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FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY OPERATIONS AND PROGRAMS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in the implemen-
tation, execution and administration of motor carrier safe-
ty operations and programs pursuant to section 31110 of 
title 49, United States Code, as amended by the Fixing 
America’s Surface Transportation Act, $277,200,000, to be 
derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass 
Transit Account), together with advances and reimburse-
ments received by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admin-
istration, the sum of which shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds available for implementation, 
execution or administration of motor carrier safety oper-
ations and programs authorized under title 49, United 
States Code, shall not exceed total obligations of 
$277,200,000 for ‘‘Motor Carrier Safety Operations and 
Programs’’ for fiscal year 2017, of which $9,180,000, to re-
main available for obligation until September 30, 2019, is 
for the research and technology program.
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MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY GRANTS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 
sections 31102, 31103, 31104, and 31313 of title 49, United 
States Code, as amended by the Fixing America’s Surface 
Transportation Act, $367,000,000, to be derived from the 
Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Ac-
count) and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That funds available for the implementation or execution 
of motor carrier safety programs shall not exceed total obli-
gations of $367,000,000 in fiscal year 2017 for ‘‘Motor Car-
rier Safety Grants’’; of which $292,600,000 shall be avail-
able for the motor carrier safety assistance program, 
$31,200,000 shall be available for the commercial driver’s 
license program implementation program, $42,200,000 
shall be available for the high priority activities program, 
and $1,000,000 shall be available for the commercial motor 
vehicle operators grant program. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER 
SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 130. Funds appropriated or limited in this Act 
shall be subject to the terms and conditions stipulated in
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section 350 of Public Law 107–87 and section 6901 of Pub-
lic Law 110–28. 
SEC. 131. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Adminis-
tration shall send notice of 49 CFR section 385.308 viola-
tions by certified mail, registered mail, or another manner 
of delivery, which records the receipt of the notice by the 
persons responsible for the violations. 
SEC. 132. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or previous appropriations Acts under the heading 
‘‘Motor Carrier Safety Operations and Programs’’ shall be 
used to pay for costs associated with design, development, 
testing, or implementation of a wireless roadside inspection 
program until 180 days after the Secretary of Transpor-
tation certifies to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations that such program does not conflict with exist-
ing non-Federal electronic screening systems, create capa-
bilities already available, or require additional statutory 
authority to incorporate generated inspection data into 
safety determinations or databases, and has restrictions to 
specifically address privacy concerns of affected motor car-
riers and operators. 
NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH 
For expenses necessary to discharge the functions of the 
Secretary, with respect to traffic and highway safety au-
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thorized under chapter 301 and part C of subtitle VI of 
title 49, United States Code, $180,075,000, of which 
$20,000,000 shall remain available through September 30, 
2018. 
OPERATIONS AND RESEARCH 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 
the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 403, and chapter 303 of title 
49, United States Code, $145,900,000, to be derived from 
the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Ac-
count) and to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That none of the funds in this Act shall be available for 
the planning or execution of programs the total obligations 
for which, in fiscal year 2017, are in excess of $145,900,000, 
of which $140,700,000 shall be for programs authorized 
under 23 U.S.C. 403 and $5,200,000 shall be for the Na-
tional Driver Register authorized under chapter 303 of title 
49, United States Code: Provided further, That within the 
$145,900,000 obligation limitation for operations and re-
search, $20,000,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2018, and shall be in addition to the amount of any 
limitation imposed on obligations for future years.
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HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY GRANTS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 
provisions of 23 U.S.C. 402, 404, and 405, and section 
4001(a)(6) of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation 
Act, to remain available until expended, $585,372,000, to 
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the 
Mass Transit Account): Provided, That none of the funds 
in this Act shall be available for the planning or execution 
of programs the total obligations for which, in fiscal year 
2017, are in excess of $585,372,000 for programs authorized 
under 23 U.S.C. 402, 404, and 405, and section 4001(a)(6) 
of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, of 
which $252,300,000 shall be for ‘‘Highway Safety Pro-
grams’’ under 23 U.S.C. 402; $277,500,000 shall be for 
‘‘National Priority Safety Programs’’ under 23 U.S.C. 405; 
$29,500,000 shall be for ‘‘High Visibility Enforcement Pro-
gram’’ under 23 U.S.C. 404; $26,072,000 shall be for ‘‘Ad-
ministrative Expenses’’ under section 4001(a)(6) of the Fix-
ing America’s Surface Transportation Act: Provided fur-
ther, That none of these funds shall be used for construction, 
rehabilitation, or remodeling costs, or for office furnishings 
and fixtures for State, local or private buildings or struc-
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tures: Provided further, That not to exceed $500,000 of the 
funds made available for ‘‘National Priority Safety Pro-
grams’’ under 23 U.S.C. 405 for ‘‘Impaired Driving Coun-
termeasures’’ (as described in subsection (d) of that section) 
shall be available for technical assistance to the States: Pro-
vided further, That with respect to the ‘‘Transfers’’ provi-
sion under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(8), any amounts transferred 
to increase the amounts made available under section 402 
shall include the obligation authority for such amounts: 
Provided further, That the Administrator shall notify the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations of any 
exercise of the authority granted under the previous proviso 
or under 23 U.S.C. 405(a)(8) within 5 days. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—NATIONAL HIGHWAY 
TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 140. An additional $130,000 shall be made avail-
able to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
tion, out of the amount limited for section 402 of title 23, 
United States Code, to pay for travel and related expenses 
for State management reviews and to pay for core com-
petency development training and related expenses for high-
way safety staff. 
SEC. 141. The limitations on obligations for the pro-
grams of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
tion set in this Act shall not apply to obligations for which
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obligation authority was made available in previous public 
laws but only to the extent that the obligation authority 
has not lapsed or been used. 
SEC. 142. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to obligate or award funds for the National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s National Road-
side Survey. 
SEC. 143. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to mandate global positioning system 
(GPS) tracking in private passenger motor vehicles without 
providing full and appropriate consideration of privacy 
concerns under 5 U.S.C. chapter 5, subchapter II. 
FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 
SAFETY AND OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Railroad Admin-
istration, not otherwise provided for, $218,298,000, of which 
$15,900,000 shall remain available until expended. 
RAILROAD RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary expenses for railroad research and devel-
opment, $40,100,000, to remain available until expended. 
RAILROAD REHABILITATION AND IMPROVEMENT FINANCING 
PROGRAM 
The Secretary of Transportation is authorized to issue 
direct loans and loan guarantees pursuant to sections 501 
through 504 of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory
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Reform Act of 1976 (Public Law 94–210), as amended, such 
authority shall exist as long as any such direct loan or loan 
guarantee is outstanding: Provided, That pursuant to sec-
tion 502 of such Act, as amended, no new direct loans or 
loan guarantee commitments shall be made using Federal 
funds for the credit risk premium during fiscal year 2017, 
except for Federal funds awarded in accordance with sec-
tion 3028(c) of Public Law 114–94. 
FEDERAL-STATE PARTNERSHIP FOR STATE OF GOOD 
REPAIR GRANTS 
For necessary expenses related to Federal-State Part-
nership for State of Good Repair Grants as authorized by 
section 24911 of title 49, United States Code, $25,000,000, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Sec-
retary may withhold up to one percent of the amount pro-
vided under this heading for the costs of project manage-
ment oversight of grants carried out under section 24911 
of title 49, United States Code. 
CONSOLIDATED RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFETY 
IMPROVEMENTS GRANTS 
For necessary expenses related to Consolidated Rail 
Infrastructure and Safety Improvements Grants as author-
ized by section 24407 of title 49, United States Code, 
$68,000,000, to remain available until expended, for 
projects eligible under sections 24407(c)(1) through
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24407(c)(10) of title 49, United States Code, of which 
$10,000,000 shall be available for eligible projects under sec-
tion 24407(c)(2) of title 49, United States Code, that con-
tribute to the initiation or restoration of intercity passenger 
rail service: Provided, That the Secretary may withhold up 
to one percent of the amount provided under this heading 
for the costs of project management oversight of grants car-
ried out under section 24407 of title 49, United States Code. 
RESTORATION AND ENHANCEMENT GRANTS 
For necessary expenses related to Restoration and En-
hancement Grants, as authorized by section 24408 of title 
49, United States Code, $5,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That the Secretary may withhold 
up to one percent of the funds provided under this heading 
to fund the costs of project management and oversight. 
NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL 
RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make 
grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for 
activities associated with the Northeast Corridor as author-
ized by section 11101(a) of the Fixing America’s Surface 
Transportation Act (division A of Public Law 114–94), 
$328,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary may retain up to one-half of 1 
percent of the funds provided under both this heading and
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the National Network Grants to the National Railroad Pas-
senger Corporation heading to fund the costs of project man-
agement and oversight of activities authorized by section 
11101(c) of division A of Public Law 114–94: Provided fur-
ther, That in addition to the project management oversight 
funds authorized under section 11101(c) of division A of 
Public Law 114–94, the Secretary may retain up to an ad-
ditional $5,000,000 of the funds provided under this head-
ing to fund expenses associated with the Northeast Corridor 
Commission established under section 24905 of title 49, 
United States Code: Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading and the National Net-
work Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corpora-
tion heading, not less than $50,000,000 shall be made avail-
able to bring Amtrak-served facilities and stations into com-
pliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. 
NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD 
PASSENGER CORPORATION 
To enable the Secretary of Transportation to make 
grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation for 
activities associated with the National Network as author-
ized by section 11101(b) of the Fixing America’s Surface 
Transportation Act (division A of Public Law 114–94), 
$1,167,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary may retain up to an additional
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$2,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading to fund 
expenses associated with the State-Supported Route Com-
mittee established under 24712 of title 49, United States 
Code. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL RAILROAD 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 150. None of the funds provided to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation may be used to fund any 
overtime costs in excess of $35,000 for any individual em-
ployee: Provided, That the President of Amtrak may waive 
the cap set in the previous proviso for specific employees 
when the President of Amtrak determines such a cap poses 
a risk to the safety and operational efficiency of the system: 
Provided further, That the President of Amtrak shall report 
to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
each quarter within 30 days of such quarter of the calendar 
year on waivers granted to employees and amounts paid 
above the cap for each month within such quarter and de-
lineate the reasons each waiver was granted: Provided fur-
ther, That the President of Amtrak shall report to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations by March 1, 
2017, a summary of all overtime payments incurred by the 
Corporation for 2016 and the three prior calendar years: 
Provided further, That such summary shall include the total 
number of employees that received waivers and the total
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overtime payments the Corporation paid to those employees 
receiving waivers for each month for 2016 and for the three 
prior calendar years. 
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary administrative expenses of the Federal 
Transit Administration’s programs authorized by chapter 
53 of title 49, United States Code, $113,165,000: Provided, 
That none of the funds provided or limited in this Act may 
be used to create a permanent office of transit security 
under this heading: Provided further, That upon submission 
to the Congress of the fiscal year 2018 President’s budget, 
the Secretary of Transportation shall transmit to Congress 
the annual report on New Starts, including proposed allo-
cations for fiscal year 2018. 
TRANSIT FORMULA GRANTS 
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION) 
(LIMITATION ON OBLIGATIONS) 
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND) 
For payment of obligations incurred in the Federal 
Public Transportation Assistance Program in this account, 
and for payment of obligations incurred in carrying out 
the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 5305, 5307, 5310, 5311, 5312, 
5314, 5318, 5329(e)(6), 5335, 5337, 5339, and 5340, as 
amended by the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation
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GRANTS TO THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA 
TRANSIT AUTHORITY 
For grants to the Washington Metropolitan Area Tran-
sit Authority as authorized under section 601 of division 
B of Public Law 110–432, $150,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That the Secretary of Trans-
portation shall approve grants for capital and preventive 
maintenance expenditures for the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority only after receiving and reviewing 
a request for each specific project: Provided further, That 
prior to approving such grants, the Secretary shall certify 
that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 
is making progress to improve its safety management sys-
tem in response to the Federal Transit Administration’s 
2015 safety management inspection: Provided further, That 
prior to approving such grants, the Secretary shall certify 
that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority 
is making progress toward full implementation of the cor-
rective actions identified in the 2014 Financial Manage-
ment Oversight Review Report: Provided further, That the 
Secretary shall determine that the Washington Metropolitan 
Area Transit Authority has placed the highest priority on 
those investments that will improve the safety of the system 
before approving such grants: Provided further, That the 
Secretary, in order to ensure safety throughout the rail sys-
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tem, may waive the requirements of section 601(e)(1) of di-
vision B of Public Law 110–432 (112 Stat. 4968). 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—FEDERAL TRANSIT 
ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
SEC. 160. The limitations on obligations for the pro-
grams of the Federal Transit Administration shall not 
apply to any authority under 49 U.S.C. 5338, previously 
made available for obligation, or to any other authority pre-
viously made available for obligation. 
SEC. 161. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds appropriated or limited by this Act under the heading 
‘‘Fixed Guideway Capital Investment’’ of the Federal Tran-
sit Administration for projects specified in this Act or iden-
tified in reports accompanying this Act not obligated by 
September 30, 2021, and other recoveries, shall be directed 
to projects eligible to use the funds for the purposes for 
which they were originally provided. 
SEC. 162. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any funds appropriated before October 1, 2016, under any 
section of chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, that 
remain available for expenditure, may be transferred to and 
administered under the most recent appropriation heading 
for any such section.
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SEC. 163. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
none of the funds in this or any other Act may be available 
to advance in any way a new light or heavy rail project 
towards a full funding grant agreement as defined by 49 
U.S.C. 5309 for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Har-
ris County, Texas if the proposed capital project is con-
structed on or planned to be constructed on Richmond Ave-
nue west of South Shepherd Drive or on Post Oak Boule-
vard north of Richmond Avenue in Houston, Texas. 
(b) The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris 
County, Texas, may attempt to construct or construct a new 
fixed guideway capital project, including light rail, in the 
locations referred to in subsection (a) if— 
(1) voters in the jurisdiction that includes such 
locations approve a ballot proposition that specifies 
routes on Richmond Avenue west of South Shepherd 
Drive or on Post Oak Boulevard north of Richmond 
Avenue in Houston, Texas; and 
(2) the proposed construction of such routes is 
part of a comprehensive, multi-modal, service-area 
wide transportation plan that includes multiple addi-
tional segments of fixed guideway capital projects, in-
cluding light rail for the jurisdiction set forth in the 
ballot proposition. The ballot language shall include 
reasonable cost estimates, sources of revenue to be used
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and the total amount of bonded indebtedness to be in-
curred as well as a description of each route and the 
beginning and end point of each proposed transit 
project. 
SEC. 164. Any unobligated amounts made available 
for fiscal year 2012 or prior fiscal years to carry out the 
discretionary job access and reverse commute program 
under section 3037 of the transportation equity act for the 
21st century are hereby rescinded: Provided, That such 
amounts are made available for projects eligible under 49 
U.S.C. 5309(q). 
SEC. 165. Section 5307(a) of title 49, United States 
Code, is amended by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) The Secretary may make grants under this 
section to finance the operating cost of equipment and 
facilities for use in public transportation, excluding 
rail fixed guideway, in an urbanized area with a 
population of not fewer than 200,000 individuals, as 
determined by the Bureau of the Census— 
‘‘(A) for public transportation systems 
that— 
‘‘(i) operate 75 or fewer buses in fixed 
route service or demand response service, ex-
cluding ADA complementary paratransit
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service, during peak service hours, in an 
amount not to exceed 75 percent of the share 
of the apportionment which is attributable 
to such systems within the urbanized area, 
as measured by vehicle revenue hours; or 
‘‘(ii) operate a minimum of 76 buses 
and a maximum of 100 buses in fixed route 
service or demand response service, exclud-
ing ADA complementary paratransit serv-
ice, during peak service hours, in an 
amount not to exceed 50 percent of the share 
of the apportionment which is attributable 
to such systems within the urbanized area, 
as measured by vehicle revenue hours; or 
‘‘(B) subject to paragraph (3), for public 
transportation systems that— 
‘‘(i) operate 75 or fewer buses in fixed 
route service or demand response service, ex-
cluding ADA complementary paratransit 
service, during peak service hours, in an 
amount not to exceed 75 percent of the share 
of the apportionment allocated to such sys-
tems within the urbanized area, as deter-
mined by the local planning process and in-
cluded in the designated recipient’s final
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program of projects prepared under sub-
section (b); or 
‘‘(ii) operate a minimum of 76 buses 
and a maximum of 100 buses in fixed route 
service or demand response service, exclud-
ing ADA complementary paratransit service 
during peak service hours, in an amount 
not to exceed 50 percent of the share of the 
apportionment allocated to such systems 
within the urbanized area, as determined by 
the local planning process and included in 
the designated recipient’s final program of 
projects prepared under subsection (b). 
