In the Senate of the United States, 
November 5, 2009. 
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 2847) entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations for 
the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and Science, and 
Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2010, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the following 
AMENDMENT: 
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2010, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for international trade activi-
ties of the Department of Commerce provided for by law,
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and for engaging in trade promotional activities abroad, 
including expenses of grants and cooperative agreements for 
the purpose of promoting exports of United States firms, 
without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 3703; full medical 
coverage for dependent members of immediate families of 
employees stationed overseas and employees temporarily 
posted overseas; travel and transportation of employees of 
the International Trade Administration between two points 
abroad, without regard to 49 U.S.C. 40118; employment of 
Americans and aliens by contract for services; rental of 
space abroad for periods not exceeding 10 years, and ex-
penses of alteration, repair, or improvement; purchase or 
construction of temporary demountable exhibition struc-
tures for use abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner 
authorized in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when 
such claims arise in foreign countries; not to exceed 
$327,000 for official representation expenses abroad; pur-
chase of passenger motor vehicles for official use abroad, not 
to exceed $45,000 per vehicle; obtaining insurance on offi-
cial motor vehicles; and rental of tie lines, $455,704,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2011, of which 
$9,439,000 is to be derived from fees to be retained and used 
by the International Trade Administration, notwith-
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302: Provided, That not less than 
$49,530,000 shall be for Manufacturing and Services; not
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less than $43,212,000 shall be for Market Access and Com-
pliance; not less than $68,290,000 shall be for the Import 
Administration; not less than $257,938,000 shall be for the 
Trade Promotion and United States and Foreign Commer-
cial Service; and not less than $27,295,000 shall be for Ex-
ecutive Direction and Administration: Provided further, 
That the provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) 
and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and 
Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 
2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these activities without 
regard to section 5412 of the Omnibus Trade and Competi-
tiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4912); and that for the pur-
pose of this Act, contributions under the provisions of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
shall include payment for assessments for services provided 
as part of these activities: Provided further, That negotia-
tions shall be conducted within the World Trade Organiza-
tion to recognize the right of members to distribute monies 
collected from antidumping and countervailing duties: Pro-
vided further, That negotiations shall be conducted within 
the World Trade Organization consistent with the negoti-
ating objectives contained in the Trade Act of 2002, Public 
Law 107–210, to maintain strong U.S. remedies laws, cor-
rect the problem of overreaching by World Trade Organiza-
tion Panels and Appellate Body, and prevent the creation
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of obligation never negotiated or expressly agreed to by the 
United States: Provided further, That within the amounts 
appropriated, $1,500,000 shall be used for the projects, and 
in the amounts, specified in the table entitled ‘‘Congression-
ally designated projects’’ in the report of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate to accompany this Act. 
BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for export administration and 
national security activities of the Department of Commerce, 
including costs associated with the performance of export 
administration field activities both domestically and 
abroad; full medical coverage for dependent members of im-
mediate families of employees stationed overseas; employ-
ment of Americans and aliens by contract for services 
abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized 
in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such claims 
arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $15,000 for official 
representation expenses abroad; awards of compensation to 
informers under the Export Administration Act of 1979, 
and as authorized by 22 U.S.C. 401(b); and purchase of 
passenger motor vehicles for official use and motor vehicles 
for law enforcement use with special requirement vehicles 
eligible for purchase without regard to any price limitation 
otherwise established by law, $100,342,000, to remain avail-
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administering the economic 
development assistance programs as provided for by law, 
$38,000,000: Provided, That these funds may be used to 
monitor projects approved pursuant to title I of the Public 
Works Employment Act of 1976, title II of the Trade Act 
of 1974, and the Community Emergency Drought Relief Act 
of 1977. 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Commerce 
in fostering, promoting, and developing minority business 
enterprise, including expenses of grants, contracts, and 
other agreements with public or private organizations, 
$31,200,000: Provided, That within the amounts appro-
priated, $200,000 shall be used for the projects, and in the 
amounts, specified in the table entitled, ‘‘Congressionally 
designated projects’’ in the report of the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate to accompany this Act. 
ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of eco-
nomic and statistical analysis programs of the Department 
of Commerce, $100,600,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2011.
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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, ana-
lyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for by 
law, $259,024,000. 
