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recaptured from contracts following a conversion under the 
previous two provisos are hereby rescinded and an amount 
of additional new budget authority, equivalent to the amount 
rescinded is hereby appropriated, to remain available until 
expended for such conversions: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may transfer amounts made available under the heading 
‘Rental Housing Assistance’, amounts made available for tenant 
protection vouchers under the heading ‘Tenant-Based Rental 
Assistance’ and specifically associated with any such conver-
sions, and amounts made available under the previous proviso 
as needed to the account under the ‘Project-Based Rental Assist-
ance’ heading to facilitate conversion under the three previous 
provisos and any increase in cost for ‘Project-Based Rental 
Assistance’ associated with such conversion shall be equal to 
amounts so transferred:’’; and 
(7) in the final proviso, by— 
(A) striking ‘‘with respect to the previous proviso’’ and 
inserting ‘‘with respect to the previous four provisos’’; and 
(B) striking ‘‘impact of the previous proviso’’ and 
inserting ‘‘impact of the fiscal year 2012 and 2013 conver-
sion of tenant protection vouchers to assistance under sec-
tion 8(o)(13) of the Act’’. 
SEC. 235. None of the funds made available by this Act nor 
any receipts or amounts collected under any Federal Housing 
Administration program may be used to implement the Home-
owners Armed with Knowledge (HAWK) program. 
SEC. 236. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 
be used by the Federal Housing Administration, the Government 
National Mortgage Administration, or the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development to insure, securitize, or establish a Federal 
guarantee of any mortgage or mortgage backed security that 
refinances or otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject 
to eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a state, munici-
pality, or any other political subdivision of a state. 
SEC. 237. All unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development under the heading ‘‘Brownfields 
Redevelopment’’ are hereby permanently rescinded: Provided, That 
all unobligated balances, including recaptures and carryover, 
remaining from funds appropriated to the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development under the heading ‘‘Drug Elimination 
Grants for Low Income Housing’’ are hereby permanently rescinded: 
Provided further, That all unobligated balances, including recap-
tures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development for Youthbuild 
program activities authorized by subtitle D of title IV of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act are hereby perma-
nently rescinded. 
SEC. 238. Clause (i) of section 3(a)(2)(B) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437a(a)(2)(B)(i)), as amended by 
section 210 of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2014 (division L of Public 
Law 113–76; 128 Stat. 625), is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘which shall not be lower’’ in the matter 
preceding subclause (I) and all that follows through the end 
of subclause (I) and inserting the following: ‘‘which— 
‘‘(I) shall not be lower than 80 percent of—
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‘‘(aa) the applicable fair market rental 
established under section 8(c) of this Act; or 
‘‘(bb) at the discretion of the Secretary, 
such other applicable fair market rental estab-
lished by the Secretary that the Secretary 
determines more accurately reflects local 
market conditions and is based on an 
applicable market area that is geographically 
smaller than the applicable market area used 
for purposes of the applicable fair market 
rental under section 8(c); 
except that a public housing agency may apply 
to the Secretary for exception allowing for a flat 
rental amount for a property that is lower than 
the amount otherwise determined pursuant to item 
(aa) or (bb) and the Secretary may grant such 
exception if the Secretary determines that the fair 
market rental for the applicable market area 
pursuant to item (aa) or (bb) does not reflect the 
market value of the property and the proposed 
lower flat rental amount is based on a market 
analysis of the applicable market and complies 
with subclause (II) and’’; 
(2) in subclause (II), by inserting ‘‘shall’’ before ‘‘be 
designed’’; and 
(3) in the matter after and below subclause (II), by striking 
‘‘Public housing agencies must comply by June 1, 2014, with 
the requirement of this clause, except that if’’ and inserting 
‘‘If’’. 
SEC. 239. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to require the relocation, or to carry out any required 
relocation, of any asset management positions of the Office of Multi-
family Housing of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment in existence as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 240. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to terminate the status of a unit of general local government 
as a metropolitan city (as defined in section 102 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with 
respect to grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 241. Section 184(h)(1)(B) of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13a(h)(1)(B)) is amended 
by inserting after the first sentence the following: ‘‘Exhausting 
all reasonable possibilities of collection by the holder of the guar-
antee shall include a good faith consideration of loan modification 
as well as meeting standards for servicing loans in default, as 
determined by the Secretary.’’. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2015’’.
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TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as authorized 
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 
$7,548,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, there may be credited to this appropriation funds received 
for publications and training expenses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Commission 
as authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 
as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), including services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 
31 U.S.C. 1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $25,660,000: Provided, That not to 
exceed $2,000 shall be available for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General for 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to carry out the provi-
sions of the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, $23,999,000: 
Provided, That the Inspector General shall have all necessary 
authority, in carrying out the duties specified in the Inspector 
General Act, as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 
of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 U.S.C. 
