required in Coast Guard Acquisition, Construction and 
Improvement of title II. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply in 
the case of travel aboard an aircraft described in such sub-
section— 
(1) to respond to a major disaster or emergency 
declared under section 401 of the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170); 
(2) to respond to a discharge classified as a 
spill of national significance under part 300.323 of 
title 40, Code of Federal Regulations; 
(3) for evacuation purposes, including for a 
medical emergency; or 
(4) to respond to emergent national security 
issues as required by the President. 
(c) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall notify the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate in writing not later than 5 days 
after engaging in travel prohibited in subsection (a) under 
an exception provided in subsection (b). 
SEC. 550. Notwithstanding Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–11, in a budget submission of the 
Coast Guard for Department of Homeland Security, Coast 
Guard, ‘‘Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements’’
for fiscal year 2014 or any fiscal year thereafter, costs 
related to the construction or conversion of a cutter shall 
be requested in accordance with the following guidelines: 
(1) Costs of outfitting and post-delivery activi-
ties and spare or repair parts shall be requested not 
earlier than for the first fiscal year in which it is 
necessary to incur such costs to maintain a planned 
production schedule, which may be subsequent to the 
fiscal year for which cutter end costs are requested. 
(2) Costs of long lead time items shall be re-
quested for the fiscal year in which it is necessary 
to incur such costs to maintain a planned production 
schedule, which may be in advance of the fiscal year 
for which cutter end costs are requested. 
(3) Costs of program management shall be re-
quested for each fiscal year, for the portion of pro-
gram management costs attributable to such fiscal 
year. 
(4) For purposes of the preceding paragraphs— 
(A) the term ‘‘long lead time items’’ means 
components, parts, material, or effort with sig-
nificantly longer lead times than other elements 
of an end item; 
(B) the term ‘‘outfitting’’ means procure-
ment or installation of on board repair parts,
other secondary items, equipage, and recreation 
items; precommissioning crew support; general 
use consumables furnished to the shipbuilder; 
the fitting out activity to fill a vessel’s initial al-
lowances; and contractor-furnished spares; 
(C) the term ‘‘post delivery activities’’ in-
cludes design, planning, Government furnished 
material, and related labor for Government-re-
sponsible defects and deficiencies identified dur-
ing builders trials, acceptance trials, and testing 
during the post-delivery period; costs of all 
work required to correct defects or deficiencies 
identified during the post-delivery period; and 
costs of all work required to correct trial card 
deficiencies on a vessel of a particular class, as 
well as on subsequent vessels of that class 
(whether or not delivered) until the corrective 
action for that cutter class is completed; and 
(D) the term ‘‘cutter end costs’’ includes 
the cost of construction or conversion of a ves-
sel, deferred work identified prior to vessel de-
livery, and, when unrelated to a specific fix, 
normal changes authorized prior to completion 
of fitting out, advanced planning, and travel.
SEC. 551. (a) The President, acting through the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy, shall establish new procedures to administer assistance 
for debris and wreckage removal provided under sections 
403(a)(3)(A), 407, and 502(a)(5) of the Robert T. Staf-
ford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5170b(a)(3)(A), 5173, and 5192(a)(5)). 
(b) The new procedures established under paragraph 
(a) may include— 
(1) making grants on the basis of fixed esti-
mates to provide financial incentives and disincen-
tives for the timely or cost effective completion of 
projects under sections 403(a)(3)(A), 407, and 
502(a)(5) of such Act if the State, local government, 
or owner or operator of the private non-profit facility 
agrees to be responsible to pay for any actual costs 
that exceed the estimate; 
(2) using a sliding scale for the Federal share 
for removal of debris and wreckage based on the 
time it takes to complete debris and wreckage re-
moval; 
(3) allowing utilization of program income from 
recycled debris without offset to grant amount; 
(4) reimbursing base and overtime wages for 
employees and extra hires of a State, local govern-
ment, or owner or operator of a private non-profit 
facility performing or administering debris and 
wreckage removal; and 
(5) notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
if the actual costs of projects under subparagraph 
(b)(1) are less than the estimated costs thereof, the 
Administrator may permit a grantee or sub grantee 
to use all or part of the excess funds for any of the 
following purposes: 
(A) Debris management planning. 
(B) Acquisition of debris management 
equipment for current or future use. 
(C) Other activities to improve future de-
bris removal operations, as determined by the 
Administrator. 
SEC. 552. (a) Of the amounts made available by this 
Act for ‘‘Department of Homeland Security—National 
Protection and Programs Directorate—Infrastructure 
Protection and Information Security—Federal Network 
Security’’, $202,000,000 shall be used to deploy on Fed-
eral systems technology to improve the information secu-
rity of agency information systems covered by section 
3543(a) of title 44, United States Code: Provided, That 
funds made available under this section shall be used to 
assist and support Government-wide and agency-specific
efforts to provide adequate, risk-based, and cost-effective 
cybersecurity to address escalating and rapidly evolving 
threats to information security, including the acquisition 
by the Department of Homeland Security of an automated 
and continuous monitoring program that includes equip-
ment, software, and Department of Homeland Security- 
supplied services: Provided further, That not later than 
January 1, 2013, and quarterly thereafter, the Under Sec-
retary of Homeland Security of the National Protection 
and Programs Directorate shall submit to the Committees 
on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives a report on the obligation and expenditure of funds 
made available under this section: Provided further, That 
automated and continuous monitoring software procured 
by the funds made available by this section shall not col-
lect or store personally identifiable information, nor mon-
itor the content of network traffic: Provided further, That 
such software shall be installed, maintained, and operated 
in accordance with all applicable privacy laws and agency- 
specific restrictions and standards on access to personally 
identifiable information. 
(b) Funds made available under this section may not 
be used to supplant funds provided for any such system 
within an agency budget.