H. R. 4425
One Hundred Sixth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand
An Act
Making appropriations for military construction, family housing, and base realign-
ment and closure for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
DIVISION A—FISCAL YEAR 2001 MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
APPROPRIATIONS
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money
in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated for military construc-
tion, family housing, and base realignment and closure functions
administered by the Department of Defense, for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of
temporary or permanent public works, military installations, facili-
ties, and real property for the Army as currently authorized by
law, including personnel in the Army Corps of Engineers and other
personal services necessary for the purposes of this appropriation,
and for construction and operation of facilities in support of the
functions of the Commander in Chief, $909,245,000, to remain
available until September 30, 2005: Provided, That of this amount,
not to exceed $109,306,000 shall be available for study, planning,
design, architect and engineer services, and host nation support,
as authorized by law, unless the Secretary of Defense determines
that additional obligations are necessary for such purposes and
notifies the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress of his determination and the reasons therefor.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of
temporary or permanent public works, naval installations, facilities,
and real property for the Navy as currently authorized by law,
including personnel in the Naval Facilities Engineering Command
and other personal services necessary for the purposes of this appro-
priation, $928,273,000, to remain available until September 30,
2005: Provided, That of this amount, not to exceed $73,335,000
shall be available for study, planning, design, architect and engineer
services, as authorized by law, unless the Secretary of Defense
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determines that additional obligations are necessary for such pur-
poses and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses
of Congress of his determination and the reasons therefor.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of
temporary or permanent public works, military installations, facili-
ties, and real property for the Air Force as currently authorized
by law, $870,208,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005:
Provided, That of this amount, not to exceed $74,628,000 shall
be available for study, planning, design, architect and engineer
services, as authorized by law, unless the Secretary of Defense
determines that additional obligations are necessary for such pur-
poses and notifies the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses
of Congress of his determination and the reasons therefor.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, DEFENSE-WIDE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For acquisition, construction, installation, and equipment of
temporary or permanent public works, installations, facilities, and
real property for activities and agencies of the Department of
Defense (other than the military departments), as currently author-
ized by law, $814,647,000, to remain available until September
30, 2005: Provided, That such amounts of this appropriation as
may be determined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred
to such appropriations of the Department of Defense available for
military construction or family housing as he may designate, to
be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and
for the same time period, as the appropriation or fund to which
transferred: Provided further, That of the amount appropriated,
not to exceed $77,505,000 shall be available for study, planning,
design, architect and engineer services, as authorized by law, unless
the Secretary of Defense determines that additional obligations
are necessary for such purposes and notifies the Committees on
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress of his determination
and the reasons therefor.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and
conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the
Army National Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized
by chapter 1803 of title 10, United States Code, and Military
Construction Authorization Acts, $281,717,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2005.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR NATIONAL GUARD
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and
conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the
Air National Guard, and contributions therefor, as authorized by
chapter 1803 of title 10, United States Code, and Military Construc-
tion Authorization Acts, $203,829,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2005.
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY RESERVE
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and
conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the
Army Reserve as authorized by chapter 1803 of title 10, United
States Code, and Military Construction Authorization Acts,
$108,738,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVAL RESERVE
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and
conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the
reserve components of the Navy and Marine Corps as authorized
by chapter 1803 of title 10, United States Code, and Military
Construction Authorization Acts, $64,473,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2005: Provided further, That the funds appro-
priated for ‘‘Military Construction, Naval Reserve’’ under Public
Law 105–45, $2,400,000 is hereby rescinded.
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE RESERVE
For construction, acquisition, expansion, rehabilitation, and
conversion of facilities for the training and administration of the
Air Force Reserve as authorized by chapter 1803 of title 10, United
States Code, and Military Construction Authorization Acts,
$36,591,000, to remain available until September 30, 2005.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
SECURITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM
For the United States share of the cost of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization Security Investment Program for the acquisi-
tion and construction of military facilities and installations
(including international military headquarters) and for related
expenses for the collective defense of the North Atlantic Treaty
Area as authorized in Military Construction Authorization Acts
and section 2806 of title 10, United States Code, $172,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
FAMILY HOUSING, ARMY
For expenses of family housing for the Army for construction,
including acquisition, replacement, addition, expansion, extension
and alteration and for operation and maintenance, including debt
payment, leasing, minor construction, principal and interest
charges, and insurance premiums, as authorized by law, as follows:
for Construction, $235,956,000, to remain available until September
30, 2005; for Operation and Maintenance, and for debt payment,
$951,793,000; in all $1,187,749,000.
FAMILY HOUSING, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
For expenses of family housing for the Navy and Marine Corps
for construction, including acquisition, replacement, addition,
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expansion, extension and alteration and for operation and mainte-
nance, including debt payment, leasing, minor construction, prin-
cipal and interest charges, and insurance premiums, as authorized
by law, as follows: for Construction, $418,155,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2005; for Operation and Maintenance,
and for debt payment, $881,567,000; in all $1,299,722,000.
FAMILY HOUSING, AIR FORCE
For expenses of family housing for the Air Force for construc-
tion, including acquisition, replacement, addition, expansion, exten-
sion and alteration and for operation and maintenance, including
debt payment, leasing, minor construction, principal and interest
charges, and insurance premiums, as authorized by law, as follows:
for Construction, $251,982,000, to remain available until September
30, 2005; for Operation and Maintenance, and for debt payment,
$820,879,000; in all $1,072,861,000.
FAMILY HOUSING, DEFENSE-WIDE
For expenses of family housing for the activities and agencies
of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments)
for construction, including acquisition, replacement, addition,
expansion, extension and alteration, and for operation and mainte-
nance, leasing, and minor construction, as authorized by law, for
Operation and Maintenance, $44,886,000.
BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE ACCOUNT, PART IV
For deposit into the Department of Defense Base Closure
Account 1990 established by section 2906(a)(1) of the Department
of Defense Authorization Act, 1991 (Public Law 101–510),
$1,024,369,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
not more than $865,318,000 of the funds appropriated herein shall
be available solely for environmental restoration, unless the Sec-
retary of Defense determines that additional obligations are nec-
essary for such purposes and notifies the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress of his determination and the
reasons therefor.
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts shall be expended for payments under
a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for construction, where cost esti-
mates exceed $25,000, to be performed within the United States,
except Alaska, without the specific approval in writing of the Sec-
retary of Defense setting forth the reasons therefor.
SEC. 102. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense
for construction shall be available for hire of passenger motor
vehicles.
SEC. 103. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense
for construction may be used for advances to the Federal Highway
Administration, Department of Transportation, for the construction
of access roads as authorized by section 210 of title 23, United
States Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as
important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense.
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SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may
be used to begin construction of new bases inside the continental
United States for which specific appropriations have not been made.
SEC. 105. No part of the funds provided in Military Construction
Appropriations Acts shall be used for purchase of land or land
easements in excess of 100 percent of the value as determined
by the Army Corps of Engineers or the Naval Facilities Engineering
Command, except: (1) where there is a determination of value
by a Federal court; (2) purchases negotiated by the Attorney General
or his designee; (3) where the estimated value is less than $25,000;
or (4) as otherwise determined by the Secretary of Defense to
be in the public interest.
SEC. 106. None of the funds appropriated in Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts shall be used to: (1) acquire land; (2)
provide for site preparation; or (3) install utilities for any family
housing, except housing for which funds have been made available
in annual Military Construction Appropriations Acts.
SEC. 107. None of the funds appropriated in Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts for minor construction may be used to
transfer or relocate any activity from one base or installation to
another, without prior notification to the Committees on Appropria-
tions.
SEC. 108. No part of the funds appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts may be used for the procurement
of steel for any construction project or activity for which American
steel producers, fabricators, and manufacturers have been denied
the opportunity to compete for such steel procurement.
SEC. 109. None of the funds available to the Department of
Defense for military construction or family housing during the
current fiscal year may be used to pay real property taxes in
any foreign nation.
SEC. 110. None of the funds appropriated in Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts may be used to initiate a new installation
overseas without prior notification to the Committees on Appropria-
tions.
SEC. 111. None of the funds appropriated in Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts may be obligated for architect and engineer
contracts estimated by the Government to exceed $500,000 for
projects to be accomplished in Japan, in any NATO member country,
or in countries bordering the Arabian Gulf, unless such contracts
are awarded to United States firms or United States firms in
joint venture with host nation firms.
SEC. 112. None of the funds appropriated in Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts for military construction in the United
States territories and possessions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein
Atoll, or in countries bordering the Arabian Gulf, may be used
to award any contract estimated by the Government to exceed
$1,000,000 to a foreign contractor: Provided, That this section shall
not be applicable to contract awards for which the lowest responsive
and responsible bid of a United States contractor exceeds the lowest
responsive and responsible bid of a foreign contractor by greater
than 20 percent: Provided further, That this section shall not apply
to contract awards for military construction on Kwajalein Atoll
for which the lowest responsive and responsible bid is submitted
by a Marshallese contractor.
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SEC. 113. The Secretary of Defense is to inform the appropriate
committees of Congress, including the Committees on Appropria-
tions, of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise
involving United States personnel 30 days prior to its occurring,
if amounts expended for construction, either temporary or perma-
nent, are anticipated to exceed $100,000.
SEC. 114. Not more than 20 percent of the appropriations
in Military Construction Appropriations Acts which are limited
for obligation during the current fiscal year shall be obligated
during the last 2 months of the fiscal year.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 115. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense
for construction in prior years shall be available for construction
authorized for each such military department by the authorizations
enacted into law during the current session of Congress.
SEC. 116. For military construction or family housing projects
that are being completed with funds otherwise expired or lapsed
for obligation, expired or lapsed funds may be used to pay the
cost of associated supervision, inspection, overhead, engineering
and design on those projects and on subsequent claims, if any.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
funds appropriated to a military department or defense agency
for the construction of military projects may be obligated for a
military construction project or contract, or for any portion of such
a project or contract, at any time before the end of the fourth
fiscal year after the fiscal year for which funds for such project
were appropriated if the funds obligated for such project: (1) are
obligated from funds available for military construction projects;
and (2) do not exceed the amount appropriated for such project,
plus any amount by which the cost of such project is increased
pursuant to law.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 118. During the 5-year period after appropriations avail-
able to the Department of Defense for military construction and
family housing operation and maintenance and construction have
expired for obligation, upon a determination that such appropria-
tions will not be necessary for the liquidation of obligations or
for making authorized adjustments to such appropriations for
obligations incurred during the period of availability of such appro-
priations, unobligated balances of such appropriations may be trans-
ferred into the appropriation ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations,
Construction, Defense’’ to be merged with and to be available for
the same time period and for the same purposes as the appropria-
tion to which transferred.
SEC. 119. The Secretary of Defense is to provide the Committees
on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives
with an annual report by February 15, containing details of the
specific actions proposed to be taken by the Department of Defense
during the current fiscal year to encourage other member nations
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Japan, Korea, and
United States allies bordering the Arabian Gulf to assume a greater
share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United
States.
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 120. During the current fiscal year, in addition to any
other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense,
proceeds deposited to the Department of Defense Base Closure
Account established by section 207(a)(1) of the Defense Authoriza-
tion Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public
Law 100–526) pursuant to section 207(a)(2)(C) of such Act, may
be transferred to the account established by section 2906(a)(1) of
the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1991, to be merged
with, and to be available for the same purposes and the same
time period as that account.
SEC. 121. (a) 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 American Act’’).
(b) No funds made available under this Act shall be made
available to any person or entity who has been convicted of violating
the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known
as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 122. (a) In the case of any equipment or products that
may be authorized to be purchased with financial assistance pro-
vided under this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities
receiving such assistance should, in expending the assistance, pur-
chase only American-made equipment and products.
(b) In providing financial assistance under this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall provide to each recipient of the assist-
ance a notice describing the statement made in subsection (a)
by the Congress.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 123. Subject to 30 days prior notification to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations, such additional amounts as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred to the Depart-
ment of Defense Family Housing Improvement Fund from amounts
appropriated for construction in ‘‘Family Housing’’ accounts, to be
merged with and to be available for the same purposes and for
the same period of time as amounts appropriated directly to the
Fund: Provided, That appropriations made available to the Fund
shall be available to cover the costs, as defined in section 502(5)
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of direct loans or loan
guarantees issued by the Department of Defense pursuant to the
provisions of subchapter IV of chapter 169, title 10, United States
Code, pertaining to alternative means of acquiring and improving
military family housing and supporting facilities.
