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vessels that takes fully into account opportunities for con-
tracting for fisheries surveys.
SEC. 613. Any costs incurred by a Department or
agency funded under this Act resulting from personnel ac-
tions taken in response to funding reductions included in
this Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary re-
sources available to such Department or agency: Provided,
That the authority to transfer funds between appropria-
tions accounts as may be necessary to carry out this sec-
tion is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming
of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be
available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section.
SEC. 614. None of the funds made available in this
Act to the Federal Bureau of Prisons may be used to dis-
tribute or make available any commercially published in-
formation or material to a prisoner when it is made known
to the Federal official having authority to obligate or ex-
pend such funds that such information or material is sexu-
ally explicit or features nudity.
SEC. 615. Of the funds appropriated in this Act
under the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, not more than
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90 percent of the amount to be awarded to an entity under
the Local Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made
available to such an entity when it is made known to the
Federal official having authority to obligate or expend
such funds that the entity that employs a public safety
officer (as such term is defined in section 1204 of title
I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of
1968) does not provide such a public safety officer who
retires or is separated from service due to injury suffered
as the direct and proximate result of a personal injury
sustained in the line of duty while responding to an emer-
gency situation or a hot pursuit (as such terms are defined
by State law) with the same or better level of health insur-
ance benefits at the time of retirement or separation as
they received while on duty.
SEC. 616. None of the funds provided by this Act
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco
products of the same type.
SEC. 617. None of the funds appropriated pursuant
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in connection
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with the implementation of 18 U.S.C. 922(t); (2) any sys-
tem to implement 18 U.S.C. 922(t) that does not require
and result in the destruction of any identifying informa-
tion submitted by or on behalf of any person who has been
determined not to be prohibited from owning a firearm.
SEC. 618. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, amounts deposited in the Fund established under 42
U.S.C. 10601 in fiscal year 1999 in excess of
$500,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until
October 1, 2000.
SEC. 619. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to publish or issue an assessment re-
quired under section 106 of the Global Change Research
Act of 1990 unless—
(1) the supporting research has been subjected
to peer review and, if not otherwise publicly avail-
able, posted electronically for public comment prior
to use in the assessment; and
(2) the draft assessment has been published in
the Federal Register for a 60 day public comment
period.
SEC. 620. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol
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which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II,
section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25
of the Protocol.
TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE
IMMIGRATION EMERGENCY FUND
(RESCISSION)
Of the unobligated balances available under this
heading, $1,137,000 are rescinded.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND RELATED
AGENCIES
UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING OPERATIONS
(RESCISSION)
Of the unobligated balances available under this
heading, $14,829,000 are rescinded.
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RELATED AGENCIES
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(RESCISSION)
Of the unobligated balances available under this
heading, $12,400,000 are rescinded.
TITLE VIII—ADDITIONAL GENERAL
PROVISIONS
SEC. 801. None of the funds made available to the
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-
nate against, denigrate, or otherwise undermine the reli-
gious or moral beliefs of students who participate in pro-
grams for which financial assistance is provided from
those funds, or of the parents or legal guardians of such
students.
SEC. 802. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
shall be available for the purpose of processing or pro-
viding immigrant or nonimmigrant visas to citizens, sub-
jects, nationals, or residents of countries that the Attorney
General has determined deny or unreasonably delay ac-
cepting the return of citizens, subjects, nationals, or resi-
dents under section 243(d) of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act.
SEC. 803. None of the funds made available to the
Department of Justice in this Act may be used for the
purpose of transporting an individual who is a prisoner
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pursuant to conviction for crime under State or Federal
law and is classified as a maximum or high security pris-
oner, other than to a prison or other facility ceritfied by
the Federal Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for
housing such a prisoner.
SEC. 804. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used for participa-
tion by United States delegates to the Standing Consult-
ative Commission in any activity of the Commission to im-
plement the Memorandum of Understanding Relating to
the Treaty Between the United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Limitation of
Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems of May 26, 1972, entered
into in New York on September 26, 1997, by the United
States, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine.
SEC. 805. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any activity in support of adding or
maintaining any World Heritage Site in the United States
on the List of World Heritage in Danger as maintained
under the Convention Concerning the Protection of the
World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
SEC. 806. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to administer or enforce the Uniform
System of Accounts for Telecommunications Companies of
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the Federal Communications Commission (47 CFR 32)
with respect to any common carrier that—
(1) was determined to be subject to price cap
regulation by the Commission’s order in CC Docket
No. 87–313, In the Matter of Policy and Rules Con-
cerning Rates for Dominant Carriers (9–19–90), at
paragraph 262; or
(2) has elected to be subject to price cap regu-
lation pursuant to section 61.41(a)(3) of the Com-
mission’s regulations (47 CFR 61.41(a)(3)).
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000’’.
Passed the House of Representatives August 5,
1999.
Attest:
JEFF TRANDAHL,
Clerk.