egorization in the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 
Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-
egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-
tems’’ unless the agency has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to 
inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and 
moderate-impact information systems within the 
Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 
threat information provided by the FBI and other 
appropriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other ap-
propriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of 
any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated 
with the acquisition of such system, including any 
risk associated with such system being produced, 
manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 
identified by the United States Government as pos-
ing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, 
those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by 
the People’s Republic of China. 
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(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used to acquire a 
high-impact or moderate-impact information system re-
viewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head 
of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 
(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the 
FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a 
mitigation strategy for any identified risks; 
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 
the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in 
the national interest of the United States; and 
(3) reported that determination to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-
eral. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-
ployee of the United States Government. 
SEC. 516. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or treaty, in fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act or any other Act may be 
expended or obligated by a department, agency, or instru-
mentality of the United States to pay administrative ex-
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penses or to compensate an officer or employee of the 
United States in connection with requiring an export li-
cense for the export to Canada of components, parts, ac-
cessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category 
I, section 121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations 
(International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 
part 121, as it existed on April 1, 2005) with a total value 
not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided 
that the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are 
met by the exporting party for such articles. 
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an ex-
port license— 
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any 
Shipper’s Export Declaration or notification letter 
required by law, or from being otherwise eligible 
under the laws of the United States to possess, ship, 
transport, or export the articles enumerated in sub-
section (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license 
of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and compo-
nents and parts for such firearms, other than 
for end use by the Federal Government, or a 
Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; 
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(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or 
complete breech mechanisms for any firearm 
listed in Category I, other than for end use by 
the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Mu-
nicipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to an-
other foreign destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Di-
rectors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the per-
manent or temporary export without a license of any un-
classified articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for 
end use in Canada or return to the United States, or tem-
porary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for 
end use in the United States or return to Canada for a 
Canadian citizen. 
(d) The President may require export licenses under 
this section on a temporary basis if the President deter-
mines, upon publication first in the Federal Register, that 
the Government of Canada has implemented or main-
tained inadequate import controls for the articles specified 
in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion of such 
articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in an-
other nation. The President shall terminate the require-
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ments of a license when reasons for the temporary require-
ments have ceased. 
SEC. 517. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, in fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year thereafter, 
no department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 
States receiving appropriated funds under this Act or any 
other Act shall obligate or expend in any way such funds 
to pay administrative expenses or the compensation of any 
officer or employee of the United States to deny any appli-
cation submitted pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 2778(b)(1)(B) 
and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR section 478.112 or 
.113, for a permit to import United States origin ‘‘curios 
or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to include in any new bilateral or multi-
lateral trade agreement the text of— 
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United 
States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United 
States–Australia Free Trade Agreement; or 
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United 
States–Morocco Free Trade Agreement. 
SEC. 519. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to authorize or issue a national security 
letter in contravention of any of the following laws author-
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izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 
1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Secu-
rity Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM 
Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 520. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reason-
able cause to believe that the total program cost has in-
creased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall 
immediately inform the respective Secretary, Adminis-
trator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Di-
rector shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 30 days in writing of such increase, 
and shall include in such notice: the date on which such 
determination was made; a statement of the reasons for 
such increases; the action taken and proposed to be taken 
to control future cost growth of the project; changes made 
in the performance or schedule milestones and the degree 
to which such changes have contributed to the increase 
in total program costs or procurement costs; new esti-
mates of the total project or procurement costs; and a 
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statement validating that the project’s management struc-
ture is adequate to control total project or procurement 
costs. 
SEC. 521. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intel-
ligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be 
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-
tion 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3094) during fiscal year 2017 until the enactment of the 
Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017. 
SEC. 522. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to enter into 
a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to 
award a grant in excess of such amount unless the pro-
spective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the 
agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best 
of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has 
filed all Federal tax returns required during the three 
years preceding the certification, has not been convicted 
of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certifi-
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or 
offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-
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nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-
ment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or 
judicial proceeding. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 523. (a) Of the unobligated balances available 
to the Department of Justice, the following funds are 
hereby rescinded, not later than September 30, 2017, from 
the following accounts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $300,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘United States Marshals Service, Federal 
Prisoner Detention’’, $24,000,000; 
(3) ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, $140,000,000 from fees collected to 
defray expenses for the automation of fingerprint 
identification and criminal justice information serv-
ices and associated costs; 
(4) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office on Violence Against Women, Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $15,000,000; 
(5) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office of Justice Programs’’, $40,000,000; 
(6) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, 
Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$10,000,000; 
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(7) ‘‘Legal Activities, Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, 
$304,000,000. 
(8) ‘‘Drug Enforcement Administration, Sala-
ries and Expenses’’, $6,192,000; and 
(9) ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, $51,600,000. 
