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of transferring control over the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center located at Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia,
New Mexico, out of the Department of the Treasury.
SEC. 505. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person
filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly
held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces
of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his
period of active military or naval service, and has within
90 days after his release from such service or from hos-
pitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not
more than 1 year, made application for restoration to his
former position and has been certified by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties
of his former position and has not been restored thereto.
SEC. 506. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act
may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that
in expending the assistance the entity will comply with sec-
tions 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C.
10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 507. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIP-
MENT AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or
products that may be authorized to be purchased with fi-
nancial assistance provided under this Act, it is the sense
of the Congress that entities receiving such assistance
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should, in expending the assistance, purchase only Amer-
ican-made equipment and products.
(b) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—In pro-
viding financial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of
the Treasury shall provide to each recipient of the assistance
a notice describing the statement made in subsection (a)
by the Congress.
SEC. 508. If it has been finally determined by a court
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription with the same meaning, to any product sold in
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the
United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive any
contract or subcontract made with funds provided pursuant
to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and in-
eligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 509. Except as otherwise specifically provided by
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances re-
maining available at the end of fiscal year 2000 from ap-
propriations made available for salaries and expenses for
fiscal year 2000 in this Act, shall remain available through
September 30, 2001, for each such account for the purposes
authorized: Provided, That a request shall be submitted to
the Committees on Appropriations for approval prior to the
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expenditure of such funds: Provided further, That these re-
quests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming
guidelines.
SEC. 510. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any of-
ficial background investigation report on any individual,
except when it is made known to the Federal official having
authority to obligate or expend such funds that—
(1) such individual has given his or her express
written consent for such request not more than 6
months prior to the date of such request and during
the same presidential administration; or
(2) such request is required due to extraordinary
circumstances involving national security.
SEC. 511. INVENTORY OF FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAMS.
The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall
prepare an inventory of existing Federal grant programs
after consulting each agency that administers Federal grant
programs including formula funds, competitive grant
funds, block grant funds, and direct payments. The inven-
tory shall include the name of the program, a copy of rel-
evant statutory and regulatory guidelines, the funding level
in fiscal year 1999, a list of the eligibility criteria both
statutory and regulatory, and a copy of the application
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form. The Director shall submit the inventory no later than
six months after enactment to the Committees on Appro-
priations and relevant authorizing committees.
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS
SEC. 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act
may be used to pay travel to the United States for the im-
mediate family of employees serving abroad in cases of
death or life threatening illness of said employee.
SEC. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2000 shall obligate or
expend any such funds, unless such department, agency, or
instrumentality has in place, and will continue to admin-
ister in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that
all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession,
or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the
Controlled Substances Act) by the officers and employees of
such department, agency, or instrumentality.
SEC. 603. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor ve-
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, and
undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at $8,100
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except station wagons for which the maximum shall be
$9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by not
to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to ex-
ceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided fur-
ther, That the limits set forth in this section may not be
exceeded by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid vehi-
cles purchased for demonstration under the provisions of the
Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Research, Development, and
Demonstration Act of 1976: Provided further, That the lim-
its set forth in this section may be exceeded by the incre-
mental cost of clean alternative fuels vehicles acquired pur-
suant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost of comparable
conventionally fueled vehicles.
SEC. 604. Appropriations of the executive departments
and independent establishments for the current fiscal year
available for expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the
activity concerned, are hereby made available for quarters
allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924.
SEC. 605. Unless otherwise specified during the current
fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained in this
or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensation of
any officer or employee of the Government of the United
States (including any agency the majority of the stock of
which is owned by the Government of the United States)
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any payment made to any officer or employee contrary to
the provisions of this section shall be recoverable in action
by the Federal Government. This section shall not apply
to citizens of Ireland, Israel, or the Republic of the Phil-
ippines, or to nationals of those countries allied with the
United States in a current defense effort, or to international
broadcasters employed by the United States Information
Agency, or to temporary employment of translators, or to
temporary employment in the field service (not to exceed
60 days) as a result of emergencies.
SEC. 606. Appropriations available to any department
or agency during the current fiscal year for necessary ex-
penses, including maintenance or operating expenses, shall
also be available for payment to the General Services Ad-
ministration for charges for space and services and those
expenses of renovation and alteration of buildings and fa-
cilities which constitute public improvements performed in
accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73 Stat.
749), the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat.
216), or other applicable law.
SEC. 607. In addition to funds provided in this or any
other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and
use funds resulting from the sale of materials, including
Federal records disposed of pursuant to a records schedule
recovered through recycling or waste prevention programs.
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Such funds shall be available until expended for the fol-
lowing purposes:
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention,
and recycling programs as described in Executive
Order No. 13101 (September 14, 1998), including any
such programs adopted prior to the effective date of
the Executive order.
(2) Other Federal agency environmental manage-
ment programs, including, but not limited to, the de-
velopment and implementation of hazardous waste
management and pollution prevention programs.
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the Fed-
eral agency.
SEC. 608. Funds made available by this or any other
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, for
rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in
the event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses
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are subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds,
the limitations on administrative expenses shall be cor-
respondingly reduced.
SEC. 609. No part of any appropriation for the current
fiscal year contained in this or any other Act shall be paid
to any person for the filling of any position for which he
or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not
to approve the nomination of said person.
SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency fi-
nancing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), com-
missions, councils, committees, or similar groups (whether
or not they are interagency entities) which do not have a
prior and specific statutory approval to receive financial
support from more than one agency or instrumentality.
SEC. 611. Funds made available by this or any other
Act to the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be
available for employment of guards for all buildings and
areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service and under
the charge and control of the Postal Service, and such
guards shall have, with respect to such property, the powers
of special policemen provided by the first section of the Act
of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318),
and, as to property owned or occupied by the Postal Service,
the Postmaster General may take the same actions as the
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Administrator of General Services may take under the pro-
visions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as
amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a and 318b), attach-
ing thereto penal consequences under the authority and
within the limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June
1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c).
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available pursuant
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement,
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the United
States.
SEC. 613. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, no
part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2000,
by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing
rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5,
United States Code—
(1) during the period from the date of expiration
of the limitation imposed by section 614 of the Treas-
ury and General Government Appropriations Act,
1999, until the normal effective date of the applicable
wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal
year 2000, in an amount that exceeds the rate pay-
able for the applicable grade and step of the applica-
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ble wage schedule in accordance with such section
614; and
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder
of fiscal year 2000, in an amount that exceeds, as a
result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable
under paragraph (1) by more than the sum of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect
in fiscal year 2000 under section 5303 of title 5,
United States Code, in the rates of pay under the
General Schedule; and
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age 
percentage 
of 
the 
locality-based 
com-
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year
2000 under section 5304 of such title (whether by
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average
percentage of such payments which was effective
in fiscal year 1999 under such section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and
no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, may be
paid during the periods for which subsection (a) is in effect
at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such em-
ployee.
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(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable
to an employee who is covered by this section and who is
paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30,
1999, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by
the Office of Personnel Management.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30,
1999, except to the extent determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management to be consistent with the purpose of this
section.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for
service performed after September 30, 1999.
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of
law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribution,
or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis
of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic
pay payable after the application of this section shall be
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by this
section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable
were this section not in effect.