SEC. 4. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. 
(a) Each amount designated in this Act, or in an 
amendment made by this Act, by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 shall be available only if the President subsequently 
so designates all such amounts and transmits such designa-
tions to the Congress. 
(b) Each amount designated in this Act by the Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 shall 
be available (or rescinded, if applicable) only if the Presi-
dent subsequently so designates all such amounts and trans-
mits such designations to the Congress. 
DIVISION 
A—FURTHER 
CON-
TINUING 
APPROPRIATIONS 
ACT, 2017 
SEC. 101. The Continuing Appropriations Act, 2017 
(division C of Public Law 114–223) is amended by— 
(1) striking the date specified in section 106(3) 
and inserting ‘‘April 28, 2017’’; 
(2) striking ‘‘0.496 percent’’ in section 101(b) 
and inserting ‘‘0.1901 percent’’; and 
(3) inserting after section 145 the following new 
sections:
‘‘SEC. 146. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Department of Agriculture—Farm Service Agency—Agri-
cultural Credit Insurance Fund Program Account’ may be 
apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to fund 
loans for which applications are approved. 
‘‘SEC. 147. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Department of Agriculture—Food and Nutrition Service— 
Child Nutrition Programs’ to carry out section 749(g) of 
the Agriculture Appropriations Act of 2010 (Public Law 
111–80) may be apportioned up to the rate for operations 
necessary to ensure that the program can be fully oper-
ational by May, 2017. 
‘‘SEC. 148. Section 26(d) of the Richard B. Russell Na-
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1769g(d)) is amended 
in the first sentence by striking ‘2010 through 2016’ and 
inserting ‘2010 through 2017’. 
‘‘SEC. 149. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Department of Agriculture—Rural Utilities Service’ may 
be transferred between appropriations under such heading 
as necessary for the cost of direct telecommunications loans 
authorized by section 305 of the Rural Electrification Act 
of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 935). 
‘‘SEC. 150. Amounts made available by Section 101 
for ‘Department of Agriculture—Rural Housing Service— 
Rural Housing Insurance Fund Program Account’ for the
section 538 Guaranteed Multi-Family Housing Loan Pro-
gram may be apportioned up to the rate necessary to fund 
loans for which applications are approved. 
‘‘SEC. 151. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Department of Commerce—National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration—Procurement, Acquisition and 
Construction’ may be apportioned up to the rate for oper-
ations necessary to maintain the planned launch schedules 
for the Joint Polar Satellite System. 
‘‘SEC. 152. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Department of Commerce—Bureau of the Census—Peri-
odic Censuses and Programs’ may be apportioned up to the 
rate for operations necessary to maintain the schedule and 
deliver the required data according to statutory deadlines 
in the 2020 Decennial Census Program. 
‘‘SEC. 153. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘National Aeronautics and Space Administration—Explo-
ration’ may be apportioned up to the rate for operations 
necessary to maintain the planned launch capability sched-
ules for the Space Launch System launch vehicle, Explo-
ration Ground Systems, and Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Ve-
hicle programs. 
‘‘SEC. 154. In addition to the amount otherwise pro-
vided by section 101, and notwithstanding section 104 and 
section 109, for ‘Department of Justice—State and Local
Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice Programs— 
State and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’, there is ap-
propriated $7,000,000, for an additional amount for the 
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant program 
for the purpose of providing reimbursement of extraor-
dinary law enforcement overtime costs directly and solely 
associated with protection of the President-elect incurred 
from November 9, 2016 until the inauguration of the Presi-
dent-elect as President: Provided, That reimbursement shall 
be provided only for overtime costs that a State or local 
law enforcement agency can document as being over and 
above normal law enforcement operations and directly at-
tributable to security for the President-elect. 
‘‘SEC. 155. Notwithstanding sections 101, 102, and 
104 of this Act, from within amounts provided for ‘Depart-
ment of Defense—Procurement—Shipbuilding and Conver-
sion, Navy’, funds are provided for ‘Ohio Replacement Sub-
marine (AP)’ at a rate for operations of $773,138,000. 
‘‘SEC. 156. (a) Notwithstanding sections 102 and 104 
of this Act, amounts made available pursuant to section 101 
may be used for multiyear procurement contracts, including 
advance procurement, for the AH–64E Attack Helicopter 
and the UH–60M Black Hawk Helicopter. 
‘‘(b) The Secretary of the Army may exercise the au-
thority conferred in subsection (a) notwithstanding sub-
section (i)(1) of section 2306b of title 10, United States 
Code, until the date of enactment of an Act authorizing ap-
propriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of 
the Department of Defense, subject to satisfaction of all 
other requirements of such section 2306b. 
