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security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act; The 
Electronic Communications Privacy Act; The Fair Credit 
Reporting Act; The National Security Act of 1947; USA 
PATRIOT Act; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 524. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reasonable 
cause to believe that the total program cost has increased 
by 10 percent, the program manager shall immediately in-
form the Secretary, Administrator, or Director. The Sec-
retary, Administrator, or Director shall notify the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations within 30 days 
in writing of such increase, and shall include in such notice: 
the date on which such determination was made; a state-
ment of the reasons for such increases; the action taken and 
proposed to be taken to control future cost growth of the 
project; changes made in the performance or schedule mile-
stones and the degree to which such changes have contrib-
uted to the increase in total program costs or procurement 
costs; new estimates of the total project or procurement 
costs; and a statement validating that the project’s manage-
ment structure is adequate to control total project or pro-
curement costs. 
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SEC. 525. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence 
or intelligence related activities are deemed to be specifi-
cally authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 
of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during 
fiscal year 2010 until the enactment of the Intelligence Au-
thorization Act for fiscal year 2010. 
SEC. 526. The Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions funded under this Act, shall establish and maintain 
on the homepages of their Internet websites— 
(1) a direct link to the Internet websites of their 
Offices of Inspectors General; and 
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors 
General website by which individuals may anony-
mously report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse with re-
spect to those Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to enter into a 
contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to award 
a grant in excess of such amount unless the prospective con-
tractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency award-
ing the contract or grant that, to the best of its knowledge 
and belief, the contractor or grantee has filed all Federal 
tax returns required during the three years preceding the 
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certification, has not been convicted of a criminal offense 
under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and has not, more 
than 90 days prior to certification, been notified of any 
unpaid Federal tax assessment for which the liability re-
mains unsatisfied, unless the assessment is the subject of 
an installment agreement or offer in compromise that has 
been approved by the Internal Revenue Service and is not 
in default, or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous 
administrative or judicial proceeding. 
SEC. 528. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this Act may be used in a manner that 
is inconsistent with the principal negotiating objective of 
the United States with respect to trade remedy laws to pre-
serve the ability of the United States— 
(1) to enforce vigorously its trade laws, including 
antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard 
laws; 
(2) to avoid agreements that— 
(A) lessen the effectiveness of domestic and 
international disciplines on unfair trade, espe-
cially dumping and subsidies; or 
(B) lessen the effectiveness of domestic and 
international safeguard provisions, in order to 
ensure that United States workers, agricultural 
producers, and firms can compete fully on fair 
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terms and enjoy the benefits of reciprocal trade 
concessions; and 
(3) to address and remedy market distortions 
that lead to dumping and subsidization, including 
overcapacity, cartelization, and market-access bar-
riers. 
SEC. 529. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 
travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301– 
10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance 
of more than 50 employees from a Federal department or 
agency at any single conference occurring outside the 
United States. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 531. (a) Of the unobligated balances available to 
the Department of Justice from prior appropriations, the 
following funds are hereby rescinded, not later than Sep-
tember 30, 2010, from the following accounts in the speci-
fied amounts: 
(1) ‘‘Legal Activities, Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, 
$379,000,000, of which $136,000,000 shall be perma-
nently rescinded and returned to the general fund; 
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(2) ‘‘Office of Justice Programs’’, $42,000,000; 
and 
(3) ‘‘Community Oriented Policing Services’’, 
$40,000,000. 
(b) The Department of Justice shall, within 30 days 
of enactment of this Act, submit to the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
a report specifying the amount of each rescission made pur-
suant to this section. 
(c) The recissions contained in this section shall not 
apply to funds provided in this Act. 
SEC. 532. Section 504(a) of the Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1996 (as contained in Public Law 
104–134) is amended: 
(1) in subsection (a), in the matter preceding 
paragraph (1), by inserting after ‘‘)’’ the following: 
‘‘that uses Federal funds (or funds from any source 
with regard to paragraphs (14) and (15)) in a man-
ner’’; 
(2) by striking subsection (d); and 
(3) by redesignating subsections (e) and (f) as 
subsections (d) and (e), respectively. 
SEC. 533. None of the funds made available under this 
Act may be distributed to the Association of Community 
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Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidi-
aries. 
REVIEW AND AUDIT OF ACORN FEDERAL FUNDING 
SEC. 534. (a) REVIEW AND AUDIT.—The Comptroller 
General of the United States shall conduct a review and 
audit of Federal funds received by the Association of Com-
munity Organizations for Reform Now (referred to in this 
section as ‘‘ACORN’’) or any subsidiary or affiliate of 
ACORN to determine— 
(1) whether any Federal funds were misused 
and, if so, the total amount of Federal funds involved 
and how such funds were misused; 
(2) what steps, if any, have been taken to recover 
any Federal funds that were misused; 
(3) what steps should be taken to prevent the 
misuse of any Federal funds; and 
(4) whether all necessary steps have been taken 
to prevent the misuse of any Federal funds. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on the results of the audit required 
under subsection (a), along with recommendations for Fed-
eral agency reforms. 
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 18, 2009. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
Passed the Senate November 5, 2009. 
Attest: 
NANCY ERICKSON, 
Secretary. 
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