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a uniform set of rules and requirements, substantially similar to 
the requirements in such subsections, consistently apply under 
the executive branch ethics program to all Federal departments, 
agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 515. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used by the Departments 
of Commerce and Justice, the National Aeronautics 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 
Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Categorization of Federal 
Information and Information Systems’’ unless the agency has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the information 
systems against criteria developed by NIST to inform acquisi-
tion decisions for high-impact and moderate-impact information 
systems within the Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the presumptive 
awardee against available and relevant threat information pro-
vided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other appro-
priate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
or other appropriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment 
of any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated with the 
acquisition of such system, including any risk associated 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 
Republic of China. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act may be used to acquire a high-impact or moderate- 
impact information system reviewed and assessed under subsection 
(a) unless the head of the assessing entity described in subsection 
(a) has— 
(1) developed, in consultation with NIST and supply chain 
risk management experts, a mitigation strategy for any identi-
fied risks; 
(2) determined that the acquisition of such system is in 
the national interest of the United States; and 
(3) reported that determination to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this Act shall 
be used in any way whatsoever to support or justify 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 instrumentality of the United States 
to pay administrative expenses 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, acces-
sories or 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
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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 required by law, or 
from being otherwise eligible under the laws of the United 
States to possess, ship, transport, or export the articles enumer-
ated in subsection (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and components and parts 
for such firearms, other than for end use by the Federal 
Government, or a Provincial or Municipal Government of 
Canada; 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or complete 
breech mechanisms for any firearm listed in Category I, 
other than for end use by the Federal Government, or 
a Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to another foreign 
destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Directors 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 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. 518. 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. 519. 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. 520. 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
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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. 521. 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 or more, the program 
manager shall immediately inform the respective Secretary, 
Administrator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or 
Director shall notify the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations 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 procurement 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 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 2015 until the enactment 
of the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2015. 
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 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. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 524. (a) Of the unobligated balances available to the 
Department of Commerce, the following funds are hereby rescinded, 
not later than September 30, 2015, from the following accounts 
in the specified amounts— 
(1) 
‘‘Departmental 
Management, 
Franchise 
Fund’’, 
$2,906,000; and 
(2) ‘‘Economic Development Administration, Economic 
Development Assistance Programs’’, $5,000,000. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances available to the Department 
of Justice, the following funds are hereby rescinded, not later than
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September 30, 2015, from the following accounts in the specified 
amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $99,000,000; 
(2) ‘‘Tactical Law Enforcement Wireless Communications’’, 
$2,000,000; 
(3) ‘‘Detention Trustee’’, $23,000,000; 
(4) ‘‘Legal Activities, Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, $193,000,000; 
(5) ‘‘Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses, General Legal 
Activities’’, $10,000,000; 
(6) ‘‘Legal Activities, Salaries and Expenses, Antitrust Divi-
sion’’, $6,000,000; 
(7) ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, United States Attorneys’’, 
$9,000,000; 
(8) ‘‘United States Marshals Service, Federal Prisoner 
Detention’’, $188,000,000; 
(9) ‘‘Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 
Salaries and Expenses’’, $3,200,000; 
(10) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office 
on Violence Against Women, Violence Against Women Preven-
tion and Prosecution Programs’’, $16,000,000; 
(11) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Office 
of Justice Programs’’, $82,500,000; and 
(12) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activities, Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services’’, $40,000,000. 
(c) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate a report no later than September 1, 2015, 
specifying the amount of each rescission made pursuant to sub-
sections (a) and (b). 
SEC. 525. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to purchase first class or premium airline travel in con-
travention 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 at any single 
conference occurring outside the United States unless such con-
ference is a law enforcement training or operational conference 
for law enforcement personnel and the majority of Federal 
employees in attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed 
outside the United States. 
SEC. 527. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act may be used in a manner that is inconsistent 
with the principal negotiating objective of the United States with 
respect to trade remedy laws to preserve the ability of the United 
States— 
(1) to enforce vigorously its trade laws, including anti-
dumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard laws; 
(2) to avoid agreements that— 
(A) lessen the effectiveness of domestic and inter-
national disciplines on unfair trade, especially dumping 
and subsidies; or 
(B) lessen the effectiveness of domestic and inter-
national safeguard provisions, in order to ensure that 
United States workers, agricultural producers, and firms 
can compete fully on fair terms and enjoy the benefits 
of reciprocal trade concessions; and