H. R. 3010—5
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND 
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation is authorized to 
make such expenditures, including financial assistance authorized 
by section 104 of Public Law 96–364, within limits of funds and 
borrowing authority available to such Corporation, 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 Government Corporation Control Act, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
9104), as may be necessary in carrying out the program, including 
associated administrative expenses, through September 30, 2006, 
for such Corporation: Provided, That none of the funds available 
to the Corporation for fiscal year 2006 shall be available for obliga-
tions for administrative expenses in excess of $296,978,000: Pro-
vided further, That obligations in excess of such amount may be 
incurred after approval by the Office of Management and Budget 
and the Committees on Appropriations of the House and Senate. 
EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Employment Standards 
Administration, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and 
local agencies and their employees for inspection services rendered, 
$413,168,000, together with $2,048,000 which may be expended 
from the Special Fund in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d), 
and 44(j) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation 
Act: Provided, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized to establish 
and, in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3302, collect and deposit in 
the Treasury fees for processing applications and issuing certificates 
under sections 11(d) and 14 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 
1938, as amended (29 U.S.C. 211(d) and 214) and for processing 
applications and issuing registrations under title I of the Migrant 
and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (29 U.S.C. 1801 
et seq.). 
SPECIAL BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses 
(except administrative expenses) accruing during the current or 
any prior fiscal year authorized by title 5, chapter 81 of the United 
States Code; continuation of benefits as provided for under the 
heading ‘‘Civilian War Benefits’’ in the Federal Security Agency 
Appropriation Act, 1947; the Employees’ Compensation Commission 
Appropriation Act, 1944; sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims 
Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); and 50 percent of the additional 
compensation and benefits required by section 10(h) of the 
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, as amended, 
$237,000,000, together with such amounts as may be necessary 
to be charged to the subsequent year appropriation for the payment 
of compensation and other benefits for any period subsequent to 
August 15 of the current year: Provided, That amounts appropriated 
may be used under section 8104 of title 5, United States Code, 
by the Secretary of Labor to reimburse an employer, who is not
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the employer at the time of injury, for portions of the salary of 
a reemployed, disabled beneficiary: Provided further, That balances 
of reimbursements unobligated on September 30, 2005, shall remain 
available until expended for the payment of compensation, benefits, 
and expenses: Provided further, That in addition there shall be 
transferred to this appropriation from the Postal Service and from 
any other corporation or instrumentality required under section 
8147(c) of title 5, United States Code, to pay an amount for its 
fair share of the cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary 
determines to be the cost of administration for employees of such 
fair share entities through September 30, 2006: Provided further, 
That of those funds transferred to this account from the fair share 
entities to pay the cost of administration of the Federal Employees’ 
Compensation Act, $53,695,000 shall be made available to the Sec-
retary as follows: 
(1) For enhancement and maintenance of automated data 
processing 
systems 
and 
telecommunications 
systems, 
$13,305,000. 
(2) 
For 
automated 
workload 
processing 
operations, 
including document imaging, centralized mail intake and med-
ical bill processing, $27,148,000. 
(3) For periodic roll management and medical review, 
$13,242,000. 
(4) The remaining funds shall be paid into the Treasury 
as miscellaneous receipts: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any person 
filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits under chapter 
81 of title 5, United States Code, or 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq., provide 
as part of such notice and claim, such identifying information 
(including Social Security account number) as such regulations 
may prescribe. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS 
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Act of 1977, as amended by Public Law 107–275 (the ‘‘Act’’), 
$232,250,000, to remain available until expended. 
For making after July 31 of the current fiscal year, benefit 
payments to individuals under title IV of the Act, for costs incurred 
in the current fiscal year, such amounts as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title IV for the first quarter 
of fiscal year 2007, $74,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL 
ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Act, $96,081,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Labor 
is authorized to transfer to any executive agency with authority 
under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation 
Act, including within the Department of Labor, such sums as may 
be necessary in fiscal year 2006 to carry out those authorities: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any person 
filing a claim for benefits under the Act provide as part of such 
claim, such identifying information (including Social Security
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account number) as may be prescribed: Provided further, That not 
later than 30 days after enactment, in addition to other sums 
transferred by the Secretary of Labor to the National Institute 
for Occupational Safety and Health (‘‘NIOSH’’) for the administra-
tion of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation 
Program (‘‘EEOICPA’’), the Secretary of Labor shall transfer 
$4,500,000 to NIOSH from the funds appropriated to the Energy 
Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund (42 U.S.C. 
