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$10,000 may be used toward funding a permanent sec-
retariat for the International Organization of Securities
Commissions, and of which not to exceed $100,000 shall
be available for expenses for consultations and meetings
hosted by the Commission with foreign governmental and
other regulatory officials, members of their delegations,
appropriate representatives and staff to exchange views
concerning developments relating to securities matters, de-
velopment and implementation of cooperation agreements
concerning securities matters and provision of technical
assistance for the development of foreign securities mar-
kets, such expenses to include necessary logistic and ad-
ministrative expenses and the expenses of Commission
staff and foreign invitees in attendance at such consulta-
tions and meetings including (1) such incidental expenses
as meals taken in the course of such attendance, (2) any
travel and transportation to or from such meetings, and
(3) any other related lodging or subsistence: Provided,
That immediately upon enactment of this Act, the rate
of fees under section 6(b) of the Securities Act of 1933
(15 U.S.C. 77f(b)) shall increase from one-fiftieth of one
percentum to one-thirty-third of one percentum, and such
increase shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to
this appropriation, to remain available until expended, to
recover costs of services of the securities registration proc-
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ess: Provided further, That immediately upon enactment
of this Act or September 1, 1996, whichever occurs later,
every national securities association shall pay to the Com-
mission a fee at a rate of one-eight-hundredth of one
percentum for each $1,000,000 of the aggregate dollar
amount of sales transacted by or through any member of
such association otherwise than on a national securities
exchange (other than bonds, debentures, and other evi-
dences of indebtedness) subject to prompt last sale report-
ing pursuant to the rules of the Commission or a reg-
istered national securities association, excluding any sales
for which a fee is paid under section 31 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. 78ee), and such in-
crease shall be deposited as an offsetting collection to this
appropriation, to remain available until expended, to re-
cover the costs to the Government of the supervision and
regulation of securities markets and securities profes-
sionals: Provided further, That the fee due from every na-
tional securities association shall be paid (1) on or before
March 15, 1997, with respect to transactions occurring
during the period beginning immediately upon enactment
of this Act or September 1, 1996, whichever occurs later,
and ending at the close of December 31, 1996; and (2)
on or before September 30, 1997, with respect to trans-
actions and sales occurring during the period beginning
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on January 1, 1997, and ending at the close of August
31, 1997: Provided further, That the total amount appro-
priated for fiscal year 1997 under this heading shall be
reduced as all such offsetting fees are deposited to this
appropriation so as to result in a final total fiscal year
1997 appropriation from the General Fund estimated at
not more than $83,047,000: Provided further, That any
such fees collected in excess of $193,974,000 shall remain
available until expended but shall not be available for obli-
gation until October 1, 1997.
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
of the Small Business Administration as authorized by
Public Law 103–403, including hire of passenger motor
vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344, and
not to exceed $3,500 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, $214,419,000, of which $94,218,000 shall
be available for the non-credit programs of the Small
Business Administration, including $3,000,000 which
shall only be available for obligation and expenditure for
projects jointly developed, implemented and administered
with the Minority Business Development Agency of the
Department of Commerce: Provided, That the Adminis-
trator is authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of pub-
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lications developed by the Small Business Administration,
and certain loan servicing activities: Provided further,
That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues received
from all such activities shall be credited to this account,
to be available for carrying out these purposes without fur-
ther appropriations.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 1–11,
as amended by Public Law 100–504), $8,900,000.
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans, $2,792,000, and for the
cost of guaranteed loans, $161,876,000, as authorized by
15 U.S.C. 631 note, of which $1,216,000, to be available
until expended, shall be for the Microloan Guarantee Pro-
gram, and of which $40,510,000 shall remain available
until September 30, 1998: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974: Provided further, That during fiscal year 1997, com-
mitments to guarantee loans under section 503 of the
Small Business Investment Act of 1958, as amended, shall
not exceed the amount of financings authorized under sec-
tion 20(n)(2)(B) of the Small Business Act, as amended.
