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grantee (or successor in interest or any entity with substan-
tially the same person or persons in control) that has been 
determined to have committed any substantial violations of 
the requirements of the AmeriCorps programs, including 
any grantee that has been determined to have violated the 
prohibition of using Federal funds to lobby the Congress: 
Provided, That the Inspector General shall obtain reim-
bursements in the amount of any misused funds from any 
grantee that has been determined to have committed any 
substantial violations of the requirements of the AmeriCorps 
programs. 
For fiscal year 2008, the Corporation shall make any 
significant changes to program requirements or policy only 
through public notice and comment rulemaking. For fiscal 
year 2008, during any grant selection process, no officer 
or employee of the Corporation shall knowingly disclose any 
covered grant selection information regarding such selec-
tion, directly or indirectly, to any person other than an 
officer or employee of the Corporation that is authorized 
by the Corporation to receive such information. 
Except as expressly provided herein, not to exceed 1 
percent of any discretionary funds (pursuant to the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, 
as amended) which are appropriated for the Corporation 
in this Act may be transferred between activities identified 
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under this heading in the committee report accompanying 
this Act, but no such activity shall be increased by more 
than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, That the 
Appropriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are 
notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting, as authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, 
an amount which shall be available within limitations spec-
ified by that Act, for the fiscal year 2010, $420,000,000: 
Provided, That no funds made available to the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay 
for receptions, parties, or similar forms of entertainment 
for Government officials or employees: Provided further, 
That none of the funds contained in this paragraph shall 
be available or used to aid or support any program or activ-
ity from which any person is excluded, or is denied benefits, 
or is discriminated against, on the basis of race, color, na-
tional origin, religion, or sex: Provided further, That for 
fiscal year 2008, in addition to the amounts provided above, 
$29,700,000 shall be for costs related to digital program 
production, development, and distribution, associated with 
the transition of public broadcasting to digital broad-
casting, to be awarded as determined by the Corporation 
in consultation with public radio and television licensees 
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or permittees, or their designated representatives: Provided 
further, That for fiscal year 2008, in addition to the 
amounts provided above, $26,750,000 shall be for the costs 
associated with replacement and upgrade of the public 
radio interconnection system: Provided further, That none 
of the funds made available to the Corporation for Public 
Broadcasting by this Act, Public Law 108–199 or Public 
Law 108–7, shall be used to support the Television Future 
Fund or any similar purpose. 
FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in 
it by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 (29 U.S.C. 
171–180, 182–183), including hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles; for expenses necessary for the Labor-Management Co-
operation Act of 1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a); and for expenses 
necessary for the Service to carry out the functions vested 
in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 95–454 
(5 U.S.C. chapter 71), $44,450,000, including $400,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2009, for activities 
authorized by the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 
1978 (29 U.S.C. 175a): Provided, That notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-cost recovery, for spe-
cial training activities and other conflict resolution services 
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and technical assistance, including those provided to foreign 
governments and international organizations, and for arbi-
tration services shall be credited to and merged with this 
account, and shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That fees for arbitration services shall be 
available only for education, training, and professional de-
velopment of the agency workforce: Provided further, That 
the Director of the Service is authorized to accept and use 
on behalf of the United States gifts of services and real, per-
sonal, or other property in the aid of any projects or func-
tions within the Director’s jurisdiction. 
FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Review Commission (30 U.S.C. 801 et seq.), 
$8,096,000. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES 
OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND 
ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out the Museum and Library Services 
Act of 1996, $266,680,000: Provided, That $8,680,000 shall 
be available for the projects and in the amounts specified 
in the committee report of the Senate accompanying this 
Act: Provided further, That funds may be made available 
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for grants to Federal commissions that support museum 
and library activities, in partnership with libraries and 
museums that are eligible for funding under programs car-
ried out by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 
MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the 
Social Security Act, $10,748,000, to be transferred to this 
appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the 
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION 
SCIENCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For close out activities of the National Commission on 
Libraries and Information Science, established by the Act 
of July 20, 1970 (Public Law 91–345, as amended), 
$400,000. 
