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source Allocation: Provided further, That within 30 days 
of enactment of this Act the Secretary shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
an expenditure plan, by project, for non-recurring mainte-
nance prior to obligation: Provided further, That semi-an-
nually, on October 1 and April 1, the Secretary shall sub-
mit to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress a report on the status of funding for non- 
recurring maintenance, including obligations and unobli-
gated balances for each project identified in the expendi-
ture plan. 
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Medical and Pros-
thetic Research’’, $32,500,000, to remain available until 
expended, which shall be used for research related to the 
unique medical needs of returning Operation Enduring 
Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom veterans. 
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘General Operating 
Expenses’’, $83,200,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $1,250,000 shall be for digitization of 
military records; $60,750,000 shall be for expenses related 
to hiring and training new claims processing personnel; 
up to $1,200,000 for an independent study of the organi-
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zational structure, management and coordination proc-
esses, including seamless transition, utilized by the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs to provide health care and 
benefits to active duty personnel and veterans, including 
those returning Operation Enduring Freedom and Oper-
ation Iraqi Freedom veterans; and $20,000,000 shall be 
for disability examinations: Provided, That not to exceed 
$1,250,000 of the amount appropriated under this head-
ing may be transferred to the Department of Defense for 
the digitization of military records used to verify stressors 
for benefits claims. 
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Information Tech-
nology Systems’’, $35,100,000, to remain available until 
expended, of which $20,000,000 shall be for information 
technology support and improvements for processing of 
Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Free-
dom veterans benefits claims, including making electronic 
Department of Defense medical records available for 
claims processing and enabling electronic benefits applica-
tions by veterans; and $15,100,000 shall be for electronic 
data breach remediation and prevention. 
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction, Minor 
Projects’’, $326,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which up to $36,000,000 shall be for construc-
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tion costs associated with the establishment of polytrauma 
residential transitional rehabilitation programs. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 4501. The Director of the Congressional Budget 
Office shall, not later than November 15, 2007, submit 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate a report projecting appropria-
tions necessary for the Departments of Defense and Vet-
erans Affairs to continue providing necessary health care 
to veterans of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 
projections should span several scenarios for the duration 
and number of forces deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
and more generally, for the long-term health care needs 
of deployed troops engaged in the global war on terrorism 
over the next ten years. 
SEC. 4502. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, appropriations made by Public Law 110–5, which the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs contributes to the Depart-
ment of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs Health 
Care Sharing Incentive Fund under the authority of sec-
tion 8111(d) of title 38, United States Code, shall remain 
available until expended for any purpose authorized by 
section 8111 of title 38, United States Code. 
SEC. 4503. (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (referred 
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to in this section as the ‘‘Secretary’’) may convey to the 
State of Texas, without consideration, all right, title, and 
interest of the United States in and to the parcel of real 
property comprising the location of the Marlin, Texas, De-
partment of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. 
(2) The property conveyed under paragraph (1) shall 
be used by the State of Texas for the purposes of a prison. 
(b) In carrying out the conveyance under subsection 
(a), the Secretary— 
(1) shall not be required to comply with, and 
shall not be held liable under, any Federal law (in-
cluding a regulation) relating to the environment or 
historic preservation; but 
(2) may, at the discretion of the Secretary, con-
duct environmental cleanup on the parcel to be con-
veyed, at a cost not to exceed $500,000, using 
amounts made available for environmental cleanup 
of sites under the jurisdiction of the Secretary. 
TITLE V—OTHER MATTERS 
CHAPTER 1 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
FARM SERVICE AGENCY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’ of the Farm Service Agency, $37,500,000, to re-
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main available until September 30, 2008: Provided, That 
this amount shall only be available for network and data-
base/application stabilization. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 5101. Of the funds made available through ap-
propriations to the Food and Drug Administration for fis-
cal year 2007, not less than $4,000,000 shall be for the 
Office of Women’s Health of such Administration. 
SEC. 5102. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Agriculture for fiscal year 2007 may be 
used to implement the risk-based inspection program in 
the 30 prototype locations announced on February 22, 
2007, by the Under Secretary for Food Safety, or at any 
other locations, until the USDA Office of Inspector Gen-
eral has provided its findings to the Food Safety and In-
spection Service and the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate on the data 
used in support of the development and design of the risk- 
based inspection program and FSIS has addressed and 
resolved issues identified by OIG. 
CHAPTER 2 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 5201. Hereafter, federal employees at the Na-
tional Energy Technology Laboratory shall be classified 
as inherently governmental for the purpose of the Federal 
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Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 
note). 