‘‘(3) The amount available to a public transpor-
tation system under subparagraph (B) of paragraph 
(2) shall be not more than 10 percent greater than the 
amount that would otherwise be available to the sys-
tem under subparagraph (A) of that paragraph.’’. 
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corpora-
tion is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within 
the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to 
the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make such 
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year 
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government
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Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary 
in carrying out the programs set forth in the Corporation’s 
budget for the current fiscal year. 
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE 
(HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND) 
For necessary expenses to conduct the operations, 
maintenance, and capital asset renewal activities of those 
portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway owned, operated, and 
maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development 
Corporation, $36,028,000, to be derived from the Harbor 
Maintenance Trust Fund, pursuant to Public Law 99–662. 
MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
MARITIME SECURITY PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to maintain and preserve a 
U.S.-flag merchant fleet to serve the national security needs 
of the United States, $300,000,000, to remain available 
until expended. 
OPERATIONS AND TRAINING 
For necessary expenses of operations and training ac-
tivities authorized by law, $175,560,000, of which 
$22,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
maintenance and repair of training ships at State Mari-
time Academies, and of which $6,000,000 shall remain 
available until expended for National Security Multi-Mis-
sion Vessel Program for State Maritime Academies and Na-
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tional Security, and of which $2,400,000 shall remain 
available through September 30, 2018, for the Student In-
centive Program at State Maritime Academies, and of 
which $1,800,000 shall remain available until expended for 
training ship fuel assistance payments, and of which 
$14,218,000 shall remain available until expended for fa-
cilities maintenance and repair, equipment, and capital 
improvements at the United States Merchant Marine Acad-
emy, and of which $3,000,000 shall remain available 
through September 30, 2018, for Maritime Environment 
and Technology Assistance program authorized under sec-
tion 50307 of title 46, United States Code, and of which 
$5,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the 
Short Sea Transportation Program (America’s Marine 
Highways) to make grants for the purposes authorized 
under sections 55601(b)(1) and (3) of title 46, United States 
Code: Provided, That not later than January 12, 2018, the 
Administrator of the Maritime Administration shall trans-
mit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
the annual report on sexual assault and sexual harassment 
at the United States Merchant Marine Academy as required 
pursuant to section 3507 of Public Law 110–417. 
ASSISTANCE TO SMALL SHIPYARDS 
To make grants to qualified shipyards as authorized 
under section 54101 of title 46, United States Code, as
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amended by Public Law 113–281, $10,000,000 to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary shall 
issue the Notice of Funding Availability no later than 15 
days after enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
from applications submitted under the previous proviso, the 
Secretary of Transportation shall make grants no later than 
120 days after enactment of this Act in such amounts as 
the Secretary determines: Provided further, That not to ex-
ceed 2 percent of the funds appropriated under this heading 
shall be available for necessary costs of grant administra-
tion. 
SHIP DISPOSAL 
For necessary expenses related to the disposal of obso-
lete vessels in the National Defense Reserve Fleet of the Mar-
itime Administration, $34,000,000, to remain available 
until expended, of which $24,000,000 shall be for the decom-
missioning of the Nuclear Ship Savannah. 
MARITIME GUARANTEED LOAN (TITLE XI) PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For administrative expenses to carry out the guaran-
teed loan program, $3,000,000, which shall be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriations for ‘‘Operations and 
Training’’, Maritime Administration.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—MARITIME ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 170. Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
Act, in addition to any existing authority, the Maritime 
Administration is authorized to furnish utilities and serv-
ices and make necessary repairs in connection with any 
lease, contract, or occupancy involving Government prop-
erty under control of the Maritime Administration: Pro-
vided, That payments received therefor shall be credited to 
the appropriation charged with the cost thereof and shall 
remain available until expended: Provided further, That 
rental payments under any such lease, contract, or occu-
pancy for items other than such utilities, services, or repairs 
shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. 
SEC. 171. None of the funds available or appropriated 
in this Act shall be used by the United States Department 
of Transportation or the United States Maritime Adminis-
tration to negotiate or otherwise execute, enter into, facili-
tate or perform fee-for-service contracts for vessel disposal, 
scrapping or recycling, unless there is no qualified domestic 
ship recycler that will pay any sum of money to purchase 
and scrap or recycle a vessel owned, operated or managed 
by the Maritime Administration or that is part of the Na-
tional Defense Reserve Fleet: Provided, That such sales of-
fers must be consistent with the solicitation and provide 
that the work will be performed in a timely manner at a
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facility qualified within the meaning of section 3502 of 
Public Law 106–398: Provided further, That nothing con-
tained herein shall affect the Maritime Administration’s 
authority to award contracts at least cost to the Federal 
Government and consistent with the requirements of 54 
U.S.C. 308704, section 3502, or otherwise authorized under 
the Federal Acquisition Regulation. 
PIPELINE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY 
ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONAL EXPENSES 
For necessary operational expenses of the Pipeline and 
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, $22,500,000: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Transportation shall issue 
a final rule to expand the applicability of comprehensive 
oil spill response plans no later than August 1, 2017: Pro-
vided further, That $1,500,000 shall be for ‘‘Pipeline Safety 
Information Grants to Communities’’ as authorized under 
section 60130 of title 49, United States Code. 
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SAFETY 
For expenses necessary to discharge the hazardous ma-
terials safety functions of the Pipeline and Hazardous Ma-
terials Safety Administration, $57,000,000, of which 
$7,570,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2019: Provided, That up to $800,000 in fees collected under 
49 U.S.C. 5108(g) shall be deposited in the general fund
1476 
of the Treasury as offsetting receipts: Provided further, That 
there may be credited to this appropriation, to be available 
until expended, funds received from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources 
for expenses incurred for training, for reports publication 
and dissemination, and for travel expenses incurred in per-
formance of hazardous materials exemptions and approvals 
functions. 
PIPELINE SAFETY 
(PIPELINE SAFETY FUND) 
(OIL SPILL LIABILITY TRUST FUND) 
For expenses necessary to conduct the functions of the 
pipeline safety program, for grants-in-aid to carry out a 
pipeline safety program, as authorized by 49 U.S.C. 60107, 
and to discharge the pipeline program responsibilities of 
the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, $156,288,000, of which 
$20,288,000 shall be derived from the Oil Spill Liability 
Trust Fund and shall remain available until September 30, 
2019; and of which $128,000,000 shall be derived from the 
Pipeline Safety Fund, of which $63,335,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2019; and of which 
$8,000,000 shall be derived from the Pipeline Safety Fund 
as provided in 49 U.S.C. 60302 (section 12 of the PIPES 
Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–183)) from the Underground 
Natural Gas Storage Facility Safety Account for the pur-
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pose of carrying out 49 U.S.C. 60141 of such Act (section 
12 of the PIPES Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–183)), of 
which $6,000,000 shall remain available until September 
30, 2019: Provided, That not less than $1,058,000 of the 
funds provided under this heading shall be for the One-Call 
State grant program. 
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS GRANTS 
(EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND) 
Notwithstanding the fiscal year limitation specified in 
49 U.S.C. 5116, not more than $28,318,000 shall be made 
available for obligation in fiscal year 2017 from amounts 
made available by 49 U.S.C. 5116(h), and 5128(b) and (c): 
Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5116(h)(4), not 
more than 4 percent of the amounts made available from 
this account shall be available to pay administrative costs: 
Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
by 49 U.S.C. 5116(h), 5128(b), or 5128(c) shall be made 
available for obligation by individuals other than the Sec-
retary of Transportation, or his or her designee: Provided 
further, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 5128(b) and (c) 
and the current year obligation limitation, prior year re-
coveries recognized in the current year shall be available 
to develop a hazardous materials response training cur-
riculum for emergency responders, including response ac-
tivities for the transportation of crude oil, ethanol and other
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flammable liquids by rail, consistent with National Fire 
Protection Association standards, and to make such train-
ing available through an electronic format: Provided fur-
ther, That the prior year recoveries made available under 
this heading shall also be available to carry out 49 U.S.C. 
5116(a)(1)(C) and 5116(i). 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector 
General to carry out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, as amended, $90,152,000: Provided, That the 
Inspector 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 Department of Transportation: Provided 
further, That the funds made available under this heading 
may be used to investigate, pursuant to section 41712 of 
title 49, United States Code: (1) unfair or deceptive prac-
tices and unfair methods of competition by domestic and 
foreign air carriers and ticket agents; and (2) the compli-
ance of domestic and foreign air carriers with respect to 
item (1) of this proviso.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF 
TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 180. (a) During the current fiscal year, applica-
ble appropriations to the Department of Transportation 
shall be available for maintenance and operation of air-
craft; hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; pur-
chase of liability insurance for motor vehicles operating in 
foreign countries on official department business; and uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902). 
(b) During the current fiscal year, applicable appro-
priations to the Department and its operating administra-
tions shall be available for the purchase, maintenance, oper-
ation, and deployment of unmanned aircraft systems that 
advance the Department’s, or its operating administra-
tions’, missions. 
(c) Any unmanned aircraft system purchased or pro-
cured by the Department prior to the enactment of this Act 
shall be deemed authorized. 
SEC. 181. Appropriations contained in this Act for the 
Department of Transportation shall be available for 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 
an Executive Level IV.
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SEC. 182. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political 
and Presidential appointees in the Department of Trans-
portation: Provided, That none of the personnel covered by 
this provision may be assigned on temporary detail outside 
the Department of Transportation. 
SEC. 183. (a) No recipient of funds made available in 
this Act shall disseminate personal information (as defined 
in 18 U.S.C. 2725(3)) obtained by a State department of 
motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle record 
as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as provided in 18 
U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 2721. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
not withhold funds provided in this Act for any grantee 
if a State is in noncompliance with this provision. 
SEC. 184. Funds received by the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration and Federal Railroad Administration from 
States, counties, municipalities, other public authorities, 
and private sources for expenses incurred for training may 
be credited respectively to the Federal Highway Adminis-
tration’s ‘‘Federal-Aid Highways’’ account and to the Fed-
eral Railroad Administration’s ‘‘Safety and Operations’’ 
account, except for State rail safety inspectors participating 
in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 20105.
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SEC. 185. (a) None of the funds provided in this Act 
to the Department of Transportation may be used to make 
a loan, loan guarantee, line of credit, or discretionary grant 
totaling $500,000 or more unless the Secretary of Transpor-
tation notifies the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations not less than 3 full business days before any 
project competitively selected to receive any discretionary 
grant award, letter of intent, loan commitment, loan guar-
antee commitment, line of credit commitment, or full fund-
ing grant agreement is announced by the Department or 
its modal administrations: Provided, That the Secretary 
gives concurrent notification to the House and Senate Com-
mittees on Appropriations for any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds 
from the emergency relief program: Provided further, That 
no notification shall involve funds that are not available 
for obligation. 
(b) In addition to the notification required in sub-
section (a), none of the funds made available in this Act 
to the Department of Transportation may be used to make 
a loan, loan guarantee, line of credit, or discretionary grant 
unless the Secretary of Transportation provides the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations a comprehensive 
list of all such loans, loan guarantees, lines of credit, or 
discretionary grants that will be announced not less the 3 
full business days before such announcement: Provided,
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That the requirement to provide a list in this subsection 
does not apply to any ‘‘quick release’’ of funds from the 
emergency relief program: Provided further, That no list 
shall involve funds that are not available for obligation. 
SEC. 186. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, minor 
fees and other funds received by the Department of Trans-
portation from travel management centers, charge card pro-
grams, the subleasing of building space, and miscellaneous 
sources are to be credited to appropriations of the Depart-
ment of Transportation and allocated to elements of the De-
partment of Transportation using fair and equitable cri-
teria and such funds shall be available until expended. 
SEC. 187. Amounts made available in this or any other 
Act that the Secretary determines represent improper pay-
ments by the Department of Transportation to a third- 
party contractor under a financial assistance award, which 
are recovered pursuant to law, shall be available— 
(1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred by 
the Department of Transportation in recovering im-
proper payments; and 
(2) to pay contractors for services provided in re-
covering improper payments or contractor support in 
the implementation of the Improper Payments Infor-
mation Act of 2002: Provided, That amounts in excess 
of that required for paragraphs (1) and (2)—
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(A) shall be credited to and merged with the 
appropriation from which the improper pay-
ments were made, and shall be available for the 
purposes and period for which such appropria-
tions are available: Provided further, That where 
specific project or accounting information associ-
ated with the improper payment or payments is 
not readily available, the Secretary may credit 
an appropriate account, which shall be available 
for the purposes and period associated with the 
account so credited; or 
(B) if no such appropriation remains avail-
able, shall be deposited in the Treasury as mis-
cellaneous receipts: Provided further, That prior 
to the transfer of any such recovery to an appro-
priations account, the Secretary shall notify the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions of the amount and reasons for such trans-
fer: Provided further, That for purposes of this 
section, the term ‘‘improper payments’’ has the 
same meaning as that provided in section 
2(d)(2) of Public Law 107–300. 
SEC. 188. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
if any funds provided in or limited by this Act are subject 
to a reprogramming action that requires notice to be pro-
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vided to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions, transmission of said reprogramming notice shall be 
provided solely to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations, and said reprogramming action shall be ap-
proved or denied solely by the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations: Provided, That the Secretary of 
Transportation may provide notice to other congressional 
committees of the action of the House and Senate Commit-
tees on Appropriations on such reprogramming but not 
sooner than 30 days following the date on which the re-
programming action has been approved or denied by the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 189. Funds appropriated in this Act to the modal 
administrations may be obligated for the Office of the Sec-
retary for the costs related to assessments or reimbursable 
agreements only when such amounts are for the costs of 
goods and services that are purchased to provide a direct 
benefit to the applicable modal administration or adminis-
trations. 
SEC. 190. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to carry out a program that establishes uniform stand-
ards for developing and supporting agency transit pass and 
transit benefits authorized under section 7905 of title 5, 
United States Code, including distribution of transit bene-
fits by various paper and electronic media.
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SEC. 191. The Department of Transportation may use 
funds provided by this Act, or any other Act, to assist a 
contract under title 49 U.S.C. or title 23 U.S.C. utilizing 
geographic, economic, or any other hiring preference not 
otherwise authorized by law, or to amend a rule, regulation, 
policy or other measure that forbids a recipient of a Federal 
Highway Administration or Federal Transit Administra-
tion grant from imposing such hiring preference on a con-
tract or construction project with which the Department of 
Transportation is assisting, only if the grant recipient cer-
tifies the following: 
(1) that except with respect to apprentices or 
trainees, a pool of readily available but unemployed 
individuals possessing the knowledge, skill, and abil-
ity to perform the work that the contract requires re-
sides in the jurisdiction; 
(2) that the grant recipient will include appro-
priate provisions in its bid document ensuring that 
the contractor does not displace any of its existing 
employees in order to satisfy such hiring preference; 
and 
(3) that any increase in the cost of labor, train-
ing, or delays resulting from the use of such hiring 
preference does not delay or displace any transpor-
tation project in the applicable Statewide Transpor-
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tation Improvement Program or Transportation Im-
provement Program. 
SEC. 192. Section 5303(r)(2)(C) of title 49, United 
States Code, is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘and 25 square miles of land 
area’’ after ‘‘145,000’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘and 12 square miles of land 
area’’ after ‘‘65,000’’. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Trans-
portation Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN 
DEVELOPMENT 
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION 
EXECUTIVE OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Executive Of-
fices, which shall be comprised of the offices of the Secretary, 
Deputy Secretary, Adjudicatory Services, Congressional 
and Intergovernmental Relations, Public Affairs, Small 
and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, and the Center for 
Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, $14,000,000: 
Provided, That not to exceed $25,000 of the amount made 
available under this heading shall be available to the Sec-
retary for official reception and representation expenses as 
the Secretary may determine.
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ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative 
Support Offices, $517,647,000, of which $53,000,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer; 
$95,250,000 shall be available for the Office of the General 
Counsel; $206,500,000 shall be available for the Office of 
Administration, and of which, no less than $4,500,000 shall 
be available for the cost of consolidation and reconfigura-
tion of space in the Weaver Building in accordance with 
the space consolidation plan which would bring employees 
back into such Building and reduce the amount of leased 
space for such employees outside of such Building; 
$40,250,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Human Capital Officer; $51,000,000 shall be available for 
the Office of Field Policy and Management; $18,067,000 
shall be available for the Office of the Chief Procurement 
Officer; $3,830,000 shall be available for the Office of De-
partmental Equal Employment Opportunity; $4,500,000 
shall be available for the Office of Strategic Planning and 
Management; and $45,250,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of the Chief Information Officer: Provided, That funds 
provided under this heading may be used for necessary ad-
ministrative and non-administrative expenses of the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development, not other-
wise provided for, including purchase of uniforms, or allow-
1488 
ances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, funds appropriated under this head-
ing may be used for advertising and promotional activities 
that directly support program activities funded in this title: 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall provide the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations quarterly 
written notification regarding the status of pending con-
gressional reports: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall provide in electronic form all signed reports required 
by Congress. 