SEC. 124. None of the funds appropriated or made available
by this Act may be obligated for Partnership for Peace Programs
in the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union.
SEC. 125. (a) Not later than 60 days before issuing any solicita-
tion for a contract with the private sector for military family housing
the Secretary of the military department concerned shall submit
to the congressional defense committees the notice described in
subsection (b).
(b)(1) A notice referred to in subsection (a) is a notice of any
guarantee (including the making of mortgage or rental payments)
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proposed to be made by the Secretary to the private party under
the contract involved in the event of—
(A) the closure or realignment of the installation for which
housing is provided under the contract;
(B) a reduction in force of units stationed at such installa-
tion; or
(C) the extended deployment overseas of units stationed
at such installation.
(2) Each notice under this subsection shall specify the nature
of the guarantee involved and assess the extent and likelihood,
if any, of the liability of the Federal Government with respect
to the guarantee.
(c) In this section, the term ‘‘congressional defense committees’’
means the following:
(1) The Committee on Armed Services and the Military
Construction Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations of
the Senate.
(2) The Committee on Armed Services and the Military
Construction Subcommittee, Committee on Appropriations of
the House of Representatives.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 126. During the current fiscal year, in addition to any
other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense,
amounts may be transferred from the account established by section
2906(a)(1) of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1991,
to the fund established by section 1013(d) of the Demonstration
Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 3374)
to pay for expenses associated with the Homeowners Assistance
Program. Any amounts transferred shall be merged with and be
available for the same purposes and for the same time period
as the fund to which transferred.
SEC. 127. Notwithstanding this or any other provision of law,
funds appropriated in Military Construction Appropriations Acts
for operations and maintenance of family housing shall be the
exclusive source of funds for repair and maintenance of all family
housing units, including flag and general officer quarters: Provided,
That not more than $25,000 per unit may be spent annually for
the maintenance and repair of any general or flag officer quarters
without 30 days advance prior notification of the appropriate
committees of Congress: Provided further, That the Under Secretary
of Defense (Comptroller) is to report annually to the Committees
on Appropriations all operations and maintenance expenditures
for each individual flag and general officer quarters for the prior
fiscal year.
SEC. 128. The Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force are
directed to submit to the appropriate committees of the Congress
by July 1, 2001, a Family Housing Master Plan demonstrating
how they plan to meet the year 2010 housing goals with traditional
construction, operation and maintenance support, as well as
privatization initiative proposals. Each plan shall include projected
life cycle costs for family housing construction, basic allowance
for housing, operation and maintenance, other associated costs,
and a time line for housing completions each year.
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(RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
SEC. 129. Of the funds provided in previous Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Acts, $100,000,000 is hereby rescinded as of
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 130. During fiscal year 2001, in addition to any other
transfer authority available to the Department of Defense, funds
appropriated in the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106–52; 113 Stat. 259) under the heading ‘‘Military
Construction, Naval Reserve’’ and still unobligated may be trans-
ferred to the account for ‘‘Military Construction, Navy’’. Amounts
transferred under this section shall be merged with, and be avail-
able for the same period as, the amounts in the account to which
transferred and shall be available to construct, under the authority
of section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, an elevated water
storage tank at the Naval Support Activity Midsouth, Millington,
Tennessee.
SEC. 131. (a) The Secretary of the Army may accept funds
from the Federal Highway Administration, or the Commonwealth
of Kentucky, and credit them to the appropriate Department of
the Army accounts for the purpose of funding all costs associated
with the realignment, requested by the Commonwealth of Kentucky,
of the military construction project involving a rail connector located
at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, authorized in section 2101(a) of the
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public
Law 104–201; 110 Stat. 2763).
(b) The Secretary may use the funds accepted for the realign-
ment, in addition to funds authorized and appropriated for the
rail connector project, notwithstanding the amount authorized in
section 2101(a) of Public Law 104–201. The funds accepted shall
remain available until expended.
(c) The costs associated with the realignment of the rail con-
nector project include but are not limited to redesign costs, addi-
tional construction costs, additional costs due to construction delays
related to the realignment, and additional real estate costs.
(d) The authority provided in this section shall be effective
upon the date of the enactment of this Act.
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
SEC. 132. Of the funds available to the Secretary of Defense
in the ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense’’
account, $83,000,000 is hereby rescinded.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 133. Section 131 of the Military Construction Appropria-
tions Act, 1988 (Public Law 100–202), is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (c)(1), and inserting the following:
‘‘(c)(1) The Secretary shall use amounts paid to the Secretary
under subsection (b) for the acquisition of suitable sites for military
family housing; or, the acquisition, construction, or revitalization
of military family housing in the San Diego region, either through
conventional military construction or through use of any of the
alternative authorities contained in subchapter IV, chapter 169
of title 10, United States Code.’’.
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(2) by adding after subsection (c)(2) the following new
subparagraph:
‘‘(3) Any funds received by the Secretary under subsection
(b) and not deposited into the general fund of the Treasury under
subsection (c)(2) may be transferred into the Department of Defense
Family Housing Improvement Fund in accordance with section 2883
in subchapter IV, chapter 169 of title 10, United States Code.’’.
SEC. 134. Section 412(c) of the Woodrow Wilson Memorial
Bridge Authority Act of 1995 (112 Stat. 160) is amended by inserting
before the period at the end of the sentence the following: ‘‘, and
up to $170,000,000 for dredging and foundation activities for
construction’’: Provided, That this section becomes effective imme-
diately upon enactment of this Act.
SEC. 135. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of the Navy is authorized to use funds received pursuant
to section 2601 of title 10, United States Code, for the construction,
improvement, repair, and maintenance of the historic residences
located at Marine Corps Barracks, 8th and I Streets, Washington,
D.C.: Provided, That the Secretary notifies the appropriate commit-
tees of Congress 30 days in advance of the intended use of such
funds: Provided further, That this section becomes effective imme-
diately upon enactment of this Act.
BROOKS AIR FORCE BASE DEVELOPMENT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT
SEC. 136. (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to
evaluate and demonstrate methods for more efficient operation
of military installations through improved capital asset manage-
ment and greater reliance on the public or private sector for less-
costly base support services, where available. The section super-
sedes, and shall be used in lieu of the authority provided in,
section 8168 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2000 (Public Law 106–79; 113 Stat. 1277).
(b) AUTHORITY.—(1) Subject to paragraph (4), the Secretary
of the Air Force may carry out at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas,
a demonstration project to be known as the ‘‘Base Efficiency Project’’
to improve mission effectiveness and reduce the cost of providing
quality installation support at Brooks Air Force Base.
(2) The Secretary may carry out the Project in consultation
with the Community to the extent the Secretary determines such
consultation is necessary and appropriate.
(3) The authority provided in this section is in addition to
any other authority vested in or delegated to the Secretary, and
the Secretary may exercise any authority or combination of authori-
ties provided under this section or elsewhere to carry out the
purposes of the Project.
(4) The Secretary may not exercise any authority under this
section until after the end of the 30-day period beginning on the
date the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees of the
Congress a master plan for the development of the Base.
(c) EFFICIENT PRACTICES.—(1) The Secretary may convert serv-
ices at or for the benefit of the Base from accomplishment by
military personnel or by Department civilian employees (appro-
priated fund or non-appropriated fund), to services performed by
contract or provided as consideration for the lease, sale, or other
conveyance or transfer of property.
(2) Notwithstanding section 2462 of title 10, United States
Code, a contract for services may be awarded based on ‘‘best value’’
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if the Secretary determines that the award will advance the pur-
poses of a joint activity conducted under the project and is in
the best interest of the Department.
(3) Notwithstanding that such services are generally funded
by local and State taxes and provided without specific charge to
the public at large, the Secretary may contract for public services
at or for the benefit of the Base in exchange for such consideration,
if any, the Secretary determines to be appropriate.
(4)(A) The Secretary may conduct joint activities with the
Community, the State, and any private parties or entities on or
for the benefit of the Base.
(B) Payments or reimbursements received from participants
for their share of direct and indirect costs of joint activities,
including the costs of providing, operating, and maintaining facili-
ties, shall be in an amount and type determined to be adequate
and appropriate by the Secretary.
(C) Such payments or reimbursements received by the Depart-
ment shall be deposited into the Project Fund.
(d) LEASE AUTHORITY.—(1) The Secretary may lease real or
personal property located on the Base and not required at other
Air Force installations to any lessee upon such terms and conditions
as the Secretary considers appropriate and in the interest of the
United States, if the Secretary determines that the lease would
facilitate the purposes of the Project.
(2) Consideration for a lease under this subsection shall be
determined in accordance with subsection (g).
(3) A lease under this subsection—
(A) may be for such period as the Secretary determines
is necessary to accomplish the goals of the Project; and
(B) may give the lessee the first right to purchase the
property at fair market value if the lease is terminated to
allow the United States to sell the property under any other
provision of law.
(4)(A) The interest of a lessee of property leased under this
subsection may be taxed by the State or the Community.
(B) A lease under this subsection shall provide that, if and
to the extent that the leased property is later made taxable by
State governments or local governments under Federal law, the
lease shall be renegotiated.
(5) The Department may furnish a lessee with utilities, custo-
dial services, and other base operation, maintenance, or support
services performed by Department civilian or contract employees,
in exchange for such consideration, payment, or reimbursement
as the Secretary determines appropriate.
(6) All amounts received from leases under this subsection
shall be deposited into the Project Fund.
(7) A lease under this subsection shall not be subject to the
following provisions of law:
(A) Section 2667 of title 10, United States Code, other
than subsection (b)(1) of that section.
(B) Section 321 of the Act of June 30, 1932 (40 U.S.C.
303b).
(C) The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.).
(e) PROPERTY DISPOSAL.—(1) The Secretary may sell or other-
wise convey or transfer real and personal property located at the
Base to the Community or to another public or private party during
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the Project, upon such terms and conditions as the Secretary con-
siders appropriate for purposes of the Project.
(2) Consideration for a sale or other conveyance or transfer
of property under this subsection shall be determined in accordance
with subsection (g).
(3) The sale or other conveyance or transfer of property under
this subsection shall not be subject to the following provisions
of law:
(A) Section 2693 of title 10, United States Code.
(B) The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act
of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.).
(4) Cash payments received as consideration for the sale or
other conveyance or transfer of property under this subsection
shall be deposited into the Project Fund.
(f ) LEASEBACK OF PROPERTY LEASED OR DISPOSED.—(1) The
Secretary may lease, sell, or otherwise convey or transfer real
property at the Base under subsections (b) and (e), as applicable,
which will be retained for use by the Department or by another
military department or other Federal agency, if the lessee, pur-
chaser, or other grantee or transferee of the property agrees to
enter into a leaseback to the Department in connection with the
lease, sale, or other conveyance or transfer of one or more portions
or all of the property leased, sold, or otherwise conveyed or trans-
ferred, as applicable.
(2) A leaseback of real property under this subsection shall
be an operating lease for no more than 20 years unless the Secretary
of the Air Force determines that a longer term is appropriate.
(3)(A) Consideration, if any, for real property leased under
a leaseback entered into under this subsection shall be in such
form and amount as the Secretary considers appropriate.
(B) The Secretary may use funds in the Project Fund or other
funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Department for
use at the Base for payment of any such cash rent.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department
or other military department or other Federal agency using the
real property leased under a leaseback entered into under this
subsection may construct and erect facilities on or otherwise
improve the leased property using funds appropriated or otherwise
available to the Department or other military department or other
Federal agency for such purpose.
(g) CONSIDERATION.—(1) The Secretary shall determine the
nature, value, and adequacy of consideration required or offered
in exchange for a lease, sale, or other conveyance or transfer of
real or personal property or for other actions taken under the
Project.
(2) Consideration may be in cash or in-kind or any combination
thereof. In-kind consideration may include the following:
(A) Real property.
(B) Personal property.
(C) Goods or services, including operation, maintenance,
protection, repair, or restoration (including environmental res-
toration) of any property or facilities (including non-appro-
priated fund facilities).
(D) Base operating support services.
(E) Improvement of Department facilities.
(F) Provision of facilities, including office, storage, or other
usable space, for use by the Department on or off the Base.
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(G) Public services.
(3) Consideration may not be for less than the fair market
value.
