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SEC. 505. (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 obligation or expenditure 
in fiscal year 2008, 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 that: (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) reorganizes or renames offices, programs, 
or activities; or (6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; unless the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are notified 15 
days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) 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 obligation or expenditure in fiscal 
year 2008, 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 re-
programming 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 pro-
gram, project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent 
as approved by Congress; or (3) results from any general savings, 
including savings from a reduction in personnel, which would result 
in a change in existing programs, activities, or projects as approved 
by Congress; unless the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations are notified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming 
of funds. 
SEC. 506. Hereafter, none of the funds made available in this 
Act or any other Act may be used for the construction, repair 
(other than emergency repair), overhaul, conversion, or moderniza-
tion of vessels for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration in shipyards located outside of the United States. 
SEC. 507. Hereafter, none of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce any guidelines 
of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission covering harass-
ment 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. 508. If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal 
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a 
‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with the same 
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States 
that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible 
to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made avail-
able in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligi-
bility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 
48, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 509. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the 
National Science Foundation, and the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration, shall provide to the House and Senate
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Committees on Appropriations a quarterly accounting of the cumu-
lative balances of any unobligated funds that were received by 
such agency during any previous fiscal year. 
SEC. 510. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded 
under this Act resulting from, or to prevent, personnel actions 
taken in response to funding reductions included in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available to such 
department or agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer 
funds between appropriations accounts as may be necessary to 
carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities included 
elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry 
out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds 
under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be 
available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or tobacco prod-
ucts, or to seek the reduction or removal by any foreign country 
of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco or tobacco products, 
except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco 
or tobacco products of the same type. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act or any other provision of law may be used for— 
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection 
with the implementation of subsection 922(t) of title 18, United 
States Code; and 
(2) any system to implement subsection 922(t) of title 18, 
United States Code, that does not require and result in the 
destruction of any identifying information submitted by or on 
behalf of any person who has been determined not to be prohib-
ited from possessing or receiving a firearm no more than 24 
hours after the system advises a Federal firearms licensee 
that possession or receipt of a firearm by the prospective trans-
feree would not violate subsection (g) or (n) of section 922 
of title 18, United States Code, or State law. 
SEC. 513. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, amounts 
deposited or available in the Fund established under 42 U.S.C. 
10601 in any fiscal year in excess of $590,000,000 shall not be 
available for obligation until the following fiscal year. 
SEC. 514. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Justice in this Act may be used to discriminate against or 
denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of students who participate 
in programs for which financial assistance is provided from those 
funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such students. 
SEC. 515. 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. 516. With the consent of the President, the Secretary 
of Commerce shall represent the United States Government in 
negotiating and monitoring international agreements regarding 
fisheries, marine mammals, or sea turtles: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of Commerce shall be responsible for the development and 
interdepartmental coordination of the policies of the United States 
with respect to the international negotiations and agreements 
referred to in this section.
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SEC. 517. Any funds provided in this Act used to implement 
E-Government Initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set 
forth in section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 518. (a) Tracing studies conducted by the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are released without 
adequate disclaimers regarding the limitations of the data. 
(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 
shall include in all such data releases, language similar to the 
following that would make clear that trace data cannot be used 
to draw broad conclusions about firearms-related crime: 
(1) Firearm traces are designed to assist law enforcement 
authorities in conducting investigations by tracking the sale 
and possession of specific firearms. Law enforcement agencies 
may request firearms traces for any reason, and those reasons 
are not necessarily reported to the Federal Government. Not 
all firearms used in crime are traced and not all firearms 
traced are used in crime. 
(2) Firearms selected for tracing are not chosen for purposes 
of determining which types, makes, or models of firearms are 
used for illicit purposes. The firearms selected do not constitute 
a random sample and should not be considered representative 
of the larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or 
any subset of that universe. Firearms are normally traced 
to the first retail seller, and sources reported for firearms 
traced do not necessarily represent the sources or methods 
by which firearms in general are acquired for use in crime. 
SEC. 519. (a) The Inspectors General of the Department of 
Commerce, the Department of Justice, the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation 
shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector General Act (5 
U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for which funds are appropriated 
by this Act, and shall submit reports to Congress on the progress 
of such audits, which may include preliminary findings and a 
description of areas of particular interest, within 180 days after 
initiating such an audit and every 180 days thereafter until any 
such audit is completed. 
(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit described 
in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is completed, the Sec-
retary, Attorney General, Administrator, or Director, as appropriate, 
shall make the results of the audit available to the public on 
the Internet website maintained by the Department, Administra-
tion, or Foundation, respectively. The results shall be made avail-
able in redacted form to exclude— 
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of title 5, United 
States Code; and 
(2) sensitive personal information for any individual, the 
public access to which could be used to commit identity theft 
or for other inappropriate or unlawful purposes. 
(c) A grant or contract funded by amounts appropriated by 
this Act may not be used for the purpose of defraying the costs 
of a banquet or conference that is not directly and programmatically 
related to the purpose for which the grant or contract was awarded, 
such as a banquet or conference held in connection with planning, 
training, assessment, review, or other routine purposes related to 
a project funded by the grant or contract. 
(d) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded by amounts 
appropriated by this Act shall submit a statement to the Secretary
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of Commerce, the Attorney General, the Administrator, or the 
Director, as appropriate, certifying that no funds derived from the 
grant or contract will be made available through a subcontract 
or in any other manner to another person who has a financial 
interest in the person awarded the grant or contract. 
(e) The provisions of the preceding subsections of this section 
shall take effect 30 days after the date on which the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with 
the Director of the Office of Government Ethics, determines that 
a uniform set of rules and requirements, substantially similar to 
the requirements in such subsections, consistently apply under 
the executive branch ethics program to all Federal departments, 
agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used to issue patents on claims 
directed to or encompassing a human organism. 
SEC. 521. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 
be used in any way whatsoever to support or justify the use of 
torture by any official or contract employee of the United States 
Government. 
SEC. 522. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law or 
treaty, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act or any other Act may be expended or obligated 
by a department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States 
to pay administrative expenses or to compensate an officer or 
employee of the United States in connection with requiring an 
export license for the export to Canada of components, parts, acces-
sories or attachments for firearms listed in Category I, section 
121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (International Traf-
ficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), part 121, as it existed on 
April 1, 2005) with a total value not exceeding $500 wholesale 
in any transaction, provided that the conditions of subsection (b) 
of this section are met by the exporting party for such articles. 
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export license— 
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any Shipper’s 
Export Declaration or notification letter required by law, or 
from being otherwise eligible under the laws of the United 
States to possess, ship, transport, or export the articles enumer-
ated in subsection (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and components and parts 
for such firearms, other than for end use by the Federal 
Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of 
Canada; 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete 
breech mechanisms for any firearm listed in Category I, 
other than for end use by the Federal Government, or 
a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to another foreign 
destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Directors of 
Customs and postmasters shall permit the permanent or temporary 
export without a license of any unclassified articles specified in 
subsection (a) to Canada for end use in Canada or return to the 
United States, or temporary import of Canadian-origin items from 
Canada for end use in the United States or return to Canada 
for a Canadian citizen.