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section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, to be computed 
on an accrual basis to be determined in accordance with 
the corporation’s current prescribed accounting system, and 
such amounts shall be exclusive of depreciation, payment 
of claims, and expenditures which such accounting system 
requires to be capitalized or charged to cost of commodities 
acquired or produced, including selling and shipping ex-
penses, and expenses in connection with acquisition, con-
struction, operation, maintenance, improvement, protec-
tion, or disposition of facilities and other property belong-
ing to the corporation or in which it has an interest. 
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES 
OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PREVENTION AND 
PROSECUTION PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance for the prevention and prosecution of vio-
lence against women, as authorized by the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3711 et 
seq.) (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violent Crime Control and Law 
Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) (‘‘the 1994 
Act’’); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 
101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Prosecutorial Remedies and 
Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act
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of 2003 (Public Law 108–21); the Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.) 
(‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Victims of Trafficking and Violence 
Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386) (‘‘the 2000 
Act’’); the Violence Against Women and Department of Jus-
tice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) 
(‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Violence Against Women Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); and 
the Rape Survivor Child Custody Act of 2015 (Public Law 
114–22) (‘‘the 2015 Act’’); and for related victims services, 
$481,500,000, to remain available until expended, of which 
$326,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from amounts 
available for obligation in this Act from the Fund estab-
lished by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of Public 
Law 98–473 (42 U.S.C. 10601), notwithstanding section 
1402(d) of such Act of 1984, and merged with the amounts 
otherwise made available under this heading: Provided, 
That except as otherwise provided by law, not to exceed 5 
percent of funds made available under this heading may 
be used for expenses related to evaluation, training, and 
technical assistance: Provided further, That of the amount 
provided— 
(1) $215,000,000 is for grants to combat violence 
against women, as authorized by part T of the 1968 
Act;
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(2) $30,000,000 is for transitional housing as-
sistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, stalking, or sexual assault as authorized 
by section 40299 of the 1994 Act; 
(3) $3,000,000 is for the National Institute of 
Justice for research and evaluation of violence against 
women and related issues addressed by grant pro-
grams of the Office on Violence Against Women, 
which shall be transferred to ‘‘Research, Evaluation 
and Statistics’’ for administration by the Office of 
Justice Programs; 
(4) $11,000,000 is for a grant program to pro-
vide services to advocate for and respond to youth vic-
tims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual as-
sault, and stalking; assistance to children and youth 
exposed to such violence; programs to engage men and 
youth in preventing such violence; and assistance to 
middle and high school students through education 
and other services related to such violence: Provided, 
That unobligated balances available for the programs 
authorized by sections 41201, 41204, 41303, and 
41305 of the 1994 Act, prior to its amendment by the 
2013 Act, shall be available for this program: Pro-
vided further, That 10 percent of the total amount 
available for this grant program shall be available for
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grants under the program authorized by section 2015 
of the 1968 Act: Provided further, That the definitions 
and grant conditions in section 40002 of the 1994 Act 
shall apply to this program; 
(5) $53,000,000 is for grants to encourage arrest 
policies as authorized by part U of the 1968 Act, of 
which $4,000,000 is for a homicide reduction initia-
tive; 
(6) $35,000,000 is for sexual assault victims as-
sistance, as authorized by section 41601 of the 1994 
Act; 
(7) $35,000,000 is for rural domestic violence 
and child abuse enforcement assistance grants, as au-
thorized by section 40295 of the 1994 Act; 
(8) $20,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent 
crimes against women on campus, as authorized by 
section 304 of the 2005 Act; 
(9) $45,000,000 is for legal assistance for vic-
tims, as authorized by section 1201 of the 2000 Act; 
(10) $5,000,000 is for enhanced training and 
services to end violence against and abuse of women 
in later life, as authorized by section 40802 of the 
1994 Act; 
(11) $16,000,000 is for grants to support fami-
lies in the justice system, as authorized by section
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criminal jurisdiction, as authorized by section 904 of 
the 2013 Act: Provided, That the grant conditions in 
section 40002(b) of the 1994 Act shall apply to this 
program; and 
(17) $1,500,000 for the purposes authorized 
under the 2015 Act. 
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the 
Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 
(‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Missing Children’s Assistance Act (42 
U.S.C. 5771 et seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies and Other 
Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act of 2003 
(Public Law 108–21); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Pub-
lic Law 108–405); the Violence Against Women and De-
partment of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public 
Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Victims of Child Abuse 
Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–647); the Second Chance Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110–199); the Victims of Crime Act 
of 1984 (Public Law 98–473); the Adam Walsh Child Pro-
tection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–248) (‘‘the 
Adam Walsh Act’’); the PROTECT Our Children Act of
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2008 (Public Law 110–401); subtitle D of title II of the 
Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) 
(‘‘the 2002 Act’’); the NICS Improvement Amendments Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110–180); the Violence Against Women 
Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 
2013 Act’’); and other programs, $89,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which— 
(1) $45,500,000 is for criminal justice statistics 
programs, and other activities, as authorized by part 
C of title I of the 1968 Act, of which $5,000,000 is 
for a nationwide incident-based crime statistics pro-
gram; 
(2) $39,500,000 is for research, development, and 
evaluation programs, and other activities as author-
ized by part B of title I of the 1968 Act and subtitle 
D of title II of the 2002 Act, of which $4,000,000 is 
for research targeted toward developing a better un-
derstanding of the domestic radicalization phe-
nomenon, and advancing evidence-based strategies for 
effective intervention and prevention; and 
(3) $4,000,000 is for activities to strengthen and 
enhance the practice of forensic sciences, of which 
$3,000,000 is for transfer to the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology to support Scientific Area 
Committees.
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STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) 
(‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Justice for All 
Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–405); the Victims of Child 
Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); 
the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 
2005 (Public Law 109–164); the Violence Against Women 
and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 
(Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 109– 
248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the Victims of Trafficking 
and Violence Protection Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–386); 
the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110–180); subtitle D of title II of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002 Act’’); 
the Second Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–199); the 
Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual 
Property Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–403); the Victims 
of Crime Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–473); the Mentally 
Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthoriza-
tion and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–416);
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the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 
(Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Comprehensive 
Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198) 
(‘‘CARA’’); and other programs, $1,258,500,000, to remain 
available until expended as follows— 
(1) $396,000,000 for the Edward Byrne Memo-
rial Justice Assistance Grant program as authorized 
by subpart 1 of part E of title I of the 1968 Act (ex-
cept that section 1001(c), and the special rules for 
Puerto Rico under section 505(g) of title I of the 1968 
Act shall not apply for purposes of this Act), of 
which, notwithstanding such subpart 1, $7,500,000 is 
for the Officer Robert Wilson III Memorial Initiative 
on Preventing Violence Against Law Enforcement Of-
ficer 
Resilience 
and 
Survivability 
(VALOR), 
$5,000,000 is for an initiative to support evidence- 
based policing, $2,500,000 is for an initiative to en-
hance prosecutorial decision-making, $2,400,000 is for 
the operationalization, maintenance and expansion of 
the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Sys-
tem, $2,500,000 is for a national training initiative 
to improve police-based responses to people with men-
tal illness or developmental disabilities, $6,500,000 is 
for competitive and evidence-based programs to reduce 
gun crime and gang violence, $2,000,000 is for a stu-
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dent loan repayment assistance program pursuant to 
section 952 of Public Law 110–315, $2,500,000 is for 
the Capital Litigation Improvement Grant Program, 
as authorized by section 426 of Public Law 108–405, 
and for grants for wrongful conviction review, 
$10,500,000 is for prison rape prevention and pros-
ecution grants to States and units of local govern-
ment, and other programs, as authorized by the Pris-
on Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108– 
79), and $20,000,000 is for the sole purpose of pro-
viding reimbursement of extraordinary law enforce-
ment and related costs directly associated with protec-
tion of the President-elect incurred from November 9, 
2016 until the inauguration of the President-elect as 
President: Provided, That reimbursement under the 
foregoing shall be provided only for costs that a State 
or local agency can document as being over and above 
normal law enforcement operations and directly at-
tributable to the provision of protection described 
herein: Provided further, That section 154 of the Con-
tinuing Appropriations Act, 2017 (division C of Pub-
lic Law 114–223), as amended by the Further Con-
tinuing and Security Assistance Appropriations Act, 
2017 (Public Law 114–254), is amended by inserting
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after ‘‘$7,000,000’’ the following: ‘‘, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2017,’’; 
(2) $210,000,000 for the State Criminal Alien 
Assistance 
Program, 
as 
authorized 
by 
section 
241(i)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1231(i)(5)): Provided, That no jurisdiction 
shall request compensation for any cost greater than 
the actual cost for Federal immigration and other de-
tainees housed in State and local detention facilities; 
(3) $45,000,000 for victim services programs for 
victims of trafficking, as authorized by section 
107(b)(2) of Public Law 106–386, for programs au-
thorized under Public Law 109–164, or programs au-
thorized under Public Law 113–4; 
(4) $13,000,000 for economic, high technology, 
white collar and Internet crime prevention grants, in-
cluding as authorized by section 401 of Public Law 
110–403; 
(5) $20,000,000 for sex offender management as-
sistance, as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act, and 
related activities; 
(6) $22,500,000 for the matching grant program 
for law enforcement armor vests, as authorized by sec-
tion 2501 of title I of the 1968 Act: Provided, That 
$1,500,000 is transferred directly to the National In-
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stitute of Standards and Technology’s Office of Law 
Enforcement Standards for research, testing and eval-
uation programs; 
(7) $1,000,000 for the National Sex Offender 
Public Website; 
(8) $73,000,000 for grants to States to upgrade 
criminal and mental health records for the National 
Instant Criminal Background Check System, of which 
no less than $25,000,000 shall be for grants made 
under the authorities of the NICS Improvement 
Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–180); 
(9) $13,000,000 for Paul Coverdell Forensic 
Sciences Improvement Grants under part BB of title 
I of the 1968 Act; 
(10) $125,000,000 for DNA-related and forensic 
programs and activities, of which— 
(A) $117,000,000 is for a DNA analysis 
and capacity enhancement program and for 
other local, State, and Federal forensic activities, 
including the purposes authorized under section 
2 of the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act 
of 2000 (Public Law 106–546) (the Debbie Smith 
DNA Backlog Grant Program): Provided, That 
up to 4 percent of funds made available under 
this paragraph may be used for the purposes de-
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scribed in the DNA Training and Education for 
Law Enforcement, Correctional Personnel, and 
Court Officers program (Public Law 108–405, 
section 303); 
(B) $4,000,000 is for the purposes described 
in the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Conviction DNA 
Testing Grant Program (Public Law 108–405, 
section 412); and 
(C) $4,000,000 is for Sexual Assault Foren-
sic Exam Program grants, including as author-
ized by section 304 of Public Law 108–405; 
(11) $45,000,000 for a grant program for com-
munity-based sexual assault response reform; 
(12) $9,000,000 for the court-appointed special 
advocate program, as authorized by section 217 of the 
1990 Act; 
(13) $68,000,000 for offender reentry programs 
and research, as authorized by the Second Chance Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110–199), without regard to the 
time limitations specified at section 6(1) of such Act, 
of which not to exceed $6,000,000 is for a program to 
improve State, local, and tribal probation or parole 
supervision efforts and strategies, $5,000,000 is for 
Children of Incarcerated Parents Demonstrations to 
enhance and maintain parental and family relation-
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ships for incarcerated parents as a reentry or recidi-
vism reduction strategy, and $4,000,000 is for addi-
tional replication sites employing the Project HOPE 
Opportunity Probation with Enforcement model im-
plementing swift and certain sanctions in probation, 
and for a research project on the effectiveness of the 
model: Provided, That up to $7,500,000 of funds 
made available in this paragraph may be used for 
performance-based awards for Pay for Success 
projects, of which up to $5,000,000 shall be for Pay 
for Success programs implementing the Permanent 
Supportive Housing Model; 
(14) $50,000,000 for the Comprehensive School 
Safety Initiative; 
(15) $65,000,000 for initiatives to improve po-
lice-community relations, of which $22,500,000 is for 
a competitive matching grant program for purchases 
of body-worn cameras for State, local and tribal law 
enforcement, $25,000,000 is for a justice reinvestment 
initiative, for activities related to criminal justice re-
form and recidivism reduction, and $17,500,000 is for 
an Edward Byrne Memorial criminal justice innova-
tion program; and 
(16) $103,000,000 for comprehensive opioid 
abuse reduction activities, including as authorized by
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CARA, and for the following programs, which shall 
address opioid abuse reduction consistent with under-
lying program authorities— 
(A) $43,000,000 for Drug Courts, as author-
ized by section 1001(a)(25)(A) of title I of the 
1968 Act; 
(B) $12,000,000 for mental health courts 
and adult and juvenile collaboration program 
grants, as authorized by parts V and HH of title 
I of the 1968 Act, and the Mentally Ill Offender 
Treatment and Crime Reduction Reauthoriza-
tion and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 
110–416); 
(C) $14,000,000 for grants for Residential 
Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners, 
as authorized by part S of title I of the 1968 Act; 
(D) $7,000,000 for a veterans treatment 
courts program; and 
(E) $14,000,000 for a program to monitor 
prescription drugs and scheduled listed chemical 
products: 
Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of 
the funds made available under this heading to increase the 
number of law enforcement officers, the unit of local govern-
ment will achieve a net gain in the number of law enforce-
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ment officers who perform non-administrative public sector 
safety service. 
JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by the Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention Act of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 Act’’); the Om-
nibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘the 
1968 Act’’); the Violence Against Women and Department 
of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109– 
162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Missing Children’s Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5771 et seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies 
and Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today 
Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–21); the Victims of Child 
Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); 
the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 
(Public Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the PRO-
TECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–401); 
the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 
(Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); and other juvenile 
justice programs, $247,000,000, to remain available until 
expended as follows— 
(1) $55,000,000 for programs authorized by sec-
tion 221 of the 1974 Act, and for training and tech-
nical assistance to assist small, nonprofit organiza-
tions with the Federal grants process: Provided, That
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of the amounts provided under this paragraph, 
$500,000 shall be for a competitive demonstration 
grant program to support emergency planning among 
State, local and tribal juvenile justice residential fa-
cilities; 
(2) $80,000,000 for youth mentoring grants; 
(3) $14,500,000 for delinquency prevention, as 
authorized by section 505 of the 1974 Act, of which, 
pursuant to sections 261 and 262 thereof— 
(A) $4,000,000 shall be for gang and youth 
violence education, prevention and intervention, 
and related activities; 
(B) $500,000 shall be for an Internet site 
providing information and resources on children 
of incarcerated parents; 
(C) $2,000,000 shall be for competitive 
grants focusing on girls in the juvenile justice 
system; and 
(D) $8,000,000 shall be for community- 
based violence prevention initiatives, including 
for public health approaches to reducing shoot-
ings and violence; 
(4) $21,000,000 for programs authorized by the 
Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990;
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(5) $72,500,000 for missing and exploited chil-
dren programs, including as authorized by sections 
404(b) and 405(a) of the 1974 Act (except that section 
102(b)(4)(B) of the PROTECT Our Children Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110–401) shall not apply for pur-
poses of this Act); 
(6) $2,000,000 for child abuse training programs 
for judicial personnel and practitioners, as authorized 
by section 222 of the 1990 Act; and 
(7) $2,000,000 for a program to improve juvenile 
indigent defense: 
Provided, That not more than 10 percent of each amount 
may be used for research, evaluation, and statistics activi-
ties designed to benefit the programs or activities author-
ized: Provided further, That not more than 2 percent of the 
amounts designated under paragraphs (1) through (4) and 
(6) may be used for training and technical assistance: Pro-
vided further, That the two preceding provisos shall not 
apply to grants and projects administered pursuant to sec-
tions 261 and 262 of the 1974 Act and to missing and ex-
ploited children programs. 
PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For payments and expenses authorized under section 
1001(a)(4) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe
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Streets Act of 1968, such sums as are necessary (including 
amounts for administrative costs), to remain available 
until expended; and $16,300,000 for payments authorized 
by section 1201(b) of such Act and for educational assist-
ance authorized by section 1218 of such Act, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 205 of this Act, upon a determination by the Attor-
ney General that emergent circumstances require additional 
funding for such disability and education payments, the At-
torney General may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Public Safe-
ty Officer Benefits’’ from available appropriations for the 
Department of Justice as may be necessary to respond to 
such circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer 
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall be treated as a re-
programming under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322); 
the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 
(‘‘the 1968 Act’’); and the Violence Against Women and De-
partment of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public
170 
Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’), $221,500,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That any balances 
made available through prior year deobligations shall only 
be available in accordance with section 505 of this Act: Pro-
vided further, That of the amount provided under this head-
ing— 
(1) $10,000,000 is for anti-methamphetamine-re-
lated activities, which shall be transferred to the Drug 
Enforcement Administration upon enactment of this 
Act; 
(2) $194,500,000 is for grants under section 
1701 of title I of the 1968 Act (42 U.S.C. 3796dd) for 
the hiring and rehiring of additional career law en-
forcement officers under part Q of such title notwith-
standing subsection (i) of such section: Provided, 
That, notwithstanding section 1704(c) of such title 
(42 U.S.C. 3796dd–3(c)), funding for hiring or rehir-
ing a career law enforcement officer may not exceed 
$125,000 unless the Director of the Office of Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services grants a waiver from 
this limitation: Provided further, That of the amounts 
appropriated under this paragraph, $5,000,000 is for 
community policing development activities in further-
ance of the purposes in section 1701: Provided fur-
ther, That within the amounts appropriated under
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this paragraph, $10,000,000 is for the collaborative 
reform model of technical assistance in furtherance of 
the purposes in section 1701: Provided further, That 
of the amounts appropriated under this paragraph 
$35,000,000 is for regional information sharing ac-
tivities, as authorized by part M of title I of the 1968 
Act, which shall be transferred to and merged with 
‘‘Research, Evaluation, and Statistics’’ for adminis-
tration by the Office of Justice Programs: Provided 
further, That of the amounts appropriated under this 
paragraph, $7,500,000 is for activities authorized by 
the POLICE Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–199); 
(3) $7,000,000 is for competitive grants to State 
law enforcement agencies in States with high seizures 
of precursor chemicals, finished methamphetamine, 
laboratories, and laboratory dump seizures: Provided, 
That funds appropriated under this paragraph shall 
be utilized for investigative purposes to locate or in-
vestigate illicit activities, including precursor diver-
sion, laboratories, or methamphetamine traffickers; 
and 
(4) $10,000,000 is for competitive grants to 
statewide law enforcement agencies in States with 
high rates of primary treatment admissions for her-
oin and other opioids: Provided, That these funds
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shall be utilized for investigative purposes to locate or 
investigate illicit activities, including activities re-
lated to the distribution of heroin or unlawful dis-
tribution of prescription opioids, or unlawful heroin 
and prescription opioid traffickers through statewide 
collaboration. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available in this title for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, a total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds 
appropriated to the Department of Justice in this title shall 
be available to the Attorney General for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this title 
shall be available to pay for an abortion, except where the 
life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were car-
ried to term, or in the case of rape or incest: Provided, That 
should this prohibition be declared unconstitutional by a 
court of competent jurisdiction, this section shall be null 
and void. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this 
title shall be used to require any person to perform, or fa-
cilitate in any way the performance of, any abortion.
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SEC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall re-
move the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Prisons 
to provide escort services necessary for a female inmate to 
receive such service outside the Federal facility: Provided, 
That nothing in this section in any way diminishes the 
effect of section 203 intended to address the philosophical 
beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau of Prisons. 
SEC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation 
made available for the current fiscal year for the Depart-
ment of Justice in this Act may be transferred between such 
appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as other-
wise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 
10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That any trans-
fer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogram-
ming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section. 
SEC. 206. None of the funds made available under this 
title may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons or the 
United States Marshals Service for the purpose of trans-
porting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to convic-
tion for crime under State or Federal law and is classified 
as a maximum or high security prisoner, other than to a 
prison or other facility certified by the Federal Bureau of 
Prisons as appropriately secure for housing such a prisoner.
174 
SEC. 207. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable tele-
vision services, or to rent or purchase audiovisual or elec-
tronic media or equipment used primarily for recreational 
purposes. 
(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, mainte-
nance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or 
equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational 
programs. 
SEC. 208. None of the funds made available under this 
title shall be obligated or expended for any new or enhanced 
information technology program having total estimated de-
velopment costs in excess of $100,000,000, unless the Deputy 
Attorney General and the investment review board certify 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate that the information technology 
program has appropriate program management controls 
and contractor oversight mechanisms in place, and that the 
program is compatible with the enterprise architecture of 
the Department of Justice. 
SEC. 209. The notification thresholds and procedures 
set forth in section 505 of this Act shall apply to deviations 
from the amounts designated for specific activities in this 
Act and in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated
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Act), and to any use of deobligated balances of funds pro-
vided under this title in previous years. 
SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, 
or approve a public-private competition under the Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any successor 
administrative regulation, directive, or policy for work per-
formed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons or of Federal 
Prison Industries, Incorporated. 
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no funds shall be available for the salary, benefits, or ex-
penses of any United States Attorney assigned dual or addi-
tional responsibilities by the Attorney General or his des-
ignee that exempt that United States Attorney from the 
residency requirements of section 545 of title 28, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 212. At the discretion of the Attorney General, 
and in addition to any amounts that otherwise may be 
available (or authorized to be made available) by law, with 
respect to funds appropriated by this title under the head-
ings ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statistics’’, ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, and ‘‘Juvenile Justice 
Programs’’— 
(1) up to 3 percent of funds made available to 
the Office of Justice Programs for grant or reimburse-
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ment programs may be used by such Office to provide 
training and technical assistance; and 
(2) up to 2 percent of funds made available for 
grant or reimbursement programs under such head-
ings, except for amounts appropriated specifically for 
research, evaluation, or statistical programs adminis-
tered by the National Institute of Justice and the Bu-
reau of Justice Statistics, shall be transferred to and 
merged with funds provided to the National Institute 
of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics, to be 
used by them for research, evaluation, or statistical 
purposes, without regard to the authorizations for 
such grant or reimbursement programs. 
SEC. 213. At the discretion of the Attorney General, 
and in addition to any amounts that otherwise may be 
available (or authorized to be made available) by law, up 
to 7 percent of funds made available for grant or reimburse-
ment programs— 
(1) under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law 
Enforcement Assistance’’ (except for funds made 
available under paragraphs (1), (2), and (16) under 
such heading); and 
(2) under the headings ‘‘Juvenile Justice Pro-
grams’’ (except for funds made available under para-
graph (5) under such heading) and ‘‘Community Ori-
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ented Policing Services Programs’’, to be transferred 
to and merged with funds made available under the 
heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Assist-
ance’’, 
shall be available for tribal criminal justice assistance with-
out regard to the authorizations for such grant or reim-
bursement programs. 
SEC. 214. Upon request by a grantee for whom the At-
torney General has determined there is a fiscal hardship, 
the Attorney General may, with respect to funds appro-
priated in this or any other Act making appropriations for 
fiscal years 2014 through 2017 for the following programs, 
waive the following requirements: 
(1) For the adult and juvenile offender State and 
local reentry demonstration projects under part FF of 
title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets 
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797w(g)(1)), the require-
ments under section 2976(g)(1) of such part. 
(2) For State, Tribal, and local reentry courts 
under part FF of title I of such Act of 1968 (42 
U.S.C. 3797w–2(e)(1) and (2)), the requirements 
under section 2978(e)(1) and (2) of such part. 
(3) For the prosecution drug treatment alter-
natives to prison program under part CC of title I of
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such Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 3797q–3), the require-
ments under section 2904 of such part. 
(4) For grants to protect inmates and safeguard 
communities as authorized by section 6 of the Prison 
Rape 
Elimination 
Act 
of 
2003 
(42 
U.S.C. 
15605(c)(3)), the requirements of section 6(c)(3) of 
such Act. 
SEC. 215. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
section 20109(a) of subtitle A of title II of the Violent Crime 
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (42 U.S.C. 
13709(a)) shall not apply to amounts made available by 
this or any other Act. 
SEC. 216. None of the funds made available under this 
Act, other than for the national instant criminal back-
ground check system established under section 103 of the 
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (18 U.S.C. 922 
note), may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer 
to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel, unless 
law enforcement personnel of the United States continu-
ously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
SEC. 217. (a) None of the income retained in the De-
partment of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to 
title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C.
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527 note) shall be available for obligation during fiscal year 
2017, except up to $40,000,000 may be obligated for imple-
mentation of a unified Department of Justice financial 
management system. 
(b) Not to exceed $30,000,000 of the unobligated bal-
ances transferred to the capital account of the Department 
of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of Pub-
lic Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) shall 
be available for obligation in fiscal year 2017, and any use, 
obligation, transfer or allocation of such funds shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of 
this Act. 
(c) Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the excess unobligated 
balances available under section 524(c)(8)(E) of title 28, 
United States Code, shall be available for obligation during 
fiscal year 2017, and any use, obligation, transfer or alloca-
tion of such funds shall be treated as a reprogramming of 
funds under section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 218. Discretionary funds that are made available 
in this Act for the Office of Justice Programs may be used 
to participate in Performance Partnership Pilots author-
ized under section 526 of division H of Public Law 113– 
76, section 524 of division G of Public Law 113–235, sec-
tion 525 of division H of Public Law 114–113, and such
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authorities as are enacted for Performance Partnership Pi-
lots in an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017. 
SEC. 219. In addition to any other transfer authority 
available to the Department of Justice, for fiscal years 2017 
through 2022, unobligated balances available in the Depart-
ment of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title 
I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 
note) may be transferred to the ‘‘Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation, Construction’’ account, to remain available until 
expended for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation head-
quarters in the National Capital Region: Provided, That 
the cumulative total amount of funds transferred from the 
Working Capital Fund from fiscal year 2017 through 2022 
pursuant to this section shall not exceed $315,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That transfers pursuant to this section shall 
not count against any ceiling on the use of unobligated bal-
ances transferred to the capital account of the Working Cap-
ital Fund in this or any other Act in any such fiscal year: 
Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to this section 
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of 
this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expendi-
ture except in compliance with the procedures set forth in 
that section. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Justice 
Appropriations Act, 2017’’.
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TITLE III 
SCIENCE 
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by section 
3109 of title 5, United States Code, not to exceed $2,250 
for official reception and representation expenses, and rent-
al of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
$5,555,000. 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
SCIENCE 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of science research and develop-
ment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative
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aircraft, $5,764,900,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018: Provided, That the formulation and devel-
opment costs (with development cost as defined under sec-
tion 30104 of title 51, United States Code) for the James 
Webb Space Telescope shall not exceed $8,000,000,000: Pro-
vided further, That should the individual identified under 
subsection (c)(2)(E) of section 30104 of title 51, United 
States Code, as responsible for the James Webb Space Tele-
scope determine that the development cost of the program 
is likely to exceed that limitation, the individual shall im-
mediately notify the Administrator and the increase shall 
be treated as if it meets the 30 percent threshold described 
in subsection (f) of section 30104: Provided further, That, 
of the amounts provided, $275,000,000 is for an orbiter and 
a lander to meet the science goals for the Jupiter Europa 
mission as outlined in the most recent planetary science 
decadal survey: Provided further, That the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration shall use the Space 
Launch System as the launch vehicle or vehicles for the Ju-
piter Europa mission, plan for an orbiter launch no later 
than 2022 and a lander launch no later than 2024, and 
include in the fiscal year 2018 budget the 5-year funding 
profile necessary to achieve these goals.
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AERONAUTICS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of aeronautics research and devel-
opment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $660,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2018. 
SPACE TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of space technology research and 
development activities, including research, development, op-
erations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter,
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maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $686,500,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2018: Provided, That $130,000,000 shall be for the RE-
STORE satellite servicing program for continuation of for-
mulation and development activities for RESTORE and 
such funds shall not support activities solely needed for the 
asteroid redirect mission. 
EXPLORATION 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of exploration research and devel-
opment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $4,324,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 
30, 
2018: 
Provided, 
That 
not 
less 
than 
$1,350,000,000 shall be for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew 
Vehicle: Provided further, That not less than $2,150,000,000 
shall be for the Space Launch System (SLS) launch vehicle, 
which shall have a lift capability not less than 130 metric
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tons and which shall have core elements and an Exploration 
Upper Stage developed simultaneously: Provided further, 
That of the amounts provided for SLS, not less than 
$300,000,000 shall be for Exploration Upper Stage develop-
ment: Provided further, That $429,000,000 shall be for ex-
ploration ground systems: Provided further, That the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shall 
provide to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate, concurrent with the an-
nual budget submission, a 5-year budget profile for an inte-
grated budget that includes the Space Launch System, the 
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, and associated ground 
systems, that will meet the Exploration Mission 2 (EM– 
2) management agreement launch date of no later than 
2021 at a success level equal to the Agency Baseline Com-
mitment for EM–2 of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehi-
cle: Provided further, That $395,000,000 shall be for explo-
ration research and development. 
SPACE OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of space operations research and 
development activities, including research, development, op-
erations, support and services; space flight, spacecraft con-
trol and communications activities, including operations, 
production, and services; maintenance and repair, facility
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planning and design; program management; personnel and 
related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United 
States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance 
and operation of mission and administrative aircraft, 
$4,950,700,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018. 
EDUCATION 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of aerospace and aeronautical edu-
cation research and development activities, including re-
search, development, operations, support, and services; pro-
gram management; personnel and related costs, including 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 
5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel ex-
penses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of 
mission and administrative aircraft, $100,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2018, of which 
$18,000,000 shall be for the Experimental Program to 
Stimulate Competitive Research and $40,000,000 shall be 
for the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Pro-
gram.
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SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, in 
the conduct and support of science, aeronautics, space tech-
nology, exploration, space operations and education re-
search and development activities, including research, devel-
opment, operations, support, and services; maintenance and 
repair, facility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft 
control, and communications activities; program manage-
ment; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 
5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; pur-
chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed 
$63,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation 
of mission and administrative aircraft, $2,768,600,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2018. 
CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND 
RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for construction of facilities in-
cluding repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modifica-
tion of facilities, construction of new facilities and addi-
tions to existing facilities, facility planning and design, 
and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real 
property, as authorized by law, and environmental compli-
ance and restoration, $360,700,000, to remain available
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until September 30, 2022: Provided, That proceeds from 
leases deposited into this account shall be available for a 
period of 5 years to the extent and in amounts as provided 
in annual appropriations Acts: Provided further, That such 
proceeds referred to in the preceding proviso shall be avail-
able for obligation for fiscal year 2017 in an amount not 
to exceed $9,470,300: Provided further, That each annual 
budget request shall include an annual estimate of gross re-
ceipts and collections and proposed use of all funds collected 
pursuant to section 20145 of title 51, United States Code. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$37,900,000, of which $500,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Funds for any announced prize otherwise authorized 
shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until 
a prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn. 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration in this Act may be 
transferred between such appropriations, but no such ap-
propriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall
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be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers, 
except that ‘‘Construction and Environmental Compliance 
and Restoration’’ may be increased up to 15 percent by such 
transfers. Balances so transferred shall be merged with and 
available for the same purposes and the same time period 
as the appropriations to which transferred. Any transfer 
pursuant to this provision shall be treated as a reprogram-
ming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section. 
The spending plan required by this Act shall be pro-
vided by NASA at the theme, program, project and activity 
level. The spending plan, as well as any subsequent change 
of an amount established in that spending plan that meets 
the notification requirements of section 505 of this Act, shall 
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure 
except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 
section. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), 
and Public Law 86–209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.); services 
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code;
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maintenance and operation of aircraft and purchase of 
flight services for research support; acquisition of aircraft; 
and authorized travel; $6,033,645,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018, of which not to exceed 
$544,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
polar research and operations support, and for reimburse-
ment to other Federal agencies for operational and science 
support and logistical and other related activities for the 
United States Antarctic program: Provided, That receipts 
for scientific support services and materials furnished by 
the National Research Centers and other National Science 
Foundation supported research facilities may be credited to 
this appropriation. 
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construc-
tion, commissioning, and upgrading of major research 
equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursuant 
to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 
1861 et seq.), including authorized travel, $209,000,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out science, mathe-
matics and engineering education and human resources 
programs and activities pursuant to the National Science
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Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), including 
services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, authorized travel, and rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia, $880,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2018. 
AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT 
For agency operations and award management nec-
essary in carrying out the National Science Foundation Act 
of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.); services authorized by sec-
tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; uniforms or allowances therefor, as author-
ized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States 
Code; rental of conference rooms in the District of Colum-
bia; and reimbursement of the Department of Homeland Se-
curity for security guard services; $330,000,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed $8,280 is for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses: Provided further, That contracts may 
be entered into under this heading in fiscal year 2017 for 
maintenance and operation of facilities and for other serv-
ices to be provided during the next fiscal year: Provided 
further, That of the amount provided for costs associated 
with the acquisition, occupancy, and related costs of new 
headquarters space, not more than $40,700,000 shall re-
main available until expended.
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OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD 
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries, 
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rent-
al of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, and the 
employment of experts and consultants under section 3109 
of title 5, United States Code) involved in carrying out sec-
tion 4 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 
U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et 
seq.), $4,370,000: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 shall 
be available for official reception and representation ex-
penses. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$15,200,000, of which $400,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2018. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the National Science 
Foundation in this Act may be transferred between such 
appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be in-
creased by more than 15 percent by any such transfers. Any 
transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall be treated as a 
reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and
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shall not be available for obligation except in compliance 
with the procedures set forth in that section. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Science Appropriations 
Act, 2017’’. 
TITLE IV 
RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Commission on Civil 
Rights, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$9,200,000: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated 
in this paragraph may be used to employ any individuals 
under Schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 5 of 
the Code of Federal Regulations exclusive of one special as-
sistant for each Commissioner: Provided further, That none 
of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be used 
to reimburse Commissioners for more than 75 billable days, 
with the exception of the chairperson, who is permitted 125 
billable days: Provided further, That none of the funds ap-
propriated in this paragraph shall be used for any activity 
or expense that is not explicitly authorized by section 3 of 
the Civil Rights Commission Act of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 1975a).
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EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment Op-
portunity Commission as authorized by title VII of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Em-
ployment Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the Amer-
icans with Disabilities Act of 1990, section 501 of the Reha-
bilitation Act of 1973, the Civil Rights Act of 1991, the 
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 
2008 (Public Law 110–233), the ADA Amendments Act of 
2008 (Public Law 110–325), and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair 
Pay Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–2), including services 
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by section 
1343(b) of title 31, United States Code; nonmonetary 
awards to private citizens; and up to $29,500,000 for pay-
ments to State and local enforcement agencies for author-
ized services to the Commission, $364,500,000: Provided, 
That the Commission is authorized to make available for 
official reception and representation expenses not to exceed 
$2,250 from available funds: Provided further, That the 
Commission may take no action to implement any work-
force repositioning, restructuring, or reorganization until 
such time as the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate have been notified
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of such proposals, in accordance with the reprogramming 
requirements of section 505 of this Act: Provided further, 
That the Chair is authorized to accept and use any gift 
or donation to carry out the work of the Commission. 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the International Trade 
Commission, including hire of passenger motor vehicles and 
services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, and not to exceed $2,250 for official reception 
and representation expenses, $91,500,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to 
carry out the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation 
Act of 1974, $385,000,000, of which $352,000,000 is for 
basic field programs and required independent audits; 
$5,000,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, of which 
such amounts as may be necessary may be used to conduct 
additional audits of recipients; $19,000,000 is for manage-
ment and grants oversight; $4,000,000 is for client self-help 
and information technology; $4,000,000 is for a Pro Bono 
Innovation Fund; and $1,000,000 is for loan repayment as-
sistance: Provided, That the Legal Services Corporation
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may continue to provide locality pay to officers and em-
ployees at a rate no greater than that provided by the Fed-
eral Government to Washington, DC-based employees as au-
thorized by section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, not-
withstanding section 1005(d) of the Legal Services Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 2996(d)): Provided further, That the 
authorities provided in section 205 of this Act shall be ap-
plicable to the Legal Services Corporation: Provided fur-
ther, That, for the purposes of section 505 of this Act, the 
Legal Services Corporation shall be considered an agency 
of the United States Government. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—LEGAL SERVICES 
CORPORATION 
None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the Legal 
Services Corporation shall be expended for any purpose pro-
hibited or limited by, or contrary to any of the provisions 
of, sections 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, and 506 of Public Law 
105–119, and all funds appropriated in this Act to the 
Legal Services Corporation shall be subject to the same 
terms and conditions set forth in such sections, except that 
all references in sections 502 and 503 to 1997 and 1998 
shall be deemed to refer instead to 2016 and 2017, respec-
tively.
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MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Com-
mission as authorized by title II of the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), $3,431,000. 
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the United 
States Trade Representative, including the hire of passenger 
motor vehicles and the employment of experts and consult-
ants as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, $62,000,000, of which $1,000,000 shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That of the total amount 
made available under this heading, up to $15,000,000 may 
be derived from the Trade Enforcement Trust Fund estab-
lished in subsection (a) of section 611 of the Trade Facilita-
tion and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4405) 
for activities of the United States Trade Representative au-
thorized by subsection (d) of such section, including trans-
fers: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to para-
graph (1) of such subsection (d) shall be treated as a re-
programming under section 505 of this Act: Provided fur-
ther, That of the total amount made available under this
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heading, not to exceed $124,000 shall be available for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses. 
STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, 
as authorized by the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 (42 
U.S.C. 10701 et seq.) $5,121,000, of which $500,000 shall 
remain available until September 30, 2018: Provided, That 
not to exceed $2,250 shall be available for official reception 
and representation expenses: Provided further, That, for the 
purposes of section 505 of this Act, the State Justice Insti-
tute shall be considered an agency of the United States Gov-
ernment. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes 
not authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 502. 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. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation under 
this Act for any consulting service through procurement
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contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures 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. 504. If any provision of this Act or the applica-
tion of such provision to any person or circumstances shall 
be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the applica-
tion of each provision to persons or circumstances other 
than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be affected 
thereby. 
SEC. 505. None of the funds provided under this Act, 
or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies funded by this Act that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2017, or provided from any 
accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived by 
the collection of fees available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure through 
a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates or initiates a 
new program, project or activity; (2) eliminates a program, 
project or activity; (3) increases funds or personnel by any 
means for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) 
reorganizes or renames offices, programs or activities; (6)
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contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities pres-
ently performed by Federal employees; (7) augments exist-
ing programs, projects or activities in excess of $500,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less, or reduces by 10 percent 
funding for any program, project or activity, or numbers 
of personnel by 10 percent; or (8) results from any general 
savings, including savings from a reduction in personnel, 
which would result in a change in existing programs, 
projects or activities as approved by Congress; unless the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations are noti-
fied 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds. 
SEC. 506. (a) If it has been finally determined by a 
court or Federal agency that any person intentionally af-
fixed a label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or 
any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold 
in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the 
United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any 
contract or subcontract made with funds made available in 
this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineli-
gibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 
9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations. 
(b)(1) To the extent practicable, with respect to author-
ized purchases of promotional items, funds made available 
by this Act shall be used to purchase items that are manu-
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factured, produced, or assembled in the United States, its 
territories or possessions. 
(2) The term ‘‘promotional items’’ has the meaning 
given the term in OMB Circular A–87, Attachment B, Item 
(1)(f)(3). 
SEC. 507. (a) The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Science Foundation, and the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate a quarterly report on the status of bal-
ances of appropriations at the account level. For unobli-
gated, uncommitted balances and unobligated, committed 
balances the quarterly reports shall separately identify the 
amounts attributable to each source year of appropriation 
from which the balances were derived. For balances that are 
obligated, but unexpended, the quarterly reports shall sepa-
rately identify amounts by the year of obligation. 
(b) The report described in subsection (a) shall be sub-
mitted within 30 days of the end of each quarter. 
(c) If a department or agency is unable to fulfill any 
aspect of a reporting requirement described in subsection 
(a) due to a limitation of a current accounting system, the 
department or agency shall fulfill such aspect to the max-
imum extent practicable under such accounting system and
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shall identify and describe in each quarterly report the ex-
tent to which such aspect is not fulfilled. 
SEC. 508. Any costs incurred by a department or agen-
cy funded under this Act resulting from, or to prevent, per-
sonnel actions taken in response to funding reductions in-
cluded in this Act shall be absorbed within the total budg-
etary resources available to such department or agency: 
Provided, That the authority to transfer funds between ap-
propriations accounts as may be necessary to carry out this 
section is provided in addition to authorities included else-
where in this Act: Provided further, That use of funds to 
carry out this section shall be treated as a reprogramming 
of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not be avail-
able for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with 
the procedures set forth in that section: Provided further, 
That for the Department of Commerce, this section shall 
also apply to actions taken for the care and protection of 
loan collateral or grant property. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds provided by this Act shall 
be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco or to-
bacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal by any 
foreign country of restrictions on the marketing of tobacco 
or tobacco products, except for restrictions which are not 
applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco products of the 
same type.
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SEC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
amounts deposited or available in the Fund established by 
section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98– 
473 (42 U.S.C. 10601) in any fiscal year in excess of 
$2,573,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until 
the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwithstanding 
section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts available from 
the Fund for obligation, $10,000,000 shall remain available 
until expended to the Department of Justice Office of In-
spector General for oversight and auditing purposes. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available to the De-
partment of Justice in this Act may be used to discriminate 
against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of stu-
dents who participate in programs for which financial as-
sistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents or 
legal guardians of such students. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 513. Any funds provided in this Act used to im-
plement E-Government Initiatives shall be subject to the 
procedures set forth in section 505 of this Act.
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SEC. 514. (a) The Inspectors General of the Depart-
ment of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National 
Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Corporation 
shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector General Act 
(5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for which funds are 
appropriated by this Act, and shall submit reports to Con-
gress on the progress of such audits, which may include pre-
liminary findings and a description of areas of particular 
interest, within 180 days after initiating such an audit and 
every 180 days thereafter until any such audit is completed. 
(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit 
described in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is com-
pleted, the Secretary, Attorney General, Administrator, Di-
rector, or President, as appropriate, shall make the results 
of the audit available to the public on the Internet website 
maintained by the Department, Administration, Founda-
tion, or Corporation, respectively. The results shall be made 
available in redacted form to exclude— 
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of 
title 5, United States Code; and 
(2) sensitive personal information for any indi-
vidual, the public access to which could be used to 
commit identity theft or for other inappropriate or 
unlawful purposes.
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(c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded 
by amounts appropriated by this Act shall submit a state-
ment to the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, 
the Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, 
certifying that no funds derived from the grant or contract 
will be made available through a subcontract or in any 
other manner to another person who has a financial interest 
in the person awarded the grant or contract. 
(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of this 
section shall take effect 30 days after the date on which the 
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in con-
sultation with the Director of the Office of Government Eth-
ics, determines that a uniform set of rules and requirements, 
substantially similar to the requirements in such sub-
sections, consistently apply under the executive branch eth-
ics program to all Federal departments, agencies, and enti-
ties. 
SEC. 515. (a) None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act may be used by the De-
partments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate-impact 
information system, as defined for security categorization 
in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s 
(NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard Publica-
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tion 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Categorization of Federal 
Information and Information Systems’’ unless the agency 
has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to in-
form acquisition decisions for high-impact and mod-
erate-impact information systems within the Federal 
Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 
threat information provided by the FBI and other ap-
propriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other appro-
priate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of any 
risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated with the 
acquisition of such system, including any risk associ-
ated with such system being produced, manufactured, 
or assembled by one or more entities identified by the 
United States Government as posing a cyber threat, 
including but not limited to, those that may be 
owned, directed, or subsidized by the People’s Repub-
lic of China. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be used to acquire a high-
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impact or moderate-impact information system reviewed 
and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head of the as-
sessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 
(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the 
FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a 
mitigation strategy for any identified risks; 
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 
the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in the 
national interest of the United States; and 
(3) reported that determination to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-
eral. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or jus-
tify the use of torture by any official or contract employee 
of the United States Government. 
SEC. 517. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law or treaty, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act or any other Act may be 
expended or obligated by a department, agency, or instru-
mentality of the United States to pay administrative ex-
penses or to compensate an officer or employee of the United 
States in connection with requiring an export license for 
the export to Canada of components, parts, accessories or
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attachments for firearms listed in Category I, section 121.1 
of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations (International Traf-
ficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), part 121, as it existed 
on April 1, 2005) with a total value not exceeding $500 
wholesale in any transaction, provided that the conditions 
of subsection (b) of this section are met by the exporting 
party for such articles. 
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an export 
license— 
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any 
Shipper’s Export Declaration or notification letter re-
quired by law, or from being otherwise eligible under 
the laws of the United States to possess, ship, trans-
port, or export the articles enumerated in subsection 
(a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license 
of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and compo-
nents and parts for such firearms, other than for 
end use by the Federal Government, or a Provin-
cial or Municipal Government of Canada; 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or 
complete breech mechanisms for any firearm list-
ed in Category I, other than for end use by the
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Federal Government, or a Provincial or Munic-
ipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to an-
other foreign destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Direc-
tors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the permanent 
or temporary export without a license of any unclassified 
articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for end use 
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. 518. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no department, agency, or instrumentality of the United
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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. 
SEC. 519. 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. 520. 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 of 
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986; 
The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Security Act
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of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM Act of 
2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 521. 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 or more, the program manager shall imme-
diately inform the respective Secretary, Administrator, or 
Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Director shall 
notify the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
within 30 days in writing of such increase, and shall in-
clude in such notice: the date on which such determination 
was made; a statement 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 milestones and the degree to which such changes 
have contributed to the increase in total program costs or 
procurement costs; new estimates of the total project or pro-
curement costs; and a statement validating that the project’s 
management structure is adequate to control total project 
or procurement costs. 
SEC. 522. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence
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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. 3094) dur-
ing fiscal year 2017 until the enactment of the Intelligence 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2017. 
