Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, 
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2000, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION 
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on 
behalf of veterans and a pilot program for disability ex-
aminations as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters 
11, 13, 18, 51, 53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or 
on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 
chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 92 Stat. 2508); and bur-
ial benefits, emergency and other officers’ retirement pay, 
adjusted-service credits and certificates, payment of pre-
miums due on commercial life insurance policies guaran-
teed under the provisions of Article IV of the Soldiers’ 
and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, and 
for other benefits as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, 
1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61;
50 U.S.C. App. 540–548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat. 735; 
76 Stat. 1198), $21,568,364,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $17,932,000 
of the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to ‘‘Gen-
eral operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Medical care’’ for necessary 
expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in 
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in 
the Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters 
51, 53, and 55), the funding source for which is specifi-
cally provided as the ‘‘Compensation and pensions’’ appro-
priation: Provided further, That such sums as may be 
earned on an actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reim-
bursed to ‘‘Medical facilities revolving fund’’ to augment 
the funding of individual medical facilities for nursing 
home care provided to pensioners as authorized. 
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS 
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation 
benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by 38 
U.S.C. chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55, 
and 61, $1,469,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds shall be available to pay any 
court order, court award or any compromise settlement 
arising from litigation involving the vocational training 
program authorized by section 18 of Public Law 98–77, 
as amended.
VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES 
For military and naval insurance, national service life 
insurance, servicemen’s indemnities, service-disabled vet-
erans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as 
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 
Stat. 487, $28,670,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
VETERANS HOUSING BENEFIT PROGRAM FUND PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such 
sums as may be necessary to carry out the program, as 
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying 
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That during fiscal year 2000, within the resources 
available, not to exceed $300,000 in gross obligations for 
direct loans are authorized for specially adapted housing 
loans. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $156,958,000, 
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
EDUCATION LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized 
by 38 U.S.C. 3698, as amended: 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, as amended: Provided further, That these funds 
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $3,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct loan program, $214,000, which may 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
‘‘General operating expenses’’. 
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct loans, $57,000, as authorized 
by 38 U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: 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, as amended: Provided further, That these funds 
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $2,531,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the direct loan program, $415,000, which may 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct 
loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, sub-
chapter V, as amended, $520,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General 
operating expenses’’. 
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
MEDICAL CARE 
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facili-
ties; for furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and 
outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, including care and treat-
ment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment; and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies, and 
equipment; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental 
thereto for beneficiaries receiving care in the Department; 
administrative expenses in support of planning, design, 
project management, real property acquisition and disposi-
tion, construction and renovation of any facility under the 
jurisdiction or for the use of the Department; oversight, 
engineering and architectural activities not charged to 
project cost; repairing, altering, improving or providing fa-
cilities in the several hospitals and homes under the juris-
diction of the Department, not otherwise provided for, ei-
ther by contract or by the hire of temporary employees 
and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances there-
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; aid to State 
homes as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative 
and legal expenses of the Department for collecting and 
recovering amounts owed the Department as authorized 
under 38 U.S.C. chapter 17, and the Federal Medical 
Care Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq.; and not to 
exceed $8,000,000 to fund cost comparison studies as re-
ferred to in 38 U.S.C. 8110(a)(5), $19,006,000,000, plus 
reimbursements: Provided, That of the funds made avail-
able under this heading, $635,000,000 is for the equip-
ment and land and structures object classifications only, 
which amount shall not become available for obligation 
until August 1, 2000, and shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001. 
In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105–
33 establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Med-
ical Care Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited 
to such Fund pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be trans-
ferred to this account, to remain available until expended 
for the purposes of this account. 
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of 
medical and prosthetic research and development as au-
thorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until 
September 30, 2001, $326,000,000, plus reimbursements. 
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in the administration of the 
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction, 
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
ministrative expenses in support of capital policy activi-
ties, $61,200,000 plus reimbursements, to remain avail-
able until September 31, 2001: Provided, That project 
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities 
Management Service Delivery Office, including technical 
consulting services, project management, real property ad-
ministration (including leases, site acquisition and dis-
posal activities directly supporting projects), shall be pro-
vided to Department of Veterans Affairs components only 
on a reimbursable basis, and such amounts will remain 
available until September 30, 2000. 
GENERAL POST FUND, NATIONAL HOMES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of direct loans, $7,000, as authorized 
by Public Law 102–54, section 8, which shall be trans-
ferred from the ‘‘General post fund’’: 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, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $70,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan programs, $54,000, which shall be trans-
ferred from the ‘‘General post fund’’, as authorized by 
Public Law 102–54, section 8. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary operating expenses of the Department 
of Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including 
uniforms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for 
official reception and representation expenses; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General 
Services Administration for security guard services, and 
the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas em-
ployee mail, $886,000,000 to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided, That funds under this heading 
shall be available to administer the Service Members Occu-
pational Conversion and Training Act. 
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of the National Cemetery Administration, not oth-
erwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; pur-
chase of two passenger motor vehicles for use in cemeterial
operations; and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$97,000,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, $38,500,000. 
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS 
For constructing, altering, extending and improving 
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the 
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, 
United States Code, including planning, architectural and 
engineering services, maintenance or guarantee period 
services costs associated with equipment guarantees pro-
vided under the project, services of claims analysts, offsite 
utility and storm drainage system construction costs, and 
site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is 
$4,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were 
made available in a previous major project appropriation, 
$34,700,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That except for advance planning of projects includ-
ing market-based assessments of health care needs which 
may or may not lead to capital investments funded 
through the advance planning fund and the design of 
projects funded through the design fund, none of these
funds shall be used for any project which has not been 
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary 
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this ap-
propriation for fiscal year 2000, for each approved project 
shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction 
documents contract by September 30, 2000; and (2) by 
the awarding of a construction contract by September 30, 
2001: Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly 
report in writing to the Committees on Appropriations any 
approved major construction project in which obligations 
are not incurred within the time limitations established 
above: Provided further, That no funds from any other ac-
count except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be obli-
gated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving 
a project which was approved in the budget process and 
funded in this account until 1 year after substantial com-
pletion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of 
Veterans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with 
respect to that part only. 
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS 
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving 
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use 
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including plan-
ning, architectural and engineering services, maintenance 
or guarantee period services costs associated with equip-
ment guarantees provided under the project, services of
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system 
construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the 
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, 
United States Code, where the estimated cost of a project 
is less than $4,000,000, $102,300,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, along with unobligated balances of 
previous ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’ appropriations 
which are hereby made available for any project where the 
estimated cost is less than $4,000,000: Provided, That 
funds in this account shall be available for: (1) repairs 
to any of the nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction 
or for the use of the Department which are necessary be-
cause of loss or damage caused by any natural disaster 
or catastrophe; and (2) temporary measures necessary to 
prevent or to minimize further loss by such causes. 
PARKING REVOLVING FUND 
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38 
U.S.C. 8109, income from fees collected, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall be available for all author-
ized expenses except operations and maintenance costs, 
which will be funded from ‘‘Medical care’’. 
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE 
FACILITIES 
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct 
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to re-
model, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and 
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care 
to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131–8137, 
$80,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS 
CEMETERIES 
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding, 
or improving State veteran cemeteries as authorized by 38 
U.S.C. 2408, $11,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2000 for 
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, 
and ‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be trans-
ferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations. 
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2000 for salaries 
and expenses shall be available for services authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109. 
SEC. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations 
for ‘‘Construction, major projects’’, ‘‘Construction, minor 
projects’’, and the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’) shall be 
available for the purchase of any site for or toward the 
construction of any new hospital or home.
SEC. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hos-
pitalization or examination of any persons (except bene-
ficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits 
to veterans, and persons receiving such treatment under 
5 U.S.C. 7901–7904 or 42 U.S.C. 5141–5204), unless re-
imbursement of cost is made to the ‘‘Medical care’’ ac-
count at such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of 
Veterans Affairs. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2000 for ‘‘Com-
pensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and 
‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ shall be available 
for payment of prior year accrued obligations required to 
be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year 
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 1999. 
SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the 
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2000 shall 
be available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding 
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X 
of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 
100–86, except that if such obligations are from trust 
fund accounts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation 
and pensions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, during fiscal year 2000, the Secretary of Veterans 
Affairs shall, from the National Service Life Insurance 
Fund (38 U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans’ Special Life Insur-
ance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Gov-
ernment Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reim-
burse the ‘‘General operating expenses’’ account for the 
cost of administration of the insurance programs financed 
through those accounts: Provided, That reimbursement 
shall be made only from the surplus earnings accumulated 
in an insurance program in fiscal year 2000, that are 
available for dividends in that program after claims have 
been paid and actuarially determined reserves have been 
set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of administra-
tion of an insurance program exceeds the amount of sur-
plus earnings accumulated in that program, reimburse-
ment shall be made only to the extent of such surplus 
earnings: Provided further, That the Secretary shall deter-
mine the cost of administration for fiscal year 2000, which 
is properly allocable to the provision of each insurance pro-
gram and to the provision of any total disability income 
insurance included in such insurance program. 
