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for specific activities in the report accompanying this Act, or any 
use of deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading 
in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set forth 
in section 505 of this Act. 
PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY 
For necessary expenses associated with the restoration of 
Pacific salmon populations, $67,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2009. 
COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Of amounts collected pursuant to section 308 of the Coastal 
Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1456a), not to exceed 
$3,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Operations, Research, and 
Facilities’’ account to offset the costs of implementing such Act. 
FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
during fiscal year 2008, obligations of direct loans may not exceed 
$8,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota loans and not to exceed 
$59,000,000 for traditional direct loans as authorized by the Mer-
chant Marine Act of 1936: Provided, That none of the funds made 
available under this heading may be used for direct loans for 
any new fishing vessel that will increase the harvesting capacity 
in any United States fishery. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the departmental management of 
the Department of Commerce provided for by law, including not 
to exceed $5,000 for official entertainment, $44,294,000: Provided, 
That the Secretary, within 120 days of enactment of this Act, 
shall provide a report to the Committees on Appropriations that 
audits and evaluates all decision documents and expenditures by 
the Bureau of the Census as they relate to the 2010 Census: 
Provided further, That of the amounts provided to the Secretary 
within this account, $10,000,000 shall not become available for 
obligation until the Secretary certifies to the Committees on Appro-
priations that the Bureau of the Census has followed, and met 
all best practices, and all Office of Management and Budget guide-
lines related to information technology projects. 
HCHB RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION 
For expenses necessary for the renovation and modernization 
of the Herbert C. Hoover Building, $3,722,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 1978 
(5 U.S.C. App.), $22,020,000.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable appropria-
tions and funds made available to the Department of Commerce 
by this Act shall be available for the activities specified in the 
Act of October 26, 1949 (15 U.S.C. 1514), to the extent and in 
the manner prescribed by the Act, and, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
3324, may be used for advanced payments not otherwise authorized 
only upon the certification of officials designated by the Secretary 
of Commerce that such payments are in the public interest. 
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year, appropriations made 
available to the Department of Commerce by this Act for salaries 
and expenses shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles 
as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344; services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized 
by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902). 
SEC. 103. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of Commerce 
in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but 
no such appropriation shall be increased by more than 10 percent 
by any such transfers: Provided, That any transfer pursuant to 
this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 
section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Commerce 
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations at least 15 days 
in advance of the acquisition or disposal of any capital asset 
(including land, structures, and equipment) not specifically provided 
for in this Act or any other law appropriating funds for the Depart-
ment of Commerce: Provided further, That for the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration this section shall provide for trans-
fers among appropriations made only to the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration and such appropriations may not be 
transferred and reprogrammed to other Department of Commerce 
bureaus and appropriation accounts. 
SEC. 104. Any costs incurred by a department or agency funded 
under this title resulting from personnel actions taken in response 
to funding reductions included in this title or from actions taken 
for the care and protection of loan collateral or grant property 
shall be absorbed within the total budgetary resources available 
to such department or agency: Provided, That the authority to 
transfer funds between appropriations accounts as may be necessary 
to carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities 
included elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds 
to carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be available 
for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section. 
SEC. 105. (a) Section 101(k) of the Emergency Steel Loan Guar-
antee Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. 1841 note) is amended by striking 
‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2009’’. 
(b) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 101(b) of the Emergency 
Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. 1841 note) are each 
amended by striking ‘‘in 1998’’ and inserting ‘‘since 1998’’.
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(c) Subparagraph (C) of section 101(c)(3) of the Emergency 
Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. 1841 note) is amended 
by striking ‘‘, in 1998’’ and inserting ‘‘in 1998, and thereafter,’’. 
(d) The Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 (15 
U.S.C. 1841 note) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 103. SALARIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES. 
‘‘(a) In addition to funds made available under section 101(j) 
of the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Act of 1999 (15 U.S.C. 
1841 note), up to $1,000,000 in funds made available under section 
101(f) of such Act may be used for salaries and administrative 
expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Pro-
gram. 
‘‘(b) Funds made available for salaries and administrative 
expenses to administer the Emergency Steel Loan Guarantee Pro-
gram shall remain available until expended.’’. 
