the total amount made available under this heading, $45,000,000 
shall be made available on a competitive basis for areas with the 
highest lead paint abatement needs:  Provided further, That each 
recipient of funds provided under the previous proviso shall contribute 
an amount not less than 25 percent of the total:  Provided further, 
That each applicant shall certify adequate capacity that is acceptable 
to the Secretary to carry out the proposed use of funds pursuant to a 
notice of funding availability:  Provided further, That amounts made 
available under this heading in this or prior appropriations Acts, and 
that still remain available, may be used for any purpose under this 
heading notwithstanding the purpose for which such amounts were 
appropriated if a program competition is undersubscribed and there are 
other program competitions under this heading that are oversubscribed.

                      Information Technology Fund

    For the development of, modifications to, and infrastructure for 
Department-wide and program-specific information technology systems, 
for the continuing operation and maintenance of both Department-wide 
and program-specific information systems, and for program-related 
maintenance activities, $250,000,000, shall remain available until 
September 30, 2017:  Provided, That any amounts transferred to this 
Fund under this Act shall remain available until expended:  Provided 
further, That any amounts transferred to this Fund from amounts 
appropriated by previously enacted appropriations Acts may be used for 
the purposes specified under this Fund, in addition to any other 
information technology purposes for which such amounts were 
appropriated.

                      Office of Inspector General

    For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
$126,000,000:  Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
independent authority over all personnel issues within this office.

    General Provisions--Department of Housing and Urban Development

                     (including transfer of funds)

                        (including rescissions)

