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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4600
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JULY 15 (legislative day, JULY 11), 1994
Received; read twice and referred jointly pursuant to the order of August 4,
1977, to the Committees on the Budget and Governmental Affairs, with
instructions that if one committee reports, the other committee have thir-
ty days to report or be discharged
AN ACT
To amend the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Con-
trol Act of 1974 to provide for the expedited consider-
ation of certain proposed rescissions of budget authority.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PRO-
POSED RESCISSIONS AND TARGETED TAX
BENEFITS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1012 of the Congressional
Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C.
683) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘EXPEDITED CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN PROPOSED
RESCISSIONS
‘‘SEC. 1012. (a) PROPOSED RESCISSION OF BUDGET
AUTHORITY OR REPEAL OF TARGETED TAX BENEFITS.—
The President may propose, at the time and in the manner
provided in subsection (b), the rescission of any budget
authority provided in an appropriation Act or repeal of
any targeted tax benefit provided in any revenue Act.
Funds made available for obligation under this procedure
may not be proposed for rescission again under this sec-
tion.
‘‘(b) TRANSMITTAL OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.—
‘‘(1) The President may transmit to Congress a
special message proposing to rescind amounts of
budget authority or to repeal any targeted tax bene-
fit and include with with that special message a
draft bill that, if enacted, would only rescind that
budget authority or repeal that targeted tax benefit.
That bill shall clearly identify the amount of budget
authority that is proposed to be rescinded for each
program, project, or activity to which that budget
authority relates or the targeted tax benefit pro-
posed to be repealed, as the case may be. It shall in-
clude a Deficit Reduction Account. The President
may place in the Deficit Reduction Account an
amount not to exceed the total rescissions in that
bill. A targeted tax benefit may only be proposed to
be repealed under this section during the 20-cal-
endar-day period (excluding Saturdays, Sundays,
and legal holidays) commencing on the day after the
date of enactment of the provision proposed to be re-
pealed.
‘‘(2) In the case of an appropriation Act that
includes accounts within the jurisdiction of more
than one subcommittee of the Committee on Appro-
priations, the President in proposing to rescind
budget authority under this section shall send a sep-
arate special message and accompanying draft bill
for accounts within the jurisdiction of each such sub-
committee.
‘‘(3) Each special message shall specify, with
respect to the budget authority proposed to be re-
scinded, the following—
‘‘(A) the amount of budget authority which
he proposes to be rescinded;
‘‘(B) any account, department, or estab-
lishment of the Government to which such
budget authority is available for obligation, and
the specific project or governmental functions
involved;
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ferred, at the discretion of the President and subject to the
regular notification procedures of the Appropriations Com-
mittees of the House of Representatives and the Senate, to
support humanitarian relief in and around Rwanda.
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SEC. 509. (a) No later than March 1, 1995, the Sec-
retary of State shall submit to the appropriate congres-
sional committees a report describing the technical coopera-
tion activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency
with countries on the list of terrorist countries.
(b) As used in this section—
(1) the term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means the Committees on Appropriations and
Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committees
on Appropriations and Foreign Affairs of the House
of Representatives; and
(2) the term ‘‘list of terrorist countries’’ means
the list of countries the governments of which have re-
peatedly provided support for acts of international
terrorism, as determined by the Secretary of State
under section 6(j) of the Export Administration Act
of 1979.
Ω135æPage 84, after line 8, insert:
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subject to the reprogramming guidelines of the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further,
That these funds shall be used for one-time, non-recurring
purposes only
Ω16æPage 16, line 6, strike out ø$36,946,000¿ and in-
sert: $44,128,000
Ω17æPage 16, line 10, strike out ø$41,000,000¿ and in-
sert: $42,000,000
Ω18æPage 16, line 13, after ‘‘1996’’ insert: : Provided,
That $2,000,000 shall be for a grant program to restore and
preserve historic buildings at historically black colleges and
universities: Provided further, That none of these funds
shall be made available until authorized
Ω19æPage 16, line 16, strike out ø$171,417,000¿ and
insert: $170,503,000
Ω20æPage 16, line 21, strike out all after ‘‘1989’’ down
to and including ‘‘470a’’ in line 23 and insert: : Provided
further, That $3,000,000 for the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York and $1,000,000 for the Penn Center shall
be derived from the Historic Preservation Fund pursuant
to 16 U.S.C. 470a: Provided further, That notwithstanding
any other provision of law, a single procurement for the
construction of the vessel exhibit at Salem Maritime Na-
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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4601
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a certificate of docu-
mentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise
trade for the vessel CYGNE SAUVAGE.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 17, 1994
Mr. BROOKS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to issue a
certificate of documentation with appropriate endorse-
ment for employment in the coastwise trade for the vessel
CYGNE SAUVAGE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That notwithstanding section 27 of the Merchant Marine
Act, 1920 (46 App. U.S.C. 883), the Act of June 19, 1886
(46 App. U.S.C. 289), and section 12106 of title 46,
United States Code, the Secretary of Transportation may
issue a certificate of documentation with appropriate en-
dorsement for employment in the coastwise trade for the
vessel CYGNE SAUVAGE (United States official number
685100).
