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board, a recognized accrediting agency, or a hospital
medical staff, and includes the members, officers,
employees, consultants, and volunteers or commit-
tees of such an entity.
(7) The term ‘‘person’’ includes a State or unit
of local government.
(8) The term ‘‘provider of health care services’’
means any individual or entity that is engaged in the
delivery of health care services in a State and that
is required by State law or regulation to be licensed
or certified by the State to engage in the delivery of
such services in the State.
(9) The term ‘‘specialty group’’ means a medi-
cal specialty or subspecialty in which a provider of
health care services may be licensed to practice by
a State (as determined by the Secretary in consulta-
tion with the certification boards for such specialties
and subspecialties).
(10) The term ‘‘standard setting and enforce-
ment activities’’ means—
(A) accreditation of health care practition-
ers, health care providers, medical education in-
stitutions, or medical education programs,
(B) technology assessment and risk man-
agement activities,
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(b)(1) of section 213 of the Reclamation Reform Act of 
1982 (43 U.S.C. 390mm(b)(1)). 
(c) CONTRACT AMENDMENT.—On approval of the 
district directors and notwithstanding project authorizing 
legislation to the contrary, the district’s reclamation con-
tracts are modified, without further action by the Sec-
retary of the Interior, to— 
(1) authorize the use of water for instream pur-
poses, including fish or wildlife purposes, in order 
for the district to engage in, or take advantage of, 
conserved water projects and temporary instream 
leasing as authorized by Oregon State law; 
(2) include within the district boundary ap-
proximately 2,742 acres in the vicinity of McKay 
Creek, resulting in a total of approximately 44,937 
acres within the district boundary; 
(3) classify as irrigable approximately 685 acres 
within the approximately 2,742 acres of included 
lands in the vicinity of McKay Creek, where the ap-
proximately 685 acres are authorized to receive irri-
gation water pursuant to water rights issued by the 
State of Oregon and have in the past received water 
pursuant to such State water rights; and 
(4) provide the district with stored water from 
Prineville Reservoir for purposes of supplying up to 
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the approximately 685 acres of lands added within 
the district boundary and classified as irrigable 
under paragraphs (2) and (3), with such stored 
water to be supplied on an acre-per-acre basis con-
tingent on the transfer of existing appurtenant 
McKay Creek water rights to instream use and the 
State’s issuance of water rights for the use of stored 
water. 
(d) LIMITATION.—Except as otherwise provided in 
subsections (a) and (c), nothing in this section shall be 
construed to— 
(1) modify contractual rights that may exist be-
tween the district and the United States under the 
district’s Reclamation contracts; 
(2) amend or reopen the contracts referred to 
in paragraph (1); or 
(3) modify any rights, obligations or relation-
ships that may exist between the district and its 
landowners as may be provided or governed by Or-
egon State law. 
Passed the House of Representatives October 29, 
2013. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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•HR 2642 EAH1S 
(b) DUTIES OF NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, 
EXTENSION, EDUCATION, 
AND
ECONOMICS
ADVISORY 
BOARD.—Section 1408(c) of the National Agricultural Re-
search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3123(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(2) in paragraph (4)(C), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new para-
graph: 
‘‘(5) consult with industry groups on agricul-
tural research, extension, education, and economics, 
and make recommendations to the Secretary based on 
that consultation.’’. 
SEC. 7103. SPECIALTY CROP COMMITTEE. 
Section 1408A(c) of the National Agricultural Re-
search, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 (7 
U.S.C. 3123a(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Measures’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Programs’’; 
(2) by striking paragraph (2); 
(3) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (5) 
as paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively; and 
(4) in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated)—
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students that entered such secondary schools in the
previous year from the elementary schools involved;
and
‘‘(C) distribute funds to an area vocational edu-
cation school in any case in which—
‘‘(i) the area vocational education school
and the local educational agency or agencies
concerned have an agreement to use such funds
to provide services and activities in accordance
with the priorities described in section 101; and
‘‘(ii) the area vocational education school
serves an equal or greater proportion of stu-
dents with disabilities or economically disadvan-
taged students than the proportion of these stu-
dents under the jurisdiction of the local edu-
cational agencies sending students to the area
vocational education school.
