mation Officers, Contact Representatives, Investigative 
Assistants, or Immigration Services Officers. 
SEC. 516. Any funds appropriated to ‘‘Coast Guard, 
Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements’’ for fiscal 
years 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006 for the 110– 
123 foot patrol boat conversion that are recovered, col-
lected, or otherwise received as the result of negotiation, 
mediation, or litigation, shall be available until expended 
for the Fast Response Cutter program. 
SEC. 517. The functions of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Center instructor staff shall be classified 
as inherently governmental for the purpose of the Federal 
Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 
note). 
SEC. 518. (a) The Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall submit a report not later than October 15, 2015, 
to the Office of Inspector General of the Department of 
Homeland Security listing all grants and contracts award-
ed by any means other than full and open competition dur-
ing fiscal year 2015. 
(b) The Inspector General shall review the report re-
quired by subsection (a) to assess Departmental compli-
ance with applicable laws and regulations and report the 
results of that review to the Committees on Appropriations 
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of the Senate and the House of Representatives not later 
than February 15, 2016. 
SEC. 519. None of the funds provided by this or pre-
vious appropriations Acts shall be used to fund any posi-
tion designated as a Principal Federal Official (or the suc-
cessor thereto) for any Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief 
and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) 
declared disasters or emergencies unless— 
(1) the responsibilities of the Principal Federal 
Official do not include operational functions related 
to incident management, including coordination of 
operations, and are consistent with the requirements 
of section 509(c) and sections 503(c)(3) and 
503(c)(4)(A) of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 
(6 U.S.C. 319(c) and 313(c)(3) and 313(c)(4)(A)) 
and section 302 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 
Relief and Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5143); 
(2) not later than 10 business days after the 
latter of the date on which the Secretary of Home-
land Security appoints the Principal Federal Official 
and the date on which the President issues a dec-
laration under section 401 or section 501 of the 
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5170 and 5191, respec-
tively), the Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
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submit a notification of the appointment of the Prin-
cipal Federal Official and a description of the re-
sponsibilities of such Official and how such respon-
sibilities are consistent with paragraph (1) to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the 
House of Representatives, the Committee on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep-
resentatives, and the Committee on Homeland Secu-
rity and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; and 
(3) not later than 60 days after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide a re-
port specifying timeframes and milestones regarding 
the update of operations, planning and policy docu-
ments, and training and exercise protocols, to ensure 
consistency with paragraph (1) of this section. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds provided or otherwise 
made available in this Act shall be available to carry out 
section 872 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (6 
U.S.C. 452). 
SEC. 521. Funds made available in this Act may be 
used to alter operations within the Civil Engineering Pro-
gram of the Coast Guard nationwide, including civil engi-
neering units, facilities design and construction centers, 
maintenance and logistics commands, and the Coast 
Guard Academy, except that none of the funds provided 
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in this Act may be used to reduce operations within any 
Civil Engineering Unit unless specifically authorized by a 
statute enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by United States Citizenship and Immi-
gration Services to grant an immigration benefit unless 
the results of background checks required by law to be 
completed prior to the granting of the benefit have been 
received by United States Citizenship and Immigration 
Services, and the results do not preclude the granting of 
the benefit. 
SEC. 523. Section 831 of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (6 U.S.C. 391) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Until Sep-
tember 30, 2014,’’ and inserting ‘‘Until September 
30, 2015,’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ‘‘September 
30, 2014,’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2015,’’. 
SEC. 524. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
require that all contracts of the Department of Homeland 
Security that provide award fees link such fees to success-
ful acquisition outcomes (which outcomes shall be speci-
fied in terms of cost, schedule, and performance). 
SEC. 525. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds provided in this or any other Act 
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shall be used to approve a waiver of the navigation and 
vessel-inspection laws pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 501(b) for 
the transportation of crude oil distributed from the Stra-
tegic Petroleum Reserve until the Secretary of Homeland 
Security, after consultation with the Secretaries of the De-
partments of Energy and Transportation and representa-
tives from the United States flag maritime industry, takes 
adequate measures to ensure the use of United States flag 
vessels: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, 
and Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on 
Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Rep-
resentatives within 2 business days of any request for 
waivers of navigation and vessel-inspection laws pursuant 
to 46 U.S.C. 501(b). 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available in this 
Act for U.S. Customs and Border Protection may be used 
to prevent an individual not in the business of importing 
a prescription drug (within the meaning of section 801(g) 
of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) from im-
porting a prescription drug from Canada that complies 
with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act: Provided, 
That this section shall apply only to individuals trans-
porting on their person a personal-use quantity of the pre-
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scription drug, not to exceed a 90-day supply: Provided 
further, That the prescription drug may not be— 
(1) a controlled substance, as defined in section 
102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802); or 
(2) a biological product, as defined in section 
351 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
262). 
