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or a successor position, within United States Immigration and Cus-
toms Enforcement. 
SEC. 552. (a) Section 559 of division F of Public Law 113– 
76 is amended as follows: 
(1) Subsection (f)(2)(B) is amended by adding at the end: 
‘‘Such transfer shall not be required for personal property, 
including furniture, fixtures, and equipment.’’; and 
(2) Subsection (e)(3)(b) is amended by inserting after ‘‘pay-
ment of overtime’’ the following: ‘‘and the salaries, training 
and benefits of individuals employed by U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection to support U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion officers in performing law enforcement functions at ports 
of entry, including primary and secondary processing of pas-
sengers’’. 
(b) Section 560(g) of division D of Public Law 113–6 is amended 
by inserting after ‘‘payment of overtime’’ the following: ‘‘and the 
salaries, training and benefits of individuals employed by U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection to support U.S. Customs and Border 
Protection officers in performing law enforcement functions at ports 
of entry, including primary and secondary processing of passengers’’. 
(c) The Commissioner of United States Customs and Border 
Protection may modify a reimbursable fee agreement in effect as 
of the date of enactment of this Act to include costs specified 
in this section. 
SEC. 553. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to pay for the travel to or attendance of more than 50 
employees of a single component of the Department of Homeland 
Security, who are stationed in the United States, at a single inter-
national conference unless the Secretary of Homeland Security, 
or a designee, determines that such attendance is in the national 
interest and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and the House of Representatives within at least 10 days 
of that determination and the basis for that determination: Pro-
vided, 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 non-
governmental organizations. 
SEC. 554. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to reimburse any Federal department or agency for its 
participation in a National Special Security Event. 
SEC. 555. With the exception of countries with preclearance 
facilities in service prior to 2013, none of the funds made available 
in this Act may be used for new United States Customs and Border 
Protection air preclearance agreements entering into force after 
February 1, 2014, unless— 
(1) the Secretary of Homeland Security, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, has certified to Congress that 
air preclearance operations at the airport provide a homeland 
or national security benefit to the United States; 
(2) United States passenger air carriers are not precluded 
from operating at existing preclearance locations; and 
(3) a United States passenger air carrier is operating at 
all airports contemplated for establishment of new air 
preclearance operations. 
SEC. 556. None of the funds made available by this or any 
other Act may be used by the Administrator of the Transportation
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Security Administration to implement, administer, or enforce, in 
abrogation of the responsibility described in section 44903(n)(1) 
of title 49, United States Code, any requirement that airport opera-
tors provide airport-financed staffing to monitor exit points from 
the sterile area of any airport at which the Transportation Security 
Administration provided such monitoring as of December 1, 2013. 
SEC. 557. In making grants under the heading ‘‘Firefighter 
Assistance Grants’’, the Secretary may grant waivers from the 
requirements in subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(1)(B), (a)(1)(E), (c)(1), 
(c)(2), and (c)(4) of section 34 of the Federal Fire Prevention and 
Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229a). 
SEC. 558. (a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall not— 
(1) establish, collect, or otherwise impose any new border 
crossing fee on individuals crossing the Southern border or 
the Northern border at a land port of entry; or 
(2) conduct any study relating to the imposition of a border 
crossing fee. 
(b) BORDER CROSSING FEE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘border crossing fee’’ means a fee that every pedestrian, cyclist, 
and driver and passenger of a private motor vehicle is required 
to pay for the privilege of crossing the Southern border or the 
Northern border at a land port of entry. 
SEC. 559. The administrative law judge annuitants partici-
pating in the Senior Administrative Law Judge Program managed 
by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management under section 
3323 of title 5, United States Code, shall be available on a tem-
porary reemployment basis to conduct arbitrations of disputes 
arising from delivery of assistance under the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency Public Assistance Program. 
SEC. 560. As authorized by section 601(b) of the United States- 
Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement Implementation Act (Public 
Law 112–42) fees collected from passengers arriving from Canada, 
Mexico, or an adjacent island pursuant to section 13031(a)(5) of 
the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 
U.S.C. 58c(a)(5)) shall be available until expended. 