SEC. 106. Hereafter, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no funds appropriated under this Act shall be used to register, 
issue, transfer, or enforce any trademark of the phrase ‘‘Last Best 
Place’’. 
SEC. 107. Section 3315(b) of title 19, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, including food when sequestered,’’ following 
‘‘for the establishment and operations of the United States Section 
and for the payment of the United States share of the expenses’’. 
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding the requirements of subsection 
4703(d), the personnel management demonstration project estab-
lished by the Department of Commerce pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4703 
may be expanded to involve more than 5,000 individuals, and 
is extended indefinitely. 
SEC. 109. Section 212(b) of the National Technical Information 
Act of 1988 (15 U.S.C. 3704b) is amended by striking ‘‘Under 
Secretary of Commerce for Technology’’ and inserting ‘‘Director 
of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’’. 
SEC. 110. The Secretary of Commerce is permitted to prescribe 
and enforce standards or regulations affecting safety and health 
in the context of scientific and occupational diving within the 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 
SEC. 111. (a) The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to pro-
vide compensation to fishery participants who will be displaced 
by the 2011 fishery closure resulting from the creation by Presi-
dential proclamation of the Papaha¯naumokua¯kea Marine National 
Monument. 
(b) The Secretary shall promulgate regulations for the voluntary 
capacity reduction program that: 
(1) identifies eligible participants as those individuals 
holding commercial Federal fishing permits for either lobster 
or 
bottomfish 
in 
the 
designated 
waters 
within 
the 
Papaha¯naumokua¯kea Marine National Monument; 
(2) provides a mechanism to compensate eligible partici-
pants for no more than the economic value of their permits; 
(3) at the option of each eligible permit holder, provides 
an optional mechanism for additional compensation based on 
the value of the fishing vessel and gear of such participants 
who so elect to receive these additional funds, provided that 
the commercial fishing vessels of such participants will not 
be used for fishing.
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(c) There is authorized to be appropriated to the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fish-
eries Service, $6,697,500 for fiscal year 2008. 
(d) Nothing in this section is intended to enlarge or diminish 
Federal or State title, jurisdiction, or authority with respect to 
the waters of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands or the tidal 
or submerged lands under any provision of State or Federal law. 
SEC. 112. (a) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Under Secretary’’ means Under Secretary 
of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere; 
(2) the term ‘‘appropriate congressional committees’’ 
means— 
(A) the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the 
Senate; and 
(B) the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on Science and Technology of the House of Rep-
resentatives; 
(3) the term ‘‘satellite’’ means the satellites proposed to 
be acquired for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis-
tration, other than the National Polar-orbiting Operational 
Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS); 
(4) the term ‘‘development’’ means the phase of a program 
following the formulation phase and beginning with the 
approval to proceed to implementation, as defined in NOAA 
Administrative Order 216–108, Department of Commerce 
Administrative Order 208–3, and NASA’s Procedural Require-
ments 7120.5c, dated March 22, 2005; 
(5) the term ‘‘development cost’’ means the total of all 
costs, including construction of facilities and civil servant costs, 
from the period beginning with the approval to proceed to 
implementation through the achievement of operational readi-
ness, without regard to funding source or management control, 
for the life of the program; 
(6) the term ‘‘life-cycle cost’’ means the total of the direct, 
indirect, recurring, and nonrecurring costs, including the 
construction of facilities and civil servant costs, and other 
related expenses incurred or estimated to be incurred in the 
design, 
development, 
verification, 
production, 
operation, 
maintenance, support, and retirement of a program over its 
planned lifespan, without regard to funding source or manage-
ment control; 
(7) the term ‘‘major program’’ means an activity approved 
to proceed to implementation that has an estimated life-cycle 
cost of more than $250,000,000; 
(8) the term ‘‘baseline’’ means the program as set following 
contract award and critical design review of the space and 
ground systems. 
(b)(1) NOAA shall not enter into a contract for development 
of a major program, unless the Under Secretary determines that— 
(A) the technical, cost, and schedule risks of the program 
are clearly identified and the program has developed a plan 
to manage those risks; 
(B) the technologies required for the program have been 
demonstrated in a relevant laboratory or test environment;