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(d) The President may require export licenses under this section 
on a temporary basis if the President determines, upon publication 
first in the Federal Register, that the Government of Canada has 
implemented or maintained inadequate import controls for the arti-
cles specified in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion 
of such articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in another 
nation. The President shall terminate the requirements of a license 
when reasons for the temporary requirements have ceased. 
SEC. 523. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no 
department, agency, or instrumentality of the United 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 application 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. 524. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to include in any new bilateral or multilateral trade agree-
ment the text of— 
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United States-Singa-
pore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United States-Aus-
tralia Free Trade Agreement; or 
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United States-Morocco 
Free Trade Agreement. 
SEC. 525. (a)(1) The Administrator of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration shall modify the Administration’s finan-
cial management system and perform all appropriate testing and 
assurance activities necessary for the system to be capable of prop-
erly budgeting, accounting for, controlling, and reporting on appro-
priations made to the Administration for fiscal year 2009 and 
thereafter under the appropriation accounts set out for the Adminis-
tration in H.R. 3093 of the 110th Congress, as passed by the 
House of Representatives. 
(2) The Administrator shall transmit to the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate a written report, on a monthly 
basis until the certification under paragraph (3) is transmitted, 
on progress in complying with this subsection. 
(3) Not later than April 1, 2008, the Administrator shall 
transmit to the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate 
a written certification that the Administration’s financial manage-
ment system meets the requirements of this section. 
(b) Beginning for the first full month after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator shall report in writing to the Com-
mittee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, on the 15th business 
day of each month, financial information on the execution of the 
Administration’s budget for the preceding month and for the fiscal 
year to date. Each report under this subsection shall provide 
information on the Administration’s budget, obligations incurred, 
and disbursements made, presented by—
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(1) mission area (as reflected in the appropriation accounts 
set out for the Administration in H.R. 3093 of the 110th Con-
gress, as passed by the House of Representatives); 
(2) program or project; 
(3) Center; and 
(4) object class, as well as any other financial information 
requested by the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives or the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
SEC. 526. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to authorize or issue a national security letter in contraven-
tion of any of the following laws authorizing the Federal Bureau 
of Investigation to issue national security letters: The Right to 
Financial Privacy Act; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act; 
The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Security Act of 1947; 
USA PATRIOT Act; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be made available for a public-private 
competition conducted under Office of Management and Budget 
Circular A–76 or to convert a function performed by Federal 
employees to private sector performance without such a competition 
unless a representative designated by a majority of the employees 
engaged in the performance of the activity or function for which 
the public-private competition is conducted or which is to be con-
verted without such a competition is treated as an interested party 
with respect to such competition or decision to convert to private 
sector performance for purposes of subchapter V of chapter 35 
of title 31, United States Code. 
SEC. 528. Section 605 of the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia 
Research and Control Act of 1998 (16 U.S.C. 1451 note) is 
amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by striking 
‘‘$25,500,000 for fiscal year 2008’’ and inserting ‘‘$30,000,000 
for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2010’’; 
(2) in each of paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), and (6) by striking 
‘‘2008’’ and inserting ‘‘2010’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (5) by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2008’’ and 
inserting ‘‘each of fiscal years 2008 through 2010’’. 
SEC. 529. Effective January 13, 2007, section 303A of the 
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 
U.S.C. 1853a) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘association’’ in subsection (c)(4)(A)(iii) and 
inserting ‘‘association, among willing parties’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2) of subsection (i); 
(3) by striking ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—’’ in subsection (i) and 
resetting paragraph (1) as a full measure paragraph following 
‘‘(i) TRANSITION RULES.—’’; and 
(4) by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) of 
subsection (i)(1) (before its amendment by paragraph (3)) as 
paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively and resetting them 
as indented paragraphs 2 ems from the left margin. 
SEC. 530. If at any time during any quarter, the program 
manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the Departments 
of Commerce or Justice, the National Aeronautics 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, the program manager
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shall immediately inform the 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 include 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 procure-
ment costs; and a statement validating that the project’s manage-
ment structure is adequate to control total project or procurement 
costs. 
SEC. 531. Notwithstanding section 505 of this Act, no funds 
shall be reprogrammed within or transferred between appropria-
tions after June 30, except in extraordinary circumstances. 
SEC. 532. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made available 
by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intelligence or intelligence 
related activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the 
Congress for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act 
of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 2008 until the enactment 
of the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. 
SEC. 533. (a) Subsection (a) of section 315 of the National 
Aeronautics and Space Administration Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2459j) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Administrator’’ and inserting ‘‘The Administrator’’; 
and 
(2) by striking ‘‘any real property’’ and inserting ‘‘any non- 
excess real property and related personal property’’; and 
(3) by striking ‘‘at no more than two (2) National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration (NASA) centers’’. 
(b) Subsection (b) of such section is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘consideration’’ and all 
that follows through the end of the paragraph and inserting 
‘‘cash consideration for the lease at fair market value as deter-
mined by the Administrator.’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2); 
(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); and 
(4) in paragraph (2), as redesignated by paragraph (3) 
of this subsection— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘maintenance’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘centers selected for this dem-
onstration program’’ and inserting ‘‘capital revitalization 
and construction projects and improvements of real prop-
erty assets and related personal property under the juris-
diction of the Administrator’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following new subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(C) Amounts utilized under subparagraph (B) may not 
be utilized for daily operating costs.’’. 
(c) Subsection (e) of such section is amended— 
(1) 
by 
striking 
‘‘LEASE
RESTRICTIONS.—NASA’’ 
and 
inserting the following: ‘‘LEASE RESTRICTIONS.— 
‘‘(1) NASA’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
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‘‘(2) NASA is not authorized to enter into an out-lease 
under this section unless the Administrator certifies that such 
out-lease will not have a negative impact on NASA’s mission.’’. 
(d) Such section is further amended by adding at the end 
the following new subsection (f): 
‘‘(f) SUNSET.—The authority to enter into leases under this 
section shall expire on the date that is ten years after the date 
of the enactment of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act of 2008. The expiration under this 
subsection of authority to enter into leases under this section shall 
not affect the validity or term of leases or NASA’s retention of 
proceeds from leases entered into under this section before the 
date of the expiration of such authority.’’. 
(e) The heading of such section is amended by striking 
‘‘Enhanced-use lease of real property demonstration’’ and inserting 
‘‘Lease of non-excess property’’. 
(f) This section shall become effective on December 31, 2008. 
SEC. 534. The Departments, agencies, and commissions funded 
under this Act, shall establish and maintain on the homepages 
of their Internet websites— 
(1) a direct link to the Internet websites of their Offices 
of Inspectors General; and 
(2) a mechanism on the Offices of Inspectors General 
website by which individuals may anonymously report cases 
of waste, fraud, or abuse with respect to those Departments, 
agencies, and commissions. 
SEC. 535. 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 contractor or grantee certifies 
in writing to the agency awarding 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 remains 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. 
SEC. 536. This section may be cited as the ‘‘ED 1.0 Act’’. 
(a) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Administrator of 
the National Telecommunications and Information Administra-
tion. 
(2) The term ‘‘eligible educational institution’’ means an 
institution that is— 
(A) a historically Black college or university; 
(B) a Hispanic-serving institution as that term is 
defined in section 502(a)(5) of the Higher Education Act 
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1101a(a)(5)); 
(C) a tribally controlled college or university as that 
term is defined in section 2(a)(4) of the Tribally Controlled 
College or University Assistance Act of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 
1801(a)(4));