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U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) as amended, $230,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which the following 
amounts are available as follows: $150,000,000 to support 
a national media campaign; $70,000,000 for a program 
of assistance and matching grants to local coalitions and 
other activities, as authorized in chapter 2 of the National 
Narcotics Leadership Act of 1988, as amended; 
$4,500,000 for the Counterdrug Intelligence Executive 
Secretariat; $2,000,000 for evaluations and research re-
lated to National Drug Control Program performance 
measures; $1,000,000 for the National Drug Court Insti-
tute; $1,500,000 for the United States Anti-Doping Agen-
cy for anti-doping activities; and $1,000,000 for the 
United States membership dues to the World Anti-Doping 
Agency: Provided, That such funds may be transferred to 
other Federal departments and agencies to carry out such 
activities: Provided further, That of the amounts appro-
priated for a national media campaign, no less than 77 
percent shall be used for the purchase of advertising time 
and space for the national media campaign. 
UNANTICIPATED NEEDS 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to 
meet unanticipated needs, in furtherance of the national 
interest, security, or defense which may arise at home or
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abroad during the current fiscal year, as authorized by 
3 U.S.C. 108, $1,000,000. 
SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE 
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President 
to provide assistance to the President in connection with 
specially assigned functions; services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, including subsistence ex-
penses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which shall be ex-
pended and accounted for as provided in that section; and 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $4,461,000. 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement, 
and to the extent not otherwise provided for, heating and 
lighting, including electric power and fixtures, of the offi-
cial residence of the Vice President; the hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; and not to exceed $90,000 for official en-
tertainment expenses of the Vice President, to be ac-
counted for solely on his certificate, $331,000: Provided, 
That advances or repayments or transfers from this ap-
propriation may be made to any department or agency for 
expenses of carrying out such activities.
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TITLE V—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION 
BARRIERS COMPLIANCE BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Architectural and 
Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, as authorized 
by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as 
amended $5,401,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses, to be available for the purpose of this account. 
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles and aircraft; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the rate for a GS–15; uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902) $76,679,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 
may be used for official reception and representation ex-
penses. 
EMERGENCY FUND 
For necessary expenses of the National Transpor-
tation Safety Board for accident investigations, $600,000,
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to remain available until expended: Provided, That these 
funds shall be available only to the extent necessary to 
restore the balance of the emergency fund to $2,000,000 
(29 U.S.C. 1118 (b)). 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE 
WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Committee for Pur-
chase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 
established by Public Law 92–28, $4,725,000. 
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions 
of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amend-
ed, $50,440,000, of which no less than $6,389,900 shall 
be available for internal automated data processing sys-
tems, and of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be available 
for reception and representation expenses.
ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Help Amer-
ica Vote Act of 2002, $5,000,000.
ELECTION REFORM PROGRAMS 
For necessary expenses to carry out a program of re-
quirements payments to States as authorized by Section
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257 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002, $495,000,000: 
Provided, That no more that 1⁄10 of 1 percent of funds 
available for requirements payments under Section 257 of 
the Help America Vote Act of 2002 shall be allocated to 
any territory.
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 
Federal Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorga-
nization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service 
Reform Act of 1978, including services authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, and including hire of experts and consult-
ants, hire of passenger motor vehicles, and rental of con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, 
$29,611,000: Provided, That public members of the Fed-
eral Service Impasses Panel may be paid travel expenses 
and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law 
(5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons employed intermittently in 
the Government service, and compensation as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That notwithstanding 
31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received from fees charged to non-
Federal participants at labor-management relations con-
ferences shall be credited to and merged with this account, 
to be available without further appropriation for the costs 
of carrying out these conferences.
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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Maritime 
Commission as authorized by section 201(d) of the Mer-
chant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 U.S.C. App. 
