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(c) FAMILY HOUSING.—Using amounts appropriated 
pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in sub-
section (d)(4), the Secretary of the Navy may construct 
or acquire family housing units (including land acquisition 
and supporting facilities) at the installations or locations, 
and in the amounts, set forth in the following table: 
Navy: Family Housing 
State 
Installation or Location 
Amount 
California ............
Camp Pendleton ..............................................
$10,692,000 
........................
Twentynine Palms ..........................................
$1,074,000 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Subject 
to section 2825 of title 10, United States Code, funds are 
hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years be-
ginning after September 30, 2007, for military construc-
tion, land acquisition, and military family housing func-
tions of the Department of the Navy in the total amount 
of $198,781,000, as follows: 
(1) For military construction projects inside the 
United 
States 
authorized 
by 
subsection 
(a), 
$149,814,000. 
(2) For military construction projects outside 
the United States authorized by subsection (a), 
$25,410,000. 
(3) For architectural and engineering services 
and construction design under section 2807 of title 
10, United States Code, $11,791,000.
SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF SECOND OPINIONS. 
(a) GROUP HEALTH PLANS.— 
(1) PUBLIC
HEALTH
SERVICE
ACT
AMEND-
MENTS.—(A) Subpart 2 of part A of title XXVII of 
the Public Health Service Act is amended by adding 
at the end the following new section: 
‘‘SEC. 2707. COVERAGE OF SECOND OPINIONS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—A group health plan, and a 
health insurance issuer offering group health insurance 
coverage, shall provide that when requested by a partici-
pant, beneficiary, or enrollee or participating health care 
professional who is treating the participant, beneficiary, 
or enrollee, the plan or issuer shall provide or authorize 
a second opinion by an appropriately qualified health care 
professional. Reasons for a second opinion to be provided 
or authorized include the following: 
‘‘(1) If the participant, beneficiary, or enrollee 
questions the reasonableness or necessity of rec-
ommended surgical procedures. 
‘‘(2) If the participant, beneficiary, or enrollee 
questions a diagnosis or plan of care for a condition 
that threatens loss of life, loss of limb, loss of bodily 
function, or substantial impairment, including a seri-
ous chronic condition. 
‘‘(3) If the clinical indications are not clear or 
are complex and confusing, a diagnosis is in doubt
due to conflicting test results, or the treating health 
care professional is unable to diagnose the condition, 
and the participant, beneficiary, or enrollee requests 
an additional diagnosis. 
‘‘(4) If the treatment plan in progress is not 
improving the medical condition of the participant, 
beneficiary, or enrollee within an appropriate period 
of time given the diagnosis and plan of care and the 
participant, beneficiary, or enrollee requests a sec-
ond opinion regarding the diagnosis or continuance 
of the treatment. 
‘‘(5) If the participant, beneficiary, or enrollee 
has attempted to follow the plan of care or consulted 
with the initial provider concerning serious concerns 
about the diagnosis or plan of care. 
‘‘(b) APPROPRIATELY QUALIFIED HEALTH CARE 
PROFESSIONAL DEFINED.—For purposes of this section, 
an ‘appropriately qualified health care professional’ is a 
primary care physician or a specialist who is acting within 
the professional’s scope of practice and who possesses a 
clinical background, including training and expertise, re-
lated to the particular illness, disease, condition or condi-
tions associated with the request for a second opinion. 
‘‘(c) TIMELY RENDERING OF OPINIONS.—If a partic-
ipant, beneficiary, or enrollee or participating health care
professional who is treating a participant, beneficiary, or 
enrollee requests a second opinion pursuant to this section, 
an authorization or denial shall be provided in an expedi-
tious manner. When the condition of the participant, bene-
ficiary, or enrollee is such that the individual faces an im-
minent and serious threat to health, including the poten-
tial loss of life, limb, or other major bodily function, or 
lack of timeliness that would be detrimental to the individ-
ual’s ability to regarding maximum function, the second 
opinion shall be rendered in a timely fashion appropriate 
for the nature of the condition involved, but not to exceed 
72 hours after the time of the plan’s receipt of the request, 
whenever possible. Each plan or issuer shall file with the 
Secretary timelines for responding to requests for second 
opinions for cases involving emergency needs, urgent care, 
and other requests by not later than 90 days after the 
date of the enactment of this section, and within 30 days 
of any amendment to the timelines. The timelines shall 
be made available to the public upon request. 
‘‘(d) LIMITATION ON LIABILITY FOR COSTS.—If a 
group health plan, or health insurance issuer offering a 
group health insurance in connection with such a plan, 
approves a request by a participant, beneficiary, or en-
rollee for a second opinion, the participant, beneficiary, 
or enrollee shall be responsible only for the costs of appli-
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 1113
AN ACT
To assist in the development and implementation of
projects to provide for the control of drainage,
storm, flood and other waters as part of water-
related integrated resource management, environ-
mental infrastructure, and resource protection
and development projects in the Colusa Basin
Watershed, California.
