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contract for rental assistance payments under section 8 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 or other Fed-
eral programs, the Secretary shall maintain any rental as-
sistance payments under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 and other programs that are at-
tached to any dwelling units in the property. To the extent 
the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants 
and the local government, that such a multifamily prop-
erty owned or held by the Secretary is not feasible for con-
tinued rental assistance payments under such section 8 
or other programs, based on consideration of (1) the costs 
of rehabilitating and operating the property and all avail-
able Federal, State, and local resources, including rent ad-
justments under section 524 of the Multifamily Assisted 
Housing 
Reform 
and 
Affordability 
Act 
of 
1997 
(‘‘MAHRAA’’) and (2) environmental conditions that can-
not 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 rental assistance. The Secretary shall also 
take appropriate steps to ensure that project-based con-
tracts remain in effect prior to foreclosure, subject to the 
exercise of contractual abatement remedies to assist relo-
cation of tenants for imminent major threats to health and 
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safety after written notice to and informed consent of the 
affected tenants and use of other available remedies, such 
as partial abatements or receivership. After disposition of 
any multifamily property described under this section, the 
contract and allowable rent levels on such properties shall 
be subject to the requirements under section 524 of 
MAHRAA. 
SEC. 217. The commitment authority funded by fees 
as provided under the heading ‘‘Community Development 
Loan Guarantees Program Account’’ may be used to guar-
antee, or make commitments to guarantee, notes or other 
obligations issued by any State on behalf of non-entitle-
ment communities in the State in accordance with the re-
quirements of section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That any State re-
ceiving such a guarantee or commitment shall distribute 
all funds subject to such guarantee to the units of general 
local government in non-entitlement areas that received 
the commitment. 
SEC. 218. Public housing agencies that own and oper-
ate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be ex-
empt from any asset management requirement imposed by 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in con-
nection with the operating fund rule: Provided, That an 
agency seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy 
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under the operating fund formula shall not be exempt 
from asset management requirements. 
SEC. 219. With respect to the use of amounts pro-
vided in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, cap-
ital improvement and management of public housing as 
authorized by sections 9(d) and 9(e) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(d) and (e)), the 
Secretary shall not impose any requirement or guideline 
relating to asset management that restricts or limits in 
any way the use of capital funds for central office costs 
pursuant to section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Pro-
vided, That a public housing agency may not use capital 
funds authorized under section 9(d) for activities that are 
eligible under section 9(e) for assistance with amounts 
from the operating fund in excess of the amounts per-
mitted under section 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 
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- 
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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 2016, 
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 2016, the Secretary may make the 
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 must be paid from the individual program 
office and Office of General Counsel personnel funding. 
The annual budget submissions for program offices and 
Office of General Counsel personnel funding must include 
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program-related litigation costs for attorney fees as a sep-
arate line item request. 
SEC. 223. 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. 224. (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-
tion 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
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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: 
(A) impose civil money penalties; 
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(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, 
based on consideration of (1) the costs of rehabilitating 
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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. 
SEC. 225. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under sec-
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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 2016. 
SEC. 226. 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. 227. 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. 228. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require or enforce the Physical Needs 
Assessment (PNA). 
SEC. 229. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used by the Federal Housing Administration, 
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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. 230. 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. 231. 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-
search, evaluation, or statistical purposes for which the 
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amounts are made available to that Office subject to re-
programming requirements in Section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 232. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development to require a recipient or sub-recipient of 
funding for the purpose of land acquisition, affordable 
housing construction, or affordable housing rehabilitation 
to meet Energy Star standards or any other energy effi-
ciency standards that exceed the requirements of applica-
ble State and local building codes. 
SEC. 233. Of the unobligated balances, including re-
captures and carryover, remaining from funds appro-
priated in section 1497(a) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street 
Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 111– 
203; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note) and section 2301(a) of title 
III of division B of the Housing and Economic Recovery 
Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–289; 42 U.S.C. 5301 note), 
$7,000,000 is hereby rescinded. 
SEC. 234. (a) All unobligated balances, including re-
captures and carryover, remaining from funds appro-
priated to the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment under the heading ‘‘Rural Housing and Economic 
Development’’ are hereby rescinded. 
(b) Effective October 1, 2015, all unobligated bal-
ances, including recaptures and carryover, remaining from 
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funds appropriated to the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development for accounts under the headings 
‘‘Management and Administration’’ and ‘‘Program Office 
Salaries and Expenses’’ in division K of Public Law 113– 
235 are rescinded. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2016’’. 
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, $7,548,000: 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. 
