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except for restrictions which are not applied equally to all tobacco 
or tobacco products of the same type. 
UNOBLIGATED FUNDS RESCISSIONS 
SEC. 699O. (a) Of the funds appropriated under the heading 
‘‘Subsidy Appropriation’’ for the Export-Import Bank of the United 
States that are available for tied-aid grants in title I of Public 
Law 107–115 and under such heading in prior Acts making appro-
priations for foreign operations, export financing, and related pro-
grams, $25,000,000 are rescinded. 
(b) Of the funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Economic 
Support Fund’’ in prior Acts making appropriations for foreign 
operations, export financing, and related programs, $133,000,000 
are rescinded. 
ACROSS-THE-BOARD RESCISSION 
SEC. 699P. (a) BILL-WIDE
RESCISSIONS.—There is hereby 
rescinded an amount equal to .81 percent of the budget authority 
provided for fiscal year 2008 for any discretionary account in this 
Act. 
(b) PROPORTIONATE APPLICATION.—Any rescission made by sub-
section (a) shall be applied proportionately— 
(1) to each discretionary account and each item of budget 
authority described in subsection (a); and 
(2) within each such account and item, to each program, 
project, and activity (with programs, projects, and activities 
as delineated in the appropriation Act or accompanying 
explanatory statements for the relevant fiscal year covering 
such account or item, or for accounts and items not included 
in appropriation Acts, as delineated in the most recently sub-
mitted President’s budget). 
(c) OMB REPORT.—Within 30 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this section, the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
a report specifying the account and amount of each rescission made 
pursuant to this section. 
(d) EXCEPTION.—The rescission in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to funds provided in this Act designated as described in section 
5 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State, Foreign 
Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
DIVISION K—TRANSPORTATION, HOUSING AND URBAN DE-
VELOPMENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS 
ACT, 2008 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$91,782,000, of which not to exceed $2,310,000 shall be available 
for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to exceed $730,000
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shall be available for the immediate Office of the Deputy Secretary; 
not to exceed $18,720,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
General Counsel; not to exceed $9,874,000 shall be available for 
the Office of the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; 
not to exceed $9,417,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed 
$2,383,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant Sec-
retary for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed $23,750,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administra-
tion; not to exceed $1,986,000 shall be available for the Office 
of Public Affairs; not to exceed $1,516,000 shall be available for 
the Office of the Executive Secretariat; not to exceed $1,335,000 
shall be available for the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Busi-
ness Utilization; not to exceed $7,874,000 for the Office of Intel-
ligence, Security, and Emergency Response; and not to exceed 
$11,887,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer: Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation is authorized 
to transfer funds appropriated for any office of the Office of the 
Secretary to any other office of the Office of the Secretary: Provided 
further, That no appropriation for any office shall be increased 
or decreased by more than 5 percent by all such transfers: Provided 
further, That notice of any change in funding greater than 5 percent 
shall be submitted for approval to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations: Provided further, That not to exceed $60,000 
shall be for allocation within the Department for official reception 
and representation expenses as the Secretary may determine: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
excluding fees authorized in Public Law 107–71, there may be 
credited to this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds received 
in user fees: Provided further, That none of the funds provided 
in this Act shall be available for the position of Assistant Secretary 
for Public Affairs. 
OFFICE OF CIVIL RIGHTS 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Civil Rights, $9,140,900. 
TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses for conducting transportation planning, 
research, systems development, development activities, and making 
grants, to remain available until expended, $13,883,900. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
Necessary expenses for operating costs and capital outlays of 
the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed $128,094,000, shall be 
paid from appropriations made available to the Department of 
Transportation: Provided, That such services shall be provided on 
a competitive basis to entities within the Department of Transpor-
tation: Provided further, That the above limitation on operating 
expenses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided further, 
That no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency of the Depart-
ment shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund without 
the approval of the agency modal administrator: Provided further, 
That no assessments may be levied against any program, budget 
activity, subactivity or project funded by this Act unless notice 
of such assessments and the basis therefor are presented to the
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House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and are approved 
by such Committees. 
MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $370,000, as authorized by 
49 U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of 
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these 
funds are available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of 
which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $18,367,000. In addition, 
for administrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan pro-
gram, $523,000. 
MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH 
For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource Center 
outreach activities, $2,970,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2009: Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332, these 
funds may be used for business opportunities related to any mode 
of transportation. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In addition to funds made available from any other source 
to carry out the essential air service program under 49 U.S.C. 
41731 through 41742, $60,000,000, to be derived from the Airport 
and Airway Trust Fund, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That, in determining between or among carriers competing 
to provide service to a community, the Secretary may consider 
the relative subsidy requirements of the carriers: Provided further, 
That, if the funds under this heading are insufficient to meet 
the costs of the essential air service program in the current fiscal 
year, the Secretary shall transfer such sums as may be necessary 
to carry out the essential air service program from any available 
amounts appropriated to or directly administered by the Office 
of the Secretary for such fiscal year. 
COMPENSATION FOR AIR CARRIERS 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the remaining unobligated balances under section 101(a)(2) 
of Public Law 107–42, $22,000,000 are rescinded. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 101. The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to 
transfer the unexpended balances available for the bonding assist-
ance program from ‘‘Office of the Secretary, Salaries and expenses’’ 
to ‘‘Minority Business Outreach’’. 
SEC. 102. None of the funds made available in this Act to 
the Department of Transportation may be obligated for the Office 
of the Secretary of Transportation to approve assessments or 
reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds appropriated to the
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modal administrations in this Act, except for activities underway 
on the date of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments 
or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming process 
for Congressional notification. 
SEC. 103. None of the funds made available under this Act 
may be obligated or expended to establish or implement a program 
under which essential air service communities are required to 
assume subsidy costs commonly referred to as the EAS local partici-
pation program. 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Administration, 
not otherwise provided for, including operations and research activi-
ties related to commercial space transportation, administrative 
expenses for research and development, establishment of air naviga-
tion facilities, the operation (including leasing) and maintenance 
of aircraft, subsidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps 
sold to the public, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, in addition to amounts made available by 
Public Law 108–176, $8,740,000,000, of which $6,397,060,900 shall 
be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, of which 
not to exceed $6,969,638,000 shall be available for air traffic 
organization activities; not to exceed $1,082,602,000 shall be avail-
able for aviation safety activities; not to exceed $12,549,000 shall 
be available for commercial space transportation activities; not to 
exceed $100,593,000 shall be available for financial services activi-
ties; not to exceed $91,214,000 shall be available for human 
resources program activities; not to exceed $286,848,000 shall be 
available for region and center operations and regional coordination 
activities; not to exceed $162,351,000 shall be available for staff 
offices; and not to exceed $38,650,000 shall be available for informa-
tion services: Provided, That not to exceed 2 percent of any budget 
activity, except for aviation safety budget activity, may be trans-
ferred to any budget activity under this heading: Provided further, 
That no transfer may increase or decrease any appropriation by 
more than 2 percent: Provided further, That any transfer in excess 
of 2 percent shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under 
section 405 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation 
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section: Provided further, That the Secretary utilize not 
less than $6,000,000 of the funds provided for aviation safety activi-
ties to pay for staff increases in the Office of Aviation Flight 
Standards and the Office of Aircraft Certification: Provided further, 
That not later than March 31 of each fiscal year hereafter, the 
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration shall transmit 
to Congress an annual update to the report submitted to Congress 
in December 2004 pursuant to section 221 of Public Law 108– 
176: Provided further, That the amount herein appropriated shall 
be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 31 that such 
report has not been submitted to the Congress: Provided further, 
That funds may be used to enter into a grant agreement with 
a nonprofit standard-setting organization to assist in the develop-
ment of aviation safety standards: Provided further, That none