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on the obverse side of any such quarter dol-
lars. 
‘‘(2) SINGLE DISTRICT OR TERRITORY DE-
SIGN.—The design on the reverse side of each 
quarter dollar issued during 2009 shall be em-
blematic of one of the following: The District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, American Samoa, the United States Vir-
gin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(3) SELECTION OF DESIGN.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Each of the 6 de-
signs required under this subsection for 
quarter dollars shall be— 
‘‘(i) selected by the Secretary after 
consultation with— 
‘‘(I) the chief executive of the 
District of Columbia or the terri-
tory being honored, or such other 
officials or group as the chief exec-
utive officer of the District of Co-
lumbia or the territory may des-
ignate for such purpose; and 
‘‘(II) the Commission of Fine 
Arts; and
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‘‘(ii) reviewed by the Citizens 
Coinage Advisory Committee. 
‘‘(B) SELECTION AND APPROVAL PROC-
ESS.—Designs for quarter dollars may be 
submitted in accordance with the design se-
lection and approval process developed by 
the Secretary in the sole discretion of the 
Secretary. 
‘‘(C) PARTICIPATION.—The Secretary 
may include participation by District or 
territorial officials, artists from the District 
of Columbia or the territory, engravers of 
the United States Mint, and members of the 
general public. 
‘‘(D) STANDARDS.—Because it is im-
portant that the Nation’s coinage and cur-
rency bear dignified designs of which the 
citizens of the United States can be proud, 
the Secretary shall not select any frivolous 
or inappropriate design for any quarter 
dollar minted under this subsection. 
‘‘(E) PROHIBITION ON CERTAIN REP-
RESENTATIONS.—No head and shoulders 
portrait or bust of any person, living or 
dead, and no portrait of a living person
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may be included in the design of any quar-
ter dollar under this subsection. 
‘‘(4) TREATMENT AS NUMISMATIC ITEMS.—For 
purposes of sections 5134 and 5136, all coins minted 
under this subsection shall be considered to be numis-
matic items. 
‘‘(5) ISSUANCE.— 
‘‘(A) QUALITY
OF
COINS.—The Secretary 
may mint and issue such number of quarter dol-
lars of each design selected under paragraph (4) 
in uncirculated and proof qualities as the Sec-
retary determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(B) SILVER COINS.—Notwithstanding sub-
section (b), the Secretary may mint and issue 
such number of quarter dollars of each design se-
lected under paragraph (4) as the Secretary de-
termines to be appropriate, with a content of 90 
percent silver and 10 percent copper. 
‘‘(C) TIMING AND ORDER OF ISSUANCE.— 
Coins minted under this subsection honoring the 
District of Columbia and each of the territories 
shall be issued in equal sequential intervals dur-
ing 2009 in the following order: the District of 
Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
Guam, American Samoa, the United States Vir-
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gin Islands, and the Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands. 
‘‘(6) OTHER PROVISIONS.— 
‘‘(A) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF ADMISSION 
AS A STATE.—If the District of Columbia or any 
territory becomes a State before the end of the 
10-year period referred to in subsection (l)(1), 
subsection (l)(7) shall apply, and this subsection 
shall not apply, with respect to such State. 
‘‘(B) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF INDEPEND-
ENCE.—If any territory becomes independent or 
otherwise ceases to be a territory or possession of 
the United States before quarter dollars bearing 
designs which are emblematic of such territory 
are minted pursuant to this subsection, this sub-
section shall cease to apply with respect to such 
territory. 
‘‘(7) TERRITORY DEFINED.—For purposes of this 
subsection, the term ‘territory’ means the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
United States Virgin Islands, and the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands.’’. 
SEC. 623. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5112(n)(2) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C)(i)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘inscriptions’’ and inserting 
‘‘inscription’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘and ‘In God We Trust’ ’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(F) INSCRIPTION OF ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’.— 
The design on the obverse or the reverse shall 
bear the inscription ‘In God We Trust’.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 5112(r)(2) of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (C)(i)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘inscriptions’’ and inserting 
‘‘inscription’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘and ‘In God We Trust’ ’’; 
and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
paragraph: 
‘‘(E) INSCRIPTION OF ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’.— 
The design on the obverse or the reverse shall 
bear the inscription ‘In God We Trust’.’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The change required by the 
amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall be put 
into effect by the Secretary of the Treasury as soon as is 
practicable after the date of enactment of this Act.
