cluding motorsports sponsorship, prior to submitting a re-
quest to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress and an approval is issued or absent a re-
sponse, a period of 30 days has elapsed. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
of the American Battle Monuments Commission, including 
the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign coun-
tries; purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of 
national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United 
States and its territories and possessions; rent of office 
and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one-for- 
one replacement basis only) and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; not to exceed $7,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses; and insurance of official motor 
vehicles in foreign countries, when required by law of such 
countries, $61,100,000, to remain available until ex-
pended. 
FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS ACCOUNT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
of the American Battle Monuments Commission, such 
sums as may be necessary, to remain available until ex-
pended, for purposes authorized by section 2109 of title 
36, United States Code. 
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS 
CLAIMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the operation of the 
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims as 
authorized by sections 7251 through 7298 of title 38, 
United States Code, $30,770,000: Provided, That 
$2,726,363 shall be available for the purpose of providing 
financial assistance as described, and in accordance with 
the process and reporting procedures set forth, under this 
heading in Public Law 102–229. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL 
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for 
maintenance, operation, and improvement of Arlington 
National Cemetery and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Na-
tional Cemetery, including the purchase or lease of pas-
senger motor vehicles for replacement on a one-for-one 
basis only, and not to exceed $1,000 for official reception 
and representation expenses, $45,800,000, to remain 
available until expended. In addition, such sums as may 
be necessary for parking maintenance, repairs and re-
placement, to be derived from the ‘‘Lease of Department 
of Defense Real Property for Defense Agencies’’ account. 
Funds appropriated under this Act may be provided 
to Arlington County, Virginia, for the relocation of the 
federally-owned water main at Arlington National Ceme-
tery making additional land available for ground burials. 
ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME 
TRUST FUND 
For expenses necessary for the Armed Forces Retire-
ment Home to operate and maintain the Armed Forces 
Retirement Home—Washington, District of Columbia, 
and the Armed Forces Retirement Home—Gulfport, Mis-
sissippi, to be paid from funds available in the Armed 
Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund, $67,700,000, of 
which $2,000,000 shall remain available until expended 
for construction and renovation of the physical plants at 
the Armed Forces Retirement Home—Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia, and the Armed Forces Retirement 
Home—Gulfport, Mississippi. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 402. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity, 
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official 
to which the funds are made available that the program, 
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal 
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private 
property rights, or unfunded mandates. 
SEC. 403. No part of any funds appropriated in this 
Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, 
other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative 
relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, or for 
the preparation, distribution, or use of any kit, pamphlet, 
booklet, publication, radio, television, or film presentation 
designed to support or defeat legislation pending before 
Congress, except in presentation to Congress itself. 
SEC. 404. All departments and agencies funded under 
this Act are encouraged, within the limits of the existing 
statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of 
‘‘E–Commerce’’ technologies and procedures in the con-
duct of their business practices and public service activi-
ties. 
SEC. 405. Unless stated otherwise, all reports and no-
tifications required by this Act shall be submitted to the 
Subcommittee on Military Construction and Veterans Af-
fairs, and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Sub-
committee on Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, 
and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations 
of the Senate. 
SEC. 406. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for a project or program named for an 
individual serving as a Member, Delegate, or Resident 
Commissioner of the United States House of Representa-
tives. 
SEC. 407. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any 
other Act, upon the determination by the head of the agen-
cy that it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if— 
(1) the public posting of the report com-
promises national security; or 
(2) the report contains confidential or propri-
etary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to 
the requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for 
no less than 45 days.
SEC. 408. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be distributed to the Association of Community 
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) or its subsidi-
aries or successors. 
SEC. 409. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, tribal, or local law 
enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out crimi-
nal investigations, prosecution, or adjudication activities. 
SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act may be used by an agency 
of the executive branch to pay for first-class travel by an 
employee of the agency in contravention of sections 301– 
10.122 through 301–10.124 of title 41, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
SEC. 411. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this Act may be used by an agency 
of the executive branch to exercise the power of eminent 
domain (to take private property for public use) without 
the payment of just compensation. 
SEC. 412. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available to the Department of Defense in this
Act may be used to renovate, expand, or construct any 
facility in the continental United States for the purpose 
of housing any individual who has been detained, at any 
time after September 11, 2001, at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used to execute a contract for goods or services, includ-
ing construction services, where the contractor has not 
complied with Executive Order No. 12989. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, or to 
make a grant to, any corporation that was convicted of 
a felony criminal violation under any Federal or State law 
within the preceding 24 months. 
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 sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to declare as excess to the needs of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs or otherwise take any ac-
tion to exchange, trade, auction, transfer, or otherwise dis-
pose of, or reduce the acreage of, Federal land and im-
provements at the St. Albans campus, consisting of ap-
proximately 55 acres of land, with borders near Linden 
Boulevard on the northwest, 115th Avenue on the west, 
the Long Island Railroad on the northeast, and Baisley 
Boulevard on the southeast. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be available to enforce section 526 of the Energy 
Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110– 
140; 42 U.S.C. 17142). 
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract using procedures 
that do not give to small business concerns owned and con-
trolled by veterans (as that term is defined in section 
3(q)(3) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)(3)) 
that are included in the database under section 8127(f) 
of title 38, United States Code, any preference available 
with respect to such contract, except for a preference given 
to small business concerns owned and controlled by serv-
ice-disabled veterans (as that term defined in section 
3(q)(2) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 632(q)(2)). 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of the War Powers Res-
olution (50 U.S.C. 1541 et seq.).
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Act, 2012’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 14, 2011. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2055 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for military construction, 
the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related 
agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2012, and for other purposes.