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of the trafficking scheme, which results in weak pen-
alties for convicted traffickers. Adequate services
and facilities do not exist to meet the health care,
housing, education, and legal assistance needs for
the safe reintegration of domestic trafficking victims.
(16) In some countries, enforcement against
traffickers is also hindered by official indifference,
by corruption, and sometimes even by active official
participation in trafficking.
(17) Because existing laws and law enforcement
procedures often fail to make clear distinctions be-
tween victims of trafficking and persons who have
knowingly and willfully violated laws, and because
victims often do not have legal immigration status in
the countries into which they are trafficked, the vic-
tims are often punished more harshly than the traf-
fickers themselves.
(18) Because victims of trafficking are fre-
quently unfamiliar with the laws, cultures, and lan-
guages of the countries into which they have been
trafficked, and because they are often subjected to
coercion and intimidation including physical deten-
tion, debt bondage, fear of retribution, and fear of
forcible removal to countries in which they will face
retribution or other hardship, these victims often
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find it difficult or impossible to report the crimes
committed against them or to assist in the investiga-
tion and prosecution of such crimes.
(19) The United States and the international
community are in agreement that trafficking in per-
sons often involves grave violations of human rights
and is a matter of pressing international concern.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; the
Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slav-
ery, the Slave Trade, and Institutions and Practices
Similar to Slavery; the International Covenant on
Civil and Political Rights; the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against
Women; the Convention Against Torture and Other
Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punish-
ment, and other relevant instruments condemn slav-
ery and involuntary servitude, violence against
women, and other components of the trafficking
scheme.
(20) The Universal Declaration of Human
Rights recognizes the right to be free from slavery
and involuntary servitude, arbitrary detention, de-
grading or inhuman treatment, and arbitrary inter-
ference with privacy or the family, as well as the
right to protection by law against these abuses.
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(21) The United Nations General Assembly has
passed three resolutions during the last three years
(50/167, 51/66, and 52/98) recognizing that the
international traffic in women and girls, particularly
for purposes of forced prostitution, is a matter of
pressing international concern involving numerous
violations of fundamental human rights. The resolu-
tions call upon governments of receiving countries as
well as countries of origin to strengthen their laws
against such practices, to intensify their efforts to
enforce such laws, and to ensure the full protection,
treatment, and rehabilitation of women and children
who are victims of trafficking.
(22) The Final Report of the Word Congress
against Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in
Stockholm, Sweden in August 1996, recognized that
international sex trafficking is a principal cause of
increased exploitation and degradation of children.
(23) The Fourth World Conference of Women
(Bejing Conference) called on all governments to
take measures, including legislative measures, to
provide better protection of the rights of women and
girls who are victims of trafficking, to address the
root factors that put women and girls at risk to traf-
fickers, and to take measures to dismantle the na-
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tional, regional, and international networks on traf-
ficking.
(24) In the 1991 Moscow Document of the Or-
ganization for Security and Co-operation in Europe,
participating states including the United States
agreed to ‘‘seek to eliminate all forms of violence
against women, and all forms of traffic in women
and exploitation of prostitution of women including
by ensuring adequate legal prohibitions against such
acts and other appropriate measures.’’
(25) Numerous treaties to which the United
States is a party address government obligations to
combat trafficking, including such treaties as the
1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of
Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Prac-
tices Similar to Slavery, which calls for the complete
abolition of debt bondage and servile forms of mar-
riage, and the 1957 Abolition of Forced Labor Con-
vention, which undertakes to suppress and requires
signatories not to make use of any forced or compul-
sory labor.
(26) Trafficking in persons is a transnational
crime with national implications. In order to deter
international trafficking and to bring its perpetra-
tors to justice, nations including the United States
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must recognize that trafficking is a serious offense
and must act on this recognition by prescribing ap-
propriate punishment, by giving the highest priority
to investigation and prosecution of trafficking of-
fenses, and by protecting rather than punishing the
victims of such offenses. The United States must
work bilaterally and multilaterally to abolish the
trafficking industry and take steps to promote and
facilitate cooperation among countries linked to-
gether by international trafficking routes. The
United States must also urge the international com-
munity to take strong action in multilateral fora to
engage recalcitrant countries in serious and sus-
tained efforts to eliminate trafficking and protect
trafficking victims.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act:
(1) ‘‘Sex trafficking’’ means the purchase, sale,
recruitment, harboring, transportation, transfer or
receipt of a person for the purpose of a commercial
sex act.
(2) ‘‘Severe forms of trafficking in persons’’
means—
(A) sex trafficking in which either a com-
mercial sex act or any act or event contributing
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to such act is effected or induced by force, coer-
cion, fraud, or deception, or in which the person
induced to perform such act has not attained
the age of 18 years; and
(B) the purchase, sale, recruitment, har-
boring, transportation, transfer or receipt of a
person for the purpose of subjection to involun-
tary servitude, peonage, or slavery or slavery-
like practices which is effected by force, coer-
cion, fraud, or deception.
