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SEC. 220. No official or employee of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development shall be designated 
as an allotment holder unless the Office of the Chief Fi-
nancial Officer has determined that such allotment holder 
has implemented an adequate system of funds control and 
has received training in funds control procedures and di-
rectives. The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that 
there is a trained allotment holder for each HUD sub- 
office under the accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’ and ‘‘Ad-
ministrative Support Offices,’’ as well as each account re-
ceiving appropriations for ‘‘Program Office Salaries and 
Expenses’’, ‘‘Government National Mortgage Associa-
tion—Guarantees of Mortgage-Backed Securities Loan 
Guarantee Program Account’’, and ‘‘Office of Inspector 
General’’ within the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development. 
SEC. 221. The Secretary of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall, for fiscal year 2017, 
notify the public through the Federal Register and other 
means, as determined appropriate, of the issuance of a no-
tice of the availability of assistance or notice of funding 
availability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary 
fund administered by the Secretary that is to be competi-
tively awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, for fiscal year 2017, the Secretary may make the 
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NOFA available only on the Internet at the appropriate 
Government web site or through other electronic media, 
as determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 222. Payment of attorney fees in program-re-
lated litigation shall be paid from the individual program 
office and Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses 
appropriations. The annual budget submission for the pro-
gram offices and the Office of General Counsel shall in-
clude any such projected litigation costs for attorney fees 
as a separate line item request. No funds provided in this 
title may be used to pay any such litigation costs for attor-
ney fees until the Department submits for review a spend-
ing plan for such costs to the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 223. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up 
to 10 percent or $4,000,000, whichever is less, of funds 
appropriated for any office under the heading ‘‘Adminis-
trative Support Offices’’ or for any account under the gen-
eral heading ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’ to 
any other such office or account: Provided, That no appro-
priation for any such office or account shall be increased 
or decreased by more than 10 percent or $4,000,000, 
whichever is less, without prior written approval of the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall provide notification 
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to such Committees three business days in advance of any 
such transfers under this section up to 10 percent or 
$4,000,000, whichever is less. 
SEC. 224. The Disaster Housing Assistance Pro-
grams, administered by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development, shall be considered a ‘‘program of 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development’’ 
under section 904 of the McKinney Act for the purpose 
of income verifications and matching. 
SEC. 225. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall take the required actions under sub-
section (b) when a multifamily housing project with a sec-
tion 8 contract or contract for similar project-based assist-
ance: 
(1) receives a Real Estate Assessment Center 
(REAC) score of 30 or less; or 
(2) receives a REAC score between 31 and 59 
and: 
(A) fails to certify in writing to HUD with-
in 60 days that all deficiencies have been cor-
rected; or 
(B) receives consecutive scores of less than 
60 on REAC inspections. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured 
projects with assistance attached to the units under sec-
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tion 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f), but do not apply to such units assisted 
under section 8(o)(13) (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(13)) or to 
public housing units assisted with capital or operating 
funds under section 9 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g). 
(b) The Secretary shall take the following required 
actions as authorized under subsection (a): 
(1) The Secretary shall notify the owner and 
provide an opportunity for response within 30 days. 
If the violations remain, the Secretary shall develop 
a Compliance, Disposition and Enforcement Plan 
within 60 days, with a specified timetable for cor-
recting all deficiencies. The Secretary shall provide 
notice of the Plan to the owner, tenants, the local 
government, any mortgagees, and any contract ad-
ministrator. 
(2) At the end of the term of the Compliance, 
Disposition and Enforcement Plan, if the owner fails 
to fully comply with such plan, the Secretary may 
require immediate replacement of project manage-
ment with a management agent approved by the 
Secretary, and shall take one or more of the fol-
lowing actions, and provide additional notice of those 
actions to the owner and the parties specified above: 
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(A) impose civil money penalties; 
(B) abate the section 8 contract, including 
partial abatement, as determined by the Sec-
retary, until all deficiencies have been corrected; 
(C) pursue transfer of the project to an 
owner, approved by the Secretary under estab-
lished procedures, which will be obligated to 
promptly make all required repairs and to ac-
cept renewal of the assistance contract as long 
as such renewal is offered; or 
(D) seek judicial appointment of a receiver 
to manage the property and cure all project de-
ficiencies or seek a judicial order of specific per-
formance requiring the owner to cure all project 
deficiencies. 
