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MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $280,490,000, including purchase and bestowal of 
certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue and first-
aid work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles, including up 
to $2,000,000 for mine rescue and recovery activities; in addition, 
not to exceed $750,000 may be collected by the National Mine 
Health and Safety Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale 
of training materials, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, 
to be available for mine safety and health education and training 
activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; and, in addition, the 
Mine Safety and Health Administration may retain up to $1,000,000 
from fees collected for the approval and certification of equipment, 
materials, and explosives for use in mines, and may utilize such 
sums for such activities; the Secretary is authorized to accept lands, 
buildings, equipment, and other contributions from public and pri-
vate sources and to prosecute projects in cooperation with other 
agencies, Federal, State, or private; the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration is authorized to promote health and safety education 
and training in the mining community through cooperative pro-
grams with States, industry, and safety associations; the Secretary 
is authorized to recognize the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association 
as a principal safety association and, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, may provide funds and, with or without reimburse-
ment, personnel, including service of Mine Safety and Health 
Administration officials as officers in local chapters or in the 
national organization; and any funds available to the department 
may be used, with the approval of the Secretary, to provide for 
the costs of mine rescue and survival operations in the event of 
a major disaster. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 
including advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and local 
agencies and their employees for services rendered, $464,678,000, 
together with not to exceed $77,845,000, which may be expended 
from the Employment Security Administration Account in the 
Unemployment Trust Fund, of which $5,000,000 may be used to 
fund the mass layoff statistics program under section 15 of the 
Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49l–2): Provided, That the Current 
Employment Survey shall maintain the content of the survey issued 
prior to June 2005 with respect to the collection of data for the 
women worker series. 
OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability Employment 
Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and initiatives, and 
award grants furthering the objective of eliminating barriers to 
the 
training 
and 
employment 
of 
people 
with 
disabilities, 
$27,934,000.
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DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, 
including the hire of three sedans, and including the management 
or operation, through contracts, grants or other arrangements of 
Departmental activities conducted by or through the Bureau of 
International Labor Affairs, including bilateral and multilateral 
technical assistance and other international labor activities, 
$300,275,000, of which $6,944,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2007, is for Frances Perkins Building Security Enhance-
ments, and $29,760,000 is for the acquisition of Departmental 
information technology, architecture, infrastructure, equipment, 
software and related needs, which will be allocated by the Depart-
ment’s Chief Information Officer in accordance with the Depart-
ment’s capital investment management process to assure a sound 
investment strategy; together with not to exceed $311,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $194,834,000 may be derived from the Employ-
ment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund to carry out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4100–4113, 4211–
4215, and 4321–4327, and Public Law 103–353, and which shall 
be available for obligation by the States through December 31, 
2006, of which $1,984,000 is for the National Veterans’ Employment 
and Training Services Institute. To carry out the Homeless Veterans 
Reintegration Programs (38 U.S.C. 2021) and the Veterans 
Workforce Investment Programs (29 U.S.C. 2913), $29,500,000, of 
which $7,500,000 shall be available for obligation for the period 
July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $66,211,000, together with not to exceed 
$5,608,000, which may be expended from the Employment Security 
Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
For the acquisition of a new core accounting system for the 
Department of Labor, including hardware and software infrastruc-
ture and the costs associated with implementation thereof, 
$6,230,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this title for 
the Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary of an individual, 
either as direct costs or any proration as an indirect cost, at a 
rate in excess of Executive Level I. 
