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the railroad retirement accounts and railroad unemploy-
ment insurance account.
UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Institute
of Peace as authorized in the United States Institute of
Peace Act, $11,500,000.
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. The Secretaries of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education are authorized to transfer
unexpended balances of prior appropriations to accounts
corresponding to current appropriations provided in this
Act: Provided, That such transferred balances are used for
the same purpose, and for the same periods of time, for
which they were originally appropriated.
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 503. (a) No part of any appropriation contained
in this Act shall be used, other than for normal and recog-
nized executive-legislative relationships, for publicity or
propaganda purposes, for the preparation, distribution, or
use of any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, tele-
vision, or film presentation designed to support or defeat
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legislation pending before the Congress, except in presen-
tation to the Congress itself.
(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall be used to pay the salary or expenses of any
grant or contract recipient, or agent acting for such recipi-
ent, related to any activity designed to influence legislation
or appropriations pending before the Congress.
SEC. 504. The Secretaries of Labor and Education
are each authorized to make available not to exceed
$15,000 from funds available for salaries and expenses
under titles I and III, respectively, for official reception
and representation expenses; the Director of the Federal
Mediation and Conciliation Service is authorized to make
available for official reception and representation expenses
not to exceed $2,500 from the funds available for ‘‘Sala-
ries and expenses, Federal Mediation and Conciliation
Service’’; and the Chairman of the National Mediation
Board is authorized to make available for official reception
and representation expenses not to exceed $2,500 from
funds available for ‘‘Salaries and expenses, National Medi-
ation Board’’.
SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, no funds appropriated under this Act shall be
used to carry out any program of distributing sterile nee-
dles for the hypodermic injection of any illegal drug unless
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the Secretary of Health and Human Services determines
that such programs are effective in preventing the spread
of HIV and do not encourage the use of illegal drugs.
SEC. 506. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any en-
tity using funds made available in this Act, the head of
each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the state-
ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 507. When issuing statements, press releases,
requests for proposals, bid solicitations and other docu-
ments describing projects or programs funded in whole or
in part with Federal money, all grantees receiving Federal
funds, including but not limited to State and local govern-
ments and recipients of Federal research grants, shall
clearly state (1) the percentage of the total costs of the
program or project which will be financed with Federal
money, (2) the dollar amount of Federal funds for the
project or program, and (3) percentage and dollar amount
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of the total costs of the project or program that will be
financed by nongovernmental sources.
SEC. 508. None of the funds appropriated under this
Act shall be expended for any abortion except when it is
made known to the Federal entity or official to which
funds are appropriated under this Act that such procedure
is necessary to save the life of the mother or that the preg-
nancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.
SEC. 509. Effective October 1, 1993, and applicable
thereafter, and notwithstanding any other law, each State
is and remains free not to fund abortions to the extent
that the State in its sole discretion deems appropriate, ex-
cept where the life of the mother would be endangered if
the fetus were carried to term.
SEC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law—
(1) no amount may be transferred from an ap-
propriation account for the Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education except
as authorized in this or any subsequent appropria-
tion act, or in the Act establishing the program or
activity for which funds are contained in this Act;
(2) no department, agency, or other entity,
other than the one responsible for administering the
program or activity for which an appropriation is
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made in this Act, may exercise authority for the tim-
ing of the obligation and expenditure of such appro-
priation, or for the purposes for which it is obligated
and expended, except to the extent and in the man-
ner otherwise provided in sections 1512 and 1513 of
title 31, United States Code; and
(3) no funds provided under this Act shall be
available for the salary (or any part thereof) of an
employee who is reassigned on a temporary detail
basis to another position in the employing agency or
department or in any other agency or department,
unless the detail is independently approved by the
head of the employing department or agency.
SEC. 511. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—None
of the funds made available in this Act may be used for
the expenses of an electronic benefit transfer (EBT) task
force.
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to enforce the requirements of section
428(b)(1)(U)(iii) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
with respect to any lender when it is made known to the
Federal official having authority to obligate or expend
such funds that the lender has a loan portfolio under part
B of title IV of such Act that is equal to or less than
$5,000,000.
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SEC. 513. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for Pell Grants under subpart 1 of part
A of title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to stu-
dents attending an institution of higher education that is
ineligible to participate in a loan program under such title
as a result of a default determination under section
435(a)(2) of such Act, unless such institution has a par-
ticipation rate index (as defined at 34 CFR 668.17) that
is less than or equal to 0.0375.
SEC. 514. (a) HIGH COST TRAINING EXCEPTION.—
Section 428H(d)(2) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
(20 U.S.C. 1078–8(d)(2)) is amended by striking out the
period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a
semicolon and the following: ‘‘except in cases where the
Secretary determines that a higher amount is warranted
in order to carry out the purpose of this part with respect
to students engaged in specialized training requiring ex-
ceptionally high costs of education, but the annual insur-
able limit per student shall not be deemed to be exceeded
by a line of credit under which actual payments by the
lender to the borrower will not be made in any years in
excess of the annual limit.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
subsection (a) shall be effective for loans made to cover
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the cost of instruction for periods of enrollment beginning
on or after July 1, 1996.
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to carry out any Federal program, or
to provide financial assistance to any State, when it is
made known to the Federal official having authority to
obligate or expend such funds that—
(1) such Federal program or State subject any
health care entity to discrimination on the basis
that—
(A) the entity refuses to undergo training
in the performance of induced abortions, to pro-
vide such training, to perform such abortions,
or to provide referrals for such abortions;
(B) the entity refuses to make arrange-
ments for any of the activities specified in sub-
paragraph (A); or
(C) the entity attends (or attended) a post-
graduate physician training program, or any
other program of training in the health profes-
sions, that does not (or did not) require or pro-
vide training in the performance of induced
abortions, or make arrangements for the provi-
sion of such training; or
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(2) in granting a legal status to a health care
entity (including a license or certificate), or in pro-
viding to the entity financial assistance, a service, or
another benefit, such Federal program or State re-
quire that the entity be an accredited postgraduate
physician training program, or that the entity have
completed or be attending such a program, if the ap-
plicable standards for accreditation of the program
include the standard that the program must require
or provide training in the performance of induced
abortions, or make arrangements for the provision of
such training.
EXTENSION OF PERIOD OF HOME HEALTH AGENCY
RECERTIFICATION SURVEYS
SEC. 516. Section 1891(c)(2)(A) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 1395bbb(c)(2)(A)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘15 months’’ and inserting ‘‘36
months’’, and
(2) by striking the second sentence and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘The Secretary shall establish a
frequency for surveys of home health agencies within
this 36-month interval commensurate with the need
to assure the delivery of quality home health serv-
ices.’’.
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TITLE VI—ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS
SEC. 601. In addition to amounts otherwise provided
in this Act, the following amounts are hereby appropriated
as specified for the following appropriation accounts:
Health Care Financing Administration, ‘‘Program Man-
agement’’, $396,000,000; Office of the Secretary, ‘‘Office
of Inspector General’’, $43,000,000; and Social Security
Administration, ‘‘Limitation on Administrative Ex-
penses’’, $111,000,000.
SEC. 602. Appropriations and funds made available
pursuant to section 601 of this Act shall be available until
enactment into law of a subsequent appropriation for fis-
cal year 1996 for any project or activity provided for in
section 601.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Labor,
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
(d) Such amounts as may be necessary for programs,
projects or activities provided for in the Departments of
Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development,
and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996, at
a rate of operations and to the extent and in the manner
provided for, the provisions of such Act to be effective as
if it had been enacted into law as the regular appropria-
tions Act, as follows:
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AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Departments of Veter-
ans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for
sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, cor-
porations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1996, and for other purposes.
TITLE I
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on
behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107,
chapters 11, 13, 51, 53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to
or on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C.
chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 92 Stat. 2508); and bur-
ial benefits, emergency and other officers’ retirement pay,
adjusted-service credits and certificates, payment of pre-
miums due on commercial life insurance policies guaran-
teed under the provisions of Article IV of the Soldiers’
and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, and
for other benefits as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107,
1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61;
50 U.S.C. App. 540–548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat. 735;
76 Stat. 1198); $18,331,561,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $25,180,000
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of the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to ‘‘Gen-
eral operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Medical care’’ for necessary
expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in
the Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters
51, 53, and 55), the funding source for which is specifi-
cally provided as the ‘‘Compensation and pensions’’ appro-
priation: Provided further, That such sums as may be
earned on an actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reim-
bursed to ‘‘Medical facilities revolving fund’’ to augment
the funding of individual medical facilities for nursing
home care provided to pensioners as authorized by the
Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapter 55):
Provided further, That $12,000,000 previously transferred
from ‘‘Compensation and pensions’’ to ‘‘Medical facilities
revolving fund’’ shall be transferred to this heading.
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation
benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by law
(38 U.S.C. chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53,
55, and 61), $1,345,300,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds shall be available to pay any
court order, court award or any compromise settlement
arising from litigation involving the vocational training
program authorized by section 18 of Public Law 98–77,
as amended.
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VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES
For military and naval insurance, national service life
insurance, servicemen’s indemnities, service-disabled vet-
erans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as
authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887;
72 Stat. 487), $24,890,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
GUARANTY AND INDEMNITY PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the
program, as authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as
amended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $65,226,000,
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
LOAN GUARANTY PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the purpose of the
program, as authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as
amended: Provided, That such costs, including the cost of
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modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $52,138,000,
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, such sums as may be
necessary to carry out the purpose of the program, as au-
thorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided,
That such costs, including the cost of modifying such
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further,
That during 1996, within the resources available, not to
exceed $300,000 in gross obligations for direct loans are
authorized for specially adapted housing loans (38 U.S.C.
chapter 37).
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct loan program, $459,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General
operating expenses’’.
EDUCATION LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. 3698, as amended: Provided, That such
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costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $4,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $195,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $54,000, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $1,964,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $377,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
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NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, sub-
chapter V, as amended, $205,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General
operating expenses’’.
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MEDICAL CARE
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facili-
ties; for furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and
outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, including care and treat-
ment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs, and furnishing recreational fa-
cilities, supplies, and equipment; funeral, burial, and other
expenses incidental thereto for beneficiaries receiving care
in Department of Veterans Affairs facilities; administra-
tive expenses in support of planning, design, project man-
agement, real property acquisition and disposition, con-
struction and renovation of any facility under the jurisdic-
tion or for the use of the Department of Veterans Affairs;
oversight, engineering and architectural activities not
charged to project cost; repairing, altering, improving or
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providing facilities in the several hospitals and homes
under the jurisdiction of the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs, not otherwise provided for, either by contract or by
the hire of temporary employees and purchase of mate-
rials; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by
law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); aid to State homes as author-
ized by law (38 U.S.C. 1741); and not to exceed
$8,000,000 to fund cost comparison studies as referred
to in 38 U.S.C. 8110(a)(5); $16,564,000,000, plus reim-
bursements: Provided, That of the funds made available
under this heading, $789,000,000 is for the equipment
and land and structures object classifications only, which
amount shall not become available for obligation until Au-
gust 1, 1996, and shall remain available for obligation
until September 30, 1997.
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of
medical and prosthetic research and development as au-
thorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapter 73), to remain avail-
able until September 30, 1997, $257,000,000, plus reim-
bursements.
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
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ministrative expenses in support of planning, design,
project management, architectural, engineering, real prop-
erty acquisition and disposition, construction and renova-
tion of any facility under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including site ac-
quisition; engineering and architectural activities not
charged to project cost; and research and development in
building construction technology; $63,602,000, plus reim-
bursements.
TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $7,000, as authorized
by Public Law 102–54, section 8, which shall be trans-
ferred from the ‘‘General post fund’’: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $70,000. In ad-
dition, for administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program, $54,000, which shall be transferred from
the ‘‘General post fund’’, as authorized by Public Law
102–54, section 8.
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DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary operating expenses of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law; not
to exceed $25,000 for official reception and representation
expenses; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and reimburse-
ment of the General Services Administration for security
guard services, and the Department of Defense for the
cost of overseas employee mail; $848,143,000: Provided,
That of the amount appropriated and any other funds
made available from any other source for activities funded
under this heading, except reimbursements, not to exceed
$214,109,000 shall be available for General Administra-
tion; including not to exceed (1) $2,766,000 for personnel
compensation and benefits and $50,000 for travel in the
Office of the Secretary, (2) $4,397,000 for personnel com-
pensation and benefits and $75,000 for travel in the Office
of the Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, (3)
$1,980,000 for personnel compensation and benefits and
$33,000 for travel in the Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Congressional Affairs, and (4) $3,740,000 for person-
nel compensation and benefits and $100,000 for travel in
the Office of Assistant Secretary for Public and Intergov-
ernmental Affairs: Provided further, That during fiscal
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year 1996, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
number of individuals employed by the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs (1) in other than ‘‘career appointee’’ posi-
tions in the Senior Executive Service shall not exceed 6,
and (2) in schedule C positions shall not exceed 11: Pro-
vided further, That not to exceed $6,000,000 of the
amount appropriated shall be available for administrative
expenses to carry out the direct and guaranteed loan pro-
grams under the Loan Guaranty Program Account: Pro-
vided further, That funds under this heading shall be avail-
able to administer the Service Members Occupational Con-
version and Training Act: Provided further, That none of
the funds under this heading may be obligated or ex-
pended for the acquisition of automated data processing
equipment and services for Department of Veterans Af-
fairs regional offices to support Stage III of the automated
data equipment modernization program of the Veterans
Benefits Administration.
NATIONAL CEMETERY SYSTEM
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of the National Cemetery System not otherwise
provided for, including uniforms or allowances therefor, as
authorized by law; cemeterial expenses as authorized by
law; purchase of three passenger motor vehicles, for use
in cemeterial operations; and hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, $72,604,000.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $30,900,000.
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For constructing, altering, extending and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38,
United States Code, including planning, architectural and
engineering services, maintenance or guarantee period
services costs associated with equipment guarantees pro-
vided under the project, services of claims analysts, offsite
utility and storm drainage system construction costs, and
site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is
$3,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were
made available in a previous major project appropriation,
$136,155,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That except for advance planning of projects funded
through the advance planning fund and the design of
projects funded through the design fund, none of these
funds shall be used for any project which has not been
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this ap-
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propriation for fiscal year 1996, for each approved project
shall be obligated (1) by the awarding of a construction
documents contract by September 30, 1996, and (2) by
the awarding of a construction contract by September 30,
1997: Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly
report in writing to the Comptroller General and to the
Committees on Appropriations any approved major con-
struction project in which obligations are not incurred
within the time limitations established above; and the
Comptroller General shall review the report in accordance
with the procedures established by section 1015 of the Im-
poundment Control Act of 1974 (title X of Public Law
93–344): Provided further, That no funds from any other
account except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be obli-
gated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving
a project which was approved in the budget process and
funded in this account until one year after substantial
completion and beneficial occupancy by the Department
of Veterans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with
respect to that part only: Provided further, That of the
funds made available under this heading in Public Law
103–327, $7,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Parking
revolving fund’’.
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
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of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including plan-
ning, architectural and engineering services, maintenance
or guarantee period services costs associated with equip-
ment guarantees provided under the project, services of
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system
construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38,
United States Code, where the estimated cost of a project
is less than $3,000,000, $190,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended, along with unobligated balances of
previous ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’ appropriations
which are hereby made available for any project where the
estimated cost is less than $3,000,000: Provided, That
funds in this account shall be available for (1) repairs to
any of the nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction or
for the use of the Department of Veterans Affairs which
are necessary because of loss or damage caused by any
natural disaster or catastrophe, and (2) temporary meas-
ures necessary to prevent or to minimize further loss by
such causes.
PARKING REVOLVING FUND
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by law
(38 U.S.C. 8109), income from fees collected, to remain
available until expended. Resources of this fund shall be
available for all expenses authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8109
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except operations and maintenance costs which will be
funded from ‘‘Medical care’’.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE
FACILITIES
For grants to assist the several States to acquire or
construct State nursing home and domiciliary facilities
and to remodel, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing
home and domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnish-
ing care to veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C.