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SEC. 624. There is hereby appropriated $600,000, to 
remain available until expended, for the Christopher Co-
lumbus Fellowship Foundation, established by Section 423 
of Public Law 102–281. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 701. Hereafter, funds appropriated in this or any 
other Act may be used to pay travel to the United States 
for the immediate family of employees serving abroad in 
cases of death or life threatening illness of said employee. 
SEC. 702. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2008 shall obligate or 
expend any such funds, unless such department, agency, or 
instrumentality has in place, and will continue to admin-
ister in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that 
all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, 
or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) by the officers 
and employees of such department, agency, or instrumen-
tality. 
SEC. 703. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946
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(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor ve-
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, and 
undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at $12,888 
except station wagons for which the maximum shall be 
$13,312: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by 
not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to 
exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided fur-
ther, That the limits set forth in this section may not be 
exceeded by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid vehi-
cles purchased for demonstration under the provisions of the 
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and 
Demonstration Act of 1976: Provided further, That the lim-
its set forth in this section may be exceeded by the incre-
mental cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles acquired pur-
suant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost of comparable 
conventionally fueled vehicles. 
SEC. 704. Appropriations of the executive departments 
and independent establishments for the current fiscal year 
available for expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the 
activity concerned, are hereby made available for quarters 
allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 
SEC. 705. Unless otherwise specified during the current 
fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this 
or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensation of
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any officer or employee of the Government of the United 
States (including any agency the majority of the stock of 
which is owned by the Government of the United States) 
whose post of duty is in the continental United States un-
less such person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) 
is a person in the service of the United States on the date 
of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible for citizen-
ship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen 
of the United States prior to such date and is actually re-
siding in the United States; (3) is a person who owes alle-
giance to the United States; (4) is an alien from Cuba, Po-
land, South Vietnam, the countries of the former Soviet 
Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully admitted to the 
United States for permanent residence; (5) is a South Viet-
namese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the 
United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) is a national 
of the People’s Republic of China who qualifies for adjust-
ment of status pursuant to the Chinese Student Protection 
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–404): Provided, That for the 
purpose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such per-
son shall be considered prima facie evidence that the re-
quirements of this section with respect to his or her status 
have been complied with: Provided further, That any person 
making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined no more than $4,000 or im-
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prisoned for not more than 1 year, or both: Provided fur-
ther, That the above penal clause shall be in addition to, 
and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing 
law: Provided further, That any payment made to any offi-
cer or employee contrary to the provisions of this section 
shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government. 
This section shall not apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, 
or the Republic of the Philippines, or to nationals of those 
countries allied with the United States in a current defense 
effort, or to international broadcasters employed by the 
Broadcasting Board of Governors, or to temporary employ-
ment of translators, or to temporary employment in the 
field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result of emer-
gencies. 
SEC. 706. Appropriations available to any department 
or agency during the current fiscal year for necessary ex-
penses, including maintenance or operating expenses, shall 
also be available for payment to the General Services Ad-
ministration for charges for space and services and those 
expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings and fa-
cilities which constitute public improvements performed in 
accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat. 
479), the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (86 Stat. 
216), or other applicable law.
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SEC. 707. In addition to funds provided in this or any 
other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and 
use funds resulting from the sale of materials, including 
Federal records disposed of pursuant to a records schedule 
recovered through recycling or waste prevention programs. 
Such funds shall be available until expended for the fol-
lowing purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 
and recycling programs as described in Executive 
Order No. 13101 (September 14, 1998), including any 
such programs adopted prior to the effective date of 
the Executive order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental manage-
ment programs, including, but not limited to, the de-
velopment and implementation of hazardous waste 
management and pollution prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the Fed-
eral agency. 
SEC. 708. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, for 
rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance
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with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the 
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 
the event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses 
are subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds, 
the limitations on administrative expenses shall be cor-
respondingly reduced. 
SEC. 709. Hereafter, no part of any appropriation 
contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any 
person for the filling of any position for which he or she 
has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to ap-
prove the nomination of said person. 
SEC. 710. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency fi-
nancing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), com-
missions, councils, committees, or similar groups (whether 
or not they are interagency entities) which do not have a 
prior and specific statutory approval to receive financial 
support from more than one agency or instrumentality. 
SEC. 711. None of the funds made available pursuant 
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a joint resolution duly adopted in 
accordance with the applicable law of the United States.