(3) ‘‘Slavery-like practices’’ means inducement
of a person to perform labor or other services by
force, by coercion, or by any scheme, plan, or pat-
tern to cause the person to believe that failure to
perform the work will result in the infliction of seri-
ous harm, debt bondage in which labor or services
are pledged for debt on terms calculated never to
allow full payment of the debt or otherwise amount-
ing to indentured servitude for life or for an indefi-
nite period, or subjection of the person to conditions
so harsh or degrading as to provide a clear indica-
tion that the person has been subjected to them by
force, fraud, or coercion.
(4) ‘‘Coercion’’ means the use of force, violence,
physical restraint, or acts or circumstances not nec-
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essarily including physical force but calculated to
have the same effect, such as the credible threat of
force or of the infliction of serious harm.
(5) ‘‘Act of a severe form of trafficking in per-
sons’’ means any act at any point in the process of
a severe form of trafficking in persons, including any
act of recruitment, harboring, transport, transfer,
purchase, sale or receipt of a victim of such traf-
ficking, or any act of operation, management, or
ownership of an enterprise in which a victim of such
trafficking engages in a commercial sex act, is sub-
jected to slavery or a slavery-like practice, or is ex-
pected or induced to engage in such acts or be sub-
jected to such condition or practice, or sharing in
the profits of the process of a severe form of traf-
ficking in persons or any part thereof.
(6) ‘‘Victim of sex trafficking’’ and ‘‘victim of
a severe form of trafficking in persons’’ mean a per-
son subjected to an act or practice described in
paragraphs (1) and (2) respectively.
(7) ‘‘Commercial sex act’’ means a sex act on
account of which anything of value is given to or re-
ceived by any person.
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national Development, the Attorney General, the Sec-
retary of Labor, the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and
such other officials as may be designated by the President.
(c) CHAIRMAN.—The Task Force shall be chaired by
the Secretary of State.
(d) SUPPORT FOR THE TASK FORCE.—The Secretary
of State is authorized to establish within the Department
of State an Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking,
which shall provide assistance to the Task Force. Any
such Office shall be administered by a Director. The Di-
rector shall have the primary responsibility for assisting
the Secretary of State in carrying out the purposes of this
Act and may have additional responsibilities as determined
by the Secretary. The Director shall consult with domestic,
international nongovernmental and intergovernmental or-
ganizations, and with trafficking victims or other affected
persons. The Director shall have the authority to take evi-
dence in public hearings or by other means. The Office
is authorized to retain staff members from agencies rep-
resented on the Task Force.
(e) ACTIVITIES OF THE TASK FORCE.—In consulta-
tion with nongovernmental organizations, the Task Force
shall carry out the following activities:
(1) Coordinate the implementation of this Act.
(8) the quantification of water rights and the
development of water use facilities is essential to the
development of viable Indian reservation economies,
particularly in the arid western States; and
(9) to advance the goals of Federal Indian pol-
icy and to fulfill the trust responsibility of the
United States to the Shivwits Band, it is appro-
priate that the United States participate in the im-
plementation of the St. George Water Reuse Project
Agreement, the Santa Clara Project Agreement, and
the Settlement Agreement in accordance with this
Act.
SEC. 3. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this Act are—
(1) to achieve a fair, equitable, and final settle-
ment of all claims to water rights in the Santa Clara
River for the Shivwits Band, and the United States
for the benefit of the Shivwits Band;
(2) to approve, ratify, and confirm the St.
George Water Reuse Project Agreement, the Santa
Clara Project Agreement, and the Settlement Agree-
ment, and the Shivwits Water Right described there-
in;
(3) to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to
execute the St. George Water Reuse Project Agree-
record filed pursuant to the securities laws (as defined in
section 3(a)(47) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).
‘‘SEC. 522. ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT.
‘‘(a) ENFORCEMENT BY FEDERAL TRADE COMMIS-
SION.—Compliance with this subtitle shall be enforced by
the Federal Trade Commission in the same manner and
with the same power and authority as the Commission has
under the title VIII, the Fair Debt Collection Practices
Act, to enforce compliance with such title.
‘‘(b) NOTICE OF ACTIONS.—The Federal Trade Com-
mission shall—
‘‘(1) notify the Securities and Exchange Com-
mission whenever the Federal Trade Commission ini-
tiates an investigation with respect to a financial in-
stitution subject to regulation by the Securities and
Exchange Commission;
‘‘(2) notify the Federal banking agency (as de-
fined in section 3(z) of the Federal Deposit Insur-
ance Act) whenever the Commission initiates an in-
vestigation with respect to a financial institution
subject to regulation by such Federal banking agen-
cy; and
‘‘(3) notify the appropriate State insurance reg-
ulator whenever the Commission initiates an inves-
material, and is in a usable condition for sustaining
vegetation when restored during reclamation.