    Sec. 201.  Fifty percent of the amounts of budget authority, or in 
lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts associated with such budget 
authority, that are recaptured from projects described in section 
1012(a) of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act 
of 1988 (42 U.S.C. 1437 note) shall be rescinded or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts of budget 
authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the 
Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies or local 
governments or local housing agencies with projects approved by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for which settlement 
occurred after January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. 
Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 
percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded or 
remitted to the Treasury to provide project owners with incentives to 
refinance their project at a lower interest rate.
    Sec. 202.  None of the funds made available under this title may be 
used during fiscal year 2016 to investigate or prosecute under the Fair 
Housing Act any otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or more 
persons, including the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal 
action, that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a court of 
competent jurisdiction.
    Sec. 203. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
amount allocated for fiscal year 2016 under section 854(c) of the AIDS 
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the city of New York, 
New York, on behalf of the New York-Wayne-White Plains, New York-New 
Jersey Metropolitan Division (hereafter ``metropolitan division'') of 
the New York-Newark-Edison, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, 
shall be adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by:
            (1) allocating to the city of Jersey City, New Jersey, the 
        proportion of the metropolitan area's or division's amount that 
        is based on the number of persons living with HIV, poverty and 
        fair market rents, in the portion of the metropolitan area or 
        division that is located in Hudson County, New Jersey; and
            (2) allocating to the city of Paterson, New Jersey, the 
        proportion of the metropolitan area's or division's amount that 
        is based on the number of persons living with HIV, poverty and 
        fair market rents, in the portion of the metropolitan area or 
        division that is located in Bergen County and Passaic County, 
        New Jersey. The recipient cities shall use amounts allocated 
        under this subsection to carry out eligible activities under 
        section 855 of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 
        12904) in their respective portions of the metropolitan 
        division that is located in New Jersey.
    (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the amount 
allocated for fiscal year 2016 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing 
Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), to the city of Wilmington, 
Delaware, on behalf of the Wilmington, Delaware-Maryland-New Jersey 
Metropolitan Division (hereafter ``metropolitan division''), shall be 
adjusted by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by 
allocating to the State of New Jersey the proportion of the 
metropolitan division's amount that is based on the number of persons 
living with HIV, poverty and fair market rents, in the portion of the 
metropolitan division that is located in New Jersey. The State of New 
Jersey shall use amounts allocated to the State under this subsection 
to carry out eligible activities under section 855 of the AIDS Housing 
Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) in the portion of the metropolitan 
division that is located in New Jersey.
    (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall allocate to Wake County, North 
Carolina, the amounts that otherwise would be allocated for fiscal year 
2016 under section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act (42 
U.S.C. 12903(c)) to the city of Raleigh, North Carolina, on behalf of 
the Raleigh-Cary North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. Any 
amounts allocated to Wake County shall be used to carry out eligible 
activities under section 855 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 12904) within such 
metropolitan statistical area.
    (d) Notwithstanding section 854(c) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity 
Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development may adjust the allocation of the amounts that otherwise 
would be allocated for fiscal year 2016 under section 854(c) of such 
Act, upon the written request of an applicant, in conjunction with the 
State(s), for a formula allocation on behalf of a metropolitan 
statistical area, to designate the State or States in which the 
metropolitan statistical area is located as the eligible grantee(s) of 
the allocation. In the case that a metropolitan statistical area 
involves more than one State, such amounts allocated to each State 
shall be based on the proportion of the metropolitan statistical area's 
amount that is based on the number of persons living with HIV, poverty 
and fair market rents, in the portion of the metropolitan statistical 
area that is located in that State. Any amounts allocated to a State 
under this section shall be used to carry out eligible activities 
within the portion of the metropolitan statistical area located in that 
State.
    Sec. 204.  Except as explicitly provided in law, any grant, 
cooperative agreement or other assistance made pursuant to title II of 
this Act shall be made on a competitive basis and in accordance with 
section 102 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform 
Act of 1989 (42 U.S.C. 3545).
    Sec. 205.  Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
subject to the Government Corporation Control Act or section 402 of the 
Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without regard to the 
limitations on administrative expenses, for legal services on a 
contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for 
services and facilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, 
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any 
member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within 
the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as 
amended (12 U.S.C. 1811-1).
    Sec. 206.  Unless otherwise provided for in this title or through a 
reprogramming of funds, no part of any appropriation for the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be available for any program, 
project or activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget 
estimates submitted to Congress.
    Sec. 207.  Corporations and agencies of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development which are subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the 
limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each such 
corporation or agency and in accordance with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year limitations as 
provided by section 104 of such Act as may be necessary in carrying out 
the programs set forth in the budget for fiscal year 2016 for such 
corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided:  Provided, That 
collections of these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan 
or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent expressly provided 
for in this Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of 
assistance provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except 
that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty 
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases 
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United States 
Government.
    Sec. 208.  The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
provide quarterly reports to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations regarding all uncommitted, unobligated, recaptured and 
excess funds in each program and activity within the jurisdiction of 
the Department and shall submit additional, updated budget information 
to these Committees upon request.
    Sec. 209.  A public housing agency or such other entity that 
administers Federal housing assistance for the Housing Authority of the 
county of Los Angeles, California, and the States of Alaska, Iowa, and 
Mississippi shall not be required to include a resident of public 
housing or a recipient of assistance provided under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 on the board of directors or a 
similar governing board of such agency or entity as required under 
section (2)(b) of such Act. Each public housing agency or other entity 
that administers Federal housing assistance under section 8 for the 
Housing Authority of the county of Los Angeles, California and the 
States of Alaska, Iowa and Mississippi that chooses not to include a 
resident of public housing or a recipient of section 8 assistance on 
the board of directors or a similar governing board shall establish an 
advisory board of not less than six residents of public housing or 
recipients of section 8 assistance to provide advice and comment to the 
public housing agency or other administering entity on issues related 
to public housing and section 8. Such advisory board shall meet not 
less than quarterly.
    Sec. 210.  No funds provided under this title may be used for an 
audit of the Government National Mortgage Association that makes 
applicable requirements under the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 
U.S.C. 661 et seq.).
    Sec. 211. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, subject 
to the conditions listed under this section, for fiscal years 2016 and 
2017, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize the 
transfer of some or all project-based assistance, debt held or insured 
by the Secretary and statutorily required low-income and very low-
income use restrictions if any, associated with one or more multifamily 
housing project or projects to another multifamily housing project or 
projects.
    (b) Phased Transfers.--Transfers of project-based assistance under 
this section may be done in phases to accommodate the financing and 
other requirements related to rehabilitating or constructing the 
project or projects to which the assistance is transferred, to ensure 
that such project or projects meet the standards under subsection (c).
    (c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject to the 
following conditions:
            (1) Number and bedroom size of units.--
                    (A) For occupied units in the transferring project: 
                The number of low-income and very low-income units and 
                the configuration (i.e., bedroom size) provided by the 
                transferring project shall be no less than when 