1111), including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles as authorized by 31 
U.S.C. 1343(b); and uniforms or allowances therefore, as 
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902, $18,471,000: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
REAL PROPERTY ACTIVITIES 
(FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND) 
(LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount to be deposited in, and to 
be used for the purposes of, the Fund established pursu-
ant to section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Admin-
istrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 
592), $247,350,000. The revenues and collections depos-
ited into the Fund shall be available for necessary ex-
penses of real property management and related activities 
not otherwise provided for, including operation, mainte-
nance, and protection of federally owned and leased build-
ings; rental of buildings in the District of Columbia; res-
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toration of leased premises; moving governmental agencies 
(including space adjustments and telecommunications re-
location expenses) in connection with the assignment, allo-
cation and transfer of space; contractual services incident 
to cleaning or servicing buildings, and moving; repair and 
alteration of federally owned buildings including grounds, 
approaches and appurtenances; care and safeguarding of 
sites; maintenance, preservation, demolition, and equip-
ment; acquisition of buildings and sites by purchase, con-
demnation, or as otherwise authorized by law; acquisition 
of options to purchase buildings and sites; conversion and 
extension of federally owned buildings; preliminary plan-
ning and design of projects by contract or otherwise; con-
struction of new buildings (including equipment for such 
buildings); and payment of principal, interest, and any 
other obligations for public buildings acquired by install-
ment purchase and purchase contract; in the aggregate 
amount of $6,557,518,000, of which: (1) $406,168,000 
shall remain available until expended for construction (in-
cluding funds for sites and expenses and associated design 
and construction services) of additional projects at the fol-
lowing locations: 
New Construction:
California: 
San Diego, Border Station, $34,211,000
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Georgia: 
Atlanta, 
Tuttle 
Building 
Annex, 
$10,600,000
Maine: 
Jackman, Border Station, $7,712,000
Maryland: 
Suitland, United States Census Bureau, 
$146,451,000
Michigan: 
Detroit, Ambassador Bridge Border Sta-
tion, $25,387,000
New York: 
Champlain, Border Station, $31,031,000
Texas: 
Del Rio, Border Station, $23,966,000
Eagle Pass, Border Station, $31,980,000
Houston, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
$58,080,000
McAllen, Border Station, $17,938,000
Washington: 
Blaine, Border Station, $9,812,000
Nonprospectus Construction, $9,000,000:
Provided, That each of the foregoing limits of costs on 
new construction projects may be exceeded to the extent 
that savings are effected in other such projects, but not
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to exceed 10 percent of the amounts included in an ap-
proved prospectus, if required, unless advance approval is 
obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of a 
greater amount: Provided further, That all funds for direct 
construction projects shall expire on September 30, 2005, 
and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund except for 
funds for projects as to which funds for design or other 
funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to such 
date; (2) $1,010,454,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for repairs and alterations, which includes associ-
ated design and construction services: 
Colorado: 
Denver, Byron G. Rogers Federal Build-
ing—Courthouse, $39,436,000
District of Columbia: 
320 First Street, $7,485,000
Eisenhower Executive Office Building, 
$65,757,000
Federal Office Building 8, $134,872,000
Main Interior Building, $15,603,000
Fire & Life Safety, $68,188,000
Georgia: 
Atlanta, Richard B. Russell Federal Build-
ing, $32,173,000
Illinois:
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Chicago, Dirksen Courthouse & Kluczynski 
Federal Building, $24,056,000
Springfield, Paul H. Findley Federal 
Building—Courthouse, $6,183,000
Massachusetts: 
Boston, John W. McCormack Post Office 
and Courthouse, $73,037,000
New York: 
Brooklyn, Emanuel Celler Courthouse, 
$65,511,000
North Dakota: 
Fargo, Federal Building—Post Office, 
$5,801,000
Ohio: 
Columbus, John W. Bricker Federal Build-
ing, $10,707,000
Washington: 
Auburn, Building 7, Auburn Federal 
Building, $18,315,000
Seattle, Henry M. Jackson Federal Build-
ing, $6,868,000
Special Emphasis Programs: 
Chlorofluorocarbons Program, $5,000,000
Energy Program, $5,000,000
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Glass 
Fragmentation 
Program, 
$20,000,000
Design Program, $41,462,000
Basic Repairs and Alterations, $365,000,000:
Provided further, That of the funds provided in this Act 
for the repair of the Eisenhower Executive Office Build-
ing, $30,757,000 is not available for obligation until 15 
days after the Executive Office of the President submits 
a report to the Committees on Appropriations regarding 
the use of non-Federal funding in renovation and fur-
nishing efforts for the Eisenhower Executive Office Build-
ing: Provided further, That funds made available in any 
previous Act in the Federal Buildings Fund for Repairs 
and Alterations shall, for prospectus projects, be limited 
to the amount identified for each project, except each 
project in any previous Act may be increased by an 
amount not to exceed 10 percent unless advance approval 
is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of a 
greater amount: Provided further, That additional projects 
for which prospectuses have been fully approved may be 
funded under this category only if advance approval is ob-
tained from the Committees on Appropriations: Provided 