SEC. 108. Beginning in fiscal year 2000 and there-
after, funds available in any Department of Veterans Af-
fairs appropriation or fund for salaries and expenses shall
also be available to reimburse the Office of Resolution 
Management and the Office of Employment Discrimina-
tion Complaint Adjudication for all services provided by 
such office at rates which will recover actual costs. Pay-
ments may be made in advance for services to be furnished 
based on estimated costs. Amounts received shall be cred-
ited to the ‘‘General operating expenses’’ account for use 
by the office that provided the service: Provided, That the 
amounts listed in the House Report accompanying this 
Act for each office and administration reimbursing the Of-
fice of Resolution Management and the Office of Employ-
ment Discrimination Complaint Adjudication for service 
rendered shall not be exceeded. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of Veterans Affairs may 
carry out a major medical facility project to renovate and 
construct facilities at the Olin E. Teague Department of 
Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Temple, Texas, for a 
joint venture Cardiovascular Institute, in an amount not 
to exceed $11,500,000. In order to carry out that project, 
the amount of $11,500,000 appropriated for fiscal year 
1998 and programmed for the renovation of Building 9 
at the Waco, Texas, Department of Veterans Affairs Med-
ical Center is hereby made available for that project.
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For activities and assistance to prevent the involun-
tary displacement of low-income families, the elderly and 
the disabled because of the loss of affordable housing 
stock, expiration of subsidy contracts (other than con-
tracts for which amounts are provided under another 
heading in this Act), or expiration of use restrictions, or 
other changes in housing assistance arrangements, and for 
other purposes, $10,540,135,000 and all amounts that are 
recaptured in this account, and recaptured under the ap-
propriation for ‘‘Annual contributions for assisted hous-
ing’’, to remain available until expended: Provided, That 
from the amounts provided, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall use amounts, as needed, for as-
sistance under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437) in connection with expiring or terminating 
section 8 subsidy contracts, for amendments to section 8 
subsidy contracts, for enhanced vouchers (including 
amendments and renewals) as described in the Adminis-
trative Provisions of this title, for enhanced vouchers (in-
cluding amendments and renewals) as provided in para-
graphs (3) and (4) of section 515(c) of the Multifamily
Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997, 
and for enhanced vouchers (including amendments and re-
newals) as provided under or pursuant to the ‘‘Preserving 
Existing Housing Investment’’ heading in the Depart-
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1997: Provided further, That in the case of enhanced 
vouchers provided under this heading, if the income of the 
family receiving assistance declines to a significant extent, 
the percentage of income paid by the family for rent shall 
not exceed the greater of 30 percent or the percentage of 
income paid at the time of mortgage prepayment: Provided 
further, That amounts available under this heading may 
be made available for section 8 rental assistance under the 
United States Housing Act of 1937: (1) to relocate resi-
dents of properties: (A) that are owned by the Secretary 
and being disposed of; or (B) that are discontinuing sec-
tion 8 project-based assistance; (2) for relocation and re-
placement housing for units that are demolished or dis-
posed of: (A) from the public housing inventory (in addi-
tion to amounts that may be available for such purposes 
under this and other headings); or (B) pursuant to section 
24 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or to other 
authority for the revitalization of severely distressed public 
housing, as set forth in the Appropriations Acts for the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies, for the fiscal 
years 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997, and in the Omnibus 
Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996; 
(3) for the conversion of section 23 projects to assistance 
under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937; 
(4) for funds to carry out the family unification program; 
and (5) for the relocation of witnesses in connection with 
efforts to combat crime in public and assisted housing pur-
suant to a request from a law enforcement or prosecuting 
agency: Provided further, That of the total amount avail-
able under this heading, $25,000,000 may be made avail-
able to nonelderly disabled families affected by the des-
ignation of a public housing development under section 7 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937, the establish-
ment of preferences in accordance with section 651 of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992, or the 
restriction of occupancy to elderly families, or the restric-
tions on occupancy to elderly families in accordance with 
section 658 of such Act: Provided further, That amounts 
available under this heading may be made available for 
administrative fees and other expenses to cover the cost 
of administering rental assistance programs under section 
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937: Provided fur-
ther, That the fee otherwise authorized under section 8(q)
of such Act shall be determined in accordance with section 
8(q), as in effect immediately before enactment of the 
Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998: 
Provided further, That all balances for the section 8 rental 
assistance, section 8 counseling, new construction sub-re-
habilitation, relocation/replacement/demolition, section 23 
conversions, rental and disaster vouchers, loan manage-
ment set-aside, section 514 technical assistance, and pro-
grams previously funded within the ‘‘Annual Contribu-
tions’’ account shall be transferred to this account, to be 
available for the purposes for which they were originally 
appropriated: Provided further, That all balances pre-
viously recaptured in the ‘‘Section 8 Reserve Preserva-
tion’’ account shall be transferred to this account, to be 
available for the purposes for which they were originally 
appropriated: Provided further, That the unexpended 
amounts previously appropriated for special purpose 
grants within the ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted 
Housing’’ account shall be recaptured and transferred to 
this account, to be available for assistance under the Act 
for use in connection with expiring or terminating section 
8 subsidy contracts: Provided further, That of the amounts 
previously appropriated for property disposition within the 
‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’ account, up 
to $79,000,000 shall be transferred to this account, to be
available for assistance under the Act for use in connection 
with expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy contracts: 
Provided further, That of the unexpended amounts pre-
viously appropriated for carrying out the Low-Income 
Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act 
of 1990 and the Emergency Low-Income Housing Preser-
vation Act of 1987, other than amounts made available 
for rental assistance, within the ‘‘Annual Contributions for 
Assisted Housing’’ and ‘‘Preserving Existing Housing In-
vestments’’ accounts, shall be recaptured and transferred 
to this account, to be available for assistance under the 
Act for use in connection with expiring or terminating sec-
tion 8 subsidy contracts. 
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to 
carry out capital and management activities for public 
housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 1437), $2,555,000,000, to remain available until 
expended: Provided, That of the total amount, up to 
$50,000,000 shall be for carrying out activities under sec-
tion 9(d) of such Act, and for lease adjustments to section 
23 projects, including up to $1,000,000 for related travel: 
Provided further, That all balances for debt service for 
Public and Indian Housing and Public and Indian Hous-
ing Grants previously funded within the ‘‘Annual contribu-
tions for assisted housing’’ account shall be transferred 
to this account, to be available for the purposes for which 
they were originally appropriated. 
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND 
For payments to public housing agencies for the oper-
ation and management of public housing, as authorized 
by section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, 
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $2,818,000,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For grants to public housing agencies and Indian 
tribes and their tribally designated housing entities for use 
in eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized 
by 42 U.S.C. 11901–11908, for grants for federally as-
sisted low-income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909, 
and for drug information clearinghouse services author-
ized by 42 U.S.C. 11921–11925, $290,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which up to $4,500,000 shall 
be for grants, technical assistance, contracts and other as-
sistance, training, and program assessment and execution 
for or on behalf of public housing agencies, resident orga-
nizations, and Indian tribes and their tribally designated 
housing entities (including up to $150,000 for the cost of 
necessary travel for participants in such training),
$10,000,000 shall be used in connection with efforts to 
combat violent crime in public and assisted housing under 
the Operation Safe Home Program administered by the 
Inspector General of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development; and $10,000,000 shall be provided 
to the Office of Inspector General for Operation Safe 
Home. 
REVITALIZATION OF SEVERELY DISTRESSED PUBLIC 
HOUSING (HOPE VI) 
For grants to public housing agencies for demolition, 
site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based 
assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937, $575,000,000 
to remain available until expended of which the Secretary 
may use up to $10,000,000 for technical assistance and 
contract expertise, to be provided directly or indirectly by 
grants, contracts or cooperative agreements, including 
training and cost of necessary travel for participants in 
such training, by or to officials and employees of the De-
partment and of public housing agencies and to residents: 
Provided, That for purposes of environmental review pur-
suant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 
a grant under this heading or under prior appropriations 
Acts for use for the purposes under this heading shall be 
treated as assistance under title I of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 and shall be subject to the regula-
tions issued by the Secretary to implement section 26 of 
such Act: Provided further, That none of such funds shall 
be used directly or indirectly by granting competitive ad-
vantage in awards to settle litigation or pay judgments, 
unless expressly permitted herein. 
