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of the United States derived by the collection of fees avail-
able to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available 
for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of 
funds that: (1) creates a new program; (2) eliminates a pro-
gram, project, or activity; (3) increases funds for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been denied 
or restricted by the Congress; (4) proposes to use funds di-
rected for a specific activity by either of the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate or the House of Represent-
atives for a different purpose; or (5) contracts out any func-
tion or activity for which funding levels were requested for 
Federal full-time equivalents in the object classification ta-
bles contained in the fiscal year 2008 Budget Appendix for 
the Department of Homeland Security, as modified by the 
joint explanatory statement accompanying this Act; unless 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives are notified 15 days in advance 
of such reprogramming of funds. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, provided 
by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies in or trans-
ferred to the Department of Homeland Security that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2008, 
or provided from any accounts in the Treasury of the 
United States derived by the collection of fees available to 
the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obliga-
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tion or expenditure for programs, projects, or activities 
through a reprogramming of funds in excess of $5,000,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less, that: (1) augments existing 
programs, projects, or activities; (2) reduces by 10 percent 
funding for any existing program, project, or activity, or 
numbers of personnel by 10 percent as approved by the Con-
gress; or (3) results from any general savings from a reduc-
tion in personnel that would result in a change in existing 
programs, projects, or activities as approved by the Con-
gress; unless the Committees on Appropriations of the Sen-
ate and the House of Representatives are notified 15 days 
in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
(c) Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Department of 
Homeland Security by this Act or provided by previous ap-
propriations Acts may be transferred between such appro-
priations, but no such appropriations, except as otherwise 
specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10 
percent by such transfers: Provided, That any transfer 
under this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of 
funds under subsection (b) of this section and shall not be 
available for obligation unless the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
are notified 15 days in advance of such transfer. 
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(d) Notwithstanding subsections (a), (b), and (c) of 
this section, no funds shall be reprogrammed within or 
transferred between appropriations after June 30, except in 
extraordinary circumstances which imminently threaten 
the safety of human life or the protection of property. 
SEC. 504. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available to the Department of Homeland Security 
may be used to make payments to the ‘‘Department of 
Homeland Security Working Capital Fund’’, except for the 
activities and amounts allowed in the President’s fiscal 
year 2008 budget, excluding sedan service, shuttle service, 
transit subsidy, mail operations, parking, and competitive 
sourcing: Provided, That any additional activities and 
amounts shall be approved by the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Senate and the House of Representatives 
30 days in advance of obligation. 
SEC. 505. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances re-
maining available at the end of fiscal year 2008 from ap-
propriations for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2008 
in this Act shall remain available through September 30, 
2009, in the account and for the purposes for which the 
appropriations were provided: Provided, That prior to the 
obligation of such funds, a request shall be submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
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of Representatives for approval in accordance with section 
503 of this Act. 
SEC. 506. Funds made available by this Act for intel-
ligence activities are deemed to be specifically authorized 
by the Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National 
Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 
2008 until the enactment of an Act authorizing intelligence 
activities for fiscal year 2008. 
SEC. 507. The Federal Law Enforcement Training Ac-
creditation Board shall lead the Federal law enforcement 
training accreditation process, to include representatives 
from the Federal law enforcement community and non-Fed-
eral accreditation experts involved in law enforcement 
training, to continue the implementation of measuring and 
assessing the quality and effectiveness of Federal law en-
forcement training programs, facilities, and instructors. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to make a grant allocation, discretionary grant award, dis-
cretionary contract award, or to issue a letter of intent to-
taling in excess of $1,000,000, or to announce publicly the 
intention to make such an award, unless the Secretary of 
Homeland Security notifies the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives at least 
three full business days in advance: Provided, That no noti-
fication shall involve funds that are not available for obliga-
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tion: Provided further, That the notification shall include 
the amount of the award, the fiscal year in which the funds 
for the award were appropriated, and the account for which 
the funds are being drawn from: Provided further, That the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall brief the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives five full business days in advance of an-
nouncing publicly the intention of making an award of for-
mula-based grants; law enforcement terrorism prevention 
grants; high-threat, high-density urban areas grants; or re-
gional catastrophic preparedness grants. 
SEC. 509. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no agency shall purchase, construct, or lease any additional 
facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, 
to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforce-
ment training without the advance approval of the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, except that the Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Center is authorized to obtain the temporary use 
of additional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement 
for training which cannot be accommodated in existing 
Center facilities. 
SEC. 510. The Director of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Center shall schedule basic and/or advanced 
law enforcement training at all four training facilities 
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