further, That the amounts provided in this or any prior 
Act for ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ may be used to fund 
costs associated with implementing security improvements
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to buildings necessary to meet the minimum standards for 
security in accordance with current law and in compliance 
with the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate 
Committees of the House and Senate: Provided further, 
That the difference between the funds appropriated and 
expended on any projects in this or any prior Act, under 
the heading ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’, may be trans-
ferred to Basic Repairs and Alterations or used to fund 
authorized increases in prospectus projects: Provided fur-
ther, That all funds for repairs and alterations prospectus 
projects shall expire on September 30, 2005 and remain 
in the Federal Buildings Fund except funds for projects 
as to which funds for design or other funds have been obli-
gated in whole or in part prior to such date: Provided fur-
ther, That the amount provided in this or any prior Act 
for Basic Repairs and Alterations may be used to pay 
claims against the Government arising from any projects 
under the heading ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ or used to 
fund authorized increases in prospectus projects; (3) 
$169,745,000 for installment acquisition payments includ-
ing payments on purchase contracts which shall remain 
available until expended; (4) $3,308,187,000 for rental of 
space which shall remain available until expended; and (5) 
$1,608,708,000 for building operations which shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That funds
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available to the General Services Administration shall not 
be available for expenses of any construction, repair, alter-
ation and acquisition project for which a prospectus, if re-
quired by the Public Buildings Act of 1959, as amended, 
has not been approved, except that necessary funds may 
be expended for each project for required expenses for the 
development of a proposed prospectus: Provided further, 
That funds available in the Federal Buildings Fund may 
be expended for emergency repairs when advance approval 
is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations: Pro-
vided further, That amounts necessary to provide reim-
bursable special services to other agencies under section 
210(f)(6) of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 592(b)(2)) 
and amounts to provide such reimbursable fencing, light-
ing, guard booths, and other facilities on private or other 
property not in Government ownership or control as may 
be appropriate to enable the United States Secret Service 
to perform its protective functions pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 
3056, shall be available from such revenues and collec-
tions: Provided further, That revenues and collections and 
any other sums accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 
2004, excluding reimbursements under section 210(f)(6) 
of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act 
of 
1949 
(40 
U.S.C. 
592(b)(2)) 
in 
excess 
of
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$6,557,518,000 shall remain in the Fund and shall not 
be available for expenditure except as authorized in appro-
priations Acts. 
GENERAL ACTIVITIES 
GOVERNMENTWIDE POLICY 
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-
vided for, for Government-wide policy and evaluation ac-
tivities associated with the management of real and per-
sonal property assets and certain administrative services; 
Government-wide policy support responsibilities relating to 
acquisition, telecommunications, information technology 
management, and related technology activities; and serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $56,383,000. 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-
vided for, for Government-wide activities associated with 
utilization and donation of surplus personal property; dis-
posal of real property; telecommunications, information 
technology management, and related technology activities; 
providing Internet access to Federal information and serv-
ices; agency-wide policy direction and management, and 
Board of Contract Appeals; accounting, records manage-
ment, and other support services incident to adjudication 
of Indian Tribal Claims by the United States Court of 
Federal Claims; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109;
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and not to exceed $7,500 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses, $79,110,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$39,169,000: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 shall 
be available for payment for information and detection of 
fraud against the Government, including payment for re-
covery of stolen Government property: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards 
to employees of other Federal agencies and private citizens 
in recognition of efforts and initiatives resulting in en-
hanced Office of Inspector General effectiveness. 
ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses in support of interagency 
projects that enable the Federal Government to expand 
its ability to conduct activities electronically, through the 
development and implementation of innovative uses of the 
Internet and other electronic methods, $1,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That these funds 
may be transferred to Federal agencies to carry out the 
purposes of the Fund: Provided further, That this transfer 
authority shall be in addition to any other transfer author-
ity provided in this Act: Provided further, That such trans-
fers may not be made until 10 days after a proposed
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spending plan and justification for each project to be un-
dertaken has been submitted to the Committees on Appro-
priations. 
