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programming 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 Con-
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac-
tivity by either the House or Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations 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 pro-
grams, projects, or activities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is less; or (7) creates, reorganizes, or restruc-
tures a branch, division, office, bureau, board, commis-
sion, agency, administration, or department different from 
the budget justifications submitted to the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations or the table accom-
panying the statement of the managers accompanying this 
Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
received from the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations: 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 House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for 
the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report 
shall include: (1) a table for each appropriation with a
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separate column to display the President’s budget request, 
adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to en-
acted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year en-
acted level; (2) a delineation in the table for each appro-
priation both by object class and program, project, and 
activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the respec-
tive appropriation; and (3) an identification of items of 
special congressional interest: Provided further, That the 
amount appropriated or limited for salaries and expenses 
for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for 
each day after the required date that the report has not 
been submitted to the Congress. 
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 2008 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2008 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2009, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided 
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines. 
SEC. 407. All Federal agencies and departments that 
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House
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and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all sole 
source contracts by no later than July 31, 2008. Such re-
port shall include the contractor, the amount of the con-
tract and the rationale for using a sole source contract. 
SEC. 408. (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 knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace.
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(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. 409. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with an entity 
that does not participate in the basic pilot program de-
scribed in section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Re-
form and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 
1324a note). 
SEC. 410. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to establish or implement a cross- 
border motor carrier demonstration or pilot project or pro-
gram to allow Mexico-domiciled motor carriers to operate 
beyond the commercial zones on the United States-Mexico 
border. 
SEC. 411. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to take any action to issue a final rule 
or notice based on, or otherwise implement, all or any part 
of the proposed rule of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development published on Friday, May 11, 2007, 
on page 27048 of volume 72 of the Federal Register 
(Docket No. FR–5087–P–01), relating to standards for 
mortgagor’s investment in mortgaged property. 
SEC. 412. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Federal Aviation Administration
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(FAA) to eliminate, consolidate, de-consolidate, co-locate, 
execute inter-facility reorganization, or plan for the con-
solidation/deconsolidation, inter-facility reorganization, or 
co-location of any FAA air traffic control facility or serv-
ice, with the exception of the reversal of the transfer of 
the radar functions from the Palm Springs Terminal 
Radar Approach Control (TRACON) to the Southern 
California TRACON. 
SEC. 413. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase light bulbs unless the light 
bulbs have the ‘‘ENERGY STAR’’ or ‘‘Federal Energy 
Management Program’’ designation. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to establish or collect tolls on Inter-
state 80 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Department of Transportation 
to promulgate regulations based on race, ethnicity, or sex. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to provide homeownership assistance for 
applicants described in 274A(h)(3) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 
SEC. 417. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to employ workers described in section 274A(h)(3) of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)).
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SEC. 418. The amount otherwise provided in this Act 
for ‘‘Grants-in-Aid for Airports’’ administered by the Fed-
eral Aviation Administration of the Department of Trans-
portation is hereby reduced by $10,000,000 and increased 
by $10,000,000. 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in violation of section 8 of the National 
Labor Relations Act of 1935, with respect to workers on 
federally-funded transportation projects. 
SEC. 420. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to participate in a working group 
pursuant to the Security and Prosperity Partnership. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2008’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives July 24, 2007. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3074 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2008, and for other pur-
poses.