$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress
and a period of 30 days has expired following the date
on which the report is received by the Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act
should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office
of Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2001 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity,
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private
property rights, or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are sub-
ject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as
amended, are hereby authorized to make such expendi-
tures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority
available to each such corporation or agency and in accord
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by
section 104 of the Act as may be necessary in carrying
out the programs set forth in the budget for 2001 for such
corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: Pro-
vided, That collections of these corporations and agencies
may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commit-
ments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act
(unless such loans are in support of other forms of assist-
ance provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), ex-
cept that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage in-
surance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or
where loans or mortgage purchases are necessary to pro-
tect the financial interest of the United States Govern-
ment.
SEC. 420. NASA Full Cost Accounting. Title III of
the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, Public
Law 85–568, is amended by adding the following new sec-
tion at the end:
‘‘SEC. 312. (a) Appropriations for the Administration
for fiscal year 2002 and thereafter shall be made in three
accounts, ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science, aeronautics
and technology,’’ and an account for amounts appro-
priated for the necessary expenses of the Office of Inspec-
tor General. Appropriations shall remain available for 2
fiscal years. Each account shall include the planned full
costs of the Administration’s related activities.
‘‘(b) To ensure the safe, timely, and successful ac-
complishment of Administration missions, the Administra-
tion may transfer amounts for Federal salaries and bene-
fits; training, travel and awards; facility and related costs;
information technology services; publishing services;
science, engineering, fabricating and testing services; and
other administrative services among accounts, as nec-
essary.
‘‘(c) The Administrator, in consultation with the Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget, shall de-
termine what balances from the ‘‘Mission support’’ ac-
count are to be transferred to the ‘‘Human space flight’’
and ‘‘Science, aeronautics and technology’’ accounts. Such
balances shall be transferred and merged with the
‘‘Human space flight’’ and ‘‘Science, aeronautics and tech-
nology’’ accounts, and remain available for the period of
which originally appropriated.’’.
SEC. 421. None of the funds provided in title II for
technical assistance, training, or management improve-
ments may be obligated or expended unless HUD provides
to the Committees on Appropriations a description of each
proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of the
costs associated with each activity as part of the Budget
Justifications. For fiscal year 2001, HUD shall transmit
this information to the Committees by November 1, 2000,
for 30 days of review.
SEC. 422. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act,
no part of any appropriation for the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall be available for any ac-
tivity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget esti-
mates submitted to the Congress.
SEC. 423. PESTICIDE TOLERANCE FEES. None of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this
Act shall be used to promulgate a final regulation to im-
plement changes in the payment of pesticide tolerance
processing fees as proposed at 64 Fed. Reg. 31040, or
any similar proposals. The Environmental Protection
Agency may proceed with the development of such a rule.
SEC. 424. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and effective with enactment of this Act, the General
Services Administration shall allocate one Senior Execu-
tive Service slot for the position of Director, Federal Con-
sumer Information Center, from the total number of Sen-
ior Executive Service positions authorized to the General
Services Administration by the Office of Personnel Man-
agement: Provided, That said Senior Executive Service
slot shall be a permanent career reserved position and
filled with all due speed: Provided further, That this Senior
Executive Service slot shall remain hereafter in the Fed-
eral Consumer Information Center. Such funds as may be
necessary to carry out this provision shall be made avail-
able from funds appropriated to the Federal Consumer In-
formation Center Fund.
SEC. 425. None of the funds provided in title III of
this Act shall be obligated or expended to support joint
research programs between the United States Air Force
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Specifically, none of the funds in this Act shall be used
to support the activities of the AF—NASA Council on
Aeronautics and the AFSPC—NRO—NASA Partnership
Council.
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used prior to June 15, 2001, for the designa-
tion, or approval of the designation, of any area as an
ozone nonattainment area under the Clean Air Act pursu-
ant to the 8-hour national ambient air quality standard
for ozone that was promulgated by the Environmental
Protection Agency on July 18, 1997, (62 Fed. Reg.
38,356, p. 38855) and remanded by the District of Colum-
bia Court of Appeals on May 14, 1999, in the case, Amer-
ican Trucking Ass’ns. v. EPA (No. 97–1440, 1999
Westlaw 300618).
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to administer the Communities for Safer
Guns Coalition.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001’’.
Passed the House of Representatives June 21, 2000.
Attest:
Clerk.