(b) The Department of Justice shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate a report no later than September 
1, 2017, specifying the amount of each rescission made 
pursuant to subsection (a). 
SEC. 524. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 
travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 
301–10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency, who are stationed in the United States, 
at any single conference occurring outside the United 
States unless such conference is a law enforcement train-
ing or operational conference for law enforcement per-
sonnel and the majority of Federal employees in attend-
ance are law enforcement personnel stationed outside the 
United States. 
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SEC. 526. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
States, its territories, or possessions to house any indi-
vidual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of de-
tention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effec-
tive control of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 
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(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 
the total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 529. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration (NASA) or the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop, design, plan, 
promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, pro-
gram, order, or contract of any kind to participate, col-
laborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP, 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have certified— 
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 
technology, data, or other information with national 
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security or economic security implications to China 
or a Chinese-owned company; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, no later than 
30 days prior to the activity in question and shall include 
a description of the purpose of the activity, its agenda, 
its major participants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act, for fiscal year 2017 and each fiscal year 
thereafter, may be used to pay the salaries or expenses 
of personnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for 
the importation of any model of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 
the proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes. 
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SEC. 531. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other law 
enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 
SEC. 532. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute 
shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective de-
partment or agency head, to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
within 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 533. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
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SEC. 534. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to relinquish the responsibility of the Na-
tional Telecommunications and Information Administra-
tion with respect to Internet domain name system func-
tions, including responsibility with respect to the authori-
tative root zone file and the Internet Assigned Numbers 
Authority functions. 
SEC. 535. No funds provided in this Act shall be used 
to deny an Inspector General funded under this Act timely 
access to any records, documents, or other materials avail-
able to the department or agency over which that Inspec-
tor General has responsibilities under the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978, or to prevent or impede that Inspector 
General’s access to such records, documents, or other ma-
terials, under any provision of law, except a provision of 
law that expressly refers to the Inspector General and ex-
pressly limits the Inspector General’s right of access. A 
department or agency covered by this section shall provide 
its Inspector General with access to all such records, docu-
ments, and other materials in a timely manner. Each In-
spector General shall ensure compliance with statutory 
limitations on disclosure relevant to the information pro-
vided by the establishment over which that Inspector Gen-
eral has responsibilities under the Inspector General Act 
of 1978. Each Inspector General covered by this section 
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shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate within 5 cal-
endar days any failures to comply with this requirement. 
SEC. 536. The Department of Commerce, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Na-
tional Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on any official travel to China 
by any employee of such Department or agency, including 
the purpose of such travel. 
SEC. 537. (a) No funds made available in this Act 
may be used to facilitate, permit, license, or promote ex-
ports to the Cuban military or intelligence service or to 
any officer of the Cuban military or intelligence service, 
or an immediate family member thereof. 
(b) This section does not apply to exports of goods 
permitted under the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export 
Enhancement Act of 2000 (22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.). 
(c) In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Cuban military or intelligence 
service’’ includes, but is not limited to, the Ministry 
of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, and the Min-
istry of the Interior, of Cuba, and any subsidiary of 
either such Ministry; and 
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(2) the term ‘‘immediate family member’’ 
means a spouse, sibling, son, daughter, parent, 
grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece, or neph-
ew. 
SEC. 538. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to approve the registration or renewal 
of, or maintain the registration of, a mark, trade name, 
or commercial name, under the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to 
provide for the registration and protection of trademarks 
used in commerce, to carry out the provisions of certain 
international conventions, and for other purposes’’, ap-
proved July 6, 1946 (commonly referred to as the ‘‘Trade-
mark Act of 1946’’; 15 U.S.C. 1051 et seq.), including 
the receipt or acceptance of post-registration affidavits or 
declarations, where such mark, trade name, or commercial 
name is the same or substantially similar to a mark, trade 
name, or commercial name that was used in connection 
with a business or assets that were confiscated, as that 
term is defined in section 4(4) of the Cuban Liberty and 
Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 
U.S.C. 6023(4)), unless the original owner of the mark, 
trade name, or commercial name, or the bona-fide suc-
cessor-in-interest has expressly consented. 
SEC. 539. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a civil settlement agreement 
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on behalf of the United States that includes a term requir-
ing that any donation be made to any non-party by any 
party-defendant to such agreement. 
SEC. 540. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require a person licensed under section 
923 of title 18, United States Code, to report information 
to the Department of Justice regarding the sale of mul-
tiple rifles or shotguns to the same person. 
SEC. 541. (a)(1) The Secretary, subject to paragraph 
(2), shall develop and conduct a nonnative predator fish 
research and removal pilot program to study the effects 
of removing striped bass, smallmouth bass, largemouth 
bass, black bass, and other nonnative predator fish species 
from the Stanislaus River, California, to benefit native 
anadromous fish. The program shall— 
(A) be scientifically based, with research ques-
tions determined jointly by National Marine Fish-
eries Service scientists and the districts’ technical 
experts; 
(B) be implemented as quickly as possible; and 
(C) be conducted for not to exceed 5 years. 
