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Code, by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Provided further, 
That the Inspector General may enter into contracts and other 
arrangements for audits, studies, analyses, and other services with 
public agencies and with private persons, subject to the applicable 
laws and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 
within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Provided fur-
ther, That the Inspector General may select, appoint, and employ 
such officers and employees as may be necessary for carrying out 
the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Inspector General, 
subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern such 
selections, appointments, and employment within the National Rail-
road Passenger Corporation: Provided further, That concurrent with 
the President’s budget request for fiscal year 2024, the Inspector 
General shall submit to the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations a budget request for fiscal year 2024 in similar 
format and substance to budget requests submitted by executive 
agencies of the Federal Government. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety 
Board, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; 
services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem 
rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United 
States Code, $129,300,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 may 
be used for official reception and representation expenses: Provided, 
That the amounts made available to the National Transportation 
Safety Board in this Act include amounts necessary to make lease 
payments on an obligation incurred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital 
lease. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by 
the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101– 
8107), $166,000,000: Provided, That an additional $4,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2026, shall be for the pro-
motion and development of shared equity housing models. 
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transportation Board, 
including services authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, $41,429,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees estab-
lished by the Surface Transportation Board shall be credited to 
this appropriation as offsetting collections and used for necessary 
and authorized expenses under this heading: Provided further, That
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the amounts made available under this heading from the general 
fund shall be reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting 
collections are received during fiscal year 2023, to result in a 
final appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more 
than $40,179,000. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including payment of salaries, author-
ized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant 
to title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as 
amended, $4,000,000. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for 
the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses 
of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in 
regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor 
may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly 
so provided herein. 
SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through a procurement contract 
pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except where 
otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive 
order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be obligated or expended for any employee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with reli-
gious or quasi-religious belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief sys-
tems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
Notice N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants’ 
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. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of 
the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations
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Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2023, or pro-
vided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection 
of fees and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall 
be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming 
of funds that— 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, 
or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted 
by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for a different purpose; 
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in 
excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, 
office, bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or 
department different from the budget justifications submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act), whichever is 
more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: 
Provided, That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the 
House of Representatives to establish the baseline for application 
of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the current fiscal 
year: Provided further, That the report shall include— 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
column to display the prior year enacted level, the Presi-
dent’s budget request, adjustments made by Congress, 
adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and 
the fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each appropriation 
and its respective prior year enacted level by object class 
and program, project, and activity as detailed in this Act, 
the 
table 
accompanying 
the 
explanatory 
statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act), accompanying reports of the 
House and Senate Committee on Appropriations, or in the 
budget appendix for the respective appropriations, which-
ever is more detailed, and shall apply to all items for 
which a dollar amount is specified and to all programs 
for which new budget (obligational) authority is provided, 
as well as to discretionary grants and discretionary grant 
allocations; and 
(C) an identification of items of special congressional 
interest. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available 
at the end of fiscal year 2023 from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2023 in this Act, shall 
remain available through September 30, 2024, for each such account
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for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogram-
ming guidelines under section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support 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 purposes of this section, public use 
shall not be construed to include economic development that pri-
marily benefits private 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 general 
public (including energy-related, communication-related, water- 
related and wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures 
designated for use by the general public or which have other 
common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve the general 
public and are subject to regulation and oversight by the govern-
ment, 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. 408. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priations Act. 
SEC. 409. 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. 8301–8305, popularly known 
as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’). 
SEC. 410. 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. 8301–8305). 
SEC. 411. 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. 412. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 
50 employees of a single agency or department of the United States 
Government, who are stationed in the United States, at any single 
international conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 5 
days in advance that such attendance is important to the national 
interest: Provided, That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring outside of 
the United States attended by representatives of the United States 
Government and of foreign governments, international organiza-
tions, or nongovernmental organizations. 
SEC. 413. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used by the Surface Transportation 
Board to charge or collect any filing fee for rate or practice com-
plaints filed with the Board in an amount in excess of the amount