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individuals at meetings concerned with the work of emergency
preparedness; transportation in connection with the continuity of
Government programs to the same extent and in the same manner
as permitted the Secretary of a Military Department under 10
U.S.C. 2632; and not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and
representation expenses, $171,773,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$4,803,000.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry
out activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.),
the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act
of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the Defense Production
Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), sections
107 and 303 of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended
(50 U.S.C. 404–405), and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978,
$243,546,000: Provided, That for purposes of pre-disaster mitigation
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5131(b) and (c) and 42 U.S.C. 5196(e) and
(i), $30,000,000 of the funds made available under this heading
shall be available until expended for project grants: Provided fur-
ther, That the Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency shall make a grant for $1,500,000 to resolve issues under
the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition
Policies Act of 1970, Public Law 91–646, involving the City of
Jackson, Mississippi.
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM
To carry out an emergency food and shelter program pursuant
to title III of Public Law 100–77, as amended, $100,000,000: Pro-
vided, That total administrative costs shall not exceed three and
one-half percent of the total appropriation.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, and the National Flood
Insurance Reform Act of 1994, not to exceed $21,610,000 for salaries
and expenses associated with flood mitigation and flood insurance
operations, and not to exceed $78,464,000 for flood mitigation,
including up to $20,000,000 for expenses under section 1366 of
the National Flood Insurance Act, which amount shall be available
for transfer to the National Flood Mitigation Fund until September
30, 1999. In fiscal year 1998, no funds in excess of: (1) $47,000,000
for operating expenses; (2) $375,165,000 for agents’ commissions
and taxes; and (3) $50,000,000 for interest on Treasury borrowings
shall be available from the National Flood Insurance Fund without
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prior notice to the Committees on Appropriations. For fiscal year
1998, flood insurance rates shall not exceed the level authorized
by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994.
Section 1309(a)(2) of the National Flood Insurance Act (42
U.S.C. 4016(a)(2)), as amended by Public Law 104–208, is further
amended by striking ‘‘1997’’ and inserting ‘‘1998’’.
Section 1319 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 4026), is amended by striking ‘‘October
23, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 1998’’.
Section 1336 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 4056), is amended by striking ‘‘October
23, 1997’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 1998’’.
The first sentence of section 1376(c) of the National Flood
Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4127(c)), is amended
by striking all after ‘‘to be appropriated’’ and inserting ‘‘such sums
as may be necessary through September 30, 1998, for studies under
this title.’’.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
shall promulgate through rulemaking a methodology for assessment
and collection of fees to be assessed and collected beginning in
fiscal year 1998 applicable to persons subject to the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency’s radiological emergency preparedness
regulations. The aggregate charges assessed pursuant to this section
during fiscal year 1998 shall approximate, but not be less than,
100 percent of the amounts anticipated by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency to be obligated for its radiological emergency
preparedness program for such fiscal year. The methodology for
assessment and collection of fees shall be fair and equitable, and
shall reflect the full amount of costs of providing radiological emer-
gency planning, preparedness, response and associated services.
Such fees shall be assessed in a manner that reflects the use
of agency resources for classes of regulated persons and the adminis-
trative costs of collecting such fees. Fees received pursuant to
this section shall be deposited in the general fund of the Treasury
as offsetting receipts. Assessment and collection of such fees are
only authorized during fiscal year 1998.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER FUND
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information Center,
including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $2,419,000, to be
deposited into the Consumer Information Center Fund: Provided,
That the appropriations, revenues and collections deposited into
the fund shall be available for necessary expenses of Consumer
Information Center activities in the aggregate amount of $7,500,000.
Appropriations, revenues, and collections accruing to this fund dur-
ing fiscal year 1998 in excess of $7,500,000 shall remain in the
fund and shall not be available for expenditure except as authorized
in appropriations Acts: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Consumer Information Center may accept
and deposit to this account, during fiscal year 1998 and hereafter,
gifts for the purpose of defraying its costs of printing, publishing,
and distributing consumer information and educational materials
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and undertaking other consumer information activities; may expend
those gifts for those purposes, in addition to amounts appropriated
or otherwise made available; and the balance shall remain available
for expenditure for such purpose.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of human space flight research and develop-
ment activities, including research, development, operations, and
services; maintenance; construction of facilities including repair,
rehabilitation, and modification of real and personal property, and
acquisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by law;
space flight, spacecraft control and communications activities
including operations, production, and services; and purchase, lease,
charter, maintenance and operation of mission and administrative
aircraft, $5,506,500,000, to remain available until September 30,
1999: Provided, That of the $2,351,300,000 made available under
this heading for Space Station activities, only $1,500,000,000 shall
be available before March 31, 1998.
SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in the
conduct and support of science, aeronautics and technology research
and development activities, including research, development,
operations, and services; maintenance; construction of facilities
including repair, rehabilitation, and modification of real and per-
sonal property, and acquisition or condemnation of real property,
as authorized by law; space flight, spacecraft control and commu-
nications activities including operations, production, and services;
and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation of mission
and administrative aircraft, $5,690,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1999.