PROGRAM OFFICE SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Public and Indian Housing, $216,000,000. 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Community Planning and Development, $110,000,000. 
HOUSING 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Housing, $392,000,000. 
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Policy Development and Research, $24,000,000.
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FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, $72,000,000. 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL AND HEALTHY HOMES 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of 
Lead Hazard Control and Healthy Homes, $9,353,000. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the working capital fund for the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development (referred to in this para-
graph as the ‘‘Fund’’), pursuant, in part, to section 7(f) 
of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act 
(42 U.S.C. 3535(f)), amounts transferred to the Fund under 
this heading shall be available for Federal shared services 
used by offices and agencies of the Department, and for such 
portion of any office or agency’s printing, records manage-
ment, space renovation, furniture, or supply services as the 
Secretary determines shall be derived from centralized 
sources made available by the Department to all offices and 
agencies and funded through the Fund: Provided, That of 
the amounts made available in this title for salaries and 
expenses under the headings ‘‘Executive Offices’’, ‘‘Adminis-
trative Support Offices’’, ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, and ‘‘Government National Mortgage Association’’, 
the Secretary shall transfer to the Fund such amounts, to
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remain available until expended, as are necessary to fund 
services, specified in the first proviso, for which the appro-
priation would otherwise have been available, and may 
transfer not to exceed an additional $10,000,000, in aggre-
gate, from all such appropriations, to be merged with the 
Fund and to remain available until expended for use for 
any office or agency: Provided further, That amounts in 
the Fund shall be the only amounts available to each office 
or agency of the Department for the services, or portion of 
services, specified in the first proviso: Provided further, 
That with respect to the Fund, the authorities and condi-
tions under this heading shall supplement the authorities 
and conditions provided under section 7(f). 
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING 
TENANT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of ten-
ant-based rental assistance authorized under the United 
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437 
et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’ herein), not otherwise provided for, 
$16,292,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available on October 1, 2016 (in addition to the 
$4,000,000,000 previously appropriated under this heading 
that shall be available on October 1, 2016), and 
$4,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be available on October 1, 2017: Provided, That the
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amounts made available under this heading are provided 
as follows: 
(1) $18,355,000,000 shall be available for renew-
als of expiring section 8 tenant-based annual con-
tributions contracts (including renewals of enhanced 
vouchers under any provision of law authorizing such 
assistance under section 8(t) of the Act) and includ-
ing renewal of other special purpose incremental 
vouchers: Provided, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, from amounts provided under this 
paragraph and any carryover, the Secretary for the 
calendar year 2017 funding cycle shall provide re-
newal funding for each public housing agency based 
on validated voucher management system (VMS) leas-
ing and cost data for the prior calendar year and by 
applying an inflation factor as established by the Sec-
retary, by notice published in the Federal Register, 
and by making any necessary adjustments for the 
costs associated with the first-time renewal of vouch-
ers under this paragraph including tenant protection, 
HOPE VI, and Choice Neighborhoods vouchers: Pro-
vided further, That none of the funds provided under 
this paragraph may be used to fund a total number 
of unit months under lease which exceeds a public 
housing agency’s authorized level of units under con-
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tract, except for public housing agencies participating 
in the MTW demonstration, which are instead gov-
erned by the terms and conditions of their MTW 
agreements: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall, to the extent necessary to stay within the 
amount specified under this paragraph (except as oth-
erwise modified under this paragraph), prorate each 
public housing agency’s allocation otherwise estab-
lished pursuant to this paragraph: Provided further, 
That except as provided in the following provisos, the 
entire amount specified under this paragraph (except 
as otherwise modified under this paragraph) shall be 
obligated to the public housing agencies based on the 
allocation and pro rata method described above, and 
the Secretary shall notify public housing agencies of 
their annual budget by the latter of 60 days after en-
actment of this Act or March 1, 2017: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may extend the notification 
period with the prior written approval of the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
further, That public housing agencies participating in 
the MTW demonstration shall be funded pursuant to 
their MTW agreements and shall be subject to the 
same pro rata adjustments under the previous pro-
visos: Provided further, That the Secretary may offset
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public housing agencies’ calendar year 2017 alloca-
tions based on the excess amounts of public housing 
agencies’ net restricted assets accounts, including 
HUD held programmatic reserves (in accordance with 
VMS data in calendar year 2016 that is verifiable 
and complete), as determined by the Secretary: Pro-
vided further, That public housing agencies partici-
pating in the MTW demonstration shall also be sub-
ject to the offset, as determined by the Secretary, ex-
cluding amounts subject to the single fund budget au-
thority provisions of their MTW agreements, from the 
agencies’ calendar year 2017 MTW funding alloca-
tion: Provided further, That the Secretary shall use 
any offset referred to in the previous two provisos 
throughout the calendar year to prevent the termi-
nation of rental assistance for families as the result 
of insufficient funding, as determined by the Sec-
retary, and to avoid or reduce the proration of re-
newal funding allocations: Provided further, That up 
to $75,000,000 shall be available only: (1) for adjust-
ments in the allocations for public housing agencies, 
after application for an adjustment by a public hous-
ing agency that experienced a significant increase, as 
determined by the Secretary, in renewal costs of 
vouchers resulting from unforeseen circumstances or
1494 
from portability under section 8(r) of the Act; (2) for 
vouchers that were not in use during the previous 12- 
month period in order to be available to meet a com-
mitment pursuant to section 8(o)(13) of the Act; (3) 
for adjustments for costs associated with HUD-Vet-
erans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD–VASH) 
vouchers; and (4) for public housing agencies that de-
spite taking reasonable cost savings measures, as de-
termined by the Secretary, would otherwise be re-
quired to terminate rental assistance for families as 
a result of insufficient funding: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall allocate amounts under the 
previous proviso based on need, as determined by the 
Secretary; 
(2) $110,000,000 shall be for section 8 rental as-
sistance for relocation and replacement of housing 
units that are demolished or disposed of pursuant to 
section 18 of the Act, conversion of section 23 projects 
to assistance under section 8, the family unification 
program under section 8(x) of the Act, relocation of 
witnesses in connection with efforts to combat crime 
in public and assisted housing pursuant to a request 
from a law enforcement or prosecution agency, en-
hanced vouchers under any provision of law author-
izing such assistance under section 8(t) of the Act,
1495 
HOPE VI and Choice Neighborhood vouchers, manda-
tory and voluntary conversions, and tenant protection 
assistance including replacement and relocation as-
sistance or for project-based assistance to prevent the 
displacement of unassisted elderly tenants currently 
residing in section 202 properties financed between 
1959 and 1974 that are refinanced pursuant to Pub-
lic Law 106–569, as amended, or under the authority 
as provided under this Act: Provided, That when a 
public housing development is submitted for demoli-
tion or disposition under section 18 of the Act, the 
Secretary may provide section 8 rental assistance 
when the units pose an imminent health and safety 
risk to residents: Provided further, That the Secretary 
may only provide replacement vouchers for units that 
were occupied within the previous 24 months that 
cease to be available as assisted housing, subject only 
to the availability of funds: Provided further, That of 
the amounts made available under this paragraph, 
$5,000,000 may be available to provide tenant protec-
tion assistance, not otherwise provided under this 
paragraph, to residents residing in low vacancy areas 
and who may have to pay rents greater than 30 per-
cent of household income, as the result of: (A) the ma-
turity of a HUD-insured, HUD-held or section 202
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loan that requires the permission of the Secretary 
prior to loan prepayment; (B) the expiration of a 
rental assistance contract for which the tenants are 
not eligible for enhanced voucher or tenant protection 
assistance under existing law; or (C) the expiration of 
affordability restrictions accompanying a mortgage or 
preservation program administered by the Secretary: 
Provided further, That such tenant protection assist-
ance made available under the previous proviso may 
be provided under the authority of section 8(t) or sec-
tion 8(o)(13) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(t)): Provided further, That 
any tenant protection voucher made available from 
amounts under this paragraph shall not be reissued 
by any public housing agency, except the replacement 
vouchers as defined by the Secretary by notice, when 
the initial family that received any such voucher no 
longer receives such voucher, and the authority for 
any public housing agency to issue any such voucher 
shall cease to exist: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may provide section 8 rental assistance from 
amounts made available under this paragraph for 
units assisted under a project-based subsidy contract 
funded under the ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’ 
heading under this title where the owner has received
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a Notice of Default and the units pose an imminent 
health and safety risk to residents: Provided further, 
That to the extent that the Secretary determines that 
such units are not feasible for continued rental assist-
ance payments or transfer of the subsidy contract as-
sociated with such units to another project or projects 
and owner or owners, any remaining amounts associ-
ated with such units under such contract shall be re-
captured and used to reimburse amounts used under 
this paragraph for rental assistance under the pre-
ceding proviso; 
(3) $1,650,000,000 shall be for administrative 
and other expenses of public housing agencies in ad-
ministering the section 8 tenant-based rental assist-
ance program, of which up to $10,000,000 shall be 
available to the Secretary to allocate to public hous-
ing agencies that need additional funds to administer 
their section 8 programs, including fees associated 
with section 8 tenant protection rental assistance, the 
administration of disaster related vouchers, Veterans 
Affairs Supportive Housing vouchers, and other spe-
cial purpose incremental vouchers: Provided, That no 
less than $1,640,000,000 of the amount provided in 
this paragraph shall be allocated to public housing 
agencies for the calendar year 2017 funding cycle
1498 
based on section 8(q) of the Act (and related Appro-
priation Act provisions) as in effect immediately be-
fore the enactment of the Quality Housing and Work 
Responsibility Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–276): 
Provided further, That if the amounts made available 
under this paragraph are insufficient to pay the 
amounts determined under the previous proviso, the 
Secretary may decrease the amounts allocated to 
agencies by a uniform percentage applicable to all 
agencies receiving funding under this paragraph or 
may, to the extent necessary to provide full payment 
of amounts determined under the previous proviso, 
utilize unobligated balances, including recaptures and 
carryovers, remaining from funds appropriated to the 
Department of Housing and Urban Development 
under this heading from prior fiscal years, excluding 
special purpose vouchers, notwithstanding the pur-
poses for which such amounts were appropriated: Pro-
vided further, That all public housing agencies par-
ticipating in the MTW demonstration shall be funded 
pursuant to their MTW agreements, and shall be sub-
ject to the same uniform percentage decrease as under 
the previous proviso: Provided further, That amounts 
provided under this paragraph shall be only for ac-
tivities related to the provision of tenant-based rental
1499 
assistance authorized under section 8, including re-
lated development activities; 
(4) $120,000,000 for the renewal of tenant-based 
assistance contracts under section 811 of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 
U.S.C. 8013), including necessary administrative ex-
penses: Provided, That administrative and other ex-
penses of public housing agencies in administering 
the special purpose vouchers in this paragraph shall 
be funded under the same terms and be subject to the 
same pro rata reduction as the percent decrease for 
administrative and other expenses to public housing 
agencies under paragraph (3) of this heading: Pro-
vided further, That any amounts provided under this 
paragraph in this Act or prior Acts, remaining avail-
able after funding renewals and administrative ex-
penses under this paragraph, shall be available for in-
cremental tenant-based assistance contracts under 
such section 811, including necessary administrative 
expenses; 
(5) $7,000,000 shall be for rental assistance and 
associated administrative fees for Tribal HUD–VA 
Supportive Housing to serve Native American vet-
erans that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness liv-
ing on or near a reservation or other Indian areas:
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Provided, That such amount shall be made available 
for renewal grants to the recipients that received as-
sistance under the rental assistance and supportive 
housing demonstration program for Native American 
veterans authorized under the heading ‘‘Tenant-Based 
Rental Assistance’’ in title II of division K of the 
Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations 
Act, 2015 (Public Law 113–235, 128 Stat. 2733): 
Provided further, That the Secretary shall be author-
ized to specify criteria for renewal grants, including 
data on the utilization of assistance reported by grant 
recipients under the demonstration program: Pro-
vided further, That any amounts remaining after 
such renewal assistance is awarded may be available 
for new grants to recipients eligible to receive block 
grants under the Native American Housing Assist-
ance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 
section 4101 et seq.) for rental assistance and associ-
ated administrative fees for Tribal HUD–VA Sup-
portive Housing to serve Native American veterans 
that are homeless or at-risk of homelessness living on 
or near a reservation or other Indian areas: Provided 
further, That funds shall be awarded based on need, 
and administrative capacity established by the Sec-
retary in a Notice published in the Federal Register
1501 
after coordination with the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs: Provided further, That re-
newal grants and new grants under this paragraph 
shall be administered by block grant recipients in ac-
cordance with program requirements under the Native 
American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination 
Act of 1996: Provided further, That assistance under 
this paragraph shall be modeled after, with necessary 
and appropriate adjustments for Native American 
grant recipients and veterans, the rental assistance 
and supportive housing program known as HUD– 
VASH program, including administration in con-
junction with the Department of Veterans Affairs and 
overall implementation of section 8(o)(19) of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937: Provided further, 
That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment may waive, or specify alternative requirements 
for any provision of any statute or regulation that the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development ad-
ministers in connection with the use of funds made 
available under this paragraph (except for require-
ments related to fair housing, nondiscrimination, 
labor standards, and the environment), upon a find-
ing by the Secretary that any such waivers or alter-
native requirements are necessary for the effective de-
1502 
livery and administration of such assistance: Pro-
vided further, That grant recipients shall report to the 
Secretary on utilization of such rental assistance and 
other program data, as prescribed by the Secretary; 
(6) $40,000,000 for incremental rental voucher 
assistance for use through a supported housing pro-
gram administered in conjunction with the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs as authorized under section 
8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development shall make such funding available, not-
withstanding section 204 (competition provision) of 
this title, to public housing agencies that partner with 
eligible VA Medical Centers or other entities as des-
ignated by the Secretary of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs, based on geographical need for such as-
sistance as identified by the Secretary of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs, public housing agency ad-
ministrative performance, and other factors as speci-
fied by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment in consultation with the Secretary of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs: Provided further, That 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development 
may waive, or specify alternative requirements for (in 
consultation with the Secretary of the Department of
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Veterans Affairs), any provision of any statute or reg-
ulation that the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment administers in connection with the use of 
funds made available under this paragraph (except 
for requirements related to fair housing, non-
discrimination, labor standards, and the environ-
ment), upon a finding by the Secretary that any such 
waivers or alternative requirements are necessary for 
the effective delivery and administration of such 
voucher assistance: Provided further, That assistance 
made available under this paragraph shall continue 
to remain available for homeless veterans upon turn- 
over; 
(7) $10,000,000 shall be made available for new 
incremental voucher assistance through the family 
unification program as authorized by section 8(x) of 
the Act: Provided, That the assistance made available 
under this paragraph shall continue to remain avail-
able for family unification upon turnover: Provided 
further, That for any public housing agency admin-
istering voucher assistance appropriated in a prior 
Act under the family unification program that deter-
mines that it no longer has an identified need for 
such assistance upon turnover, such agency shall no-
tify the Secretary, and the Secretary shall recapture
1504 
such assistance from the agency and reallocate it to 
any other public housing agency or agencies based on 
need for voucher assistance in connection with such 
program; and 
(8) the Secretary shall separately track all spe-
cial purpose vouchers funded under this heading. 
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
Unobligated balances, including recaptures and carry-
over, remaining from funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development under this head-
ing, the heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Hous-
ing’’ and the heading ‘‘Project-Based Rental Assistance’’, 
for fiscal year 2017 and prior years may be used for re-
newal of or amendments to section 8 project-based contracts 
and for performance-based contract administrators, not-
withstanding the purposes for which such funds were appro-
priated: Provided, That any obligated balances of contract 
authority from fiscal year 1974 and prior that have been 
terminated shall be rescinded: Provided further, That 
amounts heretofore recaptured, or recaptured during the 
current fiscal year, from section 8 project-based contracts 
from source years fiscal year 1975 through fiscal year 1987 
are hereby rescinded, and an amount of additional new 
budget authority, equivalent to the amount rescinded is
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hereby appropriated, to remain available until expended, 
for the purposes set forth under this heading, in addition 
to amounts otherwise available. 