‘‘SEC. 157. Notwithstanding section 102, funds made 
available pursuant to section 101 for ‘Department of De-
fense—Procurement—Aircraft Procurement, Air Force’ are 
provided for the KC–46A Tanker up to the rate for oper-
ations necessary to support the production rate specified in 
the President’s fiscal year 2017 budget request. 
‘‘SEC. 158. Notwithstanding section 101, section 
301(d) of division D of Public Law 114–113 shall not apply 
to amounts made available by this Act for ‘Department of 
Energy—Atomic Energy Defense Activities—National Nu-
clear Security Administration—Weapons Activities’: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of Energy shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate not later than 15 days after funds made 
available by this Act for such account are allotted to a De-
partment of Energy program, project, or activity at a rate 
for operations that differs from that provided under such 
heading in division D of Public Law 114–113 by more than 
$5,000,000 or 10 percent.
‘‘SEC. 159. As authorized by section 404 of the Bipar-
tisan Budget Act of 2015 (Public Law 114–74; 42 U.S.C. 
6239 note), the Secretary of Energy shall draw down and 
sell not to exceed $375,400,000 of crude oil from the Stra-
tegic Petroleum Reserve in fiscal year 2017: Provided, That 
the proceeds from such drawdown and sale shall be depos-
ited into the ‘Energy Security and Infrastructure Mod-
ernization Fund’ (in this section referred to as the ‘Fund’) 
during fiscal year 2017: Provided further, That in addition 
to amounts otherwise made available by section 101, and 
notwithstanding section 104, any amounts deposited in the 
Fund shall be made available and shall remain available 
until expended at a rate for operations of $375,400,000, for 
necessary expenses in carrying out the Life Extension II 
project for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 
‘‘SEC. 160. (a) Notwithstanding section 101, amounts 
are provided for ‘Department of Energy—Energy Pro-
grams—Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and De-
commissioning Fund’ at a rate for operations of 
$767,014,000: Provided, That such amounts may not be re-
programmed below the levels provided in the table referred 
to in section 301(d) of division D of Public Law 114–113. 
‘‘(b) As of the date of the enactment of this section, 
section 123 of this Act shall not be in effect.
‘‘SEC. 161. In addition to amounts provided by section 
101, amounts are provided for ‘General Services Adminis-
tration—Allowances and Office Staff for Former Presi-
dents’ for the pension of the outgoing President at a rate 
for operations of $157,000. 
‘‘SEC. 162. (a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be 
cited as the ‘SOAR Funding Availability Act’. 
‘‘(b) REQUIRING USE OF FUNDS REMAINING UNOBLI-
GATED FROM PREVIOUS FISCAL YEARS.—Section 3007 of 
the Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Act (sec. 38– 
1853.07, D.C. Official Code) is amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘ ‘(e) REQUIRING USE OF FUNDS REMAINING UNOBLI-
GATED FROM PREVIOUS FISCAL YEARS.— 
‘‘ ‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—To the extent that any 
funds appropriated for the opportunity scholarship 
program under this division for any fiscal year re-
main available for subsequent fiscal years under sec-
tion 3014(c), the Secretary shall make such funds 
available to eligible entities receiving grants under 
section 3004(a) for the uses described in paragraph 
(2)— 
‘‘ ‘(A) in the case of any remaining funds 
that were appropriated before the date of enact-
ment of the SOAR Funding Availability Act, be-
ginning on the date of enactment of such Act; 
and 
‘‘ ‘(B) in the case of any remaining funds 
appropriated on or after the date of enactment 
of such Act, by the first day of the first subse-
quent fiscal year. 
‘‘ ‘(2) USE OF FUNDS.—If an eligible entity to 
which the Secretary provided additional funds under 
paragraph (1) elects to use such funds during a fiscal 
year, the eligible entity shall use— 
‘‘ ‘(A) not less than 95 percent of such addi-
tional funds to provide additional scholarships 
for eligible students under subsection (a), or to 
increase the amount of the scholarships, during 
such year; and 
‘‘ ‘(B) not more than a total of 5 percent of 
such additional funds for administrative ex-
penses, parental assistance, or tutoring, as de-
scribed in subsections (b), (c), and (d), during 
such year. 
‘‘ ‘(3) SPECIAL
RULE.—Any amounts made 
available for administrative expenses, parental assist-
ance, or tutoring under paragraph (2)(B) shall be in 
addition to any other amounts made available for
such purposes in accordance with subsections (b), (c), 
and (d).’. 
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Section 3014 of such 
Act (sec. 38–1853.14, D.C. Official Code) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘ ‘(c) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated under 
subsection (a)(1), including amounts appropriated and 
available under such subsection before the date of enactment 
of the SOAR Funding Availability Act, shall remain avail-
able until expended.’. 
