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Internal Revenue Service shall submit a reprogramming request,
of which no less than $87,000,000 shall be available for Year 2000
conversion: Provided further, That none of the funds under this
heading, or funds made available under this heading in any previous
Acts, may be obligated to award or otherwise initiate a Prime
contract to implement the Internal Revenue Service’s Modernization
Blueprint submitted to Congress on May 15, 1997, although funds
may be used to develop a Request for Proposals for the Prime
contract.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS
For necessary expenses for the capital asset acquisition of
information technology systems, including management and related
contractual costs of said acquisition, including contractual costs
associated with operations as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$325,000,000, which shall remain available until September 30,
2000: Provided, That none of these funds is available for obligation
until September 1, 1998: Provided further, That none of these
funds shall be obligated until the Internal Revenue Service and
the Department of the Treasury submits to Congress for approval,
a plan for expenditure that: (1) implements the Internal Revenue
Service’s Modernization Blueprint submitted to Congress on May
15, 1997; (2) meets the information systems investment guidelines
established by the Office of Management and Budget in the fiscal
year 1998 budget; (3) has been reviewed and approved by the
Internal Revenue Service’s Investment Review Board, the Office
of Management and Budget, and the Department of the Treasury’s
Modernization Management Board, and has been reviewed by the
General Accounting Office; (4) meets the requirements of the May
15, 1997 Internal Revenue Service’s Systems Life Cycle program;
and (5) is in compliance with acquisition rules, requirements, guide-
lines, and systems acquisition management practices of the Federal
Government.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
SECTION 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation
made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue Service may
be transferred to any other Internal Revenue Service appropriation
upon the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations.
SEC. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall maintain a train-
ing program to ensure that Internal Revenue Service employees
are trained in taxpayers’ rights, in dealing courteously with the
taxpayers, and in cross-cultural relations.
SEC. 103. The funds provided in this Act for the Internal
Revenue Service shall be used to provide, as a minimum, the
fiscal year 1995 level of service, staffing, and funding for Taxpayer
Services.
SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated by this title shall
be used in connection with the collection of any underpayment
of any tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 unless
the conduct of officers and employees of the Internal Revenue
Service in connection with such collection, including any private
sector employees under contract to the Internal Revenue Service,
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complies with subsection (a) of section 805 (relating to communica-
tions in connection with debt collection), and section 806 (relating
to harassment or abuse), of the Fair Debt Collection Practices
Act (15 U.S.C. 1692).
SEC. 105. The Internal Revenue Service shall institute and
enforce policies and procedures which will safeguard the confiden-
tiality of taxpayer information.
SEC. 106. Funds made available by this or any other Act to
the Internal Revenue Service shall be available for improved facili-
ties and increased manpower to provide sufficient and effective
1–800 help line for taxpayers. The Commissioner shall continue
to make the improvement of the Internal Revenue Service 1–800
help line service a priority and allocate resources necessary to
increase phone lines and staff to improve the Internal Revenue
Service 1–800 help line service.
SEC. 107. Hereafter, no field support reorganization of the
Internal Revenue Service shall be undertaken in Aberdeen, South
Dakota until the Internal Revenue Service toll-free help phone
line assistance program reaches at least an 80 percent service
level. The Commissioner shall submit to Congress a report and
the General Accounting Office shall certify to Congress that the
80 percent service level has been met.
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
reorganization of the field office structure of the Internal Revenue
Service Criminal Investigation division will result in a reduction
of criminal investigators in Wisconsin and South Dakota from the
1996 level.
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret Service,
including purchase not to exceed 705 vehicles for police-type use,
of which 675 shall be for replacement only, and hire of passenger
motor vehicles; hire of aircraft; training and assistance requested
by State and local governments, which may be provided without
reimbursement; services of expert witnesses at such rates as may
be determined by the Director; rental of buildings in the District
of Columbia, and fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other facilities
on private or other property not in Government ownership or
control, as may be necessary to perform protective functions; for
payment of per diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees
where a protective assignment during the actual day or days of
the visit of a protectee require an employee to work 16 hours
per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty; the
conducting of and participating in firearms matches; presentation
of awards; for travel of Secret Service employees on protective
missions without regard to the limitations on such expenditures
in this or any other Act if approval is obtained in advance from
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations; for repairs,
alterations, and minor construction at the James J. Rowley Secret
Service Training Center; for research and development; for making
grants to conduct behavioral research in support of protective
research and operations; not to exceed $20,000 for official reception
and representation expenses; for sponsorship of a conference for
the Women in Federal Law Enforcement, to be held during fiscal
year 1998; not to exceed $50,000 to provide technical assistance
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and equipment to foreign law enforcement organizations in counter-
feit investigations; for payment in advance for commercial
accommodations as may be necessary to perform protective func-
tions; and for uniforms without regard to the general purchase
price limitation for the current fiscal year; $564,348,000.