(B) In the event the topsoil from lands subject
to mineral activities is of insufficient quantity or of
inferior quality for sustaining vegetation, and other
suitable growth media removed from the lands sub-
ject to the mineral activities are available that shall
support vegetation, the best available growth me-
dium shall be removed, segregated and preserved in
a like manner as under subparagraph (A) for sus-
taining vegetation when restored during reclamation.
(C) In the event the soil (other than topsoil)
from lands subject to mineral activities is of insuffi-
cient quantity or of inferior quality for sustaining
vegetation, and other suitable growth media removed
from the lands subject to the mineral activities are
available that support revegetation, these substitute
materials shall be removed, segregated or preserved
in a like manner as under subparagraph (A) for
later use in reclamation.
(D) Mineral activities shall be conducted to pre-
vent contamination of soils to the extent possible
using the best technology currently available. If con-
tamination occurs, the operator shall decontaminate
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2833 of title 10, United States Code),
$971,704,000.
(7) For the construction of phase 1C of a bar-
racks complex, Infantry Drive, Fort Riley, Kansas,
authorized by section 2101(a) of the Military Con-
struction Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of
Public Law 105–261; 112 Stat. 2182), $10,000,000.
(8) For the construction of a railhead facility,
Fort Hood, Texas, authorized by section 2101(a) of
the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fis-
cal Year 1999 (112 Stat. 2182), as amended by sec-
tion 2105 of this Act, $9,800,000.
(9) For the construction of a chemical defense
qualification facility, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas,
authorized by section 2101(a) of the Military Con-
struction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
(division B of Public Law 106–65; 113 Stat. 825),
$92,000.
(10) For the construction of phase 1B of a bar-
racks complex, Wilson Street, Schofield Barracks,
Hawaii, authorized by section 2101(a) of the Mili-
tary Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2000 (113 Stat. 825), $22,400,000.
(11) For the construction of phase 2B of a bar-
racks complex, Tagaytay Street, Fort Bragg, North
390
Navy: Extension of 1998 Project Authorizations
State
Installation or loca-
tion
Project
Amount
California ........................
Naval Complex, San
Diego ...........................
Replacement
Family Hous-
ing Construc-
tion (94
units) ............
$13,500,000
California ........................
Marine Corps Air Sta-
tion, Miramar ............
Family Housing
Construction
(166 units) ...
$28,881,000
California ........................
Marine Corps Air-
Ground Combat Cen-
ter, Twentynine
Palms ..........................
Replacement
Family Hous-
ing Construc-
tion (132
units) ............
$23,891,000
Louisiana ........................
Naval Complex, New Or-
leans ............................
Replacement
Family Hous-
ing Construc-
tion (100
units) ............
$11,930,000
Texas ...............................
Naval Air Station, Cor-
pus Christi .................
Family Housing
Construction
(212 units) ...
$22,250,000
Washington .....................
Naval Air Station,
Whidbey Island ..........
Replacement
Family Hous-
ing Construc-
tion (102
units) ............
$16,000,000
Air Force: Extension of 1998 Project Authorizations
State
Installation or loca-
tion
Project
Amount
Georgia ............................
Robins Air Force Base ..
Replace Family
Housing (60
units) ............
$6,800,000
Idaho ...............................
Mountain Home Air
Force Base ..................
Replace Family
Housing (60
units) ............
$11,032,000
New Mexico .....................
Kirtland Air Force Base
Replace Family
Housing (180
units) ............
$20,900,000
Texas ...............................
Dyess Air Force Base ....
Construct Fam-
ily Housing
(70 units) .....
$10,503,000
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(4) $34,000,000 (the balance of the amount au-
thorized under section 2101(a) for construction of a
barracks complex, Longstreet Road Phase I at Fort
Bragg, North Carolina);
(5) $104,000,000 (the balance of the amount
authorized under section 2101(a) for the construc-
tion of a barracks complex, Bunter Road Phase I at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina); and
(6) $6,000,000 (the balance of the amount au-
thorized under section 2101(a) for the construction
of a battle simulation center at Fort Drum, New
York).
(c) ADJUSTMENT.—The total amount authorized to
be appropriated pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (12)
of subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts authorized
to be appropriated in such paragraphs, reduced by—
(1) $635,000, which represents the combination
of savings resulting from adjustments to foreign cur-
rency exchange rates for military construction out-
side the United States; and
(2) $19,911,000 which represents the combina-
tion of savings resulting from adjustments to foreign
currency exchange rates for military family housing
construction and military family housing support
outside the United States.