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None of the funds made available to the Forest Serv-
ice under this Act shall be subject to transfer under the
provisions of section 702(b) of the Department of Agri-
culture Organic Act of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or 7 U.S.C.
147b unless the proposed transfer is approved in advance
by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations
in compliance with the reprogramming procedures con-
tained in the report accompanying this Act.
No funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be
transferred to the Working Capital Fund of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture without the approval of the Chief of
the Forest Service.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any ap-
propriations or funds available to the Forest Service may
be used to disseminate program information to private and
public individuals and organizations through the use of
nonmonetary items of nominal value and to provide
nonmonetary awards of nominal value and to incur nec-
essary expenses for the nonmonetary recognition of private
individuals and organizations that make contributions to
Forest Service programs.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, money
collected, in advance or otherwise, by the Forest Service
under authority of section 101 of Public Law 93–153 (30
U.S.C. 185(1)) as reimbursement of administrative and
‘‘(II) who attains the age of 65 
after December 31, 2015, and before 
January 1, 2026, is 65 years of age 
plus the number of months specified 
by the Medicare Choices Commission 
for the preferred age phase-in factor 
under clause (ii) for the calendar year 
in which the individual attains the age 
of 65; and 
‘‘(III) who attains the age of 65 
during a 10-year period (with the first 
such period beginning on January 1, 
2026), 67 years of age increased by 
the life expectancy increase factor de-
scribed in clause (iii) for such 10-year 
period. 
‘‘(ii) PREFERRED AGE PHASE-IN FAC-
TOR.—For each year during the 10-year 
period beginning with 2016, the Medicare 
Choices Commission shall specify the pre-
ferred age phase-in factor as either 2 or 3 
months to be applied under clause (i)(II) 
for individuals attaining 65 years of age 
during such year in a manner that results 
in the preferred Medicare age being in-
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‘‘(B) The trustee is a financial institution
insured by an instrumentality of the Federal
Government.
‘‘(C) The assets of the account will be in-
vested only in federally insured deposits and/or
stock of a regulated investment company within
the meaning of section 851(a), in accordance
with the direction of the eligible individual.
‘‘(D) The assets of the trust will not be
commingled with other property except in a
common trust fund or common investment
fund.
‘‘(E) Except as provided in subparagraph
(F), any amount in the account which is attrib-
utable to assistance provided under section
733(h) of the Individual Development Account
Demonstration Act may be paid or distributed
out of the account only for the purpose of pay-
ing the qualified expenses of the eligible individ-
ual.
‘‘(F)(i) Any balance in the account on the
day after the date on which the individual for
whose benefit the trust is established dies will
be transferred within 60 days of such date as
directed by such individual to another individual
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NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
GRANTS AND ADMINISTRATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the National
Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965,
as amended, $151,420,000 shall be available to the Na-
tional Endowment for the Humanities for support of ac-
tivities in the humanities, pursuant to section 7(c) of the
Act, and for administering the functions of the Act, to
remain available until September 30, 1996.
MATCHING GRANTS
To carry out the provisions of section 10(a)(2) of the
National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act
of 1965, as amended, $25,963,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1996, of which $14,000,000 shall be
available to the National Endowment for the Humanities
for the purposes of section 7(h): Provided, That this ap-
propriation shall be available for obligation only in such
amounts as may be equal to the total amounts of gifts,
bequests, and devises of money, and other property accept-
ed by the Chairman or by grantees of the Endowment
under the provisions of subsections 11(a)(2)(B) and
11(a)(3)(B) during the current and preceding fiscal years
for which equal amounts have not previously been appro-
priated.
