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burse this appropriation for expenditures made on behalf 
of Federal agencies, public and private organizations and 
institutions under agreements executed pursuant to the ag-
ricultural food production assistance programs (7 U.S.C. 
1737) and the foreign assistance programs of the United 
States Agency for International Development: Provided fur-
ther, That funds made available for middle-income country 
training programs, funds made available for the Borlaug 
International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellow-
ship program, and up to $2,000,000 of the Foreign Agricul-
tural Service appropriation solely for the purpose of offset-
ting fluctuations in international currency exchange rates, 
subject to documentation by the Foreign Agricultural Serv-
ice, shall remain available until expended. 
FOOD FOR PEACE TITLE II GRANTS 
For expenses during the current fiscal year, not other-
wise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, includ-
ing interest thereon, under the Food for Peace Act (Public 
Law 83–480), for commodities supplied in connection with 
dispositions 
abroad 
under 
title 
II 
of 
said 
Act, 
$1,619,107,000, to remain available until expended. 
MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR EDUCATION 
AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM GRANTS 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
section 3107 of the Farm Security and Rural Investment
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Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1), $240,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Commodity 
Credit Corporation is authorized to provide the services, fa-
cilities, and authorities for the purpose of implementing 
such section, subject to reimbursement from amounts pro-
vided herein: Provided further, That of the amount made 
available under this heading, not more than 10 percent, but 
not less than $24,000,000, shall remain available until ex-
pended to purchase agricultural commodities as described 
in subsection 3107(a)(2) of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o–1(a)(2)). 
COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION EXPORT (LOANS) 
CREDIT GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Com-
modity Credit Corporation’s Export Guarantee Program, 
GSM 102 and GSM 103, $6,063,000, to cover common over-
head expenses as permitted by section 11 of the Commodity 
Credit Corporation Charter Act and in conformity with the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, which shall be paid to 
the appropriation for ‘‘Foreign Agricultural Service, Sala-
ries and Expenses’’.
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TITLE VI 
RELATED AGENCIES AND FOOD AND DRUG 
ADMINISTRATION 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, including hire and purchase of passenger motor ve-
hicles; for payment of space rental and related costs pursu-
ant to Public Law 92–313 for programs and activities of 
the Food and Drug Administration which are included in 
this Act; for rental of special purpose space in the District 
of Columbia or elsewhere; in addition to amounts appro-
priated to the FDA Innovation Account, for carrying out 
the activities described in section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st 
Century Cures Act (Public Law 114–255); for miscellaneous 
and emergency expenses of enforcement activities, author-
ized and approved by the Secretary and to be accounted 
for solely on the Secretary’s certificate, not to exceed 
$25,000; and notwithstanding section 521 of Public Law 
107–188; $6,721,782,000: Provided, That of the amount 
provided under this heading, $1,422,104,000 shall be de-
rived from prescription drug user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 379h, and shall be credited to this account and re-
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main available until expended; $362,381,000 shall be de-
rived from medical device user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $613,538,000 shall be derived 
from human generic drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j–42, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $31,109,000 shall be derived from 
biosimilar biological product user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 379j–52, and shall be credited to this account and 
remain available until expended; $33,500,000 shall be de-
rived from animal drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j–12, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $25,000,000 shall be derived from 
generic new animal drug user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
379j–21, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended; $712,000,000 shall be derived 
from tobacco product user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
387s, and shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That in addi-
tion to and notwithstanding any other provision under this 
heading, amounts collected for prescription drug user fees, 
medical device user fees, human generic drug user fees, bio-
similar biological product user fees, animal drug user fees, 
and generic new animal drug user fees that exceed the re-
spective fiscal year 2024 limitations are appropriated and
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shall be credited to this account and remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That fees derived from prescrip-
tion drug, medical device, human generic drug, biosimilar 
biological product, animal drug, and generic new animal 
drug assessments for fiscal year 2024, including any such 
fees collected prior to fiscal year 2024 but credited for fiscal 
year 2024, shall be subject to the fiscal year 2024 limita-
tions: Provided further, That the Secretary may accept pay-
ment during fiscal year 2024 of user fees specified under 
this heading and authorized for fiscal year 2025, prior to 
the due date for such fees, and that amounts of such fees 
assessed for fiscal year 2025 for which the Secretary accepts 
payment in fiscal year 2024 shall not be included in 
amounts under this heading: Provided further, That none 
of these funds shall be used to develop, establish, or operate 
any program of user fees authorized by 31 U.S.C. 9701: 
Provided further, That of the total amount appropriated: 
(1) $1,185,989,000 shall be for the Center for Food Safety 
and Applied Nutrition and related field activities in the 
Office of Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than 
$15,000,000 shall be used for inspections of foreign seafood 
manufacturers and field examinations of imported seafood; 
(2) $2,334,704,000 shall be for the Center for Drug Evalua-
tion and Research and related field activities in the Office 
of Regulatory Affairs, of which no less than $10,000,000
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shall be for pilots to increase unannounced foreign inspec-
tions and shall remain available until expended; (3) 
$570,632,000 shall be for the Center for Biologics Evalua-
tion and Research and for related field activities in the Of-
fice of Regulatory Affairs; (4) $284,285,000 shall be for the 
Center for Veterinary Medicine and for related field activi-
ties in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (5) $770,697,000 
shall be for the Center for Devices and Radiological Health 
and for related field activities in the Office of Regulatory 
Affairs; (6) $77,505,000 shall be for the National Center for 
Toxicological Research; (7) $684,324,000 shall be for the 
Center for Tobacco Products and for related field activities 
in the Office of Regulatory Affairs; (8) $215,701,000 shall 
be for Rent and Related activities, of which $55,061,000 
is for White Oak Consolidation, other than the amounts 
paid to the General Services Administration for rent; (9) 
$230,423,000 shall be for payments to the General Services 
Administration for rent; and (10) $367,522,000 shall be for 
other activities, including the Office of the Commissioner 
of Food and Drugs, the Office of Food Policy and Response, 
the Office of Operations, the Office of the Chief Scientist, 
and central services for these offices: Provided further, That 
not to exceed $25,000 of this amount shall be for official 
reception and representation expenses, not otherwise pro-
vided for, as determined by the Commissioner: Provided
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further, That any transfer of funds pursuant to, and for 
the administration of, section 770(n) of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 379dd(n)) shall only 
be from amounts made available under this heading for 
other activities and shall not exceed $2,000,000: Provided 
further, That of the amounts that are made available under 
this heading for ‘‘other activities’’, and that are not derived 
from user fees, $1,500,000 shall be transferred to and 
merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Department of Health 
and Human Services—Office of Inspector General’’ for 
oversight of the programs and operations of the Food and 
Drug Administration and shall be in addition to funds oth-
erwise made available for oversight of the Food and Drug 
Administration: Provided further, That funds may be 
transferred from one specified activity to another with the 
prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
In addition, mammography user fees authorized by 42 
U.S.C. 263b, export certification user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 381, priority review user fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 360n and 360ff, food and feed recall fees, food rein-
spection fees, and voluntary qualified importer program 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–31, outsourcing facility 
fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–62, prescription drug 
wholesale distributor licensing and inspection fees author-
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ized by 21 U.S.C. 353(e)(3), third-party logistics provider 
licensing and inspection fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
360eee–3(c)(1), third-party auditor fees authorized by 21 
U.S.C. 384d(c)(8), medical countermeasure priority review 
voucher user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360bbb–4a, and 
fees relating to over-the-counter monograph drugs author-
ized by 21 U.S.C. 379j–72 shall be credited to this account, 
to remain available until expended. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For plans, construction, repair, improvement, exten-
sion, alteration, demolition, and purchase of fixed equip-
ment or facilities of or used by the Food and Drug Adminis-
tration, where not otherwise provided, $5,000,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
FDA INNOVATION ACCOUNT, CURES ACT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the purposes de-
scribed under section 1002(b)(4) of the 21st Century Cures 
Act, in addition to amounts available for such purposes 
under the heading ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, $50,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
amounts appropriated in this paragraph are appropriated 
pursuant to section 1002(b)(3) of the 21st Century Cures 
Act, are to be derived from amounts transferred under sec-
tion 1002(b)(2)(A) of such Act, and may be transferred by
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the Commissioner of Food and Drugs to the appropriation 
for ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services Food and 
Drug Administration Salaries and Expenses’’ solely for the 
purposes provided in such Act: Provided further, That upon 
a determination by the Commissioner that funds trans-
ferred pursuant to the previous proviso are not necessary 
for the purposes provided, such amounts may be transferred 
back to the account: Provided further, That such transfer 
authority is in addition to any other transfer authority 
provided by law. 
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions of 
the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), including 
the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, and the 
rental of space (to include multiple year leases), in the Dis-
trict of Columbia and elsewhere, $365,000,000, including 
not to exceed $3,000 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, and not to exceed $25,000 for the expenses 
for consultations and meetings hosted by the Commission 
with foreign governmental and other regulatory officials, of 
which not less than $80,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2026, and of which not less than 
$4,218,000 shall be for expenses of the Office of the Inspector
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General: Provided, That notwithstanding the limitations in 
31 U.S.C. 1553, amounts provided under this heading are 
available for the liquidation of obligations equal to current 
year payments on leases entered into prior to the date of 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That for the pur-
pose of recording and liquidating any lease obligations that 
should have been recorded and liquidated against accounts 
closed pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1552, and consistent with the 
preceding proviso, such amounts shall be transferred to and 
recorded in a no-year account in the Treasury, which has 
been established for the sole purpose of recording adjust-
ments for and liquidating such unpaid obligations. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
Not to exceed $94,300,000 (from assessments collected 
from farm credit institutions, including the Federal Agri-
cultural Mortgage Corporation) shall be obligated during 
the current fiscal year for administrative expenses as au-
thorized under 12 U.S.C. 2249: Provided, That this limita-
tion shall not apply to expenses associated with receiver-
ships: Provided further, That the agency may exceed this 
limitation by up to 10 percent with notification to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress: Pro-
vided further, That the purposes of section 3.7(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of 
the 
Farm 
Credit 
Act 
of 
1971 
(12 
U.S.C.
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TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS AND TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 701. The Secretary may use any appropriations 
made available to the Department of Agriculture in this 
Act to purchase new passenger motor vehicles, in addition 
to specific appropriations for this purpose, so long as the 
total number of vehicles purchased in fiscal year 2024 does 
not exceed the number of vehicles owned or leased in fiscal 
year 2018: Provided, That, prior to purchasing additional 
motor vehicles, the Secretary must determine that such vehi-
cles are necessary for transportation safety, to reduce oper-
ational costs, and for the protection of life, property, and 
public safety: Provided further, That the Secretary may not 
increase the Department of Agriculture’s fleet above the 
2018 level unless the Secretary notifies in writing, and re-
ceives approval from, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress within 30 days of the notification. 
SEC. 702. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may transfer unobligated 
balances of discretionary funds appropriated by this Act 
or any other available unobligated discretionary balances 
that are remaining available of the Department of Agri-
culture to the Working Capital Fund for the acquisition of 
property, plant and equipment and for the improvement,
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delivery, and implementation of Department financial, and 
administrative information technology services, and other 
support systems necessary for the delivery of financial, ad-
ministrative, and information technology services, includ-
ing cloud adoption and migration, of primary benefit to 
the agencies of the Department of Agriculture, such trans-
ferred funds to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That none of the funds made available by this Act or any 
other Act shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund 
without the prior approval of the agency administrator: 
Provided further, That none of the funds transferred to the 
Working Capital Fund pursuant to this section shall be 
available for obligation without written notification to and 
the prior approval of the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated by this Act or made available to the 
Department’s Working Capital Fund shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure to make any changes to the De-
partment’s National Finance Center without written notifi-
cation to and prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress as required by section 
716 of this Act: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated by this Act or made available to the Depart-
ment’s Working Capital Fund shall be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure to initiate, plan, develop, implement,
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or make any changes to remove or relocate any systems, 
missions, personnel, or functions of the offices of the Chief 
Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer, co-lo-
cated with or from the National Finance Center prior to 
written notification to and prior approval of the Committee 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress and in ac-
cordance with the requirements of section 716 of this Act: 
Provided further, That the National Finance Center Infor-
mation Technology Services Division personnel and data 
center management responsibilities, and control of any 
functions, missions, and systems for current and future 
human resources management and integrated personnel and 
payroll systems (PPS) and functions provided by the Chief 
Financial Officer and the Chief Information Officer shall 
remain in the National Finance Center and under the man-
agement responsibility and administrative control of the 
National Finance Center: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of Agriculture and the offices of the Chief Financial 
Officer shall actively market to existing and new Depart-
ments and other government agencies National Finance 
Center shared services including, but not limited to, payroll, 
financial management, and human capital shared services 
and allow the National Finance Center to perform tech-
nology upgrades: Provided further, That of annual income 
amounts in the Working Capital Fund of the Department
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of Agriculture attributable to the amounts in excess of the 
true costs of the shared services provided by the National 
Finance Center and budgeted for the National Finance Cen-
ter, the Secretary shall reserve not more than 4 percent for 
the replacement or acquisition of capital equipment, includ-
ing equipment for the improvement, delivery, and imple-
mentation of financial, administrative, and information 
technology services, and other systems of the National Fi-
nance Center or to pay any unforeseen, extraordinary cost 
of the National Finance Center: Provided further, That 
none of the amounts reserved shall be available for obliga-
tion unless the Secretary submits written notification of the 
obligation to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress: Provided further, That the limitations 
on the obligation of funds pending notification to Congres-
sional Committees shall not apply to any obligation that, 
as determined by the Secretary, is necessary to respond to 
a declared state of emergency that significantly impacts the 
operations of the National Finance Center; or to evacuate 
employees of the National Finance Center to a safe haven 
to continue operations of the National Finance Center. 
SEC. 703. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
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SEC. 704. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
used to pay negotiated indirect cost rates on cooperative 
agreements or similar arrangements between the United 
States Department of Agriculture and nonprofit institu-
tions in excess of 10 percent of the total direct cost of the 
agreement when the purpose of such cooperative arrange-
ments is to carry out programs of mutual interest between 
the two parties. This does not preclude appropriate pay-
ment of indirect costs on grants and contracts with such 
institutions when such indirect costs are computed on a 
similar basis for all agencies for which appropriations are 
provided in this Act. 
SEC. 705. Appropriations to the Department of Agri-
culture for the cost of direct and guaranteed loans made 
available in the current fiscal year shall remain available 
until expended to disburse obligations made in the current 
fiscal year for the following accounts: the Rural Develop-
ment Loan Fund program account, the Rural Electrifica-
tion and Telecommunication Loans program account, and 
the Rural Housing Insurance Fund program account. 
SEC. 706. None of the funds made available to the De-
partment of Agriculture by this Act may be used to acquire 
new information technology systems or significant up-
grades, as determined by the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer, without the approval of the Chief Information Offi-
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cer and the concurrence of the Executive Information Tech-
nology Investment Review Board: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, none of the funds ap-
propriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be 
transferred to the Office of the Chief Information Officer 
without written notification to and the prior approval of 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 11319 
of title 40, United States Code, none of the funds available 
to the Department of Agriculture for information technology 
shall be obligated for projects, contracts, or other agreements 
over $25,000 prior to receipt of written approval by the 
Chief Information Officer: Provided further, That the Chief 
Information Officer may authorize an agency to obligate 
funds without written approval from the Chief Information 
Officer for projects, contracts, or other agreements up to 
$250,000 based upon the performance of an agency meas-
ured against the performance plan requirements described 
in the explanatory statement accompanying Public Law 
113–235. 
SEC. 707. Funds made available under section 524(b) 
of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1524(b)) in 
the current fiscal year shall remain available until ex-
pended to disburse obligations made in the current fiscal 
year.
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SEC. 708. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any former Rural Utilities Service borrower that has repaid 
or prepaid an insured, direct or guaranteed loan under the 
Rural Electrification Act of 1936, or any not-for-profit util-
ity that is eligible to receive an insured or direct loan under 
such Act, shall be eligible for assistance under section 
313B(a) of such Act in the same manner as a borrower 
under such Act. 
SEC. 709. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not more than $20,000,000 in unobligated balances 
from appropriations made available for salaries and ex-
penses in this Act for the Farm Service Agency shall remain 
available through September 30, 2025, for information tech-
nology expenses. 
SEC. 710. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used for first-class travel 
by the employees of agencies funded by this Act in con-
travention of sections 301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 711. In the case of each program established or 
amended by the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113– 
79) or by a successor to that Act, other than by title I or 
subtitle A of title III of such Act, or programs for which 
indefinite amounts were provided in that Act, that is au-
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thorized or required to be carried out using funds of the 
Commodity Credit Corporation— 
(1) such funds shall be available for salaries and 
related administrative expenses, including technical 
assistance, associated with the implementation of the 
program, without regard to the limitation on the total 
amount of allotments and fund transfers contained in 
section 11 of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714i); and 
(2) the use of such funds for such purpose shall 
not be considered to be a fund transfer or allotment 
for purposes of applying the limitation on the total 
amount of allotments and fund transfers contained in 
such section. 