‘‘(b) DISTRIBUTION
OF
FUNDS
AT
THE
POST-
SECONDARY LEVEL.—(1) Except as provided in sub-
sections (c), (d), and (e), each State shall, each fiscal year,
distribute to eligible institutions, or consortia of such insti-
tutions, within the State funds under this title available
for postsecondary school education services and activities
that are conducted in accordance with the priorities de-
scribed in section 101. Each such eligible institution or
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consortium shall be allocated an amount that bears the
same relationship to the amount of funds available as the
number of Pell Grant recipients and recipients of assist-
ance from the Bureau of Indian Affairs enrolled by such
institution or consortium in the preceding fiscal year bears
to the number of such recipients enrolled in such programs
within the State in such fiscal year.
‘‘(2) For the purposes of this section—
‘‘(A) the term ‘eligible institution’ means—
‘‘(i) an institution of higher education;
‘‘(ii) a local educational agency providing
education at the postsecondary level;
‘‘(iii) an area vocational education school
providing education at the postsecondary level;
and
‘‘(iv) a postsecondary educational institu-
tion controlled by the Bureau of Indian Affairs
or operated by or on behalf of any Indian tribe
that is eligible to contract with the Secretary of
the Interior for the administration of programs
under the Indian Self-Determination Act or the
Act of April 16, 1934; and
‘‘(B) the term ‘Pell Grant recipient’ means a
recipient of financial aid under subpart 1 of part A
of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965.
are outside of the authority and expertise of the 
commenting participating agency. 
‘‘(f) PROJECT INITIATION REQUEST.— 
‘‘(1) NOTICE.—A project sponsor shall provide 
the Federal agency responsible for undertaking a 
project with notice of the initiation of the project by 
providing a description of the proposed project, the 
general location of the proposed project, and a state-
ment of any Federal approvals anticipated to be nec-
essary for the proposed project, for the purpose of 
informing the Federal agency that the environmental 
review should be initiated. 
‘‘(2) LEAD AGENCY INITIATION.—The agency 
receiving a project initiation notice under paragraph 
(1) shall promptly identify the lead agency for the 
project, and the lead agency shall initiate the envi-
ronmental review within a period of 45 days after 
receiving the notice required by paragraph (1) by in-
viting or designating agencies to become partici-
pating agencies, or, where the lead agency deter-
mines that no participating agencies are required for 
the project, by taking such other actions that are 
reasonable and necessary to initiate the environ-
mental review. 
‘‘(g) ALTERNATIVES ANALYSIS.—
‘‘(1) PARTICIPATION.—As early as practicable 
during the environmental review, but no later than 
during scoping for a project requiring the prepara-
tion of an environmental impact statement, the lead 
agency shall provide an opportunity for involvement 
by cooperating agencies in determining the range of 
alternatives to be considered for a project. 
‘‘(2) RANGE
OF
ALTERNATIVES.—Following 
participation under paragraph (1), the lead agency 
shall determine the range of alternatives for consid-
eration in any document which the lead agency is re-
sponsible for preparing for the project, subject to the 
following limitations: 
‘‘(A) NO EVALUATION OF CERTAIN ALTER-
NATIVES.—No Federal agency shall evaluate 
any alternative that was identified but not car-
ried forward for detailed evaluation in an envi-
ronmental document or evaluated and not se-
lected in any environmental document prepared 
under NEPA for the same project. 
‘‘(B) 
ONLY
FEASIBLE
ALTERNATIVES 
EVALUATED.—Where a project is being con-
structed, managed, funded, or undertaken by a 
project sponsor that is not a Federal agency, 
Federal agencies shall only be required to evalu-
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(A) uphold the determination of the Com-
mission; or
(B) establish an amount that is appro-
priate to provide full compensation to the indi-
vidual submitting the appeal for the value of
the real property or mining claim, as the case
may be, of the individual that was taken by the
United States Government.
