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in Canada or return to the United States, or temporary 
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 maintained 
inadequate import controls for the articles specified in sub-
section (a), such that a significant diversion of such articles 
has and continues to take place for use in international 
terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another na-
tion. The President shall terminate the requirements of a 
license when reasons for the temporary requirements have 
ceased. 
SEC. 523. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
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.
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SEC. 524. 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. 525. (a)(1) The Administrator of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration shall modify the 
Administration’s financial management system and per-
form all appropriate testing and assurance activities nec-
essary for the system to be capable of properly budgeting, 
accounting for, controlling, and reporting on appropria-
tions made to the Administration for fiscal year 2009 and 
thereafter under the appropriation accounts set out for the 
Administration in H.R. 3093 of the 110th Congress, as 
passed the House of Representatives. 
(2) The Administrator shall transmit to the Committee 
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate a written re-
port, on a monthly basis until the certification under para-
graph (3) is transmitted, on progress in complying with 
this subsection.
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(3) Not later than April 1, 2008, the Administrator 
shall transmit to the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the Senate a written certification that the Adminis-
tration’s financial management system meets the require-
ments of this section. 
(b) Beginning for the first full month after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall report in 
writing to the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate, on the 15th business day of each month, finan-
cial information on the execution of the Administration’s 
budget for the preceding month and for the fiscal year to 
date. Each report under this subsection shall provide infor-
mation on the Administration’s budget, obligations in-
curred, and disbursements made, presented by— 
(1) mission area (as reflected in the appropria-
tion accounts set out for the Administration in H.R. 
3093 of the 110th Congress, as passed the House of 
Representatives); 
(2) program or project; 
(3) Center; and 
(4) object class, as well as any other financial 
information requested by the Committee on Appro-
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priations of the House of Representatives or the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the Senate. 
SEC. 526. 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-
izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act; The 
Electronic Communications Privacy Act; The Fair Credit 
Reporting Act; The National Security Act of 1947; USA 
PATRIOT Act; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be made available for a 
public-private competition conducted under Office of Man-
agement and Budget Circular A–76 or to convert a function 
performed by Federal employees to private sector perform-
ance without such a competition unless a representative des-
ignated by a majority of the employees engaged in the per-
formance of the activity or function for which the public- 
private competition is conducted or which is to be converted 
without such a competition is treated as an interested party 
with respect to such competition or decision to convert to 
private sector performance for purposes of subchapter V of 
chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code.
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SEC. 528. Section 605 of the Harmful Algal Bloom and 
Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 1451 
note) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by 
striking ‘‘$25,500,000 for fiscal year 2008’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$30,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2008 
through 2010’’; 
(2) in each of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and 
(6) by striking ‘‘2008’’ and inserting ‘‘2010’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2008’’ and inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2008 
through 2010’’. 
SEC. 529. Effective January 13, 2007, section 303A 
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Man-
agement Act (16 U.S.C. 1853a) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘association’’ in subsection 
(c)(4)(A)(iii) and inserting ‘‘association, among will-
ing parties’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2) of subsection (i); 
(3) by striking ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—’’ in sub-
section (i) and resetting paragraph (1) as a full 
measure 
paragraph 
following 
‘‘(i) 
TRANSITION 
RULES.—’’; and 
(4) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), 
and (C) of subsection (i)(1) (before its amendment by
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paragraph (3)) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), re-
spectively and resetting them as indented paragraphs 
2 ems from the left margin. 
SEC. 530. 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 reasonable 
cause to believe that the total program cost has increased 
by 10 percent, the program manager shall immediately in-
form the Secretary, Administrator, or Director. The Sec-
retary, Administrator, or Director 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 state-
ment 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 mile-
stones and the degree to which such changes have contrib-
uted to the increase in total program costs or procurement 
costs; new estimates of the total project or procurement 
costs; and a statement validating that the project’s manage-
ment structure is adequate to control total project or pro-
curement costs.
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SEC. 531. Notwithstanding section 505 of this Act, no 
funds shall be reprogrammed within or transferred between 
appropriations after June 30, except in extraordinary cir-
cumstances. 
SEC. 532. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence 
or intelligence related activities are deemed to be specifi-
cally authorized by the Congress for purposes of section 504 
of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during 
fiscal year 2008 until the enactment of the Intelligence Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. 