SEC. 712. Of the funds made available by this Act, not 
more than $2,900,000 shall be used to cover necessary ex-
penses of activities related to all advisory committees, pan-
els, commissions, and task forces of the Department of Agri-
culture, except for panels used to comply with negotiated 
rule makings and panels used to evaluate competitively 
awarded grants. 
SEC. 713. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography.
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(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, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 714. Notwithstanding subsection (b) of section 
14222 of Public Law 110–246 (7 U.S.C. 612c–6; in this 
section referred to as ‘‘section 14222’’), none of the funds 
appropriated or otherwise made available by this or any 
other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses of 
personnel to carry out a program under section 32 of the 
Act of August 24, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 612c; in this section re-
ferred to as ‘‘section 32’’) in excess of $1,574,028,000 (exclu-
sive of carryover appropriations from prior fiscal years), 
as follows: Child Nutrition Programs Entitlement Commod-
ities—$485,000,000; State Option Contracts—$5,000,000; 
Removal of Defective Commodities—$1,660,000; Adminis-
tration of section 32 Commodity Purchases—$37,178,000: 
Provided, That, of the total funds made available in the 
matter preceding this proviso that remain unobligated on 
October 1, 2024, such unobligated balances shall carryover 
into fiscal year 2025 and shall remain available until ex-
pended for any of the purposes of section 32, except that 
any such carryover funds used in accordance with clause 
(3) of section 32 may not exceed $350,000,000 and may 
not be obligated until the Secretary of Agriculture provides
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written notification of the expenditures to the Committees 
on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least two 
weeks in advance: Provided further, That, with the excep-
tion of any available carryover funds authorized in any 
prior appropriations Act to be used for the purposes of 
clause (3) of section 32, none of the funds appropriated or 
otherwise made available by this or any other Act shall be 
used to pay the salaries or expenses of any employee of the 
Department of Agriculture to carry out clause (3) of section 
32. 
SEC. 715. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and expenses 
of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations lan-
guage as part of the President’s budget submission to the 
Congress for programs under the jurisdiction of the Appro-
priations Subcommittees on Agriculture, Rural Develop-
ment, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agen-
cies that assumes revenues or reflects a reduction from the 
previous year due to user fees proposals that have not been 
enacted into law prior to the submission of the budget unless 
such budget submission identifies which additional spend-
ing reductions should occur in the event the user fees pro-
posals are not enacted prior to the date of the convening 
of a committee of conference for the fiscal year 2024 appro-
priations Act.
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SEC. 716. (a) None of the funds provided by this Act, 
or provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies 
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be avail-
able for obligation or expenditure through a reprogram-
ming, transfer of funds, or reimbursements as authorized 
by the Economy Act, or in the case of the Department of 
Agriculture, through use of the authority provided by sec-
tion 702(b) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act 
of 1944 (7 U.S.C. 2257) or section 8 of Public Law 89– 
106 (7 U.S.C. 2263), that— 
(1) creates new programs; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; or 
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) notifies
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in writing and receives approval from the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days 
in advance of the reprogramming of such funds or the use 
of such authority. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by 
this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts 
in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure for activities, programs, or 
projects through a reprogramming or use of the authorities 
referred to in subsection (a) involving funds in excess of 
$500,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Commodity
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Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) notifies 
in writing and receives approval from the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress at least 30 days 
in advance of the reprogramming or transfer of such funds 
or the use of such authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify in writ-
ing and receive approval from the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress before implementing 
any program or activity not carried out during the pre-
vious fiscal year unless the program or activity is funded 
by this Act or specifically funded by any other Act. 
(d) None of the funds provided by this Act, or provided 
by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies funded by 
this Act that remain available for obligation or expenditure 
in the current fiscal year, or provided from any accounts 
in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees available 
to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for— 
(1) modifying major capital investments funding 
levels, including information technology systems, that 
involves increasing or decreasing funds in the current 
fiscal year for the individual investment in excess of 
$500,000 or 10 percent of the total cost, whichever is 
less;
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(2) realigning or reorganizing new, current, or 
vacant positions or agency activities or functions to 
establish a center, office, branch, or similar entity 
with five or more personnel; or 
(3) carrying out activities or functions that were 
not described in the budget request; 
unless the agencies funded by this Act notify, in writing, 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress at least 30 days in advance of using the funds for 
these purposes. 
(e) As described in this section, no funds may be used 
for any activities unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, or the Chairman 
of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission receives 
from the Committee on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress written or electronic mail confirmation of receipt 
of the notification as required in this section. 
SEC. 717. Notwithstanding section 310B(g)(5) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1932(g)(5)), the Secretary may assess a one-time fee for any 
guaranteed business and industry loan in an amount that 
does not exceed 3 percent of the guaranteed principal por-
tion of the loan. 
SEC. 718. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Agriculture, the Food
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and Drug Administration, the Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, or the Farm Credit Administration shall be 
used to transmit or otherwise make available reports, ques-
tions, or responses to questions that are a result of informa-
tion requested for the appropriations hearing process to any 
non-Department of Agriculture, non-Department of Health 
and Human Services, non-Commodity Futures Trading 
Commission, or non-Farm Credit Administration employee. 
SEC. 719. Unless otherwise authorized by existing law, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used by an 
executive branch agency to produce any prepackaged news 
story intended for broadcast or distribution in the United 
States unless the story includes a clear notification within 
the text or audio of the prepackaged news story that the 
prepackaged news story was prepared or funded by that ex-
ecutive branch agency. 
SEC. 720. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or office 
funded by this Act or any other Act to any other agency 
or office of the Department for more than 60 days in a 
fiscal year unless the individual’s employing agency or of-
fice is fully reimbursed by the receiving agency or office 
for the salary and expenses of the employee for the period 
of assignment.
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SEC. 721. Not later than 30 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Com-
missioner of the Food and Drug Administration, the Chair-
man of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and 
the Chairman of the Farm Credit Administration shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress a detailed spending plan by program, project, 
and activity for all the funds made available under this 
Act including appropriated user fees, as defined in the ex-
planatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
SEC. 722. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to propose, promulgate, or implement any 
rule, or take any other action with respect to, allowing or 
requiring information intended for a prescribing health 
care professional, in the case of a drug or biological product 
subject to section 503(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 353(b)(1)), to be distributed to 
such professional electronically (in lieu of in paper form) 
unless and until a Federal law is enacted to allow or re-
quire such distribution. 
SEC. 723. For the purposes of determining eligibility 
or level of program assistance for Rural Housing Service 
programs the Secretary shall not include incarcerated pris-
on populations.
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SEC. 724. For loans and loan guarantees that do not 
require budget authority and the program level has been 
established in this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may 
increase the program level for such loans and loan guaran-
tees by not more than 25 percent: Provided, That prior to 
the Secretary implementing such an increase, the Secretary 
notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress at least 15 days in advance. 
SEC. 725. None of the credit card refunds or rebates 
transferred to the Working Capital Fund pursuant to sec-
tion 729 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and 
Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2002 (7 U.S.C. 2235a; Public Law 107–76) shall 
be available for obligation without written notification to, 
and the prior approval of, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress: Provided, That the refunds 
or rebates so transferred shall be available for obligation 
only for the acquisition of property, plant and equipment, 
including equipment for the improvement, delivery, and 
implementation of Departmental financial management, 
information technology, and other support systems nec-
essary for the delivery of financial, administrative, and in-
formation technology services, including cloud adoption and 
migration, of primary benefit to the agencies of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture.
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SEC. 726. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
‘‘variety’’ requirements of the final rule entitled ‘‘Enhanc-
ing Retailer Standards in the Supplemental Nutrition As-
sistance Program (SNAP)’’ published by the Department 
of Agriculture in the Federal Register on December 15, 2016 
(81 Fed. Reg. 90675) until the Secretary of Agriculture 
amends the definition of the term ‘‘variety’’ as defined in 
section 278.1(b)(1)(ii)(C) of title 7, Code of Federal Regula-
tions, and ‘‘variety’’ as applied in the definition of the term 
‘‘staple food’’ as defined in section 271.2 of title 7, Code 
of Federal Regulations, to increase the number of items that 
qualify as acceptable varieties in each staple food category 
so that the total number of such items in each staple food 
category exceeds the number of such items in each staple 
food category included in the final rule as published on De-
cember 15, 2016: Provided, That until the Secretary pro-
mulgates such regulatory amendments, the Secretary shall 
apply the requirements regarding acceptable varieties and 
breadth of stock to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Pro-
gram retailers that were in effect on the day before the date 
of the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public 
Law 113–79). 
SEC. 727. In carrying out subsection (h) of section 502 
of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 U.S.C. 1472), the Secretary
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of Agriculture shall have the same authority with respect 
to loans guaranteed under such section and eligible lenders 
for such loans as the Secretary has under subsections (h) 
and (j) of section 538 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1490p–2) with 
respect to loans guaranteed under such section 538 and eli-
gible lenders for such loans. 
SEC. 728. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act shall be available for the United 
States Department of Agriculture to propose, finalize or im-
plement any regulation that would promulgate new user 
fees pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 9701 after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act. 
SEC. 729. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for the Broadband Treasury 
Rate Loan program, authorized in section 601 of the Rural 
Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950bb), $7,000,000 are 
hereby rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be re-
scinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent res-
olution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 730. Notwithstanding any provision of law that 
regulates the calculation and payment of overtime and holi-
day pay for FSIS inspectors, the Secretary may charge es-
tablishments subject to the inspection requirements of the
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Poultry Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 451 et seq., the 
Federal Meat Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 601 et seq, and the 
Egg Products Inspection Act, 21 U.S.C. 1031 et seq., for 
the cost of inspection services provided outside of an estab-
lishment’s approved inspection shifts, and for inspection 
services provided on Federal holidays: Provided, That any 
sums charged pursuant to this paragraph shall be deemed 
as overtime pay or holiday pay under section 1001(d) of 
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117– 
2, 135 Stat. 242): Provided further, That sums received by 
the Secretary under this paragraph shall, in addition to 
other available funds, remain available until expended to 
the Secretary without further appropriation for the purpose 
of funding all costs associated with FSIS inspections. 
SEC. 731. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture shall— 
(1) conduct audits in a manner that evaluates 
the following factors in the country or region being 
audited, as applicable— 
(A) veterinary control and oversight; 
(B) disease history and vaccination prac-
tices; 
(C) livestock demographics and traceability; 
(D) epidemiological separation from poten-
tial sources of infection; 
(E) surveillance practices;
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(F) diagnostic laboratory capabilities; and 
(G) emergency preparedness and response; 
and 
(2) promptly make publicly available the final 
reports of any audits or reviews conducted pursuant 
to paragraph (1). 
(b) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under its inter-
national trade agreements. 
SEC. 732. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for the rural housing vouch-
er program authorized by section 542 of the Housing Act 
of 1949, (42 U.S.C. 1471 et seq.), as amended, $35,000,000 
are hereby rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be 
rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-
rent resolution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 733. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available under the heading ‘‘Rural 
Cooperative Development Grants’’ for Agriculture Innova-
tion Centers authorized by section 6402 of the Farm Secu-
rity and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1632b), 
as amended, $7,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, 
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were
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designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement 
pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985. 
SEC. 734. (a)(1) No Federal funds made available for 
this fiscal year for the rural water, waste water, waste dis-
posal, and solid waste management programs authorized by 
sections 306, 306A, 306C, 306D, 306E, and 310B of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 
1926 et seq.) shall be used for a project for the construction, 
alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water or 
wastewater system unless all of the iron and steel products 
used in the project are produced in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe 
clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced 
precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Secretary of Agriculture (in this 
section referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’) or the designee of 
the Secretary finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent 
with the public interest;
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(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities or of a satisfactory quality; or 
(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 
in the United States will increase the cost of the over-
all project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Secretary or the designee receives a request 
for a waiver under this section, the Secretary or the designee 
shall make available to the public on an informal basis a 
copy of the request and information available to the Sec-
retary or the designee concerning the request, and shall 
allow for informal public input on the request for at least 
15 days prior to making a finding based on the request. 
The Secretary or the designee shall make the request and 
accompanying information available by electronic means, 
including on the official public Internet Web site of the De-
partment. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Secretary may retain up to 0.25 percent of 
the funds appropriated in this Act for ‘‘Rural Utilities 
Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal Program Ac-
count’’ for carrying out the provisions described in sub-
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section (a)(1) for management and oversight of the require-
ments of this section. 
(f) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to a 
project for which the engineering plans and specifications 
include use of iron and steel products otherwise prohibited 
by such subsection if the plans and specifications have re-
ceived required approvals from State agencies prior to the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
(g) For purposes of this section, the terms ‘‘United 
States’’ and ‘‘State’’ shall include each of the several States, 
the District of Columbia, and each Federally recognized In-
dian Tribe. 
SEC. 735. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence 
congressional action on any legislation or appropriation 
matters pending before Congress, other than to commu-
nicate to Members of Congress as described in 18 U.S.C. 
1913. 
SEC. 736. Of the total amounts made available by this 
Act for direct loans and grants under the following head-
ings: ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Rural Housing Insurance 
Fund Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Housing Service—Mu-
tual and Self-Help Housing Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Housing 
Service—Rural Housing Assistance Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Hous-
ing Service—Rural Community Facilities Program Ac-
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count’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Busi-
ness Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Serv-
ice—Rural Economic Development Loans Program Ac-
count’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative Service—Rural Coop-
erative Development Grants’’; ‘‘Rural Business-Cooperative 
Service—Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program’’; 
‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Water and Waste Disposal 
Program Account’’; ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Rural Elec-
trification and Telecommunications Loans Program Ac-
count’’; and ‘‘Rural Utilities Service—Distance Learning, 
Telemedicine, and Broadband Program’’, to the maximum 
extent feasible, at least 10 percent of the funds shall be allo-
cated for assistance in persistent poverty counties under 
this section, including, notwithstanding any other provision 
regarding population limits, any county seat of such a per-
sistent poverty county that has a population that does not 
exceed the authorized population limit by more than 10 per-
cent: Provided, That for purposes of this section, the term 
‘‘persistent 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 2007–2011 American Community 
Survey 5-year average, or any territory or possession of the 
United States: Provided further, That with respect to spe-
cific activities for which program levels have been made
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available by this Act that are not supported by budget au-
thority, the requirements of this section shall be applied to 
such program level. 
SEC. 737. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to notify a sponsor or otherwise acknowl-
edge receipt of a submission for an exemption for investiga-
tional use of a drug or biological product under section 
505(i) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 
U.S.C. 355(i)) or section 351(a)(3) of the Public Health 
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)(3)) in research in which a 
human embryo is intentionally created or modified to in-
clude a heritable genetic modification. Any such submission 
shall be deemed to have not been received by the Secretary, 
and the exemption may not go into effect. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to enforce the final rule pro-
mulgated by the Food and Drug Administration entitled 
‘‘Standards for the Growing, Harvesting, Packing, and 
Holding of Produce for Human Consumption’’, and pub-
lished on November 27, 2015, with respect to the regulation 
of entities that grow, harvest, pack, or hold wine grapes, 
hops, pulse crops, or almonds. 
SEC. 739. For school years 2023–2024 and 2024–2025, 
none of the funds made available by this Act may be used 
to implement or enforce the matter following the first
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comma in the second sentence of footnote (c) of section 
220.8(c) of title 7, Code of Federal Regulations, with respect 
to the substitution of vegetables for fruits under the school 
breakfast program established under section 4 of the Child 
Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773). 
SEC. 740. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used— 
(1) in contravention of section 7606 of the Agri-
cultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 5940), subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, or section 10114 
of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018; or 
(2) to prohibit the transportation, processing, 
sale, or use of hemp, or seeds of such plant, that is 
grown or cultivated in accordance with section 7606 
of the Agricultural Act of 2014 or subtitle G of the 
Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946, within or outside 
the State in which the hemp is grown or cultivated. 
SEC. 741. The Secretary of Agriculture may waive the 
matching funds requirement under section 412(g) of the Ag-
ricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act 
of 1998 (7 U.S.C. 7632(g)). 
