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year: Provided, That amounts appropriated may be used under 
section 8104 of title 5, United States Code, by the Secretary of 
Labor to reimburse an employer, who is not the employer at the 
time of injury, for portions of the salary of a reemployed, disabled 
beneficiary: Provided further, That balances of reimbursements 
unobligated on September 30, 2007, shall remain available until 
expended for the payment of compensation, benefits, and expenses: 
Provided further, That in addition there shall be transferred to 
this appropriation from the Postal Service and from any other 
corporation or instrumentality required under section 8147(c) of 
title 5, United States Code, to pay an amount for its fair share 
of the cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary determines 
to be the cost of administration for employees of such fair share 
entities through September 30, 2008: Provided further, That of 
those funds transferred to this account from the fair share entities 
to pay the cost of administration of the Federal Employees’ Com-
pensation Act, $52,280,000 shall be made available to the Secretary 
as follows: 
(1) For enhancement and maintenance of automated data 
processing 
systems 
and 
telecommunications 
systems, 
$21,855,000. 
(2) 
For 
automated 
workload 
processing 
operations, 
including document imaging, centralized mail intake and med-
ical bill processing, $16,109,000. 
(3) For periodic roll management and medical review, 
$14,316,000. 
(4) The remaining funds shall be paid into the Treasury 
as miscellaneous receipts: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any person 
filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits under chapter 
81 of title 5, United States Code, or the Longshore and Harbor 
Workers’ Compensation Act, provide as part of such notice and 
claim, such identifying information (including Social Security 
account number) as such regulations may prescribe. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS 
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health 
Act of 1977, as amended by Public Law 107–275, $208,221,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
For making after July 31 of the current fiscal year, benefit 
payments to individuals under title IV of such Act, for costs incurred 
in the current fiscal year, such amounts as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title IV for the first quarter 
of fiscal year 2009, $62,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL 
ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, $104,745,000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Labor is authorized to transfer to any executive agency with 
authority under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Com-
pensation Program Act, including within the Department of Labor, 
such sums as may be necessary in fiscal year 2008 to carry out
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those authorities: Provided further, That the Secretary may require 
that any person filing a claim for benefits under the Act provide 
as part of such claim, such identifying information (including Social 
Security account number) as may be prescribed: Provided further, 
That not later than 30 days after enactment of this Act, in addition 
to other sums transferred by the Secretary to the National Institute 
for Occupational Safety and Health (‘‘NIOSH’’) for the administra-
tion of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation 
Program (‘‘EEOICP’’), the Secretary shall transfer $4,500,000 to 
NIOSH from the funds appropriated to the Energy Employees 
Occupational Illness Compensation Fund, for use by or in support 
of the Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (‘‘the Board’’) 
to carry out its statutory responsibilities under the EEOICP, 
including obtaining audits, technical assistance and other support 
from the Board’s audit contractor with regard to radiation dose 
estimation and reconstruction efforts, site profiles, procedures, and 
review of Special Exposure Cohort petitions and evaluation reports. 
BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In fiscal year 2008 and thereafter, such sums as may be nec-
essary from the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund, to remain avail-
able until expended, for payment of all benefits authorized by 
section 9501(d)(1), (2), (4), and (7) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1954; and interest on advances, as authorized by section 
9501(c)(2) of that Act. In addition, the following amounts shall 
be available from the Fund for fiscal year 2008 for expenses of 
operation and administration of the Black Lung Benefits program, 
as authorized by section 9501(d)(5): not to exceed $32,761,000 for 
transfer to the Employment Standards Administration ‘‘Salaries 
and Expenses’’; not to exceed $24,785,000 for transfer to Depart-
mental Management, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to exceed 
$335,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, ‘‘Office of 
Inspector General’’; and not to exceed $356,000 for payments into 
miscellaneous receipts for the expenses of the Department of the 
Treasury. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration, $494,641,000, including not to exceed $91,093,000 
which shall be the maximum amount available for grants to States 
under section 23(g) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act 
(the ‘‘Act’’), which grants shall be no less than 50 percent of the 
costs of State occupational safety and health programs required 
to be incurred under plans approved by the Secretary of Labor 
under section 18 of the Act; and, in addition, notwithstanding 
31 U.S.C. 3302, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
may retain up to $750,000 per fiscal year of training institute 
course tuition fees, otherwise authorized by law to be collected, 
and may utilize such sums for occupational safety and health 
training and education grants: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary is authorized, during the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2008, to collect and retain fees for services
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provided to Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories, and may 
utilize such sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 
