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to low-income tenants in the City of Chicago. The Rental
Subsidy program is to be set up through a secure invest-
ment portfolio by Bickerdike whereby principal and inter-
est earned will be used to subsidize rents for a period of
years.
Ω123æNotwithstanding any provision of law or regu-
lation thereunder, the requirement that an amendment to
an urban development action grant agreement must be inte-
grally related to the approved project is hereby waived for
project No. B84AB210149.
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Ω124æENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
PROGRAM AND RESEARCH OPERATIONS
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Program and research
operations’’, up to $5,000,000, to be derived by transfer
from amounts provided under the head ‘‘Abatement, con-
trol, and compliance’’ in Public Law 102–389.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Research and develop-
ment’’, $5,000,000, to be available until September 30,
1994, to be derived by transfer from amounts provided
under the head ‘‘Construction of facilities’’ in Public Law
102–389.
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Ω125æDEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
Using funds heretofore appropriated under ‘‘Construc-
tion, General’’, the Secretary of the Army, acting through
the Chief of Engineers, is directed to augment, reprogram,
transfer or apply such additional sums as necessary to con-
tinue construction and cover anticipated contract earnings
on any project which received an appropriation or allow-
ance within the appropriation in fiscal year 1993 in order
to avoid terminating any contracts and to avoid schedule
delays.
Ω126æUsing funds heretofore appropriated in Public
Law 102–377, the Chief of Engineers, United States Army
Corps of Engineers, is directed to use $750,000 to undertake
work on the Cliff Walk, Rhode Island Project as provided
in the Conference Report accompanying H.R. 5373 (Public
Law 102–377).
TITLE II—GENERAL Ω127æ PROVISIONS
PROVISION
SEC. 201. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
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Ω128æSEC. 202. In fiscal year 1994 and thereafter,
the payments, revenues, and surcharges referred to in sec-
tions 3404(c)(3), 3405(f), and 3406(c)(1), respectively, of
Public Law 102–575 shall be assessed and collected to the
extent required in appropriations Acts.
Ω129æSEC. 202. (a) ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.—
Section 1(a) of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize the
Architect of the Capitol to acquire certain property’’, ap-
proved August 3, 1992, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY.—(1) The Architect
of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Committee
on Rules and Administration, may acquire, on behalf of
the United States Government, by purchase, condemnation,
transfer or otherwise, as an addition to the United States
Capitol Grounds, such real property in the District of Co-
lumbia as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of
this Act. Real property acquired for purposes of this Act,
may, in the discretion of the Architect of the Capitol, extend
to the outer face of the curbs of such property so acquired,
including alleys or parts of alleys and streets within the
lot lines and curblines surrounding such real property, to-
gether with any or all improvements thereon.
‘‘(2) Subject to the approval by the Committee on Ap-
propriations of the Senate, an amount necessary to enable
the Architect of the Capitol to carry out the provisions of
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this section may be transferred from any appropriation
under the heading ‘SENATE’ and the subheadings ‘SALA-
RIES, OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES’, and ‘OFFICE OF THE
SERGEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER’, and the subhead-
ings ‘CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE SENATE’ and ‘SER-
GEANT AT ARMS AND DOORKEEPER OF THE SENATE’ to the
account appropriated under the heading ‘ARCHITECT OF
THE CAPITOL’ and the subheadings ‘CAPITOL BUILDINGS
AND GROUNDS’ and ‘SENATE OFFICE BUILDINGS’.’’.
(b) FACILITIES.—The first sentence of subsection (d)
of section 1 of such Act is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ immediately after ‘‘to
make expenditures for’’; and
(2) by inserting immediately before the period at
the end thereof a semicolon and the following: ‘‘and
(2) for the construction on such real property of any
facilities thereon as authorized under subsection (f)’’.
Ω130æSEC. 203. SENSE OF THE SENATE ON TRANS-
PORTATION OF FOOD ASSISTANCE TO RUSSIA.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that—
(1) on April 3, 1993, in Vancouver, Canada, the
President of the United States and the President of
the Russian Federation announced a $1,600,000,000
aid package for Russia, including $700,000,000 in
food assistance;
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(2) the provision of food assistance announced at
the Vancouver summit is a vital sign of United States
support for Russia’s continued movement toward de-
mocracy and transition to a market economy;
(3) on May 3, 1993, the United States Govern-
ment and the Government of Russia reached initial
agreement on the $700,000,000 in food assistance to
be extended by the United States to Russia;
(4) 
the 
agreement 
stipulated 
that 
while
$500,000,000 of the United States food aid package
will be used for Russia to purchase United States ag-
ricultural commodities, the remaining $200,000,000,
as estimated by the Administration, will be used sole-
ly to cover the cost of transportation;
(5) the Administration announced that 75 per-
cent of the commodities would be shipped on United
States-flag commercial vessels under United States
cargo preference requirements;
(6) United States cargo preference laws require
at least 75 percent of United States food assistance
shipped overseas to be shipped on United States-flag
commercial vessels;
(7) this requirement eliminates competition and
encourages carriers to charge the United States Gov-
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ernment rates two or three hundred percent above
world market shipping rates;
(8) the current world market shipping rate is be-
tween $25 and $35 per metric ton;
(9) carriers, anticipating the elimination of com-
petition, have offered bids for shipping the grain to
Russia between $75 and $138 per metric ton;
(10) these bids are up to 5 times greater than
comparable world rates;
(11) the cost of the grain itself is approximately
$100 per metric ton;
(12) the effect of the cargo preference require-
ments is to increase the cost of transportation so that
it nearly equals or exceeds the cost of the grain itself;
and
(13) the effect of the cargo preference require-
ments increases the taxpayer cost of assistance to
Russia.
(b) POLICY.—It is the sense of the Senate that—
(1) the food assistance provided by the United
States Government to Russia has been supported and
approved to meet the dire humanitarian needs of the
Russian people;
(2) the increased cost of assistance to Russia re-
sulting from cargo preference requirements could ad-