SEC. 742. The Secretary, as part of the report on for-
eign landholding required under the Agricultural Foreign 
Investment Disclosure Act (Public Law 95–460), shall re-
port to Congress on foreign investments in agricultural land
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in the United States, including the impact foreign owner-
ship has on family farms, rural communities, and the do-
mestic food supply: Provided, That within 2 years after the 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a 
streamlined process for electronic submission and retention 
of disclosures made under the Agricultural Foreign Invest-
ment Disclosure Act, including an internet database that 
contains disaggregated data from each disclosure submitted: 
Provided further,That all prior year disclosures of foreign 
investments in agricultural land in the United States are 
published in the database: Provided further, That the plan 
includes a process to ensure the protection of personally 
identifiable information and that all disclosures of foreign 
investments in agricultural land on the USDA website be 
disaggregated by: (1) in any case in which such foreign per-
son is an individual, the citizenship of such foreign person; 
and (2) in any case in which such foreign person is not 
an individual or a government, the nature of the legal enti-
ty holding the interest, the country in which such foreign 
person is created or organized, and the principal place of 
business of such foreign person. 
SEC. 743. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for a pilot program for 
the Secretary to provide grants to qualified non-profit orga-
nizations and public housing authorities to provide tech-
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nical assistance, including financial and legal services, to 
RHS multi-family housing borrowers to facilitate the ac-
quisition of RHS multi-family housing properties in areas 
where the Secretary determines a risk of loss of affordable 
housing, by non-profit housing organizations and public 
housing authorities as authorized by law that commit to 
keep such properties in the RHS multi-family housing pro-
gram for a period of time as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 744. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available under the heading ‘‘Rural 
Housing Assistance Grants’’ for housing repair grants au-
thorized by section 504 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 
U.S.C. 1474), as amended, $28,000,000 are hereby re-
scinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on 
the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 745. (a) After the effective date of any final rule 
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes in con-
nection with its proposed rule to update these requirements 
(87 Federal Register 59168, issued on September 29, 2022), 
manufacturers may also continue to comply with the pre-
vious requirements promulgated by the FDA for the implied
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nutrient content claim ‘‘healthy’’ through the ‘‘compliance 
date’’ FDA provides in the final rule. 
(b) Any food product manufactured and labeled as 
‘‘healthy’’ during the compliance period FDA provides in 
that final rule shall not be directly or indirectly subject to 
any state-law requirements that are not identical to either 
(i) the Federal requirements for the implied nutrition con-
tent claim ‘‘healthy’’ that were in effect as of the date FDA 
issues the final rule, or (ii) the updated Federal require-
ments that FDA promulgates in the final rule, assuming 
the updated requirements go into effect during the regu-
latory compliance period. 
SEC. 746. Funds made available under title II of the 
Food for Peace Act (7 U.S.C. 1721 et seq.) may only be 
used to provide assistance to recipient nations if adequate 
monitoring and controls, as determined by the Adminis-
trator, are in place to ensure that emergency food aid is 
received by the intended beneficiaries in areas affected by 
food shortages and not diverted for unauthorized or inap-
propriate purposes. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to procure raw or processed poultry prod-
ucts or seafood imported into the United States from the 
People’s Republic of China for use in the school lunch pro-
gram under the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch
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Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et seq.), the Child and Adult Care Food 
Program under section 17 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1766), 
the Summer Food Service Program for Children under sec-
tion 13 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1761), or the school breakfast 
program under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 
1771 et seq.). 
SEC. 748. For school year 2024–2025, only a school 
food authority that had a negative balance in the nonprofit 
school food service account as of June 30, 2023, shall be 
required to establish a price for paid lunches in accordance 
with section 12(p) of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760(p)). 
SEC. 749. Any funds made available by this or any 
other Act that the Secretary withholds pursuant to section 
1668(g)(2) of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5921(g)(2)), as amended, shall 
be available for grants for biotechnology risk assessment re-
search: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer such 
funds among appropriations of the Department of Agri-
culture for purposes of making such grants. 
SEC. 750. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no funds available to the Department of Agriculture may 
be used to move any staff office or any agency from the 
mission area in which it was located on August 1, 2018, 
to any other mission area or office within the Department
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in the absence of the enactment of specific legislation affirm-
ing such move. 
SEC. 751. The Secretary, acting through the Chief of 
the Natural Resources Conservation Service, may use funds 
appropriated under this Act or any other Act for the Water-
shed and Flood Prevention Operations Program and the 
Watershed Rehabilitation Program carried out pursuant to 
the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act (16 
U.S.C. 1001 et seq.), and for the Emergency Watershed Pro-
tection Program carried out pursuant to section 403 of the 
Agricultural Credit Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2203) to provide 
technical services for such programs pursuant to section 
1252(a)(1) of the Food Security Act of 1985 (16 U.S.C. 
3851(a)(1)), notwithstanding subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 752. In administering the pilot program estab-
lished by section 779 of division A of the Consolidated Ap-
propriations Act, 2018 (Public Law 115–141), the Sec-
retary of Agriculture may, for purposes of determining enti-
ties eligible to receive assistance, consider those communities 
which are ‘‘Areas Rural in Character’’: Provided, That not 
more than 10 percent of the funds made available under 
the heading ‘‘Distance Learning, Telemedicine, and 
Broadband Program’’ for the purposes of the pilot program 
established by section 779 of Public Law 115–141 may be 
used for this purpose.
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SEC. 753. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available by this Act and notwithstanding the last sentence 
of 16 U.S.C. 1310, there is appropriated $2,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, to implement non-renewable 
agreements on eligible lands, including flooded agricultural 
lands, as determined by the Secretary, under the Water 
Bank Act (16 U.S.C. 1301–1311). 
SEC. 754. Out of amounts appropriated to the Food 
and Drug Administration under title VI, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, acting through the Commis-
sioner of Food and Drugs, shall, not later than September 
30, 2024, and following the review required under Executive 
Order No. 12866 (5 U.S.C. 601 note; relating to regulatory 
planning and review), issue advice revising the advice pro-
vided in the notice of availability entitled ‘‘Advice About 
Eating Fish, From the Environmental Protection Agency 
and Food and Drug Administration; Revised Fish Advice; 
Availability’’ (82 Fed. Reg. 6571 (January 19, 2017)), in 
a manner that is consistent with nutrition science recog-
nized by the Food and Drug Administration on the net ef-
fects of seafood consumption. 
SEC. 755. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available, there is hereby appropriated $3,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, for the Meat and Poultry 
Processing Expansion Program established pursuant to sec-
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tion 1001(b)(4) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 
(Public Law 117–2) to award grants to processors of 
invasive, wild-caught catfish. 
SEC. 756. The Secretary shall set aside for Rural Eco-
nomic Area Partnership (REAP) Zones, until August 15, 
2024, an amount of funds made available in title III under 
the headings of Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program 
Account, Mutual and Self-Help Housing Grants, Rural 
Housing Assistance Grants, Rural Community Facilities 
Program Account, Rural Business Program Account, Rural 
Development Loan Fund Program Account, and Rural 
Water and Waste Disposal Program Account, equal to the 
amount obligated in REAP Zones with respect to funds 
provided under such headings in the most recent fiscal year 
any such funds were obligated under such headings for 
REAP Zones, excluding the funding provided through any 
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
Spending. 
SEC. 757. In this fiscal year and each fiscal year there-
after, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available by this or any other Act may 
be used to implement section 3.7(f) of the Farm Credit Act 
of 1971 in a manner inconsistent with section 343(a)(13) 
of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
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SEC. 758. (a) For an additional amount for the Office 
of the Secretary, $2,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, for the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out no 
more than 10 pilot projects, under the terms and conditions 
determined by the Secretary for a period not to exceed 2 
years, that award grants to an Indian tribe; a tribal orga-
nization approved by an Indian tribe; a tribal educational 
agency; a consortium of Indian tribes; or a partnership be-
tween an Indian tribe and either a State educational agen-
cy, a local educational agency, a tribal educational agency, 
or the Bureau of Indian Education to operate and imple-
ment the school lunch program as authorized by the Rich-
ard B. Russell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 
1769), the summer food service program as established 
under section 13 of the Richard B. Russell National School 
Lunch Act, the child and adult care food program as estab-
lished by section 17 of the Richard B. Russell National 
School Lunch Act, or the school breakfast program estab-
lished by the Child Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1773) 
in either a Bureau-funded school (as defined in section 1141 
of the Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021)); 
a school (as defined in section 12(d) of the Richard B. Rus-
sell National School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1760 (d)) on 
or near an Indian reservation; or an early child care and 
education facility: Provided, That to carry out this pilot
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program each grant awarded shall be no less than $10,000 
and no more than $100,000 for each school year and shall 
not increase state administrative costs or the amount of 
benefits provided in any program: Provided further, That 
the term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Edu-
cation Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304). 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a 
pilot project grant recipient shall be reimbursed for meals 
served under the school lunch program, the summer food 
service program, and the child and adult care food program 
as if the recipient were a State under the Richard B. Rus-
sell National School Lunch Act; and under the school break-
fast program as if the recipient were a State educational 
agency. 
(c) Not later than 1 year after the conclusion of the 
pilot program, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a re-
port on the outcomes of the pilot program. 
SEC. 759. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used by the Food and 
Drug Administration (FDA) to issue or promote any new 
guidelines or regulations applicable to food manufacturers 
for Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) until the FDA considers 
the available new science in developing the Compliance Pol-
icy Guide (CPG), Guidance for FDA Staff, Sec. 55.320 Lis-
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teria monocytogenes—regarding Lm in low-risk foods, 
meaning foods that do not support the growth of Lm. 
SEC. 760. Section 523 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 
U.S.C. 1490c) is amended in subsection (b)(1)(B) by strik-
ing ‘‘two years’’ and inserting ‘‘five years’’. 
SEC. 761. Section 524 of the Housing Act of 1949 (42 
U.S.C. 1490d) is amended in subsection (a)(1) by striking 
‘‘two years’’ and inserting ‘‘five years’’. 
SEC. 762. Section 363 of the Multifamily Mortgage 
Foreclosure Act of 1981 (12 U.S.C. 3702) is amended at 
paragraph (10) by inserting after ‘‘Secretary of Housing 
Urban Development’’ the following: ‘‘and the Secretary of 
Agriculture’’. 
SEC. 763. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used by the Food and 
Drug Administration to develop, issue, promote or advance 
any final guidelines or new regulations applicable to food 
manufacturers for long-term population-wide sodium re-
duction actions until an assessment is completed on the im-
pact of the short-term sodium reduction targets. 
SEC. 764. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025, for a Bison 
Production and Marketing Grant Program that the Agri-
cultural Marketing Service shall develop and maintain: 
Provided, That this program shall be similar, as determined
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by the Secretary, to the Sheep Production and Marketing 
Grant Program the Department of Agriculture currently 
maintains pursuant to section 209(c) of the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1627a(c)), and shall 
prioritize grants to national non-profits and federally char-
tered Tribal organizations that have expertise in bison pro-
duction or marketing. 
SEC. 765. Notwithstanding the Agricultural Marketing 
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1622 et seq.) and 9 CFR part 352, 
the Committee provides an additional $700,000 to the 
USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service to cover vol-
untary meat inspection fees for the slaughtering or proc-
essing of bison/buffalo at Native American owned establish-
ments or establishments operating on tribal lands. 
SEC. 766. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for the Rural Water Oper-
ation Program under the heading ‘‘Natural Resources Con-
servation Service—Watershed and Flood Prevention Oper-
ations’’, $28,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That 
no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 767. If services performed by APHIS employees 
are determined by the Administrator of the Animal and
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Plant Health Inspection Service to be in response to an ani-
mal disease outbreak, any premium pay that is funded, ei-
ther directly or through reimbursement, shall be exempted 
from the aggregate of basic pay and premium pay cal-
culated under section 5547 of title 5, United States Code, 
and any other provision of law limiting the aggregate 
amount of premium pay payable on a biweekly or calendar 
year basis: Provided, That this section shall take effect as 
if enacted on January 1, 2023. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel— 
(1) to inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) to inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) to implement or enforce section 352.19 of 
title 9, Code of Federal Regulations (or a successor 
regulation). 
SEC. 769. Any rule-making, notice or guidance of or 
regarding USDA Proposed Rule (Child Nutrition Pro-
grams: Revisions to Meal Patterns Consistent With the 2020 
Dietary Guidelines for Americans; RIN 0584–AE88) shall 
allow and provide meal reimbursement for (or ‘‘low fat or
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fat free’’) flavored milk in National School Lunch Program 
and School Breakfast Program for grades Kindergarten 
through 12th grade and in Child and Adult Care Food Pro-
gram for participants 6 years of age and older, and for 
any other program complying with the meal pattern re-
quirements covered in such final rule. 
SEC. 770. Sodium limits in effect for School Year 
2023–2024 in child nutrition meal patterns shall remain 
effective through School Year 2026–2027, after which so-
dium limits that may be included in any rulemaking, no-
tice or guidance of or regarding USDA Proposed Rule 
(Child Nutrition Programs: Revisions to Meal Patterns 
Consistent With the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Ameri-
cans; RIN 0584–AE88), shall not be more restrictive than 
the Target 2 sodium levels published in the final rule enti-
tled ‘‘Nutrition Standards in the National School Lunch 
and School Breakfast Programs’’ published by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture in the Federal Register on January 26, 
2012 (77 Fed. Reg 4087). 
SEC. 771. There is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, to carry out section 2103 
of Public Law 115–334: Provided, That the Secretary shall 
prioritize the wetland compliance needs of areas with sig-
nificant numbers of individual wetlands, wetland acres, 
and conservation compliance requests.
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SEC. 772. There is appropriated $3,000,000 for the 
emergency and transitional pet shelter and housing assist-
ance grant program established under section 12502(b) of 
the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (34 U.S.C. 
20127). 
SEC. 773. The National Academies of Sciences, Engi-
neering and Medicine (NASEM) were tasked with pro-
viding findings and recommendations on alcohol consump-
tion for the purposes of inclusion in the 2025 Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans as required by Section 772 of Di-
vision A of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 
(Public Law 117–328): Provided, That the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agri-
culture shall consider the findings and recommendations of 
the NASEM report in the development of the 2025 Dietary 
Guidelines for Americans and further, both Secretaries shall 
ensure that the alcohol consumption recommendations in 
the 2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans shall be based 
on the preponderance of scientific and medical knowledge 
consistent with section 5341 of title 7 of United States Code. 
SEC. 774. The first proviso under the heading ‘‘Rural 
Community Facilities Program Account’’ in title I of divi-
sion N of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (Pub-
lic Law 117–328) is amended by inserting ‘‘or to repair 
or replace essential community facilities damaged by a dis-
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aster that occurred in calendar year 2023’’ after ‘‘calendar 
year 2022’’: Provided, That amounts repurposed pursuant 
to this section that were previously designated by the Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concur-
rent resolution on the budget are designated as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
SEC. 775. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for the Rural Energy for 
American program authorized by section 9007 of the Farm 
Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, (7 U.S.C. 
8107), $10,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 776. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available in Section 2304 of the 
American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117–2), 
$30,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 777. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available under Division A, Title IV, 
under the heading ‘‘Nutrition Programs Administration’’
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for relocation expenses and the alteration and repair of 
buildings and improvement pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 2250 of 
the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Public Law 
115–31), $8,000,000 are hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 778. Of the unobligated balances available in fis-
cal year 2024 in the ‘‘Nonrecurring Expenses Fund’’ estab-
lished in section 742 of division A of Public Law 113-235, 
and in addition to any funds otherwise made available for 
such purposes in this, prior, or subsequent fiscal years, the 
following shall be available during the period of availability 
of the Fund for the specified purposes and in the specified 
amounts— 
(1) for grants for rural community facilities pro-
grams as authorized by section 306 and described in 
section 381E(d)(1) of the Consolidated Farm and 
Rural Development Act, $505,023,927 for the pur-
poses, and in the amounts specified in the table titled 
‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally Di-
rected Spending’’ in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division 
A of this consolidated Act), and under the same au-
thorities and conditions as amounts made available 
by this Act in the second paragraph under the head-
ing ‘‘Rural Community Facilities Program Account’’; 
and
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(2) for expenses during fiscal year 2024, not oth-
erwise recoverable, and unrecovered prior years’ costs, 
including interest thereon, under the Food for Peace 
Act (Public Law 83–480), for commodities supplied 
in connection with dispositions abroad under title II 
of said Act, $68,476,073, under the same authorities 
and conditions as amounts made available by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Food for Peace Title II 
Grants’’: 
Provided, That amounts repurposed pursuant to this sec-
tion that were previously designated by the Congress as an 
emergency requirement pursuant to the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are designated 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 779. Section 2250b of title 7, United States Code, 
is hereby amended in the second proviso by striking ‘‘cap-
ital acquisition’’ and after ‘‘infrastructure’’ inserting ‘‘and 
information technology services.’’ 