SEC. 527. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
to reduce the United States Coast Guard’s Operations 
Systems Center mission or its government-employed or 
contract staff levels. 
SEC. 528. The Secretary of Homeland Security, in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, shall no-
tify the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
the House of Representatives of any proposed transfers 
of funds available under section 9703.1(g)(4)(B) of title 
31, United States Code (as added by Public Law 102– 
393) from the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture 
Fund to any agency within the Department of Homeland 
Security: Provided, That none of the funds identified for 
such a transfer may be obligated until the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Represent-
atives approve the proposed transfers. 
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SEC. 529. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for planning, testing, piloting, or devel-
oping a national identification card. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to conduct, or to implement the results of, 
a competition under Office of Management and Budget 
Circular A–76 for activities performed with respect to the 
Coast Guard National Vessel Documentation Center. 
SEC. 531. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of this Act, except as provided in subsection (b), and 30 
days after the date on which the President determines 
whether to declare a major disaster because of an event 
and any appeal is completed, the Administrator shall pub-
lish on the Web site of the Federal Emergency Manage-
ment Agency a report regarding that decision that shall 
summarize damage assessment information used to deter-
mine whether to declare a major disaster. 
(b) The Administrator may redact from a report 
under subsection (a) any data that the Administrator de-
termines would compromise national security. 
(c) In this section— 
(1) the term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency; and 
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(2) the term ‘‘major disaster’’ has the meaning 
given that term in section 102 of the Robert T. 
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5122). 
SEC. 532. Any official that is required by this Act 
to report or to certify to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the Senate and the House of Representatives may 
not delegate such authority to perform that act unless spe-
cifically authorized herein. 
SEC. 533. 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. 534. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class travel by the employees 
of agencies funded by this Act in contravention of sections 
301–10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Fed-
eral Regulations. 
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SEC. 535. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to employ workers described in section 
274A(h)(3) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1324a(h)(3)). 
SEC. 536. (a) Any company that collects or retains 
personal information directly from any individual who par-
ticipates in the Registered Traveler or successor program 
of the Transportation Security Administration shall here-
after safeguard and dispose of such information in accord-
ance with the requirements in— 
(1) the National Institute for Standards and 
Technology Special Publication 800–30, entitled 
‘‘Risk Management Guide for Information Tech-
nology Systems’’; 
(2) the National Institute for Standards and 
Technology Special Publication 800–53, Revision 3, 
entitled ‘‘Recommended Security Controls for Fed-
eral Information Systems and Organizations’’; and 
(3) any supplemental standards established by 
the Administrator of the Transportation Security 
Administration (referred to in this section as the 
‘‘Administrator’’). 
(b) The airport authority or air carrier operator that 
sponsors the company under the Registered Traveler pro-
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gram shall hereafter be known as the ‘‘Sponsoring Enti-
ty’’. 
(c) The Administrator shall hereafter require any 
company covered by subsection (a) to provide, not later 
than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, to 
the Sponsoring Entity written certification that the proce-
dures used by the company to safeguard and dispose of 
information are in compliance with the requirements 
under subsection (a). Such certification shall include a de-
scription of the procedures used by the company to comply 
with such requirements. 
SEC. 537. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 
judged to be below satisfactory performance or perform-
ance that does not meet the basic requirements of a con-
tract. 
SEC. 538. In developing any process to screen avia-
tion passengers and crews for transportation or national 
security purposes, the Secretary of Homeland Security 
shall ensure that all such processes take into consideration 
such passengers’ and crews’ privacy and civil liberties con-
sistent with applicable laws, regulations, and guidance. 
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SEC. 539. (a) Notwithstanding section 1356(n) of 
title 8, United States Code, of the funds deposited into 
the Immigration Examinations Fee Account, $10,000,000 
may be allocated by United States Citizenship and Immi-
gration Services in fiscal year 2015 for the purpose of pro-
viding an immigrant integration grants program. 
(b) None of the funds made available to United 
States Citizenship and Immigration Services for grants for 
immigrant integration may be used to provide services to 
aliens who have not been lawfully admitted for permanent 
residence. 
SEC. 540. For an additional amount for the ‘‘Office 
of the Under Secretary for Management’’, $48,600,000, 
to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses 
to plan, acquire, design, construct, renovate, remediate, 
equip, furnish, improve infrastructure, and occupy build-
ings and facilities for the department headquarters con-
solidation project and associated mission support consoli-
dation: Provided, That the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives shall re-
ceive an expenditure plan not later than 90 days after the 
date of enactment of the Act detailing the allocation of 
these funds. 
SEC. 541. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used by the De-
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partment of Homeland Security to enter into any Federal 
contract unless such contract is entered into in accordance 
with the requirements of subtitle I of title 41, United 
States Code, or chapter 137 of title 10, United States 
Code, and the Federal Acquisition Regulation, unless such 
contract is otherwise authorized by statute to be entered 
into without regard to the above referenced statutes. 