(h) PROJECT FUND.—(1) There is established on the books of
the Treasury a fund to be known as the ‘‘Base Efficiency Project
Fund’’ into which all cash rents, proceeds, payments, reimburse-
ments, and other amounts from leases, sales, or other conveyances
or transfers, joint activities, and all other actions taken under
the Project shall be deposited. Subject to paragraph (2), amounts
deposited into the Project Fund shall be available without fiscal
year limitation.
(2) To the extent provided in advance in appropriations Acts,
amounts in the Project Fund shall be available to the Secretary
for use at the base only for operation, base operating support
services, maintenance, repair, or improvement of Department facili-
ties, payment of consideration for acquisitions of interests in real
property (including payment of rentals for leasebacks), and environ-
mental protection or restoration. The use of such amounts may
be in addition to or in combination with other amounts appropriated
for these purposes.
(3) Subject to generally prescribed financial management regu-
lations, the Secretary shall establish the structure of the Project
Fund and such administrative policies and procedures as the Sec-
retary considers necessary to account for and control deposits into
and disbursements from the Project Fund effectively.
(i) FEDERAL AGENCIES.—(1)(A) Any Federal agency, its contrac-
tors, or its grantees shall pay rent, in cash or services, for the
use of facilities or property at the Base, in an amount and type
determined to be adequate by the Secretary.
(B) Such rent shall generally be the fair market rental of
the property provided, but in any case shall be sufficient to com-
pensate the Base for the direct and overhead costs incurred by
the Base due to the presence of the tenant agency on the Base.
(2) Transfers of real or personal property at the Base to other
Federal agencies shall be at fair market value consideration. Such
consideration may be paid in cash, by appropriation transfer, or
in property, goods, or services.
(3) Amounts received from other Federal agencies, their contrac-
tors, or grantees, including any amounts paid by appropriation
transfer, shall be deposited in the Project Fund.
( j) REPORTS TO CONGRESS.—(1) Section 2662 of title 10, United
States Code, shall apply to transactions at the Base during the
Project.
(k) LIMITATION.—None of the authorities in this section shall
create any legal rights in any person or entity except rights
embodied in leases, deeds, or contracts.
(l) EXPIRATION
OF AUTHORITY.—The authority to enter into
a lease, deed, permit, license, contract, or other agreement under
this section shall expire on June 1, 2005.
(m) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘Project’’ means the Base Efficiency Project
authorized by this section.
(2) The term ‘‘Base’’ means Brooks Air Force Base, Texas.
(3) The term ‘‘Community’’ means the City of San Antonio,
Texas.
(4) The term ‘‘Department’’ means the Department of the
Air Force.
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(5) The term ‘‘facility’’ means a building, structure, or other
improvement to real property (except a military family housing
unit as that term is used in subchapter IV of chapter 169
of title 10, United States Code).
(6) The term ‘‘joint activity’’ means an activity conducted
on or for the benefit of the Base by the Department, jointly
with the Community, the State, or any private entity, or any
combination thereof.
(7) The term ‘‘Project Fund’’ means the Base Efficiency
Project Fund established by subsection (h).
(8) The term ‘‘public services’’ means public services (except
public schools, fire protection, and police protection) that are
funded by local and State taxes and provided without specific
charge to the public at large.
(9) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of the Air
Force or the Secretary’s designee, who shall be a civilian official
of the Department appointed by the President with the advice
and consent of the Senate.
(10) The term ‘‘State’’ means the State of Texas.
(n) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section becomes effective imme-
diately upon enactment of this Act.
SEC. 137. Of the funds made available in the Military Construc-
tion Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105–237) under the
heading ‘‘Military Construction, Defense-Wide’’ for planning and
design, not less than $1,000,000 shall be available for the design
of an elementary school for the Central Kitsap School District
to meet the educational needs of military dependents at the Naval
Submarine Base, Bangor, Washington: Provided, That this section
becomes effective immediately upon enactment of this Act.
SEC. 138. The total amount of appropriated funds that may
be expended for the military construction project at the Military
Academy at West Point, New York, to construct and renovate the
Cadet Physical Development Center shall not exceed $77,500,000,
regardless of the fiscal year for which the funds were or are appro-
priated: Provided, That this section becomes effective immediately
upon enactment of this Act.
SEC. 139. (a) Not later than 60 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to
the congressional defense committees a report on construction, secu-
rity and operation of Forward Operating Locations (FOL) in Manta,
Ecuador, Aruba, Curacao, and El Salvador.
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall address the
following: (1) a schedule for making each Forward Operating Loca-
tion (FOL) fully operational, including cost estimates, time line
of contracting and construction with completion dates, a description
of the potential capabilities for each proposed location and an expla-
nation of how the FOL architecture fits into the overall counter-
drug strategy; (2) a plan that identifies the operating requirements
at FOL for the United States Coast Guard, United States Customs
Service, Drug Enforcement Administration, Intelligence community
and the Department of Defense and how these requirements will
be addressed; (3) a security plan to ensure that FOL facilities
and personnel working at these sites are safeguarded from outside
threats; and (4) a safety plan to ensure operations conducted at
FOLs are in accordance with standard operating procedures.
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construction Appro-
priations Act, 2001’’.
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DIVISION B—FISCAL YEAR 2000 SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS
The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 2000, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—KOSOVO AND OTHER NATIONAL SECURITY
MATTERS
CHAPTER 1
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—MILITARY
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Army’’, $23,883,000: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Navy’’, $20,565,000: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Marine Corps’’, $37,155,000: Provided, That the entire amount is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Air Force’’, $38,065,000: Provided, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That of
the funds appropriated under this heading, $8,000,000 shall be
made available only for use in federally owned educational facilities
located on military installations for the purpose of transferring
title of such facilities to the local educational authorities.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to provide assistance to Vieques, Puerto
Rico, $40,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2003:
Provided, That such funds shall be in addition to amounts otherwise
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available for such purposes: Provided further, That the Secretary
of Defense may transfer funds to any agency or office of the United
States Government in order to implement the projects for which
funds are provided under this heading 30 days after the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget notifies the House and
Senate Committees on Appropriations of each proposed transfer:
Provided further, That each notification transmitted to the Commit-
tees shall identify the specific amount, recipient agency and purpose
for which such transfer is proposed: Provided further, That appro-
priations made available under this heading may be transferred
and obligated for the following purposes: a study of the health
of Vieques residents; fire-fighting related equipment and facilities
at Antonio Rivera Rodriguez Airport; construction or refurbishment
of a commercial ferry pier and terminal and associated navigational
improvements; establishment and construction of an artificial reef;
reef conservation, restoration, and management activities; payments
to registered Vieques commercial fishermen of an amount deter-
mined by the National Marine Fisheries Service for each day they
are unable to use existing waters because the Navy is conducting
training; expansion and improvement of major cross-island road-
ways and bridges; an apprenticeship/training program for young
adults; preservation and protection of natural resources; an eco-
nomic development office and economic development activities; and
conducting a referendum among the residents of Vieques regarding
further use of the island for military training programs: Provided
further, That for purposes of providing assistance to Vieques, any
agency or office of the United States Government to which these
funds are transferred may utilize, in addition to any authorities
available in this paragraph, any authorities available to that agency
or office for carrying out related activities, including utilization
of such funds for administrative expenses: Provided further, That
any amounts transferred to the Department of Housing and Urban
Development, ‘‘Community development block grants’’, shall be
available only for assistance to Vieques, notwithstanding section
106 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974:
Provided further, That the Department of Commerce may make
direct payments to registered Vieques commercial fishermen: Pro-
vided further, That the Department of the Navy may provide fire-
fighting training and funds provided in this paragraph may be
used to provide fire-fighting related facilities at the Antonio Rivera
Rodriguez Airport: Provided further, That funds made available
under this heading may be transferred to the Army Corps of Engi-
neers to construct or modify a commercial ferry pier and terminal
and associated navigational improvements: Provided further, That
except for amounts provided for the health study, fire-fighting
related equipment and facilities, and certain activities in further-
ance of the preservation and protection of natural resources, funds
provided in this paragraph shall not become available until 30
days after the Secretary of the Navy has certified to the congres-
sional defense committees that the integrity and accessibility of
the training range is uninterrupted, and trespassing and other
intrusions on the range have ceased: Provided further, That the
Secretary of the Navy shall recertify to the congressional defense
committees the status of the range 90 days after the initial certifi-
cation, and each 90 days thereafter: Provided further, That the
entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
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requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Army Reserve’’, $2,174,000: Provided, That the entire amount is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Army National Guard’’, $2,851,000: Provided, That the entire
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS TRANSFER FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for the ‘‘Overseas Contingency Oper-
ations Transfer Fund’’, $2,050,400,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the Secretary
of Defense may transfer the funds provided herein only to appropria-
tions for military personnel; operation and maintenance, including
Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid; procurement;
research, development, test and evaluation; the Defense Health
Program; and working capital funds: Provided further, That the
funds transferred shall be merged with and shall be available
for the same purposes and for the same time period, as the appro-
priation to which transferred: Provided further, That the transfer
authority provided in this paragraph is in addition to any other
transfer authority available to the Department of Defense: Provided
further, That upon a determination that all or part of the funds
transferred from this appropriation are not necessary for the pur-
poses provided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to
this appropriation.
PROCUREMENT
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Air Force’’,
$73,000,000, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2001: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, ARMY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Research, Development, Test
and Evaluation, Army’’, $5,700,000, to remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30, 2001, only for continued test activities
under the Tactical High Energy Laser (THEL) program.
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Defense Health Program’’,
$3,533,000: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 101. (a) MINIMUM RATES
OF BASIC ALLOWANCE
FOR
HOUSING FOR MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.—During the
period beginning on January 1, 2000, and ending on September
30, 2001 (or such earlier date as the Secretary of Defense considers
appropriate), a member of the uniformed services entitled to a
basic allowance for housing for a military housing area in the
United States shall be paid the allowance at a monthly rate not
less than the rate in effect on December 31, 1999, in that area
for members serving in the same pay grade and with the same
dependency status as the member.
(b) ANNUAL LIMITATION ON ALLOWANCE.—In light of the rates
for the basic allowance for housing authorized by subsection (a),
the Secretary of Defense may exceed the limitation on the total
amount paid during fiscal year 2000 and 2001 for the basic allow-
ance for housing in the United States otherwise applicable under
section 403(b)(3) of title 37, United States Code.
(c) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS REGARDING MILITARY FAMILIES
ON FOOD STAMPS.—It is the sense of the Congress that members
of the Armed Forces and their dependents should not have to
rely on the food stamp program, and the President and the Congress
should take action to ensure that the income level of members
of the Armed Forces is sufficient so that no member meets the
income standards of eligibility in effect under the food stamp pro-
gram.
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 102. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available elsewhere in this Act for the Department of Defense
or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public
Law 106–79), $1,556,200,000 is hereby appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense for the ‘‘Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund’’
and shall remain available until expended, for price increases
resulting from worldwide increases in the price of petroleum: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of Defense shall transfer $1,556,200,000
in excess collections from the ‘‘Defense-Wide Working Capital Fund’’
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not later than September 30, 2001 to the operation and mainte-
nance; research, development, test and evaluation; and working
capital funds: Provided further, That the transfer authority provided
in this section is in addition to the transfer authority provided
to the Department of Defense in this Act or any other Act: Provided
further, That the entire amount made available in this section
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
SEC. 103. In addition to the amounts provided elsewhere in
this Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106–79), $90,000,000 is hereby appropriated for ‘‘Air-
craft Procurement, Air Force’’, only for F–15 aircraft or associated
components, systems, or subsystems.
SEC. 104. In addition to the amounts provided elsewhere in
this Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106–79), $163,700,000 is hereby appropriated for
‘‘Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army’’,
only for procurement, advance procurement, or economic order
quantity procurement of Abrams M1A2 SEP Upgrades under
multiyear contract authority provided under section 8008 of the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000: Provided, That
none of the funds under this section shall be obligated until the
Secretary of the Army certifies to the congressional defense commit-
tees that these funds will be used to upgrade vehicles for an
average unit cost (for 307 vehicles) that does not exceed $5,900,000.
SEC. 105. In addition to the amounts provided in the Depart-
ment of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79),
$615,600,000 is hereby appropriated for ‘‘Defense Health Program’’,
to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2001: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall be available only for the purposes
described and in accordance with section 106 of this chapter: Pro-
vided further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
SEC. 106. (a) Of the amounts provided in section 105 of this
chapter for ‘‘Defense Health Program’’—
(1) not to exceed $90,300,000 shall be available for obliga-
tions and adjustments to obligations required to cover unantici-
pated increases in TRICARE contract costs that (but for insuffi-
cient funds) would have been properly chargeable to the Defense
Health Program account for fiscal year 1998 or fiscal year
1999; and
(2) not to exceed $525,300,000 shall be available for obliga-
tions and adjustments to obligations required to cover unantici-
pated increases in TRICARE contract costs that are properly
chargeable to the Defense Health Program account for fiscal
year 2000 or fiscal year 2001.