SEC. 523. 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 
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. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 524. (a) Of the unobligated balances from prior 
year appropriations available to the Department of Com-
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merce, the following funds are hereby rescinded, not later 
than September 30, 2017, from the following accounts in 
the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Economic Development Administration, 
Economic 
Development 
Assistance 
Programs’’, 
$10,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration, Operations, Research, and Facilities’’, 
$18,000,000; and 
(3) ‘‘National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin-
istration, Procurement, Acquisition and Construc-
tion’’, $5,000,000. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances available to the De-
partment of Justice, the following funds are hereby re-
scinded, not later than September 30, 2017, from the fol-
lowing accounts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $300,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘United States Marshals Service, Federal 
Prisoner Detention’’, $24,000,000; 
(3) ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, $140,000,000 from fees collected to de-
fray expenses for the automation of fingerprint iden-
tification and criminal justice information services 
and associated costs;
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(4) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office on Violence Against Women, Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $10,000,000; 
(5) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, Office of Justice Programs’’, $50,000,000; 
(6) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties, 
Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$15,000,000; 
(7) ‘‘Legal Activities, Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, 
$503,196,000, of which $201,196,000 is permanently 
rescinded; 
(8) ‘‘Drug Enforcement Administration, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, $12,092,000; 
(9) ‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation, Salaries 
and Expenses’’, $51,600,000; and 
(10) ‘‘Federal Prison System, Buildings and Fa-
cilities’’, $3,400,000. 
(c) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report no later than 
September 1, 2017, specifying the amount of each rescission 
made pursuant to subsections (a) and (b). 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline
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travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 301– 
10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 526. 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 from a Federal department or 
agency, who are stationed in the United States, at any sin-
gle conference occurring outside the United States unless 
such conference is a law enforcement training or oper-
ational conference for law enforcement personnel and the 
majority of Federal employees in attendance are law en-
forcement personnel stationed outside the United States. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this or any other Act may be used to 
transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to or 
within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, at 
the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, 
Cuba, by the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 528. (a) None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
States, its territories, or possessions to house any individual
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described in subsection (c) for the purposes of detention or 
imprisonment in the custody or under the effective control 
of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 
member of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is— 
(A) in the custody or under the effective 
control of the Department of Defense; or 
(B) otherwise under detention at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 529. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-
priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts and include in its annual performance 
plan and performance and accountability reports the fol-
lowing:
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(1) Details on future action the department, 
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on the 
total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated to 
a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 530. (a) None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration (NASA) or the Office of Science and Tech-
nology Policy (OSTP) to develop, design, plan, promulgate, 
implement, or execute a bilateral policy, program, order, 
or contract of any kind to participate, collaborate, or co-
ordinate bilaterally in any way with China or any Chinese- 
owned company unless such activities are specifically au-
thorized by a law enacted after the date of enactment of 
this Act.
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(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP, after 
consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, have 
certified— 
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 
technology, data, or other information with national 
security or economic security implications to China 
or a Chinese-owned company; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to the 
activity in question and shall include a description of the 
purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major participants, 
and its location and timing. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel
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to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the importation 
of any model of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 
the proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had been 
denied by the Attorney General prior to January 1, 
2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not particu-
larly suitable for or readily adaptable to sporting 
purposes. 
SEC. 532. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer net-
work unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, 
and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other law 
enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 
SEC. 533. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the 
National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices
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of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute shall 
submit spending plans, signed by the respective department 
or agency head, to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate within 45 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 534. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of rati-
fication for the Treaty. 
SEC. 535. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be used to pay award or incentive 
fees for contractor performance that has been judged to be 
below satisfactory performance or for performance that does 
not meet the basic requirements of a contract. 
SEC. 536. The Department of Commerce, the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National 
Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate on any official travel to China by any 
employee of such Department or agency, including the pur-
pose of such travel. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available in this 
Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect
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to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, 
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Geor-
gia, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
sissippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New 
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Okla-
homa, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Caro-
lina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash-
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with 
respect to the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico, 
to prevent any of them from implementing their own laws 
that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultiva-
tion of medical marijuana. 
SEC. 538. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legit-
imacy of Industrial Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of Jus-
tice or the Drug Enforcement Administration. 
SEC. 539. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, re-
spectively, for Public Works grants authorized by the Public 
Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and grants 
authorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler Tech-
nology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722) shall be 
allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: Pro-
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vided, That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘persistent 
poverty counties’’ means any county that has had 20 per-
cent or more of its population living in poverty over the 
past 30 years, as measured by the 1990 and 2000 decennial 
censuses and the most recent Small Area Income and Pov-
erty Estimates. 
SEC. 540. For an additional amount for ‘‘National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration—Construction and 
Environmental 
Compliance 
and 
Restoration’’, 
$109,000,000, to remain available until expended, for re-
pairs at National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
(NASA) owned facilities that directly support NASA’s mis-
sion which were damaged as a result of recent natural dis-
asters: Provided, That such amount is designated by the 
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
EXCEPTION TO LIMITATION ON APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN 
PERSONS AS UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 
SEC. 541. (a) IN GENERAL.—The limitation under sec-
tion 141(b) (4) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2171(b)(4)) shall not apply to the first person appointed, 
by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, as the 
United States Trade Representative after the date of the en-
actment of this Act, if that person served as a Deputy
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United States Trade Representative before the date of the 
enactment of the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (2 U.S.C. 
1601 et seq.). 
(b) LIMITED EXCEPTION.—This section applies only 
to the first person appointed as United States Trade Rep-
resentative after the date of enactment of this Act, and to 
no other person. 
SEC. 542. For an additional amount for ‘‘Department 
of Justice, State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Of-
fice of Justice Programs, State and Local Law Enforcement 
Assistance’’, $15,000,000 for emergency law enforcement as-
sistance for events occurring during fiscal years 2016 and 
2017, as authorized by section 609M of the Justice Assist-
ance Act of 1984 (42 U.S.C. 10501; Public Law 98–473). 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
TITLE I 
MILITARY PERSONNEL 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between
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permanent duty stations, for members of the Army on active 
duty (except members of reserve components provided for 
elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; for members of the 
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for payments pursu-
ant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense Mili-
tary Retirement Fund, $40,042,962,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
permanent duty stations, for members of the Navy on active 
duty (except members of the Reserve provided for elsewhere), 
midshipmen, and aviation cadets; for members of the Re-
serve Officers’ Training Corps; and for payments pursuant 
to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense Mili-
tary Retirement Fund, $27,889,405,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
permanent duty stations, for members of the Marine Corps
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on active duty (except members of the Reserve provided for 
elsewhere); and for payments pursuant to section 156 of 
Public Law 97–377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), and 
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
$12,735,182,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, 
interest on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station 
travel (including all expenses thereof for organizational 
movements), and expenses of temporary duty travel between 
permanent duty stations, for members of the Air Force on 
active duty (except members of reserve components provided 
for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; for members of 
the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; and for payments 
pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97–377, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 402 note), and to the Department of Defense 
Military Retirement Fund, $27,958,795,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Re-
serve on active duty under sections 10211, 10302, and 3038 
of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on active 
duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, 
in connection with performing duty specified in section 
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
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going reserve training, or while performing drills or equiva-
lent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 
16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
$4,524,863,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Navy Re-
serve on active duty under section 10211 of title 10, United 
States Code, or while serving on active duty under section 
12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in connection with 
performing duty specified in section 12310(a) of title 10, 
United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, 
or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and expenses 
authorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; 
and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 
Retirement Fund, $1,921,045,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Marine 
Corps Reserve on active duty under section 10211 of title 
10, United States Code, or while serving on active duty 
under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in 
connection with performing duty specified in section 
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
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going reserve training, or while performing drills or equiva-
lent duty, and for members of the Marine Corps platoon 
leaders class, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of 
title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the De-
partment 
of 
Defense 
Military 
Retirement 
Fund, 
$744,795,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force 
Reserve on active duty under sections 10211, 10305, and 
8038 of title 10, United States Code, or while serving on 
active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United States 
Code, in connection with performing duty specified in sec-
tion 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while un-
dergoing reserve training, or while performing drills or 
equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by 
section 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for pay-
ments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement 
Fund, $1,725,526,000. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Army Na-
tional Guard while on duty under sections 10211, 10302, 
or 12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States 
Code, or while serving on duty under section 12301(d) of
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title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 
in connection with performing duty specified in section 
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 
16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
$7,899,423,000. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, 
travel, and related expenses for personnel of the Air Na-
tional Guard on duty under sections 10211, 10305, or 
12402 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, United States 
Code, or while serving on duty under section 12301(d) of 
title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, 
in connection with performing duty specified in section 
12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
duty or other duty, and expenses authorized by section 
16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 
to the Department of Defense Military Retirement Fund, 
$3,283,982,000.
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TITLE II 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Army, as authorized 
by law, $32,738,173,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
$12,478,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary 
expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of 
the Secretary of the Army, and payments may be made on 
his certificate of necessity for confidential military pur-
poses. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine 
Corps, as authorized by law, $38,552,017,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed $15,055,000 can be used for emergencies 
and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval 
or authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and payments 
may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential 
military purposes. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as au-
thorized by law, $5,676,152,000.
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as author-
ized by law, $36,247,724,000: Provided, That not to exceed 
$7,699,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary 
expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of 
the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be made 
on his certificate of necessity for confidential military pur-
poses. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance of activities and agencies 
of the Department of Defense (other than the military de-
partments), as authorized by law, $32,373,949,000: Pro-
vided, That not more than $15,000,000 may be used for 
the Combatant Commander Initiative Fund authorized 
under section 166a of title 10, United States Code: Provided 
further, That not to exceed $36,000,000 can be used for 
emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on 
the approval or authority of the Secretary of Defense, and 
payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for 
confidential military purposes: Provided further, That of 
the funds provided under this heading, not less than 
$34,964,000 shall be made available for the Procurement
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Technical Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, of 
which not less than $3,600,000 shall be available for centers 
defined in 10 U.S.C. 2411(1)(D): Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
by this Act may be used to plan or implement the consolida-
tion of a budget or appropriations liaison office of the Office 
of the Secretary of Defense, the office of the Secretary of 
a military department, or the service headquarters of one 
of the Armed Forces into a legislative affairs or legislative 
liaison office: Provided further, That $5,023,000, to remain 
available until expended, is available only for expenses re-
lating to certain classified activities, and may be trans-
ferred as necessary by the Secretary of Defense to operation 
and maintenance appropriations or research, development, 
test and evaluation appropriations, to be merged with and 
to be available for the same time period as the appropria-
tions to which transferred: Provided further, That any ceil-
ing on the investment item unit cost of items that may be 
purchased with operation and maintenance funds shall not 
apply to the funds described in the preceding proviso: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-
ing, $480,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018, shall be available to provide support and assistance 
to foreign security forces or other groups or individuals to 
conduct, support or facilitate counterterrorism, crisis re-
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sponse, or other Department of Defense security cooperation 
programs: Provided further, That the transfer authority 
provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance, including training, organi-
zation, and administration, of the Army Reserve; repair of 
facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
travel and transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; pro-
curement of services, supplies, and equipment; and commu-
nications, $2,743,688,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance, including training, organi-
zation, and administration, of the Navy Reserve; repair of 
facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
travel and transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; pro-
curement of services, supplies, and equipment; and commu-
nications, $929,656,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance, including training, organi-
zation, and administration, of the Marine Corps Reserve; 
repair of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor
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vehicles; travel and transportation; care of the dead; recruit-
ing; procurement of services, supplies, and equipment; and 
communications, $271,133,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the operation and maintenance, including training, organi-
zation, and administration, of the Air Force Reserve; repair 
of facilities and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
travel and transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; pro-
curement of services, supplies, and equipment; and commu-
nications, $3,069,229,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For expenses of training, organizing, and admin-
istering the Army National Guard, including medical and 
hospital treatment and related expenses in non-Federal hos-
pitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs to structures 
and facilities; hire of passenger motor vehicles; personnel 
services in the National Guard Bureau; travel expenses 
(other than mileage), as authorized by law for Army per-
sonnel on active duty, for Army National Guard division, 
regimental, and battalion commanders while inspecting 
units in compliance with National Guard Bureau regula-
tions when specifically authorized by the Chief, National 
Guard Bureau; supplying and equipping the Army Na-
tional Guard as authorized by law; and expenses of repair,
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modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and 
equipment (including aircraft), $6,861,478,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For expenses of training, organizing, and admin-
istering the Air National Guard, including medical and 
hospital treatment and related expenses in non-Federal hos-
pitals; maintenance, operation, and repairs to structures 
and facilities; transportation of things, hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; supplying and equipping the Air National 
Guard, as authorized by law; expenses for repair, modifica-
tion, maintenance, and issue of supplies and equipment, 
including those furnished from stocks under the control of 
agencies of the Department of Defense; travel expenses (other 
than mileage) on the same basis as authorized by law for 
Air National Guard personnel on active Federal duty, for 
Air National Guard commanders while inspecting units in 
compliance with National Guard Bureau regulations when 
specifically authorized by the Chief, National Guard Bu-
reau, $6,615,095,000. 
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED 
FORCES 
For salaries and expenses necessary for the United 
States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, $14,194,000, 
of which not to exceed $5,000 may be used for official rep-
resentation purposes.
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Army, $170,167,000, to re-
main available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Army shall, upon determining that such funds 
are required for environmental restoration, reduction and 
recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 
and debris of the Department of the Army, or for similar 
purposes, transfer the funds made available by this appro-
priation to other appropriations made available to the De-
partment of the Army, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same purposes and for the same time period as the 
appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That 
upon a determination that all or part of the funds trans-
ferred from this appropriation are not necessary for the 
purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred 
back to this appropriation: Provided further, That the 
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-
tion to any other transfer authority provided elsewhere in 
this Act. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Navy, $289,262,000, to re-
main available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Navy shall, upon determining that such funds
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are required for environmental restoration, reduction and 
recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 
and debris of the Department of the Navy, or for similar 
purposes, transfer the funds made available by this appro-
priation to other appropriations made available to the De-
partment of the Navy, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same purposes and for the same time period as the 
appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That 
upon a determination that all or part of the funds trans-
ferred from this appropriation are not necessary for the 
purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred 
back to this appropriation: Provided further, That the 
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-
tion to any other transfer authority provided elsewhere in 
this Act. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Air Force, $371,521,000, 
to remain available until transferred: Provided, That the 
Secretary of the Air Force shall, upon determining that 
such funds are required for environmental restoration, re-
duction and recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe 
buildings and debris of the Department of the Air Force, 
or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available 
by this appropriation to other appropriations made avail-
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able to the Department of the Air Force, to be merged with 
and to be available for the same purposes and for the same 
time period as the appropriations to which transferred: 
Provided further, That upon a determination that all or 
part of the funds transferred from this appropriation are 
not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such 
amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: 
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided 
under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority provided elsewhere in this Act. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of Defense, $9,009,000, to remain 
available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Defense shall, upon determining that such funds are re-
quired for environmental restoration, reduction and recy-
cling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings and 
debris of the Department of Defense, or for similar purposes, 
transfer the funds made available by this appropriation to 
other appropriations made available to the Department of 
Defense, to be merged with and to be available for the same 
purposes and for the same time period as the appropria-
tions to which transferred: Provided further, That upon a 
determination that all or part of the funds transferred from 
this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes pro-
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vided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this 
appropriation: Provided further, That the transfer author-
ity provided under this heading is in addition to any other 
transfer authority provided elsewhere in this Act. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLY USED 
DEFENSE SITES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Army, $222,084,000, to re-
main available until transferred: Provided, That the Sec-
retary of the Army shall, upon determining that such funds 
are required for environmental restoration, reduction and 
recycling of hazardous waste, removal of unsafe buildings 
and debris at sites formerly used by the Department of De-
fense, transfer the funds made available by this appropria-
tion to other appropriations made available to the Depart-
ment of the Army, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same purposes and for the same time period as the 
appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That 
upon a determination that all or part of the funds trans-
ferred from this appropriation are not necessary for the 
purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred 
back to this appropriation: Provided further, That the 
transfer authority provided under this heading is in addi-
tion to any other transfer authority provided elsewhere in 
this Act.