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER 
PRESIDENTS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August 
25, 1958, as amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public 
Law 95–138, $3,393,000: Provided, That the Adminis-
trator of General Services shall transfer to the Secretary 
of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary to carry 
out the provisions of such Acts. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—GENERAL SERVICES 
ADMINISTRATION 
SEC. 501. The appropriate appropriation or fund 
available to the General Services Administration shall be 
credited with the cost of operation, protection, mainte-
nance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, included as part 
of rentals received from Government corporations pursu-
ant to law (40 U.S.C. 129). 
SEC. 502. Funds available to the General Services 
Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger 
motor vehicles. 
SEC. 503. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund 
made available for fiscal year 2004 for Federal Buildings
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Fund activities may be transferred between such activities 
only to the extent necessary to meet program require-
ments: Provided, That any proposed transfers shall be ap-
proved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 504. No funds made available by this Act shall 
be used to transmit a fiscal year 2005 request for United 
States Courthouse construction that: (1) does not meet 
the design guide standards for construction as established 
and approved by the General Services Administration, the 
Judicial Conference of the United States, and the Office 
of Management and Budget; and (2) does not reflect the 
priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States 
as set out in its approved 5-year construction plan: Pro-
vided, That the fiscal year 2005 request must be accom-
panied by a standardized courtroom utilization study of 
each facility to be constructed, replaced, or expanded. 
SEC. 505. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used to increase the amount of occupiable square feet, 
provide cleaning services, security enhancements, or any 
other service usually provided through the Federal Build-
ings Fund, to any agency that does not pay the rate per 
square foot assessment for space and services as deter-
mined by the General Services Administration in compli-
ance with the Public Buildings Amendments Act of 1972 
(Public Law 92–313).
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SEC. 506. Funds provided to other Government agen-
cies by the Information Technology Fund, General Serv-
ices Administration, under section 110 of the Federal 
Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 
U.S.C. 757) and sections 5124(b) and 5128 of the 
Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (40 U.S.C. 1424(b) and 1428), 
for performance of pilot information technology projects 
which have potential for Government-wide benefits and 
savings, may be repaid to this Fund from any savings ac-
tually incurred by these projects or other funding, to the 
extent feasible. 
SEC. 507. From funds made available under the 
heading ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund, Limitations on Avail-
ability of Revenue’’, claims against the Government of less 
than $250,000 arising from direct construction projects 
and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated from sav-
ings effected in other construction projects with prior noti-
fication to the Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 508. None of the funds in this Act may be used 
by the General Services Administration to develop or im-
plement a mandatory system without exceptions that re-
quires agencies government-wide to use a specific elec-
tronic travel solution or the eTravel Service: Provided, 
That this section shall also apply to the Department of
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SEC. 510. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the General Services Administration 
to establish a quick response team processing center on 
East Brainerd Road in Chattanooga, Tennessee. 
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 
Merit Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganiza-
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Re-
form Act of 1978, including services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, and direct procurement of survey printing, 
$32,877,000, together with not to exceed $2,626,000 for 
administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement appeals 
to be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and 
Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit Sys-
tems Protection Board.
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MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLARSHIP AND EXCEL-
LENCE 
IN 
NATIONAL 
ENVIRONMENTAL 
POLICY FOUNDATION
MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLARSHIP AND EXCELLENCE IN 
NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY TRUST FUND 
For payment to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and 
Excellence in National Environmental Policy Trust Fund, 
pursuant to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excel-
lence in National Environmental and Native American 
Public Policy Act of 1992 (20 U.S.C. 5601 et seq.), 
$1,300,000, to remain available until expended of which 
$100,000 shall be used to conduct financial audits pursu-
ant to the Accountability of Tax Dollars Act of 2002 (Pub-
lic Law 107–289) notwithstanding sections 8 and 9 of 
Public Law 102–259: Provided, That up to 70 percent of 
such funds may be transferred by the Morris K. Udall 
Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental 
Policy Foundation for the necessary expenses of the Na-
tive Nations Institute. 
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION FUND 
For payment to the Environmental Dispute Resolu-
tion Fund to carry out activities authorized in the Envi-
ronmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998, 
$1,300,000, to remain available until expended.