H. R. 2985—22
not more than the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic 
pay for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of 
such title: Provided further, That the revolving fund and the funds 
provided under the headings ‘‘OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCU-
MENTS’’ and ‘‘SALARIES AND EXPENSES’’ together may not be available 
for the full-time equivalent employment of more than 2,621 
workyears (or such other number of workyears as the Public Printer 
may request, subject to the approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and Senate): Provided 
further, That activities financed through the revolving fund may 
provide information in any format: Provided further, That not more 
than $10,000 may be expended from the revolving fund in support 
of the activities of the Benjamin Franklin Tercentenary Commission 
established by Public Law 107–202. 
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Government Accountability 
Office, including not more than $12,500 to be expended on the 
certification of the Comptroller General of the United States in 
connection with official representation and reception expenses; tem-
porary or intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, 
United States Code, but at rates for individuals not more than 
the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay for level IV 
of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title; hire 
of one passenger motor vehicle; advance payments in foreign coun-
tries in accordance with section 3324 of title 31, United States 
Code; benefits comparable to those payable under sections 901(5), 
(6), and (8) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), 
(6), and (8)); and under regulations prescribed by the Comptroller 
General of the United States, rental of living quarters in foreign 
countries, $482,395,000: Provided, That not more than $5,104,000 
of payments received under section 782 of title 31, United States 
Code, shall be available for use in fiscal year 2006: Provided further, 
That not more than $2,061,000 of reimbursements received under 
section 9105 of title 31, United States Code, shall be available 
for use in fiscal year 2006: Provided further, That this appropriation 
and appropriations for administrative expenses of any other depart-
ment or agency which is a member of the National Intergovern-
mental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit Forum 
shall be available to finance an appropriate share of either Forum’s 
costs as determined by the respective Forum, including necessary 
travel expenses of non-Federal participants: Provided further, That 
payments hereunder to the Forum may be credited as reimburse-
ments to any appropriation from which costs involved are initially 
financed. 
OPEN WORLD LEADERSHIP CENTER TRUST FUND 
For a payment to the Open World Leadership Center Trust 
Fund for financing activities of the Open World Leadership Center 
under section 313 of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 
2001 (2 U.S.C. 1151), $14,000,000.
(2) coordination of policies relating to enforcing 
the same requirements through such Secretaries in 
order to have a coordinated enforcement strategy 
that avoids duplication of enforcement efforts and 
assigns priorities in enforcement. 
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I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2938 
To provide for local control for the siting of windmills. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 16, 2005 
Mr. DUNCAN (for himself and Mr. GORDON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in 
addition to the Committees on Resources and Ways and Means, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for local control for the siting of windmills. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Environmentally Re-
sponsible Windpower Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. LOCAL CONTROL FOR SITING OF WINDMILLS. 
(a) LOCAL NOTIFICATION.—Prior to the Federal En-
ergy Regulatory Commission issuing to any wind turbine 
project its Exempt-Wholesale Generator Status, Market- 
Based Rate Authority, or Qualified Facility rate schedule,
the wind project shall complete its Local Notification 
Process. 
(b) LOCAL NOTIFICATION PROCESS.—(1) In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘Local Authorities’’ means the governing 
body, and the senior executive of the body, at the lowest 
level of government that possesses authority under State 
law to carry out this Act. 
(2) An applicant shall notify in writing the Local Au-
thorities on the day of the filing of such Market-Based 
Rate application or Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-
sion Form number 556 (or a successor form) at the Fed-
eral Energy Regulatory Commission. Evidence of such no-
tification shall be submitted to the Federal Energy Regu-
latory Commission. 
(3) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall 
notify in writing the Local Authorities within 10 days of 
the filing of such Market-Based Rate application or Fed-
eral Energy Regulatory Commission Form number 556 
(or a successor form) at the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission. 
(4) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall 
not issue to the project Market-Based Rate Authority, Ex-
empt Wholesaler Generator Status, or Qualified Facility 
rate schedule, until 180 days after the date on which the
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2659
To provide grants to States to improve sex offender registries. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2005
Mr. BOSWELL introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To provide grants to States to improve sex offender 
registries.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safe Children Safe 
Communities Act’’. 
SEC. 2. GRANTS AUTHORIZED. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—From amounts made available to 
carry out this section, the Attorney General shall make 
grants to States to be used by each State to implement 
better and more comprehensive sex offender registries and 
tracking systems.
(b) AMOUNTS BASED ON POPULATION.—For each 
State, the amount granted to that State shall be deter-
mined based on the population of that State. 
(c) STATE DEFINED.—In this section, the term 
‘‘State’’ includes the District of Columbia, the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the 
United States Virgin Islands, and any other territory or 
possession of the United States. 