(c) The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps 
to ensure that project-based contracts remain in effect, 
subject to the exercise of contractual abatement remedies 
to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major threats 
to health and safety after written notice to and informed 
consent of the affected tenants and use of other remedies 
set forth above. To the extent the Secretary determines, 
in consultation with the tenants and the local government, 
that the property is not feasible for continued rental as-
sistance payments under such section 8 or other programs, 
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based on consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating 
and operating the property and all available Federal, 
State, and local resources, including rent adjustments 
under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted Housing 
Reform and Affordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’) and 
(2) environmental conditions that cannot be remedied in 
a cost-effective fashion, the Secretary may, in consultation 
with the tenants of that property, contract for project- 
based rental assistance payments with an owner or owners 
of other existing housing properties, or provide other rent-
al assistance. The Secretary shall report semi-annually on 
all properties covered by this section that are assessed 
through the Real Estate Assessment Center and have 
physical inspection scores of less than 30 or have consecu-
tive physical inspection scores of less than 60. The report 
shall include: 
(1) The enforcement actions being taken to ad-
dress such conditions, including imposition of civil 
money penalties and termination of subsidies, and 
identify properties that have such conditions mul-
tiple times; and 
(2) Actions that the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development is taking to protect tenants 
of such identified properties. 
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SEC. 226. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under sec-
tion 8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assist-
ance program) and section 9 of the United States Housing 
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.), may be used by 
any public housing agency for any amount of salary, in-
cluding bonuses, for the chief executive officer of which, 
or any other official or employee of which, that exceeds 
the annual rate of basic pay payable for a position at level 
IV of the Executive Schedule at any time during any pub-
lic housing agency fiscal year 2017. 
SEC. 227. None of the funds in this Act may be avail-
able for the doctoral dissertation research grant program 
at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 228. None of the funds in this Act provided to 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development may 
be used to make a grant award unless the Secretary noti-
fies the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
not less than 3 full business days before any project, 
State, locality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organi-
zation, or other entity selected to receive a grant award 
is announced by the Department or its offices. 
SEC. 229. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs 
Assessment (PNA). 
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SEC. 230. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
the Government National Mortgage Administration, or the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development to in-
sure, securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any 
mortgage or mortgage backed security that refinances or 
otherwise replaces a mortgage that has been subject to 
eminent domain condemnation or seizure, by a State, mu-
nicipality, or any other political subdivision of a State. 
SEC. 231. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate the status of a unit of gen-
eral local government as a metropolitan city (as defined 
in section 102 of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 232. Amounts made available under this Act 
which are either appropriated, allocated, advanced on a 
reimbursable basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy 
Development and Research in the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development and functions thereof, for re-
search, evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are 
unexpended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, 
or cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall 
immediately become available and may be reobligated in 
that fiscal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the re-
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search, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which the 
amounts are made available to that Office subject to re-
programming requirements in section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 233. None of the funds provided in this Act or 
any other act may be used for awards, including perform-
ance, special act, or spot, for any employee of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development who has been 
subject to administrative discipline in fiscal years 2016 or 
2017, including suspension from work. 
SEC. 234. Unobligated balances, including recaptures 
and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development for ad-
ministrative costs of the Office of Community Planning 
and Development associated with funds appropriated to 
the Department for specific disaster relief and related pur-
poses and designated by Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution on the 
Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act, including information technology costs and 
costs for administering and overseeing such specific dis-
aster related funds, shall be transferred to the Program 
Office Salaries and Expenses, Community Planning and 
Development account for the Department, shall remain 
available until expended, and may be used for such admin-
istrative costs for administering any funds appropriated 
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to the Department for any disaster relief and related pur-
poses in any prior or future act, notwithstanding the pur-
poses for which such funds were appropriated: Provided, 
That amounts transferred pursuant to this section that 
were previously designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to a Concurrent Resolution 
on the Budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act are 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 and shall be transferred only 
if the President subsequently so designates the entire 
transfer and transmits such designation to the Congress. 