                transferred to the receiving project or projects and 
                the net dollar amount of Federal assistance provided to 
                the transferring project shall remain the same in the 
                receiving project or projects.
                    (B) For unoccupied units in the transferring 
                project: The Secretary may authorize a reduction in the 
                number of dwelling units in the receiving project or 
                projects to allow for a reconfiguration of bedroom 
                sizes to meet current market demands, as determined by 
                the Secretary and provided there is no increase in the 
                project-based assistance budget authority.
            (2) The transferring project shall, as determined by the 
        Secretary, be either physically obsolete or economically 
        nonviable.
            (3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or exceed 
        applicable physical standards established by the Secretary.
            (4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring project 
        shall notify and consult with the tenants residing in the 
        transferring project and provide a certification of approval by 
        all appropriate local governmental officials.
            (5) The tenants of the transferring project who remain 
        eligible for assistance to be provided by the receiving project 
        or projects shall not be required to vacate their units in the 
        transferring project or projects until new units in the 
        receiving project are available for occupancy.
            (6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is in the 
        best interest of the tenants.
            (7) If either the transferring project or the receiving 
        project or projects meets the condition specified in subsection 
        (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving project resulting from 
        additional financing obtained by the owner shall be subordinate 
        to any FHA-insured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, 
        such project by the Secretary, except that the Secretary may 
        waive this requirement upon determination that such a waiver is 
        necessary to facilitate the financing of acquisition, 
        construction, and/or rehabilitation of the receiving project or 
        projects.
            (8) If the transferring project meets the requirements of 
        subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of the receiving 
        project or projects shall execute and record either a 
        continuation of the existing use agreement or a new use 
        agreement for the project where, in either case, any use 
        restrictions in such agreement are of no lesser duration than 
        the existing use restrictions.
            (9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as defined in 
        section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as 
        amended) of any FHA-insured mortgage, except to the extent that 
        appropriations are provided in advance for the amount of any 
        such increased cost.
    (d) For purposes of this section--
            (1) the terms ``low-income'' and ``very low-income'' shall 
        have the meanings provided by the statute and/or regulations 
        governing the program under which the project is insured or 
        assisted;
            (2) the term ``multifamily housing project'' means housing 
        that meets one of the following conditions--
                    (A) housing that is subject to a mortgage insured 
                under the National Housing Act;
                    (B) housing that has project-based assistance 
                attached to the structure including projects undergoing 
                mark to market debt restructuring under the Multifamily 
                Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Housing Act;
                    (C) housing that is assisted under section 202 of 
                the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by section 801 of 
                the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act;
                    (D) housing that is assisted under section 202 of 
                the Housing Act of 1959, as such section existed before 
                the enactment of the Cranston-Gonzales National 
                Affordable Housing Act;
                    (E) housing that is assisted under section 811 of 
                the Cranston-Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; 
                or
                    (F) housing or vacant land that is subject to a use 
                agreement;
            (3) the term ``project-based assistance'' means--
                    (A) assistance provided under section 8(b) of the 
                United States Housing Act of 1937;
                    (B) assistance for housing constructed or 
                substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
                provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as such 
                section existed immediately before October 1, 1983);
                    (C) rent supplement payments under section 101 of 
                the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965;
                    (D) interest reduction payments under section 236 
                and/or additional assistance payments under section 
                236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act;
                    (E) assistance payments made under section 
                202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and
                    (F) assistance payments made under section 
                811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
                Housing Act;
            (4) the term ``receiving project or projects'' means the 
        multifamily housing project or projects to which some or all of 
        the project-based assistance, debt, and statutorily required 
        low-income and very low-income use restrictions are to be 
        transferred;
            (5) the term ``transferring project'' means the multifamily 
        housing project which is transferring some or all of the 
        project-based assistance, debt, and the statutorily required 
        low-income and very low-income use restrictions to the 
        receiving project or projects; and
            (6) the term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary of Housing 
        and Urban Development.
    (e) Public Notice and Research Report.--
            (1) The Secretary shall publish by notice in the Federal 
        Register the terms and conditions, including criteria for HUD 
        approval, of transfers pursuant to this section no later than 
        30 days before the effective date of such notice.
            (2) The Secretary shall conduct an evaluation of the 
        transfer authority under this section, including the effect of 
        such transfers on the operational efficiency, contract rents, 
        physical and financial conditions, and long-term preservation 
        of the affected properties.
    Sec. 212. (a) No assistance shall be provided under section 8 of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f) to any 
individual who--
            (1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of higher 
        education (as defined under section 102 of the Higher Education 
        Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002));
            (2) is under 24 years of age;
            (3) is not a veteran;
            (4) is unmarried;
            (5) does not have a dependent child;
            (6) is not a person with disabilities, as such term is 
        defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United States Housing Act 
        of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving 
        assistance under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; and
            (7) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has parents 
        who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, to receive 
        assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
        1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f).
    (b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a person to 
receive assistance under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial assistance (in excess of amounts 
received for tuition and any other required fees and charges) that an 
individual receives under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1001 et seq.), from private sources, or an institution of higher 
education (as defined under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1002)), shall be considered income to that individual, except for a 
person over the age of 23 with dependent children.
    Sec. 213.  The funds made available under NAHASDA for Native 
Alaskans under the heading ``Indian Block Grants'' in title II of this 
Act shall be allocated to the same Native Alaskan housing block grant 
recipients that received funds in fiscal year 2005.
    Sec. 214.  Notwithstanding the limitation in the first sentence of 
section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)), the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may, until September 30, 
2016, insure and enter into commitments to insure mortgages under such 
section 255.
    Sec. 215.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in fiscal 
year 2016, in managing and disposing of any multifamily property that 
is owned or has a mortgage held by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development, and during the process of foreclosure on any property with 
a contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 or other Federal programs, the Secretary 
shall maintain any rental assistance payments under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 and other programs that are attached 
to any dwelling units in the property. To the extent the Secretary 
determines, in consultation with the tenants and the local government, 
that such a multifamily property owned or held by the Secretary is not 
feasible for continued rental assistance payments under such section 8 
or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs of 
rehabilitating and operating the property and all available Federal, 
State, and local resources, including rent adjustments under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 
1997 (``MAHRAA'') and (2) environmental conditions that cannot be 
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may, in 
consultation with the tenants of that property, contract for project-
based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other 
existing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance. The 
Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure that project-
based contracts remain in effect prior to foreclosure, subject to the 
exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of 
tenants for imminent major threats to health and safety after written 
notice to and informed consent of the affected tenants and use of other 
available remedies, such as partial abatements or receivership. After 
disposition of any multifamily property described under this section, 
the contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall be 
subject to the requirements under section 524 of MAHRAA.
    Sec. 216.  The commitment authority funded by fees as provided 
under the heading ``Community Development Loan Guarantees Program 
Account'' may be used to guarantee, or make commitments to guarantee, 
notes, or other obligations issued by any State on behalf of non-
entitlement communities in the State in accordance with the 
requirements of section 108 of the Housing and Community Development 
Act of 1974:  Provided, That any State receiving such a guarantee or 
commitment shall distribute all funds subject to such guarantee to the 
units of general local government in non-entitlement areas that 
received the commitment.
    Sec. 217.  Public housing agencies that own and operate 400 or 
fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt from any asset 
management requirement imposed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development in connection with the operating fund rule:  Provided, That 
an agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under the 
operating fund formula shall not be exempt from asset management 
requirements.
    Sec. 218.  With respect to the use of amounts provided in this Act 
and in future Acts for the operation, capital improvement and 
management of public housing as authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of 
the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the 
Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline relating to 
asset management that restricts or limits in any way the use of capital 
funds for central office costs pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)):  
Provided, That a public housing agency may not use capital funds 
authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are eligible under 
section 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the operating fund in 
excess of the amounts permitted under section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2).
    Sec. 219.  No official or employee of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development shall be designated as an allotment holder unless the 
Office of the Chief Financial Officer has determined that such 
allotment holder has implemented an adequate system of funds control 
and has received training in funds control procedures and directives. 
The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a trained 
allotment holder for each HUD sub-office under the accounts ``Executive 
Offices'' and ``Administrative Support Offices,'' as well as each 
account receiving appropriations for ``Program Office Salaries and 
Expenses'', ``Government National Mortgage Association--Guarantees of 
Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account'', and 
``Office of Inspector General'' within the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development.
    Sec. 220.  The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development shall, for fiscal year 2016 and subsequent fiscal years, 
notify the public through the Federal Register and other means, as 
determined appropriate, of the issuance of a notice of the availability 
of assistance or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program 
or discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that is to be 
competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for 
fiscal year 2016 and subsequent fiscal years, the Secretary may make 
the NOFA available only on the Internet at the appropriate Government 
Web site or through other electronic media, as determined by the 
Secretary.
    Sec. 221.  Payment of attorney fees in program-related litigation 
shall be paid from the individual program office and Office of General 
Counsel salaries and expenses appropriations. The annual budget 
submission for the program offices and the Office of General Counsel 
shall include any such projected litigation costs for attorney fees as 
a separate line item request. No funds provided in this title may be 
used to pay any such litigation costs for attorney fees until the 
Department submits for review and approval a spending plan for such 
costs to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 222.  The Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development is authorized to transfer up to 5 percent or $5,000,000, 
whichever is less, of the funds appropriated for any office funded 
under the heading ``Administrative Support Offices'' to any other 
office funded under such heading:  Provided, That no appropriation for 
any office funded under the heading ``Administrative Support Offices'' 
shall be increased or decreased by more than 5 percent or $5,000,000, 
whichever is less, without prior written approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations:  Provided further, That the 
Secretary is authorized to transfer up to 5 percent or $5,000,000, 
whichever is less, of the funds appropriated for any account funded 
under the general heading ``Program Office Salaries and Expenses'' to 
any other account funded under such heading:  Provided further, That no 
appropriation for any account funded under the general heading 
``Program Office Salaries and Expenses'' shall be increased or 
decreased by more than 5 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, 
without prior written approval of the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations:  Provided further, That the Secretary may transfer 
funds made available for salaries and expenses between any office 
funded under the heading ``Administrative Support Offices'' and any 
account funded under the general heading ``Program Office Salaries and 
Expenses'', but only with the prior written approval of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 223.  The Disaster Housing Assistance Programs, administered 
by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, shall be considered 
a ``program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development'' under 
section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose of income verifications 
and matching.
    Sec. 224. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
take the required actions under subsection (b) when a multifamily 
housing project with a section 8 contract or contract for similar 
project-based assistance:
            (1) receives a Real Estate Assessment Center (REAC) score 
        of 30 or less; or
            (2) receives a REAC score between 31 and 59 and:
                    (A) fails to certify in writing to HUD within 60 
                days that all deficiencies have been corrected; or
                    (B) receives consecutive scores of less than 60 on 
                REAC inspections.
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured projects with 
assistance attached to the units under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply to such units 
assisted under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) or to public 
housing units assisted with capital or operating funds under section 9 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g).
    (b) The Secretary shall take the following required actions as 
authorized under subsection (a)--
            (1) The Secretary shall notify the owner and provide an 
        opportunity for response within 30 days. If the violations 
        remain, the Secretary shall develop a Compliance, Disposition 
        and Enforcement Plan within 60 days, with a specified timetable 
        for correcting all deficiencies. The Secretary shall provide 
        notice of the Plan to the owner, tenants, the local government, 
        any mortgagees, and any contract administrator.
            (2) At the end of the term of the Compliance, Disposition 
        and Enforcement Plan, if the owner fails to fully comply with 
        such plan, the Secretary may require immediate replacement of 
        project management with a management agent approved by the 
        Secretary, and shall take one or more of the following actions, 
        and provide additional notice of those actions to the owner and 
        the parties specified above:
                    (A) impose civil money penalties;
                    (B) abate the section 8 contract, including partial 
                abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until all 
                deficiencies have been corrected;
                    (C) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, 
                approved by the Secretary under established procedures, 
                which will be obligated to promptly make all required 
                repairs and to accept renewal of the assistance 
                contract as long as such renewal is offered; or
                    (D) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to 
                manage the property and cure all project deficiencies 
                or seek a judicial order of specific performance 
                requiring the owner to cure all project deficiencies.
    (c) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure that 
project-based contracts remain in effect, subject to the exercise of 
contractual abatement remedies to assist relocation of tenants for 
imminent major threats to health and safety after written notice to and 
informed consent of the affected tenants and use of other remedies set 
forth above. To the extent the Secretary determines, in consultation 
with the tenants and the local government, that the property is not 
feasible for continued rental assistance payments under such section 8 
or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs of 
rehabilitating and operating the property and all available Federal, 
State, and local resources, including rent adjustments under section 
524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 
1997 (``MAHRAA'') and (2) environmental conditions that cannot be 
remedied in a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may, in 
consultation with the tenants of that property, contract for project-
based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners of other 
existing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance. The 
Secretary shall report semi-annually on all properties covered by this 
section that are assessed through the Real Estate Assessment Center and 
have physical inspection scores of less than 30 or have consecutive 
physical inspection scores of less than 60. The report shall include:
            (1) The enforcement actions being taken to address such 
        conditions, including imposition of civil money penalties and 
        termination of subsidies, and identify properties that have 