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND 
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to 
carry out capital and management activities for public 
housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g) (the 
‘‘Act’’) $1,941,500,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2020: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law or regulation, during fiscal year 2017, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may not dele-
gate to any Department official other than the Deputy Sec-
retary and the Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian 
Housing any authority under paragraph (2) of section 9(j) 
regarding the extension of the time periods under such sec-
tion: Provided further, That for purposes of such section 
9(j), the term ‘‘obligate’’ means, with respect to amounts, 
that the amounts are subject to a binding agreement that 
will result in outlays, immediately or in the future: Pro-
vided further, That up to $10,000,000 shall be to support 
ongoing public housing financial and physical assessment 
activities: Provided further, That up to $1,000,000 shall be 
to support the costs of administrative and judicial receiver-
ships: Provided further, That of the total amount provided
1506 
under this heading, not to exceed $21,500,000 shall be avail-
able for the Secretary to make grants, notwithstanding sec-
tion 204 of this Act, to public housing agencies for emer-
gency capital needs including safety and security measures 
necessary to address crime and drug-related activity as well 
as needs resulting from unforeseen or unpreventable emer-
gencies and natural disasters excluding Presidentially de-
clared emergencies and natural disasters under the Robert 
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Act (42 U.S.C. 
5121 et seq.) occurring in fiscal year 2017: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amount made available under the previous 
proviso, not less than $5,000,000 shall be for safety and se-
curity measures: Provided further, That in addition to the 
amount in the previous proviso for such safety and security 
measures, any amounts that remain available, after all ap-
plications received on or before September 30, 2018, for 
emergency capital needs have been processed, shall be allo-
cated to public housing agencies for such safety and security 
measures: Provided further, That of the total amount pro-
vided under this heading $35,000,000 shall be for sup-
portive services, service coordinator and congregate services 
as authorized by section 34 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437z– 
6) and the Native American Housing Assistance and Self- 
Determination Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 4101 et seq.): Pro-
vided further, That of the total amount made available
1507 
under this heading, $15,000,000 shall be for a Jobs-Plus 
initiative modeled after the Jobs-Plus demonstration: Pro-
vided further, That the funding provided under the previous 
proviso shall provide competitive grants to partnerships be-
tween public housing authorities, local workforce investment 
boards established under section 117 of the Workforce In-
vestment Act of 1998, and other agencies and organizations 
that provide support to help public housing residents obtain 
employment and increase earnings: Provided further, That 
applicants must demonstrate the ability to provide services 
to residents, partner with workforce investment boards, and 
leverage service dollars: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may allow public housing agencies to request exemp-
tions from rent and income limitation requirements under 
sections 3 and 6 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
as necessary to implement the Jobs-Plus program, on such 
terms and conditions as the Secretary may approve upon 
a finding by the Secretary that any such waivers or alter-
native requirements are necessary for the effective imple-
mentation of the Jobs-Plus initiative as a voluntary pro-
gram for residents: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall publish by notice in the Federal Register any waivers 
or alternative requirements pursuant to the preceding pro-
viso no later than 10 days before the effective date of such 
notice: Provided further, That for funds provided under this
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heading, the limitation in section 9(g)(1) of the Act shall 
be 25 percent: Provided further, That the Secretary may 
waive the limitation in the previous proviso to allow public 
housing agencies to fund activities authorized under section 
9(e)(1)(C) of the Act: Provided further, That the Secretary 
shall notify public housing agencies requesting waivers 
under the previous proviso if the request is approved or de-
nied within 14 days of submitting the request: Provided fur-
ther, That from the funds made available under this head-
ing, the Secretary shall provide bonus awards in fiscal year 
2017 to public housing agencies that are designated high 
performers: Provided further, That the Department shall 
notify public housing agencies of their formula allocation 
within 60 days of enactment of this Act: Provided further, 
That of the total amount provided under this heading, 
$25,000,000 shall be available for competitive grants to 
public housing agencies to evaluate and reduce lead-based 
paint hazards in public housing by carrying out the activi-
ties of risk assessments, abatement, and interim controls (as 
those terms are defined in section 1004 of the Residential 
Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (42 
U.S.C. 4851b)): Provided further, That for purposes of envi-
ronmental review, a grant under the previous proviso shall 
be considered funds for projects or activities under title I 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437
1509 
et seq.) for purposes of section 26 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1437x) and shall be subject to the regulations implementing 
such section. 
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND 
For 2017 payments to public housing agencies for the 
operation and management of public housing, as authorized 
by section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 
(42 U.S.C. 1437g(e)), $4,400,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2018. 
CHOICE NEIGHBORHOODS INITIATIVE 
For competitive grants under the Choice Neighborhoods 
Initiative (subject to section 24 of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v), unless otherwise speci-
fied under this heading), for transformation, rehabilitation, 
and replacement housing needs of both public and HUD- 
assisted housing and to transform neighborhoods of poverty 
into functioning, sustainable mixed income neighborhoods 
with appropriate services, schools, public assets, transpor-
tation and access to jobs, $137,500,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2019: Provided, That grant funds may 
be used for resident and community services, community 
development, and affordable housing needs in the commu-
nity, and for conversion of vacant or foreclosed properties 
to affordable housing: Provided further, That the use of 
funds made available under this heading shall not be
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deemed to be public housing notwithstanding section 3(b)(1) 
of such Act: Provided further, That grantees shall commit 
to an additional period of affordability determined by the 
Secretary of not fewer than 20 years: Provided further, That 
grantees shall provide a match in State, local, other Federal 
or private funds: Provided further, That grantees may in-
clude local governments, tribal entities, public housing au-
thorities, and nonprofits: Provided further, That for-profit 
developers may apply jointly with a public entity: Provided 
further, That for purposes of environmental review, a grant-
ee shall be treated as a public housing agency under section 
26 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437x), and grants under this heading shall be subject to 
the regulations issued by the Secretary to implement such 
section: Provided further, That of the amount provided, not 
less than $50,000,000 shall be awarded to public housing 
agencies: Provided further, That such grantees shall create 
partnerships with other local organizations including as-
sisted housing owners, service agencies, and resident organi-
zations: Provided further, That the Secretary shall consult 
with the Secretaries of Education, Labor, Transportation, 
Health and Human Services, Agriculture, and Commerce, 
the Attorney General, and the Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency to coordinate and leverage 
other appropriate Federal resources: Provided further, That
1511 
no more than $5,000,000 of funds made available under this 
heading may be provided as grants to undertake com-
prehensive local planning with input from residents and 
the community: Provided further, That unobligated bal-
ances, including recaptures, remaining from funds appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Revitalization of Severely Dis-
tressed Public Housing (HOPE VI)’’ in fiscal year 2011 
and prior fiscal years may be used for purposes under this 
heading, notwithstanding the purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated. 
FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY 
For the Family Self-Sufficiency program to support 
family self-sufficiency coordinators under section 23 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937, to promote the develop-
ment of local strategies to coordinate the use of assistance 
under sections 8(o) and 9 of such Act with public and pri-
vate resources, and enable eligible families to achieve eco-
nomic independence and self-sufficiency, $75,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2018: Provided, That 
the Secretary may, by Federal Register notice, waive or 
specify alternative requirements under sections b(3), b(4), 
b(5), or c(1) of section 23 of such Act in order to facilitate 
the operation of a unified self-sufficiency program for indi-
viduals receiving assistance under different provisions of 
the Act, as determined by the Secretary: Provided further,
1512 
That owners of a privately owned multifamily property 
with a section 8 contract may voluntarily make a Family 
Self-Sufficiency program available to the assisted tenants 
of such property in accordance with procedures established 
by the Secretary: Provided further, That such procedures 
established pursuant to the previous proviso shall permit 
participating tenants to accrue escrow funds in accordance 
with section 23(d)(2) and shall allow owners to use funding 
from residual receipt accounts to hire coordinators for their 
own Family Self-Sufficiency program. 
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS 
For the Native American Housing Block Grants pro-
gram, as authorized under title I of the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 
(NAHASDA) (25 U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $654,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2021: Provided, That, 
notwithstanding the Native American Housing Assistance 
and Self-Determination Act of 1996, to determine the 
amount of the allocation under title I of such Act for each 
Indian tribe, the Secretary shall apply the formula under 
section 302 of such Act with the need component based on 
single-race census data and with the need component based 
on multi-race census data, and the amount of the allocation 
for each Indian tribe shall be the greater of the two resulting 
allocation amounts: Provided further, That of the amounts
1513 
made available under this heading, $3,500,000 shall be con-
tracted for assistance for national or regional organizations 
representing Native American housing interests for pro-
viding training and technical assistance to Indian housing 
authorities and tribally designated housing entities as au-
thorized under NAHASDA: Provided further, That of the 
funds made available under the previous proviso, not less 
than $2,000,000 shall be made available for a national or-
ganization as authorized under section 703 of NAHASDA 
(25 U.S.C. 4212): Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading, $3,500,000 shall be to 
support the inspection of Indian housing units, contract ex-
pertise, training, and technical assistance related to fund-
ing provided under this heading and other headings under 
this Act for the needs of Native American families and In-
dian country: Provided further, That of the amount pro-
vided under this heading, $2,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for the cost of guaranteed notes and other obligations, 
as authorized by title VI of NAHASDA: Provided further, 
That such costs, including the costs of modifying such notes 
and other obligations, shall be as defined in section 502 of 
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
the total principal amount of any notes and other obliga-
tions, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
1514 
$17,857,142: Provided further, That the Department will 
notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days 
of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 302(d) of NAHASDA, if on the 
date of enactment of this Act, a recipient’s total amount 
of undisbursed block grant funds in the Department’s line 
of credit control system is greater than the sum of its prior 
3 years’ initial formula allocation calculations, the Sec-
retary shall adjust that recipient’s formula allocation that 
it would otherwise receive down by the difference between 
its total amount of undisbursed block grant funds in the 
Department’s line of credit control system on the date of 
enactment of this Act, and the sum of its prior 3 years’ 
initial formula allocation calculations: Provided further, 
That grant amounts not allocated to a recipient pursuant 
to the previous proviso shall be allocated under the need 
component of the formula proportionately among all other 
Indian tribes not subject to an adjustment under such pro-
viso: Provided further, That the second proviso shall not 
apply to any Indian tribe that would otherwise receive a 
formula allocation of less than $5,000,000: Provided fur-
ther, That to take effect, the three previous provisos do not 
require issuance or amendment of any regulation, shall not 
be subject to a formula challenge by an Indian tribe, and
1515 
shall not be construed to confer hearing rights under any 
section of NAHASDA or its implementing regulations. 
INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by sec-
tion 184 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 1715z–13a), $5,500,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, includ-
ing the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined 
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, 
up to $1,341,463,415, to remain available until expended: 
Provided further, That up to $750,000 of this amount may 
be for administrative contract expenses including manage-
ment processes and systems to carry out the loan guarantee 
program: Provided further, That an additional $1,727,000 
shall be available until expended for such costs of guaran-
teed loans authorized under such section 184 issued to tribes 
and Indian housing authorities for the construction of rent-
al housing for law enforcement, healthcare, educational, 
technical and other skilled workers: Provided further, That 
the funds specified in the previous proviso are available to 
subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, up to $421,219,512 to remain available until
1516 
expended: Provided further, That the Secretary may specify 
any additional program requirements with respect to the 
previous two provisos through publication of a Mortgagee 
Letter or Notice. 
NATIVE HAWAIIAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANT 
For the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant pro-
gram, as authorized under title VIII of the Native American 
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996 (25 
U.S.C. 4111 et seq.), $2,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021. 
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS 
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Hous-
ing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901 et seq.), 
$356,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018, except that amounts allocated pursuant to section 
854(c)(5) of such Act shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2019: Provided, That the Secretary shall renew 
all expiring contracts for permanent supportive housing 
that initially were funded under section 854(c)(5) of such 
Act from funds made available under this heading in fiscal 
year 2010 and prior fiscal years that meet all program re-
quirements before awarding funds for new contracts under 
such section: Provided further, That the Department shall
1517 
notify grantees of their formula allocation within 60 days 
of enactment of this Act. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND 
For assistance to units of State and local government, 
and to other entities, for economic and community develop-
ment activities, and for other purposes, $3,060,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2019, unless otherwise 
specified: Provided, That of the total amount provided, 
$3,000,000,000 is for carrying out the community develop-
ment block grant program under title I of the Housing and 
Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (‘‘the 
Act’’ herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.): Provided further, 
That unless explicitly provided for under this heading, not 
to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be expended for planning 
and management development and administration: Pro-
vided further, That a metropolitan city, urban county, unit 
of general local government, or Indian tribe, or insular area 
that directly or indirectly receives funds under this heading 
may not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer all or any portion 
of such funds to another such entity in exchange for any 
other funds, credits or non-Federal considerations, but must 
use such funds for activities eligible under title I of the Act: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 105(e)(1) of 
the Act, no funds provided under this heading may be pro-
1518 
vided to a for-profit entity for an economic development 
project under section 105(a)(17) unless such project has 
been evaluated and selected in accordance with guidelines 
required under subparagraph (e)(2): Provided further, That 
the Department shall notify grantees of their formula allo-
cation within 60 days of enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That of the total amount provided under this head-
ing $60,000,000 shall be for grants to Indian tribes notwith-
standing section 106(a)(1) of such Act, of which, notwith-
standing any other provision of law (including section 204 
of this Act), up to $4,000,000 may be used for emergencies 
that constitute imminent threats to health and safety. 
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT LOAN GUARANTEES PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
Subject to section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, during fiscal year 2017, commitments to guarantee 
loans under section 108 of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5308), any part of 
which is guaranteed, shall not exceed a total principal 
amount of $300,000,000, notwithstanding any aggregate 
limitation on outstanding obligations guaranteed in sub-
section (k) of such section 108: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall collect fees from borrowers, notwithstanding subsection 
(m) of such section 108, to result in a credit subsidy cost 
of zero for guaranteeing such loans, and any such fees shall
1519 
be collected in accordance with section 502(7) of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974. 
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM 
For the HOME Investment Partnerships program, as 
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act, as amended, $950,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2020: Provided, That 
notwithstanding the amount made available under this 
heading, the threshold reduction requirements in sections 
216(10) and 217(b)(4) of such Act shall not apply to alloca-
tions of such amount: Provided further, That the require-
ments under provisos 2 through 6 under this heading for 
fiscal year 2012 and such requirements applicable pursuant 
to the ‘‘Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013’’, 
shall not apply to any project to which funds were com-
mitted on or after August 23, 2013, but such projects shall 
instead be governed by the Final Rule titled ‘‘Home Invest-
ment Partnerships Program; Improving Performance and 
Accountability; Updating Property Standards’’ which be-
came effective on such date: Provided further, That the De-
partment shall notify grantees of their formula allocation 
within 60 days of enactment of this Act.
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SELF-HELP AND ASSISTED HOMEOWNERSHIP OPPORTUNITY 
PROGRAM 
For the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Op-
portunity Program, as authorized under section 11 of the 
Housing Opportunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as 
amended, $50,000,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2019: Provided, That of the total amount provided 
under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be made available to 
the Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity 
Program as authorized under section 11 of the Housing Op-
portunity Program Extension Act of 1996, as amended: 
Provided further, That of the total amount provided under 
this heading, $35,000,000 shall be made available for the 
second, third, and fourth capacity building activities au-
thorized under section 4(a) of the HUD Demonstration Act 
of 1993 (42 U.S.C. 9816 note), of which not less than 
$5,000,000 shall be made available for rural capacity build-
ing activities: Provided further, That of the total amount 
provided under this heading, $5,000,000 shall be made 
available for capacity building by national rural housing 
organizations with experience assessing national rural con-
ditions and providing financing, training, technical assist-
ance, information, and research to local nonprofits, local 
governments and Indian Tribes serving high need rural 
communities: Provided further, That an additional
1521 
$4,000,000, to remain available until expended, shall be for 
a program to rehabilitate and modify homes of disabled or 
low-income veterans as authorized under section 1079 of 
Public Law 113–291. 
