Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Veteran Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and for sundry independent agencies,
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2002, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on
behalf of veterans and a pilot program for disability ex-
aminations as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters
11, 13, 18, 51, 53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or
on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C.
chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 92 Stat. 2508); and bur-
ial benefits, emergency and other officers’ retirement pay,
adjusted-service credits and certificates, payment of pre-
miums due on commercial life insurance policies guaran-
teed under the provisions of article IV of the Soldiers’ and
Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940 (50 U.S.C. App. 540 et
seq.) and for other benefits as authorized by law (38
U.S.C. 107, 1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53,
55, and 61; 50 U.S.C. App. 540–548; 43 Stat. 122, 123;
45 Stat. 735; 76 Stat. 1198), $24,944,288,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed
$17,940,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-
ing shall be reimbursed to ‘‘General operating expenses’’
and ‘‘Medical care’’ for necessary expenses in imple-
menting those provisions authorized in the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in the Veterans’
Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters 51, 53, and 55),
the funding source for which is specifically provided as the
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’ appropriation: Provided
further, That such sums as may be earned on an actual
qualifying patient basis, shall be reimbursed to ‘‘Medical
facilities revolving fund’’ to augment the funding of indi-
vidual medical facilities for nursing home care provided
to pensioners as authorized.
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation
benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by law
(38 U.S.C. chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53,
55, and 61), $2,135,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That expenses for rehabilitation pro-
gram services and assistance which the Secretary is au-
thorized to provide under section 3104(a) of title 38,
United States Code, other than under subsection (a)(1),
(2), (5) and (11) of that section, shall be charged to this
account.
VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES
For military and naval insurance, national service life
insurance, servicemen’s indemnities, service-disabled vet-
erans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72
Stat. 487, $26,200,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
VETERANS HOUSING BENEFIT PROGRAM FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the program, as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That during fiscal year 2002, within the resources
available, not to exceed $300,000 in gross obligations for
direct loans are authorized for specially adapted housing
loans.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $164,497,000,
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
EDUCATION LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. 3698, as amended: 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 these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $3,400.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $64,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $72,000, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: 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 funds made
available under this heading are available to subsidize
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans
not to exceed $3,301,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $274,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, sub-
chapter V, as amended, $544,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General
operating expenses’’.
GUARANTEED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LOANS FOR
HOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the administrative expenses to carry out the
guaranteed transitional housing loan program authorized
by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter VI, not to exceed
$750,000 of the amounts appropriated by this Act for
‘‘General operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Medical care’’ may be
expended.
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MEDICAL CARE
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facili-
ties; for furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and
outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, including care and treat-
ment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the depart-
ment; and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies, and
equipment; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental
thereto for beneficiaries receiving care in the department;
administrative expenses in support of planning, design,
project management, real property acquisition and disposi-
tion, construction and renovation of any facility under the
jurisdiction or for the use of the department; oversight,
engineering and architectural activities not charged to
project cost; repairing, altering, improving or providing fa-
cilities in the several hospitals and homes under the juris-
diction of the department, not otherwise provided for, ei-
ther by contract or by the hire of temporary employees
and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances there-
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; aid to State
homes as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative
and legal expenses of the department for collecting and
recovering amounts owed the department as authorized
under 38 U.S.C. chapter 17, and the Federal Medical
Care 
Recovery 
Act, 
U.S.C. 
2651 
et 
seq.,
$21,281,587,000 (increased by $1,000,000), plus reim-
bursements: Provided, That of the funds made available
under this heading, $900,000,000 is for the equipment
and land and structures object classifications only, which
amount shall not become available for obligation until Au-
gust 1, 2002, and shall remain available until September
30, 2003: Provided further, That of the funds made avail-
able under this heading, not to exceed $500,000,000 shall
be available until September 30, 2003: Provided further,
That of the funds made available under this heading, not
to exceed $3,000,000,000 shall be available for operations
and maintenance expenses of medical facilities: Provided
further, That the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall con-
duct by contract a program of recovery audits for the fee
basis and other medical services contracts with respect to
payments for hospital care; and, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302(b), amounts collected, by setoff or otherwise,
as the result of such audits shall be available, without fis-
cal year limitation, for the purposes for which funds are
appropriated under this heading and the purposes of pay-
ing a contractor a percent of the amount collected as a
result of an audit carried out by the contractor: Provided
further, That all amounts so collected under the preceding
proviso with respect to a designated health care region (as
that term is defined in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2)) shall be
allocated, net of payments to the contractor, to that re-
gion.
MEDICAL CARE COLLECTIONS FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Amounts deposited during the current fiscal year in
the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collec-
tions Fund under section 1729A of title 38, United States
Code, shall be transferred to ‘‘Medical care’’, to remain
available until expended.
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of
medical and prosthetic research and development as au-
thorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 2003, $371,000,000, plus
reimbursements.
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
ministrative expenses in support of capital policy activi-
ties, $66,731,000, plus reimbursements: Provided, That
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities
Management Field Service, including project management
and real property administration (including leases, site ac-
quisition and disposal activities directly supporting
projects), shall be provided to Department of Veterans Af-
fairs components only on a reimbursable basis.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary operating expenses of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including
administrative expenses in support of Department-wide
capital planning, management and policy activities, uni-
forms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General
Services Administration for security guard services, and
the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas em-
ployee mail, $1,195,728,000: Provided, That expenses for
services and assistance authorized under 38 U.S.C.
3104(a)(1), (2), (5), and (11) that the Secretary deter-
mines are necessary to enable entitled veterans: (1) to the
maximum extent feasible, to become employable and to ob-
tain and maintain suitable employment; or (2) to achieve
maximum independence in daily living, shall be charged
to this account: Provided further, That of the funds made
available under this heading, not to exceed $60,000,000
shall be available for obligation until September 30, 2003:
Provided further, That from the funds made available
under this heading, the Veterans Benefits Administration
may purchase up to four passenger motor vehicles for use
in operations of that Administration in Manila, Phil-
ippines: Provided further, That travel expenses for this ac-
count shall not exceed $15,665,000.
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses of the National Cemetery Ad-
ministration for operations and maintenance, not other-
wise provided for, including uniforms or allowances there-
for; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; purchase
of one passenger motor vehicle for use in cemeterial oper-
ations; 
and 
hire 
of 
passenger 
motor 
vehicles,
$121,169,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $52,308,000.
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38,
United States Code, including planning, architectural and
engineering services, maintenance or guarantee period
services costs associated with equipment guarantees pro-
vided under the project, services of claims analysts, offsite
utility and storm drainage system construction costs, and
site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is
$4,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were
made available in a previous major project appropriation,
$183,180,000, to remain available until expended, of
which not to exceed $20,000,000 shall be for costs associ-
ated with land acquisitions for national cemeteries in the
vicinity of Sacramento, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsyl-
vania; and Detroit, Michigan: Provided, That except for
advance planning activities, including needs assessments
which may or may not lead to capital investments, and
other capital asset management related activities, such as
portfolio development and management activities, and in-
vestment strategy studies funded through the advance
planning fund and the planning and design activities fund-
ed through the design fund and CARES funds, including
needs assessments which may or may not lead to capital
investments, none of the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be used for any project which has not been
approved by the Congress in the budgetary process: Pro-
vided further, That funds provided in this appropriation
for fiscal year 2002, for each approved project shall be
obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction docu-
ments contract by September 30, 2002; and (2) by the
awarding of a construction contract by September 30,
2003: Provided further, That the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs shall promptly report in writing to the Committees
on Appropriations any approved major construction
project for which obligations are not incurred within the
time limitations established under the preceding proviso:
Provided further, That no funds from any other account
except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be obligated for
constructing, altering, extending, or improving a project
which was approved in the budget process and funded in
this account until 1 year after substantial completion and
beneficial occupancy by the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs of the project or any part thereof with respect to
that part only.
FACILITY REHABILITATION FUND
For altering, improving, or rehabilitating facilities
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs, $300,000,000 to remain available until expended:
Provided, That of the funds made available under this
heading $30,000,000 shall be only for projects authorized
pursuant to section 2(b)(5) of H.R. 811 as passed by the
House of Representatives on March 27, 2001; and
$270,000,000 shall be only for projects achieving the pur-
poses authorized in sections 2(c)(1), (2), and (3) of H.R.
811 as passed by the House of Representatives on March
27, 2001: Provided further, That none of the funds under
this heading may be used for the construction of a new
building unless a credible assessment, approved by the
Secretary, demonstrates new construction would be more
cost-effective than rehabilitating the existing building.
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including planning
and assessments of needs which may lead to capital invest-
ments, architectural and engineering services, mainte-
nance or guarantee period services costs associated with
equipment guarantees provided under the project, services
of claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage sys-
tem construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of
the purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title
38, United States Code, where the estimated cost of a
project is less than $4,000,000, $178,900,000, to remain
available until expended, along with unobligated balances
of previous ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’ appropriations
which are hereby made available for any project where the
estimated cost is less than $4,000,000, of which
$25,000,000 shall be for Capital Asset Realignment for
Enhanced Services (CARES) activities: Provided, That
from amounts appropriated under this heading, additional
amounts may be used for CARES activities upon notifica-
tion of and approval by the Committees on Appropria-
tions: Provided further, That funds in this account shall
be available for: (1) repairs to any of the nonmedical facili-
ties under the jurisdiction or for the use of the department
which are necessary because of loss or damage caused by
any natural disaster or catastrophe; and (2) temporary
measures necessary to prevent or to minimize further loss
by such causes.