SEC. 5202. None of the funds made available under 
this or any other Act shall be used during fiscal year 2007 
to make, or plan or prepare to make, any payment on 
bonds issued by the Administrator of the Bonneville Power 
Administration (referred in this section as the ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’) or for an appropriated Federal Columbia River 
Power System investment, if the payment is both— 
(1) greater, during any fiscal year, than the 
payments calculated in the rate hearing of the Ad-
ministrator to be made during that fiscal year using 
the repayment method used to establish the rates of 
the Administrator as in effect on October 1, 2006; 
and 
(2) based or conditioned on the actual or ex-
pected net secondary power sales receipts of the Ad-
ministrator. 
CHAPTER 3 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 5301. (a) Section 102(a)(3)(B) of the Help 
America Vote Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15302(a)(3)(B)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘January 1, 2006’’ and inserting 
‘‘March 1, 2008’’. 
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(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Help America 
Vote Act of 2002. 
SEC. 5302. The structure of any of the offices or 
components within the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy shall remain as they were on October 1, 2006. None 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available in 
the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Public 
Law 110–5) may be used to implement a reorganization 
of offices within the Office of National Drug Control Pol-
icy without the explicit approval of the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
ate. 
SEC. 5303. From the amount provided by section 
21067 of the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 
(Public Law 110–5), the National Archives and Records 
Administration may obligate monies necessary to carry out 
the activities of the Public Interest Declassification Board. 
SEC. 5304. Notwithstanding the notice requirement 
of the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban De-
velopment, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, 119 
Stat. 2509 (Public Law 109–115), as continued in section 
104 of the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 
(Public Law 110–5), the District of Columbia Courts may 
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reallocate not more than $1,000,000 of the funds provided 
for fiscal year 2007 under the Federal Payment to the 
District of Columbia Courts for facilities among the items 
and entities funded under that heading for operations. 
SEC. 5305. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in coordination with the Securities and Exchange Commis-
sion and in consultation with the Departments of State 
and Energy, shall prepare and submit to the Senate Com-
mittee on Appropriations, the House Committee on Appro-
priations, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, 
and Urban Affairs, the House Committee on Financial 
Services, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 
the House Foreign Affairs Committee a written report, 
which may include a classified annex, containing the 
names of companies which either directly or through a 
parent or subsidiary company, including partly-owned sub-
sidiaries, are known to conduct significant business oper-
ations in Sudan relating to natural resource extraction, 
including oil-related activities and mining of minerals. The 
reporting provision shall not apply to companies operating 
under licenses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control 
or otherwise expressly exempted under United States law 
from having to obtain such licenses in order to operate 
in Sudan. 
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(b) Not later than 45 days following the submission 
to Congress of the list of companies conducting business 
operations in Sudan relating to natural resource extrac-
tion as required above, the General Services Administra-
tion shall determine whether the United States Govern-
ment has an active contract for the procurement of goods 
or services with any of the identified companies, and pro-
vide notification to the appropriate committees of Con-
gress, which may include a classified annex, regarding the 
companies, nature of the contract, and dollar amounts in-
volved. 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
SEC. 5306. (a) Of the funds provided for the General 
Services Administration, ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ in 
section 21061 of the Continuing Appropriations Resolu-
tion, 2007 (division B of Public Law 109–289, as amend-
ed by Public Law 110–5), $4,500,000 are rescinded. 
(b) For an additional amount for the General Serv-
ices Administration, ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, 
$4,500,000, to remain available until September 30, 2008. 
SEC. 5307. Section 21073 of the Continuing Appro-
priations Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110–5) is amend-
ed by adding a new subsection (j) as follows: 
‘‘(j) Notwithstanding section 101, any appropriation 
or funds made available to the District of Columbia pursu-
ant to this division for ‘Federal Payment for Foster Care 
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Improvement in the District of Columbia’ shall be avail-
able in accordance with an expenditure plan submitted by 
the Mayor of the District of Columbia not later than 60 
days after the enactment of this section which details the 
activities to be carried out with such Federal Payment.’’. 
CHAPTER 4 
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 5401. Not to exceed $30,000,000 from unobli-
gated balances remaining from prior appropriations for 
United States Coast Guard, ‘‘Retired Pay’’, shall remain 
available until expended in the account and for the pur-
poses for which the appropriations were provided, includ-
ing the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to 
lapsed or current appropriations for this purpose. 
SEC. 5402. (a) IN GENERAL.—Any contract, sub-
contract, task or delivery order described in subsection (b) 
shall contain the following: 
(1) A requirement for a technical review of all 
designs, design changes, and engineering change 
proposals, and a requirement to specifically address 
all engineering concerns identified in the review be-
fore the obligation of further funds may occur. 
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