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other operating expenses in support of research and development;
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $542,000,000, which
shall remain available until September 30, 1998.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
For environmental programs and management, including nec-
essary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for personnel and
related costs and travel expenses, including uniforms, or allowances
therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed
the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for GS–18; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft; pur-
chase of reprints; library memberships in societies or associations
which issue publications to members only or at a price to members
lower than to subscribers who are not members; construction, alter-
ation, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to
exceed $75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, $1,710,000,000, which shall
remain available until September 30, 1998.
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,
as amended, and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation,
and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project,
$28,500,000.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, alteration,
and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, or for use by,
the Environmental Protection Agency, $87,220,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That EPA is authorized to establish
and construct a consolidated research facility at Research Triangle
Park, North Carolina, at a maximum total construction cost of
$232,000,000, and to obligate such monies as are made available
by this Act for this purpose: Provided further, That EPA is author-
ized to construct such facility through multi-year contracts
incrementally funded through appropriations hereafter made avail-
able for this project: Provided further, That, notwithstanding the
previous provisos, for monies obligated pursuant to this authority,
EPA may not obligate monies in excess of those provided in advance
in annual appropriations, and such contracts shall clearly provide
for this limitation.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), as amended, including sections 111 (c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6),
and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611), and for construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000
per project; not to exceed $1,394,245,000 (of which $100,000,000
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shall not become available until September 1, 1997), to remain
available until expended, consisting of $1,144,245,000 as authorized
by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended by Public Law 101–508,
and $250,000,000 as a payment from general revenues to the
Hazardous Substance Superfund as authorized by section 517(b)
of SARA, as amended by Public Law 101–508: Provided, That
funds appropriated under this heading may be allocated to other
Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA:
Provided further, That $11,000,000 of the funds appropriated under
this heading shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’
appropriation to remain available until September 30, 1997:
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA
or any other provision of law, not to exceed $64,000,000 of the
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available to the
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to carry out
activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of
CERCLA and section 118(f) of the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Act of 1986: Provided further, That $35,000,000
of the funds appropriated under this heading shall be transferred
to the ‘‘Science and technology’’ appropriation to remain available
until September 30, 1998: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated under this heading shall be available for the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue in excess of
40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA dur-
ing fiscal year 1997.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground stor-
age tank cleanup activities authorized by section 205 of the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and for
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $60,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That no more than $7,000,000
shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided further,
That $577,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’ appropriation to remain available until September 30, 1997.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
$15,000,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability trust fund,
and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not more
than $8,000,000 of these funds shall be available for administrative
expenses.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance,
including capitalization grants for State revolving funds and
performance partnership grants, $2,875,207,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $1,900,000,000 shall be for making
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capitalization grants for State revolving funds to support water
infrastructure financing; $100,000,000 for architectural, engineer-
ing, planning, design, construction and related activities in connec-
tion with the construction of high priority water and wastewater
facilities in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, after
consultation with the appropriate border commission; $50,000,000
for grants to the State of Texas, which shall be matched by an
equal amount of State funds from State resources, for the purpose
of improving wastewater treatment for colonias; $15,000,000 for
grants to the State of Alaska subject to an appropriate cost share
as determined by the Administrator, to address water supply and
wastewater infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Vil-
lages; $136,000,000 for making grants for the construction of
wastewater and water treatment facilities and the development
of groundwater in accordance with the terms and conditions speci-
fied for such grants in the conference report and joint explanatory
statement of the committee of conference accompanying this Act
(H.R. 3666); and $674,207,000 for grants to States and federally
recognized tribes for multi-media or single media pollution preven-
tion, control and abatement and related activities pursuant to the
provisions set forth under this heading in Public Law 104–134:
Provided, That, from funds appropriated under this heading, the
Administrator may make grants to federally recognized Indian
governments for the development of multi-media environmental
programs: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, beginning in fiscal year 1997 the Administrator may
make grants to States, from funds available for obligation in the
State under title II of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act,
as amended, for administering the completion and closeout of the
State’s construction grants program, based on a budget annually
negotiated with the State: Provided further, That of the
$1,900,000,000 for capitalization grants for State revolving funds
to support water infrastructure financing, $1,275,000,000 shall be
for drinking water State revolving funds: Provided further, That
the funds made available in Public Law 103–327 for a grant to
the City of Bangor, Maine, in accordance with House Report 103–
715, shall be available for a grant to that city for meeting combined
sewer overflow requirements: Provided further, That, notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, a State that did not receive, in
fiscal year 1996, grants under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as amended, that obligated all the funds allotted to
it from the $725,000,000 that became available for that purpose
on August 1, 1996, may receive reallotted funds from the fiscal
year 1996 appropriation, provided the State receives such grants
in fiscal year 1997.
WORKING CAPITAL FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
There is hereby established in the Treasury a franchise fund
pilot to be known as the ‘‘Working capital fund’’, as authorized
by section 403 of Public Law 103–356, to be available as provided
in such section for expenses and equipment necessary for the
maintenance and operation of such administrative services as the
Administrator determines may be performed more advantageously
as central services: Provided, That any inventories, equipment,
and other assets pertaining to the services to be provided by such
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fund, either on hand or on order, less the related liabilities or
unpaid obligations, and any appropriations made hereafter for the
purpose of providing capital, shall be used to capitalize such fund:
Provided further, That such fund shall be paid in advance from
funds available to the Agency and other Federal agencies for which
such centralized services are performed, at rates which will return
in full all expenses of operation, including accrued leave, deprecia-
tion of fund plant and equipment, amortization of automated data
processing (ADP) software and systems (either acquired or donated),
and an amount necessary to maintain a reasonable operating
reserve, as determined by the Administrator: Provided further, That
such fund shall provide services on a competitive basis: Provided
further, That an amount not to exceed four percent of the total
annual income to such fund may be retained in the fund for fiscal
year 1997 and each fiscal year thereafter, to remain available
until expended, to be used for the acquisition of capital equipment
and for the improvement and implementation of Agency financial
management, ADP, and other support systems: Provided further,
That no later than thirty days after the end of each fiscal year
amounts in excess of this reserve limitation shall be transferred
to the Treasury: Provided further, That such franchise fund pilot
shall terminate pursuant to section 403(f) of Public Law 103–356.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42
U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire of passenger motor vehicles, and serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for
official reception and representation expenses, and rental of con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia, $4,932,000.
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned to the
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental
Quality pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969,
the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorga-
nization Plan No. 1 of 1977, $2,436,000.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
DISASTER RELIEF
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121
et seq.), $1,320,000,000, and, notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 5203, to
become available for obligation on September 30, 1997, and remain
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other
provision of this paragraph, amounts appropriated herein shall
be available for obligation on October 1, 1996: Provided further,
That the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress
within 120 days of enactment of this Act a comprehensive report