PARKING REVOLVING FUND
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 8109, income from fees collected and $4,000,000
from the General Fund, both to remain available until ex-
pended, which shall be available for all authorized ex-
penses except operations and maintenance costs, which
will be funded from ‘‘Medical care’’.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE
FACILITIES
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to re-
model, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care
to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131–8137,
$100,000,000, to remain available until expended.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS
CEMETERIES
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding,
or improving State veterans cemeteries as authorized by
38 U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2002 for
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’,
and ‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be trans-
ferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations.
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2002 for salaries
and expenses shall be available for services authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations
for ‘‘Construction, major projects’’, ‘‘Construction, minor
projects’’, and the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’) shall be
available for the purchase of any site for or toward the
construction of any new hospital or home.
SEC. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hos-
pitalization or examination of any persons (except bene-
ficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits
to veterans, and persons receiving such treatment under
5 U.S.C. 7901–7904 or 42 U.S.C. 5141–5204), unless re-
imbursement of cost is made to the ‘‘Medical care’’ ac-
count at such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2002 for ‘‘Com-
pensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and
‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ shall be available
for payment of prior year accrued obligations required to
be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2002 shall
be available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X
of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law
100–86, except that if such obligations are from trust
fund accounts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation
and pensions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, during fiscal year 2002, the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall, from the National Service Life Insurance
Fund (38 U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans’ Special Life Insur-
ance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Gov-
ernment Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reim-
burse the ‘‘General operating expenses’’ account for the
cost of administration of the insurance programs financed
through those accounts: Provided, That reimbursement
shall be made only from the surplus earnings accumulated
in an insurance program in fiscal year 2002, that are
available for dividends in that program after claims have
been paid and actuarially determined reserves have been
set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of administra-
tion of an insurance program exceeds the amount of sur-
plus earnings accumulated in that program, reimburse-
ment shall be made only to the extent of such surplus
earnings: Provided further, That the Secretary shall deter-
mine the cost of administration for fiscal year 2002, which
is properly allocable to the provision of each insurance pro-
gram and to the provision of any total disability income
insurance included in such insurance program.
SEC. 108. (a)(1) Section 1729B of title 38, United
States Code, is repealed. Any balance as of the date of
the enactment of this Act in the Department of Veterans
Affairs Health Services Improvement Fund established
under such section shall be transferred to the Department
of Veterans Affairs Medical Care Collections Fund estab-
lished under section 1729A of title 38, United States
Code.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter
17 of such title is amended by striking the item relating
to section 1729B.
(b) Section 1729A(b) of such title is amended—
(1) by redesignating paragraph (7) as para-
graph (9); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (6) the fol-
lowing new paragraphs:
‘‘(7) Section 8165(a) of this title.
‘‘(8) Section 113 of the Veterans Millennium
Health Care and Benefits Act (Public Law 106–117;
38 U.S.C. 8111 note).’’.
(c)(1) Section 1722A(c) of such title is amended—
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘under
subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘under this section’’;
and
(B) by striking the second sentence.
(2) Section 8165(a)(1) of such title is amended by
striking ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services
Improvement Fund established under section 1729B of
this title’’ and inserting ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs
Medical Care Collections Fund established under section
1729A of this title’’.
(3) Section 113(b) of the Veterans Millennium
Health Care and Benefits Act (Public Law 106–117; 38
U.S.C. 8111 note) is amended by striking ‘‘Department
of Veterans Affairs Health Services Improvement Fund
established under section 1729B of title 38, United States
Code, as added by section 202’’ and inserting ‘‘Depart-
Adjudication: Provided, That payments may be made in
advance for services to be furnished based on estimated
costs: Provided further, that amounts received shall be
credited to ‘‘General operating expenses’’ for use by the
office that provided the service.
