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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS
RELOCATION
For necessary support of the relocation of the Na-
tional Science Foundation, $5,200,000: Provided, That
these funds shall be used to reimburse the General Serv-
ices Administration for services and related acquisitions
in support of relocating the National Science Foundation.
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT
CORPORATION
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities,
as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $38,667,000.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective
Service System, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 4101–
4118) for civilian employees; and not to exceed $1,000 for
official 
reception 
and 
representation 
expenses;
$22,930,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal
year, the President may exempt this appropriation from
the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever he deems such
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action to be necessary in the interest of national defense:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by
the Act may be expended for or in connection with the
induction of any person into the Armed Forces of the
United States.
Ω111æDEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not other-
wise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing
Amendments Act of 1988, and for contracts with qualified
fair housing enforcement organizations, as authorized by
section 561 of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1987, as amended by the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992, $30,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1997.
All functions, activities and responsibilities of the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development relating to title
VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the
Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988, and the Fair Hous-
ing Act, including any rights guaranteed under the Fair
Housing Act (including any functions relating to the Fair
Housing Initiatives program under section 561 of the Hous-
ing and Community Development Act of 1987), are hereby
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transferred to the Attorney General of the United States ef-
fective April 1, 1997: Provided, That none of the aforemen-
tioned authority or responsibility for enforcement of the
Fair Housing Act shall be transferred to the Attorney Gen-
eral until adequate personnel and resources allocated to
such activity at the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment are transferred to the Department of Justice.
Ω112æDEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, $14,895,000, to
remain available until expended, for the Federal Housing
Enterprise Oversight Fund: Provided, That such funds shall
be collected as authorized by sections 1316(a) and (b) of
such Act, and deposited in the Fund under section 1316(f)
of such Act: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
have all powers and rights of the Director and the Fund
shall be within the Department of the Treasury.
TITLE IV
CORPORATIONS
Corporations and agencies of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the
Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, are
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the
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limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each
such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and
to make such contracts and commitments without regard
to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the
Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set
forth in the budget for 1996 for such corporation or agen-
cy except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collec-
tions of these corporations and agencies may be used for
new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the
extent expressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans
are in support of other forms of assistance provided for
in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this pro-
viso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mort-
gage purchases are necessary to protect the financial in-
terest of the United States Government.
RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $11,400,000.
TITLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Ω113æSECTION SEC. 501. Where appropriations in ti-
tles I, II, and III of this Act are expendable for travel
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expenses and no specific limitation has been placed there-
on, the expenditures for such travel expenses may not ex-
ceed the amounts set forth therefor in the budget esti-
mates submitted for the appropriations: Provided, That
this section shall not apply to travel performed by uncom-
pensated officials of local boards and appeal boards of the
Selective Service System; to travel performed directly in
connection with care and treatment of medical bene-
ficiaries of the Department of Veterans Affairs; to travel
performed in connection with major disasters or emer-
gencies declared or determined by the President under the
provisions of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and
Emergency Assistance Act; to travel performed by the Of-
fices of Inspector General in connection with audits and
investigations; or to payments to interagency motor pools
where separately set forth in the budget schedules: Pro-
vided further, That if appropriations in titles I, II, and
III exceed the amounts set forth in budget estimates ini-
tially submitted for such appropriations, the expenditures
for travel may correspondingly exceed the amounts there-
for set forth in the estimates in the same proportion.
SEC. 502. Appropriations and funds available for the
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and the Selective Service System
shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase
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of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law
(5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 503. Funds of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora-
tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of
1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations
on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract
or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Asso-
ciation, Government National Mortgage Association, Fed-
eral Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financ-
ing Bank, Resolution Trust Corporation, Federal Reserve
banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks,
and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12
U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 504. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 505. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
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terest of the grantee or contractor and the Government
in the research.
SEC. 508. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used, directly or through grants, to pay or to provide
reimbursement for payment of the salary of a consultant
(whether retained by the Federal Government or a grant-
ee) at more than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for
Level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifically au-
thorized by law.
SEC. 509. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Fed-
eral parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory pro-
ceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section
7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056
et seq.).