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Native American Housing Block Grants pro-
gram, as authorized under title I of the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 
(NAHASDA) (Public Law 104–330), $620,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $6,000,000 shall 
be used to support the inspection of Indian housing units, 
contract expertise, training, and technical assistance in 
the oversight and management of Indian housing and ten-
ant-based assistance, including up to $100,000 for related 
travel: Provided, That of the amount provided under this 
heading, $6,000,000 shall be made available for the cost 
of guaranteed notes and other obligations, as authorized 
by title VI of NAHASDA: Provided further, That such 
costs, including the costs of modifying such notes and 
other obligations, shall be as defined in section 502 of the 
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided 
further, That these funds are available to subsidize the 
total principal amount of any notes and other obligations, 
any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS 
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS 
Housing 
Opportunity 
Act 
(42 
U.S.C. 
12901), 
$215,000,000 (increased by $10,000,000), to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary 
may use up to .5 percent of the funds under this heading 
for technical assistance. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For grants to States and units of general local gov-
ernment and for related expenses, not otherwise provided 
for, to carry out a community development grants pro-
gram as authorized by title I of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’ 
herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301), $4,500,200,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That 
$67,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes notwith-
standing section 106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000 shall 
be available as a grant to the Housing Assistance Council, 
$3,000,000 shall be available as a grant to the National 
American Indian Housing Council, and $30,000,000 shall 
be for grants pursuant to section 107 of the Act: Provided 
further, That $15,000,000 shall be for grants pursuant to 
the Self Help Housing Opportunity program: Provided
further, That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made 
with funds appropriated herein (other than a grant made 
available in this paragraph to the Housing Assistance 
Council or the National American Indian Housing Coun-
cil, or a grant using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the 
Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as 
amended) shall be expended for ‘‘Planning and Manage-
ment Development’’ and ‘‘Administration’’ as defined in 
regulations promulgated by the Department. Provided fur-
ther, That all balances for the Economic Development Ini-
tiative grants program, the John Heinz Neighborhood De-
velopment program, grants to Self Help Housing Oppor-
tunity program, and the Moving to Work Demonstration 
program previously funded within the ‘‘Annual contribu-
tions for assisted housing’’ account shall be transferred 
to this account, to be available for the purposes for which 
they were originally appropriated. 
Of the amount made available under this heading, 
$15,000,000 shall be made available for ‘‘Capacity Build-
ing for Community Development and Affordable Hous-
ing,’’ for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for activi-
ties as authorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstration 
Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–120), as in effect imme-
diately before June 12, 1997, with not less than 
$3,000,000 of the funding to be used in rural areas, in-
cluding tribal areas, and $3,750,000 for Habitat for 
Humanity International. 
Of the amount provided under this heading, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may use up 
to $45,000,000 for supportive services for public housing 
residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, and not less than $10,000,000 for 
grants for service coordinators and congregate services for 
the elderly and disabled residents of public and assisted 
housing. 
Of the amount made available under this heading, 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $42,500,000 
shall be available for YouthBuild program activities au-
thorized by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez 
National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such 
activities shall be an eligible activity with respect to any 
funds made available under this heading. Of the amount 
provided under this paragraph, not less than $2,500,000 
shall be set aside and made available for a grant to 
Youthbuild USA for capacity building for community de-
velopment and affordable housing activities as specified in 
section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993, as 
amended.
Of the amount made available under this heading, 
$20,000,000 shall be available for the Economic Develop-
ment Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of efforts. 
Of the amount made available under this heading, 
$20,000,000 shall be available for neighborhood initia-
tives. 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $25,000,000, as au-
thorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are 
available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of 
which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,087,000,000, 
notwithstanding any aggregate limitation on outstanding 
obligations guaranteed in section 108(k) of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That in addition, for administrative expenses to carry 
out the guaranteed loan program, $1,000,000, which shall 
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for 
‘‘Salaries and expenses’’. 
BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT 
For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by 
section 108(q) of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974, as amended, for Brownfields redevelop-
ment projects, $20,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development shall make these grants available on 
a competitive basis as specified in section 102 of the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act 
of 1989. 
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as 
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), as 
amended, $1,580,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That up to $5,000,000 of these funds 
shall be available for the development and operation of in-
tegrated community development management informa-
tion systems: Provided further, That up to $7,500,000 of 
these funds shall be available for Housing Counseling 
under section 106 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1968: Provided further, That all Housing Coun-
seling program balances previously appropriated in the 
‘‘Housing counseling assistance’’ account shall be trans-
ferred to this account, to be available for the purposes for 
which they were originally appropriated. 
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the emergency shelter grants program (as au-
thorized under subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended); the 
supportive housing program (as authorized under subtitle 
C of title IV of such Act); the section 8 moderate rehabili-
tation single room occupancy program (as authorized 
under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amend-
ed) to assist homeless individuals pursuant to section 441 
of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and 
the shelter plus care program (as authorized under sub-
title F of title IV of such Act), $970,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That up to 1 percent 
of the funds appropriated under this heading may be used 
for technical assistance and systems support: Provided fur-
ther, That all balances previously appropriated in the 
‘‘Emergency Shelter Grants’’, ‘‘Supportive Housing’’, 
‘‘Supplemental Assistance for Facilities to Assist the 
Homeless’’, ‘‘Shelter Plus Care’’, ‘‘Section 8 Moderate Re-
habilitation Single Room Occupancy’’, and ‘‘Innovative 
Homeless Initiatives Demonstration’’ accounts shall be 
transferred to and merged with this account, to be avail-
able for any authorized purpose under this heading. 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
HOUSING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS 
For assistance for the purchase, construction, acqui-
sition, or development of additional public and subsidized 
housing units for low income families not otherwise pro-
vided for, $854,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended; of which $660,000,000 shall be for capital ad-
vances, including amendments to capital advance con-
tracts, for housing for the elderly, as authorized by section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for 
project rental assistance, and amendments to contracts for 
project rental assistance, for the elderly under such section 
202(c)(2), of the Housing Act of 1959, and for supportive 
services associated with the housing; and of which 
$194,000,000 shall be for capital advances, including 
amendments to capital advance contracts, for supportive 
housing for persons with disabilities, as authorized by sec-
tion 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act, for project rental assistance, for amend-
ments to contracts for project rental assistance, and sup-
portive services associated with the housing for persons 
with disabilities as authorized by section 811 of such Act: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may designate up to 
25 percent of the amounts earmarked under this para-
graph for section 811 of such Act for tenant-based assist-
ance, as authorized under that section, including such au-
thority as may be waived under the next proviso, which 
assistance is 5 years in duration: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may waive any provision of section 202 of 
the Housing Act of 1959 and section 811 of the Cranston-
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (including the 
provisions governing the terms and conditions of project 
rental assistance and tenant-based assistance) that the 
Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the objec-
tives of these programs, or that otherwise impedes the 
ability to develop, operate or administer projects assisted 
under these programs, and may make provision for alter-
native conditions or terms where appropriate. 
FLEXIBLE SUBSIDY FUND 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all un-
committed balances of excess rental charges as of Sep-
tember 30, 1999, and any collections made during fiscal 
year 2000, shall be transferred to the Flexible Subsidy 
Fund, as authorized by section 236(g) of the National 
Housing Act, as amended. 
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION 
FHA—MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
During fiscal year 2000, commitments to guarantee 
loans to carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the 
National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan 
principal of $140,000,000,000. 
During fiscal year 2000, obligations to make direct 
loans to carry out the purposes of section 204(g) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed 
$50,000,000: Provided, That the foregoing amount shall 
be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in con-
nection with sales of single family real properties owned 
by the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual 
Mortgage Insurance Fund. 
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out 
the guaranteed and direct loan program, $328,888,000, 
of which not to exceed $324,866,000 shall be transferred 
to the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’; and of 
which not to exceed $4,022,000 shall be transferred to the 
appropriation for the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’. 
FHA—GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by 
sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12 
U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), including the cost of loan 
guarantee modifications (as that term is defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amend-
ed) $153,000,000, including not to exceed $153,000,000 
from unobligated balances previously appropriated under 
this heading, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, of up to 
$18,100,000,000.
Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct 
loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 
519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed 
$50,000,000; of which not to exceed $30,000,000 shall be 
for bridge financing in connection with the sale of multi-
family real properties owned by the Secretary and for-
merly insured under such Act; and of which not to exceed 
$20,000,000 shall be for loans to nonprofit and govern-
mental entities in connection with the sale of single-family 
real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly in-
sured under such Act. 