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER AND RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
For activities and assistance to prevent the involun-
tary displacement of low-income families, the elderly and
the disabled because of the loss of affordable housing
stock, expiration of subsidy contracts (other than con-
tracts for which amounts are provided under another
heading in this Act) or expiration of use restrictions, or
other changes in housing assistance arrangements, and for
other purposes, $16,334,242,000, of which $640,000,000
shall be from unobligated balances from amounts recap-
tured from fiscal year 2000 and prior years pursuant to
a reduction in the amounts provided for Annual Contribu-
tions Contract Reserve Accounts, and amounts that are
recaptured in this account to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That not later than October 1, 2001,
the Department of Housing and Urban Development shall
reduce from 60 days to 30 days the amount of reserve
funds made available to public housing authorities: Pro-
vided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, $16,125,241,000, of which $11,285,241,000
and the aforementioned recaptures shall be available on
October 1, 2001 and $4,200,000,000 shall be available on
October 1, 2002, shall be for assistance under the United
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (‘‘the Act’’ here-
in) (42 U.S.C. 1437): Provided further, That the foregoing
amounts shall be for use in connection with expiring or
terminating section 8 subsidy contracts, for amendments
to section 8 subsidy contracts, for enhanced vouchers (in-
cluding amendments and renewals) under any provision
of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t) of
the Act (47 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), contract administrators, and
contracts entered into pursuant to section 441 of the
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts available under the first proviso under
this heading shall be available for section 8 rental assist-
ance under the Act: (1) for the relocation and replacement
of housing units that are demolished or disposed of pursu-
ant to the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appro-
priations Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–134; Stat. 1321–
269); (2) for the conversion of section 23 projects to as-
sistance under section 8; (3) for funds to carry out the
family unification program; (4) for the relocation of wit-
nesses in connection with efforts to combat crime in public
and assisted housing pursuant to a request from a law
enforcement or prosecution agency; (5) for tenant protec-
tion assistance, including replacement and relocation as-
sistance; and (6) for the 1-year renewal of section 8 con-
tracts for units in a project that is subject to an approved
plan of action under the Emergency Low Income Housing
Preservation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing
Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990:
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, no less than $11,000,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the Working Capital Fund for the development
and maintenance of information technology systems: Pro-
vided further, That of the total amount provided under
this heading, up to $197,246,000 shall be made available
for incremental vouchers under section 8 of the Act, of
which $157,334,000 shall be made available on a fair
share basis to those public housing agencies that have a
97 percent occupancy rate; and of which $39,912,000
shall be made available to nonelderly disabled families af-
fected by the designation of a public housing development
under section 7 of the Act, the establishment of pref-
erences in accordance with section 651 of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 13611),
or the restriction of occupancy to elderly families in ac-
cordance with section 658 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 13618),
and to the extent the Secretary determines that such
amount is not needed to fund applications for such af-
fected families, to other nonelderly disabled families: Pro-
vided further, That up to $195,600,730 from amounts
available under this heading may be made available for
administrative fees and other expenses to cover the cost
of administering rental assistance programs under section
8 of the Act: Provided further, That the fee otherwise au-
thorized under section 8(q) of such Act shall be deter-
mined in accordance with section 8(q), as in effect imme-
diately before the enactment of the Quality Housing and
Work Responsibility Act of 1998: Provided further, That
$886,000,000 is rescinded from unobligated balances re-
maining from funds appropriated to the Department of
Housing and Urban Development under this heading or
the heading ‘‘Annual contributions for assisted housing’’
or any other heading for fiscal year 2001 and prior years:
Provided further, That any such balances governed by re-
allocation provisions under the statute authorizing the
program for which the funds were originally appropriated
shall not be available for this rescission: Provided further,
That the Secretary shall have until September 30, 2002,
to meet the rescission in the proviso preceding the imme-
diately preceding proviso: Provided further, That any obli-
gated balances of contract authority that have been termi-
nated shall be canceled.
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
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, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1437g), $2,555,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2003: Provided, That, hereafter, notwith-
standing any other provision of law or any failure of the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to issue
regulations to carry out section 9(j) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(j)), such section
is deemed to have taken effect on October 1, 1998, and,
except as otherwise provided in this heading, shall apply
to all assistance made available under this same heading
on or after such date: Provided further, That of the total
amount provided under this heading, in addition to
amounts 
otherwise 
allocated 
under 
this 
heading,
$262,000,000 shall be allocated for such capital and man-
agement activities only among public housing agencies
that have obligated all assistance for the agency for fiscal
years 1998 and 1999 made available under this same
heading in accordance with the requirements under para-
graphs (1) and (2) of section 9(j) of such Act (except that
the provisions of section 9(j)(4) shall not apply to such
amounts): Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law or regulation, the Secretary may
not delegate to any Department official other than the
Deputy Secretary any authority under paragraph (2) of
such section 9(j) regarding the extension of the time peri-
ods under such section for obligation of amounts made
available for fiscal year 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002:
Provided further, That notwithstanding the first proviso
and paragraphs (3) and (5)(B) of such section 9(j), if at
any time before the effectiveness of final regulations
issued by the Secretary under section 6(j) of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437d(j)) pro-
viding for assessment of public housing agencies and des-
ignation of high-performing agencies, any amounts made
available under the public housing Capital Fund for fiscal
year 1999, 2000, 2001, or 2002 remain unobligated in
violation of paragraph (1) of such section 9(j) or unex-
pended in violation of paragraph (5)(A) of such section
9(j), the Secretary shall immediately recapture any such
amounts and reallocate such amounts among public hous-
ing agencies that, at the time of such reallocation, are not
in violation of any requirement under paragraph (1) or
(5)(A) of such section: Provided further, That for purposes
of this heading, the term ‘‘obligate’’ means, with respect