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NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS 
ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses in connection with the admin-
istration of the National Archives and Records Adminis-
tration (including the Information Security Oversight Of-
fice) and archived Federal records and related activities, 
as provided by law, and for expenses necessary for the re-
view and declassification of documents, and for the hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, $255,191,000: Provided, 
That the Archivist of the United States is authorized to 
use any excess funds available from the amount borrowed 
for construction of the National Archives facility, for ex-
penses necessary to provide adequate storage for holdings: 
Provided further, That, of the funds provided in this para-
graph, $600,000 shall be for the preservation of the 
records of the Freedmen’s Bureau. 
ELECTRONIC RECORDS ARCHIVE 
For necessary expenses in connection with the devel-
opment of an electronic records archive, to include all di-
rect project costs associated with research, analysis, de-
sign, 
development, 
and 
program 
management, 
$35,914,000, of which $22,000,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2006.
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REPAIRS AND RESTORATION 
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of ar-
chives facilities, and to provide adequate storage for hold-
ings, $6,458,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $500,000 is for the Military Personnel Records 
Center requirements study. 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS 
COMMISSION 
GRANTS PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for 
historical publications and records as authorized by 44 
U.S.C. 2504, as amended, $10,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended. 
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 
Office of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in 
Government Act of 1978, as amended and the Ethics Re-
form Act of 1989, including services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District 
of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, and not to exceed $1,500 for official reception and 
representation expenses, $10,738,000.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 
Office of Personnel Management pursuant to Reorganiza-
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Re-
form Act of 1978, including services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations performed for veterans 
by private physicians on a fee basis; rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for official 
reception and representation expenses; advances for reim-
bursements to applicable funds of the Office of Personnel 
Management and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 
expenses incurred under Executive Order No. 10422 of 
January 9, 1953, as amended; and payment of per diem 
and/or subsistence allowances to employees where Voting 
Rights Act activities require an employee to remain over-
night at his or her post of duty, $119,498,000, of which 
$2,000,000 shall remain available until expended for the 
cost of the enterprise human resources integration project, 
$2,500,000 shall remain available until expended for the 
cost of leading the government-wide initiative to mod-
ernize federal payroll systems and service delivery, and 
$2,500,000 shall remain available through September 30,
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2005 to coordinate and conduct program evaluation and 
performance measurement; and in addition $126,854,000 
for administrative expenses, to be transferred from the ap-
propriate trust funds of the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment without regard to other statutes, including direct 
procurement of printed materials, for the retirement and 
insurance programs, of which $27,640,000 shall remain 
available until expended for the cost of automating the re-
tirement recordkeeping systems: Provided, That the provi-
sions of this appropriation shall not affect the authority 
to use applicable trust funds as provided by sections 
8348(a)(1)(B), 8909(g), and 9004(f)(1)(A) and (2)(A) of 
title 5, United States Code: Provided further, That no part 
of this appropriation shall be available for salaries and ex-
penses of the Legal Examining Unit of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management established pursuant to Executive 
Order No. 9358 of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit 
of like purpose: Provided further, That the President’s 
Commission on White House Fellows, established by Exec-
utive Order No. 11183 of October 3, 1964, may, during 
fiscal year 2004, accept donations of money, property, and 
personal services in connection with the development of 
a publicity brochure to provide information about the 
White House Fellows, except that no such donations shall
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be accepted for travel or reimbursement of travel expenses, 
or for the salaries of employees of such Commission. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act, as amended, including services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$1,498,000, and in addition, not to exceed $14,427,000 
for administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and pro-
vide other oversight of the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment’s retirement and insurance programs, to be trans-
ferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of 
Personnel Management, as determined by the Inspector 
General: Provided, That the Inspector General is author-
ized to rent conference rooms in the District of Columbia 
and elsewhere. 
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEES 
HEALTH BENEFITS 
For payment of Government contributions with re-
spect to retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 
of title 5, United States Code, and the Retired Federal 
Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), as amend-
ed, such sums as may be necessary.
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GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEE 
LIFE INSURANCE 
For payment of Government contributions with re-
spect to employees retiring after December 31, 1989, as 
required by chapter 87 of title 5, United States Code, such 
sums as may be necessary. 
