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of Veterans Affairs; to travel of the Office of Personnel Management
in carrying out its observation responsibilities of the Voting Rights
Act; or to payments to interagency motor pools separately set forth
in the budget schedules.
SEC. 520. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regula-
tion: (1) The authority of the special police officers of the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, in the Washington, DC Metropolitan
area, extends to buildings and land under the custody and control
of the Bureau; to buildings and land acquired by or for the Bureau
through lease, unless otherwise provided by the acquisition agency;
to the streets, sidewalks and open areas immediately adjacent to
the Bureau along Wallenberg Place (15th Street) and 14th Street
between Independence and Maine Avenues and C and D Streets
between 12th and 14th Streets; to areas which include surrounding
parking facilities used by Bureau employees, including the lots
at 12th and C Streets, SW, Maine Avenue and Water Streets,
SW, Maiden Lane, the Tidal Basin and East Potomac Park; to
the protection in transit of United States securities, plates and
dies used in the production of United States securities, or other
products or implements of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
which the Director of that agency so designates; (2) The exercise
of police authority by Bureau officers, with the exception of the
exercise of authority upon property under the custody and control
of the Bureau, shall be deemed supplementary to the Federal police
force with primary jurisdictional responsibility. This authority shall
be in addition to any other law enforcement authority which has
been provided to these officers under other provisions of law or
regulations.
SEC. 521. Section 5378 of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by adding: ‘‘(8) Chief—not more than the maximum rate
payable for GS–14.’’.
SEC. 522. Subchapter III of chapter 51 of subtitle IV of title
31, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following new section: ‘‘SEC. 5136. UNITED STATES MINT PUBLIC
ENTERPRISE
FUND.’’. There shall be established in the Treasury
of the United States, a United States Mint Public Enterprise Fund
(the ‘‘Fund’’) for fiscal year 1996 and hereafter: Provided, That
all receipts from Mint operations and programs, including the
production and sale of numismatic items, the production and sale
of circulating coinage, the protection of Government assets, and
gifts and bequests of property, real or personal shall be deposited
into the Fund and shall be available without fiscal year limitations:
Provided further, That all expenses incurred by the Secretary of
the Treasury for operations and programs of the United States
Mint that the Secretary of the Treasury determines, in the Sec-
retary’s sole discretion, to be ordinary and reasonable incidents
of Mint operations and programs, and any expense incurred pursu-
ant to any obligation or other commitment of Mint operations
and programs that was entered into before the establishment of
the Fund, shall be paid out of the Fund: Provided further, That
not to exceed 6.2415 percent of the nominal value of the coins
minted, shall be paid out of the Fund for the circulating coin
operations and programs in fiscal year 1996 for those operations
and programs previously provided for by appropriation: Provided
further, That the Secretary of the Treasury may borrow such funds
from the General Fund as may be necessary to meet existing
liabilities and obligations incurred prior to the receipt of revenues
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into the Fund: Provided further, That the General Fund shall be
reimbursed for such funds by the Fund within one year of the
date of the loan: Provided further, That the Fund may retain
receipts from the Federal Reserve System from the sale of circulat-
ing coins at face value for deposit into the Fund (retention of
receipts is for the circulating operations and programs): Provided
further, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer to the
Fund all assets and liabilities of the Mint operations and programs,
including all Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund assets and liabil-
ities, all receivables, unpaid obligations and unobligated balances
from the Mint’s appropriation, the Coinage Profit Fund, and the
Coinage Metal Fund, and the land and buildings of the Philadelphia
Mint, Denver Mint, and the Fort Knox Bullion Depository: Provided
further, That the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund, the Coinage
Profit Fund and the Coinage Metal Fund shall cease to exist as
separate funds as their activites and functions are subsumed under
and subject to the Fund, and the requirements of 31 USC 5134(c)(4),
(c)(5)(B), and (d) and (e) of the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund
shall apply to the Fund: Provided further, That at such times
as the Secretary of the Treasury determines appropriate, but not
less than annually, any amount in the Fund that is determined
to be in excess of the amount required by the Fund shall be
transferred to the Treasury for deposit as miscellaneous receipts:
Provided further, That the term ‘‘Mint operations and programs’’
means (1) the activities concerning, and assets utilized in, the
production, administration, distribution, marketing, purchase, sale,
and management of coinage, numismatic items, the protection and
safeguarding of Mint assets and those non-Mint assets in the cus-
tody of the Mint, and the Fund; and (2) includes capital, personnel
salaries and compensation, functions relating to operations, market-
ing, distribution, promotion, advertising, official reception and rep-
resentation, the acquisition or replacement of equipment, the ren-
ovation or modernization of facilities, and the construction or
acquisition of new buildings: Provided further, That the term
‘‘numismatic item’’ includes any medal, proof coin, uncirculated
coin, bullion coin, numismatic collectible, other monetary issuances
and products and accessories related to any such medal or coin:
Provided further, That provisions of law governing procurement
or public contracts shall not be applicable to the procurement of
goods or services necessary for carrying out Mint programs and
operations.