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For the Emergency Solutions Grants program as au-
thorized under subtitle B of title IV of the McKinney-Vento 
Homeless Assistance Act, as amended; the Continuum of 
Care program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of 
such Act; and the Rural Housing Stability Assistance pro-
gram as authorized under subtitle D of title IV of such Act, 
$2,383,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2019: Provided, That any rental assistance amounts that 
are recaptured under such Continuum of Care program 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That not less than $310,000,000 of the funds appropriated 
under this heading shall be available for such Emergency 
Solutions Grants program, of which, $40,000,000 shall be 
made available, as determined by the Secretary, for grants 
for rapid re-housing or other critical activities in order to 
assist communities that lost significant capacity after Jan-
uary 1, 2016 to serve persons experiencing homelessness: 
Provided further, That not less than $2,018,000,000 of the 
funds appropriated under this heading shall be available 
for such Continuum of Care and Rural Housing Stability
1522 
Assistance programs: Provided further, That up to 
$12,000,000 of the funds appropriated under this heading 
shall be available for the national homeless data analysis 
project: Provided further, That all funds awarded for sup-
portive services under the Continuum of Care program and 
the Rural Housing Stability Assistance program shall be 
matched by not less than 25 percent in cash or in kind 
by each grantee: Provided further, That for all match re-
quirements applicable to funds made available under this 
heading for this fiscal year and prior years, a grantee may 
use (or could have used) as a source of match funds other 
funds administered by the Secretary and other Federal 
agencies unless there is (or was) a specific statutory prohi-
bition on any such use of any such funds: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall collect system performance meas-
ures for each continuum of care, and that relative to fiscal 
year 2015, under the Continuum of Care competition with 
respect to funds made available under this heading, the Sec-
retary shall base an increasing share of the score on per-
formance criteria: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided under this heading shall be available to provide 
funding for new projects, except for projects created through 
reallocation, unless the Secretary determines that the con-
tinuum of care has demonstrated that projects are evaluated 
and ranked based on the degree to which they improve the
1523 
continuum of care’s system performance: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall prioritize funding under the Con-
tinuum of Care program to continuums of care that have 
demonstrated a capacity to reallocate funding from lower 
performing projects to higher performing projects: Provided 
further, That all awards of assistance under this heading 
shall be required to coordinate and integrate homeless pro-
grams with other mainstream health, social services, and 
employment programs for which homeless populations may 
be eligible: Provided further, That any unobligated amounts 
remaining from funds appropriated under this heading in 
fiscal year 2012 and prior years for project-based rental 
assistance for rehabilitation projects with 10-year grant 
terms may be used for purposes under this heading, not-
withstanding the purposes for which such funds were appro-
priated: Provided further, That all balances for Shelter Plus 
Care renewals previously funded from the Shelter Plus Care 
Renewal account and transferred to this account shall be 
available, if recaptured, for Continuum of Care renewals 
in fiscal year 2017: Provided further, That the Department 
shall notify grantees of their formula allocation from 
amounts allocated (which may represent initial or final 
amounts allocated) for the Emergency Solutions Grant pro-
gram within 60 days of enactment of this Act: Provided 
further, That up to $43,000,000 of the funds appropriated
1524 
under this heading shall be to implement projects to dem-
onstrate how a comprehensive approach to serving homeless 
youth, age 24 and under, in up to 11 communities, includ-
ing at least five rural communities, can dramatically re-
duce youth homelessness: Provided further, That such 
projects shall be eligible for renewal under the continuum 
of care program subject to the same terms and conditions 
as other renewal applicants: Provided further, That youth 
aged 24 and under seeking assistance under this heading 
shall not be required to provide third party documentation 
to establish their eligibility under 42 U.S.C. 11302(a) or 
(b) to receive services: Provided further, That unaccom-
panied youth aged 24 and under or families headed by 
youth aged 24 and under who are living in unsafe situa-
tions may be served by youth-serving providers funded 
under this heading. 
HOUSING PROGRAMS 
PROJECT-BASED RENTAL ASSISTANCE 
For activities and assistance for the provision of 
project-based subsidy contracts under the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.) (‘‘the Act’’), 
not otherwise provided for, $10,416,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, shall be available on October 1, 
2016 (in addition to the $400,000,000 previously appro-
priated under this heading that became available October
1525 
1, 2016), and $400,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, shall be available on October 1, 2017: Provided, 
That the amounts made available under this heading shall 
be available for expiring or terminating section 8 project- 
based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate reha-
bilitation contracts), for amendments to section 8 project- 
based subsidy contracts (including section 8 moderate reha-
bilitation contracts), for contracts entered into pursuant to 
section 441 of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act 
(42 U.S.C. 11401), for renewal of section 8 contracts for 
units in projects that are subject to approved plans of action 
under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preservation 
Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preservation and 
Resident Homeownership Act of 1990, and for administra-
tive and other expenses associated with project-based activi-
ties and assistance funded under this paragraph: Provided 
further, That of the total amounts provided under this head-
ing, not to exceed $235,000,000 shall be available for per-
formance-based contract administrators for section 8 
project-based assistance, for carrying out 42 U.S.C. 1437(f): 
Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development may also use such amounts in the previous 
proviso for performance-based contract administrators for 
the administration of: interest reduction payments pursu-
ant to section 236(a) of the National Housing Act (12
1526 
U.S.C. 1715z–1(a)); rent supplement payments pursuant to 
section 101 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
1965 (12 U.S.C. 1701s); section 236(f)(2) rental assistance 
payments (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1(f)(2)); project rental assist-
ance contracts for the elderly under section 202(c)(2) of the 
Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C. 1701q); project rental as-
sistance contracts for supportive housing for persons with 
disabilities under section 811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gon-
zalez National Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 
8013(d)(2)); project assistance contracts pursuant to section 
202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 
73 Stat. 667); and loans under section 202 of the Housing 
Act of 1959 (Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667): Provided 
further, That amounts recaptured under this heading, the 
heading ‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’, or 
the heading ‘‘Housing Certificate Fund’’, may be used for 
renewals of or amendments to section 8 project-based con-
tracts or for performance-based contract administrators, 
notwithstanding the purposes for which such amounts were 
appropriated: Provided further, That, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, upon the request of the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development, project funds that are 
held in residual receipts accounts for any project subject 
to a section 8 project-based Housing Assistance Payments 
contract that authorizes HUD or a Housing Finance Agen-
1527 
cy to require that surplus project funds be deposited in an 
interest-bearing residual receipts account and that are in 
excess of an amount to be determined by the Secretary, shall 
be remitted to the Department and deposited in this ac-
count, to be available until expended: Provided further, 
That amounts deposited pursuant to the previous proviso 
shall be available in addition to the amount otherwise pro-
vided by this heading for uses authorized under this head-
ing. 
HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY 
For capital advances, including amendments to cap-
ital advance contracts, for housing for the elderly, as au-
thorized by section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as 
amended, and for project rental assistance for the elderly 
under section 202(c)(2) of such Act, including amendments 
to contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring con-
tracts for such assistance for up to a 1-year term, and for 
senior preservation rental assistance contracts, including 
renewals, as authorized by section 811(e) of the American 
Housing and Economic Opportunity Act of 2000, as 
amended, and for supportive services associated with the 
housing, $502,400,000 to remain available until September 
30, 2020, of which $10,000,000 shall be for capital advance 
and project-based rental assistance awards or for incre-
mental senior preservation rental assistance contracts: Pro-
1528 
vided, That amounts for project rental assistance contracts 
are to remain available for the liquidation of valid obliga-
tions for 10 years following the date of such obligation: Pro-
vided further, That of the amount provided under this head-
ing, up to $75,000,000 shall be for service coordinators and 
the continuation of existing congregate service grants for 
residents of assisted housing projects: Provided further, 
That amounts under this heading shall be available for Real 
Estate Assessment Center inspections and inspection-related 
activities associated with section 202 projects: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may waive the provisions of section 
202 governing the terms and conditions of project rental 
assistance, except that the initial contract term for such as-
sistance shall not exceed 5 years in duration: Provided fur-
ther, That upon request of the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development, project funds that are held in residual 
receipts accounts for any project subject to a section 202 
project rental assistance contract, and that upon termi-
nation of such contract are in excess of an amount to be 
determined by the Secretary, shall be remitted to the De-
partment and deposited in this account, to be available 
until September 30, 2020: Provided further, That amounts 
deposited in this account pursuant to the previous proviso 
shall be available, in addition to the amounts otherwise pro-
vided by this heading, for amendments and renewals: Pro-
1529 
vided further, That unobligated balances, including recap-
tures and carryover, remaining from funds transferred to 
or appropriated under this heading shall be available for 
amendments and renewals notwithstanding the purposes for 
which such funds originally were appropriated. 
HOUSING FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 
For amendments to capital advance contracts for sup-
portive housing for persons with disabilities, as authorized 
by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable 
Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 8013), for project rental assistance 
for supportive housing for persons with disabilities under 
section 811(d)(2) of such Act and for project assistance con-
tracts pursuant to section 202(h) of the Housing Act of 1959 
(Public Law 86–372; 73 Stat. 667), including amendments 
to contracts for such assistance and renewal of expiring con-
tracts for such assistance for up to a 1-year term, for project 
rental assistance to State housing finance agencies and 
other appropriate entities as authorized under section 
811(b)(3) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Housing Act, 
and for supportive services associated with the housing for 
persons with disabilities as authorized by section 811(b)(1) 
of such Act, $146,200,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2020: Provided, That amounts made available 
under this heading shall be available for Real Estate Assess-
ment Center inspections and inspection-related activities
1530 
associated with section 811 projects: Provided further, That, 
in this fiscal year, upon the request of the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development, project funds that are 
held in residual receipts accounts for any project subject 
to a section 811 project rental assistance contract and that 
upon termination of such contract are in excess of an 
amount to be determined by the Secretary shall be remitted 
to the Department and deposited in this account, to be 
available until September 30, 2020: Provided further, That 
amounts deposited in this account pursuant to the previous 
proviso shall be available in addition to the amounts other-
wise provided by this heading for amendments and renew-
als: Provided further, That unobligated balances, including 
recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds transferred 
to or appropriated under this heading shall be used for 
amendments and renewals notwithstanding the purposes for 
which such funds originally were appropriated. 
HOUSING COUNSELING ASSISTANCE 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance excluding 
loans, as authorized under section 106 of the Housing and 
Urban Development Act of 1968, as amended, $55,000,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2018, including 
up to $4,500,000 for administrative contract services: Pro-
vided, That grants made available from amounts provided 
under this heading shall be awarded within 180 days of
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enactment of this Act: Provided further, That funds shall 
be used for providing counseling and advice to tenants and 
homeowners, both current and prospective, with respect to 
property maintenance, financial management/literacy, and 
such other matters as may be appropriate to assist them 
in improving their housing conditions, meeting their finan-
cial needs, and fulfilling the responsibilities of tenancy or 
homeownership; for program administration; and for hous-
ing counselor training: Provided further, That for purposes 
of providing such grants from amounts provided under this 
heading, the Secretary may enter into multiyear agree-
ments as appropriate, subject to the availability of annual 
appropriations. 
RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE 
For amendments to contracts under section 101 of the 
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965 (12 U.S.C. 
1701s) and section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing Act 
(12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) in State-aided, noninsured rental 
housing projects, $20,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That such amount, together with unobli-
gated balances from recaptured amounts appropriated 
prior to fiscal year 2006 from terminated contracts under 
such sections of law, and any unobligated balances, includ-
ing recaptures and carryover, remaining from funds appro-
priated under this heading after fiscal year 2005, shall also
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be available for extensions of up to one year for expiring 
contracts under such sections of law. 
PAYMENT TO MANUFACTURED HOUSING FEES TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses as authorized by the National 
Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards 
Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5401 et seq.), up to $10,500,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which $10,500,000 
is to be derived from the Manufactured Housing Fees Trust 
Fund: Provided, That not to exceed the total amount appro-
priated under this heading shall be available from the gen-
eral fund of the Treasury to the extent necessary to incur 
obligations and make expenditures pending the receipt of 
collections to the Fund pursuant to section 620 of such Act: 
Provided further, That the amount made available under 
this heading from the general fund shall be reduced as such 
collections are received during fiscal year 2017 so as to re-
sult in a final fiscal year 2017 appropriation from the gen-
eral fund estimated at zero, and fees pursuant to such sec-
tion 620 shall be modified as necessary to ensure such a 
final fiscal year 2017 appropriation: Provided further, 
That for the dispute resolution and installation programs, 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may as-
sess and collect fees from any program participant: Pro-
vided further, That such collections shall be deposited into 
the Fund, and the Secretary, as provided herein, may use
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such collections, as well as fees collected under section 620, 
for necessary expenses of such Act: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding the requirements of section 620 of such Act, 
the Secretary may carry out responsibilities of the Sec-
retary under such Act through the use of approved service 
providers that are paid directly by the recipients of their 
services. 
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION 
MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee single family loans in-
sured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund shall not 
exceed $400,000,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2018: Provided, That during fiscal year 2017, 
obligations to make direct loans to carry out the purposes 
of section 204(g) of the National Housing Act, as amended, 
shall not exceed $5,000,000: Provided further, That the fore-
going amount in the previous proviso shall be for loans to 
nonprofit and governmental entities in connection with 
sales of single family real properties owned by the Secretary 
and formerly insured under the Mutual Mortgage Insurance 
Fund: Provided further, That for administrative contract 
expenses 
of 
the 
Federal 
Housing 
Administration, 
$130,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018: Provided further, That to the extent guaranteed loan 
commitments exceed $200,000,000,000 on or before April 1,
1534 
2017, an additional $1,400 for administrative contract ex-
penses shall be available for each $1,000,000 in additional 
guaranteed loan commitments (including a pro rata 
amount for any amount below $1,000,000), but in no case 
shall funds made available by this proviso exceed 
$30,000,000. 
GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to guarantee loans insured under 
the General and Special Risk Insurance Funds, as author-
ized by sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act 
(12 U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), shall not exceed 
$30,000,000,000 in total loan principal, any part of which 
is to be guaranteed, to remain available until September 
30, 2018: Provided, That during fiscal year 2017, gross ob-
ligations for the principal amount of direct loans, as au-
thorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and 519(a) of the 
National Housing Act, shall not exceed $5,000,000, which 
shall be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities 
in connection with the sale of single family real properties 
owned by the Secretary and formerly insured under such 
Act.
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GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION 
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN 
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out the 
purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act, as 
amended 
(12 
U.S.C. 
1721(g)), 
shall 
not 
exceed 
$500,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2018: Provided, That $23,000,000 shall be available for nec-
essary salaries and expenses of the Office of Government 
National Mortgage Association: Provided further, That to 
the extent that guaranteed loan commitments exceed 
$155,000,000,000 on or before April 1, 2017, an additional 
$100 for necessary salaries and expenses shall be available 
until expended for each $1,000,000 in additional guaran-
teed loan commitments (including a pro rata amount for 
any amount below $1,000,000), but in no case shall funds 
made available by this proviso exceed $3,000,000: Provided 
further, That receipts from Commitment and Multiclass fees 
collected pursuant to title III of the National Housing Act, 
as amended, shall be credited as offsetting collections to this 
account. 
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH 
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY 
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro-
grams of research and studies relating to housing and
1536 
urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized 
by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 
1970 (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), including carrying out 
the functions of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment under section 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 
2 of 1968, and for technical assistance, $89,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2018: Provided, That 
with respect to amounts made available under this heading, 
notwithstanding section 204 of this title, the Secretary may 
enter into cooperative agreements funded with philan-
thropic entities, other Federal agencies, or State or local 
governments and their agencies for research projects: Pro-
vided further, That with respect to the previous proviso, 
such partners to the cooperative agreements must contribute 
at least a 50 percent match toward the cost of the project: 
Provided further, That for non-competitive agreements en-
tered into in accordance with the previous two provisos, the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall comply 
with section 2(b) of the Federal Funding Accountability 
and Transparency Act of 2006 (Public Law 109–282, 31 
U.S.C. note) in lieu of compliance with section 102(a)(4)(C) 
with respect to documentation of award decisions: Provided 
further, That prior to obligation of technical assistance 
funding, the Secretary shall submit a plan, for approval,
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to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations on 
how it will allocate funding for this activity. 
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES 
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not other-
wise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing 
Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of the Housing 
and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended, 
$65,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018: 
Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Sec-
retary may assess and collect fees to cover the costs of the 
Fair Housing Training Academy, and may use such funds 
to provide such training: Provided further, That no funds 
made available under this heading shall be used to lobby 
the executive or legislative branches of the Federal Govern-
ment in connection with a specific contract, grant, or loan: 
Provided further, That of the funds made available under 
this heading, $300,000 shall be available to the Secretary 
of Housing and Urban Development for the creation and 
promotion of translated materials and other programs that 
support the assistance of persons with limited English pro-
ficiency in utilizing the services provided by the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development.