        such conditions multiple times; and
            (2) Actions that the Department of Housing and Urban 
        Development is taking to protect tenants of such identified 
        properties.
    Sec. 225.  None of the funds made available by this Act, or any 
other Act, for purposes authorized under section 8 (only with respect 
to the tenant-based rental assistance program) and section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used 
by any public housing agency for any amount of salary, including 
bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, or any other 
official or employee of which, that exceeds the annual rate of basic 
pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive Schedule at any 
time during any public housing agency fiscal year 2016.
    Sec. 226.  None of the funds in this Act may be available for the 
doctoral dissertation research grant program at the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development.
    Sec. 227.  Section 24 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437v) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ``fiscal year'' and 
        all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
        ``fiscal year 2016.''; and
            (2) in subsection (o), by striking ``September'' and all 
        that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
        ``September 30, 2016.''.
    Sec. 228.  None of the funds in this Act provided to the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development may be used to make a grant award 
unless the Secretary notifies the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before any project, 
State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, or 
other entity selected to receive a grant award is announced by the 
Department or its offices.
    Sec. 229.  Of the amounts made available for salaries and expenses 
under all accounts under this title (except for the Office of Inspector 
General account), a total of up to $5,000,000 may be transferred to and 
merged with amounts made available in the ``Information Technology 
Fund'' account under this title.
    Sec. 230.  None of the funds made available by this Act nor any 
receipts or amounts collected under any Federal Housing Administration 
program may be used to implement the Homeowners Armed with Knowledge 
(HAWK) program.
    Sec. 231.  None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government National 
Mortgage Administration, or the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of 
any mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or otherwise 
replaces a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain 
condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, or any other 
political subdivision of a State.
    Sec. 232.  None of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to terminate the status of a unit of general local government as a 
metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306).
    Sec. 233.  Subsection (b) of section 225 of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12755) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new sentence: ``Such 30-day waiting period is 
not required if the grounds for the termination or refusal to renew 
involve a direct threat to the safety of the tenants or employees of 
the housing, or an imminent and serious threat to the property (and the 
termination or refusal to renew is in accordance with the requirements 
of State or local law).''.
    Sec. 234.  None of the funds under this title may be used for 
awards, including performance, special act, or spot, for any employee 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development who is subject to 
administrative discipline in fiscal year 2016, including suspension 
from work.
    Sec. 235.  The language under the heading ``Rental Assistance 
Demonstration'' in the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112-55) is amended:
            (1) in proviso four, by striking ``185,000'' and inserting 
        ``200,000'';
            (2) in proviso eighteen, by inserting ``for fiscal year 
        2012 and hereafter,'' after ``Provided further, That''; and
            (3) In proviso nineteen, by striking ``, which may extend 
        beyond fiscal year 2016 as necessary to allow processing of all 
        timely applications,''.
    Sec. 236.  Section 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437g) is amended by--
            (1) inserting at the end of subsection (j)--
            ``(7) Treatment of replacement reserve.--The requirements 
        of this subsection shall not apply to funds held in replacement 
        reserves established in subsection (9)(n).''; and
            (2) inserting at the end of subsection (m)--
    ``(n) Establishment of Replacement Reserves.--
            ``(1) In general.--Public Housing authorities shall be 
        permitted to establish a Replacement Reserve to fund any of the 
        capital activities listed in subparagraph (d)(1).
            ``(2) Source and amount of funds for replacement reserve.--
        At any time, a public housing authority may deposit funds from 
        that agency's Capital Fund into a replacement reserve subject 
        to the following:
                    ``(A) At the discretion of the Secretary, public 
                housing agencies may transfer and hold in a Replacement 
                Reserve, funds originating from additional sources.
                    ``(B) No minimum transfer of funds to a replacement 
                reserve shall be required.
                    ``(C) At any time, a public housing authority may 
                not hold in a replacement reserve more than the amount 
                the public housing authority has determined necessary 
                to satisfy the anticipated capital needs of properties 
                in its portfolio assisted under 42 U.S.C. 1437g as 
                outlined in its Capital Fund 5 Year Action Plan, or a 
                comparable plan, as determined by the Secretary.
                    ``(D) The Secretary may establish by regulation a 
                maximum replacement reserve level or levels that are 
                below amounts determined under subparagraph (C), which 
                may be based upon the size of the portfolio assisted 
                under 42 U.S.C. 1437g or other factors.
            ``(3) In first establishing a replacement reserve, the 
        Secretary may allow public housing agencies to transfer more 
        than 20 percent of its operating funds into its replacement 
        reserve.
            ``(4) Expenditure.--Funds in a replacement reserve may be 
        used for purposes authorized by subparagraph (d)(1) and 
        contained in its Capital Fund 5 Year Action Plan.
            ``(5) Management and report.--The Secretary shall establish 
        appropriate accounting and reporting requirements to ensure 
        that public housing agencies are spending funds on eligible 
        projects and that funds in the replacement reserve are 
        connected to capital needs.''.
    Sec. 237.  Section 9(g)(1) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)) is amended by--
            (1) inserting ``(A)'' immediately after the paragraph 
        designation;
            (2) by striking the period and inserting the following at 
        the end: ``; and''; and
            (3) inserting the following new paragraph:
                    ``(B) Flexibility for operating fund amounts.--Of 
                any amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2016 or any 
                fiscal year thereafter that are allocated for fiscal 
                year 2016 or any fiscal year thereafter from the 
                Operating Fund for any public housing agency, the 
                agency may use not more than 20 percent for activities 
                that are eligible under subsection (d) for assistance 
                with amounts from the Capital Fund, but only if the 
                public housing plan for the agency provides for such 
                use.''.
    Sec. 238.  Section 526 (12 U.S.C. 1735f-4) of the National Housing 
Act is amended by inserting at the end of subsection (b)--
    ``(c) The Secretary may establish an exception to any minimum 
property standard established under this section in order to address 
alternative water systems, including cisterns, which meet requirements 
of State and local building codes that ensure health and safety 
standards.''.
    Sec. 239.  The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall 
increase, pursuant to this section, the number of Moving-to-Work 
agencies authorized under section 204, title II, of the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104-134; 110 Stat. 1321) 
by adding to the program 300 public housing agencies that are 
designated as high performing agencies under the Public Housing 
Assessment System (PHAS). No public housing agency shall be granted 
this designation through this section that administers in excess of 
22,000 aggregate housing vouchers and public housing units. Of the 
agencies selected under this section, no less than 150 shall administer 
600 or fewer aggregate housing voucher and public housing units, no 
less than 125 shall administer 601-5,000 aggregate housing voucher and 
public housing units, and no more than 20 shall administer 5,001-22,000 
aggregate housing voucher and public housing units. Of the 300 agencies 
selected under this section, five shall be agencies with portfolio 
awards under the Rental Assistance Demonstration that meet the other 
requirements of this section. Selection of agencies under this section 
shall be based on ensuring the geographic diversity of Moving-to-Work 
agencies. The Secretary may, at the request of a Moving-to-Work agency 
and one or more adjacent public housing agencies in the same area, 
designate that Moving-to-Work agency as a regional agency. A regional 
Moving-to-Work agency may administer the assistance under sections 8 
and 9 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f and g) 
for the participating agencies within its region pursuant to the terms 
of its Moving-to-Work agreement with the Secretary. The Secretary may 
agree to extend the term of the agreement and to make any necessary 
changes to accommodate regionalization. A Moving-to-Work agency may be 
selected as a regional agency if the Secretary determines that unified 
administration of assistance under sections 8 and 9 by that agency 
across multiple jurisdictions will lead to efficiencies and to greater 
housing choice for low-income persons in the region. For purposes of 
this expansion, in addition to the provisions of the Act retained in 
section 204, section 8(r)(1) of the Act shall continue to apply unless 
the Secretary determines that waiver of this section is necessary to 
implement comprehensive rent reform and occupancy policies subject to 
evaluation by the Secretary, and the waiver contains, at a minimum, 