8131–8137), $47,397,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS
CEMETERIES
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding,
or improving State veteran cemeteries as authorized by
law (38 U.S.C. 2408), $1,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1998.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for 1996 for ‘‘Com-
pensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and
‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be transferred
to any other of the mentioned appropriations.
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for 1996 for salaries and ex-
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penses shall be available for services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 103. No part of the appropriations in this Act
for the Department of Veterans Affairs (except the appro-
priations for ‘‘Construction, major projects’’, ‘‘Construc-
tion, minor projects’’, and the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’)
shall be available for the purchase of any site for or toward
the construction of any new hospital or home.
SEC. 104. No part of the foregoing appropriations
shall be available for hospitalization or examination of any
persons except beneficiaries entitled under the laws be-
stowing such benefits to veterans, unless reimbursement
of cost is made to the appropriation at such rates as may
be fixed by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1996 for ‘‘Com-
pensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and
‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ shall be available
for payment of prior year accrued obligations required to
be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 1996 shall
be available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X
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of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law
100–86, except that if such obligations are from trust
fund accounts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation
and pensions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs is authorized to
transfer, without compensation or reimbursement, the ju-
risdiction and control of a parcel of land consisting of ap-
proximately 6.3 acres, located on the south edge of the
Department of Veterans Affairs Medical and Regional Of-
fice Center, Wichita, Kansas, including buildings Nos. 8
and 30 and other improvements thereon, to the Secretary
of Transportation for the purpose of expanding and mod-
ernizing United States Highway 54: Provided, That if nec-
essary, the exact acreage and legal description of the real
property transferred shall be determined by a survey satis-
factory to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Sec-
retary of Transportation shall bear the cost of such sur-
vey: Provided further, That the Secretary of Transpor-
tation shall be responsible for all costs associated with the
transferred land and improvements thereon, and compli-
ance with all existing statutes and regulations: Provided
further, That the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the
Secretary of Transportation may require such additional
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terms and conditions as each Secretary considers appro-
priate to effectuate this transfer of land.
TITLE II
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
HOUSING PROGRAMS
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING
For assistance under the United States Housing Act
of 1937, as amended (‘‘the Act’’ herein) (42 U.S.C. 1437),
not otherwise provided for, $10,155,795,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That of the total
amount provided under this head, $160,000,000 shall be
for the development or acquisition cost of public housing
for Indian families, including amounts for housing under
the mutual help homeownership opportunity program
under section 202 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437bb): Pro-
vided further, That of the total amount provided under
this head, $2,500,000,000 shall be for modernization of
existing public housing projects pursuant to section 14 of
the Act (42 U.S.C. 1437l), including up to $20,000,000
for the inspection of public housing units, contract exper-
tise, and training and technical assistance, directly or indi-
rectly, under grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements,
to assist in the oversight and management of public and
Indian housing (whether or not the housing is being mod-
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ernized with assistance under this proviso) or tenant-based
assistance, including, but not limited to, an annual resi-
dent survey, data collection and analysis, training and
technical assistance by or to officials and employees of the
Department and of public housing agencies and to resi-
dents in connection with the public and Indian housing
program: Provided further, That of the total amount pro-
vided under this head, $400,000,000 shall be for rental
subsidy contracts under the section 8 existing housing cer-
tificate program and the housing voucher program under
section 8 of the Act, except that such amounts shall be
used only for units necessary to provide housing assistance
for residents to be relocated from existing federally sub-
sidized or assisted housing, for replacement housing for
units demolished or disposed of (including units to be dis-
posed of pursuant to a homeownership program under sec-
tion 5(h) or title III of the United States Housing Act
of 1937) from the public housing inventory, for funds re-
lated to litigation settlements, for the conversion of section
23 projects to assistance under section 8, for public hous-
ing agencies to implement allocation plans approved by the
Secretary for designated housing, for funds to carry out
the family unification program, and for the relocation of
witnesses in connection with efforts to combat crime in
public and assisted housing pursuant to a request from
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a law enforcement or prosecution agency: Provided further,
That of the total amount provided under this head,
$4,350,862,000 shall be for assistance under the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437) for use in
connection with expiring or terminating section 8 subsidy
contracts, such amounts shall be merged with all remain-
ing obligated and unobligated balances heretofore appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘Renewal of expiring section
8 subsidy contracts’’: Provided further, That notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, assistance reserved under
the two preceding provisos may be used in connection with
any provision of Federal law enacted in this Act or after
the enactment of this Act that authorizes the use of rental
assistance amounts in connection with such terminated or
expired contracts: Provided further, That the Secretary
may determine not to apply section 8(o)(6)(B) of the Act
to housing vouchers during fiscal year 1996: Provided fur-
ther, That of the total amount provided under this head,
$610,575,000 shall be for amendments to section 8 con-
tracts other than contracts for projects developed under
section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended; and
$261,000,000 shall be for section 8 assistance and reha-
bilitation grants for property disposition: Provided further,
That 50 per centum of the amounts of budget authority,
or in lieu thereof 50 per centum of the cash amounts asso-
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ciated 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 (Public Law 100–628, 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) 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 agencies with
projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development for which settlement occurred after January
1, 1992, in accordance with such section: Provided further,
That of the total amount provided under this head,
$171,000,000 shall be for housing opportunities for per-
sons with AIDS under title VIII, subtitle D of the Cran-
ston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; and
$65,000,000 shall be for the lead-based paint hazard re-
duction program as authorized under sections 1011 and
1053 of the Residential Lead-Based Hazard Reduction
Act of 1992: Provided further, That the Secretary may
make up to $5,000,000 of any amount recaptured in this
account available for the development of performance and
financial systems.
Of the total amount provided under this head,
$624,000,000, plus amounts recaptured from interest re-
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duction payment contracts for section 236 projects whose
owners prepay their mortgages during fiscal year 1996
(which amounts shall be transferred and merged with this
account), shall be for use in conjunction with properties
that are eligible for assistance under the Low Income
Housing Preservation and Resident Homeownership Act
of 1990 (LIHPRHA) or the Emergency Low-Income
Housing Preservation Act of 1987 (ELIHPA): Provided,
That prior to July 1, 1996, funding to carry out plans
of action shall be limited to sales of projects to non-profit
organizations, tenant-sponsored organizations, and other
priority purchasers: Provided further, That of the amount
made available by this paragraph, up to $10,000,000 shall
be available for preservation technical assistance grants
pursuant to section 253 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1987, as amended: Provided further,
That with respect to amounts made available by this para-
graph, after July 1, 1996, if the Secretary determines that
the demand for funding may exceed amounts available for
such funding, the Secretary (1) may determine priorities
for distributing available funds, including giving priority
funding to tenants displaced due to mortgage prepayment
and to projects that have not yet been funded but which
have approved plans of action; and (2) may impose a tem-
porary moratorium on applications by potential recipients
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of such funding: Provided further, That an owner of eligi-
ble low-income housing may prepay the mortgage or re-
quest voluntary terminaton of a mortgage insurance con-
tract, so long as said owner agrees not to raise rents for
sixty days after such prepayment: Provided further, That
an owner of eligible low-income housing who has not time-
ly filed a second notice under section 216(d) prior to the
effective date of this Act may file such notice by March
1, 1996: Provided further, That such developments have
been determined to have preservation equity at least equal
to the lesser of $5,000 per unit or $500,000 per project
or the equivalent of eight times the most recently pub-
lished fair market rent for the area in which the project
is located as the appropriate unit size for all of the units
in the eligible project: Provided further, That the Secretary
may modify the regulatory agreement to permit owners
and priority purchasers to retain rental income in excess
of the basic rental charge in projects assisted under sec-
tion 236 of the National Housing Act, for the purpose of
preserving the low and moderate income character of the
housing: Provided further, That the Secretary may give
priority to funding and processing the following projects
provided that the funding is obligated not later than Au-
gust 1, 1996: (1) projects with approved plans of action
to retain the housing that file a modified plan of action
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no later than July 1, 1996 to transfer the housing; (2)
projects with approved plans of action that are subject to
a repayment or settlement agreement that was executed
between the owner and the Secretary prior to September
1, 1995; (3) projects for which submissions were delayed
as a result of their location in areas that were designated
as a Federal disaster area in a Presidential Disaster Dec-
laration; and (4) projects whose processing was, in fact
or in practical effect, suspended, deferred, or interrupted
for a period of twelve months or more because of differing
interpretations, by the Secretary and an owner or by the
Secretary and a State or local rent regulatory agency, con-
cerning the timing of filing eligibility or the effect of a
presumptively applicable State or local rent control law or
regulation on the determination of preservation value
under section 213 of LIHPRHA, as amended, if the owner
of such project filed notice of intent to extend the low-
income affordability restrictions of the housing, or trans-
fer to a qualified purchaser who would extend such restric-
tions, on or before November 1, 1993: Provided further,
That eligible low-income housing shall include properties
meeting the requirements of this paragraph with mort-
gages that are held by a State agency as a result of a
sale by the Secretary without insurance, which imme-
diately before the sale would have been eligible low-income
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housing under LIHPRHA: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, subject to the
availability of appropriated funds, each unassisted low-in-
come family residing in the housing on the date of prepay-
ment or voluntary termination, and whose rent, as a result
of a rent increase occurring no later than one year after
the date of the prepayment, exceeds 30 percent of adjusted
income, shall be offered tenant-based assistance in accord-
ance with section 8 or any successor program, under which
the family shall pay no less for rent than it paid on such
date: Provided further, That any family receiving tenant-
based assistance under the preceding proviso may elect (1)
to remain in the unit of the housing and if the rent exceeds
the fair market rent or payment standard, as applicable,
the rent shall be deemed to be the applicable standard,
so long as the administering public housing agency finds
that the rent is reasonable in comparison with rents
charged for comparable unassisted housing units in the
market or (2) to move from the housing and the rent will
be subject to the fair market rent of the payment stand-
ard, as applicable, under existing program rules and pro-
cedures: Provided further, That up to $10,000,000 of the
amount made available by this paragraph may be used at
the discretion of the Secretary to reimburse owners of eli-
gible properties for which plans of action were submitted
402
prior to the effective date of this Act, but were not exe-
cuted for lack of available funds, with such reimbursement
available only for documented costs directly applicable to
the preparation of the plan of action as determined by the
Secretary, and shall be made available on terms and condi-
tions to be established by the Secretary: Provided further,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective
October 1, 1996, the Secretary shall suspend further proc-
essing of preservation applications which do not have ap-
proved plans of action.
Of the total amount provided under this head,
$780,190,000 shall be for capital advances, including
amendments to capital advance contracts, for housing for
the elderly, as authorized by section 202 of the Housing
Act of 1959, as amended, and for project rental assist-
ance, and amendments to contracts for project rental as-
sistance, for supportive housing for the elderly under sec-
tion 202(c)(2) of the Housing Act of 1959; and
$233,168,000 shall be for capital advances, including
amendments to capital advance contracts, for supportive
housing for persons with disabilities, as authorized by sec-
tion 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act; and for project rental assistance, and
amendments to contracts for project rental assistance, for
supportive housing for persons with disabilities as author-
403
ized by section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Af-
fordable Housing Act: Provided, That the Secretary may
designate up to 25 percent of the amounts earmarked
under this paragraph for section 811 of the Cranston-Gon-
zalez National Affordable Housing Act for tenant-based
assistance, as authorized under that section, which assist-
ance is five-years in duration: Provided further, That the
Secretary may waive any provision of section 202 of the
Housing Act of 1959 and section 811 of the National Af-
fordable Housing Act (including the provisions governing
the terms and conditions of project rental assistance) that
the Secretary determines is not necessary to achieve the
objectives of these programs, or that otherwise impedes
the ability to develop, operate or administer projects as-
sisted under these programs, and may make provision for
alternative conditions or terms where appropriate.
PUBLIC HOUSING DEMOLITION, SITE REVITALIZATION,
AND REPLACEMENT HOUSING GRANTS
For grants to public housing agencies for the pur-
poses of enabling the demolition of obsolete public housing
projects or portions thereof, the revitalization (where ap-
propriate) of sites (including remaining public housing
units) on which such projects are located, replacement
housing which will avoid or lessen concentrations of very
low-income families, and tenant-based assistance in ac-
cordance with section 8 of the United States Housing Act
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of 1937 for the purpose of providing replacement housing
and assisting tenants to be displaced by the demolition,
$280,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall award such funds to public housing agencies
by a competition which includes among other relevant cri-
teria the local and national impact of the proposed demoli-
tion and revitalization activities and the extent to which
the public housing agency could undertake such activities
without the additional assistance to be provided here-
under: Provided further, That eligible expenditures here-
under shall be those expenditures eligible under section 8
and section 14 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437f and l): Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may impose such conditions and requirements as
the Secretary deems appropriate to effectuate the pur-
poses of this paragraph: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary may require an agency selected to receive funding
to make arrangements satisfactory to the Secretary for
use of an entity other than the agency to carry out this
program where the Secretary determines that such action
will help to effectuate the purpose of this paragraph: Pro-
vided further, That in the event an agency selected to re-
ceive funding does not proceed expeditiously as determined
by the Secretary, the Secretary shall withdraw any fund-
405
ing made available pursuant to this paragraph that has
not been obligated by the agency and distribute such funds
to one or more other eligible agencies, or to other entities
capable of proceeding expeditiously in the same locality
with the original program: Provided further, That of the
foregoing $280,000,000, the Secretary may use up to .67
per centum for technical assistance, to be provided directly
or indirectly by grants, contracts or cooperative agree-
ments, including training and cost of necessary travel for
participants in such training, by or to officials and employ-
ees of the Department and of public housing agencies and
to residents: Provided further, That any replacement hous-
ing provided with assistance under this head shall be sub-
ject to section 18(f) of the United States Housing Act of
1937, as amended by section 201(b)(2) of this Act.
FLEXIBLE SUBSIDY FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
From the fund established by section 236(g) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, all uncommitted bal-
ances of excess rental charges as of September 30, 1995,
and any collections during fiscal year 1996 shall be trans-
ferred, as authorized under such section, to the fund au-
thorized under section 201(j) of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Amendments of 1978, as amended.
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RENTAL HOUSING ASSISTANCE
(RESCISSION)
The limitation otherwise applicable to the maximum
payments that may be required in any fiscal year by all
contracts entered into under section 236 of the National
Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) is reduced in fiscal year
1996 by not more than $2,000,000 in uncommitted bal-
ances of authorizations provided for this purpose in appro-
priations Acts: Provided, That up to $163,000,000 of re-
captured section 236 budget authority resulting from the
prepayment of mortgages subsidized under section 236 of
the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z–1) shall be
rescinded in fiscal year 1996.
PAYMENTS FOR OPERATION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING
PROJECTS
For payments to public housing agencies and Indian
housing authorities for operating subsidies for low-income
housing projects as authorized by section 9 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1437g), $2,800,000,000.
DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING
For grants to public and Indian housing agencies for
use in eliminating crime in public housing projects author-
ized by 42 U.S.C. 11901–11908, for grants for federally
assisted low-income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C.
11909, and for drug information clearinghouse services
407
authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11921–11925, $290,000,000, to
remain available until expended, of which $10,000,000
shall be for grants, technical assistance, contracts and
other assistance training, program assessment, and execu-
tion for or on behalf of public housing agencies and resi-
dent organizations (including the cost of necessary travel
for participants in such training) and of which $2,500,000
shall be used in connection with efforts to combat violent
crime in public and assisted housing under the Operation
Safe Home program administered by the Inspector Gen-
eral of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment: Provided, That the term ‘‘drug-related crime’’, as
defined in 42 U.S.C. 11905(2), shall also include other
types of crime as determined by the Secretary.
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional Affordable Housing Act (Public Law 101–625), as
amended, $1,400,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $3,000,000, as au-
thorized by section 184 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 3739): Provided,
That such costs, including the costs of modifying such
408
loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congres-
sional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided further,
That these funds are available to subsidize total loan prin-
cipal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed
$36,900,000.