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been reduced to a judgment or settlement agreement ap-
proved by the Department of Justice.
TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE OF INDIAN ENTERPRISES
For payment of management and technical assistance
requests associated with loans and grants approved under
the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amended,
$1,970,000.
INDIAN DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost, as defined in section 13201 of the
Budget Enforcement Act of 1990, including the cost of
modifying loans, of expert assistance loans authorized by
the Act of November 4, 1963, as amended, and the cost
of direct loans authorized by the Indian Financing Act of
1974, as amended, $2,484,000: Provided, That these
funds are available to subsidize gross obligations for the
principal amount of direct loans not to exceed
$10,890,000.
INDIAN GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $8,784,000, as au-
thorized by the Indian Financing Act of 1974, as amend-
ed: Provided, That such costs including the cost of modify-
ing such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided
further, That these funds are available to subsidize total
loan principal any part of which is to be guaranteed not
to exceed $46,900,000.
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United States Senate and the Committee on Agriculture
in the United States House of Representatives.
Any appropriations or funds available to the Forest
Service may be advanced to the Forest Service Firefight-
ing appropriation and may be used for forest firefighting
and the emergency rehabilitation of burned-over lands
under its jurisdiction: Provided, That no funds shall be
made available under this authority until funds appro-
priated to the ‘‘Emergency Forest Service Firefighting
Fund’’ shall have been exhausted.
The appropriation structure for the Forest Service
may not be altered without advanced approval of the
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations.
Funds appropriated to the Forest Service shall be
available for assistance to or through the Agency for Inter-
national Development and the Office of International Co-
operation and Development in connection with forest and
rangeland research, technical information, and assistance
in foreign countries, and shall be available to support for-
estry and related natural resource activities outside the
United States and its territories and possessions, includ-
ing technical assistance, education and training, and co-
operation with United States and international organiza-
tions.
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FIRE PROTECTION
For necessary expenses for fire use and management,
and fire preparedness by the Department of the Interior,
$114,968,000, to remain available until expended.
EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FIREFIGHTING FUND
For 
emergency 
rehabilitation, 
severity
presuppression, and wildfire operations of the Department
of the Interior, $121,176,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That such funds also are available for
repayment of advances to other appropriation accounts
from which funds were previously transferred for such
purposes: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, persons hired pursuant to 43
U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and lodging
without cost from funds available from this appropriation:
Provided further, That only amounts for emergency reha-
bilitation and wildfire operations that are in excess of the
average of such costs for the previous ten years shall be
considered ‘‘emergency requirements’’ pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985.
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND
For expenses necessary for use by the Department
of the Interior and any of its component offices and bu-
reaus for the remedial action, including associated activi-
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ties, of hazardous waste substances, pollutants, or con-
taminants pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), $13,435,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302, sums recovered from or paid by a party in
advance of or as reimbursement for remedial action or re-
sponse activities conducted by the Department pursuant
to sections 107 or 113(f) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 9607 or 9613(f)), shall be credited
to this account and shall be available without further ap-
propriation and shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That such sums recovered from or paid by
any party are not limited to monetary payments and may
include stocks, bonds or other personal or real property,
which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise disposed
of by the Secretary of the Interior and which shall be cred-
ited to this account.
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For acquisition of lands and interests therein, and
construction of buildings, recreation facilities, roads,
trails, 
and 
appurtenant 
facilities, 
Ω3æ$3,836,000
$12,186,000, to remain available until expended.
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PAYMENTS IN LIEU OF TAXES
For expenses necessary to implement the Act of Octo-
ber 20, 1976 (31 U.S.C. 6901–07), $104,108,000, of
which not to exceed $400,000 shall be available for admin-
istrative expenses.
LAND ACQUISITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions
of sections 205, 206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579
including administrative expenses and acquisition of lands
or 
waters, 
or 
interests 
therein, 
Ω4æ$17,060,000
$12,055,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund, to remain available until expended.
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For expenses necessary for management, protection,
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein including existing connecting roads on or
adjacent 
to 
such 
grant 
lands; 
Ω5æ$100,860,000
$97,383,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That 25 per centum of the aggregate of all receipts during
the current fiscal year from the revested Oregon and Cali-
fornia Railroad grant lands is hereby made a charge
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against the Oregon and California land-grant fund and
shall be transferred to the General Fund in the Treasury
in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph
of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937
(50 Stat. 876).