SEC. 542. (a) For an additional amount for financial 
systems modernization, $34,072,000 to remain available 
until September 30, 2016. 
(b) Funds made available in subsection (a) for finan-
cial systems modernization may be transferred by the Sec-
retary of Homeland Security between appropriations for 
the same purpose, notwithstanding section 503 of this Act. 
(c) No transfer described in subsection (b) shall occur 
until 15 days after the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives are notified 
of such transfer. 
SEC. 543. Notwithstanding the 10 percent limitation 
contained in section 503(c) of this Act, the Secretary of 
Homeland Security may transfer to the fund established 
by 8 U.S.C. 1101 note, up to $20,000,000 from appro-
priations available to the Department of Homeland Secu-
rity: Provided, That the Secretary shall notify the Com-
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mittees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
of Representatives 5 days in advance of such transfer. 
SEC. 544. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines 
that specific U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement 
Service Processing Centers or other U.S. Immigration and 
Customs Enforcement owned detention facilities no longer 
meet the mission need, the Secretary is authorized to dis-
pose of individual Service Processing Centers or other 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement owned de-
tention facilities by directing the Administrator of General 
Services to sell all real and related personal property which 
support Service Processing Centers or other U.S. Immi-
gration and Customs Enforcement owned detention facili-
ties, subject to such terms and conditions as necessary to 
protect Government interests and meet program require-
ments: Provided, That the proceeds, net of the costs of 
sale incurred by the General Services Administration and 
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, shall be de-
posited as offsetting collections into a separate account 
that shall be available, subject to appropriation, until ex-
pended for other real property capital asset needs of exist-
ing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement assets, 
excluding daily operations and maintenance costs, as the 
Secretary deems appropriate: Provided further, That any 
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sale or collocation of federally owned detention facilities 
shall not result in the maintenance of fewer than 34,000 
detention beds: Provided further, That the Committees on 
Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Represent-
atives shall be notified 15 days prior to the announcement 
of any proposed sale or collocation. 
SEC. 545. The Commissioner of U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection and the Assistant Secretary of Home-
land Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforce-
ment shall, with respect to fiscal years 2015, 2016, 2017, 
and 2018, submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives, at the 
time that the President’s budget proposal for fiscal year 
2016 is submitted pursuant to the requirements of section 
1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, the information 
required in the multi-year investment and management 
plans required, respectively, under the headings ‘‘U.S. 
Customs and Border Protection, Salaries and Expenses’’ 
under title II of division D of the Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act, 2012 (Public Law 112–74); ‘‘U.S. Customs and 
Border Protection, Border Security Fencing, Infrastruc-
ture, and Technology’’ under such title; and section 568 
of such Act. 
SEC. 546. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall 
ensure enforcement of all immigration laws (as defined in 
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section 101(a)(17) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
(8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(17))). 
SEC. 547. (a) Of the amounts made available by this 
Act for ‘‘National Protection and Programs Directorate, 
Infrastructure Protection and Information Security’’, 
$140,525,000 for the Federal Network Security program, 
project, and activity shall be used to deploy on Federal 
systems technology to improve the information security of 
agency information systems covered by section 3543(a) of 
title 44, United States Code: Provided, That funds made 
available under this section shall be used to assist and sup-
port Government-wide and agency-specific efforts to pro-
vide adequate, risk-based, and cost-effective cybersecurity 
to address escalating and rapidly evolving threats to infor-
mation security, including the acquisition and operation 
of a continuous monitoring and diagnostics program, in 
collaboration with departments and agencies, that includes 
equipment, software, and Department of Homeland Secu-
rity supplied services: Provided further, That continuous 
monitoring and diagnostics software procured by the 
funds made available by this section shall not transmit to 
the Department of Homeland Security any personally 
identifiable information or content of network communica-
tions of other agencies’ users: Provided further, That such 
software shall be installed, maintained, and operated in 
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(22) $98,841 from ‘‘Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, United States Fire Administra-
tion’’; 
(23) $448,073 from ‘‘United States Citizenship 
and Immigration Services’’; 
(24) $519,503 from ‘‘Federal Law Enforcement 
Training Center, Salaries and Expenses’’; 
(25) $500,005 from ‘‘Science and Technology, 
Management and Administration’’; and 
(26) $68,910 from ‘‘Domestic Nuclear Detec-
tion Office, Management and Administration’’. 
(RESCISSION) 
SEC. 577. Of the unobligated balances made available 
to ‘‘Federal Emergency Management Agency, Disaster 
Relief Fund’’, $375,000,000 shall be rescinded: Provided, 
That no amounts may be rescinded from amounts that 
were designated by the Congress as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That no 
amounts may be rescinded from the amounts that were 
designated by the Congress as being for disaster relief pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D) of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
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