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5343(a)(5) of title 5 shall be considered to be located in 
the pay locality designated as ‘‘Rest of US’’ pursuant to 
section 5304 of title 5 for purposes of this paragraph. 
(c) Funds used to carry out this section shall be paid 
from appropriations, which are made to each applicable 
department or agency for salaries and expenses for fiscal 
year 2004. 
SEC. 741. Not later than December 31 of each year, 
the head of each agency shall submit to Congress a report 
on the competitive sourcing activities performed during 
the previous fiscal year by Federal Government sources 
that are on the list required under the Federal Activities 
Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–270; 31 
U.S.C. 501 note). The report shall include—
(1) the number of full time equivalent Federal 
employees studied for competitive sourcing; 
(2) the total agency cost required to carry out 
its competitive sourcing program; 
(3) the costs attributable to paying outside con-
sultants and contractors to carry out the agency’s 
competitive sourcing program; 
(4) the costs attributable to paying agency per-
sonnel to carry out its competitive sourcing program; 
and
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(5) an estimate of the savings attributed as a 
result of the agency competitive sourcing program. 
SEC. 742. It is the sense of the Congress that none 
of the funds made available in this Act should be used 
to disestablish any pay locality (as defined by section 5302 
of title 5, United States Code). 
SEC. 743. For an additional amount for new fixed 
guideway systems under the heading ‘‘Federal Transit Ad-
ministration—Capital Investment Grants’’ for the Silicon 
Valley, CA, Rapid Transit Corridor, and the amount oth-
erwise provided under such heading for the San Francisco, 
CA, Muni Third Street Light Rail Project is hereby re-
duced by, $1,000,000. 
SEC. 744. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, for necessary expenses to carry out the essential 
air service program pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 41742(a), there 
is hereby appropriated $63,000,000, to be derived from 
the airport and airway trust fund and to remain available 
until expended. 
SEC. 745. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to administer or enforce part 515 
of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations (the Cuban Assets 
Control Regulations) with respect to any travel or travel-
related transaction.
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(b) The limitation established in subsection (a) shall 
not apply to the administration of general or specific li-
censes for travel or travel-related transactions, shall not 
apply to section 515.204, 515.206, 515.332, 515.536, 
515.544, 515.547, 515.560(c)(3), 515.569, 515.571, or 
515.803 of such part 515, and shall not apply to trans-
actions in relation to any business travel covered by sec-
tion 515.560(g) of such part 515. 
SEC. 746. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enforce any restriction on remittances 
to nationals of Cuba or Cuban households, including re-
mittances for emigration expenses, covered by section 
515.570 or 515.560(c) of title 31, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, other than the restriction that remittances not be 
made from a blocked source and the restriction that no 
member of the payee’s household be a senior-level Govern-
ment official or senior-level communist party official. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to assist in overturning the judicial ruling 
contained in the Memorandum and Order of the United 
States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois 
entered on July 31, 2003, in the action entitled Kathi Coo-
per, Beth Harrington, and Matthew Hillesheim, Individ-
ually and on Behalf of All Those Similarly Situated vs.
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IBM Personal Pension Plan and IBM Corporation (Civil 
No. 99–829–GPM). 
SEC. 748. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement the revision to Office of 
Management and Budget Circular A–76 made on May 29, 
2003. 
SEC. 749. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 
the amendments made to section 515.565(b)(2) of title 31, 
Code of Federal Regulations (relating to specific licenses 
for ‘‘people-to-people’’ educational exchanges), as pub-
lished in the Federal Register on March 24, 2003. 
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to the implementation, administration, or enforcement of 
515.560(c)(3) of title 31, Code of Federal Regulations. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Treas-
ury, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2004’’.
Passed the House of Representatives September 9, 
2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk.
Calendar No. 279
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2989
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation and Treasury, and independent 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2004, and for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 10, 2003
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar