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SEC. 404. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year
unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or employee
of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by, or is part
of, a voucher or abstract which describes the payee or
payees and the items or services for which such expenditure
is being made; or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to such certifi-
cation, and without such a voucher or abstract, is specifi-
cally authorized by law; and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by the
General Accounting Office or is specifically exempt by law
from such audit.
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency may be expended for the transportation of any
officer or employee of such department or agency between their
domicile and their place of employment, with the exception of any
officer or employee authorized such transportation under 31 U.S.C.
1344 or 5 U.S.C. 7905.
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may be
used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipients that
do not share in the cost of conducting research resulting from
proposals not specifically solicited by the Government: Provided,
That the extent of cost sharing by the recipient shall reflect the
mutuality of interest of the grantee or contractor and the Govern-
ment in the research.
SEC. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used, directly
or through grants, to pay or to provide reimbursement for payment
of the salary of a consultant (whether retained by the Federal
Government or a grantee) at more than the daily equivalent of
the rate paid for level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifi-
cally authorized by law.
SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be
used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal
parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings.
Nothing herein affects the authority of the Consumer Product Safety
Commission pursuant to section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety
Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under existing law,
or under an existing Executive order issued pursuant to an existing
law, the obligation or expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for contracts for any consulting service shall be limited to
contracts which are: (1) a matter of public record and available
for public inspection; and (2) thereafter included in a publicly avail-
able list of all contracts entered into within 24 months prior to
the date on which the list is made available to the public and
of all contracts on which performance has not been completed
by such date. The list required by the preceding sentence shall
be updated quarterly and shall include a narrative description
of the work to be performed under each such contract.
SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no part of
any appropriation contained in this Act shall be obligated or
expended by any executive agency, as referred to in the Office
of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for
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a contract for services unless such executive agency: (1) has awarded
and entered into such contract in full compliance with such Act
and the regulations promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any
report prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, evalua-
tions, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report prepared
by the agency which is substantially derived from or substantially
includes any report prepared pursuant to such contract, to contain
information concerning: (A) the contract pursuant to which the
report was prepared; and (B) the contractor who prepared the
report pursuant to such contract.
SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section 406, none
of the funds provided in this Act to any department or agency
shall be obligated or expended to provide a personal cook, chauffeur,
or other personal servants to any officer or employee of such depart-
ment or agency.
SEC. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger
automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 with an EPA estimated
miles per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 414. None of the funds appropriated in title I of this
Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of real property
if the estimated annual rental is more than $300,000 unless the
Secretary submits, in writing, a report to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the Congress and a period of 30 days has expired
following the date on which the report is received by the Committees
on Appropriations.
SEC. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to the
greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products purchased
with funds made available in this Act should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering into any
contract with, any entity using funds made available in this Act,
the head of each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the statement made
in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may
be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to grantees
for indirect costs, except as published in Office of Management
and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2000
pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall be absorbed within
the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used for any program, project, or activity, when it is made
known to the Federal entity or official to which the funds are
made available that the program, project, or activity is not in
compliance with any Federal law relating to risk assessment, the
protection of private property rights, or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act, as amended, are hereby authorized
to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing
authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without
regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of
the Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set
forth in the budget for 2000 for such corporation or agency except
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as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections of these corpora-
tions and agencies may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase
commitments only to the extent expressly provided for in this
Act (unless such loans are in support of other forms of assistance
provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), except that this
proviso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage pur-
chases are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United
States Government.
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding section 320(g) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)), funds made available
pursuant to authorization under such section for fiscal year 2000
may be used for implementing comprehensive conservation and
management plans.
SEC. 421. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to national service edu-
cation awards shall mean any loan made directly to a student
by the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education, in addition
to other meanings under section 148(b)(7) of the National and
Community Service Act.
