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(2) Section 2242 of the Foreign Affairs Reform and Restruc-
turing Act of 1998 (division G of Public Law 105–277; 112 
Stat. 2681–822; 8 U.S.C. 1231 note) and regulations prescribed 
thereto, including regulations under part 208 of title 8, Code 
of Federal Regulations, and part 95 of title 22, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
(3) Sections 1002 and 1003 of the Department of Defense, 
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations to Address Hurri-
canes in the Gulf of Mexico, and Pandemic Influenza Act, 
2006 (Public Law 109–148). 
SEC. 8115. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available in this Act may be used to pay nego-
tiated indirect cost rates on a contract, grant, or cooperative agree-
ment (or similar arrangement) entered into by the Department 
of Defense and an entity in excess of 35 percent of the total 
cost of the contract, grant, or agreement (or similar arrangement): 
Provided, That this limitation shall apply only to contracts, grants, 
or cooperative agreements entered into after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act using funds made available in this Act for fiscal 
year 2008 for basic research. 
SEC. 8116. Any request for funds for a fiscal year after fiscal 
year 2008 for an ongoing military operation overseas, including 
operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, shall be included in the annual 
budget of the President for such fiscal year as submitted to Congress 
under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. 
SEC. 8117. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be obligated or expended to provide 
award fees to any defense contractor contrary to the provisions 
of section 814 of the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal 
Year 2007 (Public Law 109–364). 
SEC. 8118. From amounts appropriated in this or previous 
Acts making appropriations for the Department of Defense which 
remain available for obligation, up to $20,000,000 may be trans-
ferred by the Secretary of the Navy to the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of the Interior for any expenses associated with the construc-
tion of the USS ARIZONA Memorial Museum and Visitors Center. 
SEC. 8119. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Department of Defense shall complete work on the destruction 
of the United States stockpile of lethal chemical agents and muni-
tions, including those stored at Blue Grass Army Depot, Kentucky, 
and Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, by the deadline established 
by the Chemical Weapons Convention, and in no circumstances 
later than December 31, 2017. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) Not later than December 31, 2007, and every 180 days 
thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the parties 
described in paragraph (2) a report on the progress of the 
Department of Defense toward compliance with this section. 
(2) The parties referred to in paragraph (1) are the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives, the Majority and Minority 
Leaders of the House of Representatives, the Majority and 
Minority Leaders of the Senate, and the congressional defense 
committees. 
(3) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall include 
the updated and projected annual funding levels necessary 
to achieve full compliance with this section. The projected 
funding levels for each report shall include a detailed
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accounting of the complete life-cycle costs for each of the chem-
ical disposal projects. 
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘Chemical Weapons Convention’’ 
means the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Produc-
tion, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their 
Destruction, with annexes, done at Paris, January 13, 1993, and 
entered into force April 29, 1997 (T. Doc. 103–21). 
SEC. 8120. Paragraph 1(b) of Rule XXXV of the Standing Rules 
of the Senate is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘It is not a gift for a Member (or a Senate employee making 
a reservation for that Member) to make more than one reservation 
on scheduled flights with participating airlines when such action 
assists the Member in conducting official business.’’. 
SEC. 8121. Not later than 30 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish and 
maintain on the homepage of the Internet website of the Depart-
ment of Defense a direct link to the Internet website of the Office 
of Inspector General of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 8122. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
and in addition to amounts otherwise made available by this Act, 
there is appropriated $11,630,000,000 for the ‘‘Mine Resistant 
Ambush Protected Vehicle Fund’’, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2008. 
(b) The funds provided by subsection (a) shall be available 
to the Secretary of Defense to continue technological research and 
development and upgrades, to procure Mine Resistant Ambush 
Protected vehicles and associated support equipment, and to sus-
tain, transport, and field Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles. 
(c)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall transfer funds provided 
by subsection (a) to appropriations for operation and maintenance; 
procurement; and research, development, test and evaluation to 
accomplish the purposes specified in subsection (b). Such transferred 
funds shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes 
and for the same time period as the appropriation to which they 
are transferred. 
(2) The transfer authority provided by this subsection shall 
be in addition to any other transfer authority available to the 
Department of Defense. 
(3) The Secretary of Defense shall, not less than 5 days prior 
to making any transfer under this subsection, notify the congres-
sional defense committees in writing of the details of the transfer. 
(d) The amount provided by this section is designated as an 
emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs 
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 
21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2008. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
DIVISION B—FURTHER CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, 
2008 
SEC. 101. Public Law 110–92 is amended by striking the date 
specified in section 106(3) and inserting ‘‘December 14, 2007’’. 
SEC. 102. Public Law 110–92 is amended by adding at the 
end the following new sections:
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‘‘SEC. 151. The authority provided by section 113(e) of the 
Dairy Production Stabilization Act of 1983 (7 U.S.C. 4504(e)) shall 
continue in effect through the date specified in section 106(3) of 
this joint resolution. 
‘‘SEC. 152. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are provided 
for ‘Department of Commerce—Bureau of the Census—Periodic 
Censuses and Programs’ at a rate for operations of $1,025,398,000. 
