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all funds subject to such guarantee to the units of general 
local government in non-entitlement areas that received 
the commitment. 
SEC. 220. Public housing agencies that own and oper-
ate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be ex-
empt from any asset management requirement imposed by 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in con-
nection with the operating fund rule: Provided, That an 
agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy 
under the operating fund formula shall not be exempt 
from asset management requirements. 
SEC. 221. With respect to the use of amounts pro-
vided in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, cap-
ital improvement and management of public housing as 
authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the 
Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline 
relating to asset management that restricts or limits in 
any way the use of capital funds for central office costs 
pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Pro-
vided, That a public housing agency may not use capital 
funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are 
eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts 
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from the operating fund in excess of the amounts per-
mitted under section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 
SEC. 222. No official or employee of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated 
as an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer has determined that such allotment holder 
has implemented an adequate system of funds control and 
has received training in funds control procedures and di-
rectives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that 
there is a trained allotment holder for each HUD sub- 
office under the accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’ and ‘‘Ad-
ministrative Support Offices,’’ as well as each account re-
ceiving appropriations for ‘‘Program Office Salaries and 
Expenses’’ within the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development. 
SEC. 223. The Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall report annually to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations on the status of all section 
8 project-based housing, including the number of all 
project-based units by region as well as an analysis of all 
federally subsidized housing being refinanced under the 
Mark-to-Market program. The Secretary shall in the re-
port identify all existing units maintained by region as sec-
tion 8 project-based units and all project-based units that 
have opted out of section 8 or have otherwise been elimi-
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nated as section 8 project-based units. The Secretary shall 
identify in detail and by project all the efforts made by 
the Department to preserve all section 8 project-based 
housing units and all the reasons for any units which 
opted out or otherwise were lost as section 8 project-based 
units. Such analysis shall include a review of the impact 
of the loss of any subsidized units in that housing market-
place, such as the impact of cost and the loss of available 
subsidized, low-income housing in areas with scarce hous-
ing resources for low-income families. 
SEC. 224. The Secretary of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2014 and 
subsequent fiscal years, notify the public through the Fed-
eral Register and other means, as determined appropriate, 
of the issuance of a notice of the availability of assistance 
or notice of funding availability (NOFA) for any program 
or discretionary fund administered by the Secretary that 
is to be competitively awarded. Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, for fiscal year 2014 and subsequent fiscal 
years, the Secretary may make the NOFA available only 
on the Internet at the appropriate Government Web site 
or through other electronic media, as determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 225. Payment of attorney fees in program-re-
lated litigation must be paid from individual program of-
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fice personnel benefits and compensation funding. The an-
nual budget submission for program office personnel ben-
efit and compensation funding must include program-re-
lated litigation costs for attorney fees as a separate line 
item request. 
SEC. 226. Except for funds provided for claims and 
indemnities, the Secretary of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development is authorized to transfer up to 
5 percent or $5,000,000, whichever is less, of the funds 
appropriated for any office funded under the headings 
‘‘Management and Administration’’ and ‘‘Program Office 
Salaries and Expenses’’, to any other office funded under 
such headings: Provided, That no appropriation for any 
office funded under such headings shall be increased or 
decreased by more than 5 percent or $5,000,000, which-
ever is less, without prior written approval from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 227. The Disaster Housing Assistance Pro-
grams, administered by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, shall be considered a ‘‘program of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development’’ 
under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose 
of income verifications and matching. 
SEC. 228. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under sec-
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tion 8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assist-
ance program) and section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) may be used by 
any public housing agency for any amount of salary, for 
the chief executive officer of which, or any other official 
or employee of which, that exceeds the annual rate of basic 
pay payable for a position at level IV of the Executive 
Schedule at any time during any public housing agency 
fiscal year 2014. 
SEC. 229. Title II of Division K of Public Law 110– 
161 is amended by striking the entire item relating to 
‘‘Flexible Subsidy Fund’’. 
SEC. 230. Paragraph (1) of section 242(i) of the Na-
tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–7(i)(1)) is amended 
by striking ‘‘July 31, 2011’’ and inserting ‘‘July 31, 
2016’’. 
SEC. 231. Subsection (d) of section 184 of the Hous-
ing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 
1715z–13a(d)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) GUARANTEE FEE.—The Secretary shall estab-
lish and collect, at the time of issuance of the guarantee, 
a fee for the guarantee of loans under this section, in an 
amount not exceeding 3 percent of the principal obligation 
of the loan. The Secretary may also establish and collect 
annual premium payments in an amount not exceeding 1 
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percent of the remaining guaranteed balance (excluding 
the portion of the remaining balance attributable to the 
fee collected at the time of issuance of the guarantee). The 
Secretary shall establish the amount of the fees and pre-
miums by publishing a notice in the Federal Register. The 
Secretary shall deposit any fees and premiums collected 
under this subsection in the Indian Housing Loan Guar-
antee Fund established under subsection (i).’’. 