SEC. 510. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law or under an existing Executive order issued pursu-
ant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of
any appropriation under this Act for contracts for any
consulting service shall be limited to contracts which are
(1) a matter of public record and available for public in-
spection, and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available
list of all contracts entered into within twenty-four months
prior to the date on which the list is made available to
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the public and of all contracts on which performance has
not been completed by such date. The list required by the
preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall
include a narrative description of the work to be per-
formed under each such contract.
SEC. 511. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
U.S.C. 401 et seq.) for a contract for services unless such
executive agency (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder, and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared, and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to
such contract.
SEC. 512. Except as otherwise provided in section
506, none of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide
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a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to
any officer or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 513. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 514. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1996 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 515. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of
real property if the estimated annual rental is more than
$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress
and a period of 30 days has expired following the date
on which the report is received by the Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 516. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any en-
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tity using funds made available in this Act, the head of
each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the state-
ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 517. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office
of Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity,
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private
property rights, or unfunded mandates.
Ω114æSEC. 519. (a) CONTRACTOR CONVERSION.—
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agen-
cy shall cease any further hiring in the Agency’s Office
of Research and Development.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than January 1, 1996, the
head of the Office of Research and Development of the
Environmental Protection Agency shall submit to the Con-
gress a report on all staffing plans including the use of
Federal and contract employees.
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Ω115æSEC. 520. Such funds as may be necessary to
carry out the orderly termination of the Office of Consumer
Affairs shall be made available from funds appropriated to
the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal
year 1996.
Ω116æSEC. 521. Energy Savings at Federal Facilities.
(a) REDUCTION IN FACILITIES ENERGY COSTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The head of each agency for
which funds are made available under this Act
shall—
(A) take all actions necessary to achieve
during fiscal year 1996 a 5 percent reduction,
from fiscal year 1995 levels, in the energy costs
of the facilities used by the agency; or
(B) enter into a sufficient number of energy
savings performance contracts with private sec-
tor energy service companies under title VIII of
the National Energy Conservation Policy Act (42
U.S.C. 8287 et seq.) to achieve during fiscal year
1996 at least a 5 percent reduction, from fiscal
year 1995 levels, in the energy use of the facili-
ties used by the agency.
(2) GOAL.—The activities described in para-
graph (1) should be a key component of agency pro-
grams that will by the year 2000 result in a 20 per-
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cent reduction, from fiscal year 1985 levels, in the en-
ergy use of the facilities used by the agency, as re-
quired by section 543 of the National Energy Con-
servation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8253).
(b) USE OF COST SAVINGS.—An amount equal to the
amount of cost savings realized by an agency under sub-
section (a) shall remain available for obligation through the
end of fiscal year 2000, without further authorization or
appropriation, as follows:
(1) CONSERVATION MEASURES.—Fifty percent of
the amount shall remain available for the implemen-
tation of additional energy conservation measures
and for water conservation measures at such facilities
used by the agency as are designated by the head of
the agency.
(2) OTHER
PURPOSES.—Fifty percent of the
amount shall remain available for use by the agency
for such purposes as are designated by the head of the
agency, consistent with applicable law.
(c) REPORTS.—
(1) BY AGENCY HEADS.—The head of each agen-
cy for which funds are made available under this Act
shall include in each report of the agency to the Sec-
retary of Energy under section 548(a) of the National
Energy Conservation Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8258(a))
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(ii) incorporate directly, or by ref-
erence, the requirements of the regulations
issued by the Secretary of Energy under
title VIII of the Act (42 U.S.C. 8287 et
seq.); and
(E) specify—
(i) the actions taken by the agency to
achieve the goal specified in subsection
(a)(2);
(ii) the procurement procedures and
methods used by the agency under section
546(a)(2) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 8256(a)(2));
and
(iii) the number of energy savings per-
formance contracts entered into by the agen-
cy under title VIII of the Act (42 U.S.C.
8287 et seq.).
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Veter-
ans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 31, 1995.
Attest:
ROBIN H. CARLE,
Clerk.
Passed the Senate September 27 (legislative day,
September 25), 1995.
Attest:
KELLY D. JOHNSTON,
Secretary.
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