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to 
carry out the guaranteed and direct loan programs, 
$211,455,000 (including not to exceed $147,000,000 from 
unobligated balances previously appropriated under this 
heading), of which $193,134,000, shall be transferred to 
the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’ and of 
which $18,321,000 shall be transferred to the appropria-
tion for the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’. 
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN 
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
During fiscal year 2000, new commitments to issue 
guarantees to carry out the purposes of section 306 of the
National Housing Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1721(g)), 
shall not exceed $200,000,000,000. 
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out 
the guaranteed mortgage-backed securities program, 
$9,383,000, to be derived from the GNMA-guarantees of 
mortgage-backed securities guaranteed loan receipt ac-
count, of which not to exceed $9,383,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the appropriation for departmental ‘‘Salaries and 
expenses’’. 
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro-
grams of research and studies relating to housing and 
urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized 
by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act 
of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), includ-
ing carrying out the functions of the Secretary under sec-
tion 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968, 
$42,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2001. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not oth-
erwise 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 section 561 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$37,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2001, of which $18,750,000 shall be to carry out activities 
pursuant to such section 561: Provided, That no funds 
made available under this heading shall be used to lobby 
the executive or legislative branches of the Federal Gov-
ernment in connection with a specific contract, grant or 
loan. 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL 
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as author-
ized by sections 1011 and 1053 of the Residential Lead-
Based Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, $70,000,000 to re-
main available until expended, of which $1,000,000 shall 
be for CLEARCorps and $7,500,000 shall be for a 
Healthy Homes Initiative, which shall be a program pur-
suant to sections 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1970 that shall include research, 
studies, testing, and demonstration efforts, including edu-
cation and outreach concerning lead-based paint poisoning 
and other housing-related environmental diseases and haz-
ards: Provided, That all balances for the Lead Hazard Re-
duction Programs previously funded in the ‘‘Annual con-
tributions for assisted housing’’ and ‘‘Community develop-
ment block grants’’ accounts shall be transferred to this 
account, to be available for the purposes for which they 
were originally appropriated. 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary administrative and non-administrative 
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, not otherwise provided for, including not to ex-
ceed $7,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $985,576,000, of which $518,000,000 shall be 
provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing 
Administration, $9,383,000 shall be provided from funds 
of the Government National Mortgage Association, 
$1,000,000 shall be provided from the appropriation for 
‘‘Community development block grants’’ $150,000 shall be 
provided by transfer from the ‘‘Title VI Indian Federal 
Guarantees Program’’ account, and $200,000 shall be 
provided by transfer from the appropriation for ‘‘Indian 
housing loan guarantee fund program account’’. Of the 
amount provided in this paragraph, $2,000,000 shall be 
for a Millenial Housing Commission. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $72,343,000, of which $22,343,000 shall be 
provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing 
Administration and $10,000,000 shall be provided from 
the amount earmarked for Operation Safe Home in the 
appropriation for ‘‘Drug elimination grants for low-income 
housing’’: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have 
independent authority over all personnel issues within the 
Office of Inspector General. 
OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, including not 
to exceed $1,000 for official reception and representation 
expenses, $19,493,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to be derived from the Federal Housing Enter-
prise Oversight Fund: Provided, That not to exceed such 
amount shall be available from the General Fund of the 
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and 
make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the 
Fund: Provided further, That the General Fund amount 
shall be reduced as collections are received during the fis-
cal year so as to result in a final appropriation from the 
General Fund estimated at not more than $0.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
FINANCING ADJUSTMENT FACTORS 
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 
1988 (Public Law 100–628, 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall 
be rescinded, or in the case of cash, shall be remitted to 
the Treasury, and such amounts of budget authority or 
cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the 
Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies 
or local governments or local housing agencies with 
projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development for which settlement occurred after January 
1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwithstanding 
the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15 
percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and 
not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide 
project owners with incentives to refinance their project 
at a lower interest rate. 
FAIR HOUSING AND FREE SPEECH 
SEC. 202. None of the amounts made available under 
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2000 to investigate 
or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise 
lawful activity engaged in by one or more persons, includ-
ing the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action, 
that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a government official or entity, or 
a court of competent jurisdiction. 
ENHANCED DISPOSITION AUTHORITY 
SEC. 203. Section 204 of the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997, is 
amended by striking ‘‘fiscal years 1997, 1998, and 1999’’ 
and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000’’. 
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS 
GRANTS 
SEC. 204. Section 207 of the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999, is 
amended by striking wherever it occurs ‘‘fiscal year 1999’’ 
and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘fiscal years 1999 and 2000’’. 
FHA MULTIFAMILY MORTGAGE CREDIT DEMONSTRATIONS 
SEC. 205. Section 542 of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1992 is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(5) by striking ‘‘during fis-
cal year 1999’’, and inserting ‘‘in each of fiscal 
years 1999 and 2000’’; and 
(2) in the first sentence of subsection (c)(4) by 
striking ‘‘during fiscal year 1999’’ and inserting ‘‘in 
each of fiscal years 1999 and 2000’’.
REPROGRAMMING 
SEC. 206. Of the amounts made available under the 
6th undesignated paragraph under the heading ‘‘COMMU-
NITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT—COMMUNITY DE-
VELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS’’ in title II of the Depart-
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1999 (Public Law 105–276; 112 Stat. 2477) for the Eco-
nomic Development Initiative (EDI) for grants for tar-
geted economic investments, the $1,000,000 to be made 
available (pursuant to the related provisions of the joint 
explanatory statement in the conference report to accom-
pany such Act (Report 105–769, 105th Congress, 2d Ses-
sion)) to the City of Redlands, California, for the redevel-
opment initiatives near the historic Fox Theater shall, not-
withstanding such provisions, be made available to such 
City for the following purposes: 
(1) $700,000 shall be for renovation of the City 
of Redlands Fire Station No. 1; 
(2) $200,000 shall be for renovation of the Mis-
sion Gables House at the Redlands Bowl historic 
outdoor amphitheater; and 
(3) $100,000 shall be for the preservation of 
historic Hillside Cemetery.
INCOME ELIGIBILITY ADJUSTMENTS FOR UNUSUALLY 
HIGH OR LOW FAMILY INCOMES 
SEC. 207. Section 16 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(2)(A), by inserting before 
the period the following: 
‘‘; except that the Secretary may establish in-
come ceilings higher or lower than 30 percent 
of the area median income on the basis of the 
Secretary’s findings that such variations are 
necessary because of unusually high or low fam-
ily incomes’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)(3), by inserting before the 
period the following: 
‘‘; except that the Secretary may establish income 
ceilings higher or lower than 30 percent of the area 
median income on the basis of the Secretary’s find-
ings that such variations are necessary because of 
unusually high or low family incomes’’. 
MILLENIAL HOUSING COMMISSION 
SEC. 208. (a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is hereby es-
tablished a commission to be known as the Millenial Hous-
ing Commission (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Com-
mission’’. 
(b) STUDY.—The duty of the Commission shall be to 
conduct a study that examines, analyzes, and explores—
(1) the importance of housing, particularly af-
fordable housing which includes housing for the el-
derly, to the infrastructure of the United States; 
(2) the various possible methods for increasing 
the role of the private sector in providing affordable 
housing in the United States, including the effective-
ness and efficiency of such methods; and 
(3) whether the existing programs of the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development work 
in conjunction with one another to provide better 
housing opportunities for families, neighborhoods, 
and communities, and how such programs can be 
improved with respect to such purpose. 
(c) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) NUMBER AND APPOINTMENT.—The Com-
mission shall be composed of 22 members, appointed 
not later than January 1, 2000, as follows: 
(A) Two co-chairpersons appointed by— 
(i) one co-chairperson appointed by a 
committee consisting of the chairmen of 
the Subcommittees on the Departments of 
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban 
Development, and Independent Agencies of 
the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate,
and the chairman of the Subcommittee on 
Housing and Community Opportunities of 
the House of Representatives and the 
chairman of the Subcommittee on Housing 
and Transportation of the Senate; and 
(ii) one co-chairperson appointed by a 
committee consisting of the ranking minor-
ity members of the Subcommittees on the 
Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies of the Committees 
on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, and the rank-
ing minority member of the Subcommittee 
on Housing and Community Opportunities 
of the House of Representatives and the 
ranking minority member of the Sub-
committee on Housing and Transportation 
of the Senate. 
(B) Ten members appointed by the Chair-
man and Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Chairman and Ranking 
Minority Member of the Committee on Banking
and Financial Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
(C) Ten members appointed by the Chair-
man and Ranking Minority Member of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and 
the Chairman and Ranking Minority Member of 
the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs of the Senate. 
