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gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act may be used 
to implement, enforce, or otherwise abide by the Memo-
randum of Agreement signed by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Jus-
tice on March 5, 2002. 
SEC. 509. Section 704 of the Public Works and Eco-
nomic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3234) shall not 
apply to any funds made available by this Act or an 
amendment made by this Act. 
SEC. 510. Any costs incurred by a department or agen-
cy funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions 
taken in response to funding reductions included in this 
Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary resources 
available to such department or agency: Provided, That the 
authority to transfer funds between appropriations ac-
counts as may be necessary to carry out this section is pro-
vided in addition to authorities included elsewhere in this 
Act: Provided further, That use of funds to carry out this 
section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 
section 505 of this Act and shall not be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section.
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SEC. 511. Of the funds appropriated in this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance’’, not more than 90 percent 
of the amount to be awarded to an entity under the Local 
Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made available to 
such an entity when it is made known to the Federal official 
having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the 
entity that employs a public safety officer (as such term 
is defined in section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968) does not provide such 
a public safety officer who retires or is separated from serv-
ice due to injury suffered as the direct and proximate result 
of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty while re-
sponding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit (as 
such terms are defined by State law) with the same or better 
level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement 
or separation as they received while on duty. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds provided by this Act shall 
be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or to-
bacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal by any 
foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco 
or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not 
applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the 
same type.
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SEC. 513. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
amounts deposited or available in the Fund established 
under 42 U.S.C. 10601 in any fiscal year in excess of 
$625,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until the 
following fiscal year. 
SEC. 514. Of the amounts made available under the 
heading ‘‘Small Business Administration, Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $50,000,000 shall be available for programs de-
scribed in the statement accompanying this Act. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds appropriated pursuant 
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for— 
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in con-
nection with the implementation of subsection 922(t) 
of title 18, United States Code; and 
(2) any system to implement subsection 922(t) of 
title 18, United States Code, that does not require and 
result in the destruction of any identifying informa-
tion submitted by or on behalf of any person who has 
been determined not to be prohibited from possessing 
or receiving a firearm no more than 24 hours after 
the system advises a Federal firearms licensee that 
possession or receipt of a firearm by the prospective 
transferee would not violate subsection (g) or (n) of 
section 922 of title 18, United States Code, or State 
law.
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SEC. 516. All disaster loans issued in Alaska or North 
Dakota shall be administered by the Small Business Ad-
ministration and shall not be sold during fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 518. The Secretary of Commerce shall represent 
the United States Government in negotiating and moni-
toring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine 
mammals, or sea turtles: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Commerce shall be responsible for the development and 
interdepartmental coordination of the policies of the United 
States with respect to the international negotiations and 
agreements referred to in this section. 
SEC. 519. Any funds provided in this Act used to im-
plement E-Government Initiatives shall be subject to the 
procedures set forth in section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 520. UNIVERSAL SERVICE SUPPORT. None of the 
funds appropriated by this Act may be used by the Federal 
Communications Commission to modify, amend, or change 
its rules or regulations for universal service support pay-
ments to implement the February 27, 2004 recommenda-
tions of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
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regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on 
universal service support payments. 
SEC. 521. (a) Tracing studies conducted by the Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are released 
without adequate disclaimers regarding the limitations of 
the data. 
(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex-
plosives shall include in all such data releases, language 
similar to the following that would make clear that trace 
data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about fire-
arms-related crime: 
(1) Firearm traces are designed to assist law en-
forcement authorities in conducting investigations by 
tracking the sale and possession of specific firearms. 
Law enforcement agencies may request firearms traces 
for any reason, and those reasons are not necessarily 
reported to the Federal Government. Not all firearms 
used in crime are traced and not all firearms traced 
are used in crime. 
(2) Firearms selected for tracing are not chosen 
for purposes of determining which types, makes or 
models of firearms are used for illicit purposes. The 
firearms selected do not constitute a random sample 
and should not be considered representative of the 
larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or