SEC. 533. (a) Subsection (a) of section 315 of the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 
(42 U.S.C. 2459j) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, the Administrator’’ and inserting ‘‘The 
Administrator’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘any real property’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘any non-excess real property and related per-
sonal property’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘at no more than two (2) Na-
tional 
Aeronautics 
and 
Space 
Administration 
(NASA) centers’’. 
(b) Subsection (b) of such section is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘consider-
ation’’ and all that follows through the end of the 
paragraph and inserting ‘‘cash consideration for the 
lease at fair market value as determined by the Ad-
ministrator.’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2); 
(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (2); and 
(4) in paragraph (2), as redesignated by para-
graph (3) of this subsection— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘maintenance’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘centers selected for this demonstration pro-
gram’’ and inserting ‘‘capital revitalization and 
construction projects and improvements of real 
property assets and related personal property 
under the jurisdiction of the Administrator’’; 
and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new 
subparagraph: 
‘‘(C) Amounts utilized under subparagraph (B) 
may not be utilized for daily operating costs.’’. 
(c) Subsection (e) of such section is amended—
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(1) by striking ‘‘LEASE RESTRICTIONS.—NASA’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘LEASE
RESTRIC-
TIONS.— 
‘‘(1) NASA’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(2) NASA is not authorized to enter into an 
out-lease under this section unless the Administrator 
certifies that such out-lease will not have a negative 
impact on NASA’s mission.’’. 
(d) Such section is further amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsection (f): 
‘‘(f) SUNSET.—The authority to enter into leases under 
this section shall expire on the date that is ten years after 
the date of the enactment of the Commerce, Justice, Science, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2008. The expi-
ration under this subsection of authority to enter into leases 
under this section shall not affect the validity or term of 
leases or NASA’s retention of proceeds from leases entered 
into under this section before the date of the expiration of 
such authority.’’. 
(e) The heading of such section is amended by striking 
‘‘Enhanced-use lease of real property demonstration’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Lease of non-excess property’’.
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(f) This section shall become effective on December 31, 
2008. 
SEC. 534. The Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions funded under this Act, shall establish and maintain 
on the homepages of their Internet websites— 
(1) a direct link to the Internet websites of their 
Offices of Inspectors General; and 
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors 
General website by which individuals may anony-
mously report cases of waste, fraud, or abuse with re-
spect to those Departments, agencies, and commis-
sions. 
SEC. 535. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
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 prospective con-
tractor or grantee certifies in writing to the agency award-
ing 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 certification, been notified of any 
unpaid Federal tax assessment for which the liability re-
mains unsatisfied, unless the assessment is the subject of
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an installment agreement or offer in compromise that has 
been approved by the Internal Revenue Service and is not 
in default, or the assessment is the subject of a non-frivolous 
administrative or judicial proceeding. 
SEC. 536. This section may be cited as the ‘‘ED 1.0 
Act’’. 
(a) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Admin-
istrator of the National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration. 
(2) The term ‘‘eligible educational institution’’ 
means an institution that is— 
(A) a historically Black college or univer-
sity; 
(B) a Hispanic-serving institution as that 
term is defined in section 502(a)(5) of the High-
er 
Education 
Act 
of 
1965 
(20 
U.S.C. 
1101a(a)(5)); 
(C) a tribally controlled college or univer-
sity as that term is defined in section 2(a)(4) of 
the Tribally Controlled College or University As-
sistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 1801(a)(4)); 
(D) an Alaska Native-serving institution as 
that term is defined in section 317(b)(2) of the
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Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1059d(b)(2)); or 
(E) a Native Hawaiian-serving institution 
as that term is defined in section 317(b)(4) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
1059d(b)(4)). 
(3) The term ‘‘historically Black college or uni-
versity’’ means a part B institution as that term is 
defined in section 322(2) of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1061(2)). 
(b)(1)(A) There is established within the National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration a 
pilot program under which the Administrator shall award 
9 grants to eligible educational institutions to enable the 
eligible educational institutions to develop digital and wire-
less networks for online educational programs of study 
within the eligible educational institutions. The Adminis-
trator shall award not less than 1 grant to each type of 
eligible educational institution, enumerated under sub-
section (a)(2). 
(B)(i) The Administrator shall award a total of 9 
grants under this subsection. 
(ii) The Administrator shall make grant payments 
under this subsection in the amount of $500,000.