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall notify the congressional
defense committees before charging an obligation or an adjustment
to obligations under this section.
(c) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional
defense committees a report on obligations made under this section
no later than 30 days after the end of fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 107. In addition to the amounts provided in the Depart-
ment of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79),
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$695,900,000 is hereby appropriated for ‘‘Defense Health Program’’,
to remain available for obligation until September 30, 2002: Pro-
vided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
SEC. 108. In addition to the amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available in this Act or in the Department of Defense Appro-
priations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79), $27,000,000 is hereby
appropriated to the Department of Defense and is available only
for the Basic Allowance for Housing Program: Provided, That the
entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
SEC. 109. (a) MILITARY RECRUITING, ADVERTISING, AND RETEN-
TION PROGRAMS.—In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available for the Department of Defense elsewhere in this
Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106–79), there is hereby appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2001, and to be available only for military personnel (to include
full-time manning), recruiting, advertising, and retention programs,
$357,288,000, as follows:
For military personnel accounts, $204,226,000, as follows:
‘‘Military Personnel, Army’’, $99,900,000;
‘‘Military Personnel, Navy’’, $23,500,000;
‘‘Military Personnel, Marine Corps’’, $4,000,000;
‘‘Military Personnel, Air Force’’, $7,500,000;
‘‘Reserve Personnel, Army’’, $32,500,000; and
‘‘National Guard Personnel, Army’’, $36,826,000.
For operation and maintenance accounts, $153,062,000, as
follows:
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $38,110,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $29,222,000;
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Marine 
Corps’’,
$8,100,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $29,040,000;
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Army 
Reserve’’,
$18,890,000;
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Navy 
Reserve’’,
$6,700,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve’’,
$2,000,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve’’,
$4,000,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard’’,
$12,000,000; and
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard’’,
$5,000,000.
(b) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—The entire amount made avail-
able in this section is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
SEC. 110. (a) DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTENANCE
AND REPAIR.—In
addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for
the Department of Defense elsewhere in this Act or in the Depart-
ment of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79),
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$220,000,000 is hereby appropriated for ‘‘Operation and Mainte-
nance, Navy’’, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2001, only for ship depot maintenance.
(b) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—The entire amount made avail-
able in this section is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
SEC. 111. (a) HIGH PRIORITY SUPPORT TO DEPLOYED FORCES.—
In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available
elsewhere in this Act for the Department of Defense or in the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–
79), there is hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense,
to support deployed United States forces, $503,900,000, as follows:
(1) For operation and maintenance accounts, to remain
available for obligation until September 30, 2001, $96,000,000
as follows:
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $20,000,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $41,900,000;
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide’’,
$10,000,000; and
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard’’,
$24,100,000.
(2) For procurement accounts, to remain available for
obligation until September 30, 2003, $344,900,000, as follows:
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Army’’, $25,000,000 (for Apache
helicopter safety and reliability modifications);
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, $52,800,000 (of which
$27,000,000 is for CH–46 helicopter engine safety procure-
ment and $25,800,000 for EP–3 sensor improvement modi-
fications);
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Air Force’’, $212,700,000 (of
which $111,600,000 is for U–2 reconnaissance aircraft
sensor improvements and modifications, and $101,100,000
is for flight and mission trainers and simulators);
‘‘Other Procurement, Air Force’’, $41,400,000; and
‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’, $13,000,000.
(3) For research, development, test and evaluation
accounts, to remain available for obligation until September
30, 2002, $63,000,000, as follows:
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army’’,
$5,000,000 (for the WARSIMS program); and
‘‘Research, 
Development, 
Test 
and 
Evaluation,
Defense-Wide’’, $58,000,000.
(b) EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.—The entire amount made avail-
able in this section is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
SEC. 112. To ensure the availability of biometrics technologies
in the Department of Defense, the Secretary of the Army shall
be the Executive Agent to lead, consolidate, and coordinate all
biometrics information assurance programs of the Department of
Defense: Provided, That there is hereby appropriated for fiscal
year 2000, in addition to other amounts appropriated for such
fiscal year by other provisions of this Act, $5,000,000 for Operation
and Maintenance, Army, for carrying out the biometrics assurance
programs and for continuing the biometrics information assurance
programs of the Information System Security Program: Provided
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further, That there is hereby appropriated for fiscal year 2000,
in addition to other amounts appropriated for such fiscal year
by other provisions of this Act, $1,000,000 for Operation and Mainte-
nance, Navy, and $1,000,000 for Operation and Maintenance, Air
Force, for carrying out the biometrics assurance programs with
the Army, as Executive Agent, to lead, consolidate, and coordinate
such programs.
SEC. 113. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available for the Department of Defense elsewhere in this
Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106–79), $125,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the
Department of Defense to remain available until September 30,
2002, to be available only for the Patriot missile program: Provided,
That not later than 30 days after the enactment of this Act the
Department shall submit a revised Patriot missile program plan
to the congressional defense committees: Provided further, That
the entire amount made available in this section is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
SEC. 114. In addition to amounts provided elsewhere in this
Act for the Department of Defense, $300,000 is hereby appropriated
to be available only for Operation Walking Shield for technical
assistance and transportation of excess housing to Indian tribes
located in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana,
and Minnesota, in accordance with section 8155 of Public Law
106–79.
SEC. 115. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available for the Department of Defense elsewhere in this
Act or in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000
(Public Law 106–79), there is hereby appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense, for the cost of peacekeeping and humanitarian
assistance operations in East Timor and Mozambique, $61,500,000,
to be distributed as follows:
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $6,400,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps’’, $8,100,000;
and
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $47,000,000:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 116. (a) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, of the funds appropriated by title II of the Depart-
ment of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79)
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’,
$9,642,000 shall be transferred to the Macalloy Special Account
administered by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency to pay for response actions by, or on behalf of, the Environ-
mental Protection Agency under the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601
et seq.) at the Macalloy site in Charleston, South Carolina.
(b) TREATMENT OF FUNDS.—Any of the funds transferred pursu-
ant to subsection (a) that are used to pay for response actions
at the Macalloy site shall be credited against any liability of the
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United States with respect to the site under the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there
is appropriated to the Department of Defense $8,000,000 for commu-
nications, 
communications 
infrastructure, 
logistical 
support,
resources and operational assistance required by the Salt Lake
Organizing Committee to stage the 2002 Olympic and Paralympic
Winter Games, such sums to remain available until expended.
SEC. 118. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization and its
subordinate offices and associated contractors, including the Lead
Systems Integrator, shall notify the congressional defense commit-
tees 15 days prior to issuing any type of information or proposal
solicitation under the NMD Program with a potential annual con-
tract value greater than $5,000,000 or a total contract value greater
than $30,000,000.
SEC. 119. (a) REQUIREMENT FOR SALE OF NAVY DRYDOCK NO.
9.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of
the Navy shall sell Navy Drydock No. 9 (AFDM–3), located in
Mobile, Alabama, to the Bender Shipbuilding and Repair Company,
Inc., which is the current lessee of the drydock from the Navy.
(b) CONSIDERATION.—As consideration for the sale of the dry-
dock under subsection (a), the Secretary shall receive an amount
equal to the fair market value of the drydock at the time of the
sale, as determined by the Secretary.
SEC. 120. Subsection (b) of section 509 of title 32, United
States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘Federal’’ and inserting
‘‘Department of Defense’’.
SEC. 121. USE
OF DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE FACILITIES
AS
POLLING PLACES. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Secretary of Defense shall not prohibit the
designation or use of any Department of Defense facility, currently
designated by a State or local election official, or used since January
1, 1996, as an official polling place in connection with a local,
State, or Federal election, as such official polling place.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The prohibition under subsection (a)
shall apply to any election occurring on or after the date of the
enactment of this section and before December 31, 2000.
SEC. 122. Section 8114 of the Department of Defense Appropria-
tions Act, 1999 (Public Law 105–262; 112 Stat. 2326), is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding the first proviso, by striking
‘‘$20,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$30,000,000’’; and
(2) in the second proviso, by inserting after ‘‘property dam-
ages’’ the following: ‘‘, and for other claims under applicable
Status-of-Forces Agreements,’’.
(RESCISSIONS)
SEC. 123. Of the funds provided in Department of Defense
Appropriations Acts, the following funds are hereby rescinded as
of the date of the enactment of this Act, from the following accounts
in the specified amounts:
Under the heading ‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy,
1989/1993’’:
DDG–51 destroyer program, $9,100,000;
T–AO fleet oiler program, $6,645,000;
T–AGOS surveillance ship program, $3,420,000;
Outfitting and post delivery, $1,293,000;
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‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air
Force, 1999/2000’’, $7,000,000;
‘‘Military Personnel, Army, 2000’’, $98,700,000;
‘‘Military Personnel, Navy, 2000’’, $49,127,000;
‘‘Military Personnel, Air Force, 2000’’, $82,000,000;
‘‘Reserve Personnel, Air Force, 2000’’, $4,500,000; and
‘‘National Guard Personnel, Army, 2000’’, $24,826,000.
SEC. 124. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available
by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence activities are
deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes
of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C.
414).
SEC. 125. The following provisions of law are repealed: sections
8175 and 8176 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act,
2000 (Public Law 106–79), as amended by sections 214 and 215,
respectively, of H.R. 3425 of the 106th Congress (113 Stat. 1501A–
297), as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106–
113.
SEC. 126. Any amount appropriated in this chapter that is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended, shall not be available for
obligation unless all such amounts are designated by the President,
upon enactment of this Act, as emergency requirements pursuant
to such section.
CHAPTER 2
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL
GENERAL INVESTIGATIONS
For an additional amount for ‘‘General Investigations’’,
$3,500,000, to remain available until expended, of which $1,500,000
shall be for a feasibility study and report of a project to provide
flood damage reduction for the town of Princeville, North Carolina,
and of which $2,000,000 shall be for preconstruction engineering
and design of an emergency outlet from Devils Lake, North Dakota,
to the Sheyenne River: Provided, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction, General’’,
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the Johnson
Creek, Arlington, Texas, project authorized by section 101(b)(14)
of Public Law 106–53: Provided, That the entire amount shall
be available only to the extent an official budget request for
$3,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended,
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further,
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That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
General’’, $200,000, to remain available until expended, for dredging
of the authorized navigation project at Saxon Harbor, Wisconsin:
Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only to the
extent an official budget request for $200,000, that includes designa-
tion of the entire amount of the request as an emergency require-
ment as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President
to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Water and Related Resources’’,
$600,000, to remain available until expended, to carry out the
provisions of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System Act of
2000: Provided, That the entire amount shall be available only
to the extent an official budget request for $600,000, that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ATOMIC ENERGY DEFENSE ACTIVITIES
WEAPONS ACTIVITIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Weapons activities’’, $96,500,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the entire
amount shall be available only to the extent an official budget
request for $96,500,000, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress:
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
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OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Other defense activities’’,
$38,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request for $38,000,000, that includes designation of the
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress: Provided further, That the Department is authorized
to initiate design of the Highly Enriched Uranium Blend Down
Project.
ENERGY PROGRAMS
URANIUM ENRICHMENT DECONTAMINATION AND DECOMMISSIONING
FUND
For an additional amount for ‘‘Uranium enrichment decon-
tamination and decommissioning fund’’, $58,000,000, to be derived
from the Fund, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request for $58,000,000, that includes designation of the
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 201. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act and
hereafter may not be used to pay on behalf of the United States
or a contractor or subcontractor of the United States for posting
a bond or fulfilling any other financial responsibility requirement
relating to closure or post-closure care and monitoring of the Waste
Isolation Pilot Plant. The State of New Mexico or any other entity
may not enforce against the United States or a contractor or subcon-
tractor of the United States, in this or any subsequent fiscal year,
a requirement to post bond or any other financial responsibility
requirement relating to closure or post-closure care and monitoring
of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Any financial responsibility
requirement in a permit or license for the Waste Isolation Pilot
Plant on the date of the enactment of this section may not be
enforced against the United States or its contractors or subcontrac-
tors at the Plant.