(d) 
SET-ASIDE
FOR
COORDINATION.—Of 
the 
amounts made available to carry out this section, the At-
torney General may use not more than 2 percent to pro-
vide assistance to States in coordinating the activities car-
ried out under this section. 
(e) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
are authorized to be appropriated for grants under this 
section $300,000,000 for fiscal year 2006 and such sums 
as may be necessary for each fiscal year thereafter.
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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission notifies the Local 
Authorities under paragraph (3). 
(c) HIGHLY SCENIC AREA AND FEDERAL LAND.— 
(1) A Highly Scenic Area is— 
(A) any area listed as an official United Na-
tions Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organiza-
tion World Heritage Site, as supported by the De-
partment of the Interior, the National Park Service, 
and the International Council on Monuments and 
Sites; 
(B) land designated as a National Park; 
(C) a National Lakeshore; 
(D) a National Seashore; 
(E) a National Wildlife Refuge that is adjacent 
to an ocean; or 
(F) a National Military Park. 
(2) A Qualified Wind Project is any wind-turbine 
project located— 
(A)(i) in a Highly Scenic Area; or 
(ii) within 20 miles of the boundaries of an area 
described in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), (D), or (F) 
of paragraph (1); or 
(B) within 20 miles off the coast of a National 
Wildlife Refuge that is adjacent to an ocean.
(3) Prior to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commis-
sion issuing to a Qualified Wind Project its Exempt- 
Wholesale Generator Status, Market-Based Rate Author-
ity, or Qualified Facility rate schedule, an environmental 
impact statement shall be conducted and completed by the 
lead agency in accordance with the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). If 
no lead agency is designated, the lead agency shall be the 
Department of the Interior. 
(4) The environmental impact statement determina-
tion shall be issued within 12 months of the date of appli-
cation. 
(5) Such environmental impact statement review 
shall include a cumulative impacts analysis addressing vis-
ual impacts and avian mortality analysis of a Qualified 
Wind Project. 
(6) A Qualified Wind Project shall not be eligible for 
any Federal tax subsidy. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—(1) This section shall expire 
10 years after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(2) Nothing in this section shall prevent or discour-
age environmental review of any wind projects or any 
Qualified Wind Project on a State or local level. 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 372 
To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regulations regarding 
the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politically-oriented recorded message 
telephone calls to telephone numbers listed on that registry. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 10, 2007 
Mr. ALTMIRE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To direct the Federal Trade Commission to revise the regula-
tions regarding the Do-not-call registry to prohibit politi-
cally-oriented recorded message telephone calls to tele-
phone numbers listed on that registry. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Freedom from Auto-
mated Political Calls Act’’. 
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economic uses such as productive fisheries, for the 
people of the United States. 
(7) A variety of threats and practices have 
caused dramatic declines in the health and produc-
tivity of coastal and marine ecosystems of the 
United States. Among the major threats to marine 
ecosystem health are— 
(A) global climate change; 
(B) chemical, nutrient, and biological pol-
lution; 
(C) unwise land use and coastal develop-
ment; 
(D) habitat damage; 
(E) overfishing; 
(F) bycatch; and 
(G) invasive species. 
(8) These threats are exacerbated by the legal 
and geographic fragmentation of authority over 
ocean space and ocean resources. 
(9) Activities harming coastal and marine eco-
systems jeopardize the economies and social struc-
ture of coastal communities dependent on these re-
sources.
(10) Healthy marine ecosystems provide more 
goods and services, such as seafood and tourism op-
portunities, than degraded marine ecosystems. 
(11) While there is a plethora of laws, govern-
ment agencies, and programs dealing with coastal 
resources and ocean resources, activities thereunder 
are poorly coordinated and do not constitute a uni-
fied and comprehensive public policy toward the 
oceans. 
(12) To better enable the various levels of gov-
ernment with authority over coastal and ocean 
space, coastal resources, and ocean resources to ful-
fill their public trust responsibilities, a unified na-
tional oceans policy is needed to govern the range of 
human activities affecting the health and produc-
tivity of marine ecosystems. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to secure, for present and 
future generations of people of the United States, the full 
range of ecological, economic, educational, social, cultural, 
nutritional, and recreational benefits of healthy marine 
ecosystems, by— 
(1) establishing a comprehensive national 
oceans policy that is binding on all covered actions
that may significantly affect United States ocean 
waters and ocean resources; 
(2) requiring covered actions to be consistent 
with the purposes and policies of this Act; 
(3) mandating that clear standards be set 
against which compliance with the national oceans 
policy can be measured; 
(4) providing a mechanism through which com-
pliance with this Act can be assured; 
(5) consolidating and restructuring Federal 
ocean programs to support this Act; 
(6) promoting ecologically sustainable ocean re-
source use and management by strengthening and 
empowering ocean governance; and 
(7) enhancing responsible ocean stewardship. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) COVERED ACTION.—The term ‘‘covered ac-
tion’’ means any activity affecting United States 
ocean waters or ocean resources, that is carried 
out— 
(A) by a Federal agency, including the 
issuance of a Federal license or permit; or 
(B) by any other person using Federal 
funds.