SEC. 780. Section 313B(a) of the Rural Electrification 
Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 940c–2(a)), shall be applied for fiscal 
year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter until the specified 
funding has been expended as if the following were inserted 
after the final period: ‘‘In addition, the Secretary shall use
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$9,465,000 of the funds available to carry out this section 
in fiscal year 2024 for an additional amount for the same 
purpose and under the same terms and conditions as the 
Rural Business Development Grants authorized by section 
310B of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act 
(7 U.S.C. 1932(c)).’’. 
SEC. 781. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the acceptable market name of any engineered animal ap-
proved prior to the effective date of the National Bioengi-
neered Food Disclosure Standard (February 19, 2019) shall 
include the words ‘‘genetically engineered’’ prior to the ex-
isting acceptable market name. 
SEC. 782. For an additional amount for the Office of 
the Secretary, $6,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to continue the Institute for Rural Partnerships as 
established in section 778 of Public Law 117–103: Provided, 
That the Institute for Rural Partnerships shall continue to 
dedicate resources to researching the causes and conditions 
of challenges facing rural areas, and develop community 
partnerships to address such challenges: Provided further, 
That administrative or other fees shall not exceed one per-
cent: Provided further, That such partnership shall coordi-
nate and publish an annual report. 
SEC. 783. There is hereby appropriated $500,000 to 
carry out the duties of the working group established under
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section 770 of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food 
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2019 (Public Law 116–6; 133 Stat. 89). 
SEC. 784. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for conservation activities 
under the heading ‘‘Natural Resources Conservation Serv-
ice—Conservation Operations’’, $30,000,000 are hereby re-
scinded: Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from 
amounts that were designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on 
the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 785. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for the ‘‘National Institute 
of Food and Agriculture—Research and Education Activi-
ties’’, $37,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to a Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 786. There is hereby appropriated $1,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, for section 306E(b) of the 
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide 
subgrants to eligible individuals for the construction, refur-
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bishing, and servicing of individually owned household de-
centralized wastewater systems. 
SEC. 787. The Secretary of Agriculture shall be in-
cluded as a member of the Committee on Foreign Invest-
ment in the United States (CFIUS) on a case by case basis 
pursuant to the authorities in section 721(k)(2)(J) of the 
Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4565(k)(2)(J)) 
with respect to each covered transaction (as defined in sec-
tion 721(a)(4) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
U.S.C. 4565(a)(4))) involving agricultural land, agri-
culture biotechnology, or the agriculture industry (includ-
ing agricultural transportation, agricultural storage, and 
agricultural processing), as determined by the CFIUS 
Chairperson in coordination with the Secretary of Agri-
culture. The Secretary of Agriculture shall, to the maximum 
extent practicable, notify the Committee on Foreign Invest-
ment in the United States of any agricultural land trans-
action that the Secretary of Agriculture has reason to be-
lieve, based on information from or in cooperation with the 
Intelligence Community, is a covered transaction (A) that 
may pose a risk to the national security of the United 
States, with particular emphasis on covered transactions of 
an interest in agricultural land by foreign governments or 
entities of concern, as defined in 42 U.S.C. 19221(a), in-
cluding the People’s Republic of China, the Democratic Peo-
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ple’s Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the 
Islamic Republic of Iran; and (B) with respect to which 
a person is required to submit a report to the Secretary 
of Agriculture under section 2(a) of the Agricultural For-
eign Investment Disclosure Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 3501(a)): 
Provided, That there is hereby appropriated $2,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, in addition to amounts 
otherwise provided for such purpose, to carry out this sec-
tion. 
SEC. 788. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available in the ‘‘Working Capital 
Fund’’, $78,000,000 are hereby rescinded: Provided, That 
no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that were des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to a concurrent resolution on the budget or the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 789. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for the ‘‘Community Con-
nect Grant Program’’, $30,000,000 are hereby rescinded: 
Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 
that were designated by the Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budg-
et or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985.
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SEC. 790. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available under the heading ‘‘Dis-
tance Learning, Telemedicine, and Broadband Program’’, 
other than amounts made available for the Community 
Connect Grant Program, $18,891,000 are hereby rescinded: 
Provided, That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts 
that were designated by the Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budg-
et or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
SEC. 791. Of the unobligated balances from prior year 
appropriations made available for veterinary diagnostics 
under the heading ‘‘Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service, Salaries and Expenses account’’, $5,000,000 are 
hereby rescinded: Provided, That no amounts may be re-
scinded from amounts that were designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to a concurrent res-
olution on the budget or the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 792. The agencies and offices of the Department 
of Agriculture may reimburse the Office of the General 
Counsel (OGC), out of the funds provided in this Act, for 
costs incurred by OGC in providing services to such agen-
cies or offices under time-limited agreements entered into 
with such agencies and offices: Provided, That such transfer
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authority is in addition to any other transfer authority 
provided by law. 
SEC. 793. (a) Section 260 of the Agricultural Mar-
keting Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1636i) is amended by striking 
‘‘2023’’ and inserting ‘‘2024’’. 
(b) Section 942 of the Livestock Mandatory Reporting 
Act of 1999 (7 U.S.C. 1635 note; Public Law 106–78) is 
amended by striking ‘‘2023’’ and inserting ‘‘2024’’. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Agriculture, Rural 
Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024’’.
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DIVISION 
C—COMMERCE, 
JUSTICE, 
SCIENCE, AND RELATED AGENCIES AP-
PROPRIATIONS ACT, 2024 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for international trade activi-
ties of the Department of Commerce provided for by law, 
to carry out activities associated with facilitating, attract-
ing, and retaining business investment in the United 
States, to carry out activities associated with title VI of 
division BB of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 
(Public Law 117–328), and for engaging in trade pro-
motional activities abroad, including expenses of grants 
and cooperative agreements for the purpose of promoting 
exports of United States firms, without regard to sections 
3702 and 3703 of title 44, United States Code; full medical 
coverage for dependent members of immediate families of 
employees stationed overseas and employees temporarily 
posted overseas; travel and transportation of employees of 
the International Trade Administration between two points 
abroad, without regard to section 40118 of title 49, United 
States Code; employment of citizens of the United States 
and aliens by contract for services; recognizing contribu-
221 
tions to export expansion pursuant to Executive Order 
10978; rental of space abroad for periods not exceeding 10 
years, and expenses of alteration, repair, or improvement; 
purchase or construction of temporary demountable exhi-
bition structures for use abroad; payment of tort claims, 
in the manner authorized in the first paragraph of section 
2672 of title 28, United States Code, when such claims arise 
in foreign countries; not to exceed $294,300 for official rep-
resentation expenses abroad; purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for official use abroad, not to exceed $45,000 per 
vehicle; not to exceed $325,000 for purchase of armored ve-
hicles without regard to the general purchase price limita-
tions; obtaining insurance on official motor vehicles; and 
rental of tie lines, $623,000,000, of which $85,000,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That 
of the amounts made available under this heading, 
$50,000,000 is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985: Provided further, That $12,000,000 is to be derived 
from fees to be retained and used by the International Trade 
Administration, notwithstanding section 3302 of title 31, 
United States Code: Provided further, That, of amounts 
provided under this heading, not less than $16,400,000 shall 
be for China antidumping and countervailing duty enforce-
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ment and compliance activities: Provided further, That the 
provisions of the first sentence of section 105(f) and all of 
section 108(c) of the Mutual Educational and Cultural Ex-
change Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall 
apply in carrying out these activities; and that for the pur-
pose of this Act, contributions under the provisions of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
shall include payment for assessments for services provided 
as part of these activities: Provided further, That, of 
amounts provided under this heading, up to $3,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, shall be for the purpose 
of carrying out a pilot fellowship program of the United 
States Commercial Service under which the Secretary of 
Commerce may make competitive grants to appropriate in-
stitutions of higher education or students to increase the 
level of knowledge and awareness of, and interest in employ-
ment with, that Service among minority students: Provided 
further, That any grants awarded under such program shall 
be made pursuant to regulations to be prescribed by the Sec-
retary, which shall require as a condition of the initial re-
ceipt of grant funds, a commitment by prospective grantees 
to accept full-time employment in the Global Markets unit 
of the International Trade Administration upon the com-
pletion of participation in the program.
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BUREAU OF INDUSTRY AND SECURITY 
OPERATIONS AND ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for export administration and 
national security activities of the Department of Commerce, 
including costs associated with the performance of export 
administration field activities both domestically and 
abroad; full medical coverage for dependent members of im-
mediate families of employees stationed overseas; employ-
ment of citizens of the United States and aliens by contract 
for services abroad; payment of tort claims, in the manner 
authorized in the first paragraph of section 2672 of title 
28, United States Code, when such claims arise in foreign 
countries; not to exceed $13,500 for official representation 
expenses abroad; awards of compensation to informers 
under the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (subtitle B 
of title XVII of the John S. McCain National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019; Public Law 115–232; 
132 Stat. 2208; 50 U.S.C. 4801 et seq.), and as authorized 
by section 1(b) of the Act of June 15, 1917 (40 Stat. 223; 
22 U.S.C. 401(b)); and purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
for official use and motor vehicles for law enforcement use 
with special requirement vehicles eligible for purchase with-
out regard to any price limitation otherwise established by 
law, $191,000,000, of which $76,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of the amounts
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made available under this heading for activities under the 
‘‘revised nonsecurity category’’, as defined in section 
250(c)(4)(E) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985 (Public Law 99–177), as amended, 
$20,000,000 is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985: Provided further, That the provisions of the first 
sentence of section 105(f) and all of section 108(c) of the 
Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 
(22 U.S.C. 2455(f) and 2458(c)) shall apply in carrying 
out these activities: Provided further, That payments and 
contributions collected and accepted for materials or serv-
ices provided as part of such activities may be retained for 
use in covering the cost of such activities, and for providing 
information to the public with respect to the export admin-
istration and national security activities of the Department 
of Commerce and other export control programs of the 
United States and other governments. 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION 
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
For grants for economic development assistance as pro-
vided by the Public Works and Economic Development Act 
of 1965, for trade adjustment assistance, and for grants au-
thorized by sections 27, 28, and 30 of the Stevenson-Wydler
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Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722, 3722a, 
and 3723), as amended, $400,000,000 to remain available 
until expended, of which $50,000,000 shall be for grants 
under section 27, $41,000,000 shall be for grants under sec-
tion 28, and $2,500,000 shall be for grants under section 
30: Provided, That of the amounts made available under 
this heading, $30,000,000 is designated by the Congress as 
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That any de-
viation from the amounts designated for specific activities 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated 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. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administering the economic 
development assistance programs as provided for by law, 
$68,000,000: Provided, That funds provided under this 
heading may be used to monitor projects approved pursuant 
to title I of the Public Works Employment Act of 1976; title 
II of the Trade Act of 1974; sections 27 through 30 of the 
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15
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U.S.C. 3722–3723), as amended; and the Community 
Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1977. 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AGENCY 
MINORITY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses of the Minority Business Devel-
opment Agency in fostering, promoting, and developing mi-
nority business enterprises, as authorized by law, 
$68,250,000. 
ECONOMIC AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, of eco-
nomic and statistical analysis programs of the Department 
of Commerce, $125,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025. 
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
CURRENT SURVEYS AND PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, ana-
lyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics, provided for by 
law, $328,500,000: Provided, That, from amounts provided 
herein, funds may be used for promotion, outreach, and 
marketing activities. 
PERIODIC CENSUSES AND PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses for collecting, compiling, ana-
lyzing, preparing, and publishing statistics for periodic 
censuses and programs provided for by law, $1,054,000,000,
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to remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, 
That, from amounts provided herein, funds may be used 
for promotion, outreach, and marketing activities. 
NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATION 
ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as provided for by law, of the 
National Telecommunications and Information Adminis-
tration (NTIA), $57,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2025: Provided, That, notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 1535(d), the Secretary of Commerce shall charge 
Federal agencies for costs incurred in spectrum manage-
ment, analysis, operations, and related services, and such 
fees shall be retained and used as offsetting collections for 
costs of such spectrum services, to remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That the Secretary of Com-
merce is authorized to retain and use as offsetting collec-
tions all funds transferred, or previously transferred, from 
other Government agencies for all costs incurred in tele-
communications research, engineering, and related activi-
ties by the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences of 
NTIA, in furtherance of its assigned functions under this 
paragraph, and such funds received from other Government 
agencies shall remain available until expended.
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PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES, PLANNING AND 
CONSTRUCTION 
For the administration of prior-year grants, recoveries 
and unobligated balances of funds previously appropriated 
are available for the administration of all open grants until 
their expiration. 
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for the design, construction, al-
teration, improvement, maintenance, and repair of build-
ings and facilities managed by the National Telecommuni-
cations and Information Administration, not otherwise 
provided for, $2,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the United States Patent and 
Trademark Office (USPTO) provided for by law, including 
defense of suits instituted against the Under Secretary of 
Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the 
USPTO, $4,195,799,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the sum herein appropriated from 
the general fund shall be reduced as offsetting collections 
of fees and surcharges assessed and collected by the USPTO 
under any law are received during fiscal year 2024, so as
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to result in a fiscal year 2024 appropriation from the gen-
eral fund estimated at $0: Provided further, That during 
fiscal year 2024, should the total amount of such offsetting 
collections be less than $4,195,799,000, this amount shall 
be reduced accordingly: Provided further, That any amount 
received in excess of $4,195,799,000 in fiscal year 2024 and 
deposited in the Patent and Trademark Fee Reserve Fund 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That the Director of USPTO shall submit a spending plan 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate for any amounts made available 
by the preceding proviso and such spending plan shall be 
treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this Act 
and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure ex-
cept in compliance with the procedures set forth in that sec-
tion: Provided further, That any amounts reprogrammed 
in accordance with the preceding proviso shall be trans-
ferred to the United States Patent and Trademark Office 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ account: Provided further, That 
the budget of the President submitted for fiscal year 2025 
under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, shall 
include within amounts provided under this heading for 
necessary expenses of the USPTO any increases that are 
expected to result from an increase promulgated through 
rule or regulation in offsetting collections of fees and sur-
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charges assessed and collected by the USPTO under any law 
in either fiscal year 2024 or fiscal year 2025: Provided fur-
ther, That from amounts provided herein, not to exceed 
$13,500 shall be made available in fiscal year 2024 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That in fiscal year 2024 from the amounts made 
available for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ for the USPTO, the 
amounts necessary to pay (1) the difference between the per-
centage of basic pay contributed by the USPTO and em-
ployees under section 8334(a) of title 5, United States Code, 
and the normal cost percentage (as defined by section 
8331(17) of that title) as provided by the Office of Personnel 
Management (OPM) for USPTO’s specific use, of basic pay, 
of employees subject to subchapter III of chapter 83 of that 
title, and (2) the present value of the otherwise unfunded 
accruing costs, as determined by OPM for USPTO’s specific 
use of post-retirement life insurance and post-retirement 
health benefits coverage for all USPTO employees who are 
enrolled in Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) 
and Federal Employees Group Life Insurance (FEGLI), 
shall be transferred to the Civil Service Retirement and Dis-
ability Fund, the FEGLI Fund, and the Employees FEHB 
Fund, as appropriate, and shall be available for the author-
ized purposes of those accounts: Provided further, That any 
differences between the present value factors published in
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OPM’s yearly 300 series benefit letters and the factors that 
OPM provides for USPTO’s specific use shall be recognized 
as an imputed cost on USPTO’s financial statements, where 
applicable: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, all fees and surcharges assessed and 
collected by USPTO are available for USPTO only pursu-
ant to section 42(c) of title 35, United States Code, as 
amended by section 22 of the Leahy-Smith America Invents 
Act (Public Law 112–29): Provided further, That within 
the amounts appropriated, $2,450,000 shall be transferred 
to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ account for activities 
associated with carrying out investigations and audits re-
lated to the USPTO. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY 
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH AND SERVICES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology (NIST), $1,080,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$9,000,000 may be transferred to the ‘‘Working Capital 
Fund’’: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated under 
this heading, $222,841,000 shall be made available for the 
NIST—STRS projects, and in the amounts, specified in the 
table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally 
Directed Spending’’ included for this division in the ex-
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planatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided fur-
ther, That the amounts made available for the projects ref-
erenced in the preceding proviso may not be transferred for 
any other purpose: Provided further, That not to exceed 
$5,000 shall be for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That NIST may provide local 
transportation for summer undergraduate research fellow-
ship program participants. 
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES 
For necessary expenses for industrial technology serv-
ices, $212,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $175,000,000 shall be for the Hollings Manufacturing 
Extension Partnership, and of which $37,000,000 shall be 
for the Manufacturing USA Program. 
