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set forth in section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of Commerce shall include in budget justification mate-
rials that the Secretary submits to Congress in support of the 
Department of Commerce budget (as submitted with the budget 
of the President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code) an estimate for each National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration procurement, acquisition or construction project 
having a total of more than $5,000,000 and simultaneously the 
budget justification shall include an estimate of the budgetary 
requirements for each such project for each of the 5 subsequent 
fiscal years: Provided further, That, within the amounts appro-
priated, $1,302,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’ account for activities associated with carrying out inves-
tigations and audits related to satellite procurement, acquisition 
and construction. 
PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY 
For necessary expenses associated with the restoration of 
Pacific salmon populations, $65,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021: Provided, That, of the funds provided herein, 
the Secretary of Commerce may issue grants to the States of Wash-
ington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Alaska, and to the 
Federally recognized tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast 
(including Alaska), for projects necessary for conservation of salmon 
and steelhead populations that are listed as threatened or endan-
gered, or that are identified by a State as at-risk to be so listed, 
for maintaining populations necessary for exercise of tribal treaty 
fishing rights or native subsistence fishing, or for conservation 
of Pacific coastal salmon and steelhead habitat, based on guidelines 
to be developed by the Secretary of Commerce: Provided further, 
That all funds shall be allocated based on scientific and other 
merit principles and shall not be available for marketing activities: 
Provided further, That funds disbursed to States shall be subject 
to a matching requirement of funds or documented in-kind contribu-
tions of at least 33 percent of the Federal funds. 
FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND 
For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public Law 95– 
372, not to exceed $349,000, to be derived from receipts collected 
pursuant to that Act, to remain available until expended. 
FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
during fiscal year 2020, obligations of direct loans may not exceed 
$24,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota loans and not to exceed 
$100,000,000 for traditional direct loans as authorized by the Mer-
chant Marine Act of 1936. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the management of the Department 
of Commerce provided for by law, including not to exceed $4,500 
for official reception and representation, $61,000,000: Provided,
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That no employee of the Department of Commerce may be detailed 
or assigned from a bureau or office funded by this Act or any 
other Act to offices within the Office of the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Commerce for more than 30 days in a fiscal year unless 
the individual’s employing bureau or office is fully reimbursed for 
the salary and expenses of the employee for the entire period 
of assignment using funds provided under this heading: Provided 
further, That of the funds provided under this heading, $15,000,000 
shall be withheld from obligation until the Secretary updates and 
resubmits to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate the plan for expenditure described 
in the third proviso under the heading ‘‘Bureau of the Census— 
Periodic Censuses and Programs’’ in division C of Public Law 116– 
6. 
RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for the renovation and modernization 
of the Herbert C. Hoover Building, $1,000,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978 
(5 U.S.C. App.), $35,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 6413(b) of the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act 
of 2012 (Public Law 112–96), $2,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, from the amounts provided under this heading, shall 
be derived from the Public Safety Trust Fund for activities associ-
ated with carrying out investigations and audits related to the 
First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet). 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropria-
tions and funds made available to the Department of Commerce 
by this Act shall be available for the activities specified in the 
Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in 
the manner prescribed by the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
3324, may be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized 
only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary 
of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest. 
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year, appropriations made 
available to the Department of Commerce by this Act for salaries 
and expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles 
as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 
by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). 
SEC. 103. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce 
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but 
no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent 
by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to 
this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 
section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
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or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce 
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days 
in advance of the acquisition or disposal of any capital asset 
(including land, structures, and equipment) not specifically provided 
for in this Act or any other law appropriating funds for the Depart-
ment of Commerce. 
SEC. 104. The requirements set forth by section 105 of the 
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amended by section 105 of 
title I of division B of Public Law 113–6, are hereby adopted 
by reference and made applicable with respect to fiscal year 2020: 
Provided, That the life cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System 
is $11,322,125,000 and the life cycle cost for the Geostationary 
Operational 
Environmental 
Satellite 
R-Series 
Program 
is 
$10,828,059,000. 
SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary may furnish services (including but not limited to utilities, 
telecommunications, and security services) necessary to support 
the operation, maintenance, and improvement of space that persons, 
firms, or organizations are authorized, pursuant to the Public 
Buildings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 or other authority, to use 
or occupy in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, DC, 
or other buildings, the maintenance, operation, and protection of 
which has been delegated to the Secretary from the Administrator 
of General Services pursuant to the Federal Property and Adminis-
trative Services Act of 1949 on a reimbursable or non-reimbursable 
basis. Amounts received as reimbursement for services provided 
under this section or the authority under which the use or occupancy 
of the space is authorized, up to $200,000, shall be credited to 
the appropriation or fund which initially bears the costs of such 
services. 
SEC. 106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent 
a grant recipient from deterring child pornography, copyright 
infringement, or any other unlawful activity over its networks. 
SEC. 107. The Administrator of the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration is authorized to use, with their consent, 
with reimbursement and subject to the limits of available appropria-
tions, the land, services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of 
any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States, 
or of any State, local government, Indian tribal government, Terri-
tory, or possession, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of 
any foreign government or international organization, for purposes 
related to carrying out the responsibilities of any statute adminis-
tered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 
SEC. 108. The National Technical Information Service shall 
not charge any customer for a copy of any report or document 
generated by the Legislative Branch unless the Service has provided 
information to the customer on how an electronic copy of such 
report or document may be accessed and downloaded for free online. 
Should a customer still require the Service to provide a printed 
or digital copy of the report or document, the charge shall be 
limited to recovering the Service’s cost of processing, reproducing, 
and delivering such report or document.
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SEC. 109. To carry out the responsibilities of the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Adminis-
trator of NOAA is authorized to: (1) enter into grants and coopera-
tive agreements with; (2) use on a non-reimbursable basis land, 
services, equipment, personnel, and facilities provided by; and (3) 
receive and expend funds made available on a consensual basis 
from: a Federal agency, State or subdivision thereof, local govern-
ment, tribal government, territory, or possession or any subdivisions 
thereof: Provided, That funds received for permitting and related 
regulatory activities pursuant to this section shall be deposited 
under the heading ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion—Operations, Research, and Facilities’’ and shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 2022, for such purposes: Provided further, 
That all funds within this section and their corresponding uses 
are subject to section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any prior appro-
priations Act that remain available for obligation, for necessary 
expenses of the programs of the Economics and Statistics Adminis-
tration of the Department of Commerce, including amounts provided 
for programs of the Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau 
of the Census, shall be available for expenses of cooperative agree-
ments with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or 
local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, to aid 
and promote statistical, research, and methodology activities which 
further the purposes for which such amounts have been made 
available. 
SEC. 111. (a) There is hereby established in the Treasury of 
the United States a fund to be known as the ‘‘Department of 
Commerce Nonrecurring Expenses Fund’’ (the Fund): Provided, 
That unobligated balances of expired discretionary funds appro-
priated for this or any succeeding fiscal year from the General 
Fund of the Treasury to the Department of Commerce by this 
or any other Act may be transferred (not later than the end of 
the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal year for which such funds 
are available for the purposes for which appropriated) into the 
Fund: Provided further, That amounts deposited in the Fund shall 
be available until expended, and in addition to such other funds 
as may be available for such purposes, for information and business 
technology system modernization and facilities infrastructure 
improvements necessary for the operation of the Department, sub-
ject to approval by the Office of Management and Budget: Provided 
further, That amounts in the Fund may be obligated only after 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in advance of the 
planned use of funds. 
(b) In addition to amounts otherwise made available by this 
Act, there is appropriated $20,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2022, to the Fund for necessary expenses for a 
business application system modernization. 
SEC. 112. Not later than thirty days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, using amounts appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this title for the Bureau of Industry and Security 
for operations and administration, the Secretary of Commerce 
shall— 
(1) publish in the Federal Register the report on the 
findings of the investigation into the effect on national security