SEC. 561. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other 
Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of personnel 
who prepare or submit appropriations language as part of the 
President’s budget submission to the Congress of the United States 
for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appropriations Sub-
committees on the Department of Homeland Security that assumes 
revenues or reflects a reduction from the previous year due to 
user fees proposals that have not been enacted into law prior 
to the submission of the budget unless such budget submission 
identifies which additional spending reductions should occur in 
the event the user fees proposals are not enacted prior to the 
date of the convening of a committee of conference for the fiscal 
year 2016 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 562. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit 
to the Congress, not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act and annually thereafter, beginning at the time the 
President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2017 is submitted pursu-
ant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, a comprehen-
sive report on the purchase and usage of weapons, subdivided 
by weapon type. The report shall include—
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(1) the quantity of weapons in inventory at the end of 
the preceding calendar year, and the amount of weapons, sub-
divided by weapon type, included in the budget request for 
each relevant component or agency in the Department of Home-
land Security; 
(2) a description of how such quantity and purchase aligns 
to each component or agency’s mission requirements for certifi-
cation, qualification, training, and operations; and 
(3) details on all contracting practices applied by the 
Department of Homeland Security, including comparative 
details regarding other contracting options with respect to cost 
and availability. 
(b) The reports required by subsection (a) shall be submitted 
in an appropriate format in order to ensure the safety of law 
enforcement personnel. 
SEC. 563. None of the funds made available by this Act shall 
be used for the environmental remediation of the Coast Guard’s 
LORAN support in Wildwood/Lower Township, New Jersey. 
SEC. 564. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Homeland Security by this or any other Act may be obligated 
for any structural pay reform that affects more than 100 full- 
time equivalent employee positions or costs more than $5,000,000 
in a single year before the end of the 30-day period beginning 
on the date on which the Secretary of Homeland Security submits 
to Congress a notification that includes— 
(1) the number of full-time equivalent employee positions 
affected by such change; 
(2) funding required for such change for the current year 
and through the Future Years Homeland Security Program; 
(3) justification for such change; and 
(4) an analysis of compensation alternatives to such change 
that were considered by the Department. 
SEC. 565. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
Web site of that agency any report required to be submitted by 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives in this Act, upon the determination by the head 
of the agency that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report compromises homeland 
or national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall do so 
only after such report has been made available to the requesting 
Committee or Committees of Congress for no less than 45 days 
except as otherwise specified in law. 
SEC. 566. Section 605 of division E of Public Law 110–161 
(6 U.S.C. 1404) is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 567. The Administrator of the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency may transfer up to $95,000,000 in unobligated bal-
ances made available for the appropriations account for ‘‘Federal 
Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Assistance Direct Loan 
Program’’ under section 2(a) of the Community Disaster Loan Act 
of 2005 (Public Law 109–88; 119 Stat. 2061) or under chapter 
5 of title I of division B of the Consolidated Security, Disaster 
Assistance, and Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009 (Public Law 
(110–329; 122 Stat. 3592) to the appropriations account for ‘‘Federal
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Emergency Management Agency, Disaster Relief Fund’’. Amounts 
transferred to such account under this section shall be available 
for any authorized purpose of such account. 
SEC. 568. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Gerardo 
Ismael Hernandez, a Transportation Security Officer employed by 
the Transportation Security Administration who died as the direct 
result of an injury sustained in the line of duty on November 
1, 2013, at the Los Angeles International Airport, shall be deemed 
to have been a public safety officer for the purposes of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Street Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et 
seq.). 
SEC. 569. The Office of Management and Budget and the 
Department of Homeland Security shall ensure the congressional 
budget justifications accompanying the President’s budget proposal 
for the Department of Homeland Security, submitted pursuant to 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, include estimates 
of the number of unaccompanied alien children anticipated to be 
apprehended in the budget year and the number of agent or officer 
hours required to process, manage, and care for such children: 
Provided, That such materials shall also include estimates of all 
other associated costs for each relevant Departmental component, 
including but not limited to personnel; equipment; supplies; facili-
ties; managerial, technical, and advisory services; medical treat-
ment; and all costs associated with transporting such children from 
one Departmental component to another or from a Departmental 
component to another Federal agency. 