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For the emergency shelter grants program (as au-
thorized under subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (Public Law 100–77),
as amended); the supportive housing program (as author-
ized under subtitle C of title IV of such Act); the section
8 moderate rehabilitation single room occupancy program
(as authorized under the United States Housing Act of
1937, as amended) to assist homeless individuals pursuant
to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless As-
sistance Act; and the shelter plus care program (as au-
thorized under subtitle F of title IV of such Act),
$823,000,000, to remain available until expended.
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For grants to States and units of general local gov-
ernment and for related expenses, not otherwise provided
for, necessary for carrying out a community development
grants program as authorized by title I of the Housing
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and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 5301), $4,600,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1998: Provided, That $50,000,000
shall be available for grants to Indian tribes pursuant to
section 106(a)(1) of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1974, as amended (42 U.S.C. 5301),
$2,000,000 shall be available as a grant to the Housing
Assistance Council, $1,000,000 shall be available as a
grant to the National American Indian Housing Council,
and $27,000,000 shall be available for ‘‘special purpose
grants’’ pursuant to section 107 of such Act: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed 20 per centum of any grant made
with funds appropriated herein (other than a grant made
available under the preceding proviso to the Housing As-
sistance Council or the National American Indian Housing
Council, or a grant using funds under section 107(b)(3)
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974)
shall be expended for ‘‘Planning and Management Devel-
opment’’ and ‘‘Administration’’ as defined in regulations
promulgated by the Department of Housing and Urban
Development: Provided further, That section 105(a)(25) of
such Act, as added by section 907(b)(1) of the Cranston-
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, shall continue
to be effective after September 30, 1995, notwithstanding
section 907(b)(2) of such Act: Provided further, That sec-
410
tion 916 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act shall apply with respect to fiscal year 1996,
notwithstanding section 916(f) of that Act.
Of the amount provided under this heading, the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development may use up
to $53,000,000 for grants to public housing agencies (in-
cluding Indian housing authorities), nonprofit corpora-
tions, and other appropriate entities for a supportive serv-
ices program to assist residents of public and assisted
housing, former residents of such housing receiving ten-
ant-based assistance under section 8 of such Act (42
U.S.C. 1437f), and other low-income families and individ-
uals to become self-sufficient: Provided, That the program
shall provide supportive services, principally for the benefit
of public housing residents, to the elderly and the disabled,
and to families with children where the head of the house-
hold would benefit from the receipt of supportive services
and is working, seeking work, or is preparing for work
by participating in job training or educational programs:
Provided further, That the supportive services shall include
congregate services for the elderly and disabled, service co-
ordinators, and coordinated educational, training, and
other supportive services, including academic skills train-
ing, job search assistance, assistance related to retaining
employment, vocational and entrepreneurship development
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and support programs, transportation, and child care:
Provided further, That the Secretary shall require appli-
cants to demonstrate firm commitments of funding or
services from other sources: Provided further, That the
Secretary shall select public and Indian housing agencies
to receive assistance under this head on a competitive
basis, taking into account the quality of the proposed pro-
gram (including any innovative approaches), the extent of
the proposed coordination of supportive services, the ex-
tent of commitments of funding or services from other
sources, the extent to which the proposed program in-
cludes reasonably achievable, quantifiable goals for meas-
uring performance under the program over a three-year
period, the extent of success an agency has had in carrying
out other comparable initiatives, and other appropriate
criteria established by the Secretary.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $12,000,000
shall be available for contracts, grants, and other assist-
ance, other than loans, not otherwise provided for, for pro-
viding counseling and advice to tenants and homeowners
both current and prospective, with respect to property
maintenance, financial management, and such other mat-
ters as may be appropriate to assist them in improving
their housing conditions and meeting the responsibilities
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of tenancy or homeownership, including provisions for
training and for support of voluntary agencies and services
as authorized by section 106 of the Housing and Urban
Development Act of 1968, as amended, notwithstanding
section 106(c)(9) and section 106(d)(13) of such Act.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $15,000,000
shall be available for the tenant opportunity program.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $20,000,000
shall be available for youthbuild program activities author-
ized by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such
activities shall be an eligible activity with respect to any
funds made available under this heading.
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $31,750,000, as au-
thorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of
which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,500,000,000:
Provided further, That the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development may make guarantees not to exceed
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the immediately foregoing amount notwithstanding the ag-
gregate limitation on guarantees set forth in section
108(k) of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974. In addition, for administrative expenses to carry
out the guaranteed loan program, $675,000 which shall
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
departmental salaries and expenses.
The amount made available for fiscal year 1995 for
a special purpose grant for the renovation of the central
terminal in Buffalo, New York, shall be made available
for the central terminal and for other public facilities in
Buffalo, New York.
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro-
grams of research and studies relating to housing and
urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized
by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act
of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), includ-
ing carrying out the functions of the Secretary under sec-
tion 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968,
$34,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
1997.
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FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not oth-
erwise 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 for contracts with qualified
fair housing enforcement organizations, as authorized by
section 561 of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1987, as amended by the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1992, $30,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 1997.
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary administrative and nonadministrative
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, not otherwise provided for, including not to ex-
ceed $7,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $962,558,000, of which $532,782,000 shall be
provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing
Administration, and $9,101,000 shall be provided from
funds of the Government National Mortgage Association,
and $675,000 shall be provided from the Community De-
velopment Grants Program account.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $47,850,000, of which
$11,283,000 shall be transferred from the various funds
of the Federal Housing Administration.
OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, $14,895,000,
to remain available until expended, from the Federal
Housing Enterprise Oversight Fund: Provided, That such
amounts shall be collected by the Director as authorized
by section 1316 (a) and (b) of such Act, and deposited
in the Fund under section 1316(f) of such Act.
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
FHA—MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
During fiscal year 1996, commitments to guarantee
loans to carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan
principal of $110,000,000,000: Provided, That during fis-
cal year 1996, the Secretary shall sell assigned mortgage
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notes having an unpaid principal balance of up to
$4,000,000,000, which notes were originally insured under
section 203(b) of the National Housing Act: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may use any negative subsidy
amounts from the sale of such assigned mortgage notes
during fiscal year 1996 for the disposition of properties
or notes under this heading.
During fiscal year 1996, obligations to make direct
loans to carry out the purposes of section 204(g) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed
$200,000,000: Provided, That the foregoing amount shall
be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in con-
nection with sales of single family real properties owned
by the Secretary and formerly insured under section 203
of such Act.
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out
the guaranteed and direct loan program, $341,595,000,
to be derived from the FHA-mutual mortgage insurance
guaranteed loans receipt account, of which not to exceed
$334,483,000 shall be transferred to the appropriation for
departmental salaries and expenses; and of which not to
exceed $7,112,000 shall be transferred to the appropria-
tion for the Office of Inspector General.
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FHA—GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by
sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12
U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), including the cost of modify-
ing such loans, $85,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That such costs shall be as defined in
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize total loan principal any part of which is to
be guaranteed of not to exceed $17,400,000,000: Provided
further, That during fiscal year 1996, the Secretary shall
sell assigned notes having an unpaid principal balance of
up to $4,000,000,000, which notes were originally obliga-
tions of the funds established under sections 238 and 519
of the National Housing Act: Provided further, That the
Secretary may use any negative subsidy amounts from the
sale of such assigned mortgage notes during fiscal year
1996, in addition to amounts otherwise provided, for the
disposition of properties or notes under this heading (in-
cluding the credit subsidy for the guarantee of loans or
the reduction of positive credit subsidy amounts that
would otherwise be required for the sale of such properties
or notes), and for any other purpose under this heading:
Provided further, That any amounts made available in any
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prior appropriation Act for the cost (as such term is de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974) of guaranteed loans that are obligations of the
funds established under section 238 or 519 of the National
Housing Act that have not been obligated or that are
deobligated shall be available to the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development in connection with the making
of such guarantees and shall remain available until ex-
pended, notwithstanding the expiration of any period of
availability otherwise applicable to such amounts.
Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct
loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238(a),
and 519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed
$120,000,000; of which not to exceed $100,000,000 shall
be for bridge financing in connection with the sale of mul-
tifamily real properties owned by the Secretary and for-
merly insured under such Act; and of which not to exceed
$20,000,000 shall be for loans to nonprofit and govern-
mental entities in connection with the sale of single-family
real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly in-
sured under such Act.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the guaranteed and direct loan programs,
$202,470,000, of which $198,299,000 shall be transferred
to the appropriation for departmental salaries and ex-
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penses; and of which $4,171,000 shall be transferred to
the appropriation for the Office of Inspector General.
GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDES TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
During fiscal year 1996, 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 $110,000,000,000.
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out
the guaranteed mortgage-backed securities program,
$9,101,000, to be derived from the GNMA—guarantees
of mortgage-backed securities guaranteed loan receipt ac-
count, of which not to exceed $9,101,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the appropriation for departmental salaries and
expenses.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
EXTEND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS FROM THE
RESCISSION ACT
SEC. 201. (a) PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING MOD-
ERNIZATION.—
(1) EXPANSION
OF
USE
OF
MODERNIZATION
FUNDING.—Subsection 14(q) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘(q)(1) In addition to the purposes enumerated in
subsections (a) and (b), a public housing agency may use
modernization assistance provided under section 14, and
development assistance provided under section 5(a) that
was not allocated, as determined by the Secretary, for pri-
ority replacement housing, for any eligible activity author-
ized by this section, by section 5, or by applicable Appro-
priations Acts for a public housing agency, including the
demolition, rehabilitation, revitalization, and replacement
of existing units and projects and, for up to 10 percent
of its allocation of such funds in any fiscal year, for any
operating subsidy purpose authorized in section 9. Except
for assistance used for operating subsidy purposes under
the preceding sentence, assistance provided to a public
housing agency under this section shall principally be used
for the physical improvement or replacement of public
housing and for associated management improvements,
except as otherwise approved by the Secretary. Public
housing units assisted under this paragraph shall be eligi-
ble for operating subsidies, unless the Secretary deter-
mines that such units or projects have not received suffi-
cient assistance under this Act or do not meet other re-
quirements of this Act.
‘‘(2) A public housing agency may provide assistance
to developments that include units for other than very low-
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income families (‘mixed income developments’), in the
form of a grant, loan, operating assistance, or other form
of investment which may be made to—
‘‘(A) a partnership, a limited liability company,
or other legal entity in which the public housing
agency or its affiliate is a general partner, managing
member, or otherwise participates in the activities of
such entity; or
‘‘(B) any entity which grants to the public
housing agency the option to purchase the develop-
ment within 20 years after initial occupancy in ac-
cordance with section 42(i)(7) of the Internal Reve-
nue Code of 1986, as amended. Units shall be made
available in such developments for periods of not less
than 20 years, by master contract or by individual
lease, for occupancy by low-income families referred
from time to time by the public housing agency. The
number of such units shall be:
‘‘(i) in the same proportion to the total
number of units in such development that the
total financial commitment provided by the pub-
lic housing agency bears to the value of the
total financial commitment in the development,
or
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‘‘(ii) not be less than the number of units
that could have been developed under the con-
ventional public housing program with the as-
sistance involved, or
‘‘(iii) as may otherwise be approved by the
Secretary.
‘‘(3) A mixed income development may elect to have
all units subject only to the applicable local real estate
taxes, notwithstanding that the low-income units assisted
by public housing funds would otherwise be subject to sec-
tion 6(d) of the Housing Act of 1937.
‘‘(4) If an entity that owns or operates a mixed-in-
come project under this subsection enters into a contract
with a public housing agency, the terms of which obligate
the entity to operate and maintain a specified number of
units in the project as public housing units in accordance
with the requirements of this Act for the period required
by law, such contractual terms may provide that, if, as
a result of a reduction in appropriations under section 9,
or any other change in applicable law, the public housing
agency is unable to fulfill its contractual obligations with
respect to those public housing units, that entity may devi-
ate, under procedures and requirements developed through
regulations by the Secretary, from otherwise applicable re-
strictions under this Act regarding rents, income eligi-
423
bility, and other areas of public housing management with
respect to a portion or all of those public housing units,
to the extent necessary to preserve the viability of those
units while maintaining the low-income character of the
units, to the maximum extent practicable.’’.
(2) APPLICABILITY.—Section 14(q) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended by
subsection (a) of this section, shall be effective only
with respect to assistance provided from funds made
available for fiscal year 1996 or any preceding fiscal
year.
(3) APPLICABILITY
TO
IHAS.—In accordance
with section 201(b)(2) of the United States Housing
Act of 1937, the amendment made by this sub-
section shall apply to public housing developed or
operated pursuant to a contract between the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development and an
Indian housing authority.
(b) ONE-FOR-ONE REPLACEMENT OF PUBLIC AND
INDIAN HOUSING.—
(1) EXTENDED AUTHORITY.—Section 1002(d)
of Public Law 104–19 is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(d) Subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall be effective
for applications for the demolition, disposition, or conver-
sion to homeownership of public housing approved by the
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Secretary, and other consolidation and relocation activities
of public housing agencies undertaken, on, before, or after
September 30, 1995 and before September 30, 1996.’’.
(2) Section 18(f) of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 is amended by adding at the end the
following new sentence:
‘‘No one may rely on the preceding sentence as the basis
for reconsidering a final order of a court issued, or a set-
tlement approved by, a court.’’.
(3) APPLICABILITY.—In accordance with sec-
tion 201(b)(2) of the United States Housing Act of
1937, the amendments made by this subsection and
by sections 1002 (a), (b), and (c) of Public Law
104–19 shall apply to public housing developed or
operated pursuant to a contract between the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development and an
Indian housing authority.
CONVERSION OF CERTAIN PUBLIC HOUSING TO
VOUCHERS
SEC. 202. (a) IDENTIFICATION
OF UNITS.—Each
public housing agency shall identify any public housing de-
velopments—
(1) that are on the same or contiguous sites;
(2) that total more than—
(A) 300 dwelling units; or
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(B) in the case of high-rise family build-
ings or substantially vacant buildings; 300
dwelling units;
(3) that have a vacancy rate of at least 10 per-
cent for dwelling units not in funded, on schedule
modernization programs;
(4) identified as distressed housing that the
public housing agency cannot assure the long-term
viability as public housing through reasonable revi-
talization, density reduction, or achievement of a
broader range of household income; and
(5) for which the estimated cost of continued
operation and modernization of the developments as
public housing exceeds the cost of providing tenant-
based assistance under section 8 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937 for all families in occu-
pancy, based on appropriate indicators of cost (such
as the percentage of total development cost required
for modernization).
(b) IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT.—
(1) STANDARDS FOR IMPLEMENTATION.—The
Secretary shall establish standards to permit imple-
mentation of this section in fiscal year 1996.
(2) 
CONSULTATION.—Each 
public 
housing
agency shall consult with the applicable public hous-
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ing tenants and the unit of general local government
in identifying any public housing developments
under subsection (a).
(3) FAILURE OF PHAS TO COMPLY WITH SUB-
SECTION
(a).—Where the Secretary determines
that—
(A) a public housing agency has failed
under subsection (a) to identify public housing
developments for removal from the inventory of
the agency in a timely manner;
(B) a public housing agency has failed to
identify one or more public housing develop-
ments which the Secretary determines should
have been identified under subsection (a); or
(C) one or more of the developments iden-
tified by the public housing agency pursuant to
subsection (a) should not, in the determination
of the Secretary, have been identified under
that subsection;
the Secretary may designate the developments to be
removed from the inventory of the public housing
agency pursuant to this section.
(c) REMOVAL OF UNITS FROM THE INVENTORIES OF
PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCIES.—
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(1) Each public housing agency shall develop
and carry out a plan in conjunction with the Sec-
retary for the removal of public housing units identi-
fied under subsection (a) or subsection (b)(3), over
a period of up to five years, from the inventory of
the public housing agency and the annual contribu-
tions contract. The plan shall be approved by the
relevant local official as not inconsistent with the
Comprehensive 
Housing 
Affordability 
Strategy
under title I of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1992, including a description of any
disposition and demolition plan for the public hous-
ing units.
(2) The Secretary may extend the deadline in
paragraph (1) for up to an additional five years
where the Secretary makes a determination that the
deadline is impracticable.
(3) The Secretary shall take appropriate actions
to ensure removal of developments identified under
subsection (a) or subsection (b)(3) from the inven-
tory of a public housing agency, if the public hous-
ing agency fails to adequately develop a plan under
paragraph (1), or fails to adequately implement such
plan in accordance with the terms of the plan.
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(C) in the case of an agency receiving as-
sistance for the major reconstruction of obsolete
projects, any amounts obligated by the Sec-
retary for the major reconstruction of the devel-
opment pursuant to section 5 of such Act,
to the tenant-based assistance program or appro-
priate site revitalization of such agency.
(6) CESSATION OF UNNECESSARY SPENDING.—
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if, in
the determination of the Secretary, a development
meets or is likely to meet the criteria set forth in
subsection (a), the Secretary may direct the public
housing agency to cease additional spending in con-
nection with the development, except to the extent
that additional spending is necessary to ensure de-
cent, safe, and sanitary housing until the Secretary
determines or approves an appropriate course of ac-
tion with respect to such development under this
section.
(d) CONVERSION TO TENANT-BASED ASSISTANCE.—
(1) The Secretary shall make authority avail-
able to a public housing agency to provide tenant-
based assistance pursuant to section 8 to families re-
siding in any development that is removed from the
inventory of the public housing agency and the an-
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nual contributions contract pursuant to subsection
(b).
(2) Each conversion plan under subsection (c)
shall—
(A) require the agency to notify families
residing in the development, consistent with any
guidelines issued by the Secretary governing
such notifications, that the development shall be
removed from the inventory of the public hous-
ing agency and the families shall receive tenant-
based or project-based assistance, and to pro-
vide any necessary counseling for families; and
(B) ensure that all tenants affected by a
determination under this section that a develop-
ment shall be removed from the inventory of a
public housing agency shall be offered tenant-
based or project-based assistance and shall be
relocated, as necessary, to other decent, safe,
sanitary, and affordable housing which is, to
the maximum extent practicable, housing of
their choice.
(e) IN GENERAL.—
(1) The Secretary may require a public housing
agency to provide such information as the Secretary
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considers necessary for the administration of this
section.
(2) As used in this section, the term ‘‘develop-
ment’’ shall refer to a project or projects, or to por-
tions of a project or projects, as appropriate.
(3) Section 18 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 shall not apply to the demolition of de-
velopments removed from the inventory of the public
housing agency under this section.
STREAMLINING SECTION 8 TENANT-BASED ASSISTANCE
SEC. 203. (a) ‘‘TAKE-ONE, TAKE-ALL’’.—Section
8(t) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 is hereby
repealed.
(b) EXEMPTION FROM NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE CERTIFICATE AND VOUCHER PROGRAMS.—Section
8(c) of such Act is amended—
(1) in paragraph (8), by inserting after ‘‘sec-
tion’’ the following: ‘‘(other than a contract for as-
sistance under the certificate or voucher program)’’;
and
(2) in the first sentence of paragraph (9), by
striking ‘‘(but not less than 90 days in the case of
housing certificates or vouchers under subsection (b)
or (o))’’ and inserting ‘‘, other than a contract under
the certificate or voucher program’’.
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(c) ENDLESS LEASE.—Section 8(d)(1)(B) of such
Act is amended—
(1) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘during the term
of the lease,’’ after ‘‘(ii)’’; and
(2) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘provide that’’
and inserting ‘‘during the term of the lease,’’.
(d) APPLICABILITY.—The provisions of this section
shall be effective for fiscal year 1996 only.
PUBLIC HOUSING/SECTION 8 MOVING TO WORK
DEMONSTRATION
SEC. 204. (a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this dem-
onstration is to give public housing agencies and the Sec-
retary of Housing and Urban Development the flexibility
to design and test various approaches for providing and
administering housing assistance that: reduce cost and
achieve greater cost effectiveness in Federal expenditures;
give incentives to families with children where the head
of household is working, seeking work, or is preparing for
work by participating in job training, educational pro-
grams, or programs that assist people to obtain employ-
ment and become economically self-sufficient; and increase
housing choices for low-income families.
(b) PROGRAM AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall conduct a demonstra-
tion program under this section beginning in fiscal year
1996 under which up to 30 public housing agencies (in-
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cluding Indian housing authorities) administering the pub-
lic or Indian housing program and the section 8 housing
assistance payments program, administering a total num-
ber of public housing units not in excess of 25,000, may
be selected by the Secretary to participate. The Secretary
shall provide training and technical assistance during the
demonstration and conduct detailed evaluations of up to
15 such agencies in an effort to identify replicable pro-
gram models promoting the purpose of the demonstration.
Under the demonstration, notwithstanding any provision
of the United States Housing Act of 1937 except as pro-
vided in subsection (e), an agency may combine operating
assistance provided under section 9 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, modernization assistance provided
under section 14 of such Act, and assistance provided
under section 8 of such Act for the certificate and voucher
programs, to provide housing assistance for low-income
families, as defined in section 3(b)(2) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, and services to facilitate the transi-
tion to work on such terms and conditions as the agency
may propose and the Secretary may approve.
(c) APPLICATION.—An application to participate in
the demonstration—
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(1) shall request authority to combine assist-
ance under sections 8, 9, and 14 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937;
(2) shall be submitted only after the public
housing agency provides for citizen participation
through a public hearing and, if appropriate, other
means;
(3) shall include a plan developed by the agency
that takes into account comments from the public
hearing and any other public comments on the pro-
posed program, and comments from current and
prospective residents who would be affected, and
that includes criteria for—
(A) families to be assisted, which shall re-
quire that at least 75 percent of the families as-
sisted by participating demonstration public
housing authorities shall be very low-income
families, as defined in section 3(b)(2) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937, and at
least 50 percent of the families selected shall
have incomes that do not exceed 30 percent of
the median family income for the area, as de-
termined by the Secretary with adjustments for
smaller and larger families, except that the Sec-
retary may establish income ceilings higher or
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lower than 30 percent of the median for the
area on the basis of the Secretary’s findings
that such variations are necessary because of
unusually high or low family income;
(B) establishing a reasonable rent policy,
which shall be designed to encourage employ-
ment and self-sufficiency by participating fami-
lies, consistent with the purpose of this dem-
onstration, such as by excluding some or all of
a family’s earned income for purposes of deter-
mining rent;
(C) continuing to assist substantially the
same total number of eligible low-income fami-
lies as would have been served had the amounts
not been combined;
(D) maintaining a comparable mix of fami-
lies (by family size) as would have been pro-
vided had the amounts not been used under the
demonstration; and
(E) assuring that housing assisted under
the demonstration program meets housing qual-
ity standards established or approved by the
Secretary; and
(4) may request assistance for training and
technical assistance to assist with design of the dem-
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onstration and to participate in a detailed evalua-
tion.
(d) SELECTION.—In selecting among applications,
the Secretary shall take into account the potential of each
agency to plan and carry out a program under the dem-
onstration, the relative performance by an agency under
the public housing management assessment program
under section 6(j) of the United States Housing Act of
1937, and other appropriate factors as determined by the
Secretary.
(e) APPLICABILITY OF 1937 ACT PROVISIONS.—
(1) Section 18 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 shall continue to apply to public hous-
ing notwithstanding any use of the housing under
this demonstration.
(2) Section 12 of such Act shall apply to hous-
ing assisted under the demonstration, other than
housing assisted solely due to occupancy by families
receiving tenant-based assistance.
(f) EFFECT ON SECTION 8, OPERATING SUBSIDIES,
AND COMPREHENSIVE GRANT PROGRAM ALLOCATIONS.—
The amount of assistance received under section 8, section
9, or pursuant to section 14 by a public housing agency
participating in the demonstration under this part shall
not be diminished by its participation.
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(g) RECORDS, REPORTS, AND AUDITS.—
(1) KEEPING OF RECORDS.—Each agency shall
keep such records as the Secretary may prescribe as
reasonably necessary to disclose the amounts and
the disposition of amounts under this demonstration,
to ensure compliance with the requirements of this
section, and to measure performance.
(2) REPORTS.—Each agency shall submit to the
Secretary a report, or series of reports, in a form
and at a time specified by the Secretary. Each re-
port shall—
(A) document the use of funds made avail-
able under this section;
(B) provide such data as the Secretary
may request to assist the Secretary in assessing
the demonstration; and
(C) describe and analyze the effect of as-
sisted activities in addressing the objectives of
this part.
(3) ACCESS
TO
DOCUMENTS
BY
THE
SEC-
RETARY.—The Secretary shall have access for the
purpose of audit and examination to any books, doc-
uments, papers, and records that are pertinent to
assistance in connection with, and the requirements
of, this section.
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(4) ACCESS
TO
DOCUMENTS
BY
THE
COMP-
TROLLER
GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of
the United States, or any of the duly authorized rep-
resentatives of the Comptroller General, shall have
access for the purpose of audit and examination to
any books, documents, papers, and records that are
pertinent to assistance in connection with, and the
requirements of, this section.
(h) EVALUATION AND REPORT.—
(1) CONSULTATION
WITH
PHA
AND
FAMILY
REPRESENTATIVES.—In 
making 
assessments
throughout the demonstration, the Secretary shall
consult with representatives of public housing agen-
cies and residents.
(2) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—Not later than
180 days after the end of the third year of the dem-
onstration, the Secretary shall submit to the Con-
gress a report evaluating the programs carried out
under the demonstration. The report shall also in-
clude findings and recommendations for any appro-
priate legislative action.
(i) FUNDING
FOR TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
AND
EVALUATION.—From amounts appropriated for assist-
ance under section 14 of the United States Housing Act
439
of 1937 for fiscal years 1996, 1997, and 1998, the Sec-
retary may use up to a total of $5,000,000—
(1) to provide, directly or by contract, training
and technical assistance—
(A) to public housing agencies that express
an interest to apply for training and technical
assistance pursuant to subsection (c)(4), to as-
sist them in designing programs to be proposed
for the demonstration; and
(B) to up to 10 agencies selected to receive
training and technical assistance pursuant to
subsection (c)(4), to assist them in implement-
ing the approved program; and
(2) to conduct detailed evaluations of the activi-
ties of the public housing agencies under paragraph
(1)(B), directly or by contract.
EXTENSION OF MULTIFAMILY HOUSING FINANCE
PROGRAM
SEC. 205. (a) The first sentence of section 542(b)(5)
of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992
(12 U.S.C. 1707 note) is amended by striking ‘‘on not
more than 15,000 units over fiscal years 1993 and 1994’’
and inserting ‘‘on not more than 7,500 units during fiscal
year 1996’’.
(b) The first sentence of section 542(c)(4) of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (12
440
U.S.C. 1707 note) is amended by striking ‘‘on not to ex-
ceed 30,000 units over fiscal years 1993, 1994, and 1995’’
and inserting ‘‘on not more than 10,000 units during fis-
cal year 1996’’.
FORECLOSURE OF HUD-HELD MORTGAGES THROUGH
THIRD PARTIES
SEC. 206. During fiscal year 1996, the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development may delegate to one or
more entities the authority to carry out some or all of the
functions and responsibilities of the Secretary in connec-
tion with the foreclosure of mortgages held by the Sec-
retary under the National Housing Act.
RESTRUCTURING OF THE HUD MULTIFAMILY MORTGAGE
PORTFOLIO
THROUGH
STATE
HOUSING
FINANCE
AGENCIES.
SEC. 207. During fiscal year 1996, the Secretary of
Housing and Urban Development may sell or otherwise
transfer multifamily mortgages held by the Secretary
under the National Housing Act to a State housing fi-
nance agency in connection with a program authorized
under section 542 (b) or (c) of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1992 without regard to the unit
limitations in section 542(b)(5) or 542(c)(4) of such Act.
441
TRANSFER OF SECTION 8 AUTHORITY
SEC. 208. Section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 is amended by adding the following new sub-
section at the end:
‘‘(bb) TRANSFER OF BUDGET AUTHORITY.—If an as-
sistance contract under this section, other than a contract
for tenant-based assistance, is terminated or is not re-
newed, or if the contract expires, the Secretary shall, in
order to provide continued assistance to eligible families,
including eligible families receiving the benefit of the
project-based assistance at the time of the termination,
transfer any budget authority remaining in the contract
to another contract. The transfer shall be under such
terms as the Secretary may prescribe.’’.
DOCUMENTATION OF MULTIFAMILY REFINANCINGS
SEC. 209. Notwithstanding the 16th paragraph under
the item relating to ‘‘administrative provisions’’ in title II
of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–327; 108 Stat.
2316), the amendments to section 223(a)(7) of the Na-
tional Housing Act made by the 15th paragraph of such
Act shall be effective during fiscal year 1996 and there-
after.
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FHA MULTIFAMILY DEMONSTRATION AUTHORITY
SEC. 210. (a) On and after October 1, 1995, and be-
fore October 1, 1997, the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall initiate a demonstration program with
respect to multifamily projects whose owners agree to par-
ticipate and whose mortgages are insured under the Na-
tional Housing Act and that are assisted under section
8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 and whose
present section 8 rents are, in the aggregate, in excess
of the fair market rent of the locality in which the project
is located. These programs shall be designed to test the
feasibility and desirability of the goal of ensuring, to the
maximum extent practicable, that the debt service and op-
erating expenses, including adequate reserves, attributable
to such multifamily projects can be supported with or
without mortgage insurance under the National Housing
Act and with or without above-market rents and utilizing
project-based assistance or, with the consent of the prop-
erty owner, tenant-based assistance, while taking into ac-
count the need for assistance of low- and very low-income
families in such projects. In carrying out this demonstra-
tion, the Secretary may use arrangements with third par-
ties, under which the Secretary may provide for the as-
sumption by the third parties (by delegation, contract, or
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otherwise) of some or all of the functions, obligations, and
benefits of the Secretary.
(1) GOALS.—The Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development shall carry out the demonstra-
tion programs under this section in a manner that—
(A) will protect the financial interests of
the Federal Government;
(B) will result in significant discretionary
cost savings through debt restructuring and
subsidy reduction; and
(C) will, in the least costly fashion, address
the goals of—
(i) maintaining existing housing stock
in a decent, safe, and sanitary condition;
(ii) minimizing the involuntary dis-
placement of tenants;
(iii) restructuring the mortgages of
such projects in a manner that is consist-
ent with local housing market conditions;
(iv) supporting fair housing strategies;
(v) minimizing any adverse income tax
impact on property owners; and
(vi) minimizing any adverse impact on
residential neighborhoods.
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In determining the manner in which a mortgage is
to be restructured or the subsidy reduced, the Sec-
retary may balance competing goals relating to indi-
vidual projects in a manner that will further the
purposes of this section.
(2) DEMONSTRATION APPROACHES.—In carry-
ing out the demonstration programs, subject to the
appropriation in subsection (f), the Secretary may
use one or more of the following approaches:
(A) Joint venture arrangements with third
parties, under which the Secretary may provide
for the assumption by the third parties (by del-
egation, contract, or otherwise) of some or all
of the functions, obligations, and benefits of the
Secretary.
(B) Subsidization of the debt service of the
project to a level that can be paid by an owner
receiving an unsubsidized market rent.
(C) Renewal of existing project-based as-
sistance contracts where the Secretary shall ap-
prove proposed initial rent levels that do not ex-
ceed the greater of 120 percent of fair market
rents or comparable market rents for the rel-
evant metropolitan market area or at rent levels
under a budget-based approach.
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(D) 
Nonrenewal 
of 
expiring 
existing
project-based assistance contracts and providing
tenant-based assistance to previously assisted
households.
(b) For purposes of carrying out demonstration pro-
grams under subsection (a)—
(1) the Secretary may manage and dispose of
multifamily properties owned by the Secretary as of
October 1, 1995 and multifamily mortgages held by
the Secretary as of October 1, 1995 for properties
assisted under section 8 with rents above 110 per-
cent of fair market rents without regard to any
other provision of law; and
(2) the Secretary may delegate to one or more
entities the authority to carry out some or all of the
functions and responsibilities of the Secretary in
connection with the foreclosure of mortgages held by
the Secretary under the National Housing Act.