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Council on 
Disability as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation 
Act of 1973, as amended, $3,113,000. 
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NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Rela-
tions Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended (29 
U.S.C. 141–167), and other laws, $256,988,000: Provided, 
That no part of this appropriation shall be available to or-
ganize or assist in organizing agricultural laborers or used 
in connection with investigations, hearings, directives, or 
orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricul-
tural laborers as referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of 
July 5, 1935 (29 U.S.C. 152), and as amended by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, as amended, and 
as defined in section 3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938 (29 
U.S.C. 203), and including in said definition employees en-
gaged in the maintenance and operation of ditches, canals, 
reservoirs, and waterways when maintained or operated on 
a mutual, nonprofit basis and at least 95 percent of the 
water stored or supplied thereby is used for farming pur-
poses. 
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the Railway Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151–188), 
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including emergency boards appointed by the President, 
$12,992,000. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety 
and Health Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), 
$10,696,000. 
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, 
authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement 
Act of 1974, $79,000,000, which shall include amounts be-
coming available in fiscal year 2008 pursuant to section 
224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addition, an 
amount, not to exceed 2 percent of the amount provided 
herein, shall be available proportional to the amount by 
which the product of recipients and the average benefit re-
ceived exceeds $97,000,000: Provided, That the total amount 
provided herein shall be credited in 12 approximately equal 
amounts on the first day of each month in the fiscal year. 
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT 
ACCOUNTS 
For payment to the accounts established in the Treas-
ury for the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retire-
ment Act for interest earned on unnegotiated checks, 
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$150,000, to remain available through September 30, 2009, 
which shall be the maximum amount available for payment 
pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98–76. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement 
Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement Act 
and 
the 
Railroad 
Unemployment 
Insurance 
Act, 
$103,694,000, to be derived in such amounts as determined 
by the Board from the railroad retirement accounts and 
from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment insur-
ance administration fund. 
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral for audit, investigatory and review activities, as au-
thorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, 
not more than $8,000,000, to be derived from the railroad 
retirement accounts and railroad unemployment insurance 
account: Provided, That none of the funds made available 
in any other paragraph of this Act may be transferred to 
the Office; used to carry out any such transfer; used to pro-
vide any office space, equipment, office supplies, commu-
nications facilities or services, maintenance services, or ad-
ministrative services for the Office; used to pay any salary, 
benefit, or award for any personnel of the Office; used to 
pay any other operating expense of the Office; or used to 
reimburse the Office for any service provided, or expense 
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incurred, by the Office: Provided further, That funds made 
available under the heading in this Act, or subsequent De-
partments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Edu-
cation, and Related Agencies Appropriations Acts, may be 
used for any audit, investigation, or review of the Medicare 
Program. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance and the Federal Disability Insurance trust funds, 
as provided under sections 201(m), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) 
of the Social Security Act, $28,140,000. 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Secu-
rity Act, section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 
of Public Law 93–66, as amended, and section 405 of Public 
Law 95–216, including payment to the Social Security 
trust funds for administrative expenses incurred pursuant 
to 
section 
201(g)(1) 
of 
the 
Social 
Security 
Act, 
$26,959,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That any portion of the funds provided to a State 
in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State 
during that year shall be returned to the Treasury. 
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the So-
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cial Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title XVI of the 
Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, 
$14,800,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two pas-
senger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $15,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, not more than 
$9,372,953,000 may be expended, as authorized by section 
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all 
of the trust funds referred to therein: Provided, That not 
less than $2,000,000 shall be for the Social Security Advi-
sory Board: Provided further, That unobligated balances of 
funds provided under this paragraph at the end of fiscal 
year 2008 not needed for fiscal year 2008 shall remain 
available until expended to invest in the Social Security 
Administration information technology and telecommuni-
cations hardware and software infrastructure, including re-
lated equipment and non-payroll administrative expenses 
associated solely with this information technology and tele-
communications infrastructure: Provided further, That re-
imbursement to the trust funds under this heading for ex-
penditures for official time for employees of the Social Secu-
rity Administration pursuant to section 7131 of title 5, 
United States Code, and for facilities or support services 
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