(2) QUALIFICATIONS.—Appointees should have 
proven expertise in directing, assemblying, or apply-
ing capital resources from a variety of sources to the 
successful development of affordable housing or the 
revitalization of communities, including economic 
and job development. 
(3) VACANCIES.—Any vacancy on the Commis-
sion shall not affect its powers and shall be filled in 
the manner in which the original appointment was 
made. 
(4) CHAIRPERSONS.—The members appointed 
pursuant to paragraph (1)(A) shall serve as co-
chairpersons of the Commission. 
(5) PROHIBITION
OF
PAY.—Members of the 
Commission shall serve without pay. 
(6) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Each member of the 
Commission shall receive travel expenses, including
per diem in lieu of subsistence, in accordance with 
sections 5702 and 5703 of title 5, United States 
Code. 
(7) QUORUM.—A majority of the members of 
the Commission shall constitute a quorum but a 
lesser number may hold hearings. 
(8) MEETINGS.—The Commission shall meet at 
the call of the Chairpersons. 
(d) DIRECTOR AND STAFF.— 
(1) DIRECTOR.—The Commission shall have a 
Director who shall be appointed by the Chairperson. 
The Director shall be paid at a rate not to exceed 
the rate of basic pay payable for level V of the Exec-
utive Schedule. 
(2) STAFF.—The Commission may appoint per-
sonnel as appropriate. The staff of the Commission 
shall be appointed subject to the provisions of title 
5, United States Code, governing appointments in 
the competitive service, and shall be paid in accord-
ance with the provisions of chapter 51 and sub-
chapter III of chapter 53 of that title relating to 
classification and General Schedule pay rates. 
(3) EXPERTS AND CONSULTANTS.—The Com-
mission may procure temporary and intermittent 
services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United
States Code, but at rates for individuals not to ex-
ceed the daily equivalent of the maximum annual 
rate of basic pay payable for the General Schedule. 
(4) STAFF OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Upon re-
quest of the Commission, the head of any Federal 
department or agency may detail, on a reimbursable 
basis, any of the personnel of that department or 
agency to the Commission to assist it in carrying out 
its duties under this Act. 
(e) POWERS.— 
(1) HEARINGS AND SESSIONS.—The Commis-
sion may, for the purpose of carrying out this sec-
tion, hold hearings, sit and act at times and places, 
take testimony, and receive evidence as the Commis-
sion considers appropriate. 
(2) POWERS OF MEMBERS AND AGENTS.—Any 
member or agent of the Commission may, if author-
ized by the Commission, take any action which the 
Commission is authorized to take by this section. 
(3) OBTAINING OFFICIAL DATA.—The Commis-
sion may secure directly from any department or 
agency of the United States information necessary 
to enable it to carry out this Act. Upon request of 
the Chairpersons of the Commission, the head of
that department or agency shall furnish that infor-
mation to the Commission. 
(4) GIFTS, BEQUESTS, AND
DEVISES.—The 
Commission may accept, use, and dispose of gifts, 
bequests, or devises of services or property, both real 
and personal, for the purpose of aiding or facili-
tating the work of the Commission. Gifts, bequests, 
or devises of money and proceeds from sales of other 
property received as gifts, bequests, or devises shall 
be deposited in the Treasury and shall be available 
for disbursement upon order of the Commission. 
(5) MAILS.—The Commission may use the 
United States mails in the same manner and under 
the same conditions as other departments and agen-
cies of the United States. 
(6) ADMINISTRATIVE
SUPPORT
SERVICES.—
Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-
trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-
mission, on a reimbursable basis, the administrative 
support services necessary for the Commission to 
carry out its responsibilities under this section. 
(7) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—The Commission 
may contract with and compensate government and 
private agencies or persons for services, without re-
gard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (41 
U.S.C. 5). 
(f) REPORT.—The Commission shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations and Banking and Financial 
Services of the House of Representatives and the Commit-
tees on Appropriations and Banking, Housing, and Urban 
Affairs of the Senate a final report not later than March 
1, 2002. The report shall contain a detailed statement of 
the findings and conclusions of the Commission with re-
spect to the study conducted under subsection (b), to-
gether with its recommendations for legislation, adminis-
trative actions, and any other actions the Commission con-
siders appropriate. 
(g) TERMINATION.—The Commission shall terminate 
on June 30, 2002. section 14(a)(2)(B) of the Federal Ad-
visory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.; relating to the ter-
mination of advisory committees) shall not apply to the 
Commission. 
FHA TECHNICAL CORRECTION 
SEC. 209. Section 203(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the National 
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1709(b)(2)(A)(ii)) is amended by 
adding before ‘‘48 percent’’ the following: ‘‘the greater of 
the dollar amount limitation in effect under this section 
for the area on the date of the enactment of the Depart-
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act for 
Fiscal Year 1999 or’’. 
REUSE OF CERTAIN BUDGET AUTHORITY 
SEC. 210. section 8(z) of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by inserting after ‘‘on account of’’ the 
following: ‘‘expiration or’’; and 
(B) by striking the parenthetical phrase; 
and 
(2) by striking paragraph (3). 
ENHANCED VOUCHERS 
SEC. 211. (a) ENHANCED VOUCHERS UPON CON-
TRACT EXPIRATION.—In the case of contracts for project-
based assistance under section 8 that are not renewed, the 
following provisions shall apply: 
(1) IN GENERAL.—To the extent that amounts 
for assistance under this section are provided in ad-
vance in appropriations Acts, after the date of the 
expiration or termination of the contract for project-
based assistance for a covered project, the Secretary 
shall make enhanced voucher assistance under this 
section available on behalf of each family in an as-
sisted dwelling unit whose rent, as a result of a rent 
increase occurring after the date of such expiration
or termination, exceeds 30 percent of adjusted in-
come. 
(2) ENHANCED ASSISTANCE.—Enhanced vouch-
er assistance under this section shall be voucher as-
sistance under section 8(o) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937, except that under such en-
hanced voucher assistance— 
(A) if the assisted family elects to remain 
in the covered project in which the family was 
residing on the date of the expiration of such 
contract and the rent for any year for such unit 
exceeds the normally applicable payment stand-
ard established by the public housing agency 
pursuant to section 8(o), the amount of rental 
assistance provided on behalf of the family shall 
be determined using a payment standard that is 
equal to the rent for the dwelling unit: Pro-
vided, That the rent is reasonable in compari-
son to the rent charged for comparable dwelling 
units in the private, unassisted local market; 
and 
(B) if the assisted family elects to move 
from such covered project, subparagraph (A) 
shall not apply and the payment standard for
the dwelling unit occupied by the family shall be 
determined in accordance with section 8(o). 
(3) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sec-
tion, the following definitions shall apply: 
(A) ASSISTED DWELLING UNIT.—The term 
‘‘assisted dwelling unit’’ means a dwelling unit 
that— 
(i) is in a covered project; and 
(ii) is covered by rental assistance 
provided under the contract for project-
based assistance for the covered project. 
(B) COVERED PROJECT.—The term ‘‘cov-
ered project’’ means any housing that— 
(i) consists of more than 4 dwelling 
units; 
(ii) is covered in whole or in part by 
a contract for project-based assistance 
under— 
(I) the new construction or sub-
stantial rehabilitation program under 
section 8(b)(2) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (as in effect be-
fore October 1, 1983);
(II) the property disposition pro-
gram under section 8(b) of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937; 
(III) the moderate rehabilitation 
program under section 8(e)(2) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 
(as in effect before October 1, 1991); 
(IV) the loan management assist-
ance program under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937; 
(V) section 23 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (as in ef-
fect before January 1, 1975); 
(VI) the rent supplement pro-
gram under section 101 of the Hous-
ing and Urban Development Act of 
1965; or 
(VII) section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937, following 
conversion from assistance under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban 
Development Act of 1965; 
(iii) is covered by a contract which 
under its own terms expires on or after
October 1, 2000, but before October 1, 
2004; 
(iv) is not housing for which residents 
are eligible for enhanced voucher assist-
ance as provided under the heading ‘‘Pre-
serving Existing Housing Investment’’ in 
the Departments of Veterans Affairs and 
Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1997 (Public Law 104–204; 110 Stat. 
2884), pursuant to such provision or any 
other subsequently enacted provision of 
law; and 
(v) is not housing for which residents 
are eligible for enhanced voucher assist-
ance as provided in paragraphs (3) and (4) 
of section 515(c) of the Multifamily As-
sisted Housing Reform and Affordability 
Act of 1997. 