SEC. 102. Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall permanently establish 
and maintain an Office of Job Corps within the Office of the
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Secretary, in the Department of Labor, to carry out the functions 
(including duties, responsibilities, and procedures) of subtitle C 
of title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 
2881 et seq.). The Secretary shall appoint a senior member of 
the civil service to head that Office of Job Corps and carry out 
subtitle C. The Secretary shall transfer funds appropriated for 
the program carried out under that subtitle C, including the 
administration of such program, to the head of that Office of Job 
Corps. The head of that Office of Job Corps shall have contracting 
authority and shall receive support as necessary from the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration and Management with respect to con-
tracting functions and the Assistant Secretary for Policy with 
respect to research and evaluation functions. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 103. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended) which are appropriated for the current 
fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act may be trans-
ferred between a program, project, or activity, but no such program, 
project, or activity shall be increased by more than 3 percent by 
any such transfer: Provided, That a program, project, or activity 
may be increased by up to an additional 2 percent subject to 
approval by the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: 
Provided further, That the transfer authority granted by this section 
shall be available only to meet emergency needs and shall not 
be used to create any new program or to fund any project or 
activity for which no funds are provided in this Act: Provided 
further, That the Appropriations Committees of both Houses of 
Congress are notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 104. In accordance with Executive Order No. 13126, none 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended for the procurement 
of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services 
rendered, whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor 
in industries and host countries already identified by the United 
States Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 105. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to the Denali Commission through the Depart-
ment of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where 
Denali Commission projects will be constructed. 
SEC. 106. For purposes of chapter 8 of division B of the Depart-
ment of Defense and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for 
Recovery from and Response to Terrorist Attacks on the United 
States Act, 2002 (Public Law 107–117), payments made by the 
New York Workers’ Compensation Board to the New York Crime 
Victims Board and the New York State Insurance Fund before 
the date of the enactment of this Act shall be deemed to have 
been made for workers compensation programs. 
SEC. 107. The Department of Labor shall submit its fiscal 
year 2007 congressional budget justifications to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
in the format and level of detail used by the Department of Edu-
cation in its fiscal year 2006 congressional budget justifications. 
SEC. 108. The Secretary shall prepare and submit not later 
than July 1, 2006, to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
Senate and of the House an operating plan that outlines the planned
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allocation by major project and activity of fiscal year 2006 funds 
made available for section 171 of the Workforce Investment Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Labor Appropria-
tions Act, 2006’’. 
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES 
For carrying out titles II, III, IV, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and 
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal 
Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and sections 1128E, 
and 711, and 1820 of the Social Security Act, the Health Care 
Quality Improvement Act of 1986, as amended, the Native Hawaiian 
Health Care Act of 1988, as amended, the Cardiac Arrest Survival 
Act of 2000, section 712 of the American Jobs Creation Act of 
2004, and for expenses necessary to support activities related to 
countering potential biological, disease, nuclear, radiological and 
chemical threats to civilian populations, $6,629,661,000 of which 
$64,180,000 from general revenues, notwithstanding section 1820(j) 
of the Social Security Act, shall be available for carrying out the 
Medicare rural hospital flexibility grants program under section 
1820 of such Act (of which $25,000,000 is for a Delta health initia-
tive Rural Health, Education, and Workforce Infrastructure Dem-
onstration Program which shall solicit and fund proposals from 
local governments, hospitals, universities, and rural public health-
related entities and organizations for research development, edu-
cational programs, job training, and construction of public health-
related facilities): Provided, That of the funds made available under 
this heading, $222,000 shall be available until expended for facilities 
renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease Center: Provided 
further, That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of 
the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be 
collected for the full disclosure of information under the Act suffi-
cient to recover the full costs of operating the National Practitioner 
Data Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry 
out that Act: Provided further, That fees collected for the full 
disclosure of information under the ‘‘Health Care Fraud and Abuse 
Data Collection Program’’, authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the 
Social Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover the full costs 
of operating the program, and shall remain available until expended 
to carry out that Act: Provided further, That no more than $40,000 
is available until expended for carrying out the provisions of 42 
U.S.C. 233(o) including associated administrative expenses: Pro-
vided further, That no more than $45,000,000 is available until 
expended for carrying out the provisions of Public Law 104–73 
and for expenses incurred by the Department of Health and Human 
Services pertaining to administrative claims made under such law: 
Provided further, That $4,000,000 is available until expended for 
the National Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank Program as described 
in House Report 108–401: Provided further, That of the funds 
made available under this heading, $285,963,000 shall be for the 
program under title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide 
for voluntary family planning projects: Provided further, That 
amounts provided to said projects under such title shall not be