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(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 409. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
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include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects 
as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the gen-
eral public (including energy-related, communication-re-
lated, water-related and wastewater-related infrastruc-
ture), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-util-
ity functions that serve the general public and are subject 
to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownfields as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 410. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 411. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
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pleted his period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his release from such service or 
from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his former position and has been certified by the 
Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
form the duties of his former position and has not been 
restored thereto. 
SEC. 412. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 
(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 413. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available under 
this Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Associa-
tion of Community Organizations for Reform Now 
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(ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied 
organizations. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any cor-
poration that was convicted (or had an officer or agent 
of such corporation acting on behalf of the corporation 
convicted) of a felony criminal violation under any Federal 
law within the preceding 24 months, where the awarding 
agency is aware of the conviction, unless the agency has 
considered suspension or debarment of the corporation, or 
such officer or agent, and made a determination that this 
further action is not necessary to protect the interests of 
the Government. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
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tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and made a determination 
that this further action is not necessary to protect the in-
terests of the Government. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 418. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0 
(increased by $10,000) (increased by $1,940,000). 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Transportation to 
research or implement a distance-based fee system, com-
monly referred to as Vehicle Miles Traveled, that would 
levy a fee on a vehicle user based on the distance traveled. 
SEC. 420. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in furtherance of the implementation of 
the European Union greenhouse gas emissions trading 
scheme for aviation activities established by European 
Union Directive 2008/101/EC. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for the for the international highway 
technology scanning program, a program within the inter-
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issued by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment and published in the Federal Register on September 
16, 2011 (76 F.R. 70921; relating to Implementation of 
the Fair Housing Act’s Discriminatory Effects Standard). 
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Transportation to 
make any transfer under the last proviso under the head-
ing ‘‘Department of Transportation—Office of the Sec-
retary—Payments to Air Carriers’’. 
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to design, construct, or operate a fixed 
guideway project located in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
SEC. 428. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to implement any rule or regulation 
that expressly prohibits an owner or landlord of housing 
from using a criminal conviction to deny housing to an 
applicant for such housing. 
SEC. 429. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to promulgate or implement any regula-
tions that would mandate global positioning system (GPS) 
tracking, electronic on-board recording devices, or event 
data recorders in passenger or commercial motor vehicles. 
SEC. 430. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used for the Third Street Light Rail 
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Phase 2 Central Subway project in San Francisco, Cali-
fornia. 
SEC. 431. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the salary of any officer or employee 
of the Federal Highway Administration to implement, ad-
minister, or enforce the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 
U.S.C. 703 et seq.) or Executive Order No. 13186 of Jan-
uary 10, 2001, with respect to, or to determine any action 
of the Administration to have a significant impact under 
section 102(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act 
of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(C)) based on the effect of such 
action on, the cliff swallow or barn swallow (as listed in 
section 10.13(c)(1) of title 50, Code of Federal Regula-
tions). 
SEC. 432. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for high-speed rail in the State of Cali-
fornia or for the California High-Speed Rail Authority. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2013’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 29, 2012. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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Calendar No. 440 
112TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5972 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2013, and for other pur-
poses. 
JUNE 29, 2012 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
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