SEC. 202. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds
provided in this or any other Act may be used to further reallocate
Central Arizona Project water or to prepare an Environmental
Assessment, Environmental Impact Statement, or Record of Deci-
sion providing for a reallocation of Central Arizona Project water
until further Act of Congress authorizing and directing the Sec-
retary of the Interior to make allocations and enter into contracts
for delivery of Central Arizona Project water.
SEC. 203. Of the funds provided in Public Laws 106–60 and
105–245 and prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations
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Acts for the Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Science’’,
$1,000,000 shall be made available for the design, planning and
construction of the interdisciplinary science facility at the Univer-
sity of Alabama at Tuscaloosa.
SEC. 204. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 and
prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts for the
Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Energy Supply’’,
$1,000,000 shall be made available for the Nome diesel upgrade.
SEC. 205. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 and
prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts for the
Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Weapons Activities’’,
$5,000,000 shall be made available to move the Atlas pulsed power
experimental facility to the Nevada Test Site.
SEC. 206. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 and
prior Energy and Water Development Appropriations Acts for the
Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Science’’, $2,500,000
shall be made available for the Natural Energy Laboratory of
Hawaii.
SEC. 207. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 for
the Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Science’’, $1,000,000
shall be made available for the Burbank Hospital Regional Center
in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
SEC. 208. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 for
the Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Science’’, $1,000,000
shall be made available for the Center for Research on Aging
at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.
SEC. 209. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 for
the Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Science’’, $1,000,000
shall be made available for the North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Health System.
SEC. 210. Of the funds provided in Public Law 106–60 for
the Department of Energy under the heading ‘‘Energy Supply’’,
$1,000,000 shall be made available for the Materials Science Center
in Tempe, Arizona.
SEC. 211. No funds appropriated to the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 may be used to relocate,
or to plan or prepare for the relocation of, the functions or personnel
of the Technical Training Center from its location at Chattanooga,
Tennessee.
CHAPTER 3
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 301. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available in the Military Construction Appropriations Act,
2000, the following amounts are hereby appropriated as authorized
by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, as follows:
‘‘Military Construction, Army Reserve’’, $12,348,000;
‘‘Family Housing, Army’’, $2,000,000;
‘‘Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps’’, $3,000,000;
and
‘‘Family Housing, Air Force’’, $1,700,000:
Provided, That the funds in this section remain available until
September 30, 2004: Provided further, That the entire amount
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is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an
official budget request for $19,048,000, that includes designation
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress.
SEC. 302. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in addi-
tion to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available in the
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2000, $1,000,000 is
hereby appropriated to the ‘‘Military Construction, Defense-Wide’’
account, to remain available until September 30, 2004: Provided,
That such amount shall be available for study, planning, design,
architect and engineer services, as authorized by law: Provided
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be avail-
able only to the extent an official budget request for $1,000,000
that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as
an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted
by the President to the Congress.
(INCLUDING RESCISSION)
SEC. 303. (a) In addition to the amounts provided in Public
Law 106–52, $35,000,000 is appropriated under the heading ‘‘Mili-
tary Construction, Navy’’ to remain available until September 30,
2004: Provided, That such funds are authorized and shall be avail-
able for the acquisition of land at Blount Island, Florida.
(B) Of the funds provided in the Military Construction Appro-
priations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–32), $35,000,000 is hereby
rescinded as of the date of the enactment of this Act.
CHAPTER 4
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
COAST GUARD
OPERATING EXPENSES
For 
an 
additional 
amount 
for 
‘‘Operating 
expenses’’,
$77,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2001; of which
$5,000,000 shall be available for military basic pay; $18,000,000
shall be available for costs related to the delivery of health care
to Coast Guard personnel, retirees, and their dependents;
$15,000,000 shall be available for basic allowance for housing;
$2,000,000 shall be available for the military housing areas cost
of living adjustment; $15,000,000 shall be available for recruiting
and retention bonuses; $1,000,000 shall be available for fixed wing
aviator retention bonuses; $8,000,000 shall be available for the
clean up and repair of shore facilities from hurricane damage;
and, $13,000,000 shall be available for operational fuel and unit
level operational readiness: Provided, That the entire amount is
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designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the
entire amount provided shall be available only to the extent an
official budget request for $77,000,000, that includes designation
of the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress.
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Acquisition, construction, and
improvements’’, $578,000,000, to remain available until expended;
of which $110,000,000 shall be available for the Great Lakes Ice-
breaker replacement; and of which $468,000,000 shall be available
for acquisition and conversion of six C–130J maritime patrol air-
craft, as authorized under section 812(b)(1)(G) of the Western Hemi-
sphere Drug Elimination Act: Provided, That the procurement of
maritime patrol aircraft funded under this heading shall not, in
any way, influence the procurement strategy, program require-
ments, or down-select decision pertaining to the Coast Guard’s
Deepwater Capability Replacement Project: Provided further, That
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided
further, That the entire amount provided shall be available only
to the extent an official budget request for $578,000,000, that
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an
emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted
by the President to the Congress.
CHAPTER 5
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
SEC. 501. For an additional amount for the Agency for Inter-
national 
Development, 
‘‘International 
Disaster 
Assistance’’,
$25,000,000, for rehabilitation and reconstruction assistance for
Mozambique, Madagascar, and southern Africa, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount
provided shall be available only to the extent an official budget
request that includes designation of the entire amount as an emer-
gency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted
by the President to the Congress.
SEC. 502. For an additional amount for ‘‘Assistance for Eastern
Europe and the Baltic States’’, $50,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 2001: Provided, That this amount shall only
be available for assistance for Montenegro and Croatia, and not
to exceed $12,400,000 for assistance for Kosova: Provided further,
That the amount specified in the previous proviso for assistance
for Kosova may be made available only for police activities: Provided
further, That funds made available in the preceding provisos shall
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be available subject to the regular notification procedures of the
Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, That the entire
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
TITLE II
NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE AND OTHER
SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
CHAPTER 1
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
For an additional amount for necessary expenses to carry out
title IX of Public Law 106–78, $1,350,000: Provided, That the entire
amount necessary to carry out this section shall be available only
to the extent an official budget request for $1,350,000, that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the
President to the Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
FARM SERVICE AGENCY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’,
$77,560,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request for $77,560,000, that includes designation of the
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
RURAL HOUSING SERVICE
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For additional gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans as authorized by title V of the Housing Act of 1949
for section 515 rental housing to be available from funds in the
rural housing insurance fund to meet needs resulting from Hurri-
cane Dennis, Floyd, or Irene, $40,000,000.
For the additional cost of direct loans for section 515 rental
housing, including the cost of modifying loans, as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, to remain available
until expended, $15,872,000: Provided, That the entire amount is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For an additional amount for rental assistance agreements
entered into or renewed pursuant to section 521(a)(2) of the Housing
Act of 1949 for emergency needs resulting from Hurricane Dennis,
Floyd, or Irene, $13,600,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2101. With respect to any 1999 crop year loan made
by the Commodity Credit Corporation to a cooperative marketing
association established under the laws of North Carolina, and to
any person or entity in North Carolina obtaining a 1999 crop
upland cotton marketing assistance loan, the Corporation shall
reduce the amount of such outstanding loan indebtedness in an
amount up to 75 percent of the amount of the loan applicable
to any collateral (in the case of cooperative marketing associations
of upland cotton producers and upland cotton producers, not to
exceed $5,000,000 for benefits to such associations and such pro-
ducers for up to 75 percent of the loss incurred by such associations
and such producers with respect to upland cotton that had been
placed under loan) that was produced in a county in which either
the Secretary of Agriculture or the President of the United States
declared a major disaster or emergency due to the occurrence of
Hurricane Dennis, Floyd, or Irene if the Corporation determines
that such collateral suffered any quality loss as a result of said
hurricane: Provided, That if a person or entity obtains a benefit
under this section with respect to a quantity of a commodity,
no marketing loan gain or loan deficiency payment shall be made
available under the Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform
Act of 1996 with respect to such quantity: Provided further, That
no more than $81,000,000 of the funds of the Corporation shall
be available to carry out this section: Provided further, That the
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request for $81,000,000, that includes designation of the
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
SEC. 2102. In lieu of imposing, where applicable, the assessment
for producers provided for in subsection (d)(8) of 7 U.S.C. 7271
(section 155 of the Agricultural Market Transition Act), the Sec-
retary shall, as necessary to offset remaining loan losses for the
1999 crop of peanuts, borrow such amounts as would have been
collected under 7 U.S.C. 7271(d)(8) from the Commodity Credit
Corporation. Such borrowing shall be against all excess assessments
to be collected under 7 U.S.C. 7271(g) for crop year 2000 and
subsequent years. For purposes of the preceding sentence, an assess-
ment shall be considered to be an ‘‘excess’’ assessment to the extent
that it is not used, or will not be used, under the provisions
of 7 U.S.C. 7271(d), to offset losses on peanuts for the crop year
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in which the assessment is collected. The Commodity Credit Cor-
poration shall retain in its own account sums collected under 7
U.S.C. 7271(g) as needed to recover the borrowing provided for
in this section to the extent that such collections are not used
under 7 U.S.C. 7271(d) to cover losses on peanuts: Provided, That
the entire amount necessary to carry out this section shall be
available only to the extent an official budget request for the entire
amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended,
is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further,
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act.
CHAPTER 2
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, United
States Attorneys’’, $12,000,000, to remain available until expended,
to be divided equally between the States of Texas, New Mexico,
Arizona, and California, to reimburse county and municipal govern-
ments only for Federal costs associated with the handling and
processing of illegal immigration and drug and alien smuggling
cases. The use of these funds is limited to: court costs, courtroom
technology, the building of holding spaces, administrative staff,
and indigent defense costs: Provided, That the entire amount is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That such
amount shall be available only to the extent that an official budget
request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of
the entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement
as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress.
DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’,
$181,000,000, to remain available until expended, which shall be
deposited in the Telecommunications Carrier Compliance Fund:
Provided, That, hereafter, in the discretion of the Attorney General,
any expenditures from the Fund to pay or reimburse pursuant
to sections 104(e) and 109(a) of Public Law 103–414, may be made
directly to any parties specified in section 401(a) thereof, and may
be made either pursuant to the regulations promulgated under
such section 109, or pursuant to firm fixed-price agreements, upon
provision of such information as the Attorney General may require:
Provided further, That such amount shall be available only to
the extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar
amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of the
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended,
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is transmitted by the President to the Congress: Provided further,
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS
JUSTICE ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Justice Assistance’’ for grants
to counties with populations of less than 150,000, and Indian res-
ervations, in Arizona that are adjacent to the United States-Mexico
border, $2,000,000: Provided, That such grants shall be allocated
in proportion to the population of each such county and Indian
reservation: Provided further, That such amount is designated by
the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That such amount
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Economic Development Assist-
ance Programs’’, $55,800,000, to remain available until expended,
for planning, public works grants and revolving loan funds for
communities affected by Hurricane Floyd and other recent hurri-
canes and disasters: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That such amount
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
OPERATIONS, RESEARCH, AND FACILITIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations, Research and Facili-
ties’’, $30,700,000, to remain available until expended, to provide
disaster assistance pursuant to section 312(a) of the Magnuson-
Stevens Fishery Conservation Management Act, including com-
pensation to fishermen for losses and equipment damage, resulting
from Hurricane Floyd and other recent hurricanes and fishery
disasters in the Long Island Sound lobster fishery and the west
coast groundfish fishery, and for the repair of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration hurricane reconnaissance aircraft:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
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as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended: Provided further, That of such amount, $13,300,000
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS
AMERICAN SECTIONS, INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for the Inter-
national Joint Commission, as authorized by treaties between the
United States and Canada or Great Britain, $2,150,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the
entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an official
budget request, that includes designation of the entire amount
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
OTHER
UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
For necessary expenses for the United States Commission on
International Religious Freedom, as authorized by title II of the
International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–
292), $2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided,
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended:
Provided further, That the entire amount shall be available only
to the extent that an official budget request, that includes designa-
tion of the entire amount of the request as an emergency require-
ment as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit
Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President
to the Congress.