exceptions for requests to port due to employment, education, health 
and safety. No public housing agency granted this designation through 
this section shall receive more funding under sections 8 or 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 than it otherwise would have received 
absent this designation. The Secretary shall extend the current Moving-
to-Work agreements of previously designated participating agencies 
until the end of each such agency's fiscal year 2028 under the same 
terms and conditions of such current agreements, except for any changes 
to such terms or conditions otherwise mutually agreed upon by the 
Secretary and any such agency and such extension agreements shall 
prohibit any statutory offset of any reserve balances equal to four 
months of operating expenses. Any such reserve balances that exceed 
such amount shall remain available to any such agency for all 
permissible purposes under such agreement unless subject to a statutory 
offset. In addition to other reporting requirements, all Moving-to-Work 
agencies shall report financial data to the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development as specified by the Secretary, so that the effect of 
Moving-to-Work policy changes can be measured.
    Sec. 240.  Section 3(a) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(6) Reviews of family income.--
                    ``(A) Frequency.--Reviews of family income for 
                purposes of this section shall be made--
                            ``(i) in the case of all families, upon the 
                        initial provision of housing assistance for the 
                        family; and
                            ``(ii) no less than annually thereafter, 
                        except as provided in subparagraph (B)(i);
                    ``(B) Fixed-income families.--
                            ``(i) Self certification and 3-year 
                        review.--In the case of any family described in 
                        clause (ii), after the initial review of the 
                        family's income pursuant to subparagraph 
                        (A)(i), the public housing agency or owner 
                        shall not be required to conduct a review of 
                        the family's income pursuant to subparagraph 
                        (A)(ii) for any year for which such family 
                        certifies, in accordance with such requirements 
                        as the Secretary shall establish, that the 
                        income of the family meets the requirements of 
                        clause (ii) of this subparagraph and that the 
                        sources of such income have not changed since 
                        the previous year, except that the public 
                        housing agency or owner shall conduct a review 
                        of each such family's income not less than once 
                        every 3 years.
                            ``(ii) Eligible families.--A family 
                        described in this clause is a family who has an 
                        income, as of the most recent review pursuant 
                        to subparagraph (A) or clause (i) of this 
                        subparagraph, of which 90 percent or more 
                        consists of fixed income, as such term is 
                        defined in clause (iii).
                            ``(iii) Fixed income.--For purposes of this 
                        subparagraph, the term `fixed income' includes 
                        income from--
                                    ``(I) the supplemental security 
                                income program under title XVI of the 
                                Social Security Act, including 
                                supplementary payments pursuant to an 
                                agreement for Federal administration 
                                under section 1616(a) of the Social 
                                Security Act and payments pursuant to 
                                an agreement entered into under section 
                                212(b) of Public Law 93-66;
                                    ``(II) Social Security payments;
                                    ``(III) Federal, State, local and 
                                private pension plans; and
                                    ``(IV) other periodic payments 
                                received from annuities, insurance 
                                policies, retirement funds, disability 
                                or death benefits, and other similar 
                                types of periodic receipts that are of 
                                substantially the same amounts from 
                                year to year.
                    ``(C) Inflationary adjustment for fixed income 
                families.--
                            ``(i) In general.--In any year in which a 
                        public housing agency or owner does not conduct 
                        a review of income for any family described in 
                        clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) pursuant to the 
                        authority under clause (i) of such paragraph to 
                        waive such a review, such family's prior year's 
                        income determination shall, subject to clauses 
                        (ii) and (iii), be adjusted by applying an 
                        inflationary factor as the Secretary shall, by 
                        regulation or notice, establish.
                            ``(ii) Exemption from adjustment.--A public 
                        housing agency or owner may exempt from an 
                        adjustment pursuant to clause (i) any income 
                        source for which income does not increase from 
                        year to year.''.
    Sec. 241.  Section 8(x)(2) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), is amended by striking ``18 months'' and 
inserting ``36 months''.
    Sec. 242. (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall establish a demonstration program during the period 
beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, and ending on September 
30, 2020, entering into budget-neutral, performance-based agreements 
that result in a reduction in energy or water costs with such entities 
as the Secretary determines to be appropriate under which the entities 
shall carry out projects for energy or water conservation improvements 
at not more than 150,000 residential units in multifamily buildings 
participating in--
            (1) the Project-Based Rental Assistance program under 
        section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
        1437f), other than assistance provided under section 8(o) of 
        that Act;
            (2) the supportive Housing for the Elderly program under 
        section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); or
            (3) the supportive Housing for Persons with Disabilities 
        program under section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
        National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013(d)(2)).
    (b) Requirements.--
            (1) Payments contingent on savings.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary shall provide to an 
                entity a payment under an agreement under this section 
                only during applicable years for which an energy or 
                water cost savings is achieved with respect to the 
                applicable multifamily portfolio of properties, as 
                determined by the Secretary, in accordance with 
                subparagraph (B).
                    (B) Payment methodology.--
                            (i) In general.--Each agreement under this 
                        section shall include a pay-for-success 
                        provision--
                                    (I) that will serve as a payment 
                                threshold for the term of the 
                                agreement; and
                                    (II) pursuant to which the 
                                Department of Housing and Urban 
                                Development shall share a percentage of 
                                the savings at a level determined by 
                                the Secretary that is sufficient to 
                                cover the administrative costs of 
                                carrying out this section.
                            (ii) Limitations.--A payment made by the 
                        Secretary under an agreement under this section 
                        shall--
                                    (I) be contingent on documented 
                                utility savings; and
                                    (II) not exceed the utility savings 
                                achieved by the date of the payment, 
                                and not previously paid, as a result of 
                                the improvements made under the 
                                agreement.
                    (C) Third party verification.--Savings payments 
                made by the Secretary under this section shall be based 
                on a measurement and verification protocol that 
                includes at least--
                            (i) establishment of a weather-normalized 
                        and occupancy-normalized utility consumption 
                        baseline established preretrofit;
                            (ii) annual third party confirmation of 
                        actual utility consumption and cost for owner-
                        paid utilities;
                            (iii) annual third party validation of the 
                        tenant utility allowances in effect during the 
                        applicable year and vacancy rates for each unit 
                        type; and
                            (iv) annual third party determination of 
                        savings to the Secretary.
            (2) Term.--The term of an agreement under this section 
        shall be not longer than 12 years.
            (3) Entity eligibility.--The Secretary shall--
                    (A) establish a competitive process for entering 
                into agreements under this section; and
                    (B) enter into such agreements only with entities 
                that demonstrate significant experience relating to--
                            (i) financing and operating properties 
                        receiving assistance under a program described 
                        in subsection (a);
                            (ii) oversight of energy and water 
                        conservation programs, including oversight of 