SEC. 232. Notwithstanding Section 24(o) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v(o)), 
amounts made available in prior appropriations Acts 
under the heading ‘‘Revitalization of Severely Distressed 
Public Housing (HOPE VI)’’ may continue to be provided 
as assistance pursuant to such section 24. 
SEC. 233. The proviso under the ‘‘Community Devel-
opment Fund’’ heading in Public Laws 109–148, 109– 
234, 110–252, and 110–329 which requires the Secretary 
to establish procedures to prevent duplication of benefits 
and to report to the Committees on Appropriations on all 
steps to prevent fraud and abuse is amended by striking 
‘‘quarterly’’ and inserting ‘‘annually’’. 
SEC. 234. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Green Physical 
Needs Assessment (GPNA). 
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SEC. 235. None of the funds in this Act may be avail-
able for the doctoral dissertation research grant program 
at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2014’’. 
TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as au-
thorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
as amended, $7,400,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses. 
FEDERAL HOUSING FINANCE AGENCY 
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, $38,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2015, to be derived from the Federal 
National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan 
Mortgage Corporation, and the Federal Home Loan 
Banks under section 1106 of the Housing and Economic 
Recovery Act of 2008: Provided, That concurrent with the 
President’s budget request for fiscal year 2015, the In-
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spector General shall submit to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations a budget request for fiscal 
year 2015 in similar format and substance to those sub-
mitted by executive agencies of the Federal Government. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 
Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Mer-
chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), in-
cluding services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $24,200,000: Provided, That 
not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION OFFICE 
OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended, $25,300,000: Provided, That the In-
spector General shall have all necessary authority, in car-
rying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 
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of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion: Provided further, That the Inspector General may 
enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, 
studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies 
and with private persons, subject to the applicable laws 
and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 
within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That the Inspector General may select, ap-
point, and employ such officers and employees as may be 
necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and du-
ties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the appli-
cable laws and regulations that govern such selections, ap-
pointments, and employment within Amtrak: Provided fur-
ther, That concurrent with the President’s budget request 
for fiscal year 2015, the Inspector General shall submit 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
a budget request for fiscal year 2015 in similar format 
and substance to those submitted by executive agencies 
of the Federal Government. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve-
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hicles and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902), $102,400,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 
may be used for official reception and representation ex-
penses. The amounts made available to the National 
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 
necessary to make lease payments on an obligation in-
curred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease. 
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), $127,100,000: Provided, 
That in addition, $58,000,000 shall be made available 
until expended to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities, 
under the following terms and conditions: 
(1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion (‘‘NRC’’) shall make grants to counseling inter-
mediaries approved by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development (HUD) (with match to be 
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owner-occupied homes with mortgages in default or 
in danger of default. These mortgages shall likely be 
subject to a foreclosure action and homeowners will 
be provided such assistance that shall consist of ac-
tivities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and re-
sult in the long-term affordability of the mortgage 
retained pursuant to such activity or another posi-
tive outcome for the homeowner. No funds made 
available under this paragraph may be provided di-
rectly to lenders or homeowners to discharge out-
standing mortgage balances or for any other direct 
debt reduction payments. 
(3) The use of Mortgage Foreclosure Mitigation 
Assistance by approved counseling intermediaries 
and State Housing Finance Agencies shall involve a 
reasonable analysis of the borrower’s financial situa-
tion, an evaluation of the current value of the prop-
erty that is subject to the mortgage, counseling re-
garding the assumption of the mortgage by another 
non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible 
purchase of the mortgage by a non-Federal third 
party, counseling and advice of all likely restruc-
turing and refinancing strategies or the approval of 
a work-out strategy by all interested parties. 
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(4) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the 
total funds under this paragraph to its own charter 
members with expertise in foreclosure prevention 
counseling, subject to a certification by the NRC 
that the procedures for selection do not consist of 
any procedures or activities that could be construed 
as an unacceptable conflict of interest or have the 
appearance of impropriety. 