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses to collect and publish statistics 
for periodic censuses and programs provided for by law, 
$7,065,707,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2011: Provided, That none of the funds provided in this 
or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used for the 
collection of census data on race identification that does not 
include ‘‘some other race’’ as a category: Provided further, 
That from amounts provided herein, funds may be used for 
additional promotion, outreach, and marketing activities. 
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the 
National Telecommunications and Information Adminis-
tration (NTIA), $19,999,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2011: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Commerce shall charge 
Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum manage-
ment, analysis, operations, and related services, and such
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fees shall be retained and used as offsetting collections for 
costs of such spectrum services, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Secretary of Com-
merce is authorized to retain and use as offsetting collec-
tions all funds transferred, or previously transferred, from 
other Government agencies for all costs incurred in tele-
communications research, engineering, and related activi-
ties by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of 
NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions under this 
paragraph, and such funds received from other government 
agencies shall remain available until expended. 
PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING AND 
CONSTRUCTION 
For the administration of grants, authorized by section 
392 of the Communications Act of 1934, $20,000,000, to 
remain available until expended as authorized by section 
391 of the Act: Provided, That not to exceed $2,000,000 shall 
be available for program administration as authorized by 
section 391 of the Act: Provided further, That, notwith-
standing the provisions of section 391 of the Act, the prior 
year unobligated balances may be made available for grants 
for projects for which applications have been submitted and 
approved during any fiscal year.
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UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office (USPTO) provided for by law, including 
defense of suits instituted against the Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the 
United 
States 
Patent 
and 
Trademark 
Office, 
$1,930,361,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the sum herein appropriated from the general 
fund shall be reduced as offsetting collections assessed and 
collected pursuant to 15 U.S.C. 1113 and 35 U.S.C. 41 and 
376 are received during fiscal year 2010, so as to result 
in a fiscal year 2010 appropriation from the general fund 
estimated at $0: Provided further, That during fiscal year 
2010, should the total amount of offsetting fee collections 
be less than $1,930,361,000, this amount shall be reduced 
accordingly: Provided further, That of the amount received 
in excess of $1,930,361,000 in fiscal year 2010, in an 
amount up to $100,000,000 shall remain until expended: 
Provided further, That from amounts provided herein, not 
to exceed $1,000 shall be made available in fiscal year 2010 
for official reception and representation expenses: Provided 
further, That of the amounts provided to the USPTO within 
this account, $25,000,000 shall not become available for ob-
ligation until the Director of the USPTO has completed a
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comprehensive review of the assumptions behind the patent 
examiner expectancy goals and adopted a revised set of ex-
pectancy goals for patent examination: Provided further, 
That in fiscal year 2010 from the amounts made available 
for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ for the USPTO, the amounts 
necessary to pay: (1) the difference between the percentage 
of basic pay contributed by the USPTO and employees 
under section 8334(a) of title 5, United States Code, and 
the normal cost percentage (as defined by section 8331(17) 
of that title) of basic pay, of employees subject to subchapter 
III of chapter 83 of that title; and (2) the present value 
of the otherwise unfunded accruing costs, as determined by 
the Office of Personnel Management, of post-retirement life 
insurance and post-retirement health benefits coverage for 
all USPTO employees, shall be transferred to the Civil Serv-
ice Retirement and Disability Fund, the Employees Life In-
surance Fund, and the Employees Health Benefits Fund, 
as appropriate, and shall be available for the authorized 
purposes of those accounts: Provided further, That sections 
801, 802, and 803 of division B, Public Law 108–447 shall 
remain in effect during fiscal year 2010: Provided further, 
That the Director may, this year, reduce by regulation fees 
payable for documents in patent and trademark matters, 
in connection with the filing of documents filed electroni-
cally in a form prescribed by the Director: Provided further,
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That $2,000,000 shall be transferred to ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’ for activities associated with carrying out inves-
tigations and audits related to the USPTO. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, $520,300,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which not to exceed $9,000,000 may 
be transferred to the ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’: Provided, 
That not to exceed $5,000 shall be for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That within the 
amounts appropriated, $10,500,000 shall be used for the 
projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table entitled 
‘‘Congressionally designated projects’’ in the report of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate to accompany 
this Act. 
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Hollings Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership of the National Institute of Stand-
ards and Technology, $124,700,000, to remain available 
until expended. In addition, for necessary expenses of the 
Technology Innovation Program of the National Institute 
of Standards and Technology, $69,900,000, to remain 
available until expended.