7384e), for use by or in support of the Advisory Board on Radiation 
and Worker Health (‘‘the Board’’) to carry out its statutory respon-
sibilities under EEOICPA (42 U.S.C. 7384n–q), including obtaining 
audits, technical assistance and other support from the Board’s 
audit contractor with regard to radiation dose estimation and 
reconstruction efforts, site profiles, procedures, and review of Special 
Exposure Cohort petitions and evaluation reports. 
BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In fiscal year 2006 and thereafter, such sums as may be nec-
essary from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, to remain avail-
able until expended, for payment of all benefits authorized by 
section 9501(d)(1), (2), (4), and (7) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1954, as amended; and interest on advances, as authorized by 
section 9501(c)(2) of that Act. In addition, the following amounts 
shall be available from the Fund for fiscal year 2006 for expenses 
of operation and administration of the Black Lung Benefits program, 
as authorized by section 9501(d)(5): $33,050,000 for transfer to 
the 
Employment 
Standards 
Administration 
‘‘Salaries 
and 
Expenses’’; $24,239,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; $344,000 for transfer to Departmental 
Management ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’; and $356,000 for pay-
ments into miscellaneous receipts for the expenses of the Depart-
ment of the Treasury. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, $477,199,000, including not to exceed $92,013,000 
which shall be the maximum amount available for grants to States 
under section 23(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 
(the ‘‘Act’’), which grants shall be no less than 50 percent of the 
costs of State occupational safety and health programs required 
to be incurred under plans approved by the Secretary under section 
18 of the Act; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration may retain 
up to $750,000 per fiscal year of training institute course tuition 
fees, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, and may utilize 
such sums for occupational safety and health training and education 
grants: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Sec-
retary of Labor is authorized, during the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2006, to collect and retain fees for services provided 
to Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories, and may utilize 
such sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a,
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to administer national and international laboratory recognition pro-
grams that ensure the safety of equipment and products used 
by workers in the workplace: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or 
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, 
rule, regulation, or order under the Act which is applicable to 
any person who is engaged in a farming operation which does 
not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer 
employees: Provided further, That no funds appropriated under 
this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer or 
enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Act 
with respect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees who is 
included within a category having a Days Away, Restricted, or 
Transferred (DART) occupational injury and illness rate, at the 
most precise industrial classification code for which such data are 
published, less than the national average rate as such rates are 
most recently published by the Secretary, acting through the Bureau 
of Labor Statistics, in accordance with section 24 of that Act (29 
U.S.C. 673), except—
(1) to provide, as authorized by such Act, consultation, 
technical assistance, educational and training services, and to 
conduct surveys and studies; 
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in response 
to an employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations 
found during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for viola-
tions which are not corrected within a reasonable abatement 
period and for any willful violations found; 
(3) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect 
to imminent dangers; 
(4) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect 
to health hazards; 
(5) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect 
to a report of an employment accident which is fatal to one 
or more employees or which results in hospitalization of two 
or more employees, and to take any action pursuant to such 
investigation authorized by such Act; and 
(6) to take any action authorized by such Act with respect 
to complaints of discrimination against employees for exercising 
rights under such Act: 
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply to 
any person who is engaged in a farming operation which does 
not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer 
employees: Provided further, That not less than $3,200,000 shall 
be used to extend funding for the Institutional Competency Building 
training grants which commenced in September 2000, for program 
activities for the period of September 30, 2006, to September 30, 
2007, provided that a grantee has demonstrated satisfactory 
performance: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated 
under this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer 
or enforce the provisions of 29 CFR 1910.134(f)(2) (General Industry 
Respiratory Protection Standard) to the extent that such provisions 
require the annual fit testing (after the initial fit testing) of res-
pirators for occupational exposure to tuberculosis.