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of public record and available for public inspection, except 
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 604. If any provision of this Act or the applica-
tion of such provision to any person or circumstances shall 
be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the applica-
tion of each provision to persons or circumstances other 
than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be af-
fected thereby. 
SEC. 605. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2005, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates new 
programs; (2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means for any 
project or activity for which funds have been denied or 
restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorga-
nizes offices, programs or activities; or (6) contracts out 
or privatizes any functions or activities presently per-
formed by Federal employees; unless the Appropriations
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Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified 15 
days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or 
provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2005, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by 
this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming of funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects 
or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any 
existing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or (3) re-
sults from any general savings, including savings from a 
reduction in personnel, which would result in a change in 
existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by 
Congress; unless the Appropriations Committees of both 
Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of 
such reprogramming of funds. 
SEC. 606. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for the construction, repair (other than 
emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or modernization 
of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad-
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ministration in shipyards located outside of the United 
States. 
SEC. 607. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any 
guidelines of the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
mission covering harassment based on religion, when it is 
made known to the Federal entity or official to which such 
funds are made available that such guidelines do not differ 
in any respect from the proposed guidelines published by 
the Commission on October 1, 1993 (58 Fed. Reg. 
51266). 
SEC. 608. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for any United Nations undertaking 
when it is made known to the Federal official having au-
thority to obligate or expend such funds that: (1) the 
United Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission; (2) 
such undertaking will involve United States Armed Forces 
under the command or operational control of a foreign na-
tional; and (3) the President’s military advisors have not 
submitted to the President a recommendation that such 
involvement is in the national security interests of the 
United States and the President has not submitted to the 
Congress such a recommendation. 
SEC. 609. The Departments of Commerce, Justice, 
and State, the Judiciary, the Securities and Exchange
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Commission and the Small Business Administration shall 
provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate and of the House of Representatives a quarterly ac-
counting of the cumulative balances of any unobligated 
funds that were received by such agency during any pre-
vious fiscal year. 
SEC. 610. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 609 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subparagraphs (A) and (B) 
of section 609 of that Act shall continue to apply during 
fiscal year 2005. 
SEC. 611. Any costs incurred by a department or 
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in 
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such department or agency: Provided, 
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to 
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming
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of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be 
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
SEC. 612. None of the funds provided by this Act 
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco 
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal 
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions 
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 
products of the same type. 
SEC. 613. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act shall be expended for 
any purpose for which appropriations are prohibited by 
section 616 of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and 
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1999. 
(b) The requirements in subsections (b) and (c) of 
section 616 of that Act shall continue to apply during fis-
cal year 2005. 
SEC. 614. None of the funds appropriated pursuant 
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for—
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in con-
nection with the implementation of subsection 922(t) 
of title 18, United States Code; and