1001), by any person or entity that is subject to regulation by 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Provided further, 
That the Inspector General may enter into contracts and other 
arrangements for audits, studies, analyses, and other services with 
public agencies and with private persons, subject to the applicable 
laws and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 
within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Provided fur-
ther, That the Inspector General may select, appoint, and employ 
such officers and employees as may be necessary for carrying out 
the functions, powers, and duties of the Office of Inspector General, 
subject to the applicable laws and regulations that govern such 
selections, appointments, and employment within Amtrak: Provided 
further, That concurrent with the President’s budget request for 
fiscal year 2016, the Inspector General shall submit to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a budget request for 
fiscal year 2016 in similar format and substance to those submitted 
by executive agencies of the Federal Government.
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NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transportation Safety 
Board, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals 
not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS– 
15; uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902), $103,981,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 may be 
used for official reception and representation expenses. The amounts 
made available to the National Transportation Safety Board in 
this Act include amounts necessary to make lease payments on 
an obligation incurred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation 
for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as authorized by 
the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8101– 
8107), $135,000,000, of which $5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family 
rental housing program: Provided, That in addition, $50,000,000 
shall be made available until expended to the Neighborhood 
Reinvestment Corporation for mortgage foreclosure mitigation 
activities, under the following terms and conditions: 
(1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation (‘‘NRC’’) 
shall make grants to counseling intermediaries approved by 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) 
(with match to be determined by the NRC based on affordability 
and the economic conditions of an area; a match also may 
be waived by the NRC based on the aforementioned conditions) 
to provide mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance primarily 
to States and areas with high rates of defaults and foreclosures 
to help eliminate the default and foreclosure of mortgages of 
owner-occupied single-family homes that are at risk of such 
foreclosure. Other than areas with high rates of defaults and 
foreclosures, grants may also be provided to approved coun-
seling intermediaries based on a geographic analysis of the 
Nation by the NRC which determines where there is a preva-
lence of mortgages that are risky and likely to fail, including 
any trends for mortgages that are likely to default and face 
foreclosure. A State Housing Finance Agency may also be 
eligible where the State Housing Finance Agency meets all 
the requirements under this paragraph. A HUD-approved coun-
seling intermediary shall meet certain mortgage foreclosure 
mitigation assistance counseling requirements, as determined 
by the NRC, and shall be approved by HUD or the NRC 
as meeting these requirements. 
(2) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance shall only 
be made available to homeowners of owner-occupied homes 
with mortgages in default or in danger of default. These mort-
gages shall likely be subject to a foreclosure action and home-
owners will be provided such assistance that shall consist of 
activities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and result 
in the long-term affordability of the mortgage retained pursuant 
to such activity or another positive outcome for the homeowner.
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No funds made available under this paragraph may be provided 
directly to lenders or homeowners to discharge outstanding 
mortgage balances or for any other direct debt reduction pay-
ments. 
(3) The use of mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
by approved counseling intermediaries and State Housing 
Finance Agencies shall involve a reasonable analysis of the 
borrower’s financial situation, an evaluation of the current 
value of the property that is subject to the mortgage, counseling 
regarding the assumption of the mortgage by another non- 
Federal party, counseling regarding the possible purchase of 
the mortgage by a non-Federal third party, counseling and 
advice of all likely restructuring and refinancing strategies 
or the approval of a work-out strategy by all interested parties. 
(4) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the total funds 
under this paragraph to its own charter members with expertise 
in foreclosure prevention counseling, subject to a certification 
by the NRC that the procedures for selection do not consist 
of any procedures or activities that could be construed as a 
conflict of interest or have the appearance of impropriety. 
(5) HUD-approved counseling entities and State Housing 
Finance Agencies receiving funds under this paragraph shall 
have demonstrated experience in successfully working with 
financial institutions as well as borrowers facing default, delin-
quency and foreclosure as well as documented counseling 
capacity, outreach capacity, past successful performance and 
positive outcomes with documented counseling plans (including 
post mortgage foreclosure mitigation counseling), loan workout 
agreements and loan modification agreements. NRC may use 
other criteria to demonstrate capacity in underserved areas. 
(6) Of the total amount made available under this para-
graph, up to $2,500,000 may be made available to build the 
mortgage foreclosure and default mitigation counseling capacity 
of counseling intermediaries through NRC training courses with 
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their partners, 
except that private financial institutions that participate in 
NRC training shall pay market rates for such training. 
(7) Of the total amount made available under this para-
graph, up to 5 percent may be used for associated administra-
tive expenses for the NRC to carry out activities provided 
under this section. 
(8) Of the total amount made available under this para-
graph, up to $4,000,000 may be used for wind-down and close-
out of the mortgage foreclosure mitigation activities program. 
(9) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance grants may 
include a budget for outreach and advertising, and training, 
as determined by the NRC. 
(10) The NRC shall continue to report bi-annually to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as well as 
the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services 
Committee on its efforts to mitigate mortgage default.
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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, author-
ized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rental of conference 
rooms, and the employment of experts and consultants under section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code) of the United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant 
to title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as 
amended, $3,530,000. Title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11319) is amended by striking ‘‘October 
1, 2016’’ in section 209 and inserting ‘‘October 1, 2017’’. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used for 
the planning or execution of any program to pay the expenses 
of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties intervening in 
regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, nor 
may any be transferred to other appropriations, unless expressly 
so provided herein. 
SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation under this 
Act for any consulting service through a procurement contract 
pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be 
limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter 
of public record and available for public inspection, except where 
otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive 
order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in this Act 
may be obligated or expended for any employee training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with reli-
gious or quasi-religious belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief sys-
tems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
Notice N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants’ 
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or otherwise 
preclude an agency from conducting training bearing directly upon 
the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of 
the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations 
Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2015, or pro-
vided from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collection 
of fees and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall
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be available for obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming 
of funds that: 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any program, project, 
or activity for which funds have been denied or restricted 
by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for a different purpose; 
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or activities in 
excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or activities by 
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, 
office, bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or 
department different from the budget justifications submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, whichever 
is more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, 
That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of 
the House of Representatives to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the 
current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report shall 
include: 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
column to display the prior year enacted level, the Presi-
dent’s budget request, adjustments made by Congress, 
adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and 
the fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each appropriation 
and its respective prior year enacted level by object class 
and program, project, and activity as detailed in the budget 
appendix for the respective appropriation; and 
(C) an identification of items of special congressional 
interest: Provided further, That the amount appropriated 
or limited for salaries and expenses for an agency shall 
be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after the 
required date that the report has not been submitted to 
the Congress. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law, 
not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available 
at the end of fiscal year 2015 from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2015 in this Act, shall 
remain available through September 30, 2016, for each such account 
for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogram-
ming guidelines under section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support any 
Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of 
eminent domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a 
public use: Provided, That for purposes of this section, public use
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shall not be construed to include economic development that pri-
marily benefits private entities: Provided further, That any use 
of funds for mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway 
projects, as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the general 
public (including energy-related, communication-related, water- 
related and wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures 
designated for use by the general public or which have other 
common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve the general 
public and are subject to regulation and oversight by the govern-
ment, and projects for the removal of an immediate threat to 
public health and safety or brownsfields as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization Act (Public 
Law 107–118) shall be considered a public use for purposes of 
eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. All Federal agencies and departments that are funded 
under this Act shall issue a report to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations on all sole-source contracts by no later 
than July 30, 2015. Such report shall include the contractor, the 
amount of the contract and the rationale for using a sole-source 
contract. 
SEC. 409. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priations Act. 
SEC. 410. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, 
other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee 
who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and 
has satisfactorily completed his or her period of active military 
or naval service, and has within 90 days after his or her release 
from such service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge 
for a period of not more than 1 year, made application for restoration 
to his or her former position and has been certified by the Office 
of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties 
of his or her former position and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 411. 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’’). 
SEC. 412. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act shall be made available to any person or entity 
that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 
U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 413. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of 
sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used in contravention of the 5th or 14th Amendment to the 
Constitution or title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
SEC. 415. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under 
sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or 
exemption application under section 40109 of that title of an air 
carrier already holding an air operators certificate issued by a
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country that is party to the U.S.–E.U.–Iceland–Norway Air Trans-
port Agreement where such approval would contravene United 
States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.–E.U.–Iceland–Norway Air 
Transport Agreement. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise 
preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign 
air carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where 
such authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway 
Air Transport Agreement and United States law. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to obligate or award funds for the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration’s National Roadside Survey. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to mandate global positioning system (GPS) tracking in 
private passenger motor vehicles without providing full and appro-
priate consideration of privacy concerns under 5 U.S.C. chapter 
5, subchapter II. 
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used by the Federal Transit Administration to implement, admin-
ister, or enforce section 18.36(c)(2) of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, for construction hiring purposes. 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles for any execu-
tive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inventory, except in accordance 
with Presidential Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated 
May 24, 2011. 
SEC. 420. It is the sense of the Congress that the Congress 
should not pass any legislation that authorizes spending cuts that 
would increase poverty in the United States. 
SEC. 421. All agencies and departments funded by the Act 
shall send to Congress at the end of the fiscal year a report con-
taining a complete inventory of the total number of vehicles owned, 
leased, permanently retired, and purchased during fiscal year 2015, 
as well as the total cost of the vehicle fleet, including maintenance, 
fuel, storage, purchasing, and leasing. 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 
50 employees of a single agency or department of the United States 
Government, who are stationed in the United States, at any single 
international conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to 
the Committees on Appropriations at least 5 days in advance that 
such attendance is important to the national interest: Provided, 
That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘international conference’’ 
shall mean a conference occurring outside of the United States 
attended by representatives of the United States Government and 
of foreign governments, international organizations, or nongovern-
mental organizations. 
SEC. 423. (a) Any agency receiving funds made available in 
this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), post on the public 
website of that agency any report required to be submitted by 
the Committee in this or any other Act, upon the determination 
by the head of the agency that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if-- 
(1) the public posting of the report compromises national 
security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information.