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Union Calendar No. 150 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3093 
[Report No. 110–240] 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, and 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2008, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 19, 2007 
Mr. MOLLOHAN, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the fol-
lowing bill; which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
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fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
TRADE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for international trade activi-
ties of the Department of Commerce provided for by law, 
and for engaging in trade promotional activities abroad, 
including expenses of grants and cooperative agreements 
for the purpose of promoting exports of United States 
firms, without regard to 44 U.S.C. 3702 and 3703; full 
medical coverage for dependent members of immediate 
families of employees stationed overseas and employees 
temporarily posted overseas; travel and transportation of 
employees of the United States and Foreign Commercial 
Service between two points abroad, without regard to 49 
U.S.C. 40118; employment of Americans and aliens by 
contract for services; rental of space abroad for periods 
not exceeding 10 years, and expenses of alteration, repair, 
or improvement; purchase or construction of temporary 
demountable exhibition structures for use abroad; pay-
ment of tort claims, in the manner authorized in the first 
paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such claims arise in 
foreign countries; not to exceed $327,000 for official rep-
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resentation expenses abroad; purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for official use abroad, not to exceed $45,000 per 
vehicle; obtaining insurance on official motor vehicles; and 
rental of tie lines, $430,431,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2009, of which $8,000,000 is to be derived 
from fees to be retained and used by the International 
Trade Administration, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302: 
Provided, That $49,564,000 shall be for Manufacturing 
and Services; $42,960,000 shall be for Market Access and 
Compliance; $65,601,000 shall be for the Import Adminis-
tration of which $5,900,000 shall be for the Office of 
China Compliance; $245,702,000 shall be for the United 
States and Foreign Commercial Service; and $26,604,000 
shall be for Executive Direction and Administration: Pro-
vided further, That the provisions of the first sentence of 
section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the Mutual Edu-
cational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 
2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying out these ac-
tivities without regard to section 5412 of the Omnibus 
Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 4912); 
and that for the purpose of this Act, contributions under 
the provisions of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Ex-
change Act of 1961 shall include payment for assessments 
for services provided as part of these activities. 
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BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for export administration and 
national security activities of the Department of Com-
merce, including costs associated with the performance of 
export administration field activities both domestically and 
abroad; full medical coverage for dependent members of 
immediate families of employees stationed overseas; em-
ployment of Americans and aliens by contract for services 
abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner authorized 
in the first paragraph of 28 U.S.C. 2672 when such claims 
arise in foreign countries; not to exceed $15,000 for offi-
cial representation expenses abroad; awards of compensa-
tion to informers under the Export Administration Act of 
1979, and as authorized by section 1 of title VI of the 
Act of June 15, 1917 (22 U.S.C. 401(b)); and purchase 
of passenger motor vehicles for official use and motor vehi-
cles for law enforcement use with special requirement vehi-
cles eligible for purchase without regard to any price limi-
tation otherwise established by law, $78,776,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $14,767,000 shall 
be for inspections and other activities related to national 
security: Provided, That the provisions of the first sen-
tence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
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(22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying 
out these activities: Provided further, That payments and 
contributions collected and accepted for materials or serv-
ices provided as part of such activities may be retained 
for use in covering the cost of such activities, and for pro-
viding information to the public with respect to the export 
administration and national security activities of the De-
partment of Commerce and other export control programs 
of the United States and other governments. 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
For grants for economic development assistance as 
provided by the Public Works and Economic Development 
Act of 1965, and for trade adjustment assistance, 
$270,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administering the eco-
nomic development assistance programs as provided for by 
law, $32,800,000: Provided, That these funds may be used 
to monitor projects approved pursuant to title I of the 
Public Works Employment Act of 1976, title II of the 
Trade Act of 1974, and the Community Emergency 
Drought Relief Act of 1977. 
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MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Department of Com-
merce in fostering, promoting, and developing minority 
business enterprise, including expenses of grants, con-
tracts, and other agreements with public or private organi-
zations, $31,225,000. 