MISSION SUPPORT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in carrying
out mission support for human space flight programs and
science, aeronautical, and technology programs, including research
operations and support; space communications activities including
operations, production and services; maintenance; construction of
facilities including repair, rehabilitation, and modification of facili-
ties, minor construction of new facilities and additions to existing
facilities, facility planning and design, environmental compliance
and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real property,
as authorized by law; program management; personnel and related
costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; travel expenses; purchase, lease, charter,
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative aircraft;
not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and representation
expenses; and purchase (not to exceed 33 for replacement only)
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; $2,433,200,000, to remain
available until September 30, 1999.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$18,300,000.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds
appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science, aeronautics and
technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this appropriations Act, when
any activity has been initiated by the incurrence of obligations
for construction of facilities as authorized by law, such amount
available for such activity shall remain available until expended.
This provision does not apply to the amounts appropriated in ‘‘Mis-
sion support’’ pursuant to the authorization for repair, rehabilitation
and modification of facilities, minor construction of new facilities
and additions to existing facilities, and facility planning and design.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds
appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science, aeronautics and
technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this appropriations Act, the
amounts appropriated for construction of facilities shall remain
available until September 30, 2000.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds
appropriated for ‘‘Mission support’’ and ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’, amounts made available by this Act for personnel and related
costs and travel expenses of the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration shall remain available until September 30, 1998
and may be used to enter into contracts for training, investigations,
costs associated with personnel relocation, and for other services,
to be provided during the next fiscal year.
Of the funds provided to the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration in this Act, the Administrator shall by November
1, 1998, make available no less than $400,000 for a study by
the National Research Council, with an interim report to be com-
pleted by June 1, 1998, that evaluates, in terms of the potential
impact on the Space Station’s assembly schedule, budget, and
capabilities, the engineering challenges posed by extravehicular
activity (EVA) requirements, United States and non-United States
space launch requirements, the potential need to upgrade or replace
equipment and components after assembly complete, and the
requirement to decommission and disassemble the facility.
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY
During fiscal year 1998, gross obligations of the Central Liquid-
ity Facility for the principal amount of new direct loans to member
credit unions, as authorized by the National Credit Union Central
Liquidity Facility Act (12 U.S.C. 1795), shall not exceed
$600,000,000: Provided, That administrative expenses of the
Central Liquidity Facility in fiscal year 1998 shall not exceed
$203,000: Provided further, That $1,000,000, together with amounts
of principal and interest on loans repaid, to be available until
expended, is available for loans to community development credit
unions.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), and
the Act to establish a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–
1881); services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and
operation of aircraft and purchase of flight services for research
support; acquisition of aircraft; $2,545,700,000, of which not to
exceed $228,530,000 shall remain available until expended for Polar
research and operations support, and for reimbursement to other
Federal agencies for operational and science support and logistical
and other related activities for the United States Antarctic program;
the balance to remain available until September 30, 1999: Provided,
That receipts for scientific support services and materials furnished
by the National Research Centers and other National Science
Foundation supported research facilities may be credited to this
appropriation: Provided further, That to the extent that the amount
appropriated is less than the total amount authorized to be appro-
priated for included program activities, all amounts, including floors
and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for those program
activities or their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally: Pro-
vided further, That $40,000,000 of the funds available under this
heading shall be made available for a comprehensive research initia-
tive on plant genomes for economically significant crops.
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
For necessary expenses of major construction projects pursuant
to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended,
$109,000,000, to remain available until expended, of which
$35,000,000 shall become available on September 30, 1998.
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and engineering
education and human resources programs and activities pursuant
to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42
U.S.C. 1861–1875), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109 and rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia,
$632,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 1999: Pro-
vided, That to the extent that the amount of this appropriation
is less than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for
included program activities, all amounts, including floors and ceil-
ings, specified in the authorizing Act for those program activities
or their subactivities shall be reduced proportionally.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out the
National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; rental of conference rooms in the District
of Columbia; reimbursement of the General Services Administration
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$136,950,000: Provided, That contracts may be entered into under
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‘‘Salaries and expenses’’ in fiscal year 1998 for maintenance and
operation of facilities, and for other services, to be provided during
the next fiscal year.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General as
authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended,
$4,850,000, to remain available until September 30, 1999.
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by
the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–
8107), $60,000,000.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System, includ-
ing expenses of attendance at meetings and of training for uni-
formed personnel assigned to the Selective Service System, as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for civilian employees; and not
to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation expenses;
$23,413,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal year, the
President may exempt this appropriation from the provisions of
31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever he deems such action to be necessary
in the interest of national defense: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated by this Act may be expended for or
in connection with the induction of any person into the Armed
Forces of the United States.