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, AND RELATED
EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of construction, repair, alteration, and
improvement of facilities, $8,799,000, to remain available until
expended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
SEC. 110. Any obligation or expenditure by the Secretary in
connection with law enforcement activities of a Federal agency
or a Department of the Treasury law enforcement organization
in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B) from unobligated bal-
ances remaining in the Fund on September 30, 1998, shall be
made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines.
SEC. 111. Appropriations to the Department of the Treasury
in this Act shall be available for uniforms or allowances therefor,
as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901), including maintenance,
repairs, and cleaning; purchase of insurance for official motor
vehicles operated in foreign countries; purchase of motor vehicles
without regard to the general purchase price limitations for vehicles
purchased and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering
into contracts with the Department of State for the furnishing
of health and medical services to employees and their dependents
serving in foreign countries; and services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109.
SEC. 112. The funds provided to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms for fiscal year 1998 in this Act for the enforcement
of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act shall be expended in
a manner so as not to diminish enforcement efforts with respect
to section 105 of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.
SEC. 113. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriations in
this Act made available to the Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms, United States Customs Service, and United
States Secret Service may be transferred between such appropria-
tions upon the advance approval of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations. No transfer may increase or decrease any
such appropriation by more than 2 percent.
SEC. 114. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropriations in
this Act made available to the Departmental Offices, Office of
Inspector General, Financial Management Service, and Bureau of
the Public Debt, may be transferred between such appropriations
upon the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees
on Appropriations. No transfer may increase or decrease any such
appropriation by more than 2 percent.
SEC. 115. The Secretary of the Treasury shall pay from amounts
transferred to the ‘‘Departmental Offices’’ appropriation, up to
$26,034 to reimburse Secret Service personnel for any attorney
fees and costs they incurred with respect to investigation by the
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Department of the Treasury Inspector General concerning testimony
provided to Congress: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury
shall pay an individual in full upon submission by the individual
of documentation verifying the attorney fees and costs: Provided
further, That the liability of the United States shall not be inferred
from enactment of or payment under this provision: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not pay any claim
filed under this section that is filed later than 120 days after
the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That payment
under this provision, when accepted, shall be in full satisfaction
of all claims of, or on behalf of, the individual Secret Service
agents who were the subjects of said investigation.
SEC. 116. (a)(1) Effective beginning on the date determined
under paragraph (2), the compensation and other emoluments
attached to the Office of Secretary of the Treasury shall be those
that would then apply if Public Law 103–2 (107 Stat. 4; 31 U.S.C.
301 note) had never been enacted.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall become effective on the later of—
(A) the day after the date on which the individual holding
the Office of Secretary of the Treasury on January 1, 1997,
ceases to hold that office; or
(B) the date of the enactment of this Act.
(3) Nothing in this subsection shall be considered to affect
the compensation or emoluments due to any individual in connection
with any period preceding the date determined under paragraph
(2).
(b) Subsection (b) of the first section of the public law referred
to in subsection (a)(1) of this section shall not apply in the case
of any appointment the consent of the Senate to which occurs
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(c) This section shall not be limited (for purposes of determining
whether a provision of this section applies or continues to apply)
to fiscal year 1998.
SEC. 117. (a) REQUIREMENT
OF
ADVANCE
SUBMISSION
OF
TREASURY TESTIMONY.—During the fiscal year covered by this Act,
any officer or employee of the Department of the Treasury who
is scheduled to testify before the Committee on Appropriations
of the House of Representatives or the Senate, or any of its
subcommittees, shall, not less than 7 calendar days (excluding
Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal legal public holidays) preceding
the scheduled date of the testimony, submit to the committee or
subcommittee—
(1) a written statement of the testimony to be presented,
regardless of whether such statement is to be submitted for
inclusion in the record of the hearing; and
(2) any other written information to be submitted for inclu-
sion in the record of the hearing.
(b) LIMITATION ON TREASURY CLEARANCE PROCESS.—None of
the funds made available in this Act may be used for any clearance
process within the Department of the Treasury that could cause
a submission beyond the specified time, as officially transmitted
by the committee, of—
(1) any corrections to the transcript copy of testimony given
before the Committee on Appropriations of the House of
Representatives or the Senate, or any of its subcommittees;
or