‘‘(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall take effect on the date of enactment of this 
section. 
‘‘SEC. 163. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection—Operations and 
Support’, ‘U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement— 
Operations and Support’, ‘Transportation Security Admin-
istration—Operations and Support’, and ‘United States 
Secret Service—Operations and Support’ accounts of the 
Department of Homeland Security shall be apportioned at 
a rate for operations as necessary, and apportioned to pro-
vide staffing levels as necessary, to ensure border security, 
fulfill immigration enforcement priorities, maintain avia-
tion security activities, and carry out the mission associ-
ated with the protection of the President-elect.
‘‘SEC. 164. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘National Gallery of Art—Salaries and Expenses’ may be 
apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to pro-
vide for staffing, maintenance, security, and administrative 
expenses for the recently reopened galleries. 
‘‘SEC. 165. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Smithsonian Institution—Salaries and Expenses’ may be 
apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to pro-
vide for facilities maintenance, facilities operations, secu-
rity, and support at the National Museum of African Amer-
ican History and Culture. 
‘‘SEC. 166. Amounts made available by section 101 for 
‘Department of Health and Human Services—Indian 
Health Service—Indian Health Services’ and for ‘Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services—Indian Health Serv-
ice—Indian Health Facilities’, respectively, may be appor-
tioned up to the rate for operations necessary to provide 
for costs of staffing and operating newly constructed facili-
ties. 
‘‘SEC. 167. MINERS HEALTH BENEFITS.— 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—This section may be cited as the 
‘Continued Health Benefits for Miners Act’. 
‘‘(b) INCLUSION OF CERTAIN RETIREES IN THE MUL-
TIEMPLOYER
HEALTH
BENEFIT
PLAN.—Section
402(h)(2)(C) of the Surface Mining Control and Reclama-
tion Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 1232(h)(2)(C)) is amended— 
‘‘(1) by striking ‘A transfer’ and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘ ‘(i) TRANSFER
TO
THE
PLAN.—A 
transfer’; 
‘‘(2) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as sub-
clauses (I) and (II), respectively, and moving such 
subclauses 2 ems to the right; and 
‘‘(3) by striking the matter following such sub-
clause (II) (as so redesignated) and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘ ‘(ii) CALCULATION OF EXCESS.—The 
excess determined under clause (i) shall be 
calculated— 
‘‘ ‘(I) except as provided in sub-
clause (II), by taking into account only 
those beneficiaries actually enrolled in 
the Plan as of December 31, 2006, who 
are eligible to receive health benefits 
under the Plan on the first day of the 
calendar year for which the transfer is 
made; and 
‘‘ ‘(II) for purposes of the transfer 
made for fiscal year 2017, as if, for the
period beginning January 1, 2017, 
and ending April 30, 2017, only— 
‘‘ ‘(aa) those beneficiaries ac-
tually enrolled in the Plan as of 
the date of the enactment of the 
Continued Health Benefits for 
Miners Act who are eligible to re-
ceive health benefits under the 
Plan on January 1, 2017, other 
than those beneficiaries enrolled 
in the Plan under the terms of a 
participation agreement with the 
current or former employer of 
such beneficiaries; and 
‘‘ ‘(bb) 
those 
beneficiaries 
whose health benefits, defined as 
those benefits payable directly fol-
lowing death or retirement or 
upon a finding of disability by an 
employer in the bituminous coal 
industry under a coal wage agree-
ment 
(as 
defined 
in 
section 
9701(b)(1) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986), would be de-
nied or reduced as a result of a
bankruptcy proceeding commenced 
in 2012 or 2015, 
were taken into account, and for any 
other period during such fiscal year, 
only the beneficiaries described in sub-
clause (I) were taken into account. 
‘‘ ‘(iii) ELIGIBILITY
OF
CERTAIN
RE-
TIREES.—Individuals referred to in clause 
(ii)(II)(bb) shall be treated as eligible to re-
ceive health benefits under the Plan for the 
plan year that includes January 1, 2017. 
‘‘ ‘(iv) REQUIREMENTS
FOR
TRANS-
FER.—The amount of the transfer otherwise 
determined under this subparagraph for fis-
cal year 2017 shall be reduced by any 
amount transferred for the fiscal year to the 
Plan, to pay benefits required under the 
Plan, from a voluntary employees’ bene-
ficiary association established as a result of 
a bankruptcy proceeding described in clause 
(ii)(II). 
‘‘ ‘(v) VEBA TRANSFER.—The admin-
istrator of such voluntary employees’ bene-
ficiary association shall transfer to the Plan 
any amounts received as a result of such