(4) LIMITATION
ON
ADJUSTMENT
OF
COM-
PENSATION.—The amount of compensation estab-
lished by the Secretary for a claim on appeal under
paragraph (3)(B) may not be less than the amount
of compensation determined by the Commission for
the claim under subsection (c)(1).
(5) NOTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall notify
each individual submitting an appeal under this sub-
section of the decision of the Secretary under para-
graph (3).
(6) FINALITY OF DECISION.—The decision of
the Secretary under paragraph (3) shall not be sub-
ject to judicial review.
(e) PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION.—
(1) PAYMENT.—Subject to paragraph (2), upon
upholding the determination of the Commission with
respect to a claim under paragraph (3)(A) of sub-
section (d) or establishing an appropriate amount of
compensation with respect to the claim under para-
graph (3)(B) of that subsection, the Secretary of
Defense shall pay to the individual submitting the
claim the amount, if any, that is so upheld or estab-
lished, as the case may be.
(2) PAYMENT
SUBJECT
TO
AVAILABILITY
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—The Secretary may make pay-
ments under this subsection in a fiscal year only to
the extent that funds are appropriated for such pur-
pose in advance in an appropriations Act.
SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION FOR ACTIVITIES OF COMMIS-
SION.—There are authorized to be appropriated such
sums as may be necessary for the payment of the cost
of the activities of the White Sands Fair Compensation
Commission under this Act. Such sums shall be available
for expenditure until the termination of the Commission
under section 3(i).
(b) AUTHORIZATION FOR PAYMENT OF CLAIMS.—
There is authorized to be appropriated $20,300,000 for
the purposes of payment of claims under section 4. Such
amount shall remain available until expended.
Æ
(6) Section 4041(a)(3)(A). 
(7) Section 4041(m)(1)(A). 
(d) RULE REGARDING TAX RATES.—In making de-
terminations under this section relating to excise tax in-
creases, the ratio that the amount of revenue raised by 
an excise tax specified in subsection (c) bears to the aggre-
gate amount of revenue raised by excise taxes specified 
in subsection (c) shall remain the same. 
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The effective date of an in-
crease in tax under this section shall be— 
(1) January 1, 2017, in the case of an increase 
under subsection (a), and 
(2) January 1, 2020, in the case of an increase 
under subsection (b). 
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(b) REPORT.—Section 311(b)(3) of the Customs Bor-
der Security Act of 2002 (19 U.S.C. 2075 note) is amend-
ed to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) REPORT.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than De-
cember 31, 2016, the Commissioner responsible 
for U.S. Customs and Border Protection shall 
submit to the Committee on Appropriations and 
the Committee on Finance of the Senate and 
the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives a report detailing— 
‘‘(i) U.S. Customs and Border Protec-
tion’s incorporation of all core trade proc-
essing capabilities, including cargo release, 
entry summary, cargo manifest, cargo fi-
nancial data, and export data elements 
into the Automated Commercial Environ-
ment computer system authorized under 
section 13031(f)(4) of the Consolidated 
Omnibus Budget and Reconciliation Act of 
1985 (19 U.S.C. 58c(f)(4)) not later than 
September 30, 2016, to conform with the 
admissibility criteria of agencies partici-
pating in the International Trade Data 
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‘‘(c) ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTION FORMULA.—The
State may distribute funds under subsection (a) or (b)
using an alternative formula if the State demonstrates to
the Secretary’s satisfaction that such alternative formula
better meets the purpose of this Act, is in accord with
the priorities described in section 101, and that—
‘‘(1) in the case of funds distributed to second-
ary schools—
‘‘(A) the formula described in subsection
(a) does not result in a distribution of funds to
the local educational agencies or consortia that
serve secondary school students with the great-
est need for services and activities under this
title, including students who are members of
special populations; and
‘‘(B) the alternative formula would better
serve the needs of these students; and
‘‘(2) in the case of funds distributed to post-
secondary schools—
‘‘(A) the formula described in subsection
(b) does not result in a distribution of funds to
the eligible institutions or consortia that have
the highest numbers or percentages of economi-
cally disadvantaged students, as described in
subsection (g); and
entity, that seeks approval for a project or is other-
wise responsible for undertaking a project; and 
‘‘(13) ‘record of decision’ means a document 
prepared by a lead agency under NEPA following an 
environmental impact statement that states the lead 
agency’s decision, identifies the alternatives consid-
ered by the agency in reaching its decision and 
states whether all practicable means to avoid or min-
imize environmental harm from the alternative se-
lected have been adopted, and if not, why they were 
not adopted. 
