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$11,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading shall
be transferred to the Office of Inspector General appropriation
to remain available until September 30, 1996: Provided further,
That notwithstanding section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provi-
sion of law, not to exceed $59,000,000 of the funds appropriated
under this heading shall be available to the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry to carry out activities described
in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and 111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section
118(f) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of
1986: Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated under
this heading shall be available for the Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry to issue in excess of 40 toxicological profiles
pursuant to section 104(i) of CERCLA during fiscal year 1996:
Provided further, That none of the funds made available under
this heading may be used by the Environmental Protection Agency
to propose for listing or to list any additional facilities on the
National Priorities List established by section 105 of the Com-
prehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act (CERCLA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 9605), unless the Adminis-
trator receives a written request to propose for listing or to list
a facility from the Governor of the State in which the facility
is located, or unless legislation to reauthorize CERCLA is enacted.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking underground stor-
age tank cleanup activities authorized by section 205 of the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, and for
construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of
facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $45,827,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That no more than $7,000,000
shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided further,
That $500,000 shall be transferred to the Office of Inspector General
appropriation to remain available until September 30, 1996.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990,
$15,000,000, to be derived from the Oil Spill Liability trust fund,
and to remain available until expended: Provided, That not more
than $8,000,000 of these funds shall be available for administrative
expenses.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For environmental programs and infrastructure assistance,
including capitalization grants for State revolving funds and
performance partnership grants, $2,323,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, of which $1,400,000,000 shall be for making
capitalization grants for State revolving funds to support water
infrastructure financing; $100,000,000 for architectural, engineer-
ing, design, construction and related activities in connection with
the construction of high priority water and wastewater facilities
in the area of the United States-Mexico Border, after consultation
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with the appropriate border commission; $50,000,000 for grants
to the State of Texas, which shall be matched by an equal amount
of State funds from State resources, for the purpose of improving
wastewater treatment for colonias; $15,000,000 for grants to the
State of Alaska, subject to an appropriate cost share as determined
by the Administrator, to address wastewater infrastructure needs
of rural and Alaska Native villages; and $100,000,000 for making
grants for the construction of wastewater treatment facilities and
the development of groundwater in accordance with the terms and
conditions specified for such grants in the Conference Report accom-
panying this Act (H.R. 2099): Provided, That beginning in fiscal
year 1996 and each fiscal year thereafter, and notwithstanding
any other provision of law, the Administrator is authorized to
make grants annually from funds appropriated under this heading,
subject to such terms and conditions as the Administrator shall
establish, to any State or federally recognized Indian tribe for
multimedia or single media pollution prevention, control and abate-
ment and related environmental activities at the request of the
Governor or other appropriate State official or the tribe: Provided
further, That from funds appropriated under this heading, the
Administrator may make grants to federally recognized Indian
governments for the development of multimedia environmental pro-
grams: Provided further, That of the $1,400,000,000 for capitaliza-
tion grants for State revolving funds to support water infrastructure
financing, $275,000,000 shall be for drinking water State revolving
funds, but if no drinking water State revolving fund legislation
is enacted by June 1, 1996, these funds shall immediately be
available for making capitalization grants under title VI of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: Provided further,
That of the funds made available in Public Law 103–327 and
in Public Law 103–124 for capitalization grants for State revolving
funds to support water infrastructure financing, $225,000,000 shall
be made available for capitalization grants for State revolving funds
under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, if no drinking water State revolving fund legislation
is enacted by June 1, 1996: Provided further, That of the funds
made available under this heading for capitalization grants for
State Revolving Funds under title VI of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as amended, $50,000,000 shall be for wastewater treat-
ment in impoverished communities pursuant to section 102(d) of
H.R. 961 as approved by the United States House of Representatives
on May 16, 1995: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated
in the Construction Grants and Water Infrastructure/State Revolv-
ing Funds accounts since the appropriation for the fiscal year ending
September 30, 1992, and hereafter, for making grants for
wastewater treatment works construction projects, portions may
be provided by the recipients to States for managing construction
grant activities, on condition that the States agree to reimburse
the recipients from State funding sources: Provided further, That
the funds made available in Public Law 103–327 for a grant to
the City of Mt. Arlington, New Jersey, in accordance with House
Report 103–715, shall be available for a grant to that city for
water and sewer improvements.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. None of the funds provided in this Act may be
used within the Environmental Protection Agency for any final
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action by the Administrator or her delegate for signing and publish-
ing for promulgation of a rule concerning any new standard for
radon in drinking water.
SEC. 302. None of the funds provided in this Act may be
used during fiscal year 1996 to sign, promulgate, implement or
enforce the requirement proposed as ‘‘Regulation of Fuels and Fuel
Additives: Individual Foreign Refinery Baseline Requirements for
Reformulated Gasoline’’ at volume 59 of the Federal Register at
pages 22800 through 22814.
SEC. 303. None of the funds appropriated to the Environmental
Protection Agency for fiscal year 1996 may be used to implement
section 404(c) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended. No pending action by the Environmental Protection
Agency to implement section 404(c) with respect to an individual
permit shall remain in effect after the date of enactment of this
Act.
SEC. 304. None of the funds appropriated under this Act may
be used to implement the requirements of section 186(b)(2), section
187(b) or section 211(m) of the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7512(b)(2),
7512a(b), or 7545(m)) with respect to any moderate nonattainment
area in which the average daily winter temperature is below 0
degrees Fahrenheit. The preceding sentence shall not be interpreted
to preclude assistance from the Environmental Protection Agency
to the State of Alaska to make progress toward meeting the carbon
monoxide standard in such areas and to resolve remaining issues
regarding the use of oxygenated fuels in such areas.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and Technology
Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the National Science and
Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (42
U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire of passenger motor vehicles, services
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official
reception and representation expenses, and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia, $4,981,000: Provided, That the
Office of Science and Technology Policy shall reimburse other agen-
cies for not less than one-half of the personnel compensation costs
of individuals detailed to it.
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
For necessary expenses to continue functions assigned to the
Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental
Quality pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969,
the Environmental Improvement Act of 1970 and Reorganization
Plan No. 1 of 1977, $1,000,000.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
DISASTER RELIEF
For necessary expenses in carrying out the functions of the
Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $222,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
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DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans, $2,155,000, as authorized by section
319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided
further, That these funds are available to subsidize gross obligations
for the principal amount of direct loans not to exceed $25,000,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program, $95,000.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, including
hire and purchase of motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343); uniforms,
or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; serv-
ices 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 GS–
18; expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and individuals
at meetings concerned with the work of emergency preparedness;
transportation in connection with the continuity of Government
programs to the same extent and in the same manner as permitted
the Secretary of a Military Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632;
and not to exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation
expenses; $168,900,000.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector General
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of
1978, as amended, $4,673,000.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, to carry
out activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.),
the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42
U.S.C. 7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act
of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the Defense Production
Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), sections
107 and 303 of the National Security Act of 1947, as amended
(50 U.S.C. 404–405), and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978,
$203,044,000.
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM
There is hereby appropriated $100,000,000 to the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency to carry out an emergency food and
shelter program pursuant to title III of Public Law 100–77, as
amended: Provided, That total administrative costs shall not exceed
three and one-half per centum of the total appropriation.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND
For activities under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968,
the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973, and the National Flood