grant unless the Secretary of Transportation provides the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a com-
prehensive list of all such loans, loan guarantees, lines of 
credit, or discretionary grants that will be announced not 
less the 3 full business days before such announcement: 
Provided, That the requirement to provide a list in this 
subsection does not apply to any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds 
from the emergency relief program: Provided further, That 
no list shall involve funds that are not available for obliga-
tion. 
SEC. 185. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, 
minor fees and other funds received by the Department 
of Transportation from travel management centers, 
charge card programs, the subleasing of building space, 
and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropria-
tions of the Department of Transportation and allocated 
to elements of the Department of Transportation using 
fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be avail-
able until expended. 
SEC. 186. Amounts made available in this or any 
other Act that the Secretary determines represent im-
proper payments by the Department of Transportation to 
a third-party contractor under a financial assistance 
award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall be avail-
able— 
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(1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred 
by the Department of Transportation in recovering 
improper payments; and 
(2) to pay contractors for services provided in 
recovering improper payments or contractor support 
in the implementation of the Improper Payments In-
formation Act of 2002: Provided, That amounts in 
excess of that required for paragraphs (1) and (2)— 
(A) shall be credited to and merged with 
the appropriation from which the improper pay-
ments were made, and shall be available for the 
purposes and period for which such appropria-
tions are available: Provided further, That 
where specific project or accounting information 
associated with the improper payment or pay-
ments is not readily available, the Secretary 
may credit an appropriate account, which shall 
be available for the purposes and period associ-
ated with the account so credited; or 
(B) if no such appropriation remains avail-
able, shall be deposited in the Treasury as mis-
cellaneous receipts: Provided further, That prior 
to the transfer of any such recovery to an ap-
propriations account, the Secretary shall notify 
the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
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priations of the amount and reasons for such 
transfer: Provided further, That for purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘improper payments’’ has 
the same meaning as that provided in section 
2(d)(2) of Public Law 107–300. 
SEC. 187. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, if any funds provided in or limited by this Act are 
subject to a reprogramming action that requires notice to 
be provided to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations, transmission of said reprogramming notice 
shall be provided solely to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations, and said reprogramming action 
shall be approved or denied solely by the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That the 
Secretary of Transportation may provide notice to other 
congressional committees of the action of the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations on such reprogram-
ming but not sooner than 30 days following the date on 
which the reprogramming action has been approved or de-
nied by the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
SEC. 188. Funds appropriated in this Act to the 
modal administrations may be obligated for the Office of 
the Secretary for the costs related to assessments or reim-
bursable agreements only when such amounts are for the 
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costs of goods and services that are purchased to provide 
a direct benefit to the applicable modal administration or 
administrations. 
SEC. 189. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to carry out a program that establishes uniform 
standards for developing and supporting agency transit 
pass and transit benefits authorized under section 7905 
of title 5, United States Code, including distribution of 
transit benefits by various paper and electronic media. 
SEC. 190. The Department of Transportation may 
use funds provided by this Act, or any other Act, to assist 
a contract under title 49 U.S.C. or title 23 U.S.C. utilizing 
geographic, economic, or any other hiring preference not 
otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a rule, regula-
tion, policy or other measure that forbids a recipient of 
a Federal Highway Administration or Federal Transit Ad-
ministration grant from imposing such hiring preference 
on a contract or construction project with which the De-
partment of Transportation is assisting, only if the grant 
recipient certifies the following: 
(1) that except with respect to apprentices or 
trainees, a pool of readily available but unemployed 
individuals possessing the knowledge, skill, and abil-
ity to perform the work that the contract requires 
resides in the jurisdiction; 
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(2) that the grant recipient will include appro-
priate provisions in its bid document ensuring that 
the contractor does not displace any of its existing 
employees in order to satisfy such hiring preference; 
and 
(3) that any increase in the cost of labor, train-
ing, or delays resulting from the use of such hiring 
preference does not delay or displace any transpor-
tation project in the applicable Statewide Transpor-
tation Improvement Program or Transportation Im-
provement Program. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation Appropriations Act, 2018’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
EXECUTIVE OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Of-
fices, which shall be comprised of the offices of the Sec-
retary, Deputy Secretary, Adjudicatory Services, Congres-
sional and Intergovernmental Relations, Public Affairs, 
Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the 
Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, 
$14,708,000: Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of the 
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amount made available under this heading shall be avail-
able to the Secretary for official reception and representa-
tion expenses as the Secretary may determine. 