SEC. 235. CONTINUUM OF CARE TRANSITION 
GRANTS.— 
(a) From amounts made available under this title 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’, the 
Secretary may award 1-year transition grants to recipients 
of funds for activities under subtitle C of the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et seq.) 
to transition from one Continuum of Care program compo-
nent to another. 
(b) No more than 25 percent of each transition grant 
may be used for costs of eligible activities of the program 
component originally funded. 
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(c) Transition grants made under this section are eli-
gible for renewal in subsequent fiscal years for the eligible 
activities of the new program component. 
(d) In order to be eligible to receive a transition 
grant, the funding recipient must have the consent of the 
Continuum of Care and meet standards determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 236. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be used to implement, administer, carry-out, or en-
force Executive Order 13690 and the Federal Flood Risk 
Management Standard (FFRMS) until 90 days after the 
Secretary provides a report to the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations that includes: 
(a) a comprehensive list of HUD programs that will 
be impacted by Executive Order 13690 and the FFRMS; 
(b) an analysis of the near term and long term costs 
and benefits of Executive Order 13690 and the FFRMS; 
and 
(c) a detailed nationwide floodplain map, including 
descriptions, definitions, and extent associated with the 
floodplain definitions set forth in Executive Order 13690 
and the FFRMS. 
SEC. 237. (a) Effective October 1, 2016, all unobli-
gated balances, including recaptures and carryover, re-
maining from funds appropriated to the Department of 
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Housing and Urban Development for accounts under the 
headings ‘‘Management and Administration’’ and ‘‘Pro-
gram Office Salaries and Expenses’’ in division L of Pub-
lic Law 114–113 are rescinded; and 
(b) All unobligated balances available, and that be-
come available, as a result of actions under 42 U.S.C. 
5304(e) or 42 U.S.C. 5311 are hereby rescinded. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
TITLE III—RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as au-
thorized by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 
as amended, $8,190,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 
Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Mer-
chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), in-
cluding services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 
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1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefor e, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $27,490,000: Provided, That 
not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for official recep-
tion and representation expenses. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION OFFICE 
OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended, $23,274,000: Provided, That the In-
spector General shall have all necessary authority, in car-
rying out the duties specified in the Inspector General Act, 
as amended (5 U.S.C. App. 3), to investigate allegations 
of fraud, including false statements to the government (18 
U.S.C. 1001), by any person or entity that is subject to 
regulation by the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion: Provided further, That the Inspector General may 
enter into contracts and other arrangements for audits, 
studies, analyses, and other services with public agencies 
and with private persons, subject to the applicable laws 
and regulations that govern the obtaining of such services 
within the National Railroad Passenger Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That the Inspector General may select, ap-
point, and employ such officers and employees as may be 
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necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and du-
ties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the appli-
cable laws and regulations that govern such selections, ap-
pointments, and employment within the Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That concurrent with the President’s budget 
request for fiscal year 2017, the Inspector General shall 
submit to the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations a budget request for fiscal year 2017 in similar 
format and substance to those submitted by executive 
agencies of the Federal Government. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902), $106,000,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 
may be used for official reception and representation ex-
penses. The amounts made available to the National 
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 
necessary to make lease payments on an obligation in-
curred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease. 
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NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $140,000,000, of which 
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing pro-
gram. 
SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $37,000,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, not to exceed $1,250,000 from fees 
established by the Chairman of the Surface Transpor-
tation Board shall be credited to this appropriation as off-
setting collections and used for necessary and authorized 
expenses under this heading: Provided further, That the 
sum herein appropriated from the general fund shall be 
reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis as such offsetting col-
lections are received during fiscal year 2017, to result in 
a final appropriation from the general fund estimated at 
no more than $35,750,000. 