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OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID 
For expenses relating to the Overseas Humanitarian, 
Disaster, and Civic Aid programs of the Department of De-
fense (consisting of the programs provided under sections 
401, 402, 404, 407, 2557, and 2561 of title 10, United 
States Code), $123,125,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018. 
COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
For assistance, including assistance provided by con-
tract or by grants, under programs and activities of the 
Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Pro-
gram authorized under the Department of Defense Coopera-
tive Threat Reduction Act, $325,604,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2019. 
TITLE III 
PROCUREMENT 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-
tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including 
ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and ac-
cessories therefor; specialized equipment and training de-
vices; expansion of public and private plants, including the 
land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construc-
tion prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and pro-
240 
curement and installation of equipment, appliances, and 
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; 
and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
$4,587,598,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2019. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-
tion, and modernization of missiles, equipment, including 
ordnance, ground handling equipment, spare parts, and ac-
cessories therefor; specialized equipment and training de-
vices; expansion of public and private plants, including the 
land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construc-
tion prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and pro-
curement and installation of equipment, appliances, and 
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; 
and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
$1,533,804,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2019. 
PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT 
VEHICLES, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, and modi-
fication of weapons and tracked combat vehicles, equipment,
241 
including ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; 
specialized equipment and training devices; expansion of 
public and private plants, including the land necessary 
therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and in-
terests therein, may be acquired, and construction pros-
ecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and procurement 
and installation of equipment, appliances, and machine 
tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and Gov-
ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
$2,229,455,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2019. 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, and modi-
fication of ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized 
equipment and training devices; expansion of public and 
private plants, including ammunition facilities, authorized 
by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construc-
tion prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and pro-
curement and installation of equipment, appliances, and 
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; 
and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes,
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$1,483,566,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2019. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, and modi-
fication of vehicles, including tactical, support, and non- 
tracked combat vehicles; the purchase of passenger motor ve-
hicles for replacement only; communications and electronic 
equipment; other support equipment; spare parts, ordnance, 
and accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 
devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 
the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and 
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and con-
struction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 
procurement and installation of equipment, appliances, 
and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve 
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing 
purposes, $6,147,328,000, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 2019. 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
For construction, procurement, production, modifica-
tion, and modernization of aircraft, equipment, including 
ordnance, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 
equipment; expansion of public and private plants, includ-
ing the land necessary therefor, and such lands and inter-
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Ohio 
Replacement 
Submarine 
(AP), 
$773,138,000; 
Carrier Replacement Program, $1,255,783,000; 
Carrier 
Replacement 
Program 
(AP), 
$1,370,784,000; 
Virginia Class Submarine, $3,187,985,000; 
Virginia Class Submarine (AP), $1,852,234,000; 
CVN Refueling Overhauls, $1,699,120,000; 
CVN Refueling Overhauls (AP), $233,149,000; 
DDG–1000 Program, $271,756,000; 
DDG–51 Destroyer, $3,614,792,000; 
Littoral Combat Ship, $1,563,692,000; 
LPD–17, $1,786,000,000; 
LHA Replacement, $1,617,719,000; 
TAO Fleet Oiler (AP), $73,079,000; 
Moored Training Ship, $624,527,000; 
Ship to Shore Connector, $128,067,000; 
Service Craft, $65,192,000; 
LCAC 
Service 
Life 
Extension 
Program, 
$82,074,000; 
YP Craft Maintenance/ROH/SLEP, $21,363,000; 
For outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and 
first destination transportation, $626,158,000; 
Completion of Prior Year Shipbuilding Pro-
grams, $160,274,000; and
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Polar Icebreakers (AP), $150,000,000. 
In all: $21,156,886,000, to remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30, 2021: Provided, That additional 
obligations may be incurred after September 30, 2021, for 
engineering services, tests, evaluations, and other such budg-
eted work that must be performed in the final stage of ship 
construction: Provided further, That none of the funds pro-
vided under this heading for the construction or conversion 
of any naval vessel to be constructed in shipyards in the 
United States shall be expended in foreign facilities for the 
construction of major components of such vessel: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided under this heading 
shall be used for the construction of any naval vessel in 
foreign shipyards: Provided further, That funds appro-
priated or otherwise made available by this Act for produc-
tion of the common missile compartment of nuclear-powered 
vessels may be available for multiyear procurement of crit-
ical components to support continuous production of such 
compartments only in accordance with the provisions of 
subsection (i) of section 2218a of title 10, United States 
Code (as added by section 1023 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (Public Law 114– 
328)).
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OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
For procurement, production, and modernization of 
support equipment and materials not otherwise provided 
for, Navy ordnance (except ordnance for new aircraft, new 
ships, and ships authorized for conversion); the purchase 
of passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; expansion 
of public and private plants, including the land necessary 
therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to ap-
proval of title; and procurement and installation of equip-
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private 
plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
equipment layaway, $6,308,919,000, to remain available 
for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufac-
ture, and modification of missiles, armament, military 
equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; plant 
equipment, appliances, and machine tools, and installation 
thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant and Gov-
ernment and contractor-owned equipment layaway; vehicles 
for the Marine Corps, including the purchase of passenger 
motor vehicles for replacement only; and expansion of pub-
lic and private plants, including land necessary therefor, 
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and
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construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title, 
$1,307,456,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2019. 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, and modification of 
aircraft and equipment, including armor and armament, 
specialized ground handling equipment, and training de-
vices, spare parts, and accessories therefor; specialized 
equipment; expansion of public and private plants, Govern-
ment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such 
plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land, for 
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, 
may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior 
to approval of title; reserve plant and Government and con-
tractor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses nec-
essary for the foregoing purposes including rents and trans-
portation of things, $14,253,623,000, to remain available 
for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, and modification of 
missiles, rockets, and related equipment, including spare 
parts and accessories therefor; ground handling equipment, 
and training devices; expansion of public and private 
plants, Government-owned equipment and installation 
thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and acquisi-
249 
tion of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and 
interests therein, may be acquired, and construction pros-
ecuted thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and 
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes includ-
ing rents and transportation of things, $2,348,121,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
SPACE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, and modification of 
spacecraft, rockets, and related equipment, including spare 
parts and accessories therefor; ground handling equipment, 
and training devices; expansion of public and private 
plants, Government-owned equipment and installation 
thereof in such plants, erection of structures, and acquisi-
tion of land, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and 
interests therein, may be acquired, and construction pros-
ecuted thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and 
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes includ-
ing rents and transportation of things, $2,733,243,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE 
For construction, procurement, production, and modi-
fication of ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized 
equipment and training devices; expansion of public and
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private plants, including ammunition facilities, authorized 
by section 2854 of title 10, United States Code, and the 
land necessary therefor, for the foregoing purposes, and such 
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construc-
tion prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and pro-
curement and installation of equipment, appliances, and 
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; 
and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes, 
$1,589,219,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2019. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For procurement and modification of equipment (in-
cluding ground guidance and electronic control equipment, 
and ground electronic and communication equipment), and 
supplies, materials, and spare parts therefor, not otherwise 
provided for; the purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only; lease of passenger motor vehicles; and ex-
pansion of public and private plants, Government-owned 
equipment and installation thereof in such plants, erection 
of structures, and acquisition of land, for the foregoing pur-
poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be ac-
quired, and construction prosecuted thereon, prior to ap-
proval of title; reserve plant and Government and con-
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tractor-owned equipment layaway, $17,768,224,000, to re-
main available for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments) nec-
essary for procurement, production, and modification of 
equipment, supplies, materials, and spare parts therefor, 
not otherwise provided for; the purchase of passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only; expansion of public and pri-
vate plants, equipment, and installation thereof in such 
plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land for 
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, 
may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior 
to approval of title; reserve plant and Government and con-
tractor-owned equipment layaway, $4,881,022,000, to re-
main available for obligation until September 30, 2019. 
DEFENSE PRODUCTION ACT PURCHASES 
For activities by the Department of Defense pursuant 
to sections 108, 301, 302, and 303 of the Defense Production 
Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 4518, 4531, 4532, and 4533), 
$64,065,000, to remain available until expended.
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TITLE IV 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND 
EVALUATION 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
research, development, test and evaluation, including main-
tenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities 
and equipment, $8,332,965,000, to remain available for ob-
ligation until September 30, 2018. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, NAVY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
research, development, test and evaluation, including main-
tenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities 
and equipment, $17,214,530,000, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2018: Provided, That funds 
appropriated in this paragraph which are available for the 
V–22 may be used to meet unique operational requirements 
of the Special Operations Forces. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, AIR 
FORCE 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific 
research, development, test and evaluation, including main-
tenance, rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities 
and equipment, $27,788,548,000, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2018.
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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, 
DEFENSE-WIDE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments), nec-
essary for basic and applied scientific research, develop-
ment, test and evaluation; advanced research projects as 
may be designated and determined by the Secretary of De-
fense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilitation, lease, 
and operation of facilities and equipment, $18,778,550,000, 
to remain available for obligation until September 30, 
2018: Provided, That, of the funds made available in this 
paragraph, $250,000,000 for the Defense Rapid Innovation 
Program shall only be available for expenses, not otherwise 
provided for, to include program management and over-
sight, to conduct research, development, test and evaluation 
to include proof of concept demonstration; engineering, test-
ing, and validation; and transition to full-scale production: 
Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense may trans-
fer funds provided herein for the Defense Rapid Innovation 
Program to appropriations for research, development, test 
and evaluation to accomplish the purpose provided herein: 
Provided further, That this transfer authority is in addi-
tion to any other transfer authority available to the Depart-
ment of Defense: Provided further, That the Secretary of
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Defense shall, not fewer than 30 days prior to making 
transfers from this appropriation, notify the congressional 
defense committees in writing of the details of any such 
transfer. 
OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the independent activities of the Director, Operational Test 
and Evaluation, in the direction and supervision of oper-
ational test and evaluation, including initial operational 
test and evaluation which is conducted prior to, and in sup-
port of, production decisions; joint operational testing and 
evaluation; and administrative expenses in connection 
therewith, $186,994,000, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 2018. 
TITLE V 
REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS 
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS 
For 
the 
Defense 
Working 
Capital 
Funds, 
$1,511,613,000. 
TITLE VI 
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS 
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical 
and health care programs of the Department of Defense as 
authorized 
by 
law, 
$33,781,270,000; 
of 
which
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$31,277,002,000 shall be for operation and maintenance, of 
which not to exceed one percent shall remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2018, and of which up to 
$15,315,832,000 may be available for contracts entered into 
under the TRICARE program; of which $402,161,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2019, 
shall be for procurement; and of which $2,102,107,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2018, 
shall be for research, development, test and evaluation: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
of the amount made available under this heading for re-
search, development, test and evaluation, not less than 
$8,000,000 shall be available for HIV prevention edu-
cational activities undertaken in connection with United 
States military training, exercises, and humanitarian as-
sistance activities conducted primarily in African nations: 
Provided further, That of the funds provided under this 
heading for research, development, test and evaluation, not 
less than $1,014,600,000 shall be made available to the 
United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Com-
mand to carry out the congressionally directed medical re-
search programs.
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CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, 
DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for 
the destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal chem-
ical agents and munitions in accordance with the provi-
sions of section 1412 of the Department of Defense Author-
ization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), and for the destruction 
of other chemical warfare materials that are not in the 
chemical 
weapon 
stockpile, 
$523,726,000, 
of 
which 
$119,985,000 shall be for operation and maintenance, of 
which no less than $49,533,000 shall be for the Chemical 
Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program, consisting of 
$20,368,000 for activities on military installations and 
$29,165,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018, 
to assist State and local governments, and of which not 
more than $13,700,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018, shall be for the destruction of eight United 
States-origin chemical munitions in the Republic of Pan-
ama, to the extent authorized by law; $15,132,000 shall be 
for procurement, to remain available until September 30, 
2019, of which $15,132,000 shall be for the Chemical Stock-
pile Emergency Preparedness Program to assist State and 
local governments; and $388,609,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018, shall be for research, develop-
ment, test and evaluation, of which $380,892,000 shall only
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be for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Alternatives pro-
gram. 
DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, 
DEFENSE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of 
the Department of Defense, for transfer to appropriations 
available to the Department of Defense for military per-
sonnel of the reserve components serving under the provi-
sions of title 10 and title 32, United States Code; for oper-
ation and maintenance; for procurement; and for research, 
development, test and evaluation, $998,800,000, of which 
$626,087,000 shall be for counter-narcotics support; 
$118,713,000 shall be for the drug demand reduction pro-
gram; $234,000,000 shall be for the National Guard 
counter-drug program; and $20,000,000 shall be for the Na-
tional Guard counter-drug schools program: Provided, That 
the funds appropriated under this heading shall be avail-
able for obligation for the same time period and for the 
same purpose as the appropriation to which transferred: 
Provided further, That upon a determination that all or 
part of the funds transferred from this appropriation are 
not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such 
amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: 
Provided further, That the transfer authority provided
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under this heading is in addition to any other transfer au-
thority contained elsewhere in this Act. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspec-
tor General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, as amended, $312,035,000, of which 
$308,882,000 shall be for operation and maintenance, of 
which not to exceed $700,000 is available for emergencies 
and extraordinary expenses to be expended on the approval 
or authority of the Inspector General, and payments may 
be made on the Inspector General’s certificate of necessity 
for confidential military purposes; and of which $3,153,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2018, shall be for 
research, development, test and evaluation. 
TITLE VII 
RELATED AGENCIES 
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND 
DISABILITY SYSTEM FUND 
For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retire-
ment and Disability System Fund, to maintain the proper 
funding level for continuing the operation of the Central 
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, 
$514,000,000.
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INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT 
For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community 
Management Account, $515,596,000. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 8001. No part of any appropriation contained 
in this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses not authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 8002. During the current fiscal year, provisions 
of law prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or em-
ployment of, any person not a citizen of the United States 
shall not apply to personnel of the Department of Defense: 
Provided, That salary increases granted to direct and indi-
rect hire foreign national employees of the Department of 
Defense funded by this Act shall not be at a rate in excess 
of the percentage increase authorized by law for civilian 
employees of the Department of Defense whose pay is com-
puted under the provisions of section 5332 of title 5, United 
States Code, or at a rate in excess of the percentage increase 
provided by the appropriate host nation to its own employ-
ees, whichever is higher: Provided further, That this section 
shall not apply to Department of Defense foreign service 
national employees serving at United States diplomatic 
missions whose pay is set by the Department of State under 
the Foreign Service Act of 1980: Provided further, That the
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limitations of this provision shall not apply to foreign na-
tional employees of the Department of Defense in the Re-
public of Turkey. 