1538 
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL AND HEALTHY 
HOMES 
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION 
For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as author-
ized by section 1011 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint 
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, $145,000,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2018, of which $30,000,000 
shall be for the Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to sec-
tions 501 and 502 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1970, that shall include research, studies, testing, and 
demonstration efforts, including education and outreach 
concerning lead-based paint poisoning and other housing- 
related diseases and hazards: Provided, That for purposes 
of environmental review, pursuant to the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 
other provisions of the law that further the purposes of such 
Act, a grant under the Healthy Homes Initiative, or the 
Lead Technical Studies program under this heading or 
under prior appropriations Acts for such purposes under 
this heading, shall be considered to be funds for a special 
project for purposes of section 305(c) of the Multifamily 
Housing Property Disposition Reform Act of 1994: Pro-
vided further, That of the total amount made available 
under this heading, $55,000,000 shall be made available on 
a competitive basis for areas with the highest lead-based
1539 
paint abatement needs: Provided further, That each recipi-
ent of funds provided under the previous proviso shall con-
tribute an amount not less than 25 percent of the total: Pro-
vided further, That each applicant shall certify adequate 
capacity that is acceptable to the Secretary to carry out 
the proposed use of funds pursuant to a notice of funding 
availability: Provided further, That amounts made avail-
able under this heading in this or prior appropriations 
Acts, and that still remain available, may be used for any 
purpose under this heading notwithstanding the purpose for 
which such amounts were appropriated if a program com-
petition is undersubscribed and there are other program 
competitions under this heading that are oversubscribed. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FUND 
For the development of, modifications to, and infra-
structure for Department-wide and program-specific infor-
mation technology systems, for the continuing operation 
and maintenance of both Department-wide and program- 
specific information systems, and for program-related 
maintenance 
activities, 
$257,000,000, 
of 
which 
$250,000,000 shall remain available until September 30, 
2018, and of which $7,000,000 shall remain available until 
September 30, 2019: Provided, That any amounts trans-
ferred to this Fund under this Act shall remain available 
until expended: Provided further, That any amounts trans-
1540 
ferred to this Fund from amounts appropriated by pre-
viously enacted appropriations Acts may be used for the 
purposes specified under this Fund, in addition to any 
other information technology purposes for which such 
amounts were appropriated: Provided further, That not 
more than 10 percent of the funds made available under 
this heading for development, modernization and enhance-
ment may be obligated until the Secretary submits to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, for ap-
proval, a plan for expenditure that—(A) identifies for each 
modernization project: (i) the functional and performance 
capabilities to be delivered and the mission benefits to be 
realized, (ii) the estimated life-cycle cost, and (iii) key mile-
stones to be met; and (B) demonstrates that each moderniza-
tion project is: (i) compliant with the department’s enter-
prise architecture, (ii) being managed in accordance with 
applicable life-cycle management policies and guidance, 
(iii) subject to the department’s capital planning and in-
vestment control requirements, and (iv) supported by an 
adequately staffed project office. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary salaries and expenses of the Office of In-
spector General in carrying out the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended, $128,082,000: Provided, That the In-
1541 
spector General shall have independent authority over all 
personnel issues within this office. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 
URBAN DEVELOPMENT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts 
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured 
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart 
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of 1988 
(42 U.S.C. 1437f note) shall be rescinded or in the case of 
cash, shall be remitted to the Treasury, and such amounts 
of budget authority or cash recaptured and not rescinded 
or remitted to the Treasury shall be used by State housing 
finance agencies or local governments or local housing agen-
cies with projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development for which settlement occurred after 
January 1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwith-
standing the previous sentence, the Secretary may award 
up to 15 percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured 
and not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide 
project owners with incentives to refinance their project at 
a lower interest rate.
1542 
SEC. 202. None of the amounts made available under 
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2017 to investigate 
or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise law-
ful activity engaged in by one or more persons, including 
the filing or maintaining of a nonfrivolous legal action, 
that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving or 
preventing action by a Government official or entity, or a 
court of competent jurisdiction. 
SEC. 203. Subsection (c) of section 854 of the AIDS 
Housing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12903(c)) is amend-
ed— 
(1) in subclause (I) of paragraph (2)(A), by re-
designating the subclause as clause ‘‘(i)’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (D) of paragraph (2), to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(D) ADJUSTMENT TO GRANTS.—For each 
of fiscal years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, 
with respect to a grantee that received an alloca-
tion in the prior fiscal year, the Secretary shall 
ensure that the grantee’s share of total formula 
funds available for allocation does not decrease 
more than 5 percent nor gain more than 10 per-
cent of the share of the total available formula 
funds that the grantee received in the preceding 
fiscal year.’’.
1543 
SEC. 204. Except as explicitly provided in law, any 
grant, cooperative agreement or other assistance made pur-
suant to title II of this Act shall be made on a competitive 
basis and in accordance with section 102 of the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989 
(42 U.S.C. 3545). 
SEC. 205. Funds of the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development subject to the Government Corporation 
Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of 1950 shall 
be available, without regard to the limitations on adminis-
trative expenses, for legal services on a contract or fee basis, 
and for utilizing and making payment for services and fa-
cilities of the Federal National Mortgage Association, Gov-
ernment National Mortgage Association, Federal Home 
Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Fed-
eral Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home 
Loan banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of 
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended 
(12 U.S.C. 1811–1). 
SEC. 206. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act 
or through a reprogramming of funds, no part of any ap-
propriation for the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment shall be available for any program, project or 
activity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget esti-
mates submitted to Congress.
1544 
SEC. 207. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are subject 
to the Government Corporation Control Act are hereby au-
thorized to make such expenditures, within the limits of 
funds and borrowing authority available to each such cor-
poration or agency and in accordance with law, and to 
make such contracts and commitments without regard to 
fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of such 
Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set 
forth in the budget for 2017 for such corporation or agency 
except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections 
of these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan 
or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent ex-
pressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in 
support of other forms of assistance provided for in this or 
prior appropriations Acts), except that this proviso shall 
not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty operations 
of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases 
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United 
States Government. 
SEC. 208. The Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall provide quarterly reports to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations regarding all uncom-
mitted, unobligated, recaptured and excess funds in each 
program and activity within the jurisdiction of the Depart-
1545 
ment and shall submit additional, updated budget informa-
tion to these Committees upon request. 
SEC. 209. The President’s formal budget request for fis-
cal year 2018, as well as the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development’s congressional budget justifications to 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate, shall use the iden-
tical account and sub-account structure provided under this 
Act. 
SEC. 210. No funds provided under this title may be 
used for an audit of the Government National Mortgage As-
sociation that makes applicable requirements under the 
Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.). 
SEC. 211. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, subject to the conditions listed under this section, for 
fiscal years 2017 and 2018, the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development may authorize the transfer of some or 
all project-based assistance, debt held or insured by the Sec-
retary and statutorily required low-income and very low- 
income use restrictions if any, associated with one or more 
multifamily housing project or projects to another multi-
family housing project or projects. 
(b) PHASED TRANSFERS.—Transfers of project-based 
assistance under this section may be done in phases to ac-
commodate the financing and other requirements related to
1546 
rehabilitating or constructing the project or projects to 
which the assistance is transferred, to ensure that such 
project or projects meet the standards under subsection (c). 
(c) The transfer authorized in subsection (a) is subject 
to the following conditions: 
(1) NUMBER AND BEDROOM SIZE OF UNITS.— 
(A) For occupied units in the transferring 
project: The number of low-income and very low- 
income units and the configuration (i.e., bed-
room size) provided by the transferring project 
shall be no less than when transferred to the re-
ceiving project or projects and the net dollar 
amount of Federal assistance provided to the 
transferring project shall remain the same in the 
receiving project or projects. 
(B) For unoccupied units in the transfer-
ring project: The Secretary may authorize a re-
duction in the number of dwelling units in the 
receiving project or projects to allow for a recon-
figuration of bedroom sizes to meet current mar-
ket demands, as determined by the Secretary and 
provided there is no increase in the project-based 
assistance budget authority.
1547 
(2) The transferring project shall, as determined 
by the Secretary, be either physically obsolete or eco-
nomically nonviable. 
(3) The receiving project or projects shall meet or 
exceed applicable physical standards established by 
the Secretary. 
(4) The owner or mortgagor of the transferring 
project shall notify and consult with the tenants re-
siding in the transferring project and provide a cer-
tification of approval by all appropriate local govern-
mental officials. 
(5) The tenants of the transferring project who 
remain eligible for assistance to be provided by the re-
ceiving project or projects shall not be required to va-
cate their units in the transferring project or projects 
until new units in the receiving project are available 
for occupancy. 
(6) The Secretary determines that this transfer is 
in the best interest of the tenants. 
(7) If either the transferring project or the re-
ceiving project or projects meets the condition speci-
fied in subsection (d)(2)(A), any lien on the receiving 
project resulting from additional financing obtained 
by the owner shall be subordinate to any FHA-in-
sured mortgage lien transferred to, or placed on, such
1548 
project by the Secretary, except that the Secretary 
may waive this requirement upon determination that 
such a waiver is necessary to facilitate the financing 
of acquisition, construction, and/or rehabilitation of 
the receiving project or projects. 
(8) If the transferring project meets the require-
ments of subsection (d)(2), the owner or mortgagor of 
the receiving project or projects shall execute and 
record either a continuation of the existing use agree-
ment or a new use agreement for the project where, 
in either case, any use restrictions in such agreement 
are of no lesser duration than the existing use restric-
tions. 
(9) The transfer does not increase the cost (as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act 
of 1974, as amended) of any FHA-insured mortgage, 
except to the extent that appropriations are provided 
in advance for the amount of any such increased cost. 
(d) For purposes of this section— 
(1) the terms ‘‘low-income’’ and ‘‘very low-in-
come’’ shall have the meanings provided by the statute 
and/or regulations governing the program under 
which the project is insured or assisted;
1549 
(2) the term ‘‘multifamily housing project’’ 
means housing that meets one of the following condi-
tions— 
(A) housing that is subject to a mortgage 
insured under the National Housing Act; 
(B) housing that has project-based assist-
ance attached to the structure including projects 
undergoing mark to market debt restructuring 
under the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform 
and Affordability Housing Act; 
(C) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended by 
section 801 of the Cranston-Gonzales National 
Affordable Housing Act; 
(D) housing that is assisted under section 
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as such section 
existed before the enactment of the Cranston- 
Gonzales National Affordable Housing Act; 
(E) housing that is assisted under section 
811 of the Cranston-Gonzales National Afford-
able Housing Act; or 
(F) housing or vacant land that is subject 
to a use agreement; 
(3) the term ‘‘project-based assistance’’ means—
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(A) assistance provided under section 8(b) 
of the United States Housing Act of 1937; 
(B) assistance for housing constructed or 
substantially rehabilitated pursuant to assistance 
provided under section 8(b)(2) of such Act (as 
such section existed immediately before October 
1, 1983); 
(C) rent supplement payments under sec-
tion 101 of the Housing and Urban Development 
Act of 1965; 
(D) interest reduction payments under sec-
tion 236 and/or additional assistance payments 
under section 236(f)(2) of the National Housing 
Act; 
(E) assistance payments made under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and 
(F) assistance payments made under section 
811(d)(2) of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-
fordable Housing Act; 
(4) the term ‘‘receiving project or projects’’ 
means the multifamily housing project or projects to 
which some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, 
and statutorily required low-income and very low-in-
come use restrictions are to be transferred;
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(5) the term ‘‘transferring project’’ means the 
multifamily housing project which is transferring 
some or all of the project-based assistance, debt, and 
the statutorily required low-income and very low-in-
come use restrictions to the receiving project or 
projects; and 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
(e) RESEARCH REPORT.—The Secretary shall conduct 
an evaluation of the transfer authority under this section, 
including the effect of such transfers on the operational effi-
ciency, contract rents, physical and financial conditions, 
and long-term preservation of the affected properties. 
SEC. 212. (a) No assistance shall be provided under 
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 
U.S.C. 1437f) to any individual who— 
(1) is enrolled as a student at an institution of 
higher education (as defined under section 102 of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)); 
(2) is under 24 years of age; 
(3) is not a veteran; 
(4) is unmarried; 
(5) does not have a dependent child; 
(6) is not a person with disabilities, as such 
term is defined in section 3(b)(3)(E) of the United
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States 
Housing 
Act 
of 
1937 
(42 
U.S.C. 
1437a(b)(3)(E)) and was not receiving assistance 
under such section 8 as of November 30, 2005; 
(7) is not a youth who left foster care at age 14 
or older and is at risk of becoming homeless; and 
(8) is not otherwise individually eligible, or has 
parents who, individually or jointly, are not eligible, 
to receive assistance under section 8 of the United 
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f). 
(b) For purposes of determining the eligibility of a per-
son to receive assistance under section 8 of the United States 
Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f), any financial as-
sistance (in excess of amounts received for tuition and any 
other required fees and charges) that an individual receives 
under the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001 
et seq.), from private sources, or an institution of higher 
education (as defined under the Higher Education Act of 
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002)), shall be considered income to that 
individual, except for a person over the age of 23 with de-
pendent children. 
SEC. 213. The funds made available for Native Alas-
kans under the heading ‘‘Native American Housing Block 
Grants’’ in title II of this Act shall be allocated to the same 
Native Alaskan housing block grant recipients that received 
funds in fiscal year 2005.
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SEC. 214. Notwithstanding the limitation in the first 
sentence of section 255(g) of the National Housing Act (12 
U.S.C. 1715z–20(g)), the Secretary of Housing and Urban 
Development may, until September 30, 2017, insure and 
enter into commitments to insure mortgages under such sec-
tion 255. 
SEC. 215. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
in fiscal year 2017, in managing and disposing of any mul-
tifamily property that is owned or has a mortgage held by 
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and dur-
ing the process of foreclosure on any property with a con-
tract for rental assistance payments under section 8 of the 
United States Housing Act of 1937 or other Federal pro-
grams, the Secretary shall maintain any rental assistance 
payments under section 8 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 and other programs that are attached to any dwell-
ing units in the property. To the extent the Secretary deter-
mines, in consultation with the tenants and the local gov-
ernment, that such a multifamily property owned or held 
by the Secretary is not feasible for continued rental assist-
ance payments under such section 8 or other programs, 
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 Af-
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fordability Act of 1997 (‘‘MAHRAA’’) and (2) environ-
mental conditions that cannot be remedied in a cost-effec-
tive 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 exist-
ing housing properties, or provide other rental assistance. 
The Secretary shall also take appropriate steps to ensure 
that project-based contracts remain in effect prior to fore-
closure, subject to the exercise of contractual abatement rem-
edies to assist relocation of tenants for imminent major 
threats to health and safety after written notice to and in-
formed consent of the affected tenants and use of other avail-
able 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. 216. 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-entitlement 
communities in the State in accordance with the require-
ments of section 108 of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1974: Provided, That any State receiving
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such a guarantee or commitment shall distribute all funds 
subject to such guarantee to the units of general local gov-
ernment in non-entitlement areas that received the commit-
ment. 
SEC. 217. Public housing agencies that own and oper-
ate 400 or fewer public housing units may elect to be exempt 
from any asset management requirement imposed by the 
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in connec-
tion with the operating fund rule: Provided, That an agency 
seeking a discontinuance of a reduction of subsidy under 
the operating fund formula shall not be exempt from asset 
management requirements. 
SEC. 218. With respect to the use of amounts provided 
in this Act and in future Acts for the operation, capital 
improvement and management of public housing as author-
ized 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 sec-
tion 9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2) of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437g(g)(1), (2)): Provided, That a pub-
lic housing agency may not use capital funds authorized 
under section 9(d) for activities that are eligible under sec-
tion 9(e) for assistance with amounts from the operating
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fund in excess of the amounts permitted under section 
9(g)(1) or 9(g)(2). 
SEC. 219. 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 Financial 
Officer has determined that such allotment holder has im-
plemented an adequate system of funds control and has re-
ceived training in funds control procedures and directives. 
The Chief Financial Officer shall ensure that there is a 
trained allotment holder for each HUD sub-office under the 
accounts ‘‘Executive Offices’’ and ‘‘Administrative Support 
Offices,’’ as well as each account receiving appropriations 
for ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘Government 
National Mortgage Association—Guarantees of Mortgage- 
Backed Securities Loan Guarantee Program Account’’, and 
‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ within the Department of 
Housing and Urban Development. 
SEC. 220. The Secretary of the Department of Housing 
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 notice of 
the availability of assistance or notice of funding avail-
ability (NOFA) for any program or discretionary fund ad-
ministered by the Secretary that is to be competitively 
awarded. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for
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fiscal year 2017, the Secretary may make the NOFA avail-
able only on the Internet at the appropriate Government 
web site or through other electronic media, as determined 
by the Secretary. 
SEC. 221. Payment of attorney fees in program-related 
litigation shall be paid from the individual program office 
and Office of General Counsel salaries and expenses appro-
priations. The annual budget submission for the program 
offices and the Office of General Counsel shall include 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 attorney fees until 
the Department submits for review a spending plan for such 
costs to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
SEC. 222. The Secretary is authorized to transfer up 
to 10 percent or $4,000,000, whichever is less, of funds ap-
propriated for any office under the heading ‘‘Administra-
tive Support Offices’’ or for any account under the general 
heading ‘‘Program Office Salaries and Expenses’’ to any 
other such office or account: Provided, That no appropria-
tion 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: Provided further,
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That the Secretary shall provide notification to such Com-
mittees three business days in advance of any such transfers 
under this section up to 10 percent or $4,000,000, whichever 
is less. 