‘‘SEC. 153. Any obligation made pursuant to this joint resolution 
prior to the enactment of the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 2008 that relates to an amount provided in title IX of division 
A of Public Law 109–289, but is not chargeable under section 
107 of this joint resolution to an appropriation, fund, or authoriza-
tion contained in such 2008 Act, is designated as an emergency 
requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs pursuant to 
subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th 
Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 
2008. 
‘‘SEC. 154. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, there is appropriated for payment to Charles Davis, 
widower of Jo Ann Davis, late a Representative from the State 
of Virginia, $165,200. 
‘‘SEC. 155. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts are provided 
for the following accounts of the Department of Veterans Affairs 
at the following rates for operations: ‘Veterans Health Administra-
tion—Medical Services’, $27,167,671,000; ‘Veterans Health Adminis-
tration—Medical Administration’, $3,442,000,000; ‘Veterans Health 
Administration—Medical 
Facilities’, 
$3,592,000,000; 
‘Veterans 
Health 
Administration—Medical 
and 
Prosthetic 
Research’, 
$411,000,000; ‘Departmental Administration—General Operating 
Expenses’, $1,471,837,000; ‘Departmental Administration—National 
Cemetery Administration’, $166,809,000; ‘Departmental Adminis-
tration—Office of Inspector General’, $72,599,000; ‘Departmental 
Administration—Information Technology Systems’, $1,859,217,000; 
‘Departmental 
Administration—Construction, 
Major 
Projects’, 
$727,400,000; ‘Departmental Administration—Construction, Minor 
Projects’, $233,396,000; ‘Departmental Administration—Grants for 
Construction of State Extended Care Facilities’, $85,000,000; and 
‘Departmental Administration—Grants for Construction of State 
Veterans Cemeteries’, $32,000,000. 
‘‘SEC. 156. Section 44303(b) of title 49, United States Code, 
shall be applied by substituting the date specified in section 106(3) 
of this joint resolution for ‘December 31, 2006’. 
‘‘SEC. 157. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, and in addition to amounts otherwise available by this 
joint resolution, there is appropriated $329,000,000 for ‘Department 
of Agriculture—Forest Service—Wildland Fire Management’, to 
remain available until expended. Of such funds— 
‘‘(1) $110,000,000 shall be available for emergency wildfire 
suppression; 
‘‘(2) $100,000,000 shall be used within 15 days of the enact-
ment of this section for repayment to other accounts from 
which such funds were transferred in fiscal year 2007 for wild-
fire suppression so that all such transfers for fiscal year 2007 
are fully repaid; 
‘‘(3) $80,000,000 shall be available for hazardous fuels 
reduction and hazard mitigation activities, of which $30,000,000
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is available for work on State and private lands using all 
the authorities available to the Forest Service; 
‘‘(4) $25,000,000 shall be available for rehabilitation and 
restoration of Federal lands; and 
‘‘(5) $14,000,000 shall be available for reconstruction and 
construction of Federal facilities and may be transferred to 
and merged with ‘Forest Service—Capital Improvement and 
Maintenance’. 
‘‘(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, 
and in addition to amounts otherwise available by this joint resolu-
tion, there is appropriated $171,000,000 for ‘Department of the 
Interior—Bureau of Land Management—Wildland Fire Manage-
ment’, to remain available until expended. Of such funds— 
‘‘(1) $40,000,000 shall be available for emergency wildfire 
suppression; 
‘‘(2) $115,000,000 shall be used within 30 days of enactment 
of this section for repayment to other accounts from which 
such funds were transferred in fiscal year 2007 for wildfire 
suppression so that all such transfers for fiscal year 2007 
are fully repaid; 
‘‘(3) $10,000,000 shall be available for hazardous fuels 
reduction activities; and 
‘‘(4) $6,000,000 shall be available for rehabilitation and 
restoration of Federal lands. 
‘‘(c) Each amount provided by this section is designated as 
an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs 
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 
21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2008. 
‘‘SEC. 158. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, and in addition to amounts otherwise made available 
by this joint resolution, there is appropriated $2,900,000,000 for 
‘Department of Homeland Security—Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency—Disaster Relief’, to remain available until expended. 
‘‘(b) The amount provided by this section is designated as 
an emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs 
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 
21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2008. 
‘‘SEC. 159. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, and in addition to amounts otherwise made available 
by this joint resolution, there is appropriated $3,000,000,000 for 
‘Department of Housing and Urban Development—Community 
Planning and Development—Community Development Fund’, to 
remain available until expended, to enable the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development to make a grant or grants to the State 
of Louisiana solely for the purpose of covering costs associated 
with otherwise uncompensated but eligible claims that were filed 
on or before July 31, 2007, under the Road Home program adminis-
tered by the State in accordance with plans approved by the Sec-
retary. 
‘‘(b) In allocating funds under this section, the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development shall ensure that such funds 
serve only to supplement and not supplant any other State or 
Federal resources committed to the Road Home program. No funds 
shall be drawn from the Treasury under this section beyond those 
necessary to fulfill the exclusive purpose of this section.
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‘‘(c) The amount provided by this section is designated as an 
emergency requirement and necessary to meet emergency needs 
pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of section 204 of S. Con. Res. 
21 (110th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for 
fiscal year 2008.’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.