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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT AND MAINTENANCE
(INCLUDING RESCISSION)
Of the funds appropriated in Title V of Public Law
105–83 for the purposes of section 502(e) of that Act, the
following amounts are rescinded: $1,000,000 for snow re-
moval and pavement preservation and $4,000,000 for pave-
ment rehabilitation.
For an additional amount for ‘‘Capital Improvement
and Maintenance’’, $5,000,000, to remain available until
expended, for the purposes of section 502(e) of Public Law
105–83.
For an additional amount for ‘‘Capital Improvement
and Maintenance’’ to repair damage caused by ice storms
in the States of Arkansas and Oklahoma, $4,000,000, to re-
main available until expended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 2601. Pursuant to title VI of the Steens Mountain
Cooperative Management and Protection Act, Public Law
106–399, the Bureau of Land Management may transfer
such sums as are necessary to complete the individual land
exchanges identified under title VI from unobligated land
acquisition balances.
SEC. 2602. Section 338 of Public Law 106–291 is
amended by striking ‘‘105–825’’ and inserting in lieu there-
of: ‘‘105–277’’.
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SEC. 2603. Section 2 of Public Law 106–558 is amend-
ed by striking subsection (b) in its entirety and inserting
in lieu thereof:
‘‘(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this
Act.’’.
SEC. 2604. Federal Highway Administration emer-
gency relief for Federally owned roads, made available to
the Forest Service as Federal-aid highways funds, may be
used to reimburse Forest Service accounts for expenditures
previously completed only to the extent that such expendi-
tures would otherwise have qualified for the use of Federal-
aid highways funds.
SEC. 2605. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, $2,000,000 provided to the Forest Service in Public
Law 106–291 for the Region 10 Jobs in the Woods program
shall be advanced as a direct lump sum payment to Ketch-
ikan Public Utilities within thirty days of enactment: Pro-
vided, That such funds shall be used by Ketchikan Public
Utilities specifically for hiring workers for the purpose of
removing timber within the right-of-way for the Swan
Lake-Lake Tyee Intertie.
SEC. 2606. Section 122(a) of Public Law 106–291 is
amended by:
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(1) inserting ‘‘hereafter’’ after ‘‘such amounts’’;
and
(2) striking ‘‘June 1, 2000’’ and inserting ‘‘June
1 of the preceding fiscal year’’.
SEC. 2607. Section 351 of Public Law 105–277 is
amended by striking ‘‘prior to September 30, 2001’’ and
inserting in lieu thereof: ‘‘and hereafter’’.
SEC. 2608. SUDDEN OAK DEATH SYNDROME. In addi-
tion to amounts transferred under section 442(a) of the
Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7772(a)), the Secretary of
Agriculture shall transfer to the Forest Service, pursuant
to that section, an additional $1,400,000 to be used by ap-
propriate offices within the Forest Service that carry out
research and development activities to arrest, control, eradi-
cate, and prevent the spread of Sudden Oak Death Syn-
drome, to be derived by transfer from the unobligated bal-
ance available to the Secretary of Agriculture for the acqui-
sition of land and interests in land.
CHAPTER 7
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS)
For an additional amount to carry out chapter 4 of
the Workforce Investment Act, $45,000,000 to be available
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for obligation for the period April 1, 2001 through June
30, 2002.
Of the funds made available under this heading in the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001
(as enacted into law by Public Law 106–554), $45,000,000
are rescinded including $25,000,000 available for obligation
for the period April 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 to carry
out section 169 of the Workforce Investment Act, and
$20,000,000 available for obligation for the period July 1,
2001 through June 30, 2002 for Safe Schools/Healthy Stu-
dents.
Of the funds made available under this heading in the
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001
(as enacted into law by Public Law 106–554), for Dis-
located Worker Employment and Training Activities,
$217,500,000 available for obligation for the period July
1, 2001 through June 30, 2002 are rescinded: Provided,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law,
$160,000,000 is from amounts allotted under section
132(a)(2)(B), and $57,500,000 is from the National Reserve
under section 132(a)(2)(A) of the Workforce Investment Act:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision
of law, the Secretary shall increase State allotments under
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section 132(b)(2) of the Workforce Investment Act for pro-
gram year 2001 by the reallotment of excess unexpended
balances, as determined by the Secretary, as of June 30,
2001, from those States determined to have excess unex-
pended balances: Provided further, That the rescission of
funds under section 132(a)(2)(B) is effective at the time the
Secretary re-allots excess unexpended balances to the States:
Provided further, That the amount reallocated to any State,
when added to the State’s formula allotment under section
132(b)(2), shall equal, to the extent possible, the amount the
State would have received on July 1, 2001 had no rescission
been enacted.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES
The matter under this heading in the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into
law by Public Law 106–554) is amended by striking
‘‘$226,224,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$224,724,000’’.
The provision for Northeastern University is amended
by striking ‘‘doctors’’ and inserting ‘‘allied health care pro-
fessionals’’.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Funds appropriated to the Office of the Director, Na-
tional Institutes of Health, in fiscal year 2001 for the Office
of Biomedical Imaging, Bioinformatics and Bioengineering
are transferred to the National Institute of Biomedical Im-
aging and Bioengineering.
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
For carrying out the Public Health Service Act with
respect to mental health services, $6,500,000 for mainte-
nance, repair, preservation, and protection of the Federally
owned facilities, including the Civil War Cemetery, at St.
Elizabeths Hospital, which shall remain available until ex-
pended.