SEC. 223. (a) Any entity receiving housing assistance 
payments shall maintain decent, safe, and sanitary condi-
tions, as determined by the Secretary of Housing and 
Urban Development (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Sec-
retary’’), and comply with any standards under applicable 
State or local laws, rules, ordinances, or regulations relat-
ing to the physical condition of any property covered under 
a housing assistance payment contract. 
(b) The Secretary shall take action under subsection 
(c) when a multifamily housing project with a section 8 
contract or contract for similar project-based assistance— 
(1) receives a Uniform Physical Condition 
Standards (UPCS) score of 60 or less; or 
(2) fails to certify in writing to the Secretary 
within 3 days that all Exigent Health and Safety de-
ficiencies identified by the inspector at the project 
have been corrected. 
Such requirements shall apply to insured and noninsured 
projects with assistance attached to the units under section 
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 
1437f), but do not apply to such units assisted under section
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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). 
(c)(1) Within 15 days of the issuance of the REAC in-
spection, the Secretary must provide the owner with a No-
tice of Default with a specified timetable, determined by the 
Secretary, for correcting all deficiencies. The Secretary 
must also provide a copy of the Notice of Default to the 
tenants, the local government, any mortgagees, and any 
contract administrator. If the owner’s appeal results in a 
UPCS score of 60 or above, the Secretary may withdraw 
the Notice of Default. 
(2) At the end of the time period for correcting all defi-
ciencies specified in the Notice of Default, if the owner fails 
to fully correct such deficiencies, the Secretary may— 
(A) require immediate replacement of project 
management with a management agent approved by 
the Secretary; 
(B) impose civil money penalties, which shall be 
used solely for the purpose of supporting safe and 
sanitary conditions at applicable properties, as des-
ignated by the Secretary, with priority given to the 
tenants of the property affected by the penalty;
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(C) abate the section 8 contract, including par-
tial abatement, as determined by the Secretary, until 
all deficiencies have been corrected; 
(D) pursue transfer of the project to an owner, 
approved by the Secretary under established proce-
dures, which will be obligated to promptly make all 
required repairs and to accept renewal of the assist-
ance contract as long as such renewal is offered; 
(E) transfer the existing section 8 contract to an-
other project or projects and owner or owners; 
(F) pursue exclusionary sanctions, including 
suspensions or debarments from Federal programs; 
(G) seek judicial appointment of a receiver to 
manage the property and cure all project deficiencies 
or seek a judicial order of specific performance requir-
ing the owner to cure all project deficiencies; 
(H) work with the owner, lender, or other related 
party to stabilize the property in an attempt to pre-
serve the property through compliance, transfer of 
ownership, or an infusion of capital provided by a 
third-party that requires time to effectuate; or 
(I) take any other regulatory or contractual rem-
edies available as deemed necessary and appropriate 
by the Secretary.
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(d) 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 major threats to health and safety 
after written notice to the affected tenants. To the extent 
the Secretary determines, in consultation with the tenants 
and the local government, that the property is not feasible 
for continued 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 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 contract for project-based rental assistance pay-
ments with an owner or owners of other existing hous-
ing properties, or provide other rental assistance. 
(e) The Secretary shall report quarterly on all prop-
erties covered by this section that are assessed through the 
Real Estate Assessment Center and have UPCS physical in-
spection scores of less than 60 or have received an unsatis-
factory management and occupancy review within the past 
36 months. The report shall include—
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(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 multiple 
times; 
(2) actions that the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development is taking to protect tenants of 
such identified properties; and 
(3) any administrative or legislative rec-
ommendations to further improve the living condi-
tions at properties covered under a housing assistance 
payment contract. 
SEC. 224. None of the funds made available by this 
Act, or any other Act, for purposes authorized under section 
8 (only with respect to the tenant-based rental assistance 
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, including bo-
nuses, 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 Execu-
tive Schedule at any time during any public housing agen-
cy fiscal year 2017.
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SEC. 225. 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. 226. Section 24 of the United States Housing Act 
of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437v) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (m)(1), by striking ‘‘fiscal 
year’’ and all that follows through the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (o), by striking ‘‘September’’ 
and all that follows through the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘September 30, 2017.’’. 
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 notifies 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations not 
less than 3 full business days before any project, State, lo-
cality, housing authority, tribe, nonprofit organization, 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 by this 
Act nor any receipts or amounts collected under any Fed-
eral Housing Administration program may be used to im-
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plement the Homeowners Armed with Knowledge (HAWK) 
program. 
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 insure, 
securitize, or establish a Federal guarantee of any mortgage 
or mortgage backed security that refinances or otherwise re-
places a mortgage that has been subject to eminent domain 
condemnation or seizure, by a State, municipality, 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 general 
local government as a metropolitan city (as defined in sec-
tion 102 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to grants under sec-
tion 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 re-
imbursable basis, or transferred to the Office of Policy De-
velopment and Research in the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development and functions thereof, for research, 
evaluation, or statistical purposes, and which are unex-
pended at the time of completion of a contract, grant, or 
cooperative agreement, may be deobligated and shall imme-
1565 
diately become available and may be reobligated in that fis-
cal year or the subsequent fiscal year for the research, eval-
uation, or statistical purposes for which the amounts are 
made available to that Office subject to reprogramming re-
quirements 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. Funds made available in this title under 
the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ may be used by 
the Secretary to participate in Performance Partnership 
Pilots authorized under section 526 of division H of Public 
Law 113–76, section 524 of division G of Public Law 113– 
235, section 525 of division H of Public Law 114–113, and 
such authorities as are enacted for Performance Partnership 
Pilots in an appropriations Act for fiscal year 2017: Pro-
vided, That such participation shall be limited to no more 
than 10 continuums of care and housing activities to im-
prove outcomes for disconnected youth. 
SEC. 235. With respect to grant amounts awarded 
under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ for fiscal 
years 2015, 2016, and 2017 for the continuum of care (CoC)
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program as authorized under subtitle C of title IV of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, costs paid by 
program income of grant recipients may count toward 
meeting the recipient’s matching requirements, provided the 
costs are eligible CoC costs that supplement the recipients 
CoC program. 
SEC. 236. (a) From amounts made available under 
this title under the heading ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’, 
the Secretary may award 1-year transition grants to recipi-
ents of funds for activities under subtitle C of the McKin-
ney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11381 et 
seq.) to transition from one Continuum of Care program 
component to another. 
(b) No more than 50 percent of each transition grant 
may be used for costs of eligible activities of the program 
component originally funded. 
(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 Con-
tinuum of Care and meet standards determined by the Sec-
retary.
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SEC. 237. (a) Section 302 of the Lead-Based Paint 
Poisoning Prevention Act (42 U.S.C. 4822) is amended in 
subsection (e)— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘handicapped’’ and inserting 
‘‘persons with disabilities, or any 0-bedroom 
dwelling’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or’’ after ‘‘expected to re-
side;’’; and 
(iii) by striking ‘‘less than 7 years of age’’ 
and inserting ‘‘under age 6’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2) by striking ‘‘; or’’ and in-
serting ‘‘.’’; and 
(3) by striking paragraph (3). 
(b) Section 1004 of the Residential Lead-Based Paint 
Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 (42 U.S.C. 4851b) is amend-
ed in paragraph (27)— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘or any 0-bedroom dwelling’’ 
after ‘‘disabilities,’’; and 
(2) by deleting ‘‘housing for the elderly or per-
sons with disabilities) or any 0 bedroom dwelling’’ 
and inserting ‘‘housing)’’. 
(c) Section 401 of the Toxic Substances Control Act 
(15 U.S.C. 2681) is amended in paragraph (17)—
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(1) by inserting ‘‘or any 0-bedroom dwelling’’ 
after ‘‘disabilities,’’; and 
(2) by deleting ‘‘housing for the elderly or per-
sons with disabilities) or any 0 bedroom dwelling’’ 
and inserting ‘‘housing)’’. 
SEC. 238. Section 211 of the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2008, is re-
pealed. 
SEC. 239. The language under the heading Rental As-
sistance Demonstration in the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2012 (Public Law 
112–55), is amended— 
(1) in the second proviso, by striking ‘‘2018’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2020’’; and 
(2) in the fourth proviso, by striking ‘‘185,000’’ 
and inserting ‘‘225,000’’. 
SEC. 240. The Secretary shall establish by notice such 
requirements as may be necessary to implement section 
78001 of title LXXVIII of the Fixing America’s Surface 
Transportation Act (Public Law 114–94), and the notice 
shall take effect upon issuance: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall commence rulemaking based on the initial notice no 
later than the expiration of the 6-month period following 
issuance of the notice and the rulemaking shall allow for 
the opportunity for public comment.
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SEC. 241. For fiscal year 2017 and hereafter, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may use 
amounts made available for the Continuum of Care pro-
gram under the ‘‘Homeless Assistance Grants’’ heading 
under this title to renew a grant originally awarded pursu-
ant to the matter under the heading ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development—Permanent Supportive 
Housing’’ in chapter 6 of title III of the Supplemental Ap-
propriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 122 Stat. 
2351) for assistance under subtitle F of title IV of the 
McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C 11403 
et seq.). Such renewal grant shall be awarded to the same 
grantee and be subject to the provisions of such Continuum 
of Care program except that the funds may be used outside 
the geographic area of the continuum of care. 
SEC. 242. Section 218(g) of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 12748(g)) shall 
not apply with respect to the right of a jurisdiction to draw 
funds from its HOME Investment Trust Fund that other-
wise expired or would expire in 2016, 2017, 2018, or 2019 
under that section. 
SEC. 243. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development to direct a grantee to undertake specific 
changes to existing zoning laws as part of carrying out the
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final rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Hous-
ing’’ (80 Fed. Reg. 42272 (July 16, 2015)) or the notice 
entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Assess-
ment Tool’’ (79 Fed. Reg. 57949 (September 26, 2014)). 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Housing 
and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
ACCESS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Access Board, as author-
ized 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 appro-
priation funds received for publications and training ex-
penses. 
FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime Com-
mission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Merchant 
Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. 307), including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles as authorized by 31 U.S.C. 1343(b); and uni-
forms or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902, $27,490,000: Provided, That not to exceed
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$2,000 shall be available for official reception and represen-
tation expenses. 
NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER CORPORATION 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral 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 Inspec-
tor General shall have all necessary authority, in carrying 
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: Provided 
further, That the Inspector General may select, appoint, 
and employ such officers and employees as may be nec-
essary for carrying out the functions, powers, and duties 
of the Office of Inspector General, subject to the applicable
1572 
laws and regulations that govern such selections, appoint-
ments, and employment within the Corporation: Provided 
further, That concurrent with the President’s budget request 
for fiscal year 2018, the Inspector General shall submit to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations a 
budget request for fiscal year 2018 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 Transportation 
Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 
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 expenses. The 
amounts made available to the National Transportation 
Safety Board in this Act include amounts necessary to 
make lease payments on an obligation incurred 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 Corporation 
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 Transportation 
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 estab-
lished by the Chairman of the Surface Transportation 
Board shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting 
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 collections are re-
ceived during fiscal year 2017, to result in a final appro-
priation 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 salaries, 
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rent-
al of conference rooms, and the employment of experts and 
consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code) of the United States Interagency Council on Home-
lessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to title II 
of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as amend-
ed, $3,600,000: Provided, That title II of the McKinney- 
Vento Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11319) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘October 1, 2017’’ in section 209 and insert-
ing ‘‘October 1, 2018’’. 
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 fund-
ed in this Act. 
SEC. 402. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fis-
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cal 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 procurement 
contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such expendi-
tures are a matter of public record and available for public 
inspection, except where otherwise provided 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 knowledge, 
skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the perform-
ance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels 
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 training 
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 Employ-
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ment Opportunity Commission Notice N–915.022, 
dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, partici-
pants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the work-
place. 
(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 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 accounts in the 
Treasury derived by the collection of fees and available to 
the agencies funded by this Act, shall be available for obliga-
tion or expenditure through a reprogramming 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 activi-
ties 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 Committees on 
Appropriations or the table accompanying the explan-
atory 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 Ap-
propriations of the Senate and of the House of Rep-
resentatives to establish the baseline for application of 
reprogramming and transfer authorities for the cur-
rent 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, adjust-
ments made by Congress, adjustments due to en-
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acted 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 con-
gressional interest. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided by 
law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances re-
maining available at the end of fiscal year 2017 from ap-
propriations 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 Appropriations for 
approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided 
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines under section 405 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support 
any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the 
power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is em-
ployed only for a public use: Provided, That for purposes
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of this section, public use shall not be construed to include 
economic development that primarily benefits private enti-
ties: Provided further, That any use of funds for mass tran-
sit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects, as well 
as utility projects which benefit or serve the general public 
(including energy-related, communication-related, water-re-
lated and wastewater-related infrastructure), other struc-
tures designated for use by the general public or which have 
other common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve 
the general public and are subject to regulation and over-
sight 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 pur-
suant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority provided 
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, formerly 
held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces 
of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his
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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 pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion 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 position 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 sec-
tions 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 
8301–8305, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’). 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any per-
son or entity that has been convicted of violating the Buy 
American Act (41 U.S.C. 8301–8305). 
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 per-
mit under sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, United 
States Code, or exemption application under section 40109
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of that title of an air carrier already holding an air opera-
tors 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-Norway Air Transport Agree-
ment. 
(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 attendance 
of more than 50 employees of a single agency or department 
of the United States Government, who are stationed 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 section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring out-
side of the United States attended by representatives of the 
United States Government and of foreign governments,
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international organizations, or nongovernmental organiza-
tions. 
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 in-
ventory, except in accordance with Presidential Memo-
randum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 2011. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used by the Surface 
Transportation Board 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. All unobligated balances, including recap-
tures and carryover, remaining from funds appropriated 
in division L of Public Law 114–113 for ‘‘Department of 
Transportation-Office of the Secretary-Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, ‘‘Department of Transportation-Office of the Sec-
retary-Office of Civil Rights’’, ‘‘Department of Transpor-
tation-Office of the Secretary-Minority Business Outreach’’, 
‘‘Department of Transportation-Federal Transit Adminis-
tration-Administrative Expenses’’, ‘‘Department of Trans-
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portation-Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Ad-
ministration-Operational 
Expenses’’, 
‘‘Department 
of 
Transportation-Surface 
Transportation 
Board-Salaries 
and Expenses’’, ‘‘Access Board-Salaries and Expenses’’, 
‘‘Federal Maritime Commission-Salaries and Expenses’’, 
‘‘National Railroad Passenger Corporation-Office of Inspec-
tor General-Salaries and Expenses’’, ‘‘National Transpor-
tation Safety Board-Salaries and Expenses’’, and ‘‘United 
States Interagency Council on Homelessness-Operating Ex-
penses’’ are rescinded. 
SEC. 418. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to deny an Inspector General funded under 
this Act timely access to any records, documents, or other 
materials available to the department or agency over which 
that Inspector General has responsibilities under the In-
spector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.), or to prevent 
or impede that Inspector General’s access to such records, 
documents, or other materials, under any provision of law, 
except a provision of law that expressly refers to the Inspec-
tor General and expressly limits the Inspector General’s 
right of access. 
(b) A department or agency covered by this section 
shall provide its Inspector General with access to all such 
records, documents, and other materials in a timely man-
ner.
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(c) Each Inspector General shall ensure compliance 
with statutory limitations on disclosure relevant to the in-
formation provided by the establishment over which that In-
spector General has responsibilities under the Inspector 
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.). 
(d) Each Inspector General covered by this section 
shall report to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate within 5 calendar 
days any failures to comply with this requirement. 
SEC. 419. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
on and after the date of enactment of this Act (without re-
gard to fiscal year)— 
(1) subsections (c) and (d) of section 395.3 of 
title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, as codified on 
the day before the date of enactment of this Act, are 
null and void; and 
(2) section 395.3(c) of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, as in effect on December 26, 2011, is 
hereby restored to full force and effect. 
SEC. 420. For an additional amount for the Emer-
gency Relief Program as authorized by section 125 of title 
23, United States Code, $528,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That such amount is designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to
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section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
SEC. 421. For an additional amount for ‘‘Department 
of Housing and Urban Development, Community Planning 
and 
Development, 
Community 
Development 
Fund’’, 
$400,000,000, to remain available until expended, which 
amounts shall be allocated and used under the same author-
ity and conditions as— 
(1) the additional appropriations for fiscal year 
2016 in section 145(a) of division C of Public Law 
114–223 and for fiscal year 2017 in section 192(a) of 
division C of Public Law 114–223 (as added by sec-
tion 101(3) of division A of Public Law 114–254) (ex-
cept for the last proviso under such section 145(a) 
and the proviso under such section 192); 
(2) the additional appropriation for fiscal year 
2016 in section 420 of title IV of division L of Public 
Law 114–113 (except for the last two provisos under 
such section); and 
(3) in section 145(a) of division C of Public Law 
114–223 (except for the last proviso under such sec-
tion 145(a)), for additional major disasters declared 
in calendar year 2017 or later until such funds are 
fully allocated:
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Provided, That amounts authorized for use under section 
192(b) of division C of Public Law 114–223 (as added by 
section 101(3) of division A of Public Law 114–254) may 
be used for necessary costs, including information tech-
nology costs, of administering and overseeing the obligation 
and expenditure of amounts made available under this sec-
tion: Provided further, That amounts made available by 
this section shall be designated by the Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of 
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985. 