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701),
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 per cen-
tum of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year
under sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43
U.S.C. 315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range
improvements from grazing fees and mineral leasing re-
ceipts from Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the De-
partment of the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than
$10,350,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for
administrative expenses.
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES
For administrative expenses and other costs related
to processing application documents and other authoriza-
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources,
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-
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nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations,
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts
as may be collected under sections 209(b), 304(a), 304(b),
305(a), and 504(g) of the Act approved October 21, 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1701), and sections 101 and 203 of Public
Law 93–153, to be immediately available until expended:
Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to the con-
trary of section 305(a) of the Act of October 21, 1976
(43 U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will
be received pursuant to that section, whether as a result
of forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate
for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43
U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended
under the authority of this or subsequent appropriations
Acts by the Secretary to improve, protect, or rehabilitate
any public lands administered through the Bureau of
Land Management which have been damaged by the ac-
tion of a resource developer, purchaser, permittee, or any
unauthorized person, without regard to whether all mon-
eys collected from each such forfeiture, compromise, or
settlement are used on the exact lands damage to which
led to the forfeiture, compromise, or settlement: Provided
further, That such moneys are in excess of amounts need-
ed to repair damage to the exact land for which collected.
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MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended
under existing law, there is hereby appropriated such
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of the
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such
amounts as may be advanced for administrative costs, sur-
veys, appraisals, and costs of making conveyances of omit-
ted lands under section 211(b) of that Act, to remain
available until expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Appropriations for the Bureau of Land Management
shall be available for purchase, erection, and dismantle-
ment of temporary structures, and alteration and mainte-
nance of necessary buildings and appurtenant facilities to
which the United States has title; up to Ω6æ$250,000
$100,000 for payments, at the discretion of the Secretary,
for information or evidence concerning violations of laws
administered by the Bureau of Land Management; mis-
cellaneous and emergency expenses of enforcement activi-
ties authorized or approved by the Secretary and to be
accounted for solely on his certificate, not to exceed
$10,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 44 U.S.C. 501,
the Bureau may, under cooperative cost-sharing and part-
nership arrangements authorized by law, procure printing
services from cooperators in connection with jointly-pro-
duced publications for which the cooperators share the
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cost of printing either in cash or in services, and the Bu-
reau determines the cooperator is capable of meeting ac-
cepted quality standards.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
For expenses necessary for scientific and economic
studies, conservation, management, investigations, protec-
tion, and utilization of fishery and wildlife resources, ex-
cept whales, seals, and sea lions, and for the performance
of other authorized functions related to such resources; for
the general administration of the United States Fish and
Wildlife Service; and for maintenance of the herd of long-
horned cattle on the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge;
and not less than $1,000,000 for high priority projects
within the scope of the approved budget which shall be
carried out by the Youth Conservation Corps as author-
ized by the Act of August 13, 1970, as amended by Public
Law 93–408, Ω7æ$514,650,000 $502,936,000, of which
$11,732,000 shall be for operation and maintenance of
fishery mitigation facilities constructed by the Corps of
Engineers under the Lower Snake River Compensation
Plan, authorized by the Water Resources Development Act
of 1976 (90 Stat. 2921), to compensate for loss of fishery
resources from water development projects on the Lower
Snake River, and which shall remain available until ex-
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pended; and of which Ω8æ$3,000,000 $2,500,000 shall be
provided to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation for
endangered species activities: Provided, That the amount
provided to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
shall be matched by at least an equal amount by the Na-
tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation: Provided further,
That sums may be made available to the States of Wash-
ington, Oregon, and California to conduct monitoring ac-
tivities related to the President’s Forest Plan.
CONSTRUCTION
For construction and acquisition of buildings and
other facilities required in the conservation, management,
investigation, protection, and utilization of fishery and
wildlife resources, and the acquisition of lands and inter-
ests therein; Ω9æ$25,264,000 $49,848,000, to remain
available until expended.
NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT FUND
To conduct natural resource damage assessment ac-
tivities by the Department of the Interior necessary to
carry out the provisions of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 9601, et seq.), Federal Water Pollu-
tion Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1251, et seq.),
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–380), and
the Act of July 27, 1990 (Public Law 101–337);
$6,700,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,