SEC. 570. Notwithstanding section 404 or 420 of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 
5170c and 5187), until September 30, 2015, the President may 
provide hazard mitigation assistance in accordance with such sec-
tion 404 in any area in which assistance was provided under such 
section 420. 
SEC. 571. That without regard to the limitation as to time 
and condition of section 503(d) of this Act, the Secretary may 
propose to reprogram within and transfer funds into ‘‘U.S. Customs 
and Border Protection, Salaries and Expenses’’ and ‘‘U.S. Immigra-
tion and Customs Enforcement, Salaries and Expenses’’ as nec-
essary to ensure the care and transportation of unaccompanied 
alien children. 
SEC. 572. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, grants 
awarded to States along the Southwest Border of the United States 
under sections 2003 or 2004 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 604 and 605) using funds provided under the heading 
‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency, State and Local Pro-
grams’’ in division F of Public Law 113–76 or division D of Public 
Law 113–6 may be used by recipients or sub-recipients for costs, 
or reimbursement of costs, related to providing humanitarian relief 
to unaccompanied alien children and alien adults accompanied by 
an alien minor where they are encountered after entering the 
United States, provided that such costs were incurred during the 
award period of performance. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 573. Of the funds appropriated to the Department of 
Homeland Security, the following funds are hereby rescinded from 
the following accounts and programs in the specified amounts:
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Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 
were 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 of 1985 (Public Law 
99–177): 
(1) $5,000,000 from unobligated prior year balances from 
‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Border Security, Fencing, 
Infrastructure, and Technology’’; 
(2) $8,000,000 from Public Law 113–76 under the heading 
‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Oper-
ations’’ in division F of such Act; 
(3) $10,000,000 from unobligated prior year balances from 
‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Construction and Facili-
ties Management’’; 
(4) $15,300,000 from ‘‘Transportation Security Administra-
tion, Aviation Security’’ account 70x0550; 
(5) $187,000,000 from Public Law 113–76 under the 
heading ‘‘Transportation Security Administration, Aviation 
Security’’; 
(6) $2,550,000 from Public Law 112–10 under the heading 
‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements’’; 
(7) $12,095,000 from Public Law 112–74 under the heading 
‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements’’; 
(8) $16,349,000 from Public Law 113–6 under the heading 
‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements’’; 
(9) $30,643,000 from Public Law 113–76 under the heading 
‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements’’; 
(10) $24,000,000 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, 
National 
Predisaster 
Mitigation 
Fund’’ 
account 
70x0716; and 
(11) $16,627,000 from ‘‘Science and Technology, Research, 
Development, Acquisition, and Operations’’ account 70x0800. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 574. From the unobligated balances made available in 
the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund established by 
section 9703 of title 31, United States Code, (added by section 
638 of Public Law 102–393), $175,000,000 shall be rescinded. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 575. Of the funds transferred to the Department of Home-
land Security when it was created in 2003, the following funds 
are hereby rescinded from the following accounts and programs 
in the specified amounts: 
(1) $1,317,018 from ‘‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 
Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(2) $57,998 from ‘‘Coast Guard, Acquisition, Construction, 
and Improvements’’; 
(3) $17,597 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
Office of Domestic Preparedness’’; and 
(4) $82,926 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
National Predisaster Mitigation Fund’’. 
SEC. 576. The following unobligated balances made available 
to the Department of Homeland Security pursuant to section 505 
of the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2014 
(Public Law 113–76) are rescinded:
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Congress as being for disaster relief pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 578. The explanatory statement regarding this Act, printed 
in the House of Representatives section of the Congressional Record, 
on or about January 13, 2015, by the Chairman of the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House, shall have the same effect with 
respect to the allocation of funds and implementation of this Act 
as if it were a joint explanatory statement of a committee of con-
ference. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Homeland Security 
Appropriations Act, 2015’’. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.