SEC. 8003. 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. 8004. No more than 20 percent of the appropria-
tions in this Act which are limited for obligation during 
the current fiscal year shall be obligated during the last 2 
months of the fiscal year: Provided, That this section shall 
not apply to obligations for support of active duty training 
of reserve components or summer camp training of the Re-
serve Officers’ Training Corps. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8005. Upon determination by the Secretary of 
Defense that such action is necessary in the national inter-
est, he may, with the approval of the Office of Management 
and Budget, transfer not to exceed $4,500,000,000 of work-
ing capital funds of the Department of Defense or funds 
made available in this Act to the Department of Defense 
for military functions (except military construction) be-
tween such appropriations or funds or any subdivision 
thereof, to be merged with and to be available for the same 
purposes, and for the same time period, as the appropria-
tion or fund to which transferred: Provided, That such au-
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thority to transfer may not be used unless for higher pri-
ority items, based on unforeseen military requirements, 
than those for which originally appropriated and in no case 
where the item for which funds are requested has been de-
nied by the Congress: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of Defense shall notify the Congress promptly of all transfers 
made pursuant to this authority or any other authority in 
this Act: Provided further, That no part of the funds in 
this Act shall be available to prepare or present a request 
to the Committees on Appropriations for reprogramming 
of funds, unless for higher priority items, based on unfore-
seen military requirements, than those for which originally 
appropriated and in no case where the item for which re-
programming is requested has been denied by the Congress: 
Provided 
further, 
That 
a 
request 
for 
multiple 
reprogrammings of funds using authority provided in this 
section shall be made prior to June 30, 2017: Provided fur-
ther, That transfers among military personnel appropria-
tions shall not be taken into account for purposes of the 
limitation on the amount of funds that may be transferred 
under this section. 
SEC. 8006. (a) With regard to the list of specific pro-
grams, projects, and activities (and the dollar amounts and 
adjustments to budget activities corresponding to such pro-
grams, projects, and activities) contained in the tables titled
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Explanation of Project Level Adjustments in the explana-
tory statement regarding this Act, the obligation and ex-
penditure of amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act for those programs, projects, and ac-
tivities for which the amounts appropriated exceed the 
amounts requested are hereby required by law to be carried 
out in the manner provided by such tables to the same ex-
tent as if the tables were included in the text of this Act. 
(b) Amounts specified in the referenced tables described 
in subsection (a) shall not be treated as subdivisions of ap-
propriations for purposes of section 8005 of this Act: Pro-
vided, That section 8005 shall apply when transfers of the 
amounts described in subsection (a) occur between appro-
priation accounts. 
SEC. 8007. (a) Not later than 60 days after enactment 
of this Act, the Department of Defense shall submit a report 
to the congressional defense committees to establish the base-
line for application of reprogramming and transfer au-
thorities for fiscal year 2017: Provided, That the report 
shall include— 
(1) a table for each appropriation with a sepa-
rate column to display the President’s budget request, 
adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to 
enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year 
enacted level;
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(2) a delineation in the table for each appropria-
tion both by budget activity and program, project, 
and activity as detailed in the Budget Appendix; and 
(3) an identification of items of special congres-
sional interest. 
(b) Notwithstanding section 8005 of this Act, none of 
the funds provided in this Act shall be available for re-
programming or transfer until the report identified in sub-
section (a) is submitted to the congressional defense commit-
tees, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies in writing to 
the congressional defense committees that such reprogram-
ming or transfer is necessary as an emergency requirement: 
Provided, That this subsection shall not apply to transfers 
from the following appropriations accounts: 
(1) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Army’’; 
(2) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Navy’’; 
(3) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Air Force’’; 
(4) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Defense-wide’’; 
(5) ‘‘Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used 
Defense Sites’’; and 
(6) ‘‘Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activi-
ties, Defense’’. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8008. During the current fiscal year, cash bal-
ances in working capital funds of the Department of De-
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fense established pursuant to section 2208 of title 10, United 
States Code, may be maintained in only such amounts as 
are necessary at any time for cash disbursements to be made 
from such funds: Provided, That transfers may be made be-
tween such funds: Provided further, That transfers may be 
made between working capital funds and the ‘‘Foreign Cur-
rency Fluctuations, Defense’’ appropriation and the ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance’’ appropriation accounts in such 
amounts as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense, 
with the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, 
except that such transfers may not be made unless the Sec-
retary of Defense has notified the Congress of the proposed 
transfer: Provided further, That except in amounts equal 
to the amounts appropriated to working capital funds in 
this Act, no obligations may be made against a working 
capital fund to procure or increase the value of war reserve 
material inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has no-
tified the Congress prior to any such obligation. 
SEC. 8009. Funds appropriated by this Act may not 
be used to initiate a special access program without prior 
notification 30 calendar days in advance to the congres-
sional defense committees. 
SEC. 8010. None of the funds provided in this Act shall 
be available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that em-
ploys economic order quantity procurement in excess of
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$20,000,000 in any one year of the contract or that includes 
an unfunded contingent liability in excess of $20,000,000; 
or (2) a contract for advance procurement leading to a 
multiyear contract that employs economic order quantity 
procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in any one year, un-
less the congressional defense committees have been notified 
at least 30 days in advance of the proposed contract award: 
Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to initiate a multiyear contract 
for which the economic order quantity advance procurement 
is not funded at least to the limits of the Government’s li-
ability: Provided further, That no part of any appropria-
tion contained in this Act shall be available to initiate 
multiyear procurement contracts for any systems or compo-
nent thereof if the value of the multiyear contract would 
exceed $500,000,000 unless specifically provided in this Act: 
Provided further, That no multiyear procurement contract 
can be terminated without 30-day prior notification to the 
congressional defense committees: Provided further, That the 
execution of multiyear authority shall require the use of a 
present value analysis to determine lowest cost compared 
to an annual procurement: Provided further, That none of 
the funds provided in this Act may be used for a multiyear 
contract executed after the date of the enactment of this Act 
unless in the case of any such contract—
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(1) the Secretary of Defense has submitted to 
Congress a budget request for full funding of units to 
be procured through the contract and, in the case of 
a contract for procurement of aircraft, that includes, 
for any aircraft unit to be procured through the con-
tract for which procurement funds are requested in 
that budget request for production beyond advance 
procurement activities in the fiscal year covered by 
the budget, full funding of procurement of such unit 
in that fiscal year; 
(2) cancellation provisions in the contract do not 
include consideration of recurring manufacturing 
costs of the contractor associated with the production 
of unfunded units to be delivered under the contract; 
(3) the contract provides that payments to the 
contractor under the contract shall not be made in 
advance of incurred costs on funded units; and 
(4) the contract does not provide for a price ad-
justment based on a failure to award a follow-on con-
tract. 
Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be 
used for a multiyear procurement contract as follows: AH– 
64E Apache Helicopter and UH–60M Blackhawk Heli-
copter.
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SEC. 8011. Within the funds appropriated for the oper-
ation and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are here-
by appropriated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, United 
States Code, for humanitarian and civic assistance costs 
under chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code. Such funds 
may also be obligated for humanitarian and civic assist-
ance costs incidental to authorized operations and pursuant 
to authority granted in section 401 of chapter 20 of title 
10, United States Code, and these obligations shall be re-
ported as required by section 401(d) of title 10, United 
States Code: Provided, That funds available for operation 
and maintenance shall be available for providing humani-
tarian and similar assistance by using Civic Action Teams 
in the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands and freely 
associated states of Micronesia, pursuant to the Compact 
of Free Association as authorized by Public Law 99–239: 
Provided further, That upon a determination by the Sec-
retary of the Army that such action is beneficial for grad-
uate medical education programs conducted at Army med-
ical facilities located in Hawaii, the Secretary of the Army 
may authorize the provision of medical services at such fa-
cilities and transportation to such facilities, on a nonreim-
bursable basis, for civilian patients from American Samoa, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the
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Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, 
Palau, and Guam. 
SEC. 8012. (a) During fiscal year 2017, the civilian 
personnel of the Department of Defense may not be man-
aged on the basis of any end-strength, and the management 
of such personnel during that fiscal year shall not be subject 
to any constraint or limitation (known as an end-strength) 
on the number of such personnel who may be employed on 
the last day of such fiscal year. 
(b) The fiscal year 2018 budget request for the Depart-
ment of Defense as well as all justification material and 
other documentation supporting the fiscal year 2018 De-
partment of Defense budget request shall be prepared and 
submitted to the Congress as if subsections (a) and (b) of 
this provision were effective with regard to fiscal year 2018. 
(c) As required by section 1107 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 (Public Law 113– 
66; 10 U.S.C. 2358 note) civilian personnel at the Depart-
ment of Army Science and Technology Reinvention Labora-
tories may not be managed on the basis of the Table of Dis-
tribution and Allowances, and the management of the work-
force strength shall be done in a manner consistent with 
the budget available with respect to such Laboratories. 
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply 
to military (civilian) technicians.
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SEC. 8013. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be used for the support of any nonappropriated funds 
activity of the Department of Defense that procures malt 
beverages and wine with nonappropriated funds for resale 
(including such alcoholic beverages sold by the drink) on 
a military installation located in the United States unless 
such malt beverages and wine are procured within that 
State, or in the case of the District of Columbia, within 
the District of Columbia, in which the military installation 
is located: Provided, That, in a case in which the military 
installation is located in more than one State, purchases 
may be made in any State in which the installation is lo-
cated: Provided further, That such local procurement re-
quirements for malt beverages and wine shall apply to all 
alcoholic beverages only for military installations in States 
which are not contiguous with another State: Provided fur-
ther, That alcoholic beverages other than wine and malt bev-
erages, in contiguous States and the District of Columbia 
shall be procured from the most competitive source, price 
and other factors considered. 
SEC. 8014. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to in-
fluence congressional action on any legislation or appro-
priation matters pending before the Congress.
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SEC. 8015. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be available for the basic pay and allowances of any 
member of the Army participating as a full-time student 
and receiving benefits paid by the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs from the Department of Defense Education Benefits 
Fund when time spent as a full-time student is credited 
toward completion of a service commitment: Provided, That 
this section shall not apply to those members who have reen-
listed with this option prior to October 1, 1987: Provided 
further, That this section applies only to active components 
of the Army. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8016. Funds appropriated in title III of this Act 
for the Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Prote´ge´ Pro-
gram may be transferred to any other appropriation con-
tained in this Act solely for the purpose of implementing 
a Mentor-Prote´ge´ Program developmental assistance agree-
ment pursuant to section 831 of the National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101–510; 
10 U.S.C. 2302 note), as amended, under the authority of 
this provision or any other transfer authority contained in 
this Act. 
SEC. 8017. None of the funds in this Act may be avail-
able for the purchase by the Department of Defense (and 
its departments and agencies) of welded shipboard anchor
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and mooring chain 4 inches in diameter and under unless 
the anchor and mooring chain are manufactured in the 
United States from components which are substantially 
manufactured in the United States: Provided, That for the 
purpose of this section, the term ‘‘manufactured’’ shall in-
clude cutting, heat treating, quality control, testing of chain 
and welding (including the forging and shot blasting proc-
ess): Provided further, That for the purpose of this section 
substantially all of the components of anchor and mooring 
chain shall be considered to be produced or manufactured 
in the United States if the aggregate cost of the components 
produced or manufactured in the United States exceeds the 
aggregate cost of the components produced or manufactured 
outside the United States: Provided further, That when ade-
quate domestic supplies are not available to meet Depart-
ment of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Sec-
retary of the service responsible for the procurement may 
waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying 
in writing to the Committees on Appropriations that such 
an acquisition must be made in order to acquire capability 
for national security purposes. 
SEC. 8018. Of the amounts appropriated for ‘‘Working 
Capital Fund, Army’’, $140,000,000 shall be available to 
maintain competitive rates at the arsenals.
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SEC. 8019. None of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dispose of 
M–1 Carbines, M–1 Garand rifles, M–14 rifles, .22 caliber 
rifles, .30 caliber rifles, or M–1911 pistols, or to demili-
tarize or destroy small arms ammunition or ammunition 
components that are not otherwise prohibited from commer-
cial sale under Federal law, unless the small arms ammuni-
tion or ammunition components are certified by the Sec-
retary of the Army or designee as unserviceable or unsafe 
for further use. 
SEC. 8020. No more than $500,000 of the funds appro-
priated or made available in this Act shall be used during 
a single fiscal year for any single relocation of an organiza-
tion, unit, activity or function of the Department of Defense 
into or within the National Capital Region: Provided, That 
the Secretary of Defense may waive this restriction on a 
case-by-case basis by certifying in writing to the congres-
sional defense committees that such a relocation is required 
in the best interest of the Government. 
SEC. 8021. Of the funds made available in this Act, 
$15,000,000 shall be available for incentive payments au-
thorized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 
(25 U.S.C. 1544): Provided, That a prime contractor or a 
subcontractor at any tier that makes a subcontract award 
to any subcontractor or supplier as defined in section 1544
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of title 25, United States Code, or a small business owned 
and controlled by an individual or individuals defined 
under section 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code, shall 
be considered a contractor for the purposes of being allowed 
additional compensation under section 504 of the Indian 
Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 1544) whenever the 
prime contract or subcontract amount is over $500,000 and 
involves the expenditure of funds appropriated by an Act 
making appropriations for the Department of Defense with 
respect to any fiscal year: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 1906 of title 41, United States Code, this 
section shall be applicable to any Department of Defense 
acquisition of supplies or services, including any contract 
and any subcontract at any tier for acquisition of commer-
cial items produced or manufactured, in whole or in part, 
by any subcontractor or supplier defined in section 1544 
of title 25, United States Code, or a small business owned 
and controlled by an individual or individuals defined 
under section 4221(9) of title 25, United States Code. 
SEC. 8022. Funds appropriated by this Act for the De-
fense Media Activity shall not be used for any national or 
international political or psychological activities. 
SEC. 8023. During the current fiscal year, the Depart-
ment of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of not 
to exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in section
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2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipation of 
receipt of contributions, only from the Government of Ku-
wait, under that section: Provided, That, upon receipt, such 
contributions from the Government of Kuwait shall be cred-
ited to the appropriations or fund which incurred such obli-
gations. 
SEC. 8024. (a) Of the funds made available in this 
Act, not less than $40,021,000 shall be available for the 
Civil Air Patrol Corporation, of which— 
(1) $28,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil 
Air Patrol Corporation operation and maintenance, 
readiness, counter-drug activities, and drug demand 
reduction activities involving youth programs; 
(2) $10,337,000 shall be available from ‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, Air Force’’; and 
(3) $1,684,000 shall be available from ‘‘Other 
Procurement, Air Force’’ for vehicle procurement. 
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive reim-
bursement for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for 
counter-drug activities in support of Federal, State, and 
local government agencies. 
SEC. 8025. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act are available to establish a new Department of Defense 
(department) federally funded research and development
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center (FFRDC), either as a new entity, or as a separate 
entity administrated by an organization managing another 
FFRDC, or as a nonprofit membership corporation con-
sisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and other non-
profit entities. 
