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SEC. 523. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to enter into 
a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to 
award a grant in excess of such amount unless the pro-
spective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the 
agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best 
of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has 
filed all Federal tax returns required during the three 
years preceding the certification, has not been convicted 
of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certifi-
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or 
offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-
nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-
ment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or 
judicial proceeding. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 524. (a) Of the unobligated balances from prior 
year appropriations available to the Department of Com-
merce’s 
National 
Technical 
Information 
Service, 
$10,000,000 are rescinded. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances available to the De-
partment of Justice, the following funds are hereby re-
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scinded, not later than September 30, 2016, from the fol-
lowing accounts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $100,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘United States Marshals Service, Federal 
Prisoner Detention’’, $69,500,000; 
(3) ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, $120,000,000 from fines collected to 
defray expenses for the automation of fingerprint 
identification and criminal justice information serv-
ices and associated costs; 
(4) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office on Violence Against Women, Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $15,000,000; 
(5) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office of Justice Programs’’, $40,000,000; and 
(6) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, 
Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$20,000,000. 
(c) The Department of Justice shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate a report no later than September 
1, 2016, specifying the amount of each rescission made 
pursuant to subsection (b). 
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SEC. 525. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 
travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 
301–10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency at any single conference occurring outside 
the United States unless such conference is a law enforce-
ment training or operational conference for law enforce-
ment personnel and the majority of Federal employees in 
attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed out-
side the United States. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 528. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
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to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
States, its territories, or possessions to house any indi-
vidual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of de-
tention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effec-
tive control of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 
member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 
and 
(2) is— 
(A) in the custody or under the effective 
control of the Department of Defense; or 
(B) otherwise under detention at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 529. To the extent practicable, funds made 
available in this Act should be used to purchase light bulbs 
that are ‘‘Energy Star’’ qualified or have the ‘‘Federal En-
ergy Management Program’’ designation. 
SEC. 530. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
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strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-
priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts and include in its annual perform-
ance plan and performance and accountability reports the 
following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, 
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 
in expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 
the total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 531. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration (NASA) or the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop, design, plan, 
promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, pro-
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gram, order, or contract of any kind to participate, col-
laborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP has 
certified— 
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 
technology, data, or other information with national 
security or economic security implications to China 
or a Chinese-owned company; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to 
the activity in question and shall include a description of 
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the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major partici-
pants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 532. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act, for fiscal year 2016 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, may be used to pay the salaries or expenses 
of personnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for 
the importation of any model of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 
the proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes. 
SEC. 533. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other law- 
enforcement related activity. 
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SEC. 534. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute 
shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective de-
partment or agency head, to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
within 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 535. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to relinquish the responsibility of the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Administra-
tion with respect to Internet domain name system func-
tions, including responsibility with respect to the authori-
tative root zone file and the Internet Assigned Numbers 
Authority functions. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require a person licensed under section 
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923 of title 18, United States Code, to report information 
to the Department of Justice regarding the sale of mul-
tiple rifles or shotguns to the same person. 
SEC. 538. No funds provided in this Act shall be used 
to deny the Inspectors General of the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration, and the National Science Founda-
tion timely access to all records, documents, and other ma-
terials in the custody or possession of the respective de-
partment or agency or to prevent or impede the particular 
Inspector General’s access to such records, documents, 
and other materials, unless in accordance with an express 
limitation of section 6(a) of the Inspector General Act, as 
amended, consistent with the plain language of the Inspec-
tor General Act, as amended. The Inspectors General of 
the Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National 
Science Foundation shall report to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
ate within five calendar days any failures to comply with 
this requirement. 
SEC. 539. The Department of Commerce, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Na-
tional Science Foundation, and the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy shall provide a monthly report to the 
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Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate on any official travel to China by 
any employee of such Department or agency, including the 
purpose of such travel. 
SEC. 540. (a) No funds made available in this Act 
may be used to facilitate, permit, license, or promote ex-
ports to the Cuban military or intelligence service or to 
any officer of the Cuban military or intelligence service, 
or an immediate family member thereof. 
(b) This section does not apply to exports of goods 
permitted under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 
(c) In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Cuban military or intelligence 
service’’ includes, but is not limited to, the Ministry 
of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the Min-
istry of the Interior, of Cuba, and any subsidiary of 
either such Ministry; and 
(2) the term ‘‘immediate family member’’ 
means a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, parent, 
grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or neph-
ew. 
SEC. 541. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be expended during fiscal year 2016 for the shut-
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ees to the Office of the Pardon Attorney for the purpose 
of screening clemency applications. 
SEC. 556. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration to enforce— 
(1) Amendment 40 to the Fishery Management 
Plan for the Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of 
Mexico published in the Federal Register on April 
22, 2015, or any other effort of the same substance; 
or 
(2) Red Snapper Management Measures pub-
lished in the Federal Register on May 1, 2015, or 
any other effort of the same substance that estab-
lishes an annual catch limits or annual catch targets 
for Red Snapper that would result in the commercial 
fishing for Red Snapper in the Federal waters of the 
Gulf of Mexico lasting longer than 5 times the num-
ber of days recreational fishers are allowed to catch 
and retain at least 2 such fish each day in such Fed-
eral waters. 
SEC. 557. None of the funds made available in this 
Act to the Department of Justice may be used to prevent 
a State from implementing its own State laws that author-
ize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of in-
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