CONSTRUCTION OF RESEARCH FACILITIES 
For construction of new research facilities, including 
architectural and engineering design, and for renovation 
and maintenance of existing facilities, not otherwise pro-
vided for the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology, as authorized by sections 13 through 15 of the Na-
tional Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 
U.S.C. 278c–278e), $168,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this heading, $80,242,000 shall be made available for
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the NIST—Construction projects, and in the amounts, spec-
ified in the table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Con-
gressionally Directed Spending’’ included for this division 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act): Pro-
vided further, That up to one percent of amounts made 
available for the projects referenced in the preceding proviso 
may be used for the administrative costs of such projects: 
Provided further, That the Director of the National Insti-
tute of Standards and Technology shall submit a spending 
plan to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate for any amounts made 
available by the preceding proviso and such spending plan 
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of 
this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in 
that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Com-
merce shall include in the budget justification materials for 
fiscal year 2025 that the Secretary submits to Congress in 
support of the Department of Commerce budget (as sub-
mitted with the budget of the President under section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) an estimate for each 
National Institute of Standards and Technology construc-
tion project having a total multi-year program cost of more 
than $5,000,000, and simultaneously the budget justifica-
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tion materials shall include an estimate of the budgetary 
requirements for each such project for each of the 5 subse-
quent fiscal years. 
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of activities authorized by law 
for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
(NOAA), including maintenance, operation, and hire of 
aircraft and vessels; pilot programs for State-led fisheries 
management, notwithstanding any other provision of law; 
grants, contracts, or other payments to nonprofit organiza-
tions for the purposes of conducting activities pursuant to 
cooperative agreements; and relocation of facilities, 
$4,548,485,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025: Provided, That fees and donations received by the Na-
tional Ocean Service for the management of national ma-
rine sanctuaries may be retained and used for the salaries 
and expenses associated with those activities, notwith-
standing section 3302 of title 31, United States Code: Pro-
vided further, That in addition, $369,522,000 shall be de-
rived by transfer from the fund entitled ‘‘Promote and De-
velop Fishery Products and Research Pertaining to Amer-
ican Fisheries’’, which shall only be used for fishery activi-
ties related to the Saltonstall-Kennedy Grant Program;
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Fisheries Data Collections, Surveys, and Assessments; Ob-
servers and Training; Fisheries Management Programs and 
Services; and Interjurisdictional Fisheries Grants: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $71,299,000 shall be for payment 
to the ‘‘Department of Commerce Working Capital Fund’’: 
Provided further, That of the $4,946,007,000 provided for 
in direct obligations under this heading, $4,548,485,000 is 
appropriated from the general fund, $369,522,000 is pro-
vided by transfer, and $28,000,000 is derived from recov-
eries of prior year obligations: Provided further, That of 
the amounts appropriated under this heading, $139,499,000 
shall be made available for the NOAA—CZM and NOAA— 
ORF projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table 
titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally Di-
rected Spending’’ included for this division in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided fur-
ther, That the amounts made available for the projects ref-
erenced in the preceding proviso may not be transferred for 
any other purpose: Provided further, That any deviation 
from the amounts designated for specific activities in the 
explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the matter 
preceding division A of this consolidated Act), or any use 
of deobligated balances of funds provided under this heading 
in previous years, shall be subject to the procedures set forth
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in section 505 of this Act: Provided further, That in addi-
tion, for necessary retired pay expenses under the Retired 
Serviceman’s Family Protection and Survivor Benefits 
Plan, and for payments for the medical care of retired per-
sonnel and their dependents under the Dependents’ Medical 
Care Act (10 U.S.C. ch. 55), such sums as may be necessary. 
PROCUREMENT, ACQUISITION AND CONSTRUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For procurement, acquisition and construction of cap-
ital assets, including alteration and modification costs, of 
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 
$1,719,866,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2026, except that funds provided for acquisition and con-
struction of vessels and aircraft, and construction of facili-
ties shall remain available until expended: Provided, That 
of the amounts made available in the matter preceding this 
proviso, $100,000,000 is designated by the Congress as 
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That in addi-
tion, $44,000,000 shall be derived by transfer for the pur-
poses provided under this heading from the unobligated bal-
ances in the Fund established in section 111(a) of division 
B of Public Law 116–93: Provided further, That no 
amounts may be transferred pursuant to the preceding pro-
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viso from amounts made available in section 101(e)(1) of 
title I of division A of Public Law 118–5: Provided further, 
That of the $1,776,866,000 provided for in direct obliga-
tions under this heading, $1,719,866,000 is appropriated 
from the general fund, $13,000,000 is provided from recov-
eries of prior year obligations, and $44,000,000 is provided 
by transfer: Provided further, That any deviation from the 
amounts designated for specific activities in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated 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: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary of Commerce shall include in budget justification 
materials for fiscal year 2025 that the Secretary submits 
to Congress in support of the Department of Commerce 
budget (as submitted with the budget of the President under 
section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code) an estimate 
for each National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
procurement, acquisition or construction project having a 
total of more than $5,000,000 and simultaneously the budg-
et justification shall include an estimate of the budgetary 
requirements for each such project for each of the 5 subse-
quent fiscal years.
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PACIFIC COASTAL SALMON RECOVERY 
For necessary expenses associated with the restoration 
of Pacific salmon populations, $65,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That, of the 
funds provided herein, the Secretary of Commerce may 
issue grants to the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, 
Nevada, California, and Alaska, and to the federally recog-
nized Tribes of the Columbia River and Pacific Coast (in-
cluding Alaska), for projects necessary for conservation of 
salmon and steelhead populations that are listed as threat-
ened or endangered, or that are identified by a State as 
at-risk to be so listed, for maintaining populations nec-
essary for exercise of Tribal treaty fishing rights or native 
subsistence fishing, or for conservation of Pacific coastal 
salmon and steelhead habitat, based on guidelines to be de-
veloped by the Secretary of Commerce: Provided further, 
That all funds shall be allocated based on scientific and 
other merit principles and shall not be available for mar-
keting activities: Provided further, That funds disbursed to 
States shall be subject to a matching requirement of funds 
or documented in-kind contributions of at least 33 percent 
of the Federal funds. 
FISHERIES DISASTER ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses of administering the fishery 
disaster assistance programs authorized by the Magnuson-
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Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Public 
Law 94–265) and the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act (title 
III of Public Law 99–659), $300,000. 
FISHERMEN’S CONTINGENCY FUND 
For carrying out the provisions of title IV of Public 
Law 95–372, not to exceed $349,000, to be derived from re-
ceipts collected pursuant to that Act, to remain available 
until expended. 
FISHERIES FINANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, during fiscal year 2024, obligations of direct loans 
may not exceed $24,000,000 for Individual Fishing Quota 
loans and not to exceed $150,000,000 for traditional direct 
loans as authorized by the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. 
RECREATIONAL QUOTA ENTITY FUND 
For carrying out the provisions of section 106 of the 
Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act (title 
I of division S of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 
2023 (Public Law 117–328)), the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration may assess and collect fees pur-
suant to such section, which shall be credited to this ac-
count, to remain available until expended, for the purposes 
specified in subsection (b) of such section, in addition to 
amounts otherwise available for such purposes.
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DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the management of the De-
partment of Commerce provided for by law, including not 
to exceed $4,500 for official reception and representation, 
$94,500,000: Provided, That no employee of the Department 
of Commerce may be detailed or assigned from a bureau 
or office funded by this Act or any other Act to offices with-
in the Office of the Secretary of the Department of Com-
merce for more than 180 days in a fiscal year unless the 
individual’s employing bureau or office is fully reimbursed 
for the salary and expenses of the employee for the entire 
period of assignment using funds provided under this head-
ing: Provided further, That amounts made available to the 
Department of Commerce in this or any prior Act may not 
be transferred pursuant to section 508 of this or any prior 
Act to the account funded under this heading, except in the 
case of extraordinary circumstances that threaten life or 
property. 
RENOVATION AND MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for the renovation and mod-
ernization of the Herbert C. Hoover Building, $1,142,000.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), $48,000,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. During the current fiscal year, applicable 
appropriations and funds made available to the Depart-
ment 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 Com-
merce that such payments are in the public interest. 
SEC. 102. During the current fiscal year, appropria-
tions 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 uni-
forms 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 Depart-
ment of Commerce in this Act may be transferred between
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such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be in-
creased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Pro-
vided, 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 expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in 
that section: Provided further, That the Secretary of Com-
merce 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 equip-
ment) not specifically provided for in this Act or any other 
law appropriating funds for the Department of Commerce. 
SEC. 104. The requirements set forth by section 105 
of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–55), as amend-
ed by section 105 of title I of division B of Public Law 
113–6, are hereby adopted by reference and made applicable 
with respect to fiscal year 2024: Provided, That the life 
cycle cost for the Joint Polar Satellite System is 
$11,322,125,000, the life cycle cost of the Polar Follow On 
Program is $6,837,900,000, the life cycle cost for the Geo-
stationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series 
Program is $11,700,100,000, and the life cycle cost for the 
Space Weather Follow On Program is $692,800,000.
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SEC. 105. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Commerce may furnish services (including 
but not limited to utilities, telecommunications, and secu-
rity services) necessary to support the operation, mainte-
nance, and improvement of space that persons, firms, or 
organizations are authorized, pursuant to the Public Build-
ings Cooperative Use Act of 1976 or other authority, to use 
or occupy in the Herbert C. Hoover Building, Washington, 
DC, or other buildings, the maintenance, operation, and 
protection of which has been delegated to the Secretary from 
the Administrator of General Services pursuant to the Fed-
eral Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 on 
a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis. Amounts received 
as reimbursement for services provided under this section 
or the authority under which the use or occupancy of the 
space is authorized, up to $200,000, shall be credited to the 
appropriation or fund which initially bears the costs of 
such services. 
SEC. 106. Nothing in this title shall be construed to 
prevent a grant recipient from deterring child pornography, 
copyright infringement, or any other unlawful activity over 
its networks. 
SEC. 107. The Administrator of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration is authorized to use, with 
their consent, with reimbursement and subject to the limits
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of available appropriations, the land, services, equipment, 
personnel, and facilities of any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States, or of any State, local 
government, Indian Tribal government, Territory, or pos-
session, or of any political subdivision thereof, or of any 
foreign government or international organization, for pur-
poses related to carrying out the responsibilities of any stat-
ute administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration. 
SEC. 108. The National Technical Information Service 
shall not charge any customer for a copy of any report or 
document generated by the Legislative Branch unless the 
Service has provided information to the customer on how 
an electronic copy of such report or document may be 
accessed and downloaded for free online. Should a customer 
still require the Service to provide a printed or digital copy 
of the report or document, the charge shall be limited to 
recovering the Service’s cost of processing, reproducing, and 
delivering such report or document. 
SEC. 109. To carry out the responsibilities of the Na-
tional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
the Administrator of NOAA is authorized to: (1) enter into 
grants and cooperative agreements with; (2) use on a non- 
reimbursable basis land, services, equipment, personnel, and 
facilities provided by; and (3) receive and expend funds
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made available on a consensual basis from: a Federal agen-
cy, State or subdivision thereof, local government, Tribal 
government, Territory, or possession or any subdivisions 
thereof: Provided, That funds received for permitting and 
related regulatory activities pursuant to this section shall 
be deposited under the heading ‘‘National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration—Operations, Research, and Fa-
cilities’’ and shall remain available until September 30, 
2025, for such purposes: Provided further, That all funds 
within this section and their corresponding uses are subject 
to section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 110. Amounts provided by this Act or by any 
prior appropriations Act that remain available for obliga-
tion, for necessary expenses of the programs of the Econom-
ics and Statistics Administration of the Department of 
Commerce, including amounts provided for programs of the 
Bureau of Economic Analysis and the Bureau of the Cen-
sus, shall be available for expenses of cooperative agreements 
with appropriate entities, including any Federal, State, or 
local governmental unit, or institution of higher education, 
to aid and promote statistical, research, and methodology 
activities which further the purposes for which such 
amounts have been made available. 
SEC. 111. The Secretary of Commerce, or the designee 
of the Secretary, may waive up to 50 percent of the cost
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sharing requirements under section 315, of the Coastal Zone 
Management Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1461) as necessary at 
the request of the grant applicant, for amounts made avail-
able under this Act under the heading ‘‘Procurement, Acqui-
sition and Construction’’ under the heading ‘‘National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration’’. 
SEC. 112. Any unobligated balances of expired discre-
tionary funds transferred to the Department of Commerce 
Nonrecurring Expenses Fund, as authorized by section 111 
of title I of division B of Public Law 116–93, may be obli-
gated only after the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate are notified at 
least 15 days in advance of the planned use of funds. 
SEC. 113. The Under Secretary of Commerce for 
Oceans and Atmosphere is authorized to designate one or 
more Cooperative Aviation Centers for the purposes of re-
cruiting aviators for the NOAA commissioned officer corps 
from institutions that provide a four-year baccalaureate 
program of professional flight and piloting instruction that 
is accredited by the Aviation Accreditation Board Inter-
national: Provided, That Cooperative Aviation Centers 
shall be located in a geographic area that experiences a wide 
variation in climate-related activity, such as frequent high 
winds, convective activity (including tornadoes), periods of 
low visibility, heat, and snow and ice episodes, to provide
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opportunities for pilots to demonstrate skill in all weather 
conditions compatible with future encounters during their 
service in the commissioned officer corps of the Administra-
tion. 
SEC. 114. The Administrator of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration may accept payments 
from a non-Federal party during fiscal year 2024 for the 
purpose of altering or replacing fencing, and related activi-
ties, for the Administration’s port facility in Ketchikan, 
Alaska. Amounts accepted under this section may be cred-
ited to the appropriation account otherwise available for 
such purpose and shall remain available until expended. 
SEC. 115. The Administrator of the National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration, in consultation with the 
employees of the National Weather Service and non-govern-
mental experts in personnel management, may establish an 
alternative or fixed rate for relocation allowance, including 
permanent change of station allowance, notwithstanding 
the provisions of 5 U.S.C. 5724 and the regulations pre-
scribed under 5 U.S.C. 5738. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Com-
merce Appropriations Act, 2024’’.
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TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
JUSTICE OPERATIONS, MANAGEMENT, AND 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the operations, manage-
ment, and accountability of the Department of Justice, 
$142,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2025, and of which not to exceed 
$4,000,000 for security and construction of Department of 
Justice facilities shall remain available until expended: 
Provided, That any reference to the Department of Justice’s 
‘‘General Administration’’ appropriations heading (includ-
ing references that include its subheadings) which appears 
in any rule, regulation, provision, law, or other official doc-
ument, shall hereafter be deemed a reference to the Depart-
ment of Justice’s ‘‘Justice Operations, Management, and 
Accountability’’ appropriations heading. 
JUSTICE INFORMATION SHARING TECHNOLOGY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for information sharing tech-
nology, including planning, development, deployment and 
departmental direction, $30,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the Attorney General may 
transfer up to $40,000,000 to this account, from funds
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available to the Department of Justice for information tech-
nology, to remain available until expended, for enterprise- 
wide information technology initiatives: Provided further, 
That the transfer authority in the preceding proviso is in 
addition to any other transfer authority contained in this 
Act: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to the 
first proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming under sec-
tion 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set 
forth in that section. 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the administration of immi-
gration-related activities of the Executive Office for Immi-
gration Review, $844,000,000, of which $4,000,000 shall be 
derived by transfer from the Executive Office for Immigra-
tion Review fees deposited in the ‘‘Immigration Examina-
tions Fee’’ account, and of which not less than $28,000,000 
shall be available for services and activities provided by the 
Legal Orientation Program: Provided, That not to exceed 
$50,000,000 of the total amount made available under this 
heading shall remain available until September 30, 2028, 
for build-out and modifications of courtroom space.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral, $139,000,000, including not to exceed $10,000 to meet 
unforeseen emergencies of a confidential character: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $4,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2025. 
UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole 
Commission as authorized, $14,000,000: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon the expi-
ration of a term of office of a Commissioner, the Commis-
sioner may continue to act until a successor has been ap-
pointed. 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the 
Department of Justice, not otherwise provided for, includ-
ing not to exceed $20,000 for expenses of collecting evidence, 
to be expended under the direction of, and to be accounted 
for solely under the certificate of, the Attorney General; the 
administration of pardon and clemency petitions; and rent 
of private or Government-owned space in the District of Co-
lumbia, $1,090,000,000, of which not to exceed $50,000,000
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for litigation support contracts and information technology 
projects, including cybersecurity and hardening of critical 
networks, shall remain available until expended: Provided, 
That of the amount provided for INTERPOL Washington 
dues payments, not to exceed $900,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That of the total 
amount appropriated, not to exceed $8,900 shall be avail-
able to INTERPOL Washington for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That of the total 
amount appropriated, not to exceed $8,900 shall be avail-
able to the Criminal Division for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 205 of this Act, upon a determination by 
the Attorney General that emergent circumstances require 
additional funding for litigation activities of the Civil Divi-
sion, the Attorney General may transfer such amounts to 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses, General Legal Activities’’ from 
available appropriations for the current fiscal year for the 
Department of Justice, as may be necessary to respond to 
such circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer 
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated as a re-
programming under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section: Provided 
further, That of the amount appropriated, such sums as
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may be necessary shall be available to the Civil Rights Divi-
sion for salaries and expenses associated with the election 
monitoring program under section 8 of the Voting Rights 
Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10305) and to reimburse the Office 
of Personnel Management for such salaries and expenses: 
Provided further, That of the amounts provided under this 
heading for the election monitoring program, $3,390,000 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That any funds provided under this heading in prior year 
appropriations Acts that remain available to the Civil 
Rights Division for salaries and expenses associated with 
the election monitoring program under section 8 of the Vot-
ing Rights Act of 1965 (52 U.S.C. 10305) may also be used 
to carry out any authorized purposes of the Civil Rights 
Division: Provided further, That amounts repurposed by the 
preceding proviso may not be used to increase the number 
of permanent positions. 
In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the De-
partment of Justice associated with processing cases under 
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 
$22,700,000, to be appropriated from the Vaccine Injury 
Compensation Trust Fund and to remain available until 
expended.
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION 
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust 
and kindred laws, $233,000,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be available 
for official reception and representation expenses: Provided, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, not to 
exceed $233,000,000 to be derived from fees collected for 
premerger notification filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino 
Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), re-
gardless of the year of collection, shall be retained and used 
for necessary expenses in this appropriation, and shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be re-
duced as such offsetting collections are received during fiscal 
year 2024, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2024 appro-
priation from the general fund estimated at $0: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding section 605 of the Depart-
ments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990 (15 U.S.C. 18a 
note), none of the funds credited to this account as offsetting 
collections during the current fiscal year shall become avail-
able for obligation in any fiscal year except as provided 
in the preceding two provisos or as provided in a subsequent 
appropriations Act.
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS 
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United 
States Attorneys, including inter-governmental and cooper-
ative agreements, $2,611,000,000: Provided, That of the 
total amount appropriated, not to exceed $19,600 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $40,000,000 shall re-
main available until expended: Provided further, That each 
United States Attorney shall establish or participate in a 
task force on human trafficking. 
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND 
For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee 
Program, as authorized, $245,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, deposits of discretionary offsetting collec-
tions to the United States Trustee System Fund and 
amounts herein appropriated shall be available in such 
amounts as may be necessary to pay refunds due depositors: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, fees deposited into the Fund as discretionary 
offsetting collections pursuant to section 589a of title 28, 
United States Code (as limited by section 589a(f)(2) of title 
28, United States Code), shall be retained and used for nec-
essary expenses in this appropriation and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That to the ex-
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tent that fees deposited into the Fund as discretionary off-
setting collections in fiscal year 2024, net of amounts nec-
essary to pay refunds due depositors, exceed $245,000,000, 
those excess amounts shall be available in future fiscal years 
only to the extent provided in advance in appropriations 
Acts: Provided further, That the sum herein appropriated 
from the general fund shall be reduced (1) as such fees are 
received during fiscal year 2024, net of amounts necessary 
to pay refunds due depositors, (estimated at $230,000,000) 
and (2) to the extent that any remaining general fund ap-
propriations can be derived from amounts deposited in the 
Fund as discretionary offsetting collections in previous fis-
cal years that are not otherwise appropriated, so as to result 
in a final fiscal year 2024 appropriation from the general 
fund estimated at $15,000,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT 
COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 
the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, including serv-
ices as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, $2,504,000. 
FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES 
For fees and expenses of witnesses, for expenses of con-
tracts for the procurement and supervision of expert wit-
nesses, for private counsel expenses, including advances,
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and for expenses of foreign counsel, $270,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which not to exceed $16,000,000 
is for construction of buildings for protected witness 
safesites; not to exceed $3,000,000 is for the purchase and 
maintenance of armored and other vehicles for witness secu-
rity caravans; and not to exceed $35,000,000 is for the pur-
chase, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of secure 
telecommunications equipment and a secure automated in-
formation network to store and retrieve the identities and 
locations of protected witnesses: Provided, That amounts 
made available under this heading may not be transferred 
pursuant to section 205 of this Act. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS SERVICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Community Relations 
Service, $24,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding sec-
tion 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attorney 
General that emergent circumstances require additional 
funding for conflict resolution and violence prevention ac-
tivities of the Community Relations Service, the Attorney 
General may transfer such amounts to the Community Re-
lations Service, from available appropriations for the cur-
rent fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as may be 
necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided fur-
ther, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding proviso
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shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of 
this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in 
that section. 
ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND 
For expenses authorized by subparagraphs (B), (F), 
and (G) of section 524(c)(1) of title 28, United States Code, 
$20,514,000, to be derived from the Department of Justice 
Assets Forfeiture Fund. 
UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Marshals 
Service, $1,692,000,000, of which not to exceed $20,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses, and not to exceed $25,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the amounts made 
available under this heading, $163,000,000 is designated by 
the Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction in space that is controlled, occupied, 
or utilized by the United States Marshals Service for pris-
oner holding and related support, $15,000,000, to remain 
available until expended.
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FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION 
For necessary expenses related to United States pris-
oners in the custody of the United States Marshals Service 
as authorized by section 4013 of title 18, United States 
Code, $2,100,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That of the amounts made available under this 
heading, $250,000,000 is designated by the Congress as 
being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That not to 
exceed $20,000,000 shall be considered ‘‘funds appropriated 
for State and local law enforcement assistance’’ pursuant 
to section 4013(b) of title 18, United States Code: Provided 
further, That the United States Marshals Service shall be 
responsible for managing the Justice Prisoner and Alien 
Transportation System. 
NATIONAL SECURITY DIVISION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 
the National Security Division, $128,000,000, of which not 
to exceed $5,000,000 for information technology systems 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That not-
withstanding section 205 of this Act, upon a determination 
by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances re-
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quire additional funding for the activities of the National 
Security Division, the Attorney General may transfer such 
amounts to this heading from available appropriations for 
the current fiscal year for the Department of Justice, as 
may be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Pro-
vided further, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding 
proviso shall be treated as a reprogramming 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. 
INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT 
ORGANIZED CRIME DRUG ENFORCEMENT TASK FORCES 
For necessary expenses for the identification, inves-
tigation, and prosecution of individuals associated with the 
most 
significant 
drug 
trafficking 
organizations, 
transnational organized crime, and money laundering or-
ganizations not otherwise provided for, to include inter-gov-
ernmental agreements with State and local law enforcement 
agencies engaged in the investigation and prosecution of in-
dividuals involved in transnational organized crime and 
drug trafficking, $547,000,000, of which $50,000,000 shall 
remain available until expended: Provided, That any 
amounts obligated from appropriations under this heading 
may be used under authorities available to the organiza-
tions reimbursed from this appropriation.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation for detection, investigation, and prosecution of 
crimes against the United States, $10,643,713,000, of which 
not to exceed $216,900,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That not to exceed $279,000 shall be 
available for official reception and representation expenses. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses, to include the cost of equip-
ment, furniture, and information technology requirements, 
related to construction or acquisition of buildings, facilities, 
and sites by purchase, or as otherwise authorized by law; 
conversion, modification, and extension of federally owned 
buildings; preliminary planning and design of projects; and 
operation and maintenance of secure work environment fa-
cilities and secure networking capabilities; $30,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration, including not to exceed $70,000 to meet un-
foreseen emergencies of a confidential character pursuant 
to section 530C of title 28, United States Code; and expenses 
for conducting drug education and training programs, in-
261 
cluding travel and related expenses for participants in such 
programs and the distribution of items of token value that 
promote the goals of such programs, $2,567,000,000, of 
which not to exceed $75,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended and not to exceed $90,000 shall be available 
for official reception and representation expenses: Provided, 
That of the amounts made available under this heading, 
$328,000,000 is designated by the Congress as being for an 
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) 
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985: Provided further, That, notwithstanding section 
3672 of Public Law 106–310, up to $10,000,000 may be 
used to reimburse States, units of local government, Indian 
Tribal Governments, other public entities, and multi-juris-
dictional or regional consortia thereof for expenses incurred 
to clean up and safely dispose of substances associated with 
clandestine methamphetamine laboratories, conversion and 
extraction operations, tableting operations, or laboratories 
and processing operations for fentanyl and fentanyl-related 
substances which may present a danger to public health or 
the environment.
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BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND 
EXPLOSIVES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco, Firearms and Explosives, for training of State and 
local law enforcement agencies with or without reimburse-
ment, including training in connection with the training 
and acquisition of canines for explosives and fire 
accelerants detection; and for provision of laboratory assist-
ance to State and local law enforcement agencies, with or 
without reimbursement, $1,625,000,000, of which not to ex-
ceed $35,650 shall be for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available 
for the payment of attorneys’ fees as provided by section 
924(d)(2) of title 18, United States Code, and not to exceed 
$25,000,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be 
available to investigate or act upon applications for relief 
from Federal firearms disabilities under section 925(c) of 
title 18, United States Code: Provided further, That such 
funds shall be available to investigate and act upon appli-
cations filed by corporations for relief from Federal fire-
arms disabilities under section 925(c) of title 18, United 
States Code: Provided further, That no funds made avail-
able by this or any other Act may be used to transfer the
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functions, missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, 
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to other agencies or De-
partments. 
FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Prison System 
for the administration, operation, and maintenance of Fed-
eral penal and correctional institutions, and for the provi-
sion of technical assistance and advice on corrections re-
lated issues to foreign governments, $8,392,588,000: Pro-
vided, That not less than $409,483,000 shall be for the pro-
grams and activities authorized by the First Step Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–391), of which not less than 2 per-
cent shall be transferred to and merged with the appropria-
tion for ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statistics’’ for the Na-
tional Institute of Justice to carry out evaluations of pro-
grams and activities related to the First Step Act of 2018: 
Provided further, That the Attorney General may transfer 
to the Department of Health and Human Services such 
amounts as may be necessary for direct expenditures by 
that Department for medical relief for inmates of Federal 
penal and correctional institutions: Provided further, That 
the Director of the Federal Prison System, where necessary, 
may enter into contracts with a fiscal agent or fiscal inter-
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mediary claims processor to determine the amounts payable 
to persons who, on behalf of the Federal Prison System, fur-
nish health services to individuals committed to the custody 
of the Federal Prison System: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $5,400 shall be available for official reception and 
representation expenses: Provided further, That not to ex-
ceed $50,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
necessary operations: Provided further, That, of the 
amounts provided for contract confinement, not to exceed 
$20,000,000 shall remain available until expended to make 
payments in advance for grants, contracts and reimburs-
able agreements, and other expenses: Provided further, That 
the Director of the Federal Prison System may accept do-
nated property and services relating to the operation of the 
prison card program from a not-for-profit entity which has 
operated such program in the past, notwithstanding the fact 
that such not-for-profit entity furnishes services under con-
tracts to the Federal Prison System relating to the oper-
ation of pre-release services, halfway houses, or other custo-
dial facilities: Provided further, That amounts made avail-
able under this heading for programs and activities related 
to the First Step Act may not be transferred, or otherwise 
made available, to or for administration by the Department 
of Labor.
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BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For planning, acquisition of sites, and construction of 
new facilities; purchase and acquisition of facilities and re-
modeling, and equipping of such facilities for penal and 
correctional use, including all necessary expenses incident 
thereto, by contract or force account; and constructing, re-
modeling, and equipping necessary buildings and facilities 
at existing penal and correctional institutions, including 
all necessary expenses incident thereto, by contract or force 
account, $179,762,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $30,000,000 shall be available only for costs related 
to construction of new facilities: Provided, That labor of 
United States prisoners may be used for work performed 
under this appropriation. 
FEDERAL PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED 
The Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated, is hereby 
authorized to make such expenditures within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available, and in accord 
with the law, and to make such contracts and commitments 
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by sec-
tion 9104 of title 31, United States Code, as may be nec-
essary in carrying out the program set forth in the budget 
for the current fiscal year for such corporation.
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LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, FEDERAL 
PRISON INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED 
Not to exceed $2,700,000 of the funds of the Federal 
Prison Industries, Incorporated, shall be available for its 
administrative expenses, and for services as authorized by 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, to be computed 
on an accrual basis to be determined in accordance with 
the corporation’s current prescribed accounting system, and 
such amounts shall be exclusive of depreciation, payment 
of claims, and expenditures which such accounting system 
requires to be capitalized or charged to cost of commodities 
acquired or produced, including selling and shipping ex-
penses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, con-
struction, operation, maintenance, improvement, protec-
tion, or disposition of facilities and other property belong-
ing to the corporation or in which it has an interest. 
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES 
OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND 
PROSECUTION PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance for the prevention and prosecution of vio-
lence against women, as authorized by the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10101 et
267 
seq.) (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); title II of the Civil Rights Act of 
1968 (commonly known as the ‘‘Indian Civil Rights Act 
of 1968’’) (Public Law 90–284) (‘‘the Indian Civil Rights 
Act’’); the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act 
of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Vic-
tims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–647) 
(‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other 
Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 
(Public Law 108–21); the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency 
Prevention Act of 1974 (34 U.S.C. 11101 et seq.) (‘‘the 1974 
Act’’); the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection 
Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386) (‘‘the 2000 Act’’); the 
Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–405) (‘‘the 
2004 Act’’); the Violence Against Women and Department 
of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109– 
162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Violence Against Women Reau-
thorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 
Act’’); the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015 
(Public Law 114–22) (‘‘the 2015 Act’’); the Abolish Human 
Trafficking Act (Public Law 115–392); and the Violence 
Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (division 
W of Public Law 117–103) (‘‘the 2022 Act’’); and for re-
lated victims services, $713,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $80,000,000 shall be derived by 
transfer from amounts available for obligation in this Act
268 
from the Fund established by section 1402 of chapter XIV 
of title II of Public Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101), not-
withstanding section 1402(d) of such Act of 1984, and 
merged with the amounts otherwise made available under 
this heading: Provided, That except as otherwise provided 
by law, not to exceed 5 percent of funds made available 
under this heading may be used for expenses related to eval-
uation, training, and technical assistance: Provided further, 
That of the amount provided— 
(1) $255,000,000 is for grants to combat violence 
against women, as authorized by part T of the 1968 
Act, and any applicable increases for the amount of 
such grants, as authorized by section 5903 of the 
James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2023: Provided, That $10,000,000 
shall be for any such increases under such section 
5903, which shall apply to fiscal year 2024 grants 
funded by amounts provided in this paragraph; 
(2) $50,000,000 is for transitional housing as-
sistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, stalking, or sexual assault as authorized 
by section 40299 of the 1994 Act; 
(3) $2,500,000 is for the National Institute of 
Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics for re-
search, evaluation, and statistics of violence against
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women and related issues addressed by grant pro-
grams of the Office on Violence Against Women, 
which shall be transferred to ‘‘Research, Evaluation 
and Statistics’’ for administration by the Office of 
Justice Programs; 
(4) $17,000,000 is for a grant program to pro-
vide services to advocate for and respond to youth vic-
tims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, and stalking; assistance to children and youth 
exposed to such violence; and assistance to middle and 
high school students through education and other serv-
ices related to such violence, of which $3,500,000 is to 
engage men and youth in preventing domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking: 
Provided, That unobligated balances available for the 
programs authorized by sections 41201, 41204, 41303, 
and 41305 of the 1994 Act, prior to its amendment 
by the 2013 Act, shall be available for this program: 
Provided further, That 10 percent of the total amount 
available for this grant program shall be available for 
grants under the program authorized by section 2015 
of the 1968 Act: Provided further, That the definitions 
and grant conditions in section 40002 of the 1994 Act 
shall apply to this program;
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(5) $60,500,000 is for grants to improve the 
criminal justice response as authorized by part U of 
title I of the 1968 Act, of which up to $4,000,000 is 
for a homicide reduction initiative; up to $4,000,000 
is for a domestic violence lethality reduction initia-
tive; and up to $8,000,000 is for an initiative to pro-
mote effective policing and prosecution responses to 
domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and 
stalking, including evaluation of the effectiveness of 
funded interventions (‘‘Policing and Prosecution Ini-
tiative’’); 
(6) $78,500,000 is for sexual assault victims as-
sistance, as authorized by section 41601 of the 1994 
Act; 
(7) $50,000,000 is for rural domestic violence 
and child abuse enforcement assistance grants, as au-
thorized by section 40295 of the 1994 Act; 
(8) $25,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent 
crimes against women on campus, as authorized by 
section 304 of the 2005 Act, of which $12,500,000 is 
for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Univer-
sities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal col-
leges and universities; 
(9) $55,000,000 is for legal assistance for vic-
tims, as authorized by section 1201 of the 2000 Act;
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(10) $9,000,000 is for enhanced training and 
services to end violence against and abuse of women 
in later life, as authorized by section 40801 of the 
1994 Act; 
(11) $22,000,000 is for grants to support fami-
lies in the justice system, as authorized by section 
1301 of the 2000 Act: Provided, That unobligated bal-
ances available for the programs authorized by section 
1301 of the 2000 Act and section 41002 of the 1994 
Act, prior to their amendment by the 2013 Act, shall 
be available for this program; 
(12) $12,000,000 is for education and training 
to end violence against and abuse of women with dis-
abilities, as authorized by section 1402 of the 2000 
Act; 
(13) $1,000,000 is for the National Resource 
Center on Workplace Responses to assist victims of 
domestic violence, as authorized by section 41501 of 
the 1994 Act; 
(14) $1,000,000 is for analysis and research on 
violence against Indian women, including as author-
ized by section 904 of the 2005 Act: Provided, That 
such funds may be transferred to ‘‘Research, Evalua-
tion and Statistics’’ for administration by the Office 
of Justice Programs;
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(15) $500,000 is for a national clearinghouse 
that provides training and technical assistance on 
issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian 
and Alaska Native women; 
(16) $11,000,000 is for programs to assist Tribal 
Governments in exercising special Tribal criminal ju-
risdiction, as authorized by section 204 of the Indian 
Civil Rights Act: Provided, That the grant conditions 
in section 40002(b) of the 1994 Act shall apply to 
grants made; 
(17) $1,500,000 is for the purposes authorized 
under the 2015 Act; 
(18) $15,000,000 is for a grant program as au-
thorized by section 41801 of the 1994 Act: Provided, 
That the definitions and grant conditions in section 
109 of the 2022 Act shall apply to this program; 
(19) $11,000,000 is for culturally specific serv-
ices for victims, as authorized by section 121 of the 
2005 Act; 
(20) $3,000,000 is for an initiative to support 
cross-designation of tribal prosecutors as Tribal Spe-
cial Assistant United States Attorneys: Provided, 
That the definitions and grant conditions in section 
40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this initiative;
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(26) $10,000,000 is for grants to support access 