(b) No member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, Over-
seers, Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Com-
mittee, or any similar entity of a defense FFRDC, and no 
paid consultant to any defense FFRDC, except when acting 
in a technical advisory capacity, may be compensated for 
his or her services as a member of such entity, or as a paid 
consultant by more than one FFRDC in a fiscal year: Pro-
vided, That a member of any such entity referred to pre-
viously in this subsection shall be allowed travel expenses 
and per diem as authorized under the Federal Joint Travel 
Regulations, when engaged in the performance of member-
ship duties. 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds available to the department from any source 
during the current fiscal year may be used by a defense 
FFRDC, through a fee or other payment mechanism, for 
construction of new buildings not located on a military in-
stallation, for payment of cost sharing for projects funded 
by Government grants, for absorption of contract overruns, 
or for certain charitable contributions, not to include em-
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ployee participation in community service and/or develop-
ment. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the 
funds available to the department during fiscal year 2017, 
not more than 5,750 staff years of technical effort (staff 
years) may be funded for defense FFRDCs: Provided, That, 
of the specific amount referred to previously in this sub-
section, not more than 1,125 staff years may be funded for 
the defense studies and analysis FFRDCs: Provided further, 
That this subsection shall not apply to staff years funded 
in the National Intelligence Program (NIP) and the Mili-
tary Intelligence Program (MIP). 
(e) The Secretary of Defense shall, with the submission 
of the department’s fiscal year 2018 budget request, submit 
a report presenting the specific amounts of staff years of 
technical effort to be allocated for each defense FFRDC dur-
ing that fiscal year and the associated budget estimates. 
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs is 
hereby reduced by $60,000,000. 
SEC. 8026. None of the funds appropriated or made 
available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy, 
or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned facil-
ity or property under the control of the Department of De-
fense which were not melted and rolled in the United States
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or Canada: Provided, That these procurement restrictions 
shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class 9515, 
American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) or 
American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications of 
carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of the military department responsible for the 
procurement may waive this restriction on a case-by-case 
basis by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
that adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet 
Department of Defense requirements on a timely basis and 
that such an acquisition must be made in order to acquire 
capability for national security purposes: Provided further, 
That these restrictions shall not apply to contracts which 
are in being as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 8027. For the purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘con-
gressional defense committees’’ means the Armed Services 
Committee of the House of Representatives, the Armed Serv-
ices Committee of the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense 
of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, and the 
Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 8028. During the current fiscal year, the Depart-
ment of Defense may acquire the modification, depot main-
tenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels as well
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as the production of components and other Defense-related 
articles, through competition between Department of De-
fense depot maintenance activities and private firms: Pro-
vided, That the Senior Acquisition Executive of the military 
department or Defense Agency concerned, with power of del-
egation, shall certify that successful bids include comparable 
estimates of all direct and indirect costs for both public and 
private bids: Provided further, That Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–76 shall not apply to competitions 
conducted under this section. 
SEC. 8029. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after con-
sultation with the United States Trade Representative, de-
termines that a foreign country which is party to an agree-
ment described in paragraph (2) has violated the terms of 
the agreement by discriminating against certain types of 
products produced in the United States that are covered by 
the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall rescind the 
Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy American Act with 
respect to such types of products produced in that foreign 
country. 
(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any 
reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-
standing, between the United States and a foreign country 
pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospec-
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tively waived the Buy American Act for certain products 
in that country. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Con-
gress a report on the amount of Department of Defense pur-
chases from foreign entities in fiscal year 2017. Such report 
shall separately indicate the dollar value of items for which 
the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to any agree-
ment described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade Agreement 
Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any international 
agreement to which the United States is a party. 
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 41, United States Code. 
SEC. 8030. During the current fiscal year, amounts 
contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military 
Facility Investment Recovery Account established by section 
2921(c)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act of 
1991 (Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) shall be 
available until expended for the payments specified by sec-
tion 2921(c)(2) of that Act. 
SEC. 8031. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no 
cost to the Air Force, without consideration, to Indian 
tribes located in the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, 
South Dakota, Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Wash-
ington relocatable military housing units located at Grand
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Forks Air Force Base, Malmstrom Air Force Base, Moun-
tain Home Air Force Base, Ellsworth Air Force Base, and 
Minot Air Force Base that are excess to the needs of the 
Air Force. 
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force shall convey, at no 
cost to the Air Force, military housing units under sub-
section (a) in accordance with the request for such units 
that are submitted to the Secretary by the Operation Walk-
ing Shield Program on behalf of Indian tribes located in 
the States of Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, 
Montana, Oregon, Minnesota, and Washington. Any such 
conveyance shall be subject to the condition that the housing 
units shall be removed within a reasonable period of time, 
as determined by the Secretary. 
(c) The Operation Walking Shield Program shall re-
solve any conflicts among requests of Indian tribes for hous-
ing units under subsection (a) before submitting requests 
to the Secretary of the Air Force under subsection (b). 
(d) In this section, the term ‘‘Indian tribe’’ means any 
recognized Indian tribe included on the current list pub-
lished by the Secretary of the Interior under section 104 
of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Act of 1994 (Pub-
lic Law 103–454; 108 Stat. 4792; 25 U.S.C. 479a–1). 
SEC. 8032. During the current fiscal year, appropria-
tions which are available to the Department of Defense for
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operation and maintenance may be used to purchase items 
having an investment item unit cost of not more than 
$250,000. 
SEC. 8033. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to— 
(1) disestablish, or prepare to disestablish, a 
Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program in 
accordance with Department of Defense Instruction 
Number 1215.08, dated June 26, 2006; or 
(2) close, downgrade from host to extension cen-
ter, or place on probation a Senior Reserve Officers’ 
Training Corps program in accordance with the in-
formation paper of the Department of the Army titled 
‘‘Army Senior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 
(SROTC) Program Review and Criteria’’, dated Jan-
uary 27, 2014. 
SEC. 8034. The Secretary of Defense shall issue regula-
tions to prohibit the sale of any tobacco or tobacco-related 
products in military resale outlets in the United States, its 
territories and possessions at a price below the most com-
petitive price in the local community: Provided, That such 
regulations shall direct that the prices of tobacco or tobacco- 
related products in overseas military retail outlets shall be 
within the range of prices established for military retail 
system stores located in the United States.
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SEC. 8035. (a) During the current fiscal year, none 
of the appropriations or funds available to the Department 
of Defense Working Capital Funds shall be used for the pur-
chase of an investment item for the purpose of acquiring 
a new inventory item for sale or anticipated sale during 
the current fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year to cus-
tomers of the Department of Defense Working Capital 
Funds if such an item would not have been chargeable to 
the Department of Defense Business Operations Fund dur-
ing fiscal year 1994 and if the purchase of such an invest-
ment item would be chargeable during the current fiscal 
year to appropriations made to the Department of Defense 
for procurement. 
(b) The fiscal year 2018 budget request for the Depart-
ment of Defense as well as all justification material and 
other documentation supporting the fiscal year 2018 De-
partment of Defense budget shall be prepared and submitted 
to the Congress on the basis that any equipment which was 
classified as an end item and funded in a procurement ap-
propriation contained in this Act shall be budgeted for in 
a proposed fiscal year 2018 procurement appropriation and 
not in the supply management business area or any other 
area or category of the Department of Defense Working 
Capital Funds.
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SEC. 8036. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall re-
main available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, 
except for funds appropriated for the Reserve for Contin-
gencies, which shall remain available until September 30, 
2018: Provided, That funds appropriated, transferred, or 
otherwise credited to the Central Intelligence Agency Cen-
tral Services Working Capital Fund during this or any 
prior or subsequent fiscal year shall remain available until 
expended: Provided further, That any funds appropriated 
or transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency for ad-
vanced research and development acquisition, for agent op-
erations, and for covert action programs authorized by the 
President under section 503 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 3093) shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018. 
SEC. 8037. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds made available in this Act and hereafter for the 
Defense Intelligence Agency may be used for the design, de-
velopment, and deployment of General Defense Intelligence 
Program intelligence communications and intelligence in-
formation systems for the Services, the Unified and Speci-
fied Commands, and the component commands. 
SEC. 8038. Of the funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense under the heading ‘‘Operation and Mainte-
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nance, Defense-Wide’’, not less than $12,000,000 shall be 
made available only for the mitigation of environmental 
impacts, including training and technical assistance to 
tribes, related administrative support, the gathering of in-
formation, documenting of environmental damage, and de-
veloping a system for prioritization of mitigation and cost 
to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands re-
sulting from Department of Defense activities. 
SEC. 8039. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
Act may be expended by an entity of the Department of 
Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, complies 
with the Buy American Act. For purposes of this subsection, 
the term ‘‘Buy American Act’’ means chapter 83 of title 
41, United States Code. 
(b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a person 
has been convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing 
a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription to any product sold in 
or shipped to the United States that is not made in Amer-
ica, the Secretary shall determine, in accordance with sec-
tion 2410f of title 10, United States Code, whether the per-
son should be debarred from contracting with the Depart-
ment of Defense. 
(c) In the case of any equipment or products purchased 
with appropriations provided under this Act, it is the sense 
of the Congress that any entity of the Department of De-
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fense, in expending the appropriation, purchase only Amer-
ican-made equipment and products, provided that Amer-
ican-made equipment and products are cost-competitive, 
quality competitive, and available in a timely fashion. 
SEC. 8040. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this or any other Act may be used to consoli-
date or relocate any element of a United States Air Force 
Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair 
Squadron Engineer (RED HORSE) outside of the United 
States until the Secretary of the Air Force— 
(1) completes an analysis and comparison of the 
cost and infrastructure investment required to con-
solidate or relocate a RED HORSE squadron outside 
of the United States versus within the United States; 
(2) provides to the congressional defense commit-
tees a report detailing the findings of the cost anal-
ysis; and 
(3) certifies in writing to the congressional de-
fense committees that the preferred site for the consoli-
dation or relocation yields the greatest savings for the 
Air Force: 
Provided, That the term ‘‘United States’’ in this section 
does not include any territory or possession of the United 
States.
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SEC. 8041. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) 
and (c), none of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used— 
(1) to establish a field operating agency; or 
(2) to pay the basic pay of a member of the 
Armed Forces or civilian employee of the department 
who is transferred or reassigned from a headquarters 
activity if the member or employee’s place of duty re-
mains at the location of that headquarters. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military 
department may waive the limitations in subsection (a), 
on a case-by-case basis, if the Secretary determines, and cer-
tifies to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate that the granting of the 
waiver will reduce the personnel requirements or the finan-
cial requirements of the department. 
(c) This section does not apply to— 
(1) field operating agencies funded within the 
National Intelligence Program; 
(2) an Army field operating agency established 
to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of impro-
vised explosive devices, and, as determined by the Sec-
retary of the Army, other similar threats; 
(3) an Army field operating agency established 
to improve the effectiveness and efficiencies of biomet-
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ric activities and to integrate common biometric tech-
nologies throughout the Department of Defense; or 
(4) an Air Force field operating agency estab-
lished to administer the Air Force Mortuary Affairs 
Program and Mortuary Operations for the Depart-
ment of Defense and authorized Federal entities. 
SEC. 8042. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act shall be available to convert to contractor performance 
an activity or function of the Department of Defense that, 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act, is per-
formed by Department of Defense civilian employees un-
less— 
(1) the conversion is based on the result of a pub-
lic-private competition that includes a most efficient 
and cost effective organization plan developed by such 
activity or function; 
(2) the Competitive Sourcing Official determines 
that, over all performance periods stated in the solici-
tation of offers for performance of the activity or 
function, the cost of performance of the activity or 
function by a contractor would be less costly to the 
Department of Defense by an amount that equals or 
exceeds the lesser of— 
(A) 10 percent of the most efficient organi-
zation’s personnel-related costs for performance
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of that activity or function by Federal employ-
ees; or 
(B) $10,000,000; and 
(3) the contractor does not receive an advantage 
for a proposal that would reduce costs for the Depart-
ment of Defense by— 
(A) not making an employer-sponsored 
health insurance plan available to the workers 
who are to be employed in the performance of 
that activity or function under the contract; or 
(B) offering to such workers an employer- 
sponsored health benefits plan that requires the 
employer to contribute less towards the premium 
or subscription share than the amount that is 
paid by the Department of Defense for health 
benefits for civilian employees under chapter 89 
of title 5, United States Code. 
(b)(1) The Department of Defense, without regard to 
subsection (a) of this section or subsection (a), (b), or (c) 
of section 2461 of title 10, United States Code, and notwith-
standing any administrative regulation, requirement, or 
policy to the contrary shall have full authority to enter into 
a contract for the performance of any commercial or indus-
trial type function of the Department of Defense that—
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(A) is included on the procurement list estab-
lished pursuant to section 2 of the Javits-Wagner- 
O’Day Act (section 8503 of title 41, United States 
Code); 
(B) is planned to be converted to performance by 
a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or by a 
qualified nonprofit agency for other severely handi-
capped individuals in accordance with that Act; or 
(C) is planned to be converted to performance by 
a qualified firm under at least 51 percent ownership 
by an Indian tribe, as defined in section 4(e) of the 
Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance 
Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)), or a Native Hawaiian Orga-
nization, as defined in section 8(a)(15) of the Small 
Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(a)(15)). 
(2) This section shall not apply to depot contracts or 
contracts for depot maintenance as provided in sections 
2469 and 2474 of title 10, United States Code. 
(c) The conversion of any activity or function of the 
Department of Defense under the authority provided by this 
section shall be credited toward any competitive or out-
sourcing goal, target, or measurement that may be estab-
lished by statute, regulation, or policy and is deemed to 
be awarded under the authority of, and in compliance with, 
subsection (h) of section 2304 of title 10, United States
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Code, for the competition or outsourcing of commercial ac-
tivities. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 8043. Of the funds appropriated in Department 
of Defense Appropriations Acts, the following funds are 
hereby rescinded from the following accounts and programs 
in the specified amounts: Provided, That no amounts may 
be rescinded from amounts that were designated by the Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
Terrorism or as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 
Concurrent Resolution on the Budget or the Balanced Budg-
et and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: 
‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, 
Army’’, 
2015/2017, 
$15,000,000; 
‘‘Other 
Procurement, 
Army’’, 
2015/2017, 
$23,045,000; 
‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, 
Navy’’, 
2015/2017, 
$88,000,000; 
‘‘Weapons 
Procurement, 
Navy’’, 
2015/2017, 
$11,933,000; 
‘‘Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine 
Corps’’, 2015/2017, $43,600,000; 
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Air Force’’, 2015/2017, 
$57,000,000;
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‘‘Other Procurement, Air Force’’, 2015/2017, 
$25,500,000; 
‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, 
Army’’, 
2016/2018, 
$34,594,000; 
‘‘Procurement of Ammunition, Army’’, 2016/ 
2018, $5,000,000; 
‘‘Other 
Procurement, 
Army’’, 
2016/2018, 
$84,100,000; 
‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, 
Navy’’, 
2016/2018, 
$6,755,000; 
‘‘Weapons 
Procurement, 
Navy’’, 
2016/2018, 
$5,307,000; 
‘‘Procurement of Ammunition, Navy and Marine 
Corps’’, 2016/2018, $6,968,000; 
‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 2016/ 
2020: DDG-51 Destroyer, $50,000,000; 
‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 2016/ 
2020: LPD-17, $14,906,000; 
‘‘Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy’’, 2016/ 
2020: LX (R), (AP), $236,000,000; 
‘‘Other 
Procurement, 
Navy’’, 
2016/2018, 
$56,374,000; 
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Air Force’’, 2016/2018, 
$383,200,000;
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‘‘Missile Procurement, Air Force’’, 2016/2018, 
$34,700,000; 
‘‘Space Procurement, Air Force’’, 2016/2018, 
$100,000,000; 
‘‘Other Procurement, Air Force’’, 2016/2018, 
$56,369,000; 
‘‘Procurement, 
Defense-Wide’’, 
2016/2018, 
$2,600,000; 
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Army’’, 2016/2017, $33,402,000; 
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Navy’’, 2016/2017, $31,219,000; 
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Air Force’’, 2016/2017, $532,550,000; and 
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
Defense-Wide’’, 2016/2017, $64,500,000. 