SEC. 422. (a) A State or territory, as defined in section 
165 of title 23, United States Code, may use for any project 
eligible under section 133(b) of title 23 or section 165 of 
title 23 and located within the boundary of the State or 
territory any earmarked amount, and any associated obli-
gation limitation, provided that the Department of Trans-
portation for the State or territory for which the earmarked 
amount was originally designated or directed notifies the 
Secretary of Transportation of its intent to use its authority 
under this section and submits a quarterly report to the 
Secretary identifying the projects to which the funding 
would be applied. Notwithstanding the original period of 
availability of funds to be obligated under this section, such 
funds and associated obligation limitation shall remain
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available for obligation for a period of 3 fiscal years after 
the fiscal year in which the Secretary of Transportation 
is notified. The Federal share of the cost of a project carried 
out with funds made available under this section shall be 
the same as associated with the earmark. 
(b) In this section, the term ‘‘earmarked amount’’ 
means— 
(1) congressionally directed spending, as defined 
in rule XLIV of the Standing Rules of the Senate, 
identified in a prior law, report, or joint explanatory 
statement, which was authorized to be appropriated 
or appropriated more than 10 fiscal years prior to 
the current fiscal year, and administered by the Fed-
eral Highway Administration; or 
(2) a congressional earmark, as defined in rule 
XXI of the Rules of the House of Representatives iden-
tified in a prior law, report, or joint explanatory 
statement, which was authorized to be appropriated 
or appropriated more than 10 fiscal years prior to 
the current fiscal year, and administered by the Fed-
eral Highway Administration. 
(c) The authority under subsection (a) may be exer-
cised only for those projects or activities that have obligated 
less than 10 percent of the amount made available for obli-
gation as of October 1 of the current fiscal year, and shall
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be applied to projects within the same general geographic 
area within 100 miles for which the funding was des-
ignated, except that a State or territory may apply such 
authority to unexpended balances of funds from projects or 
activities the State or territory certifies have been closed 
and for which payments have been made under a final 
voucher. 
(d) The Secretary shall submit consolidated reports of 
the information provided by the States and territories each 
quarter to the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions. 
SEC. 423. (a) Section 1105(c) of the Intermodal Sur-
face Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(89) United States Route 67 from Interstate 40 
in North Little Rock, Arkansas, to United States 
Route 412. 
‘‘(90) The Edward T. Breathitt Parkway from 
Interstate 24 to Interstate 69.’’. 
(b) Section 1105(e)(5)(A) of the Intermodal Surface 
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 is amended in the 
first sentence by striking ‘‘and subsection (c)(83)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subsection (c)(83), subsection (c)(89), and sub-
section (c)(90)’’.
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(c) Section 1105(e)(5)(C)(i) of the Intermodal Surface 
Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 is amended by add-
ing at the end the following: ‘‘The route referred to in sub-
section (c)(89) is designated as Interstate Route I–57. The 
route referred to in subsection (c)(90) is designated as Inter-
state Route I–169.’’. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, 
Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2017’’. 
DIVISION 
L—MILITARY 
CONSTRUCTION 
AND 
VETERANS 
AFFAIRS—ADDI-
TIONAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2017 
TITLE I 
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Army’’, $39,500,000, to remain available until September 
30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may be obligated and 
expended to carry out planning and design and military 
construction projects authorized by law: Provided further, 
That such amount is designated by the Congress for Over-
seas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Navy and Marine Corps’’, $66,708,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may 
be obligated and expended to carry out planning and design 
and military construction projects authorized by law: Pro-
vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Air Force’’, $105,300,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may be obli-
gated and expended to carry out planning and design and 
military construction projects authorized by law: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Army National Guard’’, $12,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may 
be obligated and expended to carry out planning and design
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and military construction projects authorized by law: Pro-
vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Air National Guard’’, $13,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may 
be obligated and expended to carry out planning and design 
and military construction projects authorized by law: Pro-
vided further, That such amount is designated by the Con-
gress for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on 
Terrorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, ARMY RESERVE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Army Reserve’’, $10,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may be obli-
gated and expended to carry out planning and design and 
military construction projects authorized by law: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, NAVY RESERVE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Navy Reserve’’, $4,525,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may be obli-
gated and expended to carry out planning and design and 
military construction projects authorized by law: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Construction, 
Air Force Reserve’’, $9,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2021: Provided, That such funds may be obli-
gated and expended to carry out planning and design and 
military construction projects authorized by law: Provided 
further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION—THIS TITLE 
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. Of the unobligated balances made available 
by division I of Public Law 113–235 for ‘‘European Reas-
surance Initiative Military Construction’’ for ‘‘Military
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Construction, Air Force’’, $12,300,000 are hereby rescinded: 
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter-
rorism pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
MEDICAL SERVICES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Medical Services’’, 
$50,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2018: 
Provided, That such funds shall be for opioid and substance 
abuse prevention and treatment, and further implementa-
tion of the Jason Simcakoski Memorial and Promise Act 
(Title IX of Public Law 114–198). 
TITLE III 
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS DIVISION 
SEC. 301. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds made available in this division are in addition to 
amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for the 
Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs for fiscal year 2017: Provided, That such amounts 
shall be subject to the terms and conditions set forth in divi-
sion A of Public Law 114–223.
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This division may be cited as ‘‘Military Construction 
and Veterans Affairs—Additional Appropriations Act, 
2017’’. 
DIVISION M—OTHER MATTERS 
TITLE I—HEALTH BENEFITS FOR 
MINERS ACT OF 2017 
SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 
This title may be cited as ‘‘Health Benefits for Miners 
Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 102. EXTENSION OF TANF PROGRAM AND DETER-
MINING WHAT WORKS TO MOVE WELFARE RE-
CIPIENTS INTO JOBS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Each of the following provisions of 
the Social Security Act is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year 
2012’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘each of fiscal 
years 2017 and 2018’’: 
(1) Subparagraphs (A) and (C) of section 
403(a)(1) (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(1)). 
(2) 
Section 
403(a)(2)(D) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
603(a)(2)(D)), except that the 2nd sentence of such 
section is amended by striking ‘‘fiscal year 2012’’ and 
inserting ‘‘fiscal year 2017 or 2018’’. 
(3) Paragraphs (1)(A) and (2)(A) of section 
412(a) (42 U.S.C. 612(a)). 
(4) Section 418(a)(3) (42 U.S.C. 618(a)(3)).
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(5) Section 1108(b)(2) (42 U.S.C. 1308(b)(2)). 
(b) CONTINGENCY FUND.—Section 403(b)(2) of such 
Act (42 U.S.C. 603(b)(2)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(2) DEPOSITS INTO FUND.—Out of any money 
in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise 
appropriated, there are appropriated for fiscal year 
2018 such sums as are necessary for payment to the 
Fund in a total amount not to exceed $608,000,000.’’. 
(c) STRENGTHENING WELFARE RESEARCH AND EVAL-
UATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A WHAT WORKS CLEARING-
HOUSE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 413 of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 613) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 413. EVALUATION OF TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR 
NEEDY FAMILIES AND RELATED PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF TANF.—The 
Secretary shall conduct research on the effect of State pro-
grams funded under this part and any other State program 
funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined in sec-
tion 409(a)(7)(B)(i)) on employment, self-sufficiency, child 
well-being, unmarried births, marriage, poverty, economic 
mobility, and other factors as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(b) EVALUATION OF GRANTS TO IMPROVE CHILD 
WELL-BEING BY PROMOTING HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND 
RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD.—The Secretary shall conduct
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research to determine the effects of the grants made under 
section 403(a)(2) on child well-being, marriage, family sta-
bility, economic mobility, poverty, and other factors as de-
termined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(c) DISSEMINATION
OF INFORMATION.—The Sec-
retary shall, in consultation with States receiving funds 
provided under this part, develop methods of disseminating 
information on any research, evaluation, or study con-
ducted under this section, including facilitating the sharing 
of information and best practices among States and local-
ities. 
‘‘(d) STATE-INITIATED EVALUATIONS.—A State shall 
be eligible to receive funding to evaluate the State program 
funded under this part or any other State program funded 
with qualified State expenditures (as defined in section 
409(a)(7)(B)(i)) if— 
‘‘(1) the State submits to the Secretary a descrip-
tion of the proposed evaluation; 
‘‘(2) the Secretary determines that the design 
and approach of the proposed evaluation is rigorous 
and is likely to yield information that is credible and 
will be useful to other States; and 
‘‘(3) unless waived by the Secretary, the State 
contributes to the cost of the evaluation, from non-
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Federal sources, an amount equal to at least 25 per-
cent of the cost of the proposed evaluation. 
‘‘(e) CENSUS BUREAU RESEARCH.— 
‘‘(1) The Bureau of the Census shall implement 
or enhance household surveys of program participa-
tion, in consultation with the Secretary and the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics and made available to inter-
ested parties, to allow for the assessment of the out-
comes of continued welfare reform on the economic 
and child well-being of low-income families with chil-
dren, including those who received assistance or serv-
ices from a State program funded under this part or 
any other State program funded with qualified State 
expenditures (as defined in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)). 
The content of the surveys should include such infor-
mation as may be necessary to examine the issues of 
unmarried childbearing, marriage, welfare depend-
ency and compliance with work requirements, the be-
ginning and ending of spells of assistance, work, 
earnings and employment stability, and the well- 
being of children. 
‘‘(2) To carry out the activities specified in 
paragraph (1), the Bureau of the Census, the Sec-
retary, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall con-
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sider ways to improve the surveys and data derived 
from the surveys to— 
‘‘(A) address under reporting of the receipt 
of means-tested benefits and tax benefits for low- 
income individuals and families; 
‘‘(B) increase understanding of poverty 
spells and long-term poverty, including by facili-
tating the matching of information to better un-
derstand intergenerational poverty; 
‘‘(C) generate a better geographical under-
standing of poverty such as through State-based 
estimates and measures of neighborhood poverty; 
‘‘(D) increase understanding of the effects of 
means-tested benefits and tax benefits on the 
earnings and incomes of low-income families; 
and 
‘‘(E) improve how poverty and economic 
well-being are measured, including through the 
use of consumption measures, material depriva-
tion measures, social exclusion measures, and 
economic and social mobility measures. 
‘‘(f) RESEARCH AND EVALUATION CONDUCTED UNDER 
THIS SECTION.—Research and evaluation conducted under 
this section designed to determine the effects of a program 
or policy (other than research conducted under subsection
1599 
(e)) shall use experimental designs using random assign-
ment or other reliable, evidence-based research methodolo-
gies that allow for the strongest possible causal inferences 
when random assignment is not feasible. 
‘‘(g) DEVELOPMENT
OF WHAT WORKS CLEARING-
HOUSE OF PROVEN AND PROMISING APPROACHES TO MOVE 
WELFARE RECIPIENTS INTO WORK.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Labor, shall develop a 
database (which shall be referred to as the ‘What 
Works Clearinghouse of Proven and Promising 
Projects to Move Welfare Recipients into Work’) of the 
projects that used a proven approach or a promising 
approach in moving welfare recipients into work, 
based on independent, rigorous evaluations of the 
projects. The database shall include a separate listing 
of projects that used a developmental approach in de-
livering services and a further separate listing of the 
projects with no or negative effects. The Secretary 
shall add to the What Works Clearinghouse of Proven 
and Promising Projects to Move Welfare Recipients 
into Work data about the projects that, based on an 
independent, well-conducted experimental evaluation 
of a program or project, using random assignment or 
other research methodologies that allow for the strong-
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est possible causal inferences, have shown they are 
proven, promising, developmental, or ineffective ap-
proaches. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA
FOR
EVIDENCE
OF
EFFECTIVE-
NESS OF APPROACH.—The Secretary, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Labor and organizations with 
experience in evaluating research on the effectiveness 
of various approaches in delivering services to move 
welfare recipients into work, shall— 
‘‘(A) establish criteria for evidence of effec-
tiveness; and 
‘‘(B) ensure that the process for establishing 
the criteria— 
‘‘(i) is transparent; 
‘‘(ii) is consistent across agencies; 
‘‘(iii) provides opportunity for public 
comment; and 
‘‘(iv) takes into account efforts of Fed-
eral agencies to identify and publicize effec-
tive interventions, including efforts at the 
Department of Health and Human Services, 
the Department of Education, and the De-
partment of Justice. 
‘‘(h) APPROPRIATION.—
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the amount appropriated 
by section 403(a)(1) for each fiscal year, 0.33 percent 
shall be available for research, technical assistance, 
and evaluation under this section. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amount made avail-
able under paragraph (1) for each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall make available $10,000,000 plus such 
additional amount as the Secretary deems necessary 
and appropriate, to carry out subsection (e). 
‘‘(3) BASELINE.—The baseline established pursu-
ant to section 257 of the Balanced Budget and Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 907(b)(2)) for the Tem-
porary Assistance for Needy Families Program shall 
be recorded by the Office of Management and Budget 
and the Congressional Budget Office at the level prior 
to any transfers recorded pursuant to section 413(h) 
of this Act.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
403(a)(1)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(1)(B)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, reduced by the percentage 
specified in section 413(h)(1) with respect to the fiscal 
year,’’ before ‘‘as the amount’’.
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SEC. 103. FULL FUNDING FOR STATE COURTS TO IMPROVE 
THE HANDLING OF CHILD WELFARE CASES. 
Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States 
not otherwise appropriated, there are hereby appropriated 
for fiscal year 2017 $20,000,000 for grants under section 
438 of the Social Security Act, in addition to any other 
amounts appropriated for such purpose. The amounts ap-
propriated by the preceding sentence shall be considered to 
be amounts reserved under section 436(b)(2) of such Act for 
fiscal year 2017, for purposes of clauses (ii) and (iii) of 
section 438(c)(3)(A) of such Act. 
SEC. 104. INCLUSION OF CERTAIN RETIREES IN THE MULTI-
EMPLOYER HEALTH BENEFIT PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 402(h)(2)(C) of the Surface 
Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. 
1232(h)(2)(C)) is amended— 
(1) by striking clauses (ii), (iii), and (iv); and 
(2) by inserting after clause (i) the following: 
‘‘(ii) CALCULATION OF EXCESS.—The 
excess determined under clause (i) shall be 
calculated by taking into account only— 
‘‘(I) those beneficiaries actually 
enrolled in the Plan as of the date of 
the enactment of the Health Benefits 
for Miners Act of 2017 who are eligible 
to receive health benefits under the
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Plan on the first day of the calendar 
year for which the transfer is made, 
other than those beneficiaries enrolled 
in the Plan under the terms of a par-
ticipation agreement with the current 
or former employer of such bene-
ficiaries; and 
‘‘(II) those beneficiaries whose 
health benefits, defined as those benefits 
payable, following death or retirement 
or upon a finding of disability, di-
rectly by an employer in the bitu-
minous coal industry under a coal 
wage agreement (as defined in section 
9701(b)(1) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986), would be denied or re-
duced as a result of a bankruptcy pro-
ceeding commenced in 2012 or 2015. 
For purposes of subclause (I), a beneficiary 
enrolled in the Plan as of the date of the en-
actment of the Health Benefits for Miners 
Act of 2017 shall be deemed to have been eli-
gible to receive health benefits under the 
Plan on January 1, 2017.
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‘‘(iii) ELIGIBILITY OF CERTAIN RETIR-
EES.—Individuals referred to in clause 
(ii)(II) shall be treated as eligible to receive 
health benefits under the Plan. 
‘‘(iv) 
REQUIREMENTS
FOR
TRANS-
FER.—The amount of the transfer otherwise 
determined under this subparagraph for a 
fiscal year 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’ beneficiary as-
sociation established as a result of a bank-
ruptcy proceeding described in clause (ii).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this 
section shall apply to fiscal years beginning after September 
30, 2016. 
SEC. 105. CUSTOMS USER FEES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 13031(j)(3)(A) of the Con-
solidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (19 
U.S.C. 58c(j)(3)(A)) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 
2025’’ and inserting ‘‘January 14, 2026’’. 
(b) RATE FOR MERCHANDISE PROCESSING FEES.— 
Section 503 of the United States–Korea Free Trade Agree-
ment Implementation Act (Public Law 112–41; 19 U.S.C.