to sexual assault nurse examinations, as authorized 
by section 304 of title III of the 2004 Act: Provided, 
That the grant conditions in section 40002 of the 
1994 Act shall apply to this program; and 
(27) $5,500,000 is for local law enforcement 
grants for prevention, enforcement, and prosecution of 
cybercrimes against individuals, as authorized by sec-
tion 1401 of the 2022 Act, and for a National Re-
source Center on Cybercrimes Against Individuals, as 
authorized by section 1402 of the 2022 Act: Provided, 
That the grant conditions in section 40002 of the 
1994 Act shall apply to this paragraph. 
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the 
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 
(Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Juvenile Jus-
tice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 
Act’’); the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (34 U.S.C. 
11291 et seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other Tools 
to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 
(Public Law 108–21) (‘‘the PROTECT Act’’); the Justice
275 
for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–405); the Violence 
Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization 
Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the 
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–647); 
the Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–199); the 
Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–473); the 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Pub-
lic Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the PROTECT 
Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–401); subtitle 
C of title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public 
Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002 Act’’); the Prison Rape Elimi-
nation Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–79) (‘‘PREA’’); the 
NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 
110–180); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 
of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Com-
prehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public 
Law 114–198); the First Step Act of 2018 (Public Law 
115–391); and other programs, $65,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which— 
(1) $35,000,000 is for criminal justice statistics 
programs and other activities as authorized by part 
C of title I of the 1968 Act; and 
(2) $30,000,000 is for research, development, and 
evaluation programs, and other activities as author-
ized by part B of title I of the 1968 Act and subtitle
276 
C of title II of the 2002 Act, and for activities author-
ized by or consistent with the First Step Act of 2018, 
of which $1,500,000 is for research on multidisci-
plinary teams, and not less than $1,500,000 is for Re-
search and Development in Forensic Science for 
Criminal Justice Purposes grants. 
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) 
(‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90–351) (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); 
the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–405); the 
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–647) 
(‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Trafficking Victims Protection Reau-
thorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–164) (‘‘the 
TVPRA of 2005’’); the Violence Against Women and De-
partment of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Adam Walsh Child 
Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–248) 
(‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the Victims of Trafficking and 
Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386) (‘‘the 
Victims of Trafficking Act’’); the NICS Improvement 
Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–180); subtitle
277 
C of title II of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public 
Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002 Act’’); the Prison Rape Elimi-
nation Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–79) (‘‘PREA’’); the 
Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–199); the 
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual 
Property Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–403); the Victims 
of Crime Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–473); the Mentally 
Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthoriza-
tion and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–416); 
the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 
(Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Comprehensive 
Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198) 
(‘‘CARA’’); the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 
(Public Law 114–324); Kevin and Avonte’s Law (division 
Q of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘Kevin and Avonte’s Law’’); 
the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act of 2018 (title III of divi-
sion S of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘the Keep Young Athletes 
Safe Act’’); the STOP School Violence Act of 2018 (title V 
of division S of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘the STOP School 
Violence Act’’); the Fix NICS Act of 2018 (title VI of divi-
sion S of Public Law 115–141); the Project Safe Neighbor-
hoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018 (Public 
Law 115–185); the SUPPORT for Patients and Commu-
nities Act (Public Law 115–271); the Second Chance Reau-
thorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391); the Matthew
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Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act 
(Public Law 111–84); the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 (Public 
Law 115–401); the Missing Persons and Unidentified Re-
mains Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–277); the Jabara- 
Heyer NO HATE Act (34 U.S.C. 30507); the Violence 
Against Women Act Reauthorization Act of 2022 (division 
W of Public Law 117–103) (‘‘the 2022 Act’’); and other pro-
grams, $2,475,061,000, to remain available until expended 
as follows— 
(1) $924,061,000 for the Edward Byrne Memo-
rial Justice Assistance Grant program as authorized 
by subpart 1 of part E of title I of the 1968 Act (ex-
cept that section 1001(c), and the special rules for 
Puerto Rico under section 505(g), of title I of the 
1968 Act shall not apply for purposes of this Act), of 
which, notwithstanding such subpart 1— 
(A) $13,000,000 is for an Officer Robert 
Wilson III memorial initiative on Preventing 
Violence Against Law Enforcement and Ensur-
ing 
Officer 
Resilience 
and 
Survivability 
(VALOR); 
(B) $3,000,000 is for the operation, mainte-
nance, and expansion of the National Missing 
and Unidentified Persons System;
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(C) $10,000,000 is for a grant program for 
State and local law enforcement to provide offi-
cer training on responding to individuals with 
mental illness or disabilities, including for pur-
poses described in the Law Enforcement De-Es-
calation Training Act of 2022 (Public Law 117– 
325); 
(D) $3,000,000 is for a student loan repay-
ment assistance program pursuant to section 952 
of Public Law 110–315; 
(E) $15,500,000 is for prison rape preven-
tion and prosecution grants to States and units 
of local government, and other programs, as au-
thorized by PREA; 
(F) $3,000,000 is for the Missing Americans 
Alert Program (title XXIV of the 1994 Act), as 
amended by Kevin and Avonte’s Law; 
(G) $19,000,000 is for grants authorized 
under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Au-
thorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–185); 
(H) $12,000,000 is for the Capital Litiga-
tion Improvement Grant Program, as authorized 
by section 426 of Public Law 108–405, and for 
grants for wrongful conviction review;
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(I) $3,000,000 is for the program specified 
in paragraph (1)(I) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in divi-
sion B of Public Law 117–328; 
(J) $1,000,000 is for the purposes of the 
Ashanti Alert Communications Network as au-
thorized under the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–401); 
(K) $3,500,000 is for a grant program to 
replicate and support family-based alternative 
sentencing programs; 
(L) $1,000,000 is for a grant program to 
support child advocacy training in post-sec-
ondary education; 
(M) $7,000,000 is for a rural violent crime 
initiative, including assistance for law enforce-
ment; 
(N) $5,000,000 is for grants authorized 
under the Missing Persons and Unidentified Re-
mains Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–277); 
(O) $1,500,000 is for grants to accredited 
institutions of higher education to support foren-
sic ballistics programs; 
(P) $3,000,000 is for the purposes author-
ized under section 1506 of the 2022 Act;
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(Q) $125,000,000 is for grants for law en-
forcement activities associated with the presi-
dential nominating conventions in addition to 
amounts provided for such purposes in section 
222 of this Act; and 
(R) $350,028,000 is for discretionary grants 
to improve the functioning of the criminal justice 
system, to prevent or combat juvenile delin-
quency, and to assist victims of crime (other 
than compensation), which shall be made avail-
able for the OJP—Byrne projects, and in the 
amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Commu-
nity Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
Spending’’ included for this division in the ex-
planatory statement described in section 4 (in 
the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act): Provided, That such amounts may 
not be transferred for any other purpose; 
(2) $234,000,000 for the State Criminal Alien 
Assistance 
Program, 
as 
authorized 
by 
section 
241(I)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1231(I)(5)): Provided, That no jurisdiction 
shall request compensation for any cost greater than 
the actual cost for Federal immigration and other de-
tainees housed in State and local detention facilities;
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(3) $88,000,000 for victim services programs for 
victims of trafficking, as authorized by section 
107(b)(2) of the Victims of Trafficking Act, by the 
TVPRA of 2005, or programs authorized under Pub-
lic Law 113–4; 
(4) $12,000,000 for a grant program to prevent 
and address economic, high technology, white collar, 
and Internet crime, including as authorized by sec-
tion 401 of Public Law 110–403, of which not less 
than $2,500,000 is for intellectual property enforce-
ment grants including as authorized by section 401, 
and $2,000,000 is for grants to develop databases on 
Internet of Things device capabilities and to build 
and execute training modules for law enforcement; 
(5) $19,000,000 for sex offender management as-
sistance, as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act, and 
related activities; 
(6) $30,000,000 for the Patrick Leahy Bullet-
proof Vest Partnership Grant Program, as authorized 
by section 2501 of title I of the 1968 Act: Provided, 
That $1,500,000 shall be transferred directly to the 
National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Of-
fice of Law Enforcement Standards for research, test-
ing, and evaluation programs;
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(7) $1,000,000 for the National Sex Offender 
Public Website; 
(8) $88,000,000 for grants to States to upgrade 
criminal and mental health records for the National 
Instant Criminal Background Check System, of which 
no less than $25,000,000 shall be for grants made 
under the authorities of the NICS Improvement 
Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–180) and 
Fix NICS Act of 2018; 
(9) $34,000,000 for Paul Coverdell Forensic 
Sciences Improvement Grants under part BB of title 
I of the 1968 Act; 
(10) $153,000,000 for DNA-related and forensic 
programs and activities, of which— 
(A) $120,000,000 is for the purposes author-
ized under section 2 of the DNA Analysis Back-
log Elimination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106– 
546) (the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant 
Program): Provided, That up to 4 percent of 
funds made available under this paragraph may 
be used for the purposes described in the DNA 
Training and Education for Law Enforcement, 
Correctional Personnel, and Court Officers pro-
gram (Public Law 108–405, section 303);
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(B) $15,000,000 for other local, State, and 
Federal forensic activities; 
(C) $14,000,000 is for the purposes de-
scribed in the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction 
DNA Testing Grant Program (Public Law 108– 
405, section 412); and 
(D) $4,000,000 is for Sexual Assault Foren-
sic Exam Program grants, including as author-
ized by section 304 of Public Law 108–405; 
(11) $51,500,000 for community-based grant 
programs to improve the response to sexual assault 
and apply enhanced approaches and techniques to re-
duce violent crime, including assistance for investiga-
tion and prosecution of related cold cases; 
(12) $14,000,000 for the court-appointed special 
advocate program, as authorized by section 217 of the 
1990 Act; 
(13) $50,000,000 for assistance to Indian Tribes; 
(14) $117,000,000 for offender reentry programs 
and research, as authorized by the Second Chance Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110–199) and by the Second 
Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 
115–391), without regard to the time limitations 
specified at section 6(1) of such Act, of which not to 
exceed—
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(A) $8,000,000 is for a program to improve 
State, local, and Tribal probation or parole su-
pervision efforts and strategies; 
(B) $5,000,000 is for children of incarcer-
ated parents demonstration programs to enhance 
and maintain parental and family relationships 
for incarcerated parents as a reentry or recidi-
vism reduction strategy; 
(C) $5,000,000 is for additional replication 
sites employing the Project HOPE Opportunity 
Probation 
with 
Enforcement 
model 
imple-
menting swift and certain sanctions in proba-
tion, of which no less than $500,000 shall be used 
for a project that provides training, technical as-
sistance, and best practices; and 
(D) $10,000,000 is for a grant program for 
crisis stabilization and community reentry, as 
authorized by the Crisis Stabilization and Com-
munity Reentry Act of 2020 (Public Law 116– 
281): 
Provided, That up to $7,500,000 of funds made avail-
able in this paragraph may be used for performance- 
based awards for Pay for Success projects, of which 
up to $5,000,000 shall be for Pay for Success pro-
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grams implementing the Permanent Supportive 
Housing Model and reentry housing; 
(15) $420,000,000 for comprehensive opioid use 
reduction activities, including as authorized by 
CARA, and for the following programs, which shall 
address opioid, stimulant, and substance use disorders 
consistent with underlying program authorities, of 
which— 
(A) $89,000,000 is for Drug Courts, as au-
thorized by section 1001(a)(25)(A) of title I of 
the 1968 Act; 
(B) $40,000,000 is for mental health courts 
and adult and juvenile collaboration program 
grants, as authorized by parts V and HH of title 
I of the 1968 Act, and the Mentally Ill Offender 
Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthoriza-
tion and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 
110–416); 
(C) $35,000,000 is for grants for Residen-
tial Substance Abuse Treatment for State Pris-
oners, as authorized by part S of title I of the 
1968 Act; 
(D) $32,000,000 is for a veterans treatment 
courts program;
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(E) $35,000,000 is for a program to mon-
itor prescription drugs and scheduled listed 
chemical products; and 
(F) $189,000,000 is for a comprehensive 
opioid, stimulant, and substance use disorder 
program; 
(16) $2,500,000 for a competitive grant program 
authorized by the Keep Young Athletes Safe Act; 
(17) $82,000,000 for grants to be administered 
by the Bureau of Justice Assistance for purposes au-
thorized under the STOP School Violence Act; 
(18) $3,000,000 for grants to State and local law 
enforcement agencies for the expenses associated with 
the investigation and prosecution of criminal offenses 
involving civil rights, as authorized by the Emmett 
Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reauthorization 
Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–325); 
(19) $17,000,000 for grants to State, local, and 
Tribal law enforcement agencies to conduct edu-
cational outreach and training on hate crimes and to 
investigate and prosecute hate crimes, as authorized 
by section 4704 of the Matthew Shepard and James 
Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 
111–84);
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(20) $9,000,000 for grants specified in para-
graph (20) under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law 
Enforcement Assistance’’ in division B of Public Law 
117–328; 
(21) $9,000,000 for programs authorized under 
the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act (34 U.S.C. 30507); 
(22) $114,000,000 for initiatives to improve po-
lice-community relations, of which $32,000,000 is for 
a competitive matching grant program for purchases 
of body-worn cameras for State, local, and Tribal law 
enforcement; $32,000,000 is for a justice reinvestment 
initiative, for activities related to criminal justice re-
form and recidivism reduction; and $50,000,000 is for 
a community violence intervention and prevention 
initiative; and 
(23) $3,000,000 is for emergency law enforce-
ment assistance for events occurring during or after 
fiscal year 2024, as authorized by section 609M of the 
Justice Assistance Act of 1984 (34 U.S.C. 50101): 
Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of 
the funds made available under this heading to increase the 
number of law enforcement officers, the unit of local govern-
ment will achieve a net gain in the number of law enforce-
ment officers who perform non-administrative public sector 
safety service: Provided further, That in the spending plan
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submitted pursuant to section 528 of this Act, the Office 
of Justice Programs shall specifically and explicitly iden-
tify all changes in the administration of competitive grant 
programs for fiscal year 2024, including changes to appli-
cant eligibility, priority areas or weightings, and the appli-
cation review process: Provided further, That of the 
amounts made available under this heading, the amount 
specified in paragraph (1)(Q) is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by the Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention Act of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Om-
nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 
1968 Act’’); the Violence Against Women and Department 
of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109– 
162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Missing Children’s Assistance 
Act (34 U.S.C. 11291 et seq.); the PROTECT Act (Public 
Law 108–21); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Pub-
lic Law 101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Adam Walsh Child 
Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–248) 
(‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the PROTECT Our Children Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110–401); the Violence Against Women
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Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 
2013 Act’’); the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 
(Public Law 114–324); the Missing Children’s Assistance 
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–267); the Juvenile Justice Re-
form Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–385); the Victims of 
Crime Act of 1984 (chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 
98–473) (‘‘the 1984 Act’’); the Comprehensive Addiction 
and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198); and other 
juvenile justice programs, $375,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended as follows— 
(1) $65,000,000 for programs authorized by sec-
tion 221 of the 1974 Act, and for training and tech-
nical assistance to assist small, nonprofit organiza-
tions with the Federal grants process: Provided, That 
of the amounts provided under this paragraph, 
$500,000 shall be for a competitive demonstration 
grant program to support emergency planning among 
State, local, and Tribal juvenile justice residential fa-
cilities; 
(2) $104,000,000 for youth mentoring grants; 
(3) $55,000,000 for delinquency prevention, of 
which, pursuant to sections 261 and 262 of the 1974 
Act— 
(A) $4,000,000 shall be for grants to prevent 
trafficking of girls;
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(B) $16,000,000 shall be for the Tribal 
Youth Program; 
(C) $4,500,000 shall be for competitive 
grants focusing on girls in the juvenile justice 
system; 
(D) $10,500,000 shall be for an initiative 
relating to youth affected by opioids, stimulants, 
and substance use disorder; and 
(E) $9,000,000 shall be for an initiative re-
lating to children exposed to violence; 
(4) $41,000,000 for programs authorized by the 
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990; 
(5) $103,000,000 for missing and exploited chil-
dren programs, including as authorized by sections 
404(b) and 405(a) of the 1974 Act (except that section 
102(b)(4)(B) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110–401) shall not apply for pur-
poses of this Act); 
(6) $4,500,000 for child abuse training programs 
for judicial personnel and practitioners, as authorized 
by section 222 of the 1990 Act; and 
(7) $2,500,000 for a program to improve juvenile 
indigent defense: 
Provided, That not more than 10 percent of each amount 
may be used for research, evaluation, and statistics activi-
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ties designed to benefit the programs or activities author-
ized: Provided further, That not more than 2 percent of the 
amounts designated under paragraphs (1) through (3) and 
(6) may be used for training and technical assistance: Pro-
vided further, That the two preceding provisos shall not 
apply to grants and projects administered pursuant to sec-
tions 261 and 262 of the 1974 Act and to missing and ex-
ploited children programs. 
PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For payments and expenses authorized under section 
1001(a)(4) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968, such sums as are necessary (including 
amounts for administrative costs), to remain available 
until expended; and $34,800,000 for payments authorized 
by section 1201(b) of such Act and for educational assist-
ance authorized by section 1218 of such Act, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attor-
ney General that emergent circumstances require additional 
funding for such disability and education payments, the At-
torney General may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Public Safe-
ty Officer Benefits’’ from available appropriations for the 
Department of Justice as may be necessary to respond to 
such circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer
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pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated as a re-
programming under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322); 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violence Against Women and Depart-
ment of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 
109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the American Law Enforcement 
Heroes Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–37); the Law Enforce-
ment Mental Health and Wellness Act (Public Law 115– 
113) (‘‘the LEMHW Act’’); the SUPPORT for Patients and 
Communities Act (Public Law 115–271); the Supporting 
and Treating Officers In Crisis Act of 2019 (Public Law 
116–32) (‘‘the STOIC Act’’); and the Law Enforcement De- 
Escalation Training Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–325), 
$664,516,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That any balances made available through prior year 
deobligations shall only be available in accordance with sec-
tion 505 of this Act: Provided further, That of the amount 
provided under this heading—
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(1) $256,168,839 is for grants under section 
1701 of title I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381) for 
the hiring and rehiring of additional career law en-
forcement officers under part Q of such title notwith-
standing subsection (i) of such section: Provided, 
That, notwithstanding section 1704(c) of such title 
(34 U.S.C. 10384(c)), funding for hiring or rehiring 
a career law enforcement officer may not exceed 
$125,000 unless the Director of the Office of Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services grants a waiver from 
this limitation: Provided further, That of the amounts 
appropriated under this paragraph, $34,000,000 is 
for improving Tribal law enforcement, including hir-
ing, equipment, training, anti-methamphetamine ac-
tivities, and anti-opioid activities: Provided further, 
That of the amounts appropriated under this para-
graph, $44,000,000 is for regional information shar-
ing activities, as authorized by part M of title I of 
the 1968 Act, which shall be transferred to and 
merged with ‘‘Research, Evaluation, and Statistics’’ 
for administration by the Office of Justice Programs: 
Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this paragraph, no less than $4,000,000 is to 
support the Tribal Access Program: Provided further, 
That of the amounts appropriated under this para-
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graph, $10,000,000 is for training, peer mentoring, 
mental health program activities, and other support 
services as authorized under the LEMHW Act and the 
STOIC Act: Provided further, That of the amounts 
appropriated under this paragraph, $7,500,000 is for 
the collaborative reform model of technical assistance 
in furtherance of section 1701 of title I of the 1968 
Act (34 U.S.C. 10381); 
(2) $12,000,000 is for activities authorized by 
the POLICE Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–199); 
(3) $16,000,000 is for competitive grants to State 
law enforcement agencies in States with high seizures 
of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, 
laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures: Provided, 
That funds appropriated under this paragraph shall 
be utilized for investigative purposes to locate or in-
vestigate illicit activities, including precursor diver-
sion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers; 
(4) $35,000,000 is for competitive grants to 
statewide law enforcement agencies in States with 
high rates of primary treatment admissions for her-
oin and other opioids: Provided, That these funds 
shall be utilized for investigative purposes to locate or 
investigate illicit activities, including activities re-
lated to the distribution of heroin or unlawful dis-
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tribution of prescription opioids, or unlawful heroin 
and prescription opioid traffickers through statewide 
collaboration; 
(5) $53,000,000 is for competitive grants to be 
administered by the Community Oriented Policing 
Services Office for purposes authorized under the 
STOP School Violence Act (title V of division S of 
Public Law 115–141); 
(6) $25,000,000 is for community policing devel-
opment activities in furtherance of section 1701 of 
title I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381); 
(7) $247,347,161 is for a law enforcement tech-
nologies and interoperable communications program, 
and related law enforcement and public safety equip-
ment, which shall be made available for the COPS 
Tech projects, and in the amounts, specified in the 
table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congres-
sionally Directed Spending’’ included for this division 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 
(in the matter preceding division A of this consoli-
dated Act): Provided, That such amounts may not be 
transferred for any other purpose: Provided further, 
That grants funded by such amounts shall not be sub-
ject to section 1703 of title I of the 1968 Act (34 
U.S.C. 10383); and
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(8) $20,000,000 is for activities authorized by 
the Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 
2022 (Public Law 117–325). 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available in this title for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, a total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds 
appropriated to the Department of Justice in this title shall 
be available to the Attorney General for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this title 
shall be available to pay for an abortion, except where the 
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were car-
ried to term, or in the case of rape or incest: Provided, That 
should this prohibition be declared unconstitutional by a 
court of competent jurisdiction, this section shall be null 
and void. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this 
title shall be used to require any person to perform, or fa-
cilitate in any way the performance of, any abortion. 
SEC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall re-
move the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons 
to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to 
receive such service outside the Federal facility: Provided,
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That nothing in this section in any way diminishes the 
effect of section 203 intended to address the philosophical 
beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau of Prisons. 
SEC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
made available for the current fiscal year for the Depart-
ment of Justice in this Act may be transferred between such 
appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as other-
wise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 
10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any trans-
fer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogram-
ming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, That 
this section shall not apply to the following— 
(1) paragraph 1(R) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’; and 
(2) paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services Programs’’. 
SEC. 206. None of the funds made available under this 
title may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the 
United States Marshals Service for the purpose of trans-
porting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to convic-
tion for crime under State or Federal law and is classified 
as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a
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prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of 
Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner. 
SEC. 207. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable tele-
vision services, or to rent or purchase audiovisual or elec-
tronic media or equipment used primarily for recreational 
purposes. 
(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, mainte-
nance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or 
equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational 
programs. 
SEC. 208. None of the funds made available under this 
title shall be obligated or expended for any new or enhanced 
information technology program having total estimated de-
velopment costs in excess of $100,000,000, unless the Deputy 
Attorney General and the investment review board certify 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate that the information technology 
program has appropriate program management controls 
and contractor oversight mechanisms in place, and that the 
program is compatible with the enterprise architecture of 
the Department of Justice. 
SEC. 209. The notification thresholds and procedures 
set forth in section 505 of this Act shall apply to deviations 
from the amounts designated for specific activities in this
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Act and in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act), and to any use of deobligated balances of funds pro-
vided under this title in previous years. 
SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, 
or approve a public-private competition under the Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any successor 
administrative regulation, directive, or policy for work per-
formed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal 
Prison Industries, Incorporated. 
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no funds shall be available for the salary, benefits, or ex-
penses of any United States Attorney assigned dual or addi-
tional responsibilities by the Attorney General or his des-
ignee that exempt that United States Attorney from the 
residency requirements of section 545 of title 28, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 212. At the discretion of the Attorney General, 
and in addition to any amounts that otherwise may be 
available (or authorized to be made available) by law, with 
respect to funds appropriated by this title under the head-
ings ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statistics’’, ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, and ‘‘Juvenile Justice 
Programs’’—
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(1) up to 2 percent of funds made available to 
the Office of Justice Programs for grant or reimburse-
ment programs may be used by such Office to provide 
training and technical assistance; and 
(2) up to 2 percent of funds made available for 
grant or reimbursement programs under such head-
ings, except for amounts appropriated specifically for 
research, evaluation, or statistical programs adminis-
tered by the National Institute of Justice and the Bu-
reau of Justice Statistics, shall be transferred to and 
merged with funds provided to the National Institute 
of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, to be 
used by them for research, evaluation, or statistical 
purposes, without regard to the authorizations for 
such grant or reimbursement programs. 
This section shall not apply to paragraph 1(R) under 
the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assist-
ance’’. 
SEC. 213. Upon request by a grantee for whom the At-
torney General has determined there is a fiscal hardship, 
the Attorney General may, with respect to funds appro-
priated in this or any other Act making appropriations for 
fiscal years 2021 through 2024 for the following programs, 
waive the following requirements:
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(1) For the adult and juvenile offender State and 
local reentry demonstration projects under part FF of 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10631 et seq.), the require-
ments under section 2976(g)(1) of such part (34 
U.S.C. 10631(g)(1)). 
(2) For grants to protect inmates and safeguard 
communities as authorized by section 6 of the Prison 
Rape 
Elimination 
Act 
of 
2003 
(34 
U.S.C. 
30305(c)(3)), the requirements of section 6(c)(3) of 
such Act. 
SEC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
section 20109(a) of subtitle A of title II of the Violent Crime 
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 U.S.C. 
12109(a)) shall not apply to amounts made available by 
this or any other Act. 
SEC. 215. None of the funds made available under this 
Act, other than for the national instant criminal back-
ground check system established under section 103 of the 
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 
40901), may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer 
to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel, unless
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law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
SEC. 216. (a) None of the income retained in the De-
partment of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to 
title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 
527 note) shall be available for obligation during fiscal year 
2024, except up to $12,000,000 may be obligated for imple-
mentation of a unified Department of Justice financial 
management system. 
(b) Not to exceed $30,000,000 of the unobligated bal-
ances transferred to the capital account of the Department 
of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of Pub-
lic Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) shall 
be available for obligation in fiscal year 2024, and any use, 
obligation, transfer, or allocation of such funds shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of 
this Act. 
(c) Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the excess unobligated 
balances available under section 524(c)(8)(E) of title 28, 
United States Code, shall be available for obligation during 
fiscal year 2024, and any use, obligation, transfer or alloca-
tion of such funds shall be treated as a reprogramming of 
funds under section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 217. Discretionary funds that are made available 
in this Act for the Office of Justice Programs may be used
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to participate in Performance Partnership Pilots author-
ized under such authorities as have been enacted for Per-
formance Partnership Pilots in appropriations acts in 
prior fiscal years and the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 218. The Attorney General shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate quarterly reports on the Crime Victims 
Fund, the Working Capital Fund, the Three Percent Fund, 
and the Asset Forfeiture Fund. Such quarterly reports shall 
contain at least the same level of information and detail 
for each Fund as was provided to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
in fiscal year 2023. 
SEC. 219. None of the funds made available under this 
Act may be used to conduct, contract for, or otherwise sup-
port, live tissue training, unless the Attorney General issues 
a written, non-delegable determination that such training 
is medically necessary and cannot be replicated by alter-
natives. 
SEC. 220. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Justice to target 
or investigate parents who peacefully protest at school board 
meetings and are not suspected of engaging in unlawful ac-
tivity.
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SEC. 221. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to investigate or prosecute religious insti-
tutions on the basis of their religious beliefs. 
SEC. 222. Of the unobligated balances from amounts 
in the fund established by section 9006(a) of title 26, United 
States Code, $25,000,000 shall be paid to the ‘‘Office of Jus-
tice Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement Assist-
ance’’ appropriation, to remain available until expended, 
for an additional amount for grants for law enforcement 
activities associated with the presidential nominating con-
ventions, under the same authorities and conditions as 
amounts made available in paragraph (1)(Q) under the 
heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State and Local Law 
Enforcement Assistance’’ in this Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Justice 
Appropriations Act, 2024’’.
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TITLE III 
SCIENCE 
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, not to exceed $2,250 
for official reception and representation expenses, and rent-
al of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
$7,965,000. 
NATIONAL SPACE COUNCIL 
For necessary expenses of the National Space Council, 
in carrying out the purposes of title V of Public Law 100– 
685 and Executive Order No. 13803, hire of passenger 
motor vehicles, and services as authorized by section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code, not to exceed $2,250 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses, $1,965,000: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
National Space Council may accept personnel support from 
Federal agencies, departments, and offices, and such Fed-
eral agencies, departments, and offices may detail staff 
without reimbursement to the National Space Council for 
purposes provided herein.
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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
SCIENCE 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of science research and develop-
ment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $7,334,200,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025. 
AERONAUTICS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of aeronautics research and devel-
opment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire
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of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $935,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2025. 
SPACE TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of space technology research and 
development activities, including research, development, op-
erations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $1,100,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025. 
EXPLORATION 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of exploration research and devel-
opment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
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sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $7,666,200,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2025: Provided, That of the amounts made avail-
able under this heading, $450,000,000 is designated by the 
Congress as being for an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, 
That the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, concurrent with 
the annual budget submission, a 5-year budget profile for 
an integrated system that includes the Space Launch Sys-
tem, the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and associated 
ground systems that will ensure a crewed launch as early 
as possible. 
SPACE OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of space operations research and 
development activities, including research, development, op-
erations, support and services; space flight, spacecraft con-
trol, and communications activities, including operations,
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production, and services; maintenance and repair, facility 
planning and design; program management; personnel and 
related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United 
States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, 
and operation of mission and administrative aircraft, 
$4,220,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2025. 
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS 
ENGAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of aerospace and aeronautical edu-
cation research and development activities, including re-
search, development, operations, support, and services; pro-
gram management; personnel and related costs, including 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 
5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel ex-
penses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of 
mission and administrative aircraft, $143,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2025, of which 
$26,000,000 shall be for the Established Program to Stimu-
late Competitive Research and $58,000,000 shall be for the 
National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program.
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SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of science, aeronautics, space tech-
nology, exploration, space operations and education re-
search and development activities, including research, devel-
opment, operations, support, and services; maintenance and 
repair, facility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft 
control, and communications activities; program manage-
ment; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 
5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; pur-
chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed 
$63,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation 
of mission and administrative aircraft, $3,129,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2025: Provided, That 
if available balances in the ‘‘Science, Space, and Technology 
Education Trust Fund’’ are not sufficient to provide for 
the grant disbursements required under the third and fourth 
provisos under such heading in the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development-Independent Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1989 (Public Law 100–404) as amended by the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–327), up to $1,000,000 shall
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be available from amounts made available under this head-
ing to make such grant disbursements: Provided further, 
That of the amounts appropriated under this heading, 
$56,673,000 shall be made available for the SSMS projects, 
and in the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Commu-
nity Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending’’ 
included for this division in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of 
this consolidated Act): Provided further, That the amounts 
made available for the projects referenced in the preceding 
proviso may not be transferred for any other purpose. 
CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND 
RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for construction of facilities in-
cluding repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modifica-
tion of facilities, construction of new facilities and addi-
tions to existing facilities, facility planning and design, 
and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real 
property, as authorized by law, and environmental compli-
ance and restoration, $300,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2029: Provided, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, $250,000,000 is des-
ignated by the Congress as being for an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985: Pro-