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SEC. 712. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, no 
part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2008, 
by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing 
rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, 
United States Code— 
(1) during the period from the date of expiration 
of the limitation imposed by the comparable section 
for previous fiscal years until the normal effective 
date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is 
to take effect in fiscal year 2008, in an amount that 
exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and 
step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance 
with such section; and 
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder 
of fiscal year 2008, in an amount that exceeds, as a 
result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable 
under paragraph (1) by more than the sum of— 
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect 
in fiscal year 2008 under section 5303 of title 5, 
United States Code, in the rates of pay under the 
General Schedule; and 
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age 
percentage 
of 
the 
locality-based 
com-
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year
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2008 under section 5304 of such title (whether by 
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average 
percentage of such payments which was effective 
in the previous fiscal year under such section. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or 
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and 
no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, may be 
paid during the periods for which subsection (a) is in effect 
at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under 
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such em-
ployee. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable 
to an employee who is covered by this section and who is 
paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30, 
2007, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by 
the Office of Personnel Management. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates 
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may 
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30, 
2007, except to the extent determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management to be consistent with the purpose of this 
section. 
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for 
service performed after September 30, 2007.
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(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of 
law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribution, 
or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis 
of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic 
pay payable after the application of this section shall be 
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by this 
section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable 
were this section not in effect. 
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section if 
the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary to 
ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees. 
SEC. 713. During the period in which the head of any 
department or agency, or any other officer or civilian em-
ployee of the Federal Government appointed by the Presi-
dent of the United States, holds office, no funds may be obli-
gated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or redeco-
rate the office of such department head, agency head, officer, 
or employee, or to purchase furniture or make improve-
ments for any such office, unless advance notice of such fur-
nishing or redecoration is expressly approved by the Com-
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mittees on Appropriations. For the purposes of this section, 
the term ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite of offices as-
signed to the individual, as well as any other space used 
primarily by the individual or the use of which is directly 
controlled by the individual. 
SEC. 714. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 710 of this Act, funds made 
available for the current fiscal year by this or any other 
Act shall be available for the interagency funding of na-
tional security and emergency preparedness telecommuni-
cations initiatives which benefit multiple Federal depart-
ments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order 
No. 12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 715. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality for the 
salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a position 
of a confidential or policy-determining character excepted 
from the competitive service pursuant to section 3302 of 
title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the 
Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality employ-
ing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position 
was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the 
employee to the White House.
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(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed 
to or from— 
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency; 
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense 
for the collection of specialized national foreign intel-
ligence through reconnaissance programs; 
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of 
the Department of State; 
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, 
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration of 
the Department of Justice, the Department of Trans-
portation, the Department of the Treasury, and the 
Department of Energy performing intelligence func-
tions; and 
(7) the Director of National Intelligence or the 
Office of the Director of National Intelligence. 
SEC. 716. Hereafter, no department, agency, or instru-
mentality of the United States receiving appropriated funds 
under this or any other Act shall obligate or expend any 
such funds, unless such department, agency, or instrumen-
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tality has in place, and will continue to administer in good 
faith, a written policy designed to ensure that all of its 
workplaces are free from discrimination and sexual harass-
ment and that all of its workplaces are not in violation 
of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Public Law 
88–352, 78 Stat. 241), the Age Discrimination in Employ-
ment Act of 1967 (Public Law 90–202, 81 Stat. 602), and 
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Public Law 93–112, 87 
Stat. 355). 
SEC. 717. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal Gov-
ernment, who— 
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 
direct oral or written communication or contact with 
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the Con-
gress in connection with any matter pertaining to the 
employment of such other officer or employee or per-
taining to the department or agency of such other of-
ficer or employee in any way, irrespective of whether 
such communication or contact is at the initiative of 
such other officer or employee or in response to the re-
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quest or inquiry of such Member, committee, or sub-
committee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 
performance or efficiency rating, denies promotion to, 
relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or discrimi-
nates in regard to any employment right, entitlement, 
or benefit, or any term or condition of employment of, 
any other officer or employee of the Federal Govern-
ment, or attempts or threatens to commit any of the 
foregoing actions with respect to such other officer or 
employee, by reason of any communication or contact 
of such other officer or employee with any Member, 
committee, or subcommittee of the Congress as de-
scribed in paragraph (1). 
SEC. 718. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended for any em-
ployee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, 
skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the perform-
ance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels 
of emotional response or psychological stress in some 
participants;