SEC. 422. It is the sense of the Congress that, along with
health care, housing, education, and other benefits, the presence
of an honor guard at a veteran’s funeral is a benefit that a veteran
has earned, and, therefore, the executive branch should provide
funeral honor details for the funerals of veterans when requested,
in accordance with law.
SEC. 423. Notwithstanding any other law, funds made available
by this or any other Act or previous Acts for the United States/
Mexico Foundation for Science may be used for the endowment
of such Foundation: Provided, That funds from the United States
Government shall be matched in equal amounts with funds from
Mexico: Provided further, That the accounts of such Foundation
shall be subject to United States Government administrative and
audit requirements concerning grants and requirements concerning
cost principles for nonprofit organizations: Provided further, That
the United States/Mexico Foundation for Science is renamed the
‘‘George E. Brown United States/Mexico Foundation for Science’’.
SEC. 424. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used to carry out Executive Order No. 13083.
SEC. 425. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act, no part
of any appropriation for the Department of Housing and Urban
Development shall be available for any activity in excess of amounts
set forth in the budget estimates submitted for the appropriations.
SEC. 426. Except in the case of entities that are funded solely
with Federal funds or any natural persons that are funded under
this Act, 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 to lobby or litigate
in respect to adjudicatory proceedings funded in this Act. A chief
executive officer of any entity receiving funds under this Act shall
certify that none of these funds have been used to engage in
the lobbying of the Federal Government or in litigation against
the United States unless authorized under existing law.
SEC. 427. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES NOT INCLUDED
AS
OWNER
OR OPERATOR. Section 101(20)(D) of the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980
(42 U.S.C. 9601(20)(D)) is amended by inserting ‘‘through seizure
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or otherwise in connection with law enforcement activity’’ before
‘‘involuntary’’ the first place it appears.
SEC. 428. No part of any funds appropriated in this Act shall
be used by an agency of the executive branch, other than for
normal and recognized executive-legislative relationships, for pub-
licity or propaganda purposes, and for the preparation, distribution
or use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television
or film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation
pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the Congress
itself.
SEC. 429. The comment period on the proposed rules related
to section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act published at 64 Federal
Register 46012 and 46058 (August 23, 1999) shall be extended
from October 22, 1999, for a period of 90 additional calendar days.
SEC. 430. Section 4(a) of the Act of August 9, 1950 (16 U.S.C.
777c(a)), is amended in the second sentence by striking ‘‘1999’’
and inserting ‘‘2000’’.
SEC. 431. PROMULGATION OF STORMWATER REGULATIONS. (a)
STORMWATER REGULATIONS.—The Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency shall not promulgate the Phase II
stormwater regulations until the Administrator submits to the Com-
mittee on Environment and Public Works of the Senate and the
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of
Representatives a report containing—
(1) an in-depth impact analysis on the effect the final
regulations will have on urban, suburban, and rural local
governments subject to the regulations, including an estimate
of—
(A) the costs of complying with the six minimum control
measures described in the regulations; and
(B) the costs resulting from the lowering of the
construction threshold from 5 acres to 1 acre;
(2) an explanation of the rationale of the Administrator
for lowering the construction site threshold from 5 acres to
1 acre, including—
(A) an explanation, in light of recent court decisions,
of why a 1-acre measure is any less arbitrarily determined
than a 5-acre measure; and
(B) all qualitative information used in determining an
acre threshold for a construction site;
(3) documentation demonstrating that stormwater runoff
is generally a problem in communities with populations of
50,000 to 100,000 (including an explanation of why the coverage
of the regulation is based on a census-determined population
instead of a water quality threshold); and
(4) information that supports the position of the Adminis-
trator that the Phase II stormwater program should be adminis-
tered as part of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
System under section 402 of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act (33 U.S.C. 1342).
(b) PHASE I REGULATIONS.—No later than 120 days after the
enactment of this Act, the Environmental Protection Agency shall
submit to the Environment and Public Works Committee of the
Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
of the House of Representatives a report containing a detailed
explanation of the impact, if any, that the Phase I program has
had in improving water quality in the United States (including