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and III of this
Act are expendable for travel expenses and no specific limitation
has been placed thereon, the expenditures for such travel expenses
may not exceed the amounts set forth therefore in the budget
estimates submitted for the appropriations: Provided, That this
provision does not apply to accounts that do not contain an object
classification for travel: Provided further, That this section shall
not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local
boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service System; to travel
performed directly in connection with care and treatment of medical
beneficiaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs; to travel per-
formed in connection with major disasters or emergencies declared
or determined by the President under the provisions of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; to travel
performed by the Offices of Inspector General in connection with
audits and investigations; or to payments to interagency motor
pools where separately set forth in the budget schedules: Provided
further, That if appropriations in titles I, II, and III exceed the
amounts set forth in budget estimates initially submitted for such
appropriations, the expenditures for travel may correspondingly
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exceed the amounts therefore set forth in the estimates in the
same proportion.
SEC. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the adminis-
trative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and the Selective Service System shall be available
in the current fiscal year for purchase of uniforms, or allowances
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 403. Funds of the Department of Housing and Urban
Development subject to the Government Corporation Control Act
or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall be available, without
regard to the limitations on administrative expenses, for legal serv-
ices on a contract or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment
for services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Association,
Government National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal Reserve
banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks, and
any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Corporation Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 404. 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. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or employee
of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by, or is part
of, a voucher or abstract which describes the payee or
payees and the items or services for which such expenditure
is being made; or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to such
certification, and without such a voucher or abstract, is
specifically authorized by law; and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by the Gen-
eral Accounting Office or is specifically exempt by law from
such audit.
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency may be expended for the transportation of any
officer or employee of such department or agency between his
domicile and his place of employment, with the exception of any
officer or employee authorized such transportation under 31 U.S.C.
1344 or 5 U.S.C. 7905.
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may be
used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that
do not share in the cost of conducting research resulting from
proposals not specifically solicited by the Government: Provided,
That the extent of cost sharing by the recipient shall reflect the
mutuality of interest of the grantee or contractor and the Govern-
ment in the research.
SEC. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used, directly
or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for payment
of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the Federal
Government or a grantee) at more than the daily equivalent of
the rate paid for level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifi-
cally authorized by law.
SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be
used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal
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parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings. Noth-
ing herein affects the authority of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission pursuant to section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety
Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under existing law
or under an existing Executive order issued pursuant to an existing
law, the obligation or expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for contracts for any consulting service shall be limited to
contracts which are: (1) a matter of public record and available
for public inspection; and (2) thereafter included in a publicly avail-
able list of all contracts entered into within 24 months prior to
the date on which the list is made available to the public and
of all contracts on which performance has not been completed
by such date. The list required by the preceding sentence shall
be updated quarterly and shall include a narrative description
of the work to be performed under each such contract.
SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no part of
any appropriation contained in this Act shall be obligated or
expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office
of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for
a contract for services unless such executive agency: (1) has awarded
and entered into such contract in full compliance with such Act
and the regulations promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any
report prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, evalua-
tions, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report prepared
by the agency which is substantially derived from or substantially
includes any report prepared pursuant to such contract, to contain
information concerning: (A) the contract pursuant to which the
report was prepared; and (B) the contractor who prepared the
report pursuant to such contract.
SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section 406, none
of the funds provided in this Act to any department or agency
shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauffeur,
or other personal servants to any officer or employee of such depart-
ment or agency.
SEC. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger
automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 with an EPA estimated
miles per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 414. None of the funds appropriated in title I of this
Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of real property
if the estimated annual rental is more than $300,000 unless the
Secretary submits, in writing, a report to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Congress and a period of 30 days has expired
following the date on which the report is received by the Committees
on Appropriations.
SEC. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased
with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into any
contract with, any entity 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 statement made
in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may
be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to grantees
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for indirect costs, except as published in Office of Management
and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 1998
pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within
the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used for any program, project, or activity, when it is made
known to the Federal entity or official to which the funds are
made available that the program, project, or activity is not in
compliance with any Federal law relating to risk assessment, the
protection of private property rights, or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development which are subject to the Government
Corporation Control Act, as amended, are hereby authorized to
make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing
authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without
regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of
the Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set
forth in the budget for 1998 for such corporation or agency except
as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of these corpora-
tions and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase
commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage pur-
chases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United
States Government.
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding section 320(g) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)), funds made available
pursuant to authorization under such section for fiscal year 1998
and prior fiscal years may be used for implementing comprehensive
conservation and management plans.
SEC. 421. Such funds as may be necessary to carry out the
orderly termination of the Office of Consumer Affairs shall be
made available from funds appropriated to the Department of
Health and Human Services for fiscal year 1998.
SEC. 422. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to national service edu-
cation awards shall mean any loan made directly to a student
by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, in addition
to other meanings under section 148(b)(7) of the National and
Community Service Act.
TITLE V—HUD MULTIFAMILY HOUSING REFORM
SEC. 501. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents for this title is as follows:
TITLE V—HUD MULTIFAMILY HOUSING REFORM
Sec. 510. Short title.
SUBTITLE A—FHA-INSURED MULTIFAMILY HOUSING MORTGAGE AND HOUSING
ASSISTANCE RESTRUCTURING
Sec. 511. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 512. Definitions.
Sec. 513. Authority of participating administrative entities.