(5) HUD-approved counseling entities and 
State Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds 
under this paragraph shall have demonstrated expe-
rience in successfully working with financial institu-
tions as well as borrowers facing default, delin-
quency and foreclosure as well as documented coun-
seling capacity, outreach capacity, past successful 
performance and positive outcomes with documented 
counseling plans (including post mortgage fore-
closure mitigation counseling), loan workout agree-
ments and loan modification agreements. NRC may 
use other criteria to demonstrate capacity in under-
served areas. 
(6) Of the total amount made available under 
this paragraph, up to $3,000,000 may be made 
available to build the mortgage foreclosure and de-
fault mitigation counseling capacity of counseling 
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intermediaries through NRC training courses with 
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their 
partners, except that private financial institutions 
that participate in NRC training shall pay market 
rates for such training. 
(7) Of the total amount made available under 
this paragraph, up to 6 percent may be used for as-
sociated administrative expenses for the NRC to 
carry out activities provided under this section. 
(8) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
grants may include a budget for outreach and adver-
tising, and training, as determined by the NRC. 
(9) The NRC shall continue to report bi-annu-
ally to the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations as well as the Senate Banking Committee 
and House Financial Services Committee on its ef-
forts to mitigate mortgage default. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex-
perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 
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Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 
title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended, $3,000,000. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-
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ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-
penditure in fiscal year 2014, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
programming of funds that: 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity by either the House or Senate Committees 
on Appropriations for a different purpose; 
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 
less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a 
branch, division, office, bureau, board, commission, 
agency, administration, or department different from 
the budget justifications submitted to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
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the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, 
whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
received from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided, That not later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, each 
agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
of the House of Representatives to establish the 
baseline for application of reprogramming and trans-
fer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided 
further, That the report shall include: 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a 
separate column to display the President’s 
budget request, adjustments made by Congress, 
adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if ap-
propriate, and the fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each ap-
propriation both by object class and program, 
project, and activity as detailed in the budget 
appendix for the respective appropriation; and 
(C) an identification of items of special 
congressional interest: Provided further, That 
the amount appropriated or limited for salaries 
and expenses for an agency shall be reduced by 
$100,000 per day for each day after the re-
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quired date that the report has not been sub-
mitted to the Congress. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2014 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2014 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2015, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations prior to the expenditure of such funds: Pro-
vided further, That these requests shall be made in compli-
ance with reprogramming guidelines under section 404 of 
this Act. 
SEC. 406. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 
training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
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(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects 
as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the gen-
eral public (including energy-related, communication-re-
lated, water-related and wastewater-related infrastruc-
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ture), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-util-
ity functions that serve the general public and are subject 
to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownfields as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 409. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his or her period of active military or naval service, 
and has within 90 days after his or her release from such 
service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge 
for a period of not more than 1 year, made application 
for restoration to his or her former position and has been 
certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still 
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qualified to perform the duties of his or her former posi-
tion and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 410. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 
(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 412. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 413. None of the funds made available under 
this Act or any prior Act may be provided to the Associa-
tion of Community Organizations for Reform Now 
(ACORN), or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, or allied 
organizations. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any cor-
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poration that was convicted of a felony criminal violation 
under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, 
where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, un-
less the agency has considered suspension or debarment 
of the corporation and has made a determination that this 
further action is not necessary to protect the interests of 
the Government. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in furtherance of the implementation of 
the European Union greenhouse gas emissions trading 
scheme for aviation activities established by European 
Union Directive 2008/101/EC. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that has any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and has made a deter-
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mination that this further action is not necessary to pro-
tect the interests of the Government. 
SEC. 417. None of the budget authority made avail-
able by this Act may be used to reduce funding or other-
wise alter the implementation of a program, project or ac-
tivity as proposed for elimination in the President’s fiscal 
year 2015 budget request until the proposed change is en-
acted in an appropriation Act, or unless such change is 
made pursuant to the reprogramming and transfer provi-
sions of this Act or in accordance with sunset or termi-
nation dates previously enacted in law. 
SEC. 418. The Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment and the Secretary of Transportation shall each 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives, at the time that the 
President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2015 is sub-
mitted pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United 
States Code, a comprehensive report compiled in conjunc-
tion with the Government Accountability Office that de-
tails updated missions, goals, strategies, and priorities, 
along with performance metrics that are measurable, re-
peatable, and directly linked to requests for funding, as 
described in the accompanying report. 
SEC. 419. It is the sense of the Congress that the 
Congress should not pass any legislation that authorizes 
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spending cuts that would increase poverty in the United 
States. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 420. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2014’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 98 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2610 
[Report No. 113–136] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2014, and for other pur-
poses. 
JULY 2, 2013 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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