RELATED AGENCY
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For an additional amount for the cost of direct loans,
$15,500,000, to remain available until expended to subsidize addi-
tional gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans:
Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget
Act of 1974; and for direct administrative expenses to carry out
the disaster loan program, an additional $25,400,000, to remain
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available until expended, which may be transferred to and merged
with appropriations for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’: Provided further,
That no funds shall be transferred to and merged with appropria-
tions for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ for indirect administrative
expenses: Provided further, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount
shall be available only to the extent that an official budget request,
that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as
an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted
by the President to the Congress.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2201. For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations, Research,
and Facilities’’, for emergency expenses for fisheries disaster relief
pursuant to section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Con-
servation and Management Act, as amended, for the Pribilof Island
and East Aleutian area of the Bering Sea, $10,000,000 to remain
available until expended: Provided, That in implementing this sec-
tion, the Secretary of Commerce shall make $7,000,000 available
for disaster assistance and $3,000,000 for Bering Sea ecosystem
research including $1,000,000 for the State of Alaska to develop
a cooperative research plan to restore the crab fishery: Provided
further, That the Secretary of Commerce declares a fisheries failure
pursuant to section 312(a) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Con-
servation and Management Act, as amended: Provided further, That
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided
further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the
extent an official budget request for $10,000,000, that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the
President to the Congress.
SEC. 2202. For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations, Research,
and Facilities’’, $10,000,000 to provide emergency disaster assist-
ance for the commercial fishery failure determined under section
308(b)(1) of the Interjurisdictional Fisheries Act of 1986 (16 U.S.C.
4107(b)(1)) with respect to the Northeast multispecies fishery, which
shall be used to support a voluntary fishing capacity reduction
program in the Northeast multispecies fishery that permanently
revokes multispecies, limited access fishing permits so as to obtain
the maximum sustained reduction in fishing capacity at the least
cost and in the minimum period of time and to prevent the replace-
ment of fishing capacity removed by the program: Provided, That
the entire amount made available in this section is designated
by 
Congress 
as 
an 
emergency 
requirement 
under 
section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount
shall be available only to the extent an official budget request
for $10,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the
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Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
SEC. 2203. For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations, Research,
and Facilities’’, to remain available until expended, $7,000,000,
of which $2,000,000 shall be for studies relating to long-line inter-
actions with sea turtles in the North Pacific and commercial fishing
activities in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, and of which
$5,000,000 shall be for observer coverage for the Hawaiian long-
line fishery: Provided, That the entire amount in this section is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request for $7,000,000, that includes designation of the
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the
Congress.
SEC. 2204. NORTH PACIFIC MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.—
Public Law 101–380, as amended, is further amended by—
(1) inserting after section 5007 the following new section:
‘‘SEC. 5008. NORTH PACIFIC MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
‘‘(a) INSTITUTE ESTABLISHED.—The Secretary of Commerce shall
establish a North Pacific Marine Research Institute (hereafter in
this section referred to as the ‘Institute’) to be administered at
the Alaska SeaLife Center by the North Pacific Research Board.
‘‘(b) FUNCTIONS.—The Institute shall—
‘‘(1) conduct research and carry out education and dem-
onstration projects on or relating to the North Pacific marine
ecosystem with particular emphasis on marine mammal, sea
bird, fish, and shellfish populations in the Bering Sea and
Gulf of Alaska including populations located in or near Kenai
Fjords National Park and the Alaska Maritime National Wild-
life Refuge; and
‘‘(2) lease, maintain, operate, and upgrade the necessary
research equipment and related facilities necessary to conduct
such research at the Alaska SeaLife Center.
‘‘(c) EVALUATION AND AUDIT.—The Secretary of Commerce may
periodically evaluate the activities of the Institute to ensure that
funds received by the Institute are used in a manner consistent
with this section. The Comptroller General of the United States,
and any of his or her duly authorized representatives, shall have
access, for purposes of audit and examination, to any books, docu-
ments, papers, and records of the Institute that are pertinent to
the funds received and expended by the Institute.
‘‘(d) STATUS OF EMPLOYEES.—Employees of the Institute shall
not, by reason of such employment, be considered to be employees
of the Federal Government for any purpose.
‘‘(e) USE OF FUNDS.—No funds made available to carry out
this section may be used to initiate litigation, or for the acquisition
of real property (other than facilities leased at the Alaska SeaLife
Center). No more than 10 percent of the funds made available
to carry out subsection (b)(1) may be used to administer the
Institute.
‘‘(f ) AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH.—The Institute shall publish
and make available to any person on request the results of all
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research, educational, and demonstration projects conducted by the
Institute. The Institute shall provide a copy of all research, edu-
cational, and demonstration projects conducted by the Institute
to the National Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife
Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion.’’; and
(2) in section 5006 by inserting at the end the following new
subsection:
‘‘(c) SECTION 5008.—Amounts in the Fund shall be available,
without further appropriation and without fiscal year limitation,
to carry out section 5008(b), in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be
available only to the extent an official budget request that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted by the
President to the Congress.’’.
CHAPTER 3
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’,
$200,000,000, to remain available until expended, for emergency
rehabilitation and wildfire suppression activities: Provided, That
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided
further, That $100,000,000 shall be available only to the extent
that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an
emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by
the President to the Congress.
LAND ACQUISITION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Land Acquisition’’, $2,000,000,
to remain available until expended, for acquisition of additional
lands known as the Douglas Tract on the Potomac River in the
State of Maryland, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That $2,000,000 shall
be available only to the extent that an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
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OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT
REGULATION AND TECHNOLOGY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Regulation and Technology’’,
$9,821,000, to remain available until expended for the regulatory
program of the State of West Virginia, of which $6,222,000, not
subject to section 705(a) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclama-
tion Act, shall be available for regulatory program enhancements
for the surface mining regulatory program of the State of West
Virginia: Provided, That the balance of the funds shall be made
available to the State to augment staffing and provide relative
support expenses for the State’s regulatory program: Provided fur-
ther, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be avail-
able only to the extent an official budget request for $9,821,000,
that includes designation of the entire amount of the request as
an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is transmitted
by the President to the Congress.
RELATED AGENCY
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Forest System’’ for
emergency expenses resulting from damages from wind storms,
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided
further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the
extent an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an
emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by
the President to the Congress.
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Wildland Fire Management’’,
$150,000,000, to remain available until expended, for emergency
rehabilitation, presuppression, and wildfire suppression: Provided,
That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended:
Provided further, That this amount shall be available only to the
extent that an official budget request for a specific dollar amount,
that includes designation of the entire amount as an emergency
requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President
to the Congress.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2301. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Indian Health Service is authorized to improve municipal, private
or tribal lands with respect to the new construction of the clinic
for the community of King Cove, Alaska authorized under section
353 of Public Law 105–277 (112 Stat. 2681–303).
SEC. 2302. From funds previously appropriated in Public Law
105–277 or other Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations
Acts under the heading ‘‘Department of Energy, Fossil Energy
Research and Development’’, the Secretary of Energy shall make
available within 30 days after enactment of this Act $750,000
for the purpose of executing proposal No. FT40770.
SEC. 2303. (a) Using funds appropriated by section 501(d) of
the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law
106–31), the Secretary shall provide interim compensation within
60 days of the date of the enactment of this Act to—
(1) Dungeness fishing vessel crew members eligible for
interim compensation under the existing National Park Service
program (64 Fed. Reg. 145);
(2) United States fish processors which have been nega-
tively affected by restrictions on fishing for Dungeness crab
in Glacier Bay National Park and which previously received
interim compensation; and
(3) Buy N Pack Seafoods, a United States fish processor
located in Hoonah, Alaska and which has been severely and
negatively impacted by restrictions on fishing in Glacier Bay
National Park, for estimated 1999 and 2000 losses based on
an average net income derived from processing product har-
vested from Glacier Bay fisheries from 1995 through 1998.
Payments made to processors under paragraph (2) are intended
to compensate recipients for losses incurred in 2000 and shall
not exceed compensation provided for losses incurred in 1999. The
Park Service shall not delay the scheduled public involvement
process for the Glacier Bay compensation plan.
(b) The amount of final compensation paid to any entity shall
be reduced by the total dollar amount of any interim compensation
payments received.
(c) Funds appropriated for the purpose of making payments
authorized by section 123(b) of the Department of the Interior
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 (section 101(e) of
division A of Public Law 105–277, as amended) shall also be avail-
able for making payments authorized in subsection (c) of that
section.
CHAPTER 4
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4)
of Public Law 106–113) is amended by striking ‘‘including not
to exceed $750,000 may be collected by the National Mine Health
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and Safety Academy’’ and inserting ‘‘and, in addition, not to exceed
$750,000 may be collected by the National Mine Health and Safety
Academy’’.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES
For ‘‘Health Resources and Services’’ for special projects of
regional and national significance under section 501(a)(2) of the
Social Security Act, $20,000,000, which shall become available on
October 1, 2000, and shall remain available until September 30,
2001: Provided, That such amount shall not be counted toward
compliance with the allocation required in section 502(a)(1) of such
Act: Provided further, That such amount shall be used only for
making competitive grants to provide abstinence education (as
defined in section 510(b)(2) of such Act) to adolescents and for
evaluations (including longitudinal evaluations) of activities under
the grants and for Federal costs of administering the grant: Pro-
vided further, That such grants shall be made only to public and
private entities which agree that, with respect to an adolescent
to whom the entities provide abstinence education under such grant,
the entities will not provide to that adolescent any other education
regarding sexual conduct, except that, in the case of an entity
expressly required by law to provide health information or services
the adolescent shall not be precluded from seeking health informa-
tion or services from the entity in a different setting than the
setting in which the abstinence education was provided: Provided
further, That the funds expended for such evaluations may not
exceed 2.5 percent of such amount.
For an additional amount for ‘‘Health Resources and Services’’,
$3,000,000 to remain available until September 30, 2001, for renova-
tion and construction of a children’s psychiatric services facility
in Wading River, New York: Provided, That the entire amount
is hereby designated by the Congress to be an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That the entire amount provided shall be made available
only after submission to the Congress of a formal budget request
by the President that includes designation of the entire amount
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
DISEASE CONTROL, RESEARCH, AND TRAINING
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Disease Control, Research, and
Training’’, $12,000,000 for international HIV/AIDS programs, to
remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That the
entire amount is hereby designated by the Congress to be an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
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amended: Provided further, That the entire amount provided shall
be made available only after submission to the Congress of a formal
budget request by the President that includes designation of the
entire amount of the request as an emergency requirement as
defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
For an additional amount for ‘‘Disease Control, Research, and
Training’’, $460,000, to be derived by transfer from the amount
made available for fiscal year 2000 for ‘‘Health Resources and
Services Administration, Health Resources and Services’’ for
construction and renovation of health care and other facilities.
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Payments to States for Foster
Care and Adoption Assistance’’ for payments for fiscal year 2000,
$35,000,000.
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Low Income Home Energy Assist-
ance’’ for emergency assistance under section 2602(e) of the Omni-
bus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621(e)),
$600,000,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
the entire amount is hereby designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended: Provided further, That this amount shall be available
only to the extent an official budget request for a specific dollar
amount that includes designation of the entire amount of the
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended,
is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE
Funds appropriated under this heading in the Departments
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section
1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106–113) for fiscal year 2000, pursuant
to section 414(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, shall
be available for the costs of assistance provided and other activities
through September 30, 2002.
ADMINISTRATION ON AGING
AGING SERVICES PROGRAMS
The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4)
of 
Public 
Law 
106–113) 
is 
amended 
by 
inserting 
after
‘‘$934,285,000’’ the following: ‘‘, of which $2,200,000 shall be for
the Anchorage, Alaska Senior Center, and shall remain available
until expended’’.
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
GENERAL DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(RESCISSION)
Of the amounts appropriated under this heading in title II
of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as
enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106–113),
$20,000,000 is rescinded: Provided, That the amount rescinded is
from the amount designated to become available on October 1,
2000, and to remain available until September 30, 2001.
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES EMERGENCY FUND
(INCLUDING RESCISSION)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Public Health and Social Services
Emergency Fund’’, $31,200,000, to remain available until expended
for the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile: Provided, That the entire
amount is hereby designated by the Congress to be an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided
further, That the entire amount provided shall be made available
only after submission to the Congress of a formal budget request
by the President that includes designation of the entire amount
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
In addition, $43,200,000 of the funds appropriated under this
heading in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services,
and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as
enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106–113)
is hereby rescinded: Provided, That of such rescission, $12,000,000
shall be derived from the amount specified under such heading
for international HIV/AIDS programs; and $31,200,000 shall be
derived from the amount specified under such heading for activities
related to countering potential biological, disease and chemical
threats to civilian populations.