SEC. 8044. None of the funds available in this Act may 
be used to reduce the authorized positions for military tech-
nicians (dual status) of the Army National Guard, Air Na-
tional Guard, Army Reserve and Air Force Reserve for the 
purpose of applying any administratively imposed civilian 
personnel ceiling, freeze, or reduction on military techni-
cians (dual status), unless such reductions are a direct re-
sult of a reduction in military force structure.
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SEC. 8045. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act may be obligated or ex-
pended for assistance to the Democratic People’s Republic 
of Korea unless specifically appropriated for that purpose. 
SEC. 8046. Funds appropriated in this Act for oper-
ation and maintenance of the Military Departments, Com-
batant Commands and Defense Agencies shall be available 
for reimbursement of pay, allowances and other expenses 
which would otherwise be incurred against appropriations 
for the National Guard and Reserve when members of the 
National Guard and Reserve provide intelligence or coun-
terintelligence support to Combatant Commands, Defense 
Agencies and Joint Intelligence Activities, including the ac-
tivities and programs included within the National Intel-
ligence Program and the Military Intelligence Program: 
Provided, That nothing in this section authorizes deviation 
from established Reserve and National Guard personnel and 
training procedures. 
SEC. 8047. (a) None of the funds available to the De-
partment of Defense for any fiscal year for drug interdic-
tion or counter-drug activities may be transferred to any 
other department or agency of the United States except as 
specifically provided in an appropriations law. 
(b) None of the funds available to the Central Intel-
ligence Agency for any fiscal year for drug interdiction or
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counter-drug activities may be transferred to any other de-
partment or agency of the United States except as specifi-
cally provided in an appropriations law. 
SEC. 8048. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used for the procurement of ball and roller bearings 
other than those produced by a domestic source and of do-
mestic origin: Provided, That the Secretary of the military 
department responsible for such procurement may waive 
this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writ-
ing to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate, that adequate domestic 
supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense 
requirements on a timely basis and that such an acquisition 
must be made in order to acquire capability for national 
security purposes: Provided further, That this restriction 
shall not apply to the purchase of ‘‘commercial items’’, as 
defined by section 103 of title 41, United States Code, except 
that the restriction shall apply to ball or roller bearings 
purchased as end items. 
SEC. 8049. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to retire, divest, realign, or transfer RQ– 
4B Global Hawk aircraft, or to disestablish or convert units 
associated with such aircraft. 
SEC. 8050. None of the funds made available by this 
Act for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle service competi-
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tive procurements may be used unless the competitive pro-
curements are open for award to all certified providers of 
Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle-class systems: Pro-
vided, That the award shall be made to the provider that 
offers the best value to the government. 
SEC. 8051. In addition to the amounts appropriated 
or otherwise made available elsewhere in this Act, 
$44,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of 
Defense: Provided, That upon the determination of the Sec-
retary of Defense that it shall serve the national interest, 
the Secretary shall make grants in the amounts specified 
as follows: $20,000,000 to the United Service Organizations 
and $24,000,000 to the Red Cross. 
SEC. 8052. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
to purchase any supercomputer which is not manufactured 
in the United States, unless the Secretary of Defense cer-
tifies to the congressional defense committees that such an 
acquisition must be made in order to acquire capability for 
national security purposes that is not available from 
United States manufacturers. 
SEC. 8053. Notwithstanding any other provision in 
this Act, the Small Business Innovation Research program 
and the Small Business Technology Transfer program set- 
asides shall be taken proportionally from all programs,
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projects, or activities to the extent they contribute to the 
extramural budget. 
SEC. 8054. None of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense under this Act shall be obligated or ex-
pended to pay a contractor under a contract with the De-
partment of Defense for costs of any amount paid by the 
contractor to an employee when— 
(1) such costs are for a bonus or otherwise in ex-
cess of the normal salary paid by the contractor to the 
employee; and 
(2) such bonus is part of restructuring costs asso-
ciated with a business combination. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8055. During the current fiscal year, no more 
than $30,000,000 of appropriations made in this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’ 
may be transferred to appropriations available for the pay 
of military personnel, to be merged with, and to be available 
for the same time period as the appropriations to which 
transferred, to be used in support of such personnel in con-
nection with support and services for eligible organizations 
and activities outside the Department of Defense pursuant 
to section 2012 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 8056. During the current fiscal year, in the case 
of an appropriation account of the Department of Defense
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for which the period of availability for obligation has ex-
pired or which has closed under the provisions of section 
1552 of title 31, United States Code, and which has a nega-
tive unliquidated or unexpended balance, an obligation or 
an adjustment of an obligation may be charged to any cur-
rent appropriation account for the same purpose as the ex-
pired or closed account if— 
(1) the obligation would have been properly 
chargeable (except as to amount) to the expired or 
closed account before the end of the period of avail-
ability or closing of that account; 
(2) the obligation is not otherwise properly 
chargeable to any current appropriation account of 
the Department of Defense; and 
(3) in the case of an expired account, the obliga-
tion is not chargeable to a current appropriation of 
the Department of Defense under the provisions of sec-
tion 1405(b)(8) of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1991, Public Law 101–510, as 
amended (31 U.S.C. 1551 note): Provided, That in 
the case of an expired account, if subsequent review 
or investigation discloses that there was not in fact a 
negative unliquidated or unexpended balance in the 
account, any charge to a current account under the 
authority of this section shall be reversed and re-
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corded against the expired account: Provided further, 
That the total amount charged to a current appro-
priation under this section may not exceed an 
amount equal to 1 percent of the total appropriation 
for that account. 
SEC. 8057. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may permit 
the use of equipment of the National Guard Distance Learn-
ing Project by any person or entity on a space-available, 
reimbursable basis. The Chief of the National Guard Bu-
reau shall establish the amount of reimbursement for such 
use on a case-by-case basis. 
(b) Amounts collected under subsection (a) shall be 
credited to funds available for the National Guard Distance 
Learning Project and be available to defray the costs associ-
ated with the use of equipment of the project under that 
subsection. Such funds shall be available for such purposes 
without fiscal year limitation. 
SEC. 8058. None of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense may be obligated to modify command and 
control relationships to give Fleet Forces Command oper-
ational and administrative control of United States Navy 
forces assigned to the Pacific fleet: Provided, That the com-
mand and control relationships which existed on October 
1, 2004, shall remain in force until a written modification
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has been proposed to the House and Senate Appropriations 
Committees: Provided further, That the proposed modifica-
tion may be implemented 30 days after the notification un-
less an objection is received from either the House or Senate 
Appropriations Committees: Provided further, That any 
proposed modification shall not preclude the ability of the 
commander of United States Pacific Command to meet 
operational requirements. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8059. Of the funds appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense- 
wide’’, $25,000,000 shall be for continued implementation 
and expansion of the Sexual Assault Special Victims’ Coun-
sel Program: Provided, That the funds are made available 
for transfer to the Department of the Army, the Department 
of the Navy, and the Department of the Air Force: Provided 
further, That funds transferred shall be merged with and 
available for the same purposes and for the same time pe-
riod as the appropriations to which the funds are trans-
ferred: Provided further, That this transfer authority is in 
addition to any other transfer authority provided in this 
Act. 
SEC. 8060. None of the funds appropriated in title IV 
of this Act may be used to procure end-items for delivery 
to military forces for operational training, operational use
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or inventory requirements: Provided, That this restriction 
does not apply to end-items used in development, proto-
typing, and test activities preceding and leading to accept-
ance for operational use: Provided further, That this restric-
tion does not apply to programs funded within the National 
Intelligence Program: Provided further, That the Secretary 
of Defense may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis 
by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate that 
it is in the national security interest to do so. 
SEC. 8061. (a) The Secretary of Defense may, on a 
case-by-case basis, waive with respect to a foreign country 
each limitation on the procurement of defense items from 
foreign sources provided in law if the Secretary determines 
that the application of the limitation with respect to that 
country would invalidate cooperative programs entered into 
between the Department of Defense and the foreign country, 
or would invalidate reciprocal trade agreements for the pro-
curement of defense items entered into under section 2531 
of title 10, United States Code, and the country does not 
discriminate against the same or similar defense items pro-
duced in the United States for that country. 
(b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to— 
(1) contracts and subcontracts entered into on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
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(2) options for the procurement of items that are 
exercised after such date under contracts that are en-
tered into before such date if the option prices are ad-
justed for any reason other than the application of a 
waiver granted under subsection (a). 
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a limitation re-
garding construction of public vessels, ball and roller bear-
ings, food, and clothing or textile materials as defined by 
section XI (chapters 50–65) of the Harmonized Tariff 
Schedule of the United States and products classified under 
headings 4010, 4202, 4203, 6401 through 6406, 6505, 7019, 
7218 through 7229, 7304.41 through 7304.49, 7306.40, 7502 
through 7508, 8105, 8108, 8109, 8211, 8215, and 9404. 
SEC. 8062. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this or other Department of Defense 
Appropriations Acts may be obligated or expended for the 
purpose of performing repairs or maintenance to military 
family housing units of the Department of Defense, includ-
ing areas in such military family housing units that may 
be used for the purpose of conducting official Department 
of Defense business. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8063. Of the amounts appropriated for ‘‘Oper-
ation and Maintenance, Navy’’, up to $1,000,000 shall be 
available for transfer to the John C. Stennis Center for Pub-
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lic Service Development Trust Fund established under sec-
tion 116 of the John C. Stennis Center for Public Service 
Training and Development Act (2 U.S.C. 1105). 
SEC. 8064. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, funds appropriated in this Act under the heading ‘‘Re-
search, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’ 
for any new start advanced concept technology demonstra-
tion project or joint capability demonstration project may 
only be obligated 45 days after a report, including a de-
scription of the project, the planned acquisition and transi-
tion strategy and its estimated annual and total cost, has 
been provided in writing to the congressional defense com-
mittees: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive 
this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying to the 
congressional defense committees that it is in the national 
interest to do so. 
SEC. 8065. The Secretary of Defense shall continue to 
provide a classified quarterly report to the House and Sen-
ate Appropriations Committees, Subcommittees on Defense 
on certain matters as directed in the classified annex ac-
companying this Act. 
SEC. 8066. Notwithstanding section 12310(b) of title 
10, United States Code, a Reserve who is a member of the 
National Guard serving on full-time National Guard duty 
under section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, may
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perform duties in support of the ground-based elements of 
the National Ballistic Missile Defense System. 
SEC. 8067. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity ammuni-
tion held by the Department of Defense that has a center- 
fire cartridge and a United States military nomenclature 
designation of ‘‘armor penetrator’’, ‘‘armor piercing (AP)’’, 
‘‘armor piercing incendiary (API)’’, or ‘‘armor-piercing in-
cendiary tracer (API–T)’’, except to an entity performing 
demilitarization services for the Department of Defense 
under a contract that requires the entity to demonstrate to 
the satisfaction of the Department of Defense that armor 
piercing projectiles are either: (1) rendered incapable of 
reuse by the demilitarization process; or (2) used to manu-
facture ammunition pursuant to a contract with the De-
partment of Defense or the manufacture of ammunition for 
export pursuant to a License for Permanent Export of Un-
classified Military Articles issued by the Department of 
State. 
SEC. 8068. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, or his des-
ignee, may waive payment of all or part of the consider-
ation that otherwise would be required under section 2667 
of title 10, United States Code, in the case of a lease of 
personal property for a period not in excess of 1 year to
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any organization specified in section 508(d) of title 32, 
United States Code, or any other youth, social, or fraternal 
nonprofit organization as may be approved by the Chief 
of the National Guard Bureau, or his designee, on a case- 
by-case basis. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8069. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 
under the heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, 
$75,950,170 shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Secretary of Defense is authorized to transfer such funds 
to other activities of the Federal Government: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary of Defense is authorized to enter 
into and carry out contracts for the acquisition of real 
property, construction, personal services, and operations re-
lated to projects carrying out the purposes of this section: 
Provided further, That contracts entered into under the au-
thority of this section may provide for such indemnification 
as the Secretary determines to be necessary: Provided fur-
ther, That projects authorized by this section shall comply 
with applicable Federal, State, and local law to the max-
imum extent consistent with the national security, as deter-
mined by the Secretary of Defense.
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SEC. 8070. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this 
or any other Act may be used to take any action to mod-
ify— 
(1) the appropriations account structure for the 
National Intelligence Program budget, including 
through the creation of a new appropriation or new 
appropriation account; 
(2) how the National Intelligence Program budg-
et request is presented in the unclassified P–1, R–1, 
and O–1 documents supporting the Department of 
Defense budget request; 
(3) the process by which the National Intelligence 
Program appropriations are apportioned to the exe-
cuting agencies; or 
(4) the process by which the National Intelligence 
Program appropriations are allotted, obligated and 
disbursed. 
(b) Nothing in section (a) shall be construed to prohibit 
the merger of programs or changes to the National Intel-
ligence Program budget at or below the Expenditure Center 
level, provided such change is otherwise in accordance with 
paragraphs (a)(1)–(3). 
(c) The Director of National Intelligence and the Sec-
retary of Defense may jointly, only for the purposes of 
achieving auditable financial statements and improving fis-
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cal reporting, study and develop detailed proposals for al-
ternative financial management processes. Such study shall 
include a comprehensive counterintelligence risk assessment 
to ensure that none of the alternative processes will ad-
versely affect counterintelligence. 
(d) Upon development of the detailed proposals defined 
under subsection (c), the Director of National Intelligence 
and the Secretary of Defense shall— 
(1) provide the proposed alternatives to all af-
fected agencies; 
(2) receive certification from all affected agencies 
attesting that the proposed alternatives will help 
achieve auditability, improve fiscal reporting, and 
will not adversely affect counterintelligence; and 
(3) not later than 30 days after receiving all nec-
essary certifications under paragraph (2), present the 
proposed alternatives and certifications to the con-
gressional defense and intelligence committees. 
SEC. 8071. In addition to amounts provided elsewhere 
in this Act, $5,000,000 is hereby appropriated to the De-
partment of Defense, to remain available for obligation 
until expended: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, that upon the determination of the Sec-
retary of Defense that it shall serve the national interest, 
these funds shall be available only for a grant to the Fisher
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House Foundation, Inc., only for the construction and fur-
nishing of additional Fisher Houses to meet the needs of 
military family members when confronted with the illness 
or hospitalization of an eligible military beneficiary. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8072. Of the amounts appropriated in this Act 
under the headings ‘‘Procurement, Defense-Wide’’ and ‘‘Re-
search, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’, 
$600,735,000 shall be for the Israeli Cooperative Programs: 
Provided, That of this amount, $62,000,000 shall be for the 
Secretary of Defense to provide to the Government of Israel 
for the procurement of the Iron Dome defense system to 
counter short-range rocket threats, subject to the U.S.-Israel 
Iron 
Dome 
Procurement 
Agreement, 
as 
amended; 
$266,511,000 shall be for the Short Range Ballistic Missile 
Defense (SRBMD) program, including cruise missile de-
fense research and development under the SRBMD pro-
gram, of which $150,000,000 shall be for co-production ac-
tivities of SRBMD missiles in the United States and in 
Israel to meet Israel’s defense requirements consistent with 
each nation’s laws, regulations, and procedures, of which 
not more than $90,000,000, subject to previously established 
transfer procedures, may be obligated or expended until es-
tablishment of a U.S.-Israeli co-production agreement for 
SRBMD; $204,893,000 shall be for an upper-tier compo-