‘‘(c) PREPARATION
OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
DOCU-
MENTS.—Upon the request of the lead agency, the project 
sponsor shall be authorized to prepare any document for 
purposes of an environmental review required in support 
of any project or approval by the lead agency if the lead 
agency furnishes oversight in such preparation and inde-
pendently evaluates such document and the document is 
approved and adopted by the lead agency prior to taking 
any action or making any approval based on such docu-
ment. 
‘‘(d) ADOPTION AND USE OF DOCUMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) DOCUMENTS PREPARED UNDER NEPA.— 
‘‘(A) Not more than 1 environmental im-
pact statement and 1 environmental assessment 
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made by this title, and shall by rule designate States 
with laws and procedures that satisfy the criteria 
under section 560(d)(2)(A) of title 5, United States 
Code. 
(2) FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Not later than 120 
days after the date that the Council on Environ-
mental Quality amends the regulations contained in 
part 1500 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, 
to implement the provisions of this title and the 
amendments made by this title, each Federal agency 
with regulations implementing the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
shall amend such regulations to implement the pro-
visions of this subchapter. 
Passed the House of Representatives March 6, 
2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2641 
AN ACT 
To provide for improved coordination of agency ac-
tions in the preparation and adoption of environ-
mental documents for permitting determinations, 
and for other purposes.
with its fiscal intermediary and its utilization and
quality control peer review organization that the hos-
pital will meet the requirements of subsection (a) by
a specified date (not later than January 1, 2000).
(3) The Secretary may waive the application of
the requirement of subsection (a)(1) for a hospital
that agrees to obtain from its records the data ele-
ments that are needed to meet the requirements of
paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) and agrees
to subject its data transfer process to a quality as-
surance program specified by the Secretary.
(c) APPLICATION TO HOSPITALS OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall provide that each hospital of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs shall comply with the
requirements of subsection (a) in the same manner
as such requirements would apply to the hospital if
it were participating in the Medicare program.
(2) WAIVER.—The Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs may waive the application of such requirements
to a hospital in the same manner as the Secretary
of Health and Human Services may waive under
subsection (b) the application of the requirements of
subsection (a).
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‘‘(11) ‘project’ means major Federal actions 
that are construction activities undertaken with Fed-
eral funds or that are construction activities that re-
quire approval by a permit or regulatory decision 
issued by a Federal agency; 
‘‘(12) ‘project sponsor’ means the agency or 
other entity, including any private or public-private 
entity, that seeks approval for a project or is other-
wise responsible for undertaking a project; and 
‘‘(13) ‘record of decision’ means a document 
prepared by a lead agency under NEPA following an 
environmental impact statement that states the lead 
agency’s decision, identifies the alternatives consid-
ered by the agency in reaching its decision and 
states whether all practicable means to avoid or min-
imize environmental harm from the alternative se-
lected have been adopted, and if not, why they were 
not adopted. 