GENERAL PROVISION—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES
SEC. 2401. Section 206 of the Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of
Public Law 106–113) is amended by inserting before the period
at the end the following: ‘‘: Provided further, That this section
shall not apply to funds appropriated under the heading ‘Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, Disease Control, Research,
and Training’, funds made available to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention under the heading ‘Public Health and Social
Services Emergency Fund’, or any other funds made available in
this Act to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’’.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
SPECIAL EDUCATION
The matter under this heading in the Department of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4)
of Public Law 106–113 is amended by inserting after the words
‘‘Salt Lake City Organizing Committee’’ the words ‘‘, or a govern-
mental agency or not-for-profit organization designated by the Salt
Lake City Organizing Committee’’.
VOCATIONAL AND ADULT EDUCATION
The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4)
of Public Law 106–113) is amended by striking ‘‘$858,150,000’’
and inserting ‘‘$882,650,000’’, and by striking the last proviso, and
inserting ‘‘Provided further, That of the funds provided to become
available on July 1, 2000, $19,000,000 shall be for Youth Offender
Grants, of which $5,000,000 shall be used in accordance with section
601 of Public Law 102–73 as that section was in effect prior to
the enactment of Public Law 105–220.’’.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Funds appropriated under this heading in Public Law 105–
78 to carry out title X–E of the Higher Education Act shall be
available for obligation by the states through September 30, 2000,
and funds appropriated under this heading in Public Law 105–
277 to carry out title VIII–D of the Higher Education Amendments
of 1998 shall be available for obligation by the states through
September 30, 2001.
For an additional amount for ‘‘Higher Education’’ for carrying
out part B of title VII of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $750,000,
to remain available until expended, which shall be awarded to
the College of New Jersey, in Ewing, New Jersey, for creation
of a center for inquiry and design-based learning in mathematics,
science and technology education: Provided, That the entire amount
is hereby designated by the Congress to be an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That the entire amount provided shall be made available
only after submission to the Congress of a formal budget request
by the President that includes designation of the entire amount
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
The matter under this heading in the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4)
of Public Law 106–113) is amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘North Babylon Community Youth Services
for an educational program’’ and inserting ‘‘Town of Babylon
Youth Bureau for an educational program’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘to promote participation among youth in
the United States democratic process’’ and inserting ‘‘to expand
access to and improve advanced education’’;
(3) by striking ‘‘$500,000 shall be awarded to Shedd
Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo for science education/exposure pro-
grams for local elementary school students’’ and inserting
‘‘$500,000 shall be awarded to Shedd Aquarium/Brookfield Zoo
for science education programs for local school students’’;
(4) by striking ‘‘Oakland Unified School District in Cali-
fornia for an African American Literacy and Culture Project’’
and inserting ‘‘California State University, Hayward, for an
African-American Literacy and Culture Project carried out in
partnership with the Oakland Unified School District in Cali-
fornia’’; and
(5) by striking ‘‘$900,000 shall be awarded to the Boston
Music Education Collaborative comprehensive interdisciplinary
music program and teacher resource center in Boston,
Massachusetts’’ and inserting ‘‘$462,000 shall be awarded to
the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the teacher resource center
and $370,000 shall be awarded to the Boston Music Education
Collaborative for an interdisciplinary music program, in Boston,
Massachusetts’’.
For an additional amount for ‘‘Education Research, Statistics,
and Improvement’’ to carry out part A of title X of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $368,000, to be derived
by transfer from the amount made available for fiscal year 2000
for ‘‘Health Resources and Services Administration, Health
Resources and Services’’ for construction and renovation of health
care and other facilities: Provided, That such amount shall be
awarded to the George Mason University Center for Services to
Families and Schools to expand a program for schools and families
of children suffering from attentional, cognitive, and behavioral
disorders.
RELATED AGENCIES
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Limitation on Administrative
Expenses’’, $35,000,000, to be available through September 30,
2001: Provided, That the entire amount is hereby designated by
the Congress to be an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount
provided shall be made available only after submission to the Con-
gress of a formal budget request by the President that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined in the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2401. Section 513 of the Departments of Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(4) of
Public Law 106–113) is amended by inserting before the period
at the end the following: ‘‘: Provided further, That the provisions
of this section shall not apply to any funds appropriated to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or to the Department
of Education’’.
SEC. 2402. Section 403(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 603(a)(5)), as amended by section 806(b) of the Departments
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section
1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106–113) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (F), by striking ‘‘$1,500,000’’ and
inserting ‘‘$15,000,000’’;
(2) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘$900,000’’ and
inserting ‘‘$9,000,000’’; and
(3) in subparagraph (H), by striking ‘‘$300,000’’ and
inserting ‘‘$3,000,000’’.
SEC. 2403. (a) The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C.
2841) is amended—
(1) in section 503—
(A) by striking ‘‘under Public Law 88–210 (as amended;
20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘under Public Law 105–332 (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.)’’; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, for
fiscal year 2000, the Secretary shall not consider the expected
levels of performance under Public Law 105–332 (20 U.S.C. 2301
et seq.) and shall not award a grant under subsection (a) based
on the levels of performance for that Act.’’.
(b) Section 111(a)(1)(C) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Technical Education Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 2321) is amended by
striking ‘‘fiscal years 2000’’ and inserting ‘‘fiscal years 2001’’.
SEC. 2404. Of the funds made available in the Departments
of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section
1000(a)(4) of Public Law 106–113) for section 10105 of part A
of title X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965,
$2,250,000 of the amount appropriated shall be available October
1, 1999 for evaluation, technical assistance, and school networking
activities, and up to 1 percent of the amount appropriated shall
be available October 1, 1999, for peer review of applications.
SEC. 2405. Section 508(f )(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
(29 U.S.C. 794d(f )(1)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘Effective’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘1998,’’ and inserting ‘‘Effective 6 months
after the date of publication by the Access Board of final stand-
ards described in subsection (a)(2),’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘2 years’’ and all that
follows and inserting ‘‘6 months after the date of publication
by the Access Board of final standards described in subsection
(a)(2).’’.
SEC. 2406. For an additional amount for ‘‘Health Resources
and Services Administration, Health Resources and Services’’,
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$3,500,000, for the Saint John’s Lutheran Hospital in Libby, Mon-
tana, for construction and renovation of health care and other
facilities and an additional amount for the ‘‘Economic Development
Administration’’, $8,000,000, only for a grant to the City of Libby,
Montana, such amount to be transferred to the city upon its request,
notwithstanding the provisions of any other law and without any
local matching share or award conditions: Provided, That the entire
amounts in this section are designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended: Provided further, That the entire amounts provided
within this section shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request that includes designation of the entire amounts
of the request as an emergency requirement as defined in the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
CHAPTER 5
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL
CAPITOL BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
FIRE SAFETY
For an additional amount for the Architect of the Capitol for
expenses for fire safety, $17,480,000, to remain available until
expended, of which $7,039,000 shall be for ‘‘Capitol Buildings and
Grounds, Capitol Buildings, Salaries and Expenses’’; $2,314,000
shall be for ‘‘Senate Office Buildings’’; $4,213,000 shall be for ‘‘House
Office Buildings’’; $3,000 shall be for ‘‘Capitol Power Plant’’; $26,000
shall be for ‘‘Botanic Garden, Salaries and Expenses’’; and
$3,885,000 shall be for ‘‘Architect of the Capitol, Library Buildings
and Grounds, Structural and Mechanical Care’’: Provided, That
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2501. Section 127(e)(1) of division A of the Omnibus
Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act,
1999 (Public Law 105–277; 19 U.S.C. 2213 note) is amended by
striking ‘‘12 months’’ and inserting ‘‘15 months’’.
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CHAPTER 6
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND RELATED
AGENCIES
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
COAST GUARD
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Acquisition, construction, and
improvements’’, $45,000,000 shall be available until expended for
acquisition of one C–37A command and control aircraft: Provided,
That the Commandant of the Coast Guard shall sell the current
VC–11A command and control aircraft and credit the proceeds
from that sale as offsetting collections to the appropriation under
this heading: Provided further, That such proceeds may not be
obligated without further appropriation: Provided further, That of
the available balances under this heading from previous appropria-
tions Acts, $11,400,000 are rescinded.
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION
OPERATIONS
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operations’’, $75,000,000, to
be derived from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and to be
available until September 30, 2001: Provided, That the entire
amount under this heading is designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be avail-
able only to the extent that an official budget request for
$75,000,000, that includes designation of the entire amount of the
request as an emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is
transmitted by the President to the Congress.
RELATED AGENCY
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’,
$19,739,000, for emergency expenses associated with the investiga-
tion of the Egypt Air 990 and Alaska Air 261 accidents, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That such funds shall be avail-
able for wreckage location and recovery facilities, technical support,
testing, and wreckage mock-up: Provided further, That in the event
the Arab Republic of Egypt reimburses the National Transportation
Safety Board for wreckage location and recovery, family assistance,
and interagency expenses, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
reduce the appropriation under this heading by an amount equal
to the reimbursement, less $5,000,000: Provided further, That the
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Secretary of the Treasury shall not credit the appropriation under
this heading with a reimbursement in excess of $8,983,000: Provided
further, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2601. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the
funds available under section 104(a) of title 23, United States
Code, $1,200,000 shall be available for the Paso Del Norte Inter-
national Bridge in the State of Texas; $9,000,000 shall be available
for the U.S. 82 Mississippi River Bridge in the State of Mississippi;
$2,000,000 shall be available for the Union Village/Cambridge Junc-
tion bridges in the State of Vermont; $5,000,000 shall be available
for the Naheola Bridge in the State of Alabama; $3,000,000 shall
be available for the Hoover Dam Bypass in the States of Arizona
and Nevada; $3,000,000 shall be available for the Witt-Penn Bridge
in the State of New Jersey; and $12,000,000 shall be available
for the Florida Memorial Bridge in the State of Florida.
SEC. 2602. Of the funds transferred to the Department of
Transportation for Year 2000 conversion of Federal information
technology systems and related expenses pursuant to Public Law
105–277, $26,600,000 of the unobligated balance are hereby
rescinded: Provided, That the Department of Transportation shall
allocate this rescission among the appropriate accounts within the
Department and report such allocation to the House and Senate
Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 2603. (a) The Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency shall make a grant for the purpose of carrying out
the first year of a 2-year program to implement in five metropolitan
areas pilot design programs developed under section 365(a)(2) of
the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2000 (113 Stat. 1028–1029).
(b) The Administrator shall ensure that each pilot design pro-
gram is implemented in accordance with recommendations devel-
oped by the National Telecommuting and Air Quality Steering
Committee, in consultation with the local design teams.
(c) Grants received under subsection (a) may be used for—
(1) protocol development in the five metropolitan areas;
(2) marketing of the telecommute, emissions reduction,
pollution credits strategy and recruitment of participating
employers; and
(3) data gathering on emissions reductions.
(d) In addition to the grant under subsection (a), for the purpose
of carrying out the second year of the 2-year program referred
to in subsection (a), the Administrator shall—
(1) make a grant of $750,000 to the National Environmental
Policy Institute (a nonprofit private entity incorporated under
the laws of and located in the District of Columbia); and
(2) make grants totaling $1,250,000 to local agencies within
the five metropolitan areas referred to in subsection (a).
(e) Not later than 360 days from first day of the second year
of the 2-year program referred to in subsection (a), the Adminis-
trator shall transmit to Congress a report on the results of the
program.
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(f ) The Administrator shall carry out this section in collabora-
tion with the Secretary of Transportation.
(g) There is appropriated to the Department of Transportation,
‘‘Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy’’, $2,000,000 to carry
out this section. Such amounts shall be transferred to and adminis-
tered by the Environmental Protection Agency and shall remain
available until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the
entire amount shall be available only to the extent an official
budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes designa-
tion of the entire amount of the request as an emergency require-
ment as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President
to the Congress.
SEC. 2604. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, here-
after, funds apportioned under section 104(b)(3) of title 23 which
are applied to projects involving the elimination of hazards of rail-
way-highway crossings, including the separation or protection of
grades at crossings, the reconstruction of existing railroad grade
crossing structures, and the relocation of highways to eliminate
grade crossings, may have a Federal share up to 100 percent
of the cost of construction.