9a, to administer national and international laboratory recognition 
programs that ensure the safety of equipment and products used 
by workers in the workplace: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated under this paragraph shall be obligated or 
expended to prescribe, issue, administer, or enforce any standard, 
rule, regulation, or order under the Act which is applicable to 
any person who is engaged in a farming operation which does 
not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer 
employees: Provided further, That no funds appropriated under 
this paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer or 
enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the Act 
with respect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees who is 
included within a category having a Days Away, Restricted, or 
Transferred (DART) occupational injury and illness rate, at the 
most precise industrial classification code for which such data are 
published, less than the national average rate as such rates are 
most recently published by the Secretary, acting through the Bureau 
of Labor Statistics, in accordance with section 24 of the Act, except— 
(1) to provide, as authorized by the Act, consultation, tech-
nical assistance, educational and training services, and to con-
duct surveys and studies; 
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in response 
to an employee complaint, to issue a citation for violations 
found during such inspection, and to assess a penalty for viola-
tions which are not corrected within a reasonable abatement 
period and for any willful violations found; 
(3) to take any action authorized by the Act with respect 
to imminent dangers; 
(4) to take any action authorized by the Act with respect 
to health hazards; 
(5) to take any action authorized by the Act with respect 
to a report of an employment accident which is fatal to one 
or more employees or which results in hospitalization of two 
or more employees, and to take any action pursuant to such 
investigation authorized by the Act; and 
(6) to take any action authorized by the Act with respect 
to complaints of discrimination against employees for exercising 
rights under the Act: 
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply to 
any person who is engaged in a farming operation which does 
not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer 
employees: Provided further, That $10,116,000 shall be available 
for Susan Harwood training grants, of which $3,200,000 shall be 
used for the Institutional Competency Building training grants 
which commenced in September 2000, for program activities for 
the period of October 1, 2007 to September 30, 2008, provided 
that a grantee has demonstrated satisfactory performance: Provided 
further, That such grants shall be awarded not later than 30 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
the Secretary shall provide a report to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate with 
timetables for the development and issuance of occupational safety 
and health standards on beryllium, silica, cranes and derricks, 
confined space entry in construction, and hazard communication
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global harmonization; such timetables shall include actual or esti-
mated dates for: the publication of an advance notice of proposed 
rulemaking, the commencement and completion of a Small Business 
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act review (if required), the 
completion of any peer review (if required), the submission of the 
draft proposed rule to the Office of Management and Budget for 
review under Executive Order No. 12866 (if required), the publica-
tion of a proposed rule, the conduct of public hearings, the submis-
sion of a draft final rule to the Office of Management and Budget 
for review under Executive Order No. 12866 (if required), and 
the issuance of a final rule; and such report shall be submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate within 90 days of the enactment of this 
Act, with updates provided every 90 days thereafter that shall 
include an explanation of the reasons for any delays in meeting 
the projected timetables for action. 
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $339,862,000, including purchase and bestowal of 
certificates and trophies in connection with mine rescue and first- 
aid work, and the hire of passenger motor vehicles, including up 
to $2,000,000 for mine rescue and recovery activities, $2,200,000 
for an award to the United Mine Workers of America, for classroom 
and simulated rescue training for mine rescue teams, and 
$1,184,000 for an award to the Wheeling Jesuit University, for 
the National Technology Transfer Center for a coal slurry impound-
ment project; in addition, not to exceed $750,000 may be collected 
by the National Mine Health and Safety Academy for room, board, 
tuition, and the sale of training materials, otherwise authorized 
by law to be collected, to be available for mine safety and health 
education and training activities, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302; 
and, in addition, the Mine Safety and Health Administration may 
retain up to $1,000,000 from fees collected for the approval and 
certification of equipment, materials, and explosives for use in 
mines, and may utilize such sums for such activities; the Secretary 
of Labor is authorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and 
other contributions from public and private sources and to prosecute 
projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal, State, or pri-
vate; the Mine Safety and Health Administration is authorized 
to promote health and safety education and training in the mining 
community through cooperative programs with States, industry, 
and safety associations; the Secretary is authorized to recognize 
the Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association as a principal safety 
association and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, may 
provide funds and, with or without reimbursement, personnel, 
including service of Mine Safety and Health Administration officials 
as officers in local chapters or in the national organization; and 
any funds available to the Department may be used, with the 
approval of the Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine rescue 
and survival operations in the event of a major disaster.