565 
may be collected by the National Mine Health and Safety 
Academy for room, board, tuition, and the sale of training 
materials, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, to 
be available for mine safety and health education and 
training activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; and, 
in addition, the Mine Safety and Health Administration 
may retain up to $1,000,000 from fees collected for the 
approval and certification of equipment, materials, and ex-
plosives for use in mines, and may utilize such sums for 
such activities; the Secretary of Labor is authorized to ac-
cept lands, buildings, equipment, and other contributions 
from public and private sources and to prosecute projects 
in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or pri-
vate; the Mine Safety and Health Administration is au-
thorized to promote health and safety education and train-
ing in the mining community through cooperative pro-
grams with States, industry, and safety associations; the 
Secretary is authorized to recognize the Joseph A. Holmes 
Safety Association as a principal safety association and, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, may provide 
funds and, with or without reimbursement, personnel, in-
cluding service of Mine Safety and Health Administration 
officials as officers in local chapters or in the national or-
ganization; and any funds available to the Department of 
Labor may be used, with the approval of the Secretary, 
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to provide for the costs of mine rescue and survival oper-
ations in the event of a major disaster. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics, including advances or reimbursements to State, 
Federal, and local agencies and their employees for serv-
ices rendered, $518,918,000, together with not to exceed 
$78,264,000, which may be expended from the Employ-
ment Security Administration Account in the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund, of which $1,500,000 may be used to 
fund the mass layoff statistics program under section 15 
of the Wagner-Peyser Act: Provided, That the Current 
Employment Survey shall maintain the content of the sur-
vey issued prior to June 2005 with respect to the collection 
of data for the women worker series. 
OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability 
Employment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy 
and initiatives, and award grants furthering the objective 
of eliminating barriers to the training and employment of 
people with disabilities, $26,679,000. 
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DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Manage-
ment, including the hire of three sedans, and including 
the management or operation, through contracts, grants 
or other arrangements of Departmental activities con-
ducted by or through the Bureau of International Labor 
Affairs, including bilateral and multilateral technical as-
sistance 
and 
other 
international 
labor 
activities, 
$313,871,000, of which $86,074,000 is for the Bureau of 
International Labor Affairs (including $6,500,000 to im-
plement model programs to address worker rights issues 
through technical assistance in countries with which the 
United States has trade preference programs), and of 
which $21,286,000 is for the acquisition of Departmental 
information 
technology, 
architecture, 
infrastructure, 
equipment, software and related needs, which will be allo-
cated by the Department’s Chief Information Officer in 
accordance with the Department’s capital investment 
management process to assure a sound investment strat-
egy; together with not to exceed $327,000, which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
OFFICE OF JOB CORPS 
To carry out subtitle C of title I of the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998, including Federal administrative 
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expenses, the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, the construction, alteration and repairs of buildings 
and other facilities, and the purchase of real property for 
training centers as authorized by the Workforce Invest-
ment Act; $1,683,938,000, plus reimbursements, as fol-
lows: 
(1) $1,540,276,000 for Job Corps Operations, 
of which $949,276,000 shall be available for obliga-
tion for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 
2010 and of which $591,000,000 shall be available 
for obligation for the period October 1, 2009 
through June 30, 2010; 
(2) $115,000,000 for construction, rehabilita-
tion and acquisition of Job Corps Centers, of which 
$15,000,000 shall be available for the period July 1, 
2009 through June 30, 2012 and $100,000,000 
shall be available for the period October 1, 2009 
through June 30, 2012; and 
(3) $28,662,000 for necessary expenses of the 
Office of Job Corps shall be available for obligation 
for the period October 1, 2008 through September 
30, 2009: 
Provided, That the Office of Job Corps shall have con-
tracting authority: Provided further, That no funds from 
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