                        contractors; and
                            (iii) raising capital for energy and water 
                        conservation improvements from charitable 
                        organizations or private investors.
            (4) Geographical diversity.--Each agreement entered into 
        under this section shall provide for the inclusion of 
        properties with the greatest feasible regional and State 
        variance.
    (c) Plan and Reports.--
            (1) Plan.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the House 
        and Senate Committees on Appropriations a detailed plan for the 
        implementation of this section.
            (2) Reports.--Not later than 1 year after the date of 
        enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
        shall--
                    (A) conduct an evaluation of the program under this 
                section; and
                    (B) submit to the House and Senate Committees on 
                Appropriations a report describing each evaluation 
                conducted under subparagraph (A).
    (d) Funding.--For each fiscal year during which an agreement under 
this section is in effect, the Secretary may use to carry out this 
section any funds appropriated for the renewal of contracts under a 
program described in subsection (a).
    Sec. 243. (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development may establish, through notice in the Federal Register, a 
demonstration program to incent public housing agencies, as defined in 
section 3(b)(6) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (in this 
section referred to as ``the Act''), to implement measures to reduce 
their energy and water consumption.
    (b) Eligibility.--Public housing agencies that operate public 
housing programs that meet the demonstration requirements, as 
determined by the Secretary, shall be eligible for participation in the 
demonstration.
    (c) Incentive.--The Secretary may provide an incentive to an 
eligible public housing agency that uses capital funds, operating 
funds, grants, utility rebates, and other resources to reduce its 
energy and/or water consumption in accordance with a plan approved by 
the Secretary.
            (1) Base utility consumption level.--The initial base 
        utility consumption level under the approved plan shall be set 
        at the public housing agency's rolling base consumption level 
        immediately prior to the installation of energy conservation 
        measures.
            (2) First year utility cost savings.--For the first year 
        that an approved plan is in effect, the Secretary shall 
        allocate the utility consumption level in the public housing 
        operating fund using the base utility consumption level.
            (3) Subsequent year savings.--For each subsequent year that 
        the plan is in effect, the Secretary shall decrease the utility 
        consumption level by one percent of the initial base utility 
        consumption level per year until the utility consumption level 
        equals the public housing agency's actual consumption level 
        that followed the installation of energy conservation measures, 
        at which time the plan will terminate.
            (4) Use of utility cost savings.--The public housing agency 
        may use the funds resulting from the energy conservation 
        measures, in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3), for either 
        operating expenses, as defined by section 9(e)(1) of the Act, 
        or capital improvements, as defined by section 9(d)(1) of the 
        Act.
            (5) Duration of plan.--The length in years of the utility 
        conservation plan shall not exceed the number of percentage 
        points in utility consumption reduction a public housing agency 
        achieves through the energy conservation measures implemented 
        under this demonstration, but in no case shall it exceed 20 
        years.
            (6) Other requirements.--The Secretary may establish such 
        other requirements as necessary to further the purposes of this 
        demonstration.
            (7) Evaluation.--Each public housing agency participating 
        in the demonstration shall submit to the Secretary such 
        performance and evaluation reports concerning the reduction in 
        energy consumption and compliance with the requirements of this 
        section as the Secretary may require.
    (d) Termination.--Public housing agencies may enter into this 
demonstration for 5 years after the date on which the demonstration 
program is commenced.
    Sec. 244. (a) Authority.--Subject to the conditions in subsection 
(d), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may authorize, in 
response to requests received in fiscal years 2016 through 2020, the 
transfer of some or all project-based assistance, tenant-based 
assistance, capital advances, debt, and statutorily required use 
restrictions from housing assisted under section 811 of the Cranston-
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013) to other new 
or existing housing, which may include projects, units, and other types 
of housing, as permitted by the Secretary.
    (b) Capital Advances.--Interest shall not be due and repayment of a 
capital advance shall not be triggered by a transfer pursuant to this 
section.
    (c) Phased and Proportional Transfers.--
            (1) Transfers under this section may be done in phases to 
        accommodate the financing and other requirements related to 
        rehabilitating or constructing the housing to which the 
        assistance is transferred, to ensure that such housing meets 
        the conditions under subsection (d).
            (2) The capital advance repayment requirements, use 
        restrictions, rental assistance, and debt shall transfer 
        proportionally from the transferring housing to the receiving 
        housing.
    (d) Conditions.--The transfers authorized by this section shall be 
subject to the following conditions:
            (1) the owner of the transferring housing shall demonstrate 
        that the transfer is in compliance with applicable Federal, 
        State, and local requirements regarding Housing for Persons 
        with Disabilities and shall provide the Secretary with evidence 
        of obtaining any approvals related to housing disabled persons 
        that are necessary under Federal, State, and local government 
        requirements;
            (2) the owner of the transferring housing shall demonstrate 
        to the Secretary that any transfer is in the best interest of 
        the disabled residents by offering opportunities for increased 
        integration or less concentration of individuals with 
        disabilities;
            (3) the owner of the transferring housing shall continue to 
        provide the same number of units as approved for rental 
        assistance by the Secretary in the receiving housing;
            (4) the owner of the transferring housing shall consult 
        with the disabled residents in the transferring housing about 
        any proposed transfer under this section and shall notify the 
        residents of the transferring housing who are eligible for 
        assistance to be provided in the receiving housing that they 
        shall not be required to vacate the transferring housing until 
        the receiving housing is available for occupancy;
            (5) the receiving housing shall meet or exceed applicable 
        physical standards established or adopted by the Secretary; and
            (6) if the receiving housing has a mortgage insured under 
        title II of the National Housing Act, any lien on the receiving 
        housing resulting from additional financing shall be 
        subordinate to any federally insured mortgage lien transferred 
        to, or placed on, such housing, except that the Secretary may 
        waive this requirement upon determination that such a waiver is 
        necessary to facilitate the financing of acquisition, 
        construction, or rehabilitation of the receiving housing.
    (e) Public Notice.--The Secretary shall publish a notice in the 
Federal Register of the terms and conditions, including criteria for 
the Department's approval of transfers pursuant to this section no 
later than 30 days before the effective date of such notice.
    Sec. 245. (a) Of the unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development under the heading ``General and Special 
Risk Program Account'', and for the cost of guaranteed notes and other 
obligations under the heading ``Native American Housing Block Grants'', 
$12,000,000 is hereby rescinded.
    (b) All unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development under the headings ``Rural Housing and Economic 
Development'', and ``Homeownership and Opportunity for People 
Everywhere Grants'' are hereby rescinded.
    Sec. 246.  Funds made available in this title under the heading 
``Homeless Assistance Grants'' may be used to participate in 
Performance Partnership Pilots authorized under section 526 of division 
H of Public Law 113-76, section 524 of division G of Public Law 113-
235, and such authorities enacted for Performance Partnership Pilots in 
an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2016. Such participation shall be 
targeted to improving the housing situation of disconnected youth.
    Sec. 247.  Unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development for administrative costs associated with 
funds appropriated to the Department for specific disaster relief and 
related purposes and designated by Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act, including information 
technology costs and costs for administering and overseeing such 
specific disaster related funds, shall be transferred to the Program 
Office Salaries and Expenses, Community Planning and Development 
account for the Department, shall remain available until expended, and 
may be used for such administrative costs for administering any funds 
appropriated to the Department for any disaster relief and related 
purposes in any prior or future act, notwithstanding the purposes for 
which such funds were appropriated:  Provided, That amounts transferred 
pursuant to this section that were previously designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent 
Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act are designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and shall be transferred only if 
the President subsequently so designates the entire transfer and 
transmits such designation to the Congress.
    Sec. 248.  None of the funds made available under this title shall 
be used to enforce compliance with the Green Physical Needs Assessment 
for public housing agencies with 250 housing units or less.
    This title may be cited as the ``Department of Housing and Urban 
Development Appropriations Act, 2016''.