(c) For purposes of carrying out demonstration pro-
grams under subsection (a), subject to such third party
consents (if any) as are necessary including but not lim-
ited to (i) consent by the Government National Mortgage
Association where it owns a mortgage insured by the Sec-
retary; (ii) consent by an issuer under the mortgage-
backed securities program of the Association, subject to
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the responsibilities of the issuer to its security holders and
the Association under such program; and (iii) parties to
any contractual agreement which the Secretary proposes
to modify or discontinue, and subject to the appropriation
in subsection (c), the Secretary or one or more third par-
ties designated by the Secretary may take the following
actions:
(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
and subject to the agreement of the project owner,
the Secretary or third party may remove, relinquish,
extinguish, modify, or agree to the removal of any
mortgage, regulatory agreement, project-based as-
sistance contract, use agreement, or restriction that
had been imposed or required by the Secretary, in-
cluding restrictions on distributions of income which
the Secretary or third party determines would inter-
fere with the ability of the project to operate without
above market rents. The Secretary or third party
may require an owner of a property assisted under
the section 8 new construction/substantial rehabilita-
tion program to apply any accumulated residual re-
ceipts toward effecting the purposes of this section.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
may enter into contracts to purchase reinsurance, or
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enter into participations or otherwise transfer eco-
nomic interest in contracts of insurance or in the
premiums paid, or due to be paid, on such insurance
to third parties, on such terms and conditions as the
Secretary may determine.
(3) The Secretary may offer project-based as-
sistance with rents at or below fair market rents for
the locality in which the project is located and may
negotiate such other terms as are acceptable to the
Secretary and the project owner.
(4) The Secretary may offer to pay all or a por-
tion of the project’s debt service, including payments
monthly from the appropriate Insurance Fund, for
the full remaining term of the insured mortgage.
(5) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Secretary may forgive and cancel any FHA-in-
sured mortgage debt that a demonstration program
property cannot carry at market rents while bearing
full operating costs.
(6) For demonstration program properties that
cannot carry full operating costs (excluding debt
service) at market rents, the Secretary may approve
project-based rents sufficient to carry such full oper-
ating costs and may offer to pay the full debt service
in the manner provided in paragraph (4).
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(d) COMMUNITY AND TENANT INPUT.—In carrying
out this section, the Secretary shall develop procedures to
provide appropriate and timely notice to officials of the
unit of general local government affected, the community
in which the project is situated, and the tenants of the
project.
(e) LIMITATION ON DEMONSTRATION AUTHORITY.—
The Secretary may carry out demonstration programs
under this section with respect to mortgages not to exceed
15,000 units. The demonstration authorized under this
section shall not be expanded until the reports required
under subsection (g) are submitted to the Congress.
(f) APPROPRIATION.—For the cost of modifying loans
held or guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administra-
tion, as authorized by this subsection (a)(2) and sub-
section (c), $30,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 1997: Provided, That such costs shall be as
defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended.
(g) REPORT
TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall
submit to the Congress every six months after the date
of enactment of this Act a report describing and assessing
the programs carried out under the demonstrations. The
Secretary shall also submit a final report to the Congress
not later than six months after the end of the demonstra-
450
(8) a description of the impact to which the
demonstrations under this section have affected the
localities and communities where the selected multi-
family housing projects are located; and
(9) a description of the extent to which the
demonstrations under this section have affected the
owners of multifamily housing projects.
ASSESSMENT COLLECTION DATES FOR OFFICE OF
FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT
SEC. 211. Section 1316(b) of the Housing and Com-
munity Development Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 4516(b)) is
amended by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the fol-
lowing new paragraph:
‘‘(2) TIMING OF PAYMENT.—The annual assessment
shall be payable semiannually for each fiscal year, on Oc-
tober 1 and April 1.’’.
MERGER LANGUAGE FOR ASSISTANCE FOR THE RENEWAL
OF EXPIRING SECTION 8 SUBSIDY CONTRACTS AND
ANNUAL CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ASSISTED HOUSING
SEC. 212. All remaining obligated and unobligated
balances in the Renewal of Expiring Section 8 Subsidy
Contracts account on September 30, 1995, shall imme-
diately thereafter be transferred to and merged with the
obligated and unobligated balances, respectively, of the
Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing account.
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DEBT FORGIVENESS
SEC. 213. (a) The Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development shall cancel the indebtedness of the Hubbard
Hospital Authority of Hubbard, Texas, relating to the
public facilities loan for Project Number PFL–TEX–215,
issued under title II of the Housing Amendments of 1955.
Such hospital authority is relieved of all liability to the
Government for the outstanding principal balance on such
loan, for the amount of accrued interest on such loan, and
for any fees and charges payable in connection with such
loan.
(b) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall cancel the indebtedness of the Groveton Texas
Hospital Authority relating to the public facilities loan for
Project Number TEX–41–PFL0162, issued under title II
of the Housing Amendments of 1955. Such hospital au-
thority is relieved of all liability to the Government for
the outstanding principal balance on such loan, for the
amount of accrued interest on such loan, and for any fees
and charges payable in connection with such loan.
(c) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall cancel the indebtedness of the Hepzibah Public
Service District of Hepzibah, West Virginia, relating to
the public facilities loan for Project Number WV–46–
PFL0031, issued under title II of the Housing Amend-
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ments of 1955. Such public service district is relieved of
all liability to the Government for the outstanding prin-
cipal balance on such loan, for the amount of accrued in-
terest on such loan, and for any fees and charges payable
in connection with such loan.
(d) The Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment shall cancel indebtedness of Sheehan Memorial Hos-
pital of Buffalo, New York, relating to the Federal Hous-
ing Administration insurance for Project Number 014–
13002 issued under section 242 of the National Housing
Act. Such hospital is relieved of all liability to the Govern-
ment for the outstanding principal balance on such loan,
for the amount of accrued interest on such loan, and for
any fees and charges payable in connection with such loan.
CLARIFICATIONS
SEC. 214. For purposes of Federal law, the Paul Mi-
rabile Center in San Diego, California, including areas
within such Center that are devoted to the delivery of sup-
portive services, has been determined to satisfy the ‘‘con-
tinuum of care’’ requirements of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and shall be treated as—
(a) consisting solely of residential units that (i)
contain sleeping accommodations and kitchen and
bathroom facilities, (ii) are located in a building that
is used exclusively to facilitate the transition of
homeless individuals (within the meaning of section
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103 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assist-
ance Act (42 U.S.C. 11302), as in effect on Decem-
ber 19, 1989) to independent living within 24
months, (iii) are suitable for occupancy, with each
cubicle constituting a separate bedroom and residen-
tial unit, (iv) are used on other than a transient
basis, and (v) shall be originally placed in service on
November 1, 1995; and
(b) property that is entirely residential rental
property, namely, a project for residential rental
property.
EMPLOYMENT LIMITATIONS
SEC. 215. (a) By the end of fiscal year 1996 the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development shall em-
ploy no more than seven Assistant Secretaries, notwith-
standing section 4(a) of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development Act.
(b) By the end of fiscal year 1996 the Department
of Housing and Urban Development shall employ no more
than 77 schedule C and 20 non-career senior executive
service employees.
USE OF FUNDS
SEC. 216. (a) Of the $93,400,000 earmarked in Pub-
lic Law 101–144 (103 Stat. 850), as amended by Public
Law 101–302 (104 Stat. 237), for special projects and
purposes, any amounts remaining of the $500,000 made
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available to Bethlehem House in Highland, California, for
site planning and loan acquisition shall instead be made
available to the County of San Bernardino in California
to assist with the expansion of the Los Padrinos Gang
Intervention Program and the Unity Home Domestic Vio-
lence Shelter.
(b) The amount made available for fiscal year 1995
for the removal of asbestos from an abandoned public
school building in Toledo, Ohio shall be made available
for the renovation and rehabilitation of an industrial
building at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio.
LEAD-BASED PAINT ABATEMENT
SEC. 217. (a) Section 1011 of Title X—Residential
Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act of 1992 is
amended as follows: Strike ‘‘priority housing’’ wherever it
appears in said section and insert ‘‘housing’’.
(b) Section 1011(a) shall be amended as follows: At
the end of the subsection after the period, insert: ‘‘Grants
shall only be made under this section to provide assistance
for housing which meets the following criteria—
‘‘(1) for grants made to assist rental housing,
at least 50 percent of the units must be occupied by
or made available to families with incomes at or
below 50 percent of the area median income level
and the remaining units shall be occupied or made
available to families with incomes at or below 80
455
percent of the area median income level, and in all
cases the landlord shall give priority in renting units
assisted under this section, for not less than 3 years
following the completion of lead abatement activities,
to families with a child under the age of six years,
except that buildings with five or more units may
have 20 percent of the units occupied by families
with incomes above 80 percent of area median in-
come level;
‘‘(2) for grants made to assist housing owned
by owner-occupants, all units assisted with grants
under this section shall be the principal residence of
families with income at or below 80 percent of the
area median income level, and not less than 90 per-
cent of the units assisted with grants under this sec-
tion shall be occupied by a child under the age of
six years or shall be units where a child under the
age of six years spends a significant amount of time
visiting; and
‘‘(3) notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2),
Round II grantees who receive assistance under this
section may use such assistance for priority hous-
ing.’’.
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EXTENSION PERIOD FOR SHARING UTILITY COST SAVINGS
WITH PHAS
SEC. 218. Section 9(a)(3)(B)(i) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 is amended by striking ‘‘for a period
not to exceed 6 years’’.
MORTGAGE NOTE SALES
SEC. 
219. 
The 
first 
sentence 
of 
section
221(g)(4)(C)(viii) of the National Housing Act is amended
by striking ‘‘September 30, 1995’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘September 30, 1996’’.
REPEAL OF FROST-LELAND
SEC. 220. Section 415 of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development—Independent Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 1988 (Public Law 100–202; 101 Stat.
1329–213) is repealed.
FHA SINGLE-FAMILY ASSIGNMENT PROGRAM REFORM
SEC. 221. Section 230(d) of the National Housing
Act is amended by striking ‘‘the Departments’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘1996’’ and inserting ‘‘The Balanced
Budget Downpayment Act, I’’.
SPENDING LIMITATIONS
SEC. 222. (a) None of the funds in this Act may be
used by the Secretary to impose any sanction, or penalty
because of the enactment of any State or local law or regu-
lation declaring English as the official language.
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(b) No part of any appropriation contained in this
Act shall be used for lobbying activities as prohibited by
law.
TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF
JUSTICE
SEC. 223. All functions, activities and responsibilities
of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development re-
lating to title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as
amended by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988,
and the Fair Housing Act, including any rights guaran-
teed under the Fair Housing Act (including any functions
relating to the Fair Housing Initiatives program under
section 561 of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1987), are hereby transferred to the Attorney Gen-
eral of the United States effective April 1, 1997: Provided,
That none of the aforementioned authority or responsibil-
ity for enforcement of the Fair Housing Act shall be trans-
ferred to the Attorney General until adequate personnel
and resources allocated to such activity at the Department
of Housing and Urban Development are transferred to the
Department of Justice.
SEC. 224. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used during fiscal year 1996 to investigate or prosecute
under the Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. 3601, et seq.) any
otherwise lawful activity engaged in by one or more per-
sons, including the filing or maintaining of non-frivolous
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legal action, that is engaged in solely for the purposes of
achieving or preventing action by a Government official,
entity, or court of competent jurisdiction.
SEC. 225. None of the funds provided in this Act
many be used to take any enforcement action with respect
to a complaint of discrimination under the Fair Housing
Act (42 U.S.C. 3601, et seq.) on the basis of familial sta-
tus and which involves an occupancy standard established
by the housing provider except to the extent that it is
found that there has been discrimination in contravention
of the standards provided in the March 20, 1991 Memo-
randum from the General Counsel of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development to all Regional Counsel
or until such time that HUD issues a final rule in accord-
ance with section 553 of title 5, United States Code.
CDBG ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES
SEC. 226. Section 105(a) of the Housing and Com-
munity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5305(a)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (4)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘reconstruction,’’ after
‘‘removal,’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘acquisition for rehabilita-
tion, and rehabilitation’’ and inserting ‘‘acquisi-
tion for reconstruction or rehabilitation, and re-
construction or rehabilitation’’;
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(2) in paragraph (13), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(3) by striking paragraph (19);
(4) in paragraph (24), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(5) in paragraph (25), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’;
(6) by redesignating paragraphs (20) through
(25) as paragraphs (19) through (24), respectively;
and
(7) by redesignating paragraph (21) (as added
by section 1012(f)(3) of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1992) as paragraph (25).
TITLE III
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
of the American Battle Monuments Commission, including
the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign coun-
tries; purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of
national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United
States and its territories and possessions; rent of office
and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for
replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles;
460
and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign coun-
tries, 
when 
required 
by 
law 
of 
such 
countries;
$20,265,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That where station allowance has been authorized
by the Department of the Army for officers of the Army
serving the Army at certain foreign stations, the same al-
lowance shall be authorized for officers of the Armed
Forces assigned to the Commission while serving at the
same foreign stations, and this appropriation is hereby
made available for the payment of such allowance: Pro-
vided further, That when traveling on business of the Com-
mission, officers of the Armed Forces serving as members
or as Secretary of the Commission may be reimbursed for
expenses as provided for civilian members of the Commis-
sion: Provided further, That the Commission shall reim-
burse other Government agencies, including the Armed
Forces, for salary, pay, and allowances of personnel as-
signed to it.
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
alent to the rate for GS–18, purchase of nominal awards
461
to recognize non-Federal officials’ contributions to Com-
mission activities, and not to exceed $500 for official re-
ception and representation expenses, $40,000,000.
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service in carrying out the orderly
termination of programs, activities, and initiatives under
the National and Community Service Act of 1990, as
amended (Public Law 103–82), $15,000,000: Provided,
That such amount shall be utilized to resolve all respon-
sibilities and obligations in connection with said Corpora-
tion and the Corporation’s Office of Inspector General:
Provided further, That such amount shall cease to be avail-
able for obligation upon the date of implementation of title
IV of this Act, and any portion of such amount obligated
before such date shall be charged against the appropria-
tion made under this heading in title IV of this Act.
COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the operation of the
United States Court of Veterans Appeals as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. sections 7251–7292, $9,000,000, of which
not to exceed $678,000, to remain available until Septem-
462
ber 30, 1997, shall be available for the purpose of provid-
ing financial assistance as described, and in accordance
with the process and reporting procedures set forth, under
this head in Public Law 102–229.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for
maintenance, operation, and improvement of Arlington
National Cemetery and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Na-
tional Cemetery, and not to exceed $1,000 for official re-
ception and representation expenses; $11,946,000, to re-
main available until expended.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For science and technology, including research and
development activities, which shall include research and
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980
(CERCLA), as amended; necessary expenses for personnel
and related costs and travel expenses, including uniforms,
or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–
5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
alent to the rate for GS–18; procurement of laboratory
463
equipment and supplies; other operating expenses in sup-
port of research and development; construction, alteration,
repair, rehabilitation and renovation of facilities, not to
exceed $75,000 per project; $525,000,000, which shall re-
main available until September 30, 1997.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for
personnel and related costs and travel expenses, including
uniforms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; 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 GS–18; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation
of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in
societies or associations which issue publications to mem-
bers only or at a price to members lower than to subscrib-
ers who are not members; construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000 for official
reception and representation expenses; $1,550,300,000,
which shall remain available until September 30, 1997:
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, for this fiscal year and hereafter, an industrial dis-
charger that is a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility
and discharged to the Kalamazoo Water Reclamation
464
Plant (an advanced wastewater treatment plant with acti-
vated carbon) prior to the date of enactment of this Act
may be exempted from categorical pretreatment standards
under section 307(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
trol Act, as amended, if the following conditions are met:
(1) The owner or operator of the Kalamazoo
Water Reclamation Plant applies to the State of
Michigan for an exemption for such industrial dis-
charger.
(2) The State or Administrator, as applicable,
approves such exemption request based upon a de-
termination that the Kalamazoo Water Reclamation
Plant will provide treatment and pollution removal
equivalent to or better than that which would be re-
quired through a combination of pretreatment by
such industrial discharger and treatment by the
Kalamazoo Water Reclamation Plant in the absence
of the exemption.