SEC. 523. Section 531 of Public Law 103–329, is amended
by inserting, ‘‘of the first section’’, after ‘‘adding at the end’’.
SEC. 524. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available
to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection
with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit
program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions,
after the last day of the contract currently in force for any such
negotiated plan.
SEC. 525. The provision of section 524 shall not apply where
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried
to term, or that the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape
or incest.
SEC. 526. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Administrator of General Services shall delegate the authority to
procure automatic data processing equipment for the Tax Systems
Modernization Program to the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided,
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That the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall
have the authority to revoke such delegation upon the written
recommendation of the Administrator that the Secretary’s actions
under such delegation are inconsistent with the goals of economic
and efficient procurement and utilization of automatic data process-
ing equipment: Provided further, That for all other purposes, a
procurement conducted under such delegation shall be treated as
if made under a delegation by the Administrator pursuant to 40
U.S.C. 759.
SEC. 527. RELIEF OF CERTAIN PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS.—For
mail classification purposes under section 3626 of title 39, United
States Code, and any regulations of the United States Postal Service
for the administration of that section, a weekly second-class periodi-
cal publication which—
(i) is eligible to publish legal notices under any applicable
laws of the State where it is published;
(ii) is eligible to be mailed at the rates for mail under
former subsection 4358 (a), (b), and (c) of title 39, United
States Code, as limited by current subsection 3626(g) of that
title; and
(iii) the pages of which were customarily secured by 2
staples before March 19, 1989;
shall not be considered to be a bound publication solely because
its pages continue to be secured by 2 staples after that date.
SEC. 528. (a) Prior to February 15, 1996, none of the funds
appropriated by this Act may, with respect to an individual
employed by the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington
metropolitan region on April 10, 1991, be used to separate, reduce
the grade or pay of, or carry out any other adverse personnel
action against such individual for declining to accept a directed
reassignment to a position outside such region, pursuant to a trans-
fer of any such Bureau’s operations or functions to Parkersburg,
West Virginia.
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any individual
who, prior to February 15, 1996, declines an offer of another position
in the Department of the Treasury which is of at least equal
pay and which is within the Washington metropolitan region.
SEC. 529. Section 4 of the Presidential Protection Assistance
Act of 1976, Public Law 94–524, is amended by striking ‘‘$75,000’’
and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘$200,000’’.
SEC. 530. No part of any appropriation made available in this
Act shall be used to implement Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms Ruling TD ATF–360; Re: Notice Nos. 782, 780, 91F009P.
SEC. 531. Section 5542 of title 5, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding the following new subsection at the end:
‘‘(e) Notwithstanding subsection (d)(1) of this section, all hours
of overtime work scheduled in advance of the administrative work-
week shall be compensated under subsection (a) if that work
involves duties as authorized by section 3056(a) of title 18, United
States Code, and if the investigator performs, on that same day,
at least 2 hours of overtime work not scheduled in advance of
the administrative workweek.’’.
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TITLE VI—GOVERNMENTWIDE GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS
SECTION 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act
may be used to pay travel to the United States for the immediate
family of employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threaten-
ing illness of said employee.
SEC. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the
United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other
Act for fiscal year 1996 shall obligate or expend any such funds,
unless such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place,
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from the
illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances (as
defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the officers and
employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality.
SEC. 603. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1345, any agency, depart-
ment or instrumentality of the United States which provides or
proposes to provide child care services for Federal employees may
reimburse any Federal employee or any person employed to provide
such services for travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses
incurred for training classes, conferences or other meetings in
connection with the provision of such services: Provided, That any
per diem allowance made pursuant to this section shall not exceed
the rate specified in regulations prescribed pursuant to section
5707 of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 604. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with
section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambu-
lances, law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is
hereby fixed at $8,100 except station wagons for which the maxi-
mum shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded
by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to
exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further,
That the limits set forth in this section may not be exceeded
by more than five percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased
for demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid
Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976:
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section may
be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alternative fuels
vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost
of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles.
SEC. 605. Appropriations of the executive departments and
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available
for expenses of travel or for the expenses of the activity concerned,
are hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-
living allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–24.
SEC. 606. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal
year no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other
Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee
of the Government of the United States (including any agency
the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the continental
United States unless such person (1) is a citizen of the United
States, (2) is a person in the service of the United States on