                               TITLE III

                            RELATED AGENCIES

                              Access Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized by 
section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, $8,023,000:  
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, there may 
be credited to this appropriation funds received for publications and 
training expenses.

                      Federal Maritime Commission

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission as 
authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as 
amended (46 U.S.C. 307), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901-5902, $25,660,000:  Provided, That not to exceed $2,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses.

                National Railroad Passenger Corporation

                      Office of Inspector General

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General for the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out the provisions of 
the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, $23,999,000:  Provided, 
That the Inspector General shall have all necessary authority, in 
carrying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, as 
amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations of fraud, 
including false statements to the government (18 U.S.C. 1001), by any 
person or entity that is subject to regulation by the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation:  Provided further, That the Inspector General 
may enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, studies, 
analyses, and other services with public agencies and with private 
persons, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern the 
obtaining of such services within the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation:  Provided further, That the Inspector General may select, 
appoint, and employ such officers and employees as may be necessary for 
carrying out the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of 
Inspector General, subject to the applicable laws and regulations that 
govern such selections, appointments, and employment within the 
Corporation:  Provided further, That concurrent with the President's 
budget request for fiscal year 2017, the Inspector General shall submit 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a budget request 
for fiscal year 2017 in similar format and substance to those submitted 
by executive agencies of the Federal Government.

                  National Transportation Safety Board

                         salaries and expenses

    For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety Board, 
including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; services as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed 
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS-15; uniforms, or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901-5902), 
$105,170,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 may be used for official 
reception and representation expenses. The amounts made available to 
the National Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 
necessary to make lease payments on an obligation incurred in fiscal 
year 2001 for a capital lease.

                 Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

          payment to the neighborhood reinvestment corporation

    For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for use in 
neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101-8107), $140,000,000, of 
which $5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing program.

           United States Interagency Council on Homelessness

                           operating expenses

    For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, authorized 
travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code) of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title 
II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amended, 
$3,530,000. Title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 11314) is amended in section 204(a) by striking ``level V'' and 
inserting ``level IV''.

                                TITLE IV

                      GENERAL PROVISIONS--THIS ACT

    Sec. 401.  None of the funds in this Act shall be used for the 
planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses of, or 
otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act.
    Sec. 402.  None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall remain 
available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor may any be 
transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly so provided 
herein.
    Sec. 403.  The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through a procurement contract pursuant to 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under 
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to 
existing law.
    Sec. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
obligated or expended for any employee training that--
            (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
        and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
        duties;
            (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of 
        emotional response or psychological stress in some 
        participants;
            (3) does not require prior employee notification of the 
        content and methods to be used in the training and written end 
        of course evaluation;
            (4) contains any methods or content associated with 
        religious or quasi-religious belief systems or ``new age'' 
        belief systems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity 
        Commission Notice N-915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
            (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' 
        personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties.
    Sec. 405.  Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of the 
funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations Acts to 
the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2016, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees and 
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of funds that:
            (1) creates a new program;
            (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity;
            (3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, 
        or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted by 
        the Congress;
            (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
        by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations for 
        a different purpose;
            (5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in 
        excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less;
            (6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
        $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or
            (7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, 
        division, office, bureau, board, commission, agency, 
        administration, or department different from the budget 
        justifications submitted to the Committees on Appropriations or 
        the table accompanying the explanatory statement accompanying 
        this Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
        received from the House and Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations:  Provided, That not later than 60 days after 
        the date of enactment of this Act, each agency funded by this 
        Act shall submit a report to the House and Senate Committees on 
        Appropriations to establish the baseline for application of 
        reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal 
        year:  Provided further, That the report shall include:
                    (A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
                column to display the prior year enacted level, the 
                President's budget request, adjustments made by 
                Congress, adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if 
                appropriate, and the fiscal year enacted level;
                    (B) a delineation in the table for each 
                appropriation and its respective prior year enacted 
                level by object class and program, project, and 
                activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the 
                respective appropriation; and
                    (C) an identification of items of special 
                congressional interest:  Provided further, That the 
                amount appropriated or limited for salaries and 
                expenses for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per 
                day for each day after the required date that the 
                report has not been submitted to the House and Senate 
                Committees on Appropriations.
    Sec. 406.  Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, not to 
exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available at the 
end of fiscal year 2016 from appropriations made available for salaries 
and expenses for fiscal year 2016 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2017, for each such account for the purposes 
authorized:  Provided, That a request shall be submitted to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the 
expenditure of such funds:  Provided further, That these requests shall 
be made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 
of this Act.
    Sec. 407.  No funds in this Act may be used to support any Federal, 
State, or local projects that seek to use the power of eminent domain, 
unless eminent domain is employed only for a public use:  Provided, 
That for purposes of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits private entities:  
Provided further, That any use of funds for mass transit, railroad, 
airport, seaport or highway projects, as well as utility projects which 
benefit or serve the general public (including energy-related, 
communication-related, water-related and wastewater-related 
infrastructure), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-utility functions 
that serve the general public and are subject to regulation and 
oversight by the government, and projects for the removal of an 
immediate threat to public health and safety or brownsfields as defined 
in the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107-118) shall be considered a public use for purposes 
of eminent domain.
    Sec. 408.  All Federal agencies and departments that are funded 
under this Act shall issue a report to the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations on all sole-source contracts by no later than July 
30, 2016. Such report shall include the contractor, the amount of the 
contract and the rationale for using a sole-source contract.
    Sec. 409.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer 
authority provided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act.
    Sec. 410.  None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other 
than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to 
enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily 
completed his or her period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his or her release from such service or from 
hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more 
than 1 year, made application for restoration to his or her former 
position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management 
as still qualified to perform the duties of his or her former position 
and has not been restored thereto.
    Sec. 411.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending the 
assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4 of the Act 
of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c, popularly known as the ``Buy 
American Act'').
    Sec. 412.  None of the funds made available in this Act shall be 
made available to any person or entity that has been convicted of 
violating the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a-10c).
    Sec. 413.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of sections 
301-10.122 and 301-10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal Regulations.
    Sec. 414. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act may be 
used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under sections 41301 
through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or exemption application 
under section 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding an 
air operators certificate issued by a country that is party to the 
U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement where such approval 
would contravene United States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-
Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement.
    (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise 
preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign air 
carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where such 
authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air 
Transport Agreement and United States law.
    Sec. 415.  None of the funds made available in this Act may be used 
to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 50 employees 
of a single agency or department of the United States Government, who 
are stationed in the United States, at any single international 
conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance that 
such attendance is important to the national interest:  Provided, That 
for purposes of this section the term ``international conference'' 
shall mean a conference occurring outside of the United States attended 
by representatives of the United States Government and of foreign 
governments, international organizations, or nongovernmental 
organizations.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Transportation, Housing and Urban 
Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2016''.
                                                       Calendar No. 138

114th CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 2577

                          [Report No. 114-75]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT

   Making appropriations for the Departments of Transportation, and 
Housing and Urban Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
           ending September 30, 2016, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 10, 2015

  Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

                             June 25, 2015

                       Reported with an amendment
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