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Low Income Home En-
ergy Assistance’’ under section 2602(e) of the Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 8621(e)),
$300,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That these funds are for the home energy assistance
needs of one or more States, as authorized by section
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2604(e) of that Act and notwithstanding the designation re-
quirement of section 2602(e) of such Act.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION REFORM
In the statement of the managers of the committee of
conference accompanying H.R. 4577 (Public Law 106–554;
House Report 106–1033), in title III of the explanatory
language on H.R. 5656 (Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2001), in the matter relating to Tech-
nology Innovation Challenge Grants under the heading
‘‘Education Reform’’, the amount specified for Western
Kentucky University to improve teacher preparation pro-
grams that help incorporate technology into the school cur-
riculum shall be deemed to be $400,000.
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED
The matter under this heading in the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into
law by Public Law 106–554) is amended by striking
‘‘$7,332,721,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$7,237,721,000’’.
For an additional amount (to the corrected amount
under this heading) for ‘‘Education for the Disadvantaged’’
to carry out part A of title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 in accordance with the
eighth proviso under that heading, $161,000,000, which
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shall become available on July 1, 2001, and shall remain
available through September 30, 2002.
IMPACT AID
Of the $12,802,000 available under the heading ‘‘Im-
pact Aid’’ in the Departments of Labor, Health and Human
Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 106–
554) for construction under section 8007 of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965, $6,802,000 shall be
used as directed in the first proviso under that heading,
and the remaining $6,000,000 shall be distributed to eligible
local educational agencies under section 8007, as such sec-
tion was in effect on September 30, 2000.
SPECIAL EDUCATION
In the statement of the managers of the committee of
conference accompanying H.R. 4577 (Public Law 106–554;
House Report 106–1033), in title III of the explanatory
language on H.R. 5656 (Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2001), in the matter relating to Special
Education Research and Innovation under the heading
‘‘Special Education’’, the provision for training, technical
support, services and equipment through the Early Child-
hood Development Project in the Mississippi Delta Region
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘Easter Seals—Arkansas’’
for ‘‘the National Easter Seals Society’’.
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EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT
The matter under this heading in the Departments of
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (as enacted into
law by Public Law 106–554) is amended by striking
‘‘$139,624,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$139,853,000’’.
In the statement of the managers of the committee of
conference accompanying H.R. 4577 (Public Law 106–554;
House Report 106–1033), in title III of the explanatory
language on H.R. 5656 (Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2001), in the matter relating to the Fund
for the Improvement of Education under the heading ‘‘Edu-
cation Research, Statistics and Improvement’’—
(1) the aggregate amount specified shall be
deemed to be $139,853,000;
(2) the amount specified for the National Men-
toring Partnership in Washington, DC for estab-
lishing the National E-Mentoring Clearinghouse shall
be deemed to be $461,000; and
(3) the provision specifying $1,275,000 for one-
to-one computing shall be deemed to read as follows:
‘‘$1,275,000—NetSchools Corporation, to provide
one-to-one e-learning pilot programs for Dover Ele-
mentary School in San Pablo, California, Belle
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Haven Elementary School in East Menlo Park, Cali-
fornia, East Rock Magnet School in New Haven, Con-
necticut, Reid Elementary School in Searchlight, Ne-
vada, 
and 
McDermitt 
Combined 
School 
in
McDermitt, Nevada;’’.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
SEC. 2701. (a) Section 117 of the Carl D. Perkins Vo-
cational and Technical Education Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C.
2327) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘that are not
receiving Federal support under the Tribally Con-
trolled College or University Assistance Act of 1978
(25 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) or the Navajo Community
College Act (25 U.S.C. 640a et seq.)’’ after ‘‘institu-
tions’’;
(2) in subsection (b), by adding ‘‘institutional
support of’’ after ‘‘for’’;
(3) in subsection (d), by inserting ‘‘that is not
receiving Federal support under the Tribally Con-
trolled College or University Assistance Act of 1978
(25 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.) or the Navajo Community
College Act (25 U.S.C. 640a et seq.)’’ after ‘‘institu-
tion’’; and
(4) in subsection (e)(1)—
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(A) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of sub-
paragraph (B);
(B) by striking the period at the end of sub-
paragraph (C) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(D) institutional support of vocational
and technical education.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) The amendments made by subsection (a)
shall take effect on the date of enactment of this sec-
tion.
(2) The amendments made by subsection (a)
shall apply to grants made for fiscal year 2001 only
if this section is enacted before August 4, 2001.
SEC. 2702. (a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF GRANT PRO-
GRAM.—Section 396 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47
U.S.C 396) is amended by adding the following new sub-
section:
‘‘GRANT ASSISTANCE FOR TRANSITION TO DIGITAL BROAD-
CASTING.
‘‘(n)(1) The Corporation may, by grant, provide finan-
cial assistance to eligible entities for the purpose of sup-
porting the transition of those entities from the use of ana-
log to digital technology for the provision of public broad-
casting services.
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‘‘(2) Any ‘public broadcasting entity’ as defined in sec-
tion 397(11) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C.
397(11)) is an entity eligible to receive grants under this
subsection.
‘‘(3) Proceeds of grants awarded under this subsection
may be used for costs associated with the transition of pub-
lic broadcasting stations to assure access to digital broad-
casting services, including for the support of digital trans-
mission facilities and for the development, production, and
distribution of digital programs and services.
‘‘(4) The grants shall be distributed to the eligible enti-
ties in accordance with principles and criteria established
by the Corporation in consultation with the public broad-
casting licensees and officials of national organizations rep-
resenting public broadcasting licensees. The principles and
criteria shall include special priority for providing digital
broadcast services to:
‘‘(A) rural or remote areas;
‘‘(B) areas under-served by public broadcasting
stations; and
‘‘(C) areas where the conversion to, or establish-
ment of primary digital public broadcasting services,
is impaired by an insufficient availability of private
funding for that purpose by reason of the small size