(2)(A) The Secretary shall develop and conduct the 
program only jointly with the districts. 
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(B) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re-
quire the districts to participate in the development or 
conduct of the program. 
(b) The management of the program shall be the 
joint responsibility of the Secretary and the districts. 
(c) By agreement between the Secretary and the dis-
tricts, the program may be conducted by— 
(1) the districts’ personnel; 
(2) qualified private contractors hired by the 
districts; 
(3) personnel of, on loan to, or otherwise as-
signed to the National Marine Fisheries Service; or 
(4) a combination of the foregoing. 
(d)(1) The districts shall be responsible for 100 per-
cent of the cost of the program. 
(2) The Secretary of Commerce may accept and use 
contributions of funds from the districts to carry out ac-
tivities under the program. 
(e)(1) The program under this section is deemed to 
be consistent with the requirements of the Central Valley 
Project Improvement Act (title XXXIV of Public Law 
102–575). No provision, plan, or definition established or 
required by such Act shall be used to prohibit the imposi-
tion of the program, or to prevent the accomplishment of 
its goals. 
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(2) For purposes of the application of the Central 
Valley Project Improvement Act with respect to the pro-
gram, striped bass shall not be treated as anadromous 
fish. 
(f) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘districts’’ means the Oakdale Ir-
rigation District and the South San Joaquin Irriga-
tion District, California. 
(2) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Commerce, acting through the Assistant Adminis-
trator for Fisheries of the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration. 
SEC. 542. (a) Not later than two years after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Commerce, 
in consultation with the Director of the California Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife, shall develop and implement 
the expanded use of conservation fish hatchery programs 
to enhance, supplement, and rebuild salmonid fish and 
other species listed as endangered species or threatened 
species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), under the biological opinion issued 
under that Act by the National Marine Fisheries Service, 
dated June 4, 2009, on the long-term effects of the Cen-
tral Valley Project and State Water Project in California. 
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(b) The conservation fish hatchery programs estab-
lished under subsection (a) and their associated hatchery 
and genetic management plans shall be designed— 
(1) to benefit, enhance, support, and otherwise 
recover naturally spawning fish species to the point 
where the measures under the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973 are no longer necessary for such spe-
cies; 
(2) to address the recommendations of the Cali-
fornia Hatchery Scientific Review Group; and 
(3) to minimize adverse effects to operations of 
the Central Valley Project and State Water Project 
(as those terms are used in the Central Valley 
Project Improvement Act of 2002 (title XXXIV of 
Public Law 102–575)). 
(c) In implementing this section, the Secretary— 
(1) shall give priority to existing and prospec-
tive hatchery programs and facilities within the Sac-
ramento-San Joaquin Delta and the riverine tribu-
taries thereto; and 
(2) may enter into cooperative agreements for 
the operation of conservation hatchery programs 
with the State of California, tribes, and other non- 
Governmental entities for the benefit, enhancement, 
and support of naturally spawning fish species. 
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102 
SEC. 543. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to carry out the program known as ‘‘Op-
eration Choke Point’’. 
SEC. 544. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, 
respectively, for Drug Courts, as authorized by section 
1001(a)(25)(A) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968; Public Works grants au-
thorized by the Public Works and Economic Development 
Act of 1965; and grants authorized by section 27 of the 
Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 
U.S.C. 3722) shall be allocated for assistance in persistent 
poverty counties: Provided, That for purposes of this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any 
county that has had 20 percent or more of its population 
living in poverty over the past 30 years, as measured by 
the 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses and the most recent 
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates. 
SEC. 545. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission for the ‘‘collection of information’’, as defined 
in 
the 
Paperwork 
Reduction 
Act 
(44 
U.S.C. 
§ 3502(3)(A)), from employers as set forth in the notice 
published by the Commission on February 1, 2016, in the 
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Federal Register (81 Fed. Reg. 5113) or for any final 
‘‘collection of information’’ related to such notice. 
SEC. 546. (a) A State may, in a civil action, obtain 
all appropriate relief against any party for the purpose 
of restoring the original autonomous sovereignty reserved 
to the States by the structure of the Constitution, includ-
ing the tenth article of amendment thereto. The court 
shall promptly hear and determine any such civil action, 
and shall afford the State any necessary preliminary relief. 
The courts shall interpret this section liberally to effec-
tuate its remedial purposes. 
(b) The section shall take effect on the date of enact-
ment of this Act for fiscal year 2017 and continue in effect 
through all fiscal years hereafter. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 547. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 471 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5393 
[Report No. 114–605] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2017, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 7, 2016 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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