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Administra-
tive Support Offices, $518,303,000, of which $10,762,000 
shall be available for, including the establishment of, the 
Office of the Chief Operations Officer; $50,340,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; 
$92,006,000 shall be available for the Office of the Gen-
eral Counsel; $205,873,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of Administration; $38,245,000 shall be available for 
the Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; 
$49,588,000 shall be available for the Office of Field Pol-
icy and Management; $19,065,000 shall be available for 
the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer; $3,570,000 
shall be available for the Office of Departmental Equal 
Employment Opportunity; $4,975,000 shall be available 
for the Office of Strategic Planning and Management; and 
$43,879,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Information Officer: Provided, That funds provided under 
this heading may be used for necessary administrative and 
non-administrative expenses of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development, not otherwise provided for, 
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including purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, funds appropriated under this heading 
may be used for advertising and promotional activities 
that directly support program activities funded in this 
title: Provided further, That in addition to the transfer au-
thority under section 221 of this Act, of the amount ap-
propriated for the Office of the Chief Operations Officer 
under this heading, the Secretary may transfer up to 
$10,000,000 to the heading ‘‘Information Technology 
Fund’’: Provided further, That the Secretary shall provide 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
quarterly written notification regarding the status of 
pending congressional reports: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall provide in electronic form all signed re-
ports required by Congress. 
PROGRAM OFFICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Public and Indian Housing, $216,633,000. 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Community Planning and Development, $107,554,000. 
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HOUSING 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Housing, $392,000,000. 
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Policy Development and Research, $24,065,000. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, $69,808,000. 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL AND HEALTHY 
HOMES 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, $7,600,000. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the working capital fund for the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development (referred to in this para-
graph as the ‘‘Fund’’), pursuant, in part, to section 7(f) 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development 
Act (42 U.S.C. 3535(f)), amounts transferred to the Fund 
under this heading shall be available for Federal shared 
services used by offices and agencies of the Department, 
and for such portion of any office or agency’s printing, 
records management, space renovation, furniture, supply 
services, or other shared services as the Secretary deter-
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mines shall be derived from centralized sources made 
available by the Department to all offices and agencies and 
funded through the Fund: Provided, That of the amounts 
made available in this title for salaries and expenses under 
the headings ‘‘Executive Offices’’, ‘‘Administrative Sup-
port Offices’’, ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’, 
and ‘‘Government National Mortgage Association’’, the 
Secretary shall transfer to the Fund such amounts, to re-
main available until expended, as are necessary to fund 
services, specified in the matter preceding the first pro-
viso, for which the appropriation would otherwise have 
been available, and may transfer not to exceed an addi-
tional $5,000,000, in aggregate, from all such appropria-
tions, to be merged with the Fund and to remain available 
until expended for use for any office or agency: Provided 
further, That amounts in the Fund shall be the only 
amounts available to each office or agency of the Depart-
ment for the services, or portion of services, specified in 
the matter preceding the first proviso: Provided further, 
That with respect to the Fund, the authorities and condi-
tions under this heading shall supplement the authorities 
and conditions provided under section 7(f): Provided fur-
ther, That up to $6,550,000 in the Fund may be available 
for the management reporting initiative to improve the ef-
fectiveness of enterprise data governance, analysis, and re-
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porting, including information technology investments to 
make such improvements: Provided further, That to carry 
out the previous proviso, the Secretary shall transfer any 
amounts for related information technology investments to 
the heading ‘‘Information Technology Fund’’. 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities and assistance for the provision of ten-
ant-based rental assistance authorized under the United 
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 
et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’ herein), not otherwise provided for, 
$16,486,725,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available on October 1, 2017 (in addition to the 
$4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this head-
ing that shall be available on October 1, 2017), and 
$4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available on October 1, 2018: Provided, That the 
amounts made available under this heading are provided 
as follows: 
(1) $18,709,725,000 shall be available for re-
newals of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual 
contributions contracts (including renewals of en-
hanced vouchers under any provision of law author-
izing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) 
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and including renewal of other special purpose incre-
mental vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, from amounts provided 
under this paragraph and any carryover, the Sec-
retary for the calendar year 2018 funding cycle shall 
provide renewal funding for each public housing 
agency based on validated voucher management sys-
tem (VMS) leasing and cost data for the prior cal-
endar year and by applying an inflation factor as es-
tablished by the Secretary, by notice published in 
the Federal Register, and by making any necessary 
adjustments for the costs associated with the first- 
time renewal of vouchers under this paragraph in-
cluding tenant protection, HOPE VI, and Choice 
Neighborhoods vouchers: Provided further, That 
none of the funds provided under this paragraph 
may be used to fund a total number of unit months 
under lease which exceeds a public housing agency’s 
authorized level of units under contract, except for 
public housing agencies participating in the MTW 
demonstration, which are instead governed by the 
terms and conditions of their MTW agreements: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall, to the ex-
tent necessary to stay within the amount specified 
under this paragraph (except as otherwise modified 
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