I
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3247
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase job creation and
small business expansion and formation in economically distressed United
States insular areas.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOVEMBER 8, 1999
Mrs. CHRISTENSEN (for herself, Mr. UNDERWOOD, Mr. BISHOP, Mr. JEFFER-
SON, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. OWENS, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr.
FATTAH, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. THOMPSON of Mis-
sissippi, Ms. KILPATRICK, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Ms. LEE, Mrs.
JONES of Ohio, Ms. CARSON, Mrs. MEEK of Florida, Ms. BROWN of Flor-
ida, Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. MEEKS
of New York, and Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase
job creation and small business expansion and formation
in economically distressed United States insular areas.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. UNITED STATES INSULAR AREA EMPOWER-
MENT ZONES.
(a) DESIGNATION.—Subsection (b) of section 1391 of
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) UNITED STATES INSULAR AREA EMPOWER-
MENT ZONES.—
‘‘(A) DESIGNATION.—In addition to the
areas designated under paragraph (2), the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development
shall designate in the aggregate 2 nominated
insular areas as empowerment zones under this
section, subject to the availability of nominated
areas.
‘‘(B) PERIOD
DESIGNATIONS
MAY
BE
MADE.—Notwithstanding subsection (c), a des-
ignation may be made under this paragraph
after the date of the enactment of this para-
graph and before January 1, 2001.’’
(b) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA.—Subsection (a) of sec-
tion 1392 of such Code is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(5) UNITED STATES INSULAR AREA EMPOWER-
MENT ZONES.—In the case of a nominated insular
area under section 1391(b)(3)—
change) by the Secretary, the Director of NIH, and
the advisory council under section subsection (e).
The budget estimate shall include an estimate of the
number and type of personnel needs for the Center.
‘‘(2) RECEIPT OF APPROPRIATIONS.—The Di-
rector of the Center shall receive directly from the
President and the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget all funds available for the Center.
‘‘(i) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Director of the Center
shall prepare an annual report on the activities carried out
or to be carried out by the Center, and shall submit each
such report to the Congress, the Secretary, and the Direc-
tor of NIH. With respect to the fiscal year involved, the
report shall—
‘‘(1) describe and evaluate the progress made in
minority health research conducted or supported by
the national research institutes;
‘‘(2) summarize and analyze expenditures made
for activities with respect to minority health research
conducted or supported by the National Institutes of
Health; and
‘‘(3) contain such recommendations as the Di-
rector considers appropriate.
‘‘(j) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this subpart:
‘‘(A) POPULATION.—Such area has a max-
imum population of 200,000.
‘‘(B) SIZE.—Such area is the possession of
the United States in its entirety.
‘‘(C) 
INAPPLICABLE
REQUIREMENTS.—
Paragraphs (1), (3), and (4) shall not apply.’’
(c) DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL RULES.—Subsection
(a) of section 1393 of such Code is amended by adding
at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(10) SPECIAL RULE FOR INSULAR AREAS.—In
the case of insular areas—
‘‘(A) 
APPROPRIATE
SECRETARY.—The
term ‘appropriate Secretary’ means the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development.
‘‘(B) NOMINATED AREA.—The term ‘nomi-
nated area’ means a nominated insular area.
‘‘(C) NOMINATED
INSULAR
AREA.—The
term ‘nominated insular area’ means an insular
area which is nominated for designation under
section 1391(b)(3).
‘‘(D) STATE.—The term ‘State’ includes
an insular area of the United States.’’
(d) LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF TAX-EXEMPT EN-
TERPRISE ZONE FACILITY BONDS.—Subsection (c) of sec-
tion 1394 of such Code is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE FOR UNITED STATES INSU-
LAR AREA EMPOWERMENT ZONE.—In the case of an
empowerment 
zone 
designated 
under 
section
1391(b)(3), paragraph (1)(A) shall be applied by
substituting ‘$1,000,000’ for ‘$3,000,000’.’’
(e) APPLICABLE PERCENTAGE RELATING TO EM-
POWERMENT ZONE EMPLOYMENT CREDIT.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (b) of section
1396 of such Code is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) SPECIAL RULE FOR UNITED STATES INSU-
LAR
AREAS.—With respect to each empowerment
zone designated pursuant to section 1391(b)(3), the
following table shall apply in lieu of the table in
paragraph (1):
‘‘In the case of wages paid or
The applicable
incurred during calendar year—
percentage is—
2001 through 2005 ..............................................................
2006 .....................................................................................
2007 .....................................................................................
2008 .....................................................................................
5.’’.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (1)
of section 1396(b) of such Code is amended by strik-
ing ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraphs (2)
and (3)’’.
(f) DEFINITION OF INSULAR AREA.—Subsection (a)
of section 7701 of such Code is amended by adding at
the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(47) INSULAR AREA.—The term ‘insular area’
means a possession of the United States.’’.
(g) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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