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related activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 2012 until the enactment 
of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2012. 
SEC. 526. The Departments, agencies, and commissions funded 
under this Act, shall establish and maintain on the homepages 
of their Internet websites— 
(1) a direct link to the Internet Web sites of their Offices 
of Inspectors General; and 
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors General Web 
site by which individuals may anonymously report cases of 
waste, fraud, or abuse with respect to those Departments, agen-
cies, and commissions. 
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 contractor or grantee certifies 
in writing to the agency awarding 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 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 remains 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. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 528. (a) Of the unobligated balances available to the 
Department of Commerce, the following funds are hereby rescinded, 
not later than September 30, 2012, from the following accounts 
in the specified amounts— 
(1) 
‘‘National 
Telecommunications 
and 
Information 
Administration, 
Information 
Infrastructure 
Grants’’, 
$2,000,000; 
(2) 
‘‘National 
Telecommunications 
and 
Information 
Administration, Public Telecommunications Facilities, Planning 
and Construction’’, $2,750,000; and 
(3) ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
Foreign Fishing Observer Fund’’, $350,000. 
(b) Of the amounts made available under section 3010 of the 
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (47 U.S.C. 309 note), $4,300,000 
in unobligated balances are hereby rescinded. 
(c) Of the unobligated balances available for ‘‘Emergency Steel, 
Oil, and Gas Guaranteed Loan Program Account’’, $700,000 are 
hereby rescinded. 
(d) Of the unobligated balances available to the Department 
of Justice, the following funds are hereby rescinded, not later than 
September 30, 2012, from the following accounts in the specified 
amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $40,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘Legal Activities, Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, $675,000,000; 
(3) 
‘‘United 
States 
Marshals 
Service, 
Salaries 
and 
Expenses’’, $2,200,000;
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(4) ‘‘Drug Enforcement Administration, Salaries and 
Expenses’’, $10,000,000; 
(5) ‘‘Federal Prison System, Buildings and Facilities’’, 
$45,000,000; 
(6) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office 
on Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women Preven-
tion and Prosecution Programs’’, $15,000,000; 
(7) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office 
of Justice Programs’’, $55,000,000; and 
(8) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services’’, $23,605,000. 
(e) The Department of Justice shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
a report no later than September 1, 2012 specifying the amount 
of each rescission made pursuant to subsection (d). 
(f) Of the unobligated balances available to the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration from prior appropriations, 
$30,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 529. 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 preserve the ability of the United 
States— 
(1) to enforce vigorously its trade laws, including anti-
dumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard laws; 
(2) to avoid agreements that— 
(A) lessen the effectiveness of domestic and inter-
national disciplines on unfair trade, especially dumping 
and subsidies; or 
(B) lessen the effectiveness of domestic and inter-
national safeguard provisions, in order to ensure that 
United States workers, agricultural producers, and firms 
can compete fully on fair 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, carteliza-
tion, and market-access barriers. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to purchase first class or premium airline travel in con-
travention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41 
of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 531. 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, unless such con-
ference is a law enforcement training or operational conference 
for law enforcement personnel and the majority of Federal 
employees in attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed 
outside the United States. 
SEC. 532. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this or any other Act may be used to transfer, release, 
or assist in the transfer or release to or within the United States, 
its territories, or possessions Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any 
other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member of the 
Armed Forces of the United States; and
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(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at the United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the Depart-
ment of Defense. 
SEC. 533. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this or any other Act may be used to construct, 
acquire, or modify any facility in the United States, its territories, 
or possessions to house any individual described in subsection (c) 
for the purposes of detention or imprisonment in the custody or 
under the effective control of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
modification of facilities at United States Naval Station, Guanta-
namo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any individual 
who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United States Naval Station, 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is— 
(A) in the custody or under the effective control of 
the Department of Defense; or 
(B) otherwise under detention at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 534. None of the funds made available under this Act 
may be distributed to the Association of Community Organizations 
for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidiaries. 
SEC. 535. To the extent practicable, funds made available in 
this Act should be used to purchase light bulbs that are ‘‘Energy 
Star’’ qualified or have the ‘‘Federal Energy Management Program’’ 
designation. 
SEC. 536. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
shall instruct any department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States Government receiving funds appropriated under this 
Act to track undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts and 
include in its annual performance plan and performance and 
accountability reports the following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, agency, or 
instrumentality will take to resolve undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or instrumen-
tality uses to track undisbursed balances in expired grant 
accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in expired grant 
accounts that may be returned to the Treasury of the United 
States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on the total 
number of expired grant accounts with undisbursed balances 
(on the first day of each fiscal year) for the department, agency, 
or instrumentality and the total finances that have not been 
obligated to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to relocate the Bureau of the Census or employees from 
the Department of Commerce to the jurisdiction of the Executive 
Office of the President. 
SEC. 538. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National 
Science Foundation shall submit spending plans, signed by the
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respective department or agency head, to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate within 
45 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 539. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA) or the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) 
to develop, design, plan, promulgate, implement, or execute a 
bilateral policy, program, order, or contract of any kind to partici-
pate, collaborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifi-
cally authorized by a law enacted after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall also apply to any 
funds used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and (b) shall 
not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP have certified pose 
no risk of resulting in the transfer of technology, data, or other 
information with national security or economic security implications 
to China or a Chinese-owned company. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall be sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate no later than 14 days prior to the 
activity in question and shall include a description of the purpose 
of the activity, its major participants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 540. (a) The head of any department, agency, board or 
commission funded by this Act shall submit quarterly reports to 
the Inspector General, or the senior ethics official for any entity 
without an inspector general, of the appropriate department, 
agency, board or commission regarding the costs and contracting 
procedures relating to each conference held by the department, 
agency, board or commission during fiscal year 2012 for which 
the cost to the Government was more than $20,000. 
(b) Each report submitted under subsection (a) shall include, 
for each conference described in that subsection held during the 
applicable quarter— 
(1) a description of the subject of and number of partici-
pants attending that conference; 
(2) a detailed statement of the costs to the Government 
relating to that conference, including— 
(A) the cost of any food or beverages; 
(B) the cost of any audio-visual services; and 
(C) a discussion of the methodology used to determine 
which costs relate to that conference; and 
(3) a description of the contracting procedures relating 
to that conference, including— 
(A) whether contracts were awarded on a competitive 
basis for that conference; and 
(B) a discussion of any cost comparison conducted by 
the department, agency, board or commission in evaluating 
potential contractors for that conference. 
SEC. 541. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to deny, 
or fail to act on, an application for the importation of any model 
of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to the pro-
posed importation are met; and