that were designated by the Congress as an emergency or 
disaster relief requirement pursuant to a concurrent reso-
lution on the budget or section 251(b)(2) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985) made 
available in this Act to the Department into the ‘‘Working 
Capital Fund’’ if necessary to meet the amount specified 
in subsection (b) and this transfer authority is in addition 
to any other transfer authority contained in this Act. 
SEC. 524. 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. 525. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency, who are stationed in the United States, 
at any single conference occurring outside the United 
States unless such conference is a law enforcement train-
ing or operational conference for law enforcement per-
sonnel and the majority of Federal employees in attend-
ance are law enforcement personnel stationed outside the 
United States. 
SEC. 526. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
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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 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise 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 indi-
vidual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of de-
tention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effec-
tive 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, Guantanamo 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— 
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(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. 528. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-
priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts and include in its annual perform-
ance 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 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 
in expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired 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 
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and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 529. (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, pro-
gram, order, or contract of any kind to participate, col-
laborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be 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, 
after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, have certified— 
(1) 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; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
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States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to 
the activity in question and shall include a description of 
the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major partici-
pants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act, for fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, 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 proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes. 
SEC. 531. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
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network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other law 
enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 
SEC. 532. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute 
shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective de-
partment 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. 533. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 534. The Department of Commerce, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Na-
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tional Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on any official travel to China 
by any employee of such Department or agency, including 
the purpose of such travel. 
SEC. 535. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, 
respectively, for Public Works grants authorized by the 
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and 
grants authorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722) shall 
be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: 
Provided, That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘per-
sistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has had 
20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over 
the past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 
decennial censuses and the most recent Small Area In-
come and Poverty Estimates. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to approve the registration or renewal 
of, or maintain the registration of, a mark, trade name, 
or commercial name, under the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to 
provide for the registration and protection of trademarks 
used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain 
international conventions, and for other purposes’’, ap-
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proved July 6, 1946 (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Trade-
mark Act of 1946’’; 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.), including 
the receipt or acceptance of post-registration affidavits or 
declarations, where such mark, trade name, or commercial 
name is the same or substantially similar to a mark, trade 
name, or commercial name that was used in connection 
with a business or assets that were confiscated, as that 
term is defined in section 4(4) of the Cuban Liberty and 
Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 
U.S.C. 6023(4)), unless the original owner of the mark, 
trade name, or commercial name, or the bona-fide suc-
cessor-in-interest has expressly consented. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require a person licensed under section 
923 of title 18, United States Code, to report information 
to the Department of Justice regarding the sale of mul-
tiple rifles or shotguns to the same person. 
SEC. 538. (a) A State may bring a civil action against 
the United States in an appropriate United States district 
court for such declaratory and injunctive relief (including 
preliminary injunctive relief) as may be necessary to re-
store the sovereignty reserved to the States by the Con-
stitution. It shall be duty of the courts of the United 
States to advance on the docket and to expedite to the 
greatest possible extent the disposition of any such action. 
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(b) This section shall take effect on the date of enact-
ment of this Act and continue in effect through all fiscal 
years thereafter. 
SEC. 539. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to relocate the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Canine Training 
Center or the ATF National Canine Division. 
SEC. 540. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a civil settlement agreement 
on behalf of the United States that includes a term requir-
ing that any donation be made to any non-party by any 
party-defendant to such agreement. 
SEC. 541. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the designation 
of any area of the Chesapeake Bay watershed as critical 
habitat for the Atlantic Sturgeon pursuant to the proposed 
rule published June 3, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 35701). 
SEC. 542. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission for the ‘‘collection of information’’, as defined 
in 
the 
Paperwork 
Reduction 
Act 
(44 
U.S.C. 
§ 3502(3)(A)), from employers relating to employees’ 
earnings and hours worked, as set forth in and designated 
as Component 2 by the notice published by the Commis-
sion on July 14, 2016, in the Federal Register (81 Fed. 
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Reg. 45479), or for any final ‘‘collection of information’’ 
related to such earnings and hours worked and to such 
notice. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 543. $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 164 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3267 
[Report No. 115–231] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2018, and for other purposes. 
JULY 17, 2017 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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