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In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $93,485,000,
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priations for Salaries and Expenses.
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans authorized by section 7(b)
of the Small Business Act, as amended, $105,432,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct loan program, $100,578,000, including not to
exceed $500,000 for the Office of Inspector General of the
Small Business Administration for audits and reviews of
disaster loans and the disaster loan program, and said
sums may be transferred to and merged with appropria-
tions for Salaries and Expenses and Office of Inspector
General.
SURETY BOND GUARANTEES REVOLVING FUND
For additional capital for the ‘‘Surety Bond Guaran-
tees Revolving Fund’’, authorized by the Small Business
Investment Act, as amended, $3,730,000, to remain avail-
able without fiscal year limitation as authorized by 15
U.S.C. 631 note.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
SEC. 504. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the
Small Business Administration in this Act may be trans-
ferred between such appropriations, but no such appro-
priation shall be increased by more than 10 percent by
any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant
to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of
funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be avail-
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance
with the procedures set forth in that section.
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 601. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes
not authorized by the Congress.
SEC. 602. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter
of public record and available for public inspection, except
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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 1997, 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 which (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
Committees of both Houses of Congress are notified fif-
teen days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
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(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 1997, 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 from a reduction in person-
nel 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 fifteen days in advance of such reprogram-
ming 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-
ministration in shipyards located outside of the United
States.
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SEC. 607. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any en-
tity using funds made available in this Act, the head of
each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the state-
ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 608. 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. 609. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended to pay for any cost incurred for (1) opening or
operating any United States diplomatic or consular post
in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam that was not operat-
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ing on July 11, 1995; (2) expanding any United States
diplomatic or consular post in the Socialist Republic of
Vietnam that was operating on July 11, 1995; or (3) in-
creasing the total number of personnel assigned to United
States diplomatic or consular posts in the Socialist Repub-
lic of Vietnam above the levels existing on July 11, 1995,
unless the President certifies within 60 days, based upon
all information available to the United States Government
that the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
is cooperating in full faith with the United States in the
following four areas:
(1) Resolving discrepancy cases, live sightings
and field activities,
(2) Recovering and repatriating American re-
mains,
(3) Accelerating efforts to provide documents
that will help lead to fullest possible accounting of
POW/MIA’s.
(4) Providing further assistance in implement-
ing trilateral investigations with Laos.
SEC. 610. 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 (1) that the Unit-
ed Nations undertaking is a peacekeeping mission, (2)
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that such undertaking will involve United States Armed
Forces under the command or operational control of a for-
eign national, and (3) that the President’s military advi-
sors have not submitted to the President a recommenda-
tion that such involvement is in the national security inter-
ests of the United States and the President has not sub-
mitted to the Congress such a recommendation.
SEC. 611. None of the funds made available in this
Act shall be used to provide the following amenities or per-
sonal comforts in the Federal prison system—
(1) in-cell television viewing except for prisoners
who are segregated from the general prison popu-
lation for their own safety;
(2) the viewing of R, X, and NC–17 rated mov-
ies, through whatever medium presented;
(3) any instruction (live or through broadcasts)
or training equipment for boxing, wrestling, judo,
karate, or other martial art, or any bodybuilding or
weightlifting equipment of any sort;
(4) possession of in-cell coffee pots, hot plates,
or heating elements; or
(5) the use or possession of any electric or elec-
tronic musical instrument.
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available in title
II for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
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tion under the heading ‘‘Fleet Modernization, Shipbuild-
ing and Conversion’’ may be used to implement sections
603, 604, and 605 of Public Law 102–567.
SEC. 613. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for ‘‘USIA Television Marti Program’’
under the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act or any
other program of United States Government television
broadcasts to Cuba, when it is made known to the Federal
official having authority to obligate or expend such funds
that such use would be inconsistent with the applicable
provisions of the March 1995 Office of Cuba Broadcasting
Reinventing Plan of the United States Information Agen-
cy.
SEC. 614. 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
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be