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made available for obligation shall not exceed $85,000,000 
for fiscal year 2006: Provided further, That, in addition, 
not to exceed $20,000,000 may be transferred from the Uni-
versal Service Fund to monitor the Universal Service Fund 
program to prevent and remedy waste, fraud and abuse, 
and to conduct audits and investigations by the Office of 
Inspector General: Provided further, That any sums that 
are transferred from such Fund for such purposes shall be 
subject to the reprogramming requirements set forth in sec-
tion 505 of this Act. 
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and not to 
exceed $2,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $211,000,000, to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That not to exceed $300,000 shall be available 
for use to contract with a person or persons for collection 
services in accordance with the terms of 31 U.S.C. 3718: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, not to exceed $116,000,000 of offsetting collec-
tions derived from fees collected for premerger notification 
filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improve-
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ments Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of the year 
of collection, shall be retained and used for necessary ex-
penses in this appropriation: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, $23,000,000 in 
offsetting collections derived from fees sufficient to imple-
ment and enforce the Telemarketing Sales Rule, promul-
gated under the Telephone Consumer Fraud and Abuse Pre-
vention Act (15 U.S.C. 6101 et seq.), shall be credited to 
this account, and be retained and used for necessary ex-
penses in this appropriation: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be re-
duced as such offsetting collections are received during fiscal 
year 2006, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2006 appro-
priation from the general fund estimated at not more than 
$72,000,000: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available to the Federal Trade Commission may be used 
to enforce subsection (e) of section 43 of the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831t) or section 151(b)(2) of the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act 
of 1991 (12 U.S.C. 1831t note): Provided further, That here-
after no funds appropriated in this or any other Act shall 
be expended to remove the Federal Trade Commission from 
its headquarters building, the Federal Trade Commission 
Building, located at 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, 
Washington, DC; to render such building appropriate for
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occupation by another Federal agency or other organization 
or division thereof; or to locate any such agency, organiza-
tion, or division in said building. 
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, $324,527,000, of which $312,251,000 is for 
basic field programs and required independent audits; 
$2,600,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, of which 
such amounts as may be necessary may be used to conduct 
additional audits of recipients; $13,900,000 is for manage-
ment and administration; $3,400,000 is for client self-help 
and information technology; and $2,849,000 is for grants 
to offset losses due to census adjustments. 
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 2005 and 2006, respec-
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tively, and except that section 501(a)(1) of Public Law 104–
134 (110 Stat. 1321–51, et seq.) shall not apply to the use 
of the $1,775,000 to address loss of funding due to Census-
based reallocations. 
MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Com-
mission as authorized by title II of Public Law 92–522, 
$2,000,000. 
NATIONAL VETERANS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 
CORPORATION 
For necessary expenses of the National Veterans Busi-
ness Development Corporation as authorized under section 
33(a) of the Small Business Act, $2,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Securities and Exchange 
Commission, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, the rental of space (to include multiple year leases) 
in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and not to exceed 
$3,000 for official reception and representation expenses, 
$888,117,000; of which not to exceed $13,000 may be used 
toward funding a permanent secretariat for the Inter-
national Organization of Securities Commissions; and of
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which not to exceed $100,000 shall be available for expenses 
for consultations and meetings hosted by the Commission 
with foreign governmental and other regulatory officials, 
members of their delegations, appropriate representatives 
and staff to exchange views concerning developments relat-
ing to securities matters, development and implementation 
of cooperation agreements concerning securities matters and 
provision of technical assistance for the development of for-
eign securities markets, such expenses to include necessary 
logistic and administrative expenses and the expenses of 
Commission staff and foreign invitees in attendance at such 
consultations and meetings including: (1) such incidental 
expenses as meals taken in the course of such attendance; 
(2) any travel and transportation to or from such meetings; 
and (3) any other related lodging or subsistence: Provided, 
That fees and charges authorized by sections 6(b) of the Se-
curities Exchange Act of 1933 (15 U.S.C. 77f(b)), and 13(e), 
14(g) and 31 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 
U.S.C. 78m(e), 78n(g), and 78ee), shall be credited to this 
account as offsetting collections: Provided further, That not 
to exceed $863,117,000 of such offsetting collections shall be 
available until expended for necessary expenses of this ac-
count: Provided further, That $25,000,000 shall be derived 
from prior year unobligated balances from funds previously 
appropriated to the Securities and Exchange Commission:
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Provided further, That the total amount appropriated 
under this heading from the general fund for fiscal year 
2006 shall be reduced as such offsetting fees are received 
so as to result in a final total fiscal year 2006 appropria-
tion from the general fund estimated at not more than $0. 
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of 
the Small Business Administration as authorized by Public 
Law 106–554, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 
as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343 and 1344, and not to ex-
ceed $3,500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $336,084,000: Provided, That the Administrator is 
authorized to charge fees to cover the cost of publications 
developed by the Small Business Administration, and cer-
tain loan servicing activities: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, revenues received from all 
such activities shall be credited to this account, to be avail-
able for carrying out these purposes without further appro-
priations: Provided further, That $89,000,000 shall be 
available to fund grants for performance in fiscal year 2006 
or fiscal year 2007 as authorized: Provided further, That 
the Small Business Administration is authorized to award 
grants under the Women’s Business Center Sustainability 
Pilot Program established by section 4(a) of Public Law
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106–165 (15 U.S.C. 656(l)): Provided further, That, of the 
amounts provided for Women’s Business Centers, not less 
than 48 percent shall be available to continue Women’s 
Business Centers in sustainability status. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $14,500,000. 
SURETY BOND GUARANTEES REVOLVING FUND 
For additional capital for the Surety Bond Guarantees 
Revolving Fund, authorized by the Small Business Invest-
ment Act, as amended, $3,000,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
BUSINESS LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $2,000,000, as au-
thorized by 15 U.S.C. 631 note, to remain available until 
September 30, 2006: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec-
tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That subject to section 502 of the Congressional 
Budget Act of 1974, during fiscal year 2006 commitments 
to guarantee loans under section 503 of the Small Business 
Investment Act of 1958, shall not exceed the levels estab-
lished under 20(e)(1)(B)(ii) of the Small Business Act: Pro-
vided further, That during fiscal year 2006 commitments
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for general business loans authorized under section 7(a) of 
the Small Business Act, shall not exceed the levels estab-
lished under 20(e)(1)(B)(i) of the Small Business Act: Pro-
vided further, That during fiscal year 2006 commitments 
to guarantee loans for debentures and participating securi-
ties under section 303(b) of the Small Business Investment 
Act of 1958, shall not exceed the levels established by section 
20(i)(1)(C) of the Small Business Act. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $126,653,000, 
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priations for Salaries and Expenses. 
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans authorized by section 7(b) 
of the Small Business Act, $83,335,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such costs, including the 
cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct loan program, $56,000,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with appropriations for Salaries and 
Expenses, of which $1,500,000 is for the Office of Inspector 
General of the Small Business Administration for audits 
and reviews of disaster loans and the disaster loan program 
and shall be transferred to and merged with appropriations 
for the Office of Inspector General; of which $46,100,000
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is for direct administrative expenses of loan making and 
servicing to carry out the direct loan program; and of which 
$9,000,000 is for indirect administrative expenses and may 
be transferred to and merged with funds in the Salaries 
and Expenses appropriations account: Provided, That any 
amount to be transferred to and merged with appropria-
tions for Salaries and Expenses for any purpose shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds 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. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—SMALL BUSINESS 
ADMINISTRATION 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the Small Business 
Administration in this Act may be transferred between such 
appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be in-
creased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Pro-
vided, That any transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall 
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or ex-
penditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth 
in that section.
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STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, 
as authorized by the State Justice Institute Authorization 
Act of 1992 (Public Law 102–572), $5,000,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for official re-
ception and representation expenses.
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 501. The Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the 
Federal Communications Commission, the Securities and 
Exchange Commission, and the Small Business Adminis-
tration shall provide to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and of the House of Representatives a quar-
terly accounting of the cumulative balances of any unobli-
gated funds that were made available to any such agency 
in any previous appropriations Act. 
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 
contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to 
those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of pub-
lic record and available for public inspection, except where
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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. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2006, 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 new 
programs; (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 re-
stricted; (4) relocates an office or employees; (5) reorganizes 
or renames offices; (6) reorganizes programs or activities; 
or (7) contracts out or privatizes any functions or activities 
presently performed by Federal employees; unless the Ap-
propriations Committees of both Houses of Congress are no-
tified 15 days in advance of such reprogramming of funds.
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(b) None of the funds provided under this Act, or pro-
vided under previous appropriations Acts to the agencies 
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2006, or provided from any ac-
counts 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 for ac-
tivities, programs, or projects through a reprogramming of 
funds in excess of $1,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 
less, that: (1) augments existing programs, projects (includ-
ing construction projects), or activities; (2) reduces by 10 
percent funding for any existing program, project, or activ-
ity, or numbers of personnel by 10 percent as approved by 
Congress; or (3) results from any general savings from a 
reduction in personnel which would result in a change in 
existing programs, activities, or projects as approved by 
Congress; unless the Appropriations Committees of both 
Houses of Congress are notified 15 days in advance of such 
reprogramming of funds: Provided, That transfers may not 
be made from ‘‘Buildings and Facilities, Federal Prison 
System’’ to any other Department of Justice account. 
SEC. 506. Hereafter, none of the funds made available 
in this Act or any other Act may be used for the construc-
tion, repair (other than emergency repair), overhaul, con-
version, or modernization of vessels for the National Oce-
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anic and Atmospheric Administration in shipyards located 
outside of the United States. 
SEC. 507. If it has been finally determined by a court 
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a 
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription 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. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act or any other Act may be used 
to implement, enforce, or otherwise abide by the Memo-
randum of Agreement signed by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Jus-
tice on March 5, 2002. 
SEC. 509. Section 704 of the Public Works and Eco-
nomic Development Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3234) shall not 
apply to any funds made available by this Act or an 
amendment made by this Act. 
SEC. 510. Any costs incurred by a department or agen-
cy funded under this Act resulting from personnel actions 
taken in response to funding reductions included in this
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Act shall be absorbed within the total budgetary resources 
available to such department or agency: Provided, That the 
authority to transfer funds between appropriations ac-
counts as may be necessary to carry out this section is pro-
vided in addition to authorities included elsewhere 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 available for obliga-
tion or expenditure except in compliance with the proce-
dures set forth in that section. 
SEC. 511. Of the funds appropriated in this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Office of Justice Programs—State and Local 
Law Enforcement Assistance’’, not more than 90 percent 
of the amount to be awarded to an entity under the Local 
Law Enforcement Block Grant shall be made available to 
such an entity when it is made known to the Federal official 
having authority to obligate or expend such funds that the 
entity that employs a public safety officer (as such term 
is defined in section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime 
Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968) does not provide such 
a public safety officer who retires or is separated from serv-
ice due to injury suffered as the direct and proximate result 
of a personal injury sustained in the line of duty while re-
sponding to an emergency situation or a hot pursuit (as 
such terms are defined by State law) with the same or better
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level of health insurance benefits at the time of retirement 
or separation as they received while on duty. 
SEC. 512. 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. 
SEC. 513. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
amounts deposited or available in the Fund established 
under 42 U.S.C. 10601 in any fiscal year in excess of 
$625,000,000 shall not be available for obligation until the 
following fiscal year. 
SEC. 514. Of the amounts made available under the 
heading ‘‘Small Business Administration, Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $50,000,000 shall be available for programs de-
scribed in the statement accompanying this Act. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds appropriated pursuant 
to this Act or any other provision of law may be used for—
(1) the implementation of any tax or fee in con-
nection with the implementation of subsection 922(t) 
of title 18, United States Code; and 
(2) any system to implement subsection 922(t) of 
title 18, United States Code, that does not require and
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result in the destruction of any identifying informa-
tion submitted by or on behalf of any person who has 
been determined not to be prohibited from possessing 
or receiving a firearm no more than 24 hours after 
the system advises a Federal firearms licensee that 
possession or receipt of a firearm by the prospective 
transferee would not violate subsection (g) or (n) of 
section 922 of title 18, United States Code, or State 
law. 
SEC. 516. All disaster loans issued in Alaska shall be 
administered by the Small Business Administration and 
shall not be sold during fiscal year 2006. 
SEC. 517. 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. 518. The Secretary of Commerce shall represent 
the United States Government in negotiating and moni-
toring international agreements regarding fisheries, marine 
mammals, or sea turtles: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Commerce shall be responsible for the development and 
interdepartmental coordination of the policies of the United 
States with respect to the international negotiations and 
agreements referred to in this section.
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SEC. 519. 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. 
SEC. 520. UNIVERSAL SERVICE SUPPORT. None of the 
funds appropriated by this Act may be used by the Federal 
Communications Commission to modify, amend, or change 
its rules or regulations for universal service support pay-
ments to implement the February 27, 2004 recommenda-
tions of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service 
regarding single connection or primary line restrictions on 
universal service support payments. 
SEC. 521. (a) Tracing studies conducted by the Bureau 
of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are released 
without adequate disclaimers regarding the limitations of 
the data. 
(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Ex-
plosives shall include in all such data releases, language 
similar to the following that would make clear that trace 
data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about fire-
arms-related crime: 
(1) Firearm traces are designed to assist law en-
forcement authorities in conducting investigations by 
tracking the sale and possession of specific firearms. 
Law enforcement agencies may request firearms traces 
for any reason, and those reasons are not necessarily
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reported to the Federal Government. Not all firearms 
used in crime are traced and not all firearms traced 
are used in crime. 
(2) Firearms selected for tracing are not chosen 
for purposes of determining which types, makes or 
models of firearms are used for illicit purposes. The 
firearms selected do not constitute a random sample 
and should not be considered representative of the 
larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or 
any subset of that universe. Firearms are normally 
traced to the first retail seller, and sources reported 
for firearms traced do not necessarily represent the 
sources or methods by which firearms in general are 
acquired for use in crime. 
TITLE VI—RESCISSIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
COUNTERTERRORISM FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this head-
ing, $11,000,000 are rescinded. 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this head-
ing, $82,000,000 are rescinded.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this head-
ing, $103,502,000 are rescinded; of which $30,000,000 shall 
be from funding for J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of 
Investigation Building tours; and of which $73,502,000 
shall be from funding for the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion’s failed computer modernization program.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Com-
merce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2006’’.
Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘An Act making ap-
propriations for the Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, Science, and related agencies, for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes.’’.
Calendar No. 137
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H.R. 2862
[Report No. 109–88] 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Science, the Depart-
ments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and re-
lated agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2006, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 16, 2005
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on 
Appropriations 
JUNE 23, 2005
Reported with an amendment and an amendment to the 
title