(b) EFFECT OF RENTAL INCREASES ON OTHER EN-
HANCED VOUCHERS.—To the extent that amounts are 
provided in advance in appropriations Acts for enhanced 
vouchers (including amendments and renewals) pursuant 
to the authority under the heading ‘‘Preserving existing 
housing investment’’ in the Departments of Veterans Af-
fairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Inde-
pendent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 
104–204; 110 Stat. 2884), each family receiving such en-
hanced voucher assistance after the date of prepayment 
or voluntary termination which continues to reside in the 
housing occupied on the date of prepayment or voluntary 
termination and the rent of which, absent enhanced vouch-
er assistance, would exceed the greater of 30 percent of 
adjusted income or the rent paid by the family on such 
date, may continue to receive such enhanced voucher as-
sistance indefinitely, subject to other requirements of that 
authority, as amended: Provided, That rent resulting from 
rent increases occurring later than 1 year after the date 
of prepayment or voluntary termination may be used to 
increase the applicable payment standard: Provided fur-
ther, That the rent for the dwelling unit is reasonable in 
comparison to the rent charged for comparable dwelling 
units in the private, unassisted local market. 
RESCISSIONS 
SEC. 212. Of the balances remaining from funds ap-
propriated to the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment in Public Law 105–65 and prior appropriations 
Acts, $74,400,000 is rescinded: Provided, That the 
amount rescinded shall be comprised of— 
(1) $30,552,000 of the amounts that were ap-
propriated for the modernization of public housing
unit; under the heading ‘‘Annual contributions for 
assisted housing’’, including an amount equal to the 
amount transferred from such account to, and 
merged with amounts under the heading ‘‘Public 
housing capital fund’’; 
(2) $3,048,000 of the amounts from which no 
disbursements have been made within five successive 
fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1993, 
that were appropriated under the heading ‘‘Annual 
contributions for assisted housing’’, including an 
amount equal to the amount transferred from such 
account to the account under the heading ‘‘Housing 
certificate fund’’; 
(3) $22,975,000 of amounts appropriated for 
homeownership assistance under section 235(r) of 
the National Housing Act, including $6,875,000 ap-
propriated in Public Law 103–327 (approved Sep-
tember 28, 1994, 104 Stat. 2305) for such purposes; 
(4) $11,400,000 of the amounts appropriated 
for the Homeownership and Opportunity for People 
Everywhere programs (HOPE programs), as author-
ized by the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act; and
(5) $6,400,000 of the balances remaining in the 
account under the heading ‘‘Nonprofit Sponsor As-
sistance Account’’. 
GRANT FOR NATIONAL CITIES IN SCHOOLS 
SEC. 213. For a grant to the National Cities in 
Schools Community Development program under section 
930 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 
1992, $5,000,000. 
MOVING TO WORK DEMONSTRATION 
SEC. 214. For the Moving to Work Demonstration 
program as set forth in Public Law 104–204 (110 Stat. 
2888), $5,000,000. 
REPEALER 
SEC. 215. Section 218 of Public Law 104–204 is re-
pealed. 
TITLE III—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES 
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
of the American Battle Monuments Commission, including 
the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign coun-
tries; purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of 
national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United 
States and its territories and possessions; rent of office 
and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for 
replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign coun-
tries, 
when 
required 
by 
law 
of 
such 
countries, 
$28,467,000, to remain available until expended. 
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including 
hire of passenger vehicles, and for services authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed 
the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate payable for 
senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, $9,000,000: 
Provided, That the Chemical Safety and Hazard Inves-
tigation Board shall have not more than three career Sen-
ior Executive Service positions. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 
FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
To carry out the Community Development Banking 
and Financial Institutions Act of 1994 and to establish 
and carry out a microenterprise technical assistance and 
capacity building grant program, including services au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for 
ES–3, $70,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2001, of which up to $7,860,000 may be used for ad-
ministrative expenses, up to $16,500,000 may be used for 
the cost of direct loans, and up to $1,000,000 may be used 
for administrative expenses to carry out the direct loan 
program: Provided, That the cost of direct loans, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans 
not to exceed $53,140,000: Provided further, That not 
more than $30,000,000 of the funds made available under 
this heading may be used to carry out section 114 of the 
Community Development Banking and Financial Institu-
tions Act of 1994: Provided further, That costs associated 
with the training program under section 109 and the tech-
nical assistance program under section 108 shall not be 
considered to be administrative expenses. 
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product 
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at 
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
alent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376, 
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal offi-
cials’ contributions to Commission activities, and not to 
exceed $500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $47,000,000. 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
Of the funds appropriated under this heading in Pub-
lic Law 105–276, the Corporation for National and Com-
munity Service shall use such amounts of such funds as 
may be necessary to carry out the orderly termination of 
the programs, activities, and initiatives under the National 
Community Service Act of 1990 (Public Law 103–82) and 
the Corporation: Provided, That such sums shall be uti-
lized to resolve all responsibilities and obligations in con-
nection with said Corporation. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, $3,000,000. 
COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the operation of the 
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims as 
authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7251–7298, $11,450,000, of 
which $910,000 shall be available for the purpose of pro-
viding financial assistance as described, and in accordance
with the process and reporting procedures set forth under 
this heading in Public Law 102–229. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for 
maintenance, operation, and improvement of Arlington 
National Cemetery and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Na-
tional Cemetery, including the purchase of two passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only, and not to exceed 
$1,000 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$12,473,000, to remain available until expended. 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For science and technology, including research and 
development activities, which shall include research and 
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 
1980 (CERCLA), as amended; necessary expenses for per-
sonnel and related costs and travel expenses, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; procurement of
laboratory equipment and supplies; other operating ex-
penses in support of research and development; construc-
tion, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of 
facilities, 
not 
to 
exceed 
$75,000 
per 
project, 
$645,000,000, which shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided, That the obligated balance of 
sums available in this account shall remain available 
through September 30, 2008 for liquidating obligations 
made in fiscal years 2000 and 2001: Provided further, 
That the obligated balance of funds transferred to this ac-
count in Public Law 105–276 shall remain available 
through September 30, 2007 for liquidating obligations 
made in fiscal years 1999 and 2000. 
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT 
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
personnel and related costs and travel expenses, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
craft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers
who are not members; construction, alteration, repair, re-
habilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $1,850,000,000, 
which shall remain available until September 30, 2001: 
Provided, That the obligated balance of such sums shall 
remain available through September 30, 2008 for liqui-
dating obligations made in fiscal years 2000 and 2001: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by 
this Act shall be used to propose or issue rules, regula-
tions, decrees, or orders for the purpose of implementa-
tion, or in preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto 
Protocol which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in 
Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to 
the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate 
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for 
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II, 
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and 
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25 
of the Protocol: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available in this Act may be used to implement or 
administer the interim guidance issued on February 5, 
1998, by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to 
title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and designated 
as the ‘‘Interim Guidance for Investigating Title VI Ad-
ministrative Complaints Challenging Permits’’ with re-
spect to complaints filed under such title after October 
21, 1998, and until guidance is finalized. Nothing in this 
proviso may be construed to restrict the Environmental 
Protection Agency from developing or issuing final guid-
ance relating to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: 
Provided further, That of the funds provided in this appro-
priation, $6,000,000 shall be made available to the states 
under the section 103 grants program for developing re-
gional haze programs under title I, part C of the Clean 
Air Act, as amended: Provided further, That notwith-
standing 7 U.S.C. 136r and 15 U.S.C. 2609, beginning 
in fiscal year 2000 and thereafter, grants awarded under 
section 20 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 
Rodenticide Act, as amended, and section 10 of the Toxic 
Substances Control Act, as amended, shall be available for 
research, development, monitoring, public education, 
training, demonstrations, and studies. 
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, and for construction, 
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $30,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided, 
That the sums available in this account shall remain avail-
able through September 30, 2008 for liquidating obliga-
tions made in fiscal years 2000 and 2001: Provided fur-
ther, That the obligated balance of funds transferred to 
this account in Public Law 105–276 shall remain available 
through September 30, 2007 for liquidating obligations 
made in fiscal years 1999 and 2000. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$62,600,000, to remain available until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sec-
tions 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 
per project; not to exceed $1,450,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, consisting of $725,000,000, as au-
thorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments 
and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended by 
Public Law 101–508, and $725,000,000 as a payment 
from general revenues to the Hazardous Substance Super-
fund for purposes as authorized by section 517(b) of
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair, 
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$75,000 per project, $60,000,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, $15,000,000, to be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until 
expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants, 
$3,199,957,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $1,175,000,000 shall be for making capitalization 
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under 
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
amended, and $775,000,000 shall be for capitalization 
grants for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds 
under section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as 
amended, except that, notwithstanding section 1452(n) of 
the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended, none of the 
funds made available under this heading in this Act, or 
in previous appropriations acts, shall be reserved by the
Administrator for health effects studies on drinking water 
contaminants, $36,500,000 for a clean air partnership 
fund demonstration program under section 103 of the 
Clean Air Act to support programs to achieve early, inte-
grated reductions in emissions of air pollutants, including 
local revolving funds and other mechanisms for leveraging 
non-Federal resources, $50,000,000 for architectural, en-
gineering, planning, design, construction and related ac-
tivities in connection with the construction of high priority 
water and wastewater facilities in the area of the United 
States-Mexico Border, after consultation with the appro-
priate border commission, $15,000,000 for grants to the 
State of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater 
infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages, 
$263,500,000 for making grants for the construction of 
wastewater and water treatment facilities and ground-
water protection infrastructure in accordance with the 
terms and conditions specified for such grants in the re-
port 
accompanying 
this 
Act 
(H.R. 