(3) Compliance with paragraph (2) is addressed
by the provisions and conditions of a permit issued
to the Kalamazoo Water Reclamation Plant under
section 402 of such Act, and there exists an opera-
tive financial contract between the City of Kala-
mazoo and the industrial user and an approved local
pretreatment program, including a joint monitoring
465
program and local controls to prevent against inter-
ference and pass through.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $28,500,000.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of,
or use by, the Environmental Protection Agency,
$60,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shall: (1)
transfer all real property acquired in Bay City, Michigan,
for the creation of the Center for Ecology, Research and
Training (CERT) to the City of Bay City or other local
public or municipal entity; and (2) make a grant in fiscal
year 1996 to the recipient of the property of not less than
$3,000,000 from funds previously appropriated for the
CERT project for the purposes of environmental remedi-
ation and rehabilitation of real property included in the
boundaries of the CERT project: Provided further, That
the disposition of property shall be by donation or no-cost
transfer and shall be made to the City of Bay City, Michi-
466
gan or other local public or municipal entity: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
EPA shall have the authority to demolish or dispose of
any improvements on such real property, or to donate, sell,
or transfer any personal property or improvements on
such real property to members of the general public, by
auction or public sale, and to apply any funds received
to costs related to the transfer of the real property author-
ized hereunder.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability
Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sections
111 (c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 9611),
and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and
renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project;
not to exceed $1,163,400,000, to remain available until
expended, consisting of $913,400,000 as authorized by
section 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reau-
thorization Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended by Public
Law 101–508, and $250,000,000 as a payment from gen-
eral revenues to the Hazardous Substance Superfund as
authorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as amended by
Public Law 101–508: Provided, That funds appropriated
under this heading may be allocated to other Federal
467
agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of CERCLA:
Provided further, That $11,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be transferred to the Of-
fice of Inspector General appropriation to remain available
until September 30, 1996: Provided further, That notwith-
standing section 111(m) of CERCLA or any other provi-
sion of law, not to exceed $59,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be available to the Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to carry out
activities described in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and
111(c)(14) of CERCLA and section 118(f) of the
Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated
under this heading shall be available for the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue in excess
of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section 104(i) of
CERCLA during fiscal year 1996: Provided further, That
none of the funds made available under this heading may
be used by the Environmental Protection Agency to pro-
pose for listing or to list any additional facilities on the
National Priorities List established by section 105 of the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation
and Liability Act (CERCLA), as amended (42 U.S.C.
9605), unless the Administrator receives a written request
to propose for listing or to list a facility from the Governor
468
of the State in which the facility is located, or unless legis-
lation to reauthorize CERCLA is enacted.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$75,000 per project, $45,827,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That no more than $7,000,000
shall be available for administrative expenses: Provided
further, That $500,000 shall be transferred to the Office
of Inspector General appropriation to remain available
until September 30, 1996.
OIL SPILL RESPONSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990, $15,000,000, to be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, and to remain available
until expended: Provided, That not more than $8,000,000
of these funds shall be available for administrative ex-
penses.
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STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants,
$2,323,000,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $1,400,000,000 shall be for making capitalization
grants for State revolving funds to support water infra-
structure financing; $100,000,000 for architectural, engi-
neering, design, construction and related activities in con-
nection with the construction of high priority water and
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mex-
ico Border, after consultation with the appropriate border
commission; $50,000,000 for grants to the State of Texas,
which shall be matched by an equal amount of State funds
from State resources, for the purpose of improving
wastewater treatment for colonias; $15,000,000 for grants
to the State of Alaska, subject to an appropriate cost
share as determined by the Administrator, to address
wastewater infrastructure needs of rural and Alaska Na-
tive villages; and $100,000,000 for making grants for the
construction of wastewater treatment facilities and the de-
velopment of groundwater in accordance with the terms
and conditions specified for such grants in the Conference
Report accompanying this Act (H.R. 2099): Provided,
That beginning in fiscal year 1996 and each fiscal year
470
thereafter, and notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Administrator is authorized to make grants annu-
ally from funds appropriated under this heading, subject
to such terms and conditions as the Administrator shall
establish, to any State or federally recognized Indian tribe
for multimedia or single media pollution prevention, con-
trol and abatement and related environmental activities at
the request of the Governor or other appropriate State of-
ficial or the tribe: Provided further, That from funds ap-
propriated under this heading, the Administrator may
make grants to federally recognized Indian governments
for the development of multimedia environmental pro-
grams: Provided further, That of the $1,400,000,000 for
capitalization grants for State revolving funds to support
water infrastructure financing, $275,000,000 shall be for
drinking water State revolving funds, but if no drinking
water State revolving fund legislation is enacted by June
1, 1996, these funds shall immediately be available for
making capitalization grants under title VI of the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds made available in Public Law 103–
327 and in Public Law 103–124 for capitalization grants
for State revolving funds to support water infrastructure
financing, $225,000,000 shall be made available for cap-
italization grants for State revolving funds under title VI
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of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, if no drinking water State revolving fund legisla-
tion is enacted by June 1, 1996: Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading for capital-
ization grants for State Revolving Funds under title VI
of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended,
$50,000,000 shall be for wastewater treatment in impov-
erished communities pursuant to section 102(d) of H.R.
961 as approved by the United States House of Represent-
atives on May 16, 1995: Provided further, That of the
funds appropriated in the Construction Grants and Water
Infrastructure/State Revolving Funds accounts since the
appropriation for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1992, and hereafter, for making grants for wastewater
treatment works construction projects, portions may be
provided by the recipients to States for managing con-
struction grant activities, on condition that the States
agree to reimburse the recipients from State funding
sources: Provided further, That the funds made available
in Public Law 103–327 for a grant to the City of Mt.
Arlington, New Jersey, in accordance with House Report
103–715, shall be available for a grant to that city for
water and sewer improvements.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used within the Environmental Protection Agency for
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any final action by the Administrator or her delegate for
signing and publishing for promulgation of a rule concern-
ing any new standard for radon in drinking water.
SEC. 302. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used during fiscal year 1996 to sign, promulgate, im-
plement or enforce the requirement proposed as ‘‘Regula-
tion of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Individual Foreign Re-
finery Baseline Requirements for Reformulated Gasoline’’
at volume 59 of the Federal Register at pages 22800
through 22814.
SEC. 303. None of the funds appropriated to the En-
vironmental Protection Agency for fiscal year 1996 may
be used to implement section 404(c) of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, as amended. No pending action by
the Environmental Protection Agency to implement sec-
tion 404(c) with respect to an individual permit shall re-
main in effect after the date of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 304. None of the funds appropriated under this
Act may be used to implement the requirements of section
186(b)(2), section 187(b) or section 211(m) of the Clean
Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7512(b)(2), 7512a(b), or 7545(m))
with respect to any moderate nonattainment area in which
the average daily winter temperature is below 0 degrees
Fahrenheit. The preceding sentence shall not be inter-
preted to preclude assistance from the Environmental Pro-
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tection Agency to the State of Alaska to make progress
toward meeting the carbon monoxide standard in such
areas and to resolve remaining issues regarding the use
of oxygenated fuels in such areas.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire
of passenger motor vehicles, services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception
and representation expenses, and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia, $4,981,000: Provided,
That the Office of Science and Technology Policy shall
reimburse other agencies for not less than one-half of the
personnel compensation costs of individuals detailed to it.
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Im-
provement Act of 1970 and Reorganization Plan No. 1
of 1977, $1,500,000.
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
DISASTER RELIEF
For necessary expenses in carrying out the functions
of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $222,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans, $2,155,000, as author-
ized by section 319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et
seq.): Provided, That such costs, including the cost of
modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section 502
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended:
Provided further, That these funds are available to sub-
sidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct
loans not to exceed $25,000,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct loan program, $95,000.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
including hire and purchase of motor vehicles (31 U.S.C.
1343); uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 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 GS–18; expenses of
attendance of cooperating officials and individuals at
475
meetings concerned with the work of emergency prepared-
ness; transportation in connection with the continuity of
Government programs to the same extent and in the same
manner as permitted the Secretary of a Military Depart-
ment under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to exceed $2,500
for official reception and representation expenses;
$168,900,000.
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $4,673,000.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
to carry out activities under the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protec-
tion Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.),
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake
Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control
Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C.
App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the National
Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404–405),
and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $203,044,000.
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EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM
There is hereby appropriated $100,000,000 to the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to carry out an
emergency food and shelter program pursuant to title III
of Public Law 100–77, as amended: Provided, That total
administrative costs shall not exceed three and one-half
per centum of the total appropriation.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND
For activities under the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968, the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973,
and the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994,
not to exceed $20,562,000 for salaries and expenses asso-
ciated with flood mitigation and flood insurance oper-
ations, and not to exceed $70,464,000 for flood mitigation,
including up to $12,000,000 for expenses under section
1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as
amended, which amount shall be available until September
30, 1997. In fiscal year 1996, no funds in excess of (1)
$47,000,000 for operating expenses, (2) $292,526,000 for
agents’ commissions and taxes, and (3) $3,500,000 for in-
terest on Treasury borrowings shall be available from the
National Flood Insurance Fund without prior notice to the
Committees on Appropriations.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
The Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency shall promulgate through rulemaking a methodol-
477
ogy for assessment and collection of fees to be assessed
and collected beginning in fiscal year 1996 applicable to
persons subject to the Federal Emergency Management
Agency’s radiological emergency preparedness regulations.
The aggregate charges assessed pursuant to this section
during fiscal year 1996 shall approximate, but not be less
than, 100 per centum of the amounts anticipated by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency to be obligated
for its radiological emergency preparedness program for
such fiscal year. The methodology for assessment and col-
lection of fees shall be fair and equitable, and shall reflect
the full amount of costs of providing radiological emer-
gency planning, preparedness, response and associated
services. Such fees will be assessed in a manner that re-
flects the use of agency resources for classes of regulated
persons and the administrative costs of collecting such
fees. Fees received pursuant to this section shall be depos-
ited in the general fund of the Treasury as offsetting re-
ceipts. Assessment and collection of such fees are only au-
thorized during fiscal year 1996.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Information
Center, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$2,061,000, to be deposited into the Consumer Informa-
478
tion Center Fund: Provided, That the appropriations, rev-
enues and collections deposited into the fund shall be
available for necessary expenses of Consumer Information
Center activities in the aggregate amount of $7,500,000.
Administrative expenses of the Consumer Information
Center in fiscal year 1996 shall not exceed $2,602,000.
Appropriations, revenues, and collections accruing to this
fund during fiscal year 1996 in excess of $7,500,000 shall
remain in the fund and shall not be available for expendi-
ture except as authorized in appropriations Acts.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in the conduct and support of human space flight research
and development activities, including research; develop-
ment; operations; services; maintenance; construction of
facilities including repair, rehabilitation, and modification
of real and personal property, and acquisition or con-
demnation of real property, as authorized by law; space
flight, spacecraft control and communications activities in-
cluding operations, production, and services; and pur-
chase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mis-
sion and administrative aircraft; $5,456,600,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 1997.
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SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
for the conduct and support of science, aeronautics, and
technology research and development activities, including
research; development; operations; services; maintenance;
construction of facilities including repair, rehabilitation
and modification of real and personal property, and acqui-
sition or condemnation of real property, as authorized by
law; space flight, spacecraft control and communications
activities including operations, production, and services;
and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation
of mission and administrative aircraft; $5,845,900,000, to
remain available until September 30, 1997.
MISSION SUPPORT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in carrying out mission support for human space flight
programs and science, aeronautical, and technology pro-
grams, including research operations and support; space
communications activities including operations, produc-
tion, and services; maintenance; construction of facilities
including repair, rehabilitation, and modification of facili-
ties, minor construction of new facilities and additions to
existing facilities, facility planning and design, environ-
mental compliance and restoration, and acquisition or con-
demnation of real property, as authorized by law; program
management; personnel and related costs, including uni-
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forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5
U.S.C. 5901–5902); travel expenses; purchase, lease,
charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and ad-
ministrative aircraft; not to exceed $35,000 for official re-
ception and representation expenses; and purchase (not to
exceed thirty-three for replacement only) and hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; $2,502,200,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 1997.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $16,000,000.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science,
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this
appropriations Act, when any activity has been initiated
by the incurrence of obligations for construction of facili-
ties as authorized by law, the amount available for such
activity shall remain available until expended. This provi-
sion does not apply to the amounts appropriated in ‘‘Mis-
sion support’’ pursuant to the authorization for repair, re-
habilitation and modification of facilities, minor construc-
tion of new facilities and additions to existing facilities,
and facility planning and design.
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Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science,
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this
appropriations Act, the amounts appropriated for con-
struction of facilities shall remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 1998.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Mission support’’ and ‘‘Office of
Inspector General’’, amounts made available by this Act
for personnel and related costs and travel expenses of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall re-
main available until September 30, 1996 and may be used
to enter into contracts for training, investigations, cost as-
sociated with personnel relocation, and for other services,
to be provided during the next fiscal year.
The unexpired balances of prior appropriations to
NASA for activities for which funds are provided under
this Act may be transferred to the new account established
for the appropriation that provides funds for such activity
under this Act. Balances so transferred may be merged
with funds in the newly established account and thereafter
may be accounted for as one fund to be available for the
same purposes and under the same terms and conditions.
Upon the determination by the Administrator that
such action is necessary, the Administrator may, with the
482
approval of the Office of Management and Budget, trans-
fer not to exceed $50,000,000 of funds made available in
this Act to the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration between such appropriations or any subdivision
thereof, to be merged with and to be available for the same
purposes, and for the same time period, as the appropria-
tion to which transferred: Provided, That such authority
to transfer may not be used unless for higher priority
items, based on unforeseen requirements, than those for
which originally appropriated: Provided further, That the
Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration shall notify the Congress promptly of all
transfers made pursuant to this authority.
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY
During fiscal year 1996, gross obligations of the
Central Liquidity Facility for the principal amount of new
direct loans to member credit unions as authorized by the
National Credit Union Central Liquidity Facility Act (12
U.S.C. 1795) shall not exceed $600,000,000: Provided,
That administrative expenses of the Central Liquidity Fa-
cility in fiscal year 1996 shall not exceed $560,000.
483
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
For necessary expenses in carrying out the purposes
of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), and the Act to establish
a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–1881); serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and op-
eration of aircraft and purchase of flight services for re-
search support; acquisition of aircraft; $2,274,000,000, of
which not to exceed $235,000,000 shall remain available
until expended for Polar research and operations support,
and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for oper-
ational and science support and logistical and other relat-
ed activities for the United States Antarctic program; the
balance to remain available until September 30, 1997:
Provided, That receipts for scientific support services and
materials furnished by the National Research Centers and
other National Science Foundation supported research fa-
cilities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided fur-
ther, That to the extent that the amount appropriated is
less than the total amount authorized to be appropriated
for included program activities, all amounts, including
floors and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for
those program activities or their subactivities shall be re-
duced proportionally.
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MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
For necessary expenses in carrying out major con-
struction projects, and related expenses, pursuant to the
purposes of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), $70,000,000, to re-
main available until expended.
ACADEMIC RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
For necessary expenses in carrying out an academic
research infrastructure program pursuant to the purposes
of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), including services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia, $100,000,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 1997.
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and
engineering education and human resources programs and
activities pursuant to the purposes of the National Science
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–
1875), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109
and rental of conference rooms in the District of Colum-
bia, $599,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 1997: Provided, That to the extent that the amount
of this appropriation is less than the total amount author-
ized to be appropriated for included program activities, all
amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in the au-
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thorizing Act for those program activities or their
subactivities shall be reduced proportionally.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary salaries and expenses in carrying out
the purposes of the National Science Foundation Act of
1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875); services au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles; not to exceed $9,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses; uniforms or allowances therefor, as
authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); rental of con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia; reimbursement
of the General Services Administration for security guard
services; $127,310,000: Provided, That contracts may be
entered into under salaries and expenses in fiscal year
1996 for maintenance and operation of facilities, and for
other services, to be provided during the next fiscal year.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $4,490,000, to remain
available until September 30, 1997.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION HEADQUARTERS
RELOCATION
For necessary support of the relocation of the Na-
tional Science Foundation, $5,200,000: Provided, That
these funds shall be used to reimburse the General Serv-
486
ices Administration for services and related acquisitions
in support of relocating the National Science Foundation.