ECONOMIC AND INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE 
ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of eco-
nomic and statistical analysis programs of the Department 
of Commerce, $86,500,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009. 
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for collecting, compiling, ana-
lyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for 
by law, $196,838,000. 
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses to collect and publish statis-
tics for periodic censuses and programs provided for by 
law, $1,035,406,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2009: Provided, That none of the funds provided in 
this or any other Act for any fiscal year may be used for 
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the collection of census data on race identification that 
does not include ‘‘some other race’’ as a category. 
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of 
the National Telecommunications and Information Ad-
ministration (NTIA), $18,581,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2009: Provided, That notwithstanding 
31 U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Commerce shall 
charge Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum 
management, analysis, and operations, and related serv-
ices and such fees shall be retained and used as offsetting 
collections for costs of such spectrum services, to remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of Commerce is authorized to retain and use as off-
setting collections all funds transferred, or previously 
transferred, from other Government agencies for all costs 
incurred in telecommunications research, engineering, and 
related activities by the Institute for Telecommunication 
Sciences of NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions 
under this paragraph, and such funds received from other 
Government agencies shall remain available until ex-
pended. 
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PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING 
AND CONSTRUCTION 
For the administration of grants authorized by sec-
tion 
392 
of 
the 
Communications 
Act 
of 
1934, 
$21,728,000, to remain available until expended as au-
thorized by section 391 of the Act: Provided, That not to 
exceed $2,000,000 shall be available for program adminis-
tration as authorized by section 391 of the Act: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding the provisions of section 
391 of the Act, the prior year unobligated balances may 
be made available for grants for projects for which appli-
cations have been submitted and approved during any fis-
cal year. 
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent 
and Trademark Office provided for by law, including de-
fense of suits instituted against the Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the 
United 
States 
Patent 
and 
Trademark 
Office, 
$1,915,500,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the sum herein appropriated from the general 
fund shall be reduced as offsetting collections assessed and 
collected pursuant to section 31 of Act of July 5, 1946 
(60 Stat. 437; 15 U.S.C. 1113) and 35 U.S.C. 41 and 
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376 are received during fiscal year 2008, so as to result 
in a fiscal year 2008 appropriation from the general fund 
estimated at $0: Provided further, That during fiscal year 
2008, should the total amount of offsetting fee collections 
be less than $1,915,500,000, this amount shall be reduced 
accordingly: Provided further, That from amounts pro-
vided herein, not to exceed $1,000 shall be made available 
in fiscal year 2008 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses: Provided further, That in fiscal year 2008 
from the amounts made available for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’ for the United States Patent and Trademark Of-
fice (PTO), the amounts necessary to pay: (1) the dif-
ference between the percentage of basic pay contributed 
by the PTO and employees under section 8334(a) of title 
5, United States Code, and the normal cost percentage 
(as defined by section 8331(17) of that title) of basic pay, 
of employees subject to subchapter III of chapter 83 of 
that title; and (2) the present value of the otherwise un-
funded accruing costs, as determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management, of post-retirement life insurance and 
post-retirement health benefits coverage for all PTO em-
ployees, shall be transferred to the Civil Service Retire-
ment and Disability Fund, the Employees Life Insurance 
Fund, and the Employees Health Benefits Fund, as ap-
propriate, and shall be available for the authorized pur-
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poses of those accounts: Provided further, That sections 
801, 802, and 803 of division B, of Public Law 108–447 
shall remain in effect during fiscal year 2008. 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Under Secretary for 
Technology, $1,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2009. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, $500,517,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$12,500,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘Working Capital 
Fund’’. 
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 
For necessary expenses of the Hollings Manufac-
turing Extension Partnership of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology, $108,757,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
In addition, for necessary expenses of the Advanced 
Technology Program of the National Institute of Stand-
ards and Technology, $93,062,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
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