2684); 
and 
$884,957,000 for grants, including associated program 
support costs, to States, federally recognized tribes, inter-
state agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollution control 
agencies for multi-media or single media pollution preven-
tion, control and abatement and related activities, includ-
ing activities pursuant to the provisions set forth under
this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for making 
grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for particu-
late matter monitoring and data collection activities: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the limita-
tion on the amounts in a State water pollution control re-
volving fund that may be used by a State to administer 
the fund shall not apply to amounts included as principal 
in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2000 and prior 
years where such amounts represent costs of admin-
istering or capitalizing the fund, to the extent that such 
amounts are or were deemed reasonable by the Adminis-
trator, accounted for separately from other assets in the 
fund, and used for eligible purposes of the fund, including 
administration or for capitalization of the fund: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
all claims for principal and interest registered through 
grant dispute AA–91–A34 or any other such dispute here-
after filed by the Environmental Protection Agency rel-
ative to water pollution control center and sewer system 
improvement grants numbers C–390996–01, C–390996–
2, and C–390996–3 made in 1976 and 1977 are hereby 
resolved in favor of the grantee. 
The Environmental Protection Agency and the New 
York State Department of Environmental Conservation
are authorized to award, from construction grant reallot-
ments to the State of New York of previously appropriated 
funds, supplemental grant assistance to Nassau County, 
New York, for additional odor control at the Bay Park 
and Cedar Creek wastewater treatment plants, notwith-
standing initiation of construction or prior State Revolving 
Fund funding. Nassau County may elect to accept a com-
bined lump-sum of $15,000,000, paid in advance of con-
struction, in lieu of a 75 percent entitlement, to minimize 
grant and project administration. 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception 
and representation expenses, and rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia, $5,108,000. 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office 
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 
1 of 1977, $2,827,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 
1970, the Council shall consist of one member, appointed 
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all powers, 
functions, and duties of the Council. 
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, $33,666,000, to be de-
rived from the Bank Insurance Fund, the Savings Asso-
ciation Insurance Fund, and the FSLIC Resolution Fund. 
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY 
DISASTER RELIEF 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $300,000,000, and, notwith-
standing 42 U.S.C. 5203, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which not to exceed $3,000,000 may be trans-
ferred to ‘‘Emergency management planning and assist-
ance’’ for the consolidated emergency management per-
formance grant program.
DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans, $1,295,000, as author-
ized by section 319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act: 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, as amended: Provided further, That these funds 
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $25,000,000. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan program, $420,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
including hire and purchase of motor vehicles as author-
ized by 31 U.S.C. 1343; uniforms, or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not 
to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum 
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 
5376; expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and 
individuals at meetings concerned with the work of emer-
gency preparedness; transportation in connection with the 
continuity of Government programs to the same extent 
and in the same manner as permitted the Secretary of 
a Military Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to
exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $177,720,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, $6,515,000. 
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
to carry out activities under the National Flood Insurance 
Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protec-
tion Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake 
Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control 
Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the 
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. 
App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the National 
Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404–405), 
and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $280,787,000: 
Provided, That for purposes of pre-disaster mitigation 
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 5131(b) and (c) and 42 U.S.C. 
5196(e) and (i), $25,000,000 of the funds made available 
under this heading shall be available until expended for 
project grants: Provided further, That beginning in fiscal
year 2000 and each fiscal year thereafter, and notwith-
standing any other provision of law, the Director of 
FEMA is authorized to provide assistance from funds ap-
propriated under this heading, subject to terms and condi-
tions as the Director of FEMA shall establish, to any 
State for multi-hazard preparedness and mitigation 
through consolidated emergency management performance 
grants. 
RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND 
The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal year 
2000, as authorized by Public Law 105–276, shall not be 
less than 100 percent of the amounts anticipated by 
FEMA necessary for its radiological emergency prepared-
ness program for the next fiscal year. The methodology 
for assessment and collection of fees shall be fair and equi-
table; and shall reflect costs of providing such services, 
including administrative costs of collecting such fees. Fees 
received pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the 
Fund as offsetting collections and will become available 
for authorized purposes on October 1, 2000, and remain 
available until expended. 
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM 
To carry out an emergency food and shelter program 
pursuant to title III of Public Law 100–77, as amended, 
$110,000,000: Provided, That total administrative costs 
shall not exceed 31⁄2 percent of the total appropriation.
FLOOD MAP MODERNIZATION FUND 
For necessary expenses pursuant to section 1360 of 
the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, $5,000,000, 
and such additional sums as may be provided by State 
or local governments or other political subdivisions for cost 
shared mapping activities under section 1360(f)(2), to re-
main available until expended. 
NATIONAL INSURANCE DEVELOPMENT FUND 
Notwithstanding the provisions of 12 U.S.C. 
1735d(b) and 12 U.S.C. 1749bbb–13(b)(6), any indebted-
ness of the Director of the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency resulting from the Director borrowing sums 
under such sections before the date of the enactment of 
this Act to carry out title XII of the National Housing 
Act shall be canceled, and the Director shall not be obli-
gated to repay such sums or any interest thereon, and no 
further interest shall accrue on such sums. 
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities under the National Flood Insurance 
Act of 1968, the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, 
as amended, not to exceed $24,333,000 for salaries and 
expenses associated with flood mitigation and flood insur-
ance operations, and not to exceed $78,710,000 for flood 
mitigation, including up to $20,000,000 for expenses 
under section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act,
which amount shall be available for transfer to the Na-
tional Flood Mitigation Fund until September 30, 2001. 
In fiscal year 2000, no funds in excess of: (1) $47,000,000 
for operating expenses; (2) $456,427,000 for agents’ com-
missions and taxes; and (3) $50,000,000 for interest on 
Treasury borrowings shall be available from the National 
Flood Insurance Fund without prior notice to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations. For fiscal year 2000, flood insur-
ance rates shall not exceed the level authorized by the Na-
tional Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994. 
NATIONAL FLOOD MITIGATION FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Notwithstanding sections 1366(b)(3)(B)–(C) and 
1366(f) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as 
amended, $20,000,000 to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001, for activities designed to reduce the risk 
of flood damage to structures pursuant to such Act, of 
which $20,000,000 shall be derived from the National 
Flood Insurance Fund. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information 
Center, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$2,622,000, to be deposited into the Consumer Informa-
tion Center Fund: Provided, That the appropriations, rev-
enues and collections deposited into the fund shall be
available for necessary expenses of Consumer Information 
Center activities in the aggregate amount of $7,500,000. 
Appropriations, revenues, and collections accruing to this 
fund during fiscal year 2000 in excess of $7,500,000 shall 
remain in the fund and shall not be available for expendi-
ture except as authorized in appropriations Acts. 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of human space flight research 
and development activities, including research, develop-
ment, operations, and services; maintenance; construction 
of facilities including repair, rehabilitation, and modifica-
tion of real and personal property, and acquisition or con-
demnation of real property, as authorized by law; space 
flight, spacecraft control and communications activities in-
cluding operations, production, and services; and pur-
chase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation of mis-
sion and administrative aircraft, $5,388,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2001. 
SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics and 
technology research and development activities, including 
research, development, operations, and services; mainte-
nance; construction of facilities including repair, rehabili-
tation, and modification of real and personal property, and 
acquisition or condemnation of real property, as author-
ized by law; space flight, spacecraft control and commu-
nications activities including operations, production, and 
services; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and 
operation 
of 
mission 
and 
administrative 
aircraft, 
$4,975,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2001. 
