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Union Calendar No. 122
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2799
[Report No. 108–221] 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, 
the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2004, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 21, 2003
Mr. WOLF, from the Committee on Appropriations, reported the following bill; 
which was committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State 
of the Union and ordered to be printed 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for 
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
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fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the administration of the 
Department of Justice, $106,664,000, of which not to ex-
ceed $3,317,000 is for the Facilities Program 2000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to ex-
ceed 43 permanent positions and 44 full-time equivalent 
workyears and $10,172,000 shall be expended for the De-
partment Leadership Program exclusive of augmentation 
that occurred in these offices in fiscal year 2003: Provided 
further, That not to exceed 31 permanent positions, 33 
full-time equivalent workyears and $3,464,000 shall be ex-
pended for the Office of Legislative Affairs: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed 15 permanent positions, 20 full-
time equivalent workyears and $1,875,000 shall be ex-
pended for the Office of Public Affairs: Provided further, 
That the latter two aforementioned offices may utilize 
non-reimbursable details of career employees within the 
caps described in the preceding two provisos: Provided fur-
ther, That the Attorney General is authorized to transfer, 
under such terms and conditions as the Attorney General 
shall specify, forfeited real or personal property of limited
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or marginal value, as such value is determined by guide-
lines established by the Attorney General, to a State or 
local government agency, or its designated contractor or 
transferee, for use to support drug abuse treatment, drug 
and crime prevention and education, housing, job skills, 
and other community-based public health and safety pro-
grams: Provided further, That any transfer under the pre-
ceding proviso shall not create or confer any private right 
of action in any person against the United States, and 
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 605 
of this Act. 
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION 
For necessary expenses for the nationwide deploy-
ment of a Joint Automated Booking System and for the 
planning, development, and deployment of an integrated 
fingerprint identification system, including automated ca-
pability to transmit fingerprint and image data, 
$20,677,000. 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES OFFICE AUTOMATION 
For necessary expenses related to the design, develop-
ment, engineering, acquisition, and implementation of of-
fice automation systems for the organizations funded 
under the headings ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, General 
Legal Activities’’, and ‘‘General Administration, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, and the United States Attorneys, the 
United States Marshals Service, the Antitrust Division,
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the United States Trustee Program, the Executive Office 
for Immigration Review, the Community Relations Serv-
ice, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Office of Justice Pro-
grams, $30,136,000: Provided, That, of the funds made 
available under this heading, $22,000,000 shall not be-
come available for obligation until September 15, 2004, 
and shall remain available until September 30, 2005. 
NARROWBAND COMMUNICATIONS 
For the costs of conversion to narrowband commu-
nications, including the cost for operation and mainte-
nance 
of 
Land 
Mobile 
Radio 
legacy 
systems, 
$103,171,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005: Provided, That the Attorney General shall transfer 
to the ‘‘Narrowband Communications’’ account all funds 
made available to the Department of Justice for the pur-
chase of portable and mobile radios: Provided further, 
That any transfer made under the preceding proviso shall 
be subject to section 605 of this Act. 
COUNTERTERRORISM FUND 
For necessary expenses, as determined by the Attor-
ney General, $1,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to reimburse any Department of Justice organiza-
tion for: (1) the costs incurred in reestablishing the oper-
ational capability of an office or facility which has been 
damaged or destroyed as a result of any domestic or inter-
national terrorist incident; and (2) the costs of providing
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support to counter, investigate or prosecute domestic or 
international terrorism, including payment of rewards in 
connection with these activities: Provided, That any Fed-
eral agency may be reimbursed for the costs of detaining 
in foreign countries individuals accused of acts of ter-
rorism that violate the laws of the United States: Provided 
further, That funds provided under this paragraph shall 
be available only after the Attorney General notifies the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate in accordance with section 605 of 
this Act. 
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS 
For expenses necessary for the administration of par-
don and clemency petitions and immigration-related activi-
ties, $193,530,000. 
DETENTION TRUSTEE 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Detention 
Trustee who shall exercise all power and functions author-
ized by law relating to the detention of Federal prisoners 
in non-Federal institutions or otherwise in the custody of 
the United States Marshals Service, $810,125,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That the Trustee 
shall be responsible for managing the Justice Prisoner and 
Alien Transportation System and for overseeing housing 
related to such detention; the management of funds appro-
priated to the Department of Justice for the exercise of
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tions, missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms, and Explosives to other agencies or De-
partments in fiscal year 2004: Provided further, That no 
funds appropriated under this or any other Act may be 
used to disclose to the public the contents or any portion 
thereof of any information required to be kept by licensees 
pursuant to section 923(g) of title 18, United States Code, 
or required to be reported pursuant to paragraphs (3) and 
(7) of section 923(g) of title 18, United States Code, ex-
cept that this provision shall apply to any request for in-
formation made by any person or entity after January 1, 
1998: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
in this Act or any other Act for the enforcement or imple-
mentation of section 923(g)(5) of title 18, United States 
Code, shall be expended in a manner that requires any 
records regarding the acquisition or disposition of a fire-
arm by a licensee to be submitted to the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives by the licensee un-
less the records are specifically required during a bona fide 
criminal investigation to (1) determine the disposition of 
one or more firearms which are the subject of, or attend-
ant to, the investigation, or (2) identify an individual of-
fender who is the subject or target of the investigation: 
Provided further, That no funds made available by this or 
any other Act shall be expended to promulgate or imple-