SEC. 2605. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
necessary expenses for planning, preliminary engineering and
design of the Metro-North Danbury to Norwalk commuter rail line
re-electrification project, $2,000,000, to be derived from the Mass
Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount
shall be available only to the extent an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
SEC. 2606. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
necessary expenses for the Second Avenue Subway in New York
City, New York, $3,000,000, to be derived from the Mass Transit
Account of the Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until
expended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount
shall be available only to the extent an official budget request
for a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
SEC. 2607. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
necessary expenses relating to a study of improvements to Highway
8, from the Minnesota border to Highway 51 in the State of Wis-
consin, $500,000, to be derived from the Highway Account of the
Highway Trust Fund and to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress as
an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
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amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be avail-
able only to the extent an official budget request for a specific
dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount of
the request as an emergency requirement as defined by such Act,
is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
SEC. 2608. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
necessary expenses relating to construction of, and improvements
to, Halls Mill Road in Monmouth County, New Jersey, $1,000,000,
to be derived from the Highway Account of the Highway Trust
Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided, That the
entire amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided
further, That the entire amount shall be available only to the
extent an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that
includes designation of the entire amount of the request as an
emergency requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by
the President to the Congress.
CHAPTER 7
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount, $24,900,000 for the Secretary of
the Treasury to establish and operate an in-service firearms training
facility for the United States Customs Service and other agencies,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary
is authorized to designate a lead agency to oversee the development,
implementation and operation of the facility and to conduct training:
Provided further, That the land identified as the Sleepy Hollow
Partnership and Marcus Enterprises tract (44,-R), Harpers Ferry
Magisterial District, Jefferson County, West Virginia, together with
a forty-five foot right-of-way over the lands of Valley Blox, Inc.,
as described in the deed from Joel T. Broyhill Enterprises, Inc.,
to Sleepy Hollow Partnership, et al., in a Deed dated March 29,
1989, and recorded in the Jefferson County Clerk’s Office in Deed
Book 627, Page 494, originally acquired by the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service as a proposed site for a training center but
not selected for that purpose and presently held by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service in an administrative capacity,
shall be managed by the National Park Service pursuant to a
cooperative management agreement between the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service and the National Park Service, consistent
with the laws (including regulations) generally applicable to the
National Park Service: Provided further, That administrative juris-
diction of a suitable portion of said land that is necessary for
the creation of a Department of the Treasury training facility,
to be identified by the National Park Service, shall be transferred
under a lease-type arrangement at no cost within 120-days of the
date of the enactment of this Act to the Department of the Treasury
for such time as required by the Department of the Treasury:
Provided further, That the training to be conducted at the facility
shall be configured in a manner so that it does not duplicate
or displace any Federal law enforcement program of the Federal
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Law Enforcement Training Center: Provided further, That training
currently being conducted at a Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center facility shall not be moved to the new training facility:
Provided further, That at such time as the land is no longer required
for training purposes, administrative jurisdiction shall be trans-
ferred back to the Department of the Interior in a manner and
condition acceptable to the Department of the Interior: Provided
further, That the total amount made available under this section
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an
official budget request that includes designation of the entire
amount as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended,
is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
GIFTS TO THE UNITED STATES FOR REDUCTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
For deposit of an additional amount into the account established
under section 3113(d) of title 31, United States Code, to reduce
the public debt, $4,000,000,000: Provided, That such amount is
designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant
to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That such
amount shall be available only to the extent that an official budget
request, that includes designation of the entire amount of the
request as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended,
is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ related
to planning, coordination and implementation of security for
national special security and major protective events, $10,000,000:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by the Congress
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended: Provided further, That the entire amount shall be
available only to the extent that an official budget request for
a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
by such Act, is transmitted by the President to the Congress.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT AND FUNDS
APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administration for res-
toration and reconstruction of certain electronic mail messages and
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for inclusion of such messages in the Automated Records Manage-
ment System, $8,400,000, which shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002: Provided, That such funds may not be obligated
until the Office of Administration submits to the Committees on
Appropriations an independent verification and validation of the
initial and projected costs of the tape restoration and reconstruction
project: Provided further, That such submission shall include the
final report prepared by the independent verification and validation
contractor to the Office of Administration relating to the initial
and projected cost estimates: Provided further, That the entire
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further,
That the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that
an official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the President
to the Congress.
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
POLICY AND OPERATIONS
For an additional amount, $3,300,000 to remain available until
expended for the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympic and Paralympic
Games doping control program: Provided, That the entire amount
is designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That
the entire amount shall be available only to the extent that an
official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an emergency
requirement as defined by such Act, is transmitted by the Presdient
to the Congress.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2701. Notwithstanding section 1345 of title 31, United
States Code, or section 610 of the Treasury and General Govern-
ment Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–58; 113 Stat. 467),
funds made available for fiscal year 2000 for any other department
or agency of the Federal Government with authority to conduct
counterdrug intelligence activities may be available to finance an
appropriate share of the administrative costs incurred by the
Department of Justice for the Counterdrug Intelligence Executive
Secretariat authorized by the General Counterdrug Intelligence
Plan of February 12, 2000, except that the total amount that
may be used under this section for such purpose shall not exceed
$1,100,000.
SEC. 2702. (a) The unobligated balance as of September 30,
2000, of funds appropriated under the heading ‘‘Internal Revenue
Service, Information Technology Investments’’ in the Treasury
Department Appropriations Act, 1998, title I of Public Law 105–
61, is rescinded.
(b) Subsection (a) shall be effective September 30, 2000.
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(c) The amount rescinded pursuant to subsection (a) is appro-
priated for the capital asset acquisition of information technology
systems, including management and related contractual costs of
said acquisitions, including contractual costs associated with oper-
ations authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, which shall be available through
September 30, 2001: Provided, That none of these funds shall
be obligated until the Internal Revenue Service submits to Congress
and Congress approves a plan for expenditure that: (1) meets the
capital planning and investment control review requirements estab-
lished by the Office of Management and Budget, including OMB
Circular A–11 part 3; (2) complies with the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice’s enterprise architecture, including the modernization blueprint;
(3) conforms with the Internal Revenue Service’s enterprise life
cycle methodology; (4) is approved by the Internal Revenue Service,
the Department of the Treasury, and the Office of Management
and Budget; (5) has been reviewed by the General Accounting
Office; and (6) complies with the acquisition rules, requirements,
guidelines, and systems acquisition management practices of the
Federal Government.
SEC. 2703. RESTORATION
OF MEDICARE TRUST FUNDS. (a)
CORRECTION OF TRUST FUND HOLDINGS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Within 120 days after the effective date
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall take the actions
described in paragraph (2) with respect to each trust fund
with the goal being that, after the actions are taken, the
holdings of the trust fund will replicate, to the extent prac-
ticable in the judgement of the Secretary of the Treasury,
in consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, the obligations that would have been held by the trust
fund if the clerical error had not occurred.
(2) OBLIGATIONS ISSUED AND REDEEMED.—The Secretary
of the Treasury shall—
(A) issue to each trust fund obligations under chapter
31 of title 31, United States Code, that bear issue dates,
interest rates, and maturity dates as the obligations that—
(i) would have been issued to the trust fund if
the clerical error had not occurred; or
(ii) were issued to the trust fund and were
redeemed by reason of the clerical error; and
(B) redeem from each trust fund obligations that—
(i) would not have been issued to the trust fund
if the clerical error had not occurred; or
(ii) would have been redeemed from the trust fund
if the clerical error had not occurred.
(b) CORRECTION OF INTEREST INCOME.—
(1) TRANSFER OF EXCESS INTEREST INCOME.—Within 120
days after the effective date of this Act, the Secretary of the
Treasury shall transfer from the Federal Hospital Insurance
Trust Fund to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance
Trust Fund an amount determined by the Secretary of the
Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Health and
Human Services, to be equal to the amount of interest income
that was credited to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust
Fund that would not have been credited if the clerical error
had not occurred.
(2) CREDIT OF LOST INTEREST INCOME.—Within 120 days
after the effective date of this Act, there is hereby appropriated
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to the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund,
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
an amount determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
to be equal to the difference between—
(A) the interest income lost by that trust fund through
the date of credit by reason of the clerical error; and
(B) the amount transferred to that trust fund under
paragraph (1).
(c) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the following
definitions shall apply:
(1) CLERICAL ERROR.—The term ‘‘clerical error’’ means the
erroneous transfers of moneys between the investment accounts
and uninvested transfer accounts of the trust funds that
occurred in the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, as
described in the Department of Health and Human Services’
‘‘Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 1999: Federal Managers
Financial Integrity Act Report on Systems and Controls’’.
(2) TRUST FUND.—The term ‘‘trust fund’’ means either the
Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund or the Federal Supple-
mentary Medical Insurance Trust Fund.
SEC. 2704. (a) IN GENERAL.—Of the amounts provided to the
Office of National Drug Control Policy for fiscal year 2000, pursuant
to section 237 of H.R. 3425 of the 106th Congress, as enacted
into law by section 1000(a)(5) of Public Law 106–113, the Director
of such Office shall make a direct payment of $3,000,000 to the
United States Olympic Committee for the conduct of anti-doping
activities through the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
(b) DIRECT PAYMENTS.—Effective on the date of the enactment
of this Act, the Director of the Office of National Drug Control
Policy is authorized and directed to make a direct payment to
the United States Olympic Committee for the conduct of anti-
doping activities through the United States Anti-Doping Agency.
SEC. 2705. (a) The unobligated balance as of September 30,
2000, of funds transferred to the United States Secret Service
pursuant to the second sentence of section 240 of H.R. 3425 of
the 106th Congress, as enacted into law by section 1000(a)(5) of
Public Law 106–113, is rescinded.
(b) Subsection (a) shall be effective September 30, 2000.
(c) The amount rescinded pursuant to subsection (a) is appro-
priated to the United States Secret Service for salaries and
expenses, to remain available until September 30, 2001.
SEC. 2706. Of the amounts provided in Public Law 106–58
in the Policy and Operations account, the General Services Adminis-
tration is hereby authorized to provide $225,000, to remain available
until expended, for the Nebraska State Patrol Digital Distance
Learning project.
CHAPTER 8
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS
The referenced statement of the managers in the sixth undesig-
nated paragraph under this heading in title II of Public Law 106–
H. R. 4425—55
74 is deemed to be amended by striking ‘‘Montgomery’’ in reference
to the planning and construction of a regional learning center
at Spring Hill College, and inserting ‘‘Mobile’’.
The referenced statement of the managers in the fourth
undesignated paragraph under this heading in title II of Public
Law 106–74 for neighborhood initiatives for specified grants to
the City of Yankton, South Dakota, for the restoration of the down-
town area and the development of the Fox Run Industrial Park
is deemed to be amended by adding after the word ‘‘Park’’ the
following: ‘‘and for activities to facilitate economic development,
including infrastructure improvements’’.
For an additional amount for targeted economic development
initiatives under the Community Development Block Grants pro-
gram, $27,500,000: Provided, That the statement of the managers
accompanying Public Law 106–74 is deemed to be amended to
include in the description of targeted economic development initia-
tives the following:
‘‘—$1,300,000 to the City of Park Falls, Wisconsin for eco-
nomic development, including purchase of municipal equipment
and infrastructure improvements in industrial parks and the
City of Park Falls;
‘‘—$250,000 to the Lake Superior BTC cultural center in
Washburn, Wisconsin for restoration of facilities and equipment
destroyed by fire;
‘‘—$900,000 to the City of Hatley, Wisconsin for the cost
of water, wastewater and sewer system improvements;
‘‘—$50,000 to the City of Hamlet, North Carolina for demo-
lition and removal of buildings and equipment destroyed by
fire; and
‘‘—$25,000,000 to the City of Youngstown, Ohio for site
acquisition, planning, architectural design, and construction
of a convocation and community center.’’:
Provided, That the entire amount under this paragraph shall be
available only to the extent that an official budget request for
a specific dollar amount, that includes designation of the entire
amount of the request as an emergency requirement as defined
in the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended, is transmitted by the President to the Congress:
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended.
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM
For an additional amount for the HOME investment partner-
ships program, as authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), as amended,
$36,000,000: Provided, That of said amount, $11,000,000 shall be
provided to the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs
and $25,000,000 shall be provided to the North Carolina Housing
Finance Agency for the purpose of providing temporary assistance
in obtaining rental housing, and for construction of affordable
replacement housing: Provided further, That assistance provided
under this paragraph shall be for very low-income families displaced
by flooding caused by Hurricane Floyd and surrounding events:
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by the
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section