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UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex-
perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 
title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended, $2,000,000. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 401. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
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SEC. 403. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through a pro-
curement contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, 
United States Code, shall be limited to those contracts 
where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise pro-
vided under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 
training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
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(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 405. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this 
Act, none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by 
previous appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities 
funded in this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in fiscal year 2017, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
programming of funds that— 
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity by either the House or Senate Committees 
on Appropriations for a different purpose; 
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(5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; 
(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is 
less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a 
branch, division, office, bureau, board, commission, 
agency, administration, or department different from 
the budget justifications submitted to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, 
whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
received from the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations: Provided, That not later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, each 
agency funded by this Act shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
of the House of Representatives to establish the 
baseline for application of reprogramming and trans-
fer authorities for the current fiscal year: Provided 
further, That the report shall include— 
(A) a table for each appropriation with a 
separate column to display the prior year en-
acted level, the President’s budget request, ad-
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justments made by Congress, adjustments due 
to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the 
fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each ap-
propriation and its respective prior year enacted 
level by object class and program, project, and 
activity as detailed in the budget appendix for 
the respective appropriation; and 
(C) an identification of items of special 
congressional interest. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2017 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2017 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2018, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations for approval prior to the expenditure of such 
funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made 
in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under sec-
tion 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
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employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway 
projects, as well as utility projects which benefit or serve 
the general public (including energy-related, communica-
tion-related, water-related and wastewater-related infra-
structure), other structures designated for use by the gen-
eral public or which have other common-carrier or public- 
utility functions that serve the general public and are sub-
ject to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownfields as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. 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 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 409. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
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merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his or her period of active military or naval service, 
and has within 90 days after his or her release from such 
service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge 
for a period of not more than 1 year, made application 
for restoration to his or her former position and has been 
certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still 
qualified to perform the duties of his or her former posi-
tion and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 410. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 
(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 412. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
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SEC. 413. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier 
permit under sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, 
United States Code, or exemption application under sec-
tion 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding 
an air operators certificate issued by a country that is 
party to the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport 
Agreement where such approval would contravene United 
States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Nor-
way Air Transport Agreement. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or 
otherwise preclude the Secretary of Transportation from 
granting a foreign air carrier permit or an exemption to 
such an air carrier where such authorization is consistent 
with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agree-
ment and United States law. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees of a single agency or de-
partment of the United States Government, who are sta-
tioned in the United States, at any single international 
conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 
5 days in advance that such attendance is important to 
the national interest: Provided, That for purposes of this 
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section the term ‘‘international conference’’ shall mean a 
conference occurring outside of the United States attended 
by representatives of the United States Government and 
of foreign governments, international organizations, or 
nongovernmental organizations. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Transportation, 
the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or 
any other Federal agency to lease or purchase new light 
duty vehicles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s 
fleet inventory, except in accordance with Presidential 
Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 
24, 2011. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act may be used by the 
Surface Transportation Board of the Department of 
Transportation to charge or collect any filing fee for rate 
or practice complaints filed with the Board in an amount 
in excess of the amount authorized for district court civil 
suit filing fees under section 1914 of title 28, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 417. Effective October 1, 2016, all unobligated 
balances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining 
from funds appropriated in division L of Public Law 114- 
113 for ‘‘Department of Transportation-Office of the Sec-
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retary-Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Department of Transpor-
tation-Office of the Secretary-Office of Civil Rights’’, ‘‘De-
partment of Transportation-Office of the Secretary-Minor-
ity Business Outreach’’, ‘‘Department of Transportation- 
Federal 
Transit 
Administration-Administrative 
Ex-
penses’’, ‘‘Department of Transportation-Pipeline and 
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration-Operational 
Expenses’’, 
‘‘Department 
of 
Transportation-Surface 
Transportation Board-Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Access 
Board-Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Federal Maritime Com-
mission-Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘National Railroad Pas-
senger Corporation-Office of Inspector General-Salaries 
and Expenses’’, ‘‘National Transportation Safety Board- 
Salaries and Expenses’’, and ‘‘United States Interagency 
Council on Homelessness-Operating Expenses’’ are re-
scinded. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 418. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under 
Section 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
exceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is 
$0. 
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This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2017’’. 
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