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 Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $38,667,000.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective
Service System, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 4101–
4118) for civilian employees; and not to exceed $1,000 for
official 
reception 
and 
representation 
expenses;
$22,930,000: Provided, That during the current fiscal
year, the President may exempt this appropriation from
the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever he deems such
action to be necessary in the interest of national defense:
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by
the Act may be expended for or in connection with the
induction of any person into the Armed Forces of the
United States.
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TITLE IV
CORPORATIONS
Corporations and agencies of the Department of
Housing and Urban Development which are subject to the
Government Corporation Control Act, as amended, are
hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the
limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each
such corporation or agency 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
Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set
forth in the budget for 1996 for such corporation or agen-
cy except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collec-
tions of these corporations and agencies may be used for
new loan or mortgage purchase commitments only to the
extent expressly 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 pro-
viso shall not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty
operations of these corporations, or where loans or mort-
gage purchases are necessary to protect the financial in-
terest of the United States Government.
488
RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $11,400,000.
TITLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 501. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and
III of this Act are expendable for travel expenses and no
specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expendi-
tures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts
set forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted for
the appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not
apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of
local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service
System; to travel performed directly in connection with
care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connec-
tion with major disasters or emergencies declared or deter-
mined by the President under the provisions of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act; to travel performed by the Offices of Inspector Gen-
eral in connection with audits and investigations; or to
payments to interagency motor pools where separately set
forth in the budget schedules: Provided further, That if
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appropriations in titles I, II, and III exceed the amounts
set forth in budget estimates initially submitted for such
appropriations, the expenditures for travel may cor-
respondingly exceed the amounts therefor set forth in the
estimates in the same proportion.
SEC. 502. Appropriations and funds available for the
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and the Selective Service System
shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase
of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law
(5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 503. Funds of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora-
tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of
1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations
on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract
or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Asso-
ciation, Government National Mortgage Association, Fed-
eral Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financ-
ing Bank, Resolution Trust Corporation, Federal Reserve
banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks,
and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal
490
Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12
U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 504. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 505. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by,
or is part of, a voucher or abstract which de-
scribes the payee or payees and the items or
services for which such expenditure is being
made, or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to
such certification, and without such a voucher
or abstract, is specifically authorized by law;
and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit
by the General Accounting Office or is specifically
exempt by law from such audit.
SEC. 506. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency may be expended for the trans-
portation of any officer or employee of such department
or agency between his domicile and his place of employ-
491
ment, with the exception of any officer or employee au-
thorized such transportation under title 31, United States
Code, section 1344.
SEC. 507. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to re-
cipients that do not share in the cost of conducting re-
search resulting from proposals not specifically solicited
by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost
sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of in-
terest of the grantee or contractor and the Government
in the research.
SEC. 508. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used, directly or through grants, to pay or to provide
reimbursement for payment of the salary of a consultant
(whether retained by the Federal Government or a grant-
ee) at more than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for
Level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifically au-
thorized by law.
SEC. 509. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Fed-
eral parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory pro-
ceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section
7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056
et seq.).
492
SEC. 510. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law or under an existing Executive order issued pursu-
ant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of
any appropriation under this Act for contracts for any
consulting service shall be limited to contracts which are
(1) a matter of public record and available for public in-
spection, and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available
list of all contracts entered into within twenty-four months
prior to the date on which the list is made available to
the public and of all contracts on which performance has
not been completed by such date. The list required by the
preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall
include a narrative description of the work to be per-
formed under each such contract.
SEC. 511. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
U.S.C. 401 et seq.) for a contract for services unless such
executive agency (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder, and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
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or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared, and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to
such contract.
SEC. 512. Except as otherwise provided in section
506, none of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide
a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to
any officer or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 513. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 514. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1996 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 515. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of
real property if the estimated annual rental is more than
$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress
and a period of 30 days has expired following the date
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on which the report is received by the Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 516. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any en-
tity using funds made available in this Act, the head of
each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the state-
ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 517. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office
of Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 518. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity,
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private
property rights, or unfunded mandates.
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SEC. 519. In fiscal year 1996, the Director of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency shall sell the dis-
aster housing inventory of mobile homes and trailers, and
the proceeds thereof shall be deposited in the Treasury.
SEC. 520. Such funds as may be necessary to carry
out the orderly termination of the Office of Consumer Af-
fairs shall be made available from funds appropriated to
the Department of Health and Human Services for fiscal
year 1996.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Veter-
ans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996’’.
SEC. 102. Unless otherwise provided for in this title
of this Act or in the applicable appropriations Act, appro-
priations and funds made available and authority granted
pursuant to this title of this Act shall be available until
(a) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any
project or activity provided for in this title of this Act,
or (b) the enactment into law of the applicable appropria-
tions Act by both Houses without any provision for such
project or activity, or (c) September 30, 1996, whichever
first occurs.
SEC. 103. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this title of this Act shall cover all obliga-
tions or expenditures incurred for any program, project,
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or activity during the period for which funds or authority
for such project or activity are available under this title
of this Act.
SEC. 104. Expenditures made pursuant to this title
of this Act shall be charged to the applicable appropria-
tion, fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such
applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is con-
tained is enacted into law.
SEC. 105. Upon enactment of this Act, the following
provisions of Public Law 104–99, Public Law 104–92, and
Public Law 104–91 that would continue to have effect
after March 15, 1996, are superseded: section 101 of Pub-
lic Law 104–92; section 101(a) of Public Law 104–91,
as amended, except the paragraphs dealing with funding
of National Institutes of Health activities and Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention activities, and except for
the general provisions enacted in the amendment to Public
Law 104–91 included in Public Law 104–99; and sections
123, 124, and 201 of Public Law 104–99.
SEC. 106. Section 119 of Public Law 104–99 is here-
by repealed.
SEC. 107. Title I of Public Law 104–52 is hereby
amended by deleting ‘‘, not to exceed $1,406,000,’’ under
the heading ‘‘CUSTOMS SERVICES AT SMALL AIRPORTS’’.
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SEC. 108. Title I of Public Law 104–52 is hereby
amended by adding the following new section under the
heading ‘‘ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INTERNAL REV-
ENUE SERVICE’’:
‘‘SEC. 3. The funds provided in this Act shall be used
to provide a level of service, staffing, and funding for Tax-
payer Services Division operations which is not less than
that provided in fiscal year 1995.’’.
SEC. 109. Title III of Public Law 104–52 is hereby
amended by adding the following proviso before the last
period under the heading ‘‘OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG
CONTROL POLICY, SALARIES AND EXPENSES’’: ‘‘: Provided,
That of the amounts available to the Counter-Drug Tech-
nology Assessment Center, no less than $1,000,000 shall
be dedicated to conferences on model state drug laws’’.
SEC. 110. Subsection (b) of section 347 of Public
Law 104–50 is hereby amended by inserting after ‘‘(4)
section 7204, relating to antidiscrimination;’’ the follow-
ing: ‘‘(5) chapter 71, relating to labor-management rela-
tions;’’ and by renumbering items (5), (6), and (7) as
items (6), (7), and (8) respectively.
SEC. 111. EXPORTATION OF DRUGS AND DEVICES.—
(a) REFERENCE.—Whenever in this section (other
than subsection (f)) an amendment or repeal is expressed
in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or
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other provision, the reference shall be considered to be
made to a section or other provision of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
(b) SECTION 801(d).—Section 801(d) (21 U.S.C.
381(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) No component, part, or accessory of a drug (in-
cluding a biological product or a drug in bulk form), de-
vice, food, or food additive shall be excluded from importa-
tion into the United States under subsection (a), if such
component, part, or accessory will be incorporated into the
drug, device, food, or food additive that will be exported
from the United States in accordance with subsection
(e)(1) or section 802 or section 351(h) of the Public
Health Service Act. A person shall maintain a record of
the import and export of such drug, device, food, or food
additive.’’.
(c) SECTION
801(e)(1).—Section 801(e)(1) (21
U.S.C. 381(e)(1)) is amended—
(1) by amending the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A) to read as follows:
‘‘(e)(1) A food, drug (including a biological product),
device, or cosmetic intended for export shall not be deemed
to be adulterated or misbranded, to be in violation of sec-
tion 404, 505, or 512, or to be an unlicensed biological
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product under section 351 of the Public Health Service
Act if—’’; and
(2) by striking the second sentence.
(d) SECTION
801(e)(2).—Section 801(e)(2) (21
U.S.C. 381(e)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2) Any person who exports a drug or device
under this subsection or section 802 may request
that the Secretary certify in writing that the export
is legal upon a showing that the requirements for
the export of such drug or device have been satis-
fied. The Secretary shall issue such a written export
certification within 10 days of the receipt of a re-
quest for such certification. A fee for such certifi-
cation may be charged but shall not exceed $100 for
each. The fees shall be retained by the agency to be
used to cover expenses.
(e) SECTION 802.—Section 802 (21 U.S.C. 382) is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 802. (a) A drug (including a biological prod-
uct) intended for human or animal use or a device in-
tended for human use—
‘‘(1) which, in the case of a drug—
‘‘(A)(i) requires approval by the Secretary
under section 505 or section 512 before it may
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be introduced or delivered for introduction into
interstate commerce; or
‘‘(ii) requires licensing by the Secretary
under section 351 of the Public Health Service
Act or by the Secretary of Agriculture under
the Act of March 4, 1913 (known as the Virus-
Serum Toxin Act) before it may be introduced
or delivered for introduction into interstate
commerce; and
‘‘(B) does not have such approval or li-
cense, which is not exempt from such sections
or Act, and which is introduced or delivered for
introduction into interstate commerce, or
‘‘(2) which, in the case of a device—
‘‘(A) does not comply with an applicable
requirement under section 514 or 515,
‘‘(B) is exempt from section 514 or 515
under section 520(g), or
‘‘(C) is a banned device under section 516,
may only be exported under subsection (b) or (c).
‘‘(b) Except as otherwise provided in this section, a
drug (including a biological product) or device, referred
to in subsection (a), may be exported to any country, if
the drug or device complies with the laws in any of the
following—
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‘‘(1) Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan. New
Zealand, Switzerland, or South Africa; or
‘‘(2) a country in the European Union or a
country in the European Economic Area (the coun-
tries in the European Union and the European Free
Trade Association) and where such drug, device,
food or food additive is exported for the purpose of
marketing, the drug, device, food or food additive
has valid marketing authorization by the appropriate
approval authority from the country in which it shall
be marketed.
‘‘(c)(1) A person who intends to export an unap-
proved drug (including a biological product) or device not
eligible for export under subsection (b) shall submit to the
Secretary a notification of intent to export which shall—
‘‘(A) identify the drug or device to be exported
and the intended use of the product in the county
to which it is to be exported; and
‘‘(B) contain a certification by such person that
such person will export the drug or device only to a
country where the drug or device is permitted for
general use, investigational research, or non-clinical
experimental research.
‘‘(2) Within 45 days of the receipt under paragraph
(1) of a notification of an intent to export, the Secretary
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shall issue to the person who submitted such notice an
order denying the request for export if—
‘‘(A) the notification does not meet the require-
ments of paragraph (1); or
‘‘(B) the proposed intended use of the exported
drug or device poses an imminent hazard to the
health of individuals, taking into account the risks
of not using the product in diagnosis or treatment,
and the finding of such hazard is based upon credi-
ble scientific evidence.
If the Secretary does not respond to such a notice within
45 days of its receipt, the person who submitted such no-
tice may proceed with the export of the drug or device
covered by such notice.
‘‘(3) if the Secretary denies a request for export of
a drug or device under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall
immediately prohibit the export of the drug or device and
afford such person an opportunity for an informal hearing
on the denial. If the denial is based upon a finding of im-
minent hazard, such informal hearing shall be before the
Commissioner and the Secretary may not delegate the au-
thority of the Commissioner.
‘‘(d) A drug or device intended for formulation, fill-
ing, packaging, labeling, or other processing in anticipa-
tion of market authorization in any country described in
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subsection (b) may be exported in accordance with the
laws of that country.’’.
‘‘(f) PARTIALLY PROCESSED BIOLOGICAL PROD-
UCTS.—Subsection (h) of section 351 of the Public Health
Service Act (42 U.S.C. 262) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(h) A partially-processed biological product which—
‘‘(1) is not in a form applicable to the preven-
tion, treatment, or cure of diseases or injuries of
man;
‘‘(2) is not intended for sale in the United
States; and
‘‘(3) is intended for further manufacture into
final dosage form outside the United States,
shall be subject to no restriction on the export of the prod-
uct under this Act or the Federal Food, Drug, and Cos-
metic Act (21 U.S.C. 321 et seq.) if the product meets
the requirements of section 801(e)(1) of the Federal Food,
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 381(e)(1)).’’.
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TITLE II
EMERGENCY PEACEKEEPING APPROPRIATIONS
CHAPTER I
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Diplomatic and Con-
sular Programs’’ to provide for administrative expenses re-
lated to activities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, $2,000,000,
notwithstanding section 15 of the State Department Basic
Authorities Act of 1956: Provided, That the entire amount
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
RELATED AGENCIES
UNITED STATES INFORMATION AGENCY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Salaries and Ex-
penses’’, $1,000,000, to remain available until expended,
to be used for United States Information Agency activities
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, notwithstanding section 701
of the United States Information and Educational Ex-
change Act of 1948: Provided, That the entire amount is
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
505
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
CHAPTER II
FOREIGN OPERATIONS, EXPORT FINANCING,
AND RELATED PROGRAMS
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT
AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
ASSISTANCE FOR EASTERN EUROPE AND THE BALTIC
STATES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Assistance for East-
ern Europe and the Baltic States’’ for Bosnia and
Herzegovina, 
including 
demining 
assistance,
$197,000,000, to remain available until December 31,
1996: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this
heading by this Act that are made available for the eco-
nomic revitalization program in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
not less than 75 percent shall be obligated and expended
for programs, projects, and activities, within the sector as-
signed to American forces of the military Implementation
Force (IFOR) established by the North Atlantic Council
pursuant to the General Framework Agreement for Peace
in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated under this heading by this Act
shall be made available for the construction of new hous-
506
ing or residences in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Provided
further, That not to exceed $5,000,000 of the funds appro-
priated under this heading in Public Law 104–107 may
be transferred to ‘‘Debt Restructuring’’ to be made avail-
able only for the cost, as defined in section 502 of the
Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of modifying direct
loans and loan guarantees, notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law: Provided further, That $5,000,000 shall be
transferred to ‘‘Foreign Military Financing Program’’ for
demining activities for Bosnia and Herzegovina: Provided
further, That $2,000,000 of the funds appropriated under
this heading in Public Law 104–107 shall be transferred
to ‘‘Operating Expenses of the Agency for International
Development’’ for administrative expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That the additional amount appropriated herein is
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended:
Provided further, That, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law including any provision of Public Law 104–
107, funds appropriated under this heading by this Act
that are made available for economic revitalization shall
not be available for obligation and expenditure unless the
President determines and certifies to the Congress that
the Government of the Federation of Bosnia and
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Herzegovina has substantially complied with article III of
Annex 1–A of the General Framework Agreement for
Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina concerning the with-
drawal of foreign forces, including advisers, freedom fight-
ers, trainers, volunteers, and personnel from neighboring
and other nations: Provided further, That with regard to
funds appropriated under this heading by this Act (and
local currencies generated by such funds) that are made
available for economic revitalization, the Administrator of
the Agency for International Development shall provide
written approval for grants and loans prior to the obliga-
tion and expenditure of funds for such purposes: Provided
further, That with regard to funds appropriated under this
heading by this Act (and local currencies generated by
such funds) that are made available for economic revital-
ization, the Administrator of the Agency for International
Development shall provide written approval for the use of
funds that have been returned or repaid to any lending
facility and grantee under the economic revitalization pro-
gram prior to the use of such returned or repaid funds.