MISSION SUPPORT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in carrying out mission support for human space flight 
programs and science, aeronautical, and technology pro-
grams, including research operations and support; space 
communications activities including operations, production 
and services; maintenance; construction of facilities in-
cluding repair, rehabilitation, and modification of facili-
ties, minor construction of new facilities and additions to 
existing facilities, facility planning and design, environ-
mental compliance and restoration, and acquisition or con-
demnation of real property, as authorized by law; program 
management; personnel and related costs, including uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; travel expenses; purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft; not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and 
representation expenses; and purchase (not to exceed 33
for replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, $2,269,300,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2001. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, $20,800,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of 
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science, 
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this 
appropriations Act, when any activity has been initiated 
by the incurrence of obligations for construction of facili-
ties as authorized by law, such amount available for such 
activity shall remain available until expended. This provi-
sion does not apply to the amounts appropriated in ‘‘Mis-
sion support’’ pursuant to the authorization for repair, re-
habilitation and modification of facilities, minor construc-
tion of new facilities and additions to existing facilities, 
and facility planning and design. 
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of 
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science, 
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this 
appropriations Act, the amounts appropriated for con-
struction of facilities shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of 
funds appropriated for ‘‘Mission support’’ and ‘‘Office of 
Inspector General’’, amounts made available by this Act 
for personnel and related costs and travel expenses of the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall re-
main available until September 30, 2000 and may be used 
to enter into contracts for training, investigations, costs 
associated with personnel relocation, and for other serv-
ices, to be provided during the next fiscal year. 
NASA shall develop a revised appropriation account 
structure for submission in the fiscal year 2001 budget 
request consisting of the ‘‘Human Space Flight’’ account; 
the ‘‘Science, Aeronautics, and Technology’’ account; and 
the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ account. The accounts 
shall each include the planned full costs (direct and indi-
rect costs) of NASA’s related activities and allow NASA 
to shift civil service salaries, benefits and support among 
accounts, as required, for the safe, timely, and successful 
accomplishment of NASA missions. 
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION 
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY 
During fiscal year 2000, administrative expenses of 
the Central Liquidity Facility shall not exceed $257,000: 
Provided, That $1,000,000, together with amounts of 
principal and interest on loans repaid, to be available until
expended, is available for loans to community development 
credit unions. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
1861–1875), and the Act to establish a National Medal 
of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–1881); services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and operation of aircraft 
and purchase of flight services for research support; acqui-
sition of aircraft, award-related travel, $2,778,500,000 
(reduced by $10,000,000), of which not to exceed 
$245,600,000 shall remain available until expended for 
Polar research and operations support, and for reimburse-
ment to other Federal agencies for operational and science 
support and logistical and other related activities for the 
United States Antarctic program; the balance to remain 
available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That re-
ceipts for scientific support services and materials fur-
nished by the National Research Centers and other Na-
tional Science Foundation supported research facilities 
may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further, 
That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less 
than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for 
included program activities, all amounts, including floors
and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for those pro-
gram activities or their subactivities shall be reduced pro-
portionally. 
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT 
For necessary expenses of major construction 
projects pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act 
of 1950, as amended, including award-related travel, 
$56,500,000, to remain available until expended. 
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and 
engineering education and human resources programs and 
activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation 
Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, award-related 
travel, and rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia, $660,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided, That to the extent that the 
amount of this appropriation is less than the total amount 
authorized to be appropriated for included program activi-
ties, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified 
in the authorizing Act for those program activities or their 
subactivities shall be reduced proportionally. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out 
the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed 
$9,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia; reimbursement of the General Services Admin-
istration for security guard services, $146,500,000: Pro-
vided, That contracts may be entered into under ‘‘Salaries 
and expenses’’ in fiscal year 2000 for maintenance and 
operation of facilities, and for other services, to be pro-
vided during the next fiscal year. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $5,325,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2001. 
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), $80,000,000.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
To carry out the orderly termination of the programs 
and activities authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118, 
$7,000,000. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and 
III of this Act are expendable for travel expenses and no 
specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expendi-
tures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts 
set forth therefore in the budget estimates submitted for 
the appropriations: Provided, That this provision does not 
apply to accounts that do not contain an object classifica-
tion for travel: Provided further, That this section shall 
not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials 
of local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service 
System; to travel performed directly in connection with 
care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connec-
tion with major disasters or emergencies declared or deter-
mined by the President under the provisions of the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act; to travel performed by the Offices of Inspector Gen-
eral in connection with audits and investigations; or to 
payments to interagency motor pools where separately set
forth in the budget schedules: Provided further, That if 
appropriations in titles I, II, and III exceed the amounts 
set forth in budget estimates initially submitted for such 
appropriations, the expenditures for travel may cor-
respondingly exceed the amounts therefore set forth in the 
estimates in the same proportion. 
SEC. 402. 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 
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. 
SEC. 403. 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, 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. 404. 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. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be 
expended— 
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or 
employee of the United States unless— 
(A) such certification is accompanied by, 
or is part of, a voucher or abstract which de-
scribes the payee or payees and the items or 
services for which such expenditure is being 
made; or 
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to 
such certification, and without such a voucher 
or abstract, is specifically authorized by law; 
and 
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit 
by the General Accounting Office or is specifically 
exempt by law from such audit. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency may be expended for the trans-
portation of any officer or employee of such department 
or agency between their domicile and their place of em-
ployment, with the exception of any officer or employee 
authorized such transportation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or 
5 U.S.C. 7905. 
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to re-
cipients that do not share in the cost of conducting re-
search resulting from proposals not specifically solicited 
by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost 
sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of in-
terest of the grantee or contractor and the Government 
in the research. 
SEC. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used, 
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimburse-
ment for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether 
retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more 
than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of 
the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by 
law. 
SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act 
shall be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise com-
pensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or 
adjudicatory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the au-
thority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission pur-
suant to section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under an existing Executive Order issued pur-
suant 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 24 months prior 
to the date on which the list is made available to 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 performed under 
each such contract. 
SEC. 411. 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. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section 
406, none of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide 
a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to 
any officer or employee of such department or agency. 
SEC. 413. 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. 414. 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. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, 
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act 
should be American-made. 
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering 
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the 
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a 
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by 
the Congress. 
SEC. 416. 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. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2000 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. 
SEC. 418. 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. 
SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are sub-
ject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as
amended, are hereby authorized to make such expendi-
tures, within the 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 2000 for such 
corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: Pro-
vided, That collections of these corporations and agencies 
may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commit-
ments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act 
(unless such loans are in support of other forms of assist-
ance provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), ex-
cept that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage in-
surance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or 
where loans or mortgage purchases are necessary to pro-
tect the financial interest of the United States Govern-
ment. 
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding section 320(g) of the 
Federal Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)), 
funds made available pursuant to authorization under 
such section for fiscal year 2000 may be used for imple-
menting comprehensive conservation and management 
plans, subject to the enactment of legislation authorizing 
funds for such purpose.
SEC. 421. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to na-
tional service education awards shall mean any loan made 
directly to a student by the Alaska Commission on Post-
secondary Education, in addition to other meanings under 
section 148(b)(7) of the National and Community Service 
Act. 
SEC. 422. Section 15d(a) of the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C. 831n–4(a)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘30,000,000,000’’ and inserting in lieu thereof 
‘‘27,000,000,000’’. 
SEC. 423. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to publish or issue an assessment re-
quired under section 106 of the Global Change Research 
Act of 1990 unless— 
(1) the supporting research has been subjected 
to peer review and, if not otherwise publicly avail-
able, posted electronically for public comment prior 
to use in the assessment; and 
(2) the draft assessment has been published in 
the Federal Register for a 60 day public comment 
period. 
RURAL VETERANS HEALTH CARE SERVICES 
SEC. 424. The House supports efforts to implement 
improvements in health care services for veterans in rural 
areas.
SEC. 425. It is the sense of the Congress that, along 
with health care, housing, education, and other benefits, 
the presence of an honor guard at a veteran’s funeral is 
a benefit that a veteran has earned, and, therefore, the 
executive branch should provide funeral honor details for 
the funerals of veterans when requested, in accordance 
with law. 
SEC. 426. The amounts otherwise provided by this 
Act are revised by increasing the amount made available 
for ‘‘DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS—De-
partmental Administration—Grants for Construction of 
State Extended Care Facilities’’, by reducing the amount 
made available for ‘‘INDEPENDENT AGENCIES—
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board—Sala-
ries and Expenses’’, and by reducing the amount made 
available for ‘‘INDEPENDENT AGENCIES—Environ-
mental Protection Agency—Office of Inspector General’’, 
by $7,000,000, $2,000,000, and $5,000,000, respectively.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Passed the House of Representatives September 9, 
1999. 
Attest:
Clerk.
106TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2684
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, and for sundry independent agencies, 
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, 
and for other purposes.