‘‘(c) PREPARATION
OF
ENVIRONMENTAL
DOCU-
MENTS.—Upon the request of the lead agency, the project 
sponsor shall be authorized to prepare any document for 
purposes of an environmental review required in support 
of any project or approval by the lead agency if the lead 
agency furnishes oversight in such preparation and inde-
pendently evaluates such document and the document is 
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114TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1755 
AN ACT 
To amend title 36, United States Code, to make certain 
improvements in the congressional charter of the Dis-
abled American Veterans. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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TRANSITION
SEC. 202. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law—
(1) upon enactment of the Career Preparation
Education Reform Act of 1995, a State or local re-
cipient of funds under the Carl D. Perkins Voca-
tional and Applied Technology Education Act may
use any such unexpended funds to carry out services
and activities that are authorized by either such Act
or the Carl D. Perkins Career Preparation Edu-
cation Act; and
(2) a State or local recipient of funds under the
Carl D. Perkins Career Preparation Education Act
for the fiscal year 1996 may use such funds to carry
out services and activities that are authorized by ei-
ther such Act or were authorized by the Carl D.
Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Edu-
cation Act prior to its amendment.
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO OTHER ACTS
AMENDMENTS TO THE JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT
SEC. 301. The Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.) is amended—
(1) in section (4)—
(A) in paragraph (14), by striking ‘‘in sec-
tion 521(22) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
amended by inserting after section 25 the following new
section:
‘‘SEC. 25A. MEDICAL SAVINGS ACCOUNTS.
‘‘(a) ALLOWANCE OF CREDIT.—In the case of an in-
dividual, there shall be allowed as a credit against the tax
imposed by this subtitle for the taxable year an amount
equal to 25 percent of the amount paid in cash during
such year by or on behalf of such individual to a medical
savings account.
‘‘(b) LIMITATIONS.—For purposes of this section:
‘‘(1) ONLY 1 ACCOUNT PER FAMILY.—No credit
shall be allowed under subsection (a) for amounts
paid to any medical savings account for the benefit
of an individual, such individual’s spouse, or any de-
pendent (as defined in section 152) of such individ-
ual if such individual, spouse, or dependent is a ben-
eficiary of any other medical savings account.
‘‘(2) DOLLAR
LIMITATION.—The aggregate
amount of contributions which may be taken into ac-
count under subsection (a) with respect to any indi-
vidual for any taxable year shall not exceed the sum
of—
‘‘(A) $3,000, plus
under section 560(d)(2)(A) of title 5, United States 
Code. 
(2) FEDERAL AGENCIES.—Not later than 120 
days after the date that the Council on Environ-
mental Quality amends the regulations contained in 
part 1500 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, 
to implement the provisions of this title and the 
amendments made by this title, each Federal agency 
with regulations implementing the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 
shall amend such regulations to implement the pro-
visions of this subchapter. 
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Union Calendar No. 269 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2641 
[Report No. 113–363, Part I] 
A BILL 
To provide for improved coordination of agency ac-
tions in the preparation and adoption of environ-
mental documents for permitting determinations, 
and for other purposes. 
FEBRUARY 27, 2014 
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary 
FEBRUARY 27, 2014 
The Committee on Natural Resources discharged; com-
mitted to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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Education Act’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘section 4(10) of the School-to-Work Opportu-
nities Act of 1994’’; and
(B) in paragraph (28), by striking ‘‘Voca-
tional Education Act’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act as in effect on the day prior to
the date of enactment of the Career Prepara-
tion Education Reform Act of 1995’’;
(2) in section 121(a)(2), by adding at the end
thereof the following sentence: ‘‘The State may sub-
mit such plan as part of a State plan, or amendment
to a State plan, under the Carl D. Perkins Career
Preparation Education Act or the School-to-Work
Opportunities Act of 1994.’’;
(3) in section 122(b)—
(A) by amending paragraph (8) to read as
follows:
‘‘(8) consult with the appropriate State agency
under section 106 of the Carl D. Perkins Career
Preparation Education Act to obtain a summary of
activities and an analysis of results in training
women in nontraditional employment under such
Act, and annually disseminate such summary to