MILITARY ASSISTANCE
FOREIGN MILITARY FINANCING PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Foreign Military Fi-
nancing Program’’ for grants for Jordan pursuant to sec-
tion 23 of the Arms Export Control Act, $70,000,000:
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Provided, That such funds may be used for Jordan to fi-
nance transfers by lease of defense articles under chapter
6 of such Act.
EXPORT AND INVESTMENT ASSISTANCE
EXPORT-IMPORT BANK OF THE UNITED STATES
SUBSIDY APPROPRIATION
(RESCISSION)
Of the unobligated balances available under this
heading, $41,000,000 are rescinded.
CHAPTER III
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
MILITARY CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘North Atlantic Treaty
Organization Security Investment Program’’, $37,500,000
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the
Secretary of Defense may make additional contributions
for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as provided
in section 2806 of title 10, United States Code: Provided
further, That such amount is designated by Congress as
an 
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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CHAPTER IV
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—MILITARY
MILITARY PERSONNEL
MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel,
Army’’, $262,200,000: Provided, That such amount is des-
ignated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel,
Navy’’, $11,800,000: Provided, That such amount is des-
ignated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel,
Marine Corps’’, $2,700,000: Provided, That such amount
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Military Personnel,
Air Force’’, $33,700,000: Provided, That such amount is
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designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, Army’’, $235,200,000: Provided, That such
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, Marine Corps’’, $900,000: Provided, That such
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, Air Force’’, $130,200,000: Provided, That such
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, Defense-Wide’’, $79,800,000: Provided, That
such amount is designated by Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended.
PROCUREMENT
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
For an additional amount for ‘‘Other Procurement,
Air Force’’, $26,000,000: Provided, That such amount is
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
RESCISSIONS
PROCUREMENT
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
(RESCISSION)
Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 103–335, $310,000,000 are rescinded.
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE
(RESCISSION)
Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 103–335, $265,000,000 are rescinded.
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RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND
EVALUATION
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
ARMY
(RESCISSION)
Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 104–61, $9,750,000 are rescinded: Provided,
That this reduction shall be applied proportionally to each
budget activity, activity group and subactivity group and
each program, project, and activity within this appropria-
tion account.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
NAVY
(RESCISSION)
Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 104–61, $17,500,000 are rescinded: Provided,
That this reduction shall be applied proportionally to each
budget activity, activity group and subactivity group and
each program, project, and activity within this appropria-
tion account.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
AIR FORCE
(RESCISSIONS)
Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 103–335, $245,000,000 are rescinded.
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Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 104–61, $22,450,000 are rescinded: Provided,
That this reduction shall be applied proportionally to each
budget activity, activity group and subactivity group and
each program, project, and activity within this appropria-
tion account.
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION,
DEFENSE-WIDE
(RESCISSION)
Of the funds made available under this heading in
Public Law 104–61, $20,300,000 are rescinded: Provided,
That this reduction shall be applied proportionally to each
budget activity, activity group and subactivity group and
each program, project, and activity within this appropria-
tion account: Provided further, That no reduction may be
taken against the funds made available to the Department
of Defense for Ballistic Missile Defense.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 2001. Section 8005 of the Department of De-
fense Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–61), is
amended by striking out ‘‘$2,400,000,000’’ and inserting
in lieu thereof ‘‘$3,400,000,000’’.
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CHAPTER V
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
SEC. 2002. No part of any appropriation contained
in this title shall remain available for obligation beyond
the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
TITLE III
EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS
CHAPTER I
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
NATURAL RESOURCES CONSERVATION SERVICE
WATERSHED AND FLOOD PREVENTION OPERATIONS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Watershed and flood
prevention operations’’ to repair damage to waterways and
watersheds resulting from flooding in the Pacific North-
west, Northeast blizzards and floods, and other natural
disasters, $73,200,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
CONSOLIDATED FARM SERVICE AGENCY
EMERGENCY CONSERVATION PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Emergency conserva-
tion program’’ for expenses resulting from flooding in the
Pacific Northwest, Northeast blizzards and floods, and
515
other natural disasters, $24,800,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That the entire amount is des-
ignated by Congress as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
EMERGENCY LIVESTOCK FEED ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for ex-
penses resulting from flooding in the Pacific Northwest
and other natural disasters, not to exceed $10,000,000 of
Commodity Credit Corporation funds shall be available
until expended for implementation of cost sharing under
provisions consistent with the Emergency Livestock Feed
Assistance Program: Provided, That the entire amount is
designated by Congress as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
RURAL HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
SERVICE
RURAL HOUSING INSURANCE FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Rural housing insur-
ance fund program account’’ for the additional cost of di-
rect loans, including the cost of modifying loans as defined
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,
for emergency expenses resulting from flooding in the Pa-
cific Northwest, Northeast blizzards and floods, Hurricane
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Marilyn, and other natural disasters, to be available from
funds in the rural housing insurance fund as follows:
$6,500,000 for section 502 direct loans and section 504
housing repair loans, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
VERY LOW-INCOME HOUSING REPAIR GRANTS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Very low-income hous-
ing repair grants’’ under section 504 of the Housing Act
of 1949, as amended, for emergency expenses resulting
from flooding in the Pacific Northwest, Northeast bliz-
zards and floods, Hurricane Marilyn, and other natural
disasters, $1,100,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE
EMERGENCY COMMUNITY WATER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Emergency commu-
nity water assistance program’’ for emergency expenses
resulting from flooding in the Pacific Northwest, North-
east blizzards and floods, and other natural disasters,
$5,000,000, to remain available until expended, for the
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cost of emergency community water assistance grants, as
authorized by 7 U.S.C. 1926b: Provided, That the entire
amount is designated by Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985,
as amended.
RURAL UTILITIES ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Rural utilities assist-
ance program’’ for the additional cost of direct loans and
grants, including the cost of modifying loans as defined
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,
for emergency expenses resulting from flooding in the Pa-
cific Northwest, Northeast blizzards and floods, and other
natural disasters, $6,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the entire amount is designated
by Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
CHAPTER II
SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
DISASTER LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Disaster Loans Pro-
gram Account’’ for the cost of direct loans authorized by
section 7(b) of the Small Business Act, as amended,
$72,300,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying
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such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That the
entire amount is designated by Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended.
For an additional amount for administrative expenses
directly related to carrying out the disaster loan program,
$27,700,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That these funds shall be available only upon notifi-
cation to the Committees on Appropriations of the House
of Representatives and the Senate in accordance with
standard reprogramming procedures: Provided further,
That the entire amount is designated by Congress as an
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
CHAPTER III
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, GENERAL
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation and Main-
tenance, General’’, for the Northeast and Northwest floods
of 1996, $30,000,000, to remain available until expended:
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Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Flood Control and
Coastal Emergencies’’, for the Northeast and Northwest
floods of 1996 and other disasters, and to replenish funds
transferred pursuant to Public Law 84–99, $135,000,000,
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the en-
tire amount is designated by Congress as an emergency
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(D)(2)(i) of the
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of
1985, as amended.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
CONSTRUCTION PROGRAM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction Pro-
gram’’, $9,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the entire amount is designated by Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(D)(2)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS
CONSTRUCTION, 
REHABILITATION, 
OPERATION
AND
MAINTENANCE, WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINIS-
TRATION
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
$5,500,000 of funds appropriated under this heading
in the Energy and Water Development Appropriations
Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–316), shall be transferred to
the appropriation account ‘‘Operation and Maintenance,
Alaska Power Administration’’, to remain available until
expended, only for necessary termination expenses.
CHAPTER IV
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
CONSTRUCTION AND ACCESS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction and Ac-
cess’’, $4,242,000, to remain available until expended, to
repair roads, culverts, bridges, facilities, fish and wildlife
protective structures, and recreation sites damaged by the
Pacific Northwest floods and other natural disasters: Pro-
vided, That Congress hereby designates this amount as an
emergency 
requirement 
pursuant 
to 
section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Oregon and California
Grant Lands’’, $19,548,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to repair roads, culverts, bridges, facilities, fish
and wildlife protective structures, and recreation sites
damaged by the Pacific Northwest floods and other natu-
ral disasters: Provided, That Congress hereby designates
this amount as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’,
$20,505,000, to remain available until expended, to make
repairs necessitated by hurricanes, floods and other natu-
ral disasters: Provided, That Congress hereby designates
this amount as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’,
$33,601,000, to remain available until expended, to make
repairs necessitated by hurricanes, floods and other natu-
ral disasters: Provided, That Congress hereby designates
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this amount as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
SURVEYS, INVESTIGATIONS, AND RESEARCH
For an additional amount for ‘‘Surveys, Investiga-
tions, and Research’’, $1,176,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1997, for expenses necessitated by
hurricanes, floods and other natural disasters: Provided,
That Congress hereby designates this amount as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985, as amended.
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
OPERATION OF INDIAN PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operation of Indian
Programs’’, $500,000, to remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 1997, for emergency operations and repairs neces-
sitated by winter floods: Provided, That Congress hereby
designates this amount as an emergency requirement pur-
suant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’,
$9,428,000, to remain available until expended, for emer-
gency repairs necessitated by floods in the Pacific North-
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west and other natural disasters: Provided, That Congress
hereby designates this amount as an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
TERRITORIAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
ASSISTANCE TO TERRITORIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Assistance to Terri-
tories’’, $2,000,000, to remain available until expended,
for recovery efforts necessitated by Hurricane Marilyn:
Provided, That Congress hereby designates this amount
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
FOREST SERVICE
NATIONAL FOREST SYSTEM
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Forest Sys-
tem’’, $20,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 1997, for expenses necessitated by floods and other
natural disasters: Provided, That Congress hereby des-
ignates this amount as an emergency requirement pursu-
ant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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CONSTRUCTION
For an additional amount for ‘‘Construction’’,
$60,000,000, to remain available until expended, for ex-
penses necessitated by floods and other natural disasters:
Provided, That Congress hereby designates this amount
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency
Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further,
That $20,000,000 of this amount shall be available only
to the extent an official budget request, for a specific dol-
lar amount, that includes designation of the entire amount
of the request as an emergency requirement pursuant to
section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended, is
transmitted by the President to the Congress.
CHAPTER V
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION
FEDERAL-AID HIGHWAYS
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)
For the Emergency Fund authorized by section 125
of title 23, United States Code, to cover expenses arising
from the January 1996 flooding in the Mid-Atlantic,
Northeast, and Northwest States, and other disasters,
$267,000,000, to be derived from the Highway Trust
Fund and to remain available until expended: Provided,
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That such amount is designated by Congress as an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of
the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
of 1985, as amended.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION
MASS TRANSIT CAPITAL ACCOUNT
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND)
For an additional amount for payment of obligations
incurred in carrying out 49 U.S.C. 5338(b) administered
by the Federal Transit Administration, $375,000,000, to
be derived from the Highway Trust Fund and to remain
available until expended.
OTHER INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION
PANAMA CANAL REVOLVING FUND
For an additional amount for administrative ex-
penses, $2,000,000, to be derived from the Panama Canal
Revolving Fund.
CHAPTER VI
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
DISASTER RELIEF
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Disaster Relief’’,
$150,000,000, to remain available until expended, which,
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in whole or in part, may be transferred to the Disaster
Assistance Direct Loan Program Account for the cost of
direct loans as authorized under section 417 of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.): Provided further, That such
transfer may be made to subsidize gross obligations for
the principal amount of direct loans not to exceed
$170,000,000 under section 417 of the Stafford Act: Pro-
vided further, That any such transfer of funds shall be
made only upon certification by the Director of the Fed-
eral Emergency Management Agency that all require-
ments of section 417 of the Stafford Act will be complied
with: Provided further, That the entire amount of this ap-
propriation shall be available only to the extent that an
official budget request for a specific dollar amount, that
includes designation of the entire amount of the request
as an emergency requirement as defined in the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended, is transmitted by the President to Congress:
Provided further, That the entire amount is designated by
Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to sec-
tion 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
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CHAPTER VII
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS TITLE
SEC. 3002. No part of any appropriation contained
in this title shall remain available for obligation beyond
the current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
TITLE IV
CONTINGENT SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS
CHAPTER I
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
For an additional amount for the Advanced Tech-
nology Program, $100,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That amounts made available under
this heading may be used only for the purpose of providing
continuation grants for projects awarded in fiscal year
1994 and prior years and related administrative expenses:
Provided further, That none of the funds made available
under this heading may be used for the purpose of carry-
ing out additional program competitions under the Ad-
vanced Technology Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Contributions to
International Organizations’’, $158,000,000, subject to
the same terms and conditions as provided in the Depart-
ment of State and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
1996: Provided, That 50 percent of the funds appropriated
in this paragraph shall be withheld from obligation and
expenditure unless the Secretary of State certifies that the
United Nations has taken no action that would cause the
United Nations to exceed its no-growth budget for the bi-
ennium 1996–1997 adopted in December, 1995.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING
ACTIVITIES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Contributions for
International Peacekeeping Activities’’, $200,000,000,
subject to the same terms and conditions as provided in
the Department of State and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 1996.
CHAPTER II
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Training and Employ-
ment Services’’, $111,800,000, of which $84,300,000 for
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title II, part A, of the Job Training Partnership Act shall
be available for obligation for the period July 1, 1996
through June 30, 1997 and $27,500,000 for the School-
to-Work Opportunities Act shall be available for obligation
for the period July 1, 1996, through September 30, 1997.
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE OPERATIONS
For an additional amount for ‘‘State Unemployment
Insurance 
and 
Employment 
Service 
Operations’’,
$33,000,000 to be available for obligation for the period
July 1, 1996 through June 30, 1997.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN
SERVICES
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
ADMINISTRATION
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
For an additional amount for ‘‘Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services’’, $100,000,000 for carrying out
title XIX of the Public Health Service Act with respect
to substance abuse services.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
EDUCATION REFORM
For an additional amount for ‘‘Education Reform’’,
$389,500,000 for carrying out activities authorized by the
Goals 2000: Educate America Act and titles II and III
of the School-to-Work Opportunities Act which shall be-
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come available on July 1, 1996 and remain available
through September 30, 1997: Provided, That none of the
funds appropriated under this heading shall be obligated
or expended to carry out section 304(a)(2)(A) of the Goals
2000: Educate America Act.
EDUCATION FOR THE DISADVANTAGED
For an additional amount for ‘‘Education for the Dis-
advantaged’’, $961,000,000 for carrying out title I of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 which
shall become available on July 1, 1996 and remain avail-
able through September 30, 1997: Provided, That
$461,000,000 shall be available for basic grants under sec-
tion 1124, which shall be allocated without regard to sec-
tion 1124(d): Provided further, That $500,000,000 shall
be available for concentration grants under section
1124(A): Provided further, That no funds shall be reserved
under section 1003(a).
SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS
For an additional amount for ‘‘School Improvement
Programs’’, $12,000,000 for carrying out title X of the
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
EDUCATION RESEARCH, STATISTICS, AND IMPROVEMENT
For an additional amount for ‘‘Education Research,
Statistics, and Improvement’’, $23,000,000 for carrying
out section 3136 (K–12 technology learning challenges) of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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PAYMENTS FOR OPERATION OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING
PROJECTS
For an additional amount for ‘‘Payments for Oper-
ation of Low-Income Housing Projects’’, $50,000,000.
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
Of the amount provided under this heading in title
I of this Act, $80,000,000 shall be available for Economic
Development Initiative grants as authorized by section
108(q) of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1974, as amended, on a competitive basis.
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS
OPERATING EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Upon the implementation of title IV of this Act, not-
withstanding the language under this heading in title I
of this Act or any other provision of law, effective October
1, 1995, and throughout the remainder of fiscal year
1996, appropriations made available to the Corporation
for National and Community Services are in toto as pro-
vided for in title IV of this Act as follows:
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service (referred to in the matter
under this heading as the ‘‘Corporation’’) in carrying out
programs, activities, and initiatives under the National