1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $25,660,000: Provided, That 
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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, $23,999,000: 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 
necessary for carrying out the functions, powers, and du-
ties of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the appli-
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cable laws and regulations that govern such selections, ap-
pointments, and employment within Amtrak: Provided fur-
ther, That concurrent with the President’s budget request 
for fiscal year 2017, the Inspector General shall submit 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
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), $103,981,000, 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), $135,000,000, of which 
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing pro-
gram: Provided, That in addition, $42,000,000 shall be 
made available until expended to the Neighborhood Rein-
vestment Corporation for mortgage foreclosure mitigation 
activities, under the following terms and conditions: 
(1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion (NRC) shall make grants to counseling inter-
mediaries approved by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development (HUD) (with match to be 
determined by NRC based on affordability and the 
economic conditions of an area; a match also may be 
waived by NRC based on the aforementioned condi-
tions) to provide mortgage foreclosure mitigation as-
sistance primarily to States and areas with high 
rates of defaults and foreclosures to help eliminate 
the default and foreclosure of mortgages of owner- 
occupied single-family homes that are at risk of such 
foreclosure. Other than areas with high rates of de-
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faults and foreclosures, grants may also be provided 
to approved counseling intermediaries based on a ge-
ographic analysis of the Nation by NRC which de-
termines where there is a prevalence of mortgages 
that are risky and likely to fail, including any trends 
for mortgages that are likely to default and face 
foreclosure. A State Housing Finance Agency may 
also be eligible where the State Housing Finance 
Agency meets all the requirements under this para-
graph. A HUD-approved counseling intermediary 
shall meet certain mortgage foreclosure mitigation 
assistance counseling requirements, as determined 
by NRC, and shall be approved by HUD or NRC as 
meeting these requirements. 
(2) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
shall only be made available to homeowners of 
owner-occupied homes with mortgages in default or 
in danger of default. These mortgages shall likely be 
subject to a foreclosure action and homeowners will 
be provided such assistance that shall consist of ac-
tivities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and re-
sult in the long-term affordability of the mortgage 
retained pursuant to such activity or another posi-
tive outcome for the homeowner. No funds made 
available under this paragraph may be provided di-
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rectly to lenders or homeowners to discharge out-
standing mortgage balances or for any other direct 
debt reduction payments. 
(3) The use of mortgage foreclosure mitigation 
assistance by approved counseling intermediaries 
and State Housing Finance Agencies shall involve a 
reasonable analysis of the borrower’s financial situa-
tion, an evaluation of the current value of the prop-
erty that is subject to the mortgage, counseling re-
garding the assumption of the mortgage by another 
non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible 
purchase of the mortgage by a non-Federal third 
party, counseling and advice of all likely restruc-
turing and refinancing strategies or the approval of 
a work-out strategy by all interested parties. 
(4) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the 
total funds under this paragraph to its own charter 
members with expertise in foreclosure prevention 
counseling, subject to a certification by NRC that 
the procedures for selection do not consist of any 
procedures or activities that could be construed as a 
conflict of interest or have the appearance of impro-
priety. 
(5) HUD-approved counseling entities and 
State Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds 
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under this paragraph shall have demonstrated expe-
rience in successfully working with financial institu-
tions as well as borrowers facing default, delin-
quency and foreclosure as well as documented coun-
seling capacity, outreach capacity, past successful 
performance and positive outcomes with documented 
counseling plans (including post mortgage fore-
closure mitigation counseling), loan workout agree-
ments and loan modification agreements. NRC may 
use other criteria to demonstrate capacity in under-
served areas. 
(6) Of the total amount made available under 
this paragraph, up to $2,000,000 may be made 
available to build the mortgage foreclosure and de-
fault mitigation counseling capacity of counseling 
intermediaries through NRC training courses with 
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their 
partners, except that private financial institutions 
that participate in NRC training shall pay market 
rates for such training. 
(7) Of the total amount made available under 
this paragraph, up to 5 percent may be used for as-
sociated administrative expenses for NRC to carry 
out activities provided under this section. 
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(8) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
grants may include a budget for outreach and adver-
tising, and training, as determined by NRC. 
(9) NRC shall continue to report bi-annually to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions as well as the Senate Banking Committee and 
House Financial Services Committee on its efforts to 
mitigate mortgage default. 
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, $3,530,000. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
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 
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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. 
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; 
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(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 
(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. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-
penditure in fiscal year 2016, 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; 
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(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; 
(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 
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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-
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 2016 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2016 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2017, 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 
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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 
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-
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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-
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 
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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. 
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 by this 
Act may be used by the Federal Maritime Commission or 
the Administrator of the Maritime Administration to issue 
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a license or certificate for a commercial vessel that docked 
or anchored within the previous 180 days within 7 miles 
of a port on property that was confiscated, in whole or 
in part, by the Cuban Government, as the terms con-
fiscated, Cuban Government, and property are defined in 
paragraphs (4), (5), and (12)(A), respectively, of section 
4 of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity 
(LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (22 U.S.C. 6023). 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 415. 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2016’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 92 
114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2577 
[Report No. 114–129] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2016, and for other pur-
poses. 
MAY 27, 2015 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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