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2661
To amend the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to clarify the Permanent Univer-
sity Fund arbitrage exception and to increase from 20 percent to 30 
percent the amount of securities and obligations benefitting from the 
exception. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 26, 2005
Mr. BRADY of Texas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to clarify the 
Permanent University Fund arbitrage exception and to 
increase from 20 percent to 30 percent the amount of 
securities and obligations benefitting from the exception.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. MODIFICATION OF SPECIAL ARBITRAGE RULE 
FOR CERTAIN FUNDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 648 of 
the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 (98 Stat. 941) is 
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(1) such securities or obligations are held in a 
fund—
‘‘(A) which, except to the extent of the in-
vestment earnings on such securities or obliga-
tions, cannot be used, under State constitu-
tional or statutory restrictions continuously in 
effect since October 9, 1969, through the date 
of issue of the bond issue, to pay debt service 
on the bond issue or to finance the facilities 
that are to be financed with the proceeds of the 
bonds, or 
‘‘(B) the annual distributions from which 
cannot exceed 7 percent of the average fair 
market value of the assets held in such fund ex-
cept to the extent distributions are necessary to 
pay debt service on the bond issue,’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (3) of 
such section is amended by striking ‘‘the investment earn-
ings of’’ both places it occurs and inserting ‘‘distributions 
from’’. 
(c) CHANGE OF DATE RELATING TO AMOUNT BENE-
FITING FROM RULE.—Paragraph (4) of such section is 
amended by striking ‘‘October 9, 1969’’ and inserting 
‘‘March 1, 1985’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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(F) is place-based in focusing on a specific 
ecosystem and the range of activities affecting 
it; 
(G) explicitly accounts for the inter-
connectedness within systems, recognizing the 
importance of interactions between many target 
species or key services and other nontarget spe-
cies; 
(H) 
acknowledges 
interconnectedness 
among systems, such as between air, land, and 
sea; and 
(I) integrates ecological, social, economic, 
and institutional perspectives, recognizing their 
strong interdependences. 
(11) UNITED
STATES
OCEAN
WATERS.—The 
term ‘‘United States ocean waters’’ means the zone 
extending from the baseline from which the breadth 
of the United States territorial sea is measured to 
the extent of the Exclusive Economic Zone as speci-
fied in Presidential Proclamation Number 5030, 
dated March 10, 1983, including the territorial wa-
ters of the Great Lakes and the waters of the conti-
nental shelf to which the United States is granted 
sovereign rights under international law.
(12) OCEAN RESOURCES.—The term ‘‘ocean re-
sources’’ means any living, nonliving, or cultural 
amenity in United States ocean waters. 
(13) COASTAL.—The term ‘‘coastal’’ means 
being located in the coastal zone as defined in sec-
tion 304 of the Coastal Zone Management Act of 
1972 (16 U.S.C. 1453). 
(14) MARINE.—The term ‘‘marine’’ includes of 
or relating to United States ocean waters. 
(15) REGIONAL
OCEAN
PARTNERSHIPS.—The 
term ‘‘Regional Ocean Partnerships’’ means such a 
council established by the Administrator under sec-
tion 402. 
(16) OCEAN
REGION.—The term ‘‘ocean re-
gion’’ means such a region designated under section 
402(f). 
(17) COASTAL
STATE.—The term ‘‘coastal 
State’’— 
(A) means a State of the United States in, 
or bordering on, the Atlantic, Pacific, or Arctic 
Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound, 
or one or more of the Great Lakes; and 
(B) includes Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is-
lands, Guam, the Commonwealth of the North-
ern Mariana Islands, and the Trust Territories 
of the Pacific Islands, and American Samoa. 
(18) COASTAL
POLITICAL
SUBDIVISION.—The 
term ‘‘coastal political subdivision’’ means a political 
subdivision of a coastal State all or part of which 
political subdivision is within the coastal zone (as de-
fined in section 304 of the Coastal Zone Manage-
ment Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1453)). 
(19) COASTAL
POPULATION
DENSITY.—The 
term ‘‘coastal population density’’ means the popu-
lation as determined by the most recent census data 
in the States coastal zone as determined pursuant to 
the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (16 
U.S.C. 1451 et seq.). 
(20) OCEAN STEWARDSHIP.—The term ‘‘ocean 
stewardship’’ means the careful and responsible 
management of coastal and ocean resources by cur-
rent generations such that it ensures future genera-
tions can obtain the full range of benefits from those 
resources.