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND 
DISABILITY FUND 
For financing the unfunded liability of new and in-
creased annuity benefits becoming effective on or after Oc-
tober 20, 1969, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and an-
nuities under special Acts to be credited to the Civil Serv-
ice Retirement and Disability Fund, such sums as may 
be necessary: Provided, That annuities authorized by the 
Act of May 29, 1944, as amended, and the Act of August 
19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 771–775), may here-
after be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Dis-
ability Fund. 
HUMAN CAPITAL PERFORMANCE FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For a human capital performance fund, $2,500,000: 
Provided, That such amount shall not be available for obli-
gation or transfer until enactment of legislation that es-
tablishes a human capital performance fund within the Of-
fice of Personnel Management: Provided further, That
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such amounts as determined by the Director of the Office 
of Personnel Management may be transferred to federal 
agencies to carry out the purposes of this fund as author-
ized: Provided further, That no funds shall be available 
for obligation or transfer to any federal agency until the 
Director has notified the relevant subcommittees of juris-
diction of the Committees on Appropriations of the ap-
proval of a performance pay plan for that agency, and the 
prior approval of such subcommittees has been attained.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the 
Office of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan 
Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 
1978 (Public Law 95–454), as amended, the Whistle-
blower Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101–12), as 
amended, Public Law 103–424, and the Uniformed Serv-
ices Employment and Reemployment Act of 1994 (Public 
Law 103–353), including services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and expenses for witnesses, 
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and 
elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
$13,504,000.
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UNITED STATES TAX COURT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting 
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, 
$40,187,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges 
shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge. 
WHITE HOUSE COMMISSION ON THE NATIONAL 
MOMENT OF REMEMBRANCE 
For necessary expenses of the White House Commis-
sion on the National Moment of Remembrance, $250,000. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
THIS ACT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 601. During the current fiscal year applicable 
appropriations to the Department of Transportation shall 
be available for maintenance and operation of aircraft; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles and aircraft; purchase of 
liability insurance for motor vehicles operating in foreign 
countries on official department business; and uniforms, 
or allowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902). 
SEC. 602. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2004 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts.
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SEC. 603. Appropriations contained in this Act for 
the Department of Transportation shall be available for 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for 
individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to 
the rate for an Executive Level IV. 
SEC. 604. None of the funds in this Act shall be avail-
able for salaries and expenses of more than 110 political 
and Presidential appointees in the Department of Trans-
portation: Provided, That none of the personnel covered 
by this provision may be assigned on temporary detail out-
side the Department of Transportation. 
SEC. 605. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 606. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 607. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures are a matter of public record and available
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for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 608. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
to implement section 404 of title 23, United States Code. 
SEC. 609. (a) No recipient of funds made available 
in this Act shall disseminate personal information (as de-
fined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(3)) obtained by a State depart-
ment of motor vehicles in connection with a motor vehicle 
record as defined in 18 U.S.C. 2725(1), except as provided 
in 18 U.S.C. 2721 for a use permitted under 18 U.S.C. 
2721. 
(b) Notwithstanding subsection (a), no department or 
agency shall withhold funds provided in this Act for any 
grantee if a State is in noncompliance with this provision. 
SEC. 610. Funds received by the Federal Highway 
Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Fed-
eral Railroad Administration from States, counties, mu-
nicipalities, other public authorities, and private sources 
for expenses incurred for training may be credited respec-
tively to the Federal Highway Administration’s ‘‘Federal-
Aid Highways’’ account, the Federal Transit Administra-
tion’s ‘‘Transit Planning and Research’’ account, and to 
the Federal Railroad Administration’s ‘‘Safety and Oper-
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ations’’ account, except for State rail safety inspectors 
participating in training pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 20105. 
SEC. 611. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, rule or regulation, the Secretary of Transportation 
is authorized to allow the issuer of any preferred stock 
heretofore sold to the Department to redeem or repur-
chase such stock upon the payment to the Department of 
an amount determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 612. None of the funds in title I of this Act 
may be used to make a grant unless the Secretary of 
Transportation notifies the House and Senate Committees 
on Appropriations not less than 3 full business days before 
any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full 
funding grant agreement totaling $1,000,000 or more is 
announced by the department or its modal administrations 
from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the Federal 
Highway Administration other than the emergency relief 
program; (2) the airport improvement program of the 
Federal Aviation Administration; or (3) any program of 
the Federal Transit Administration other than the for-
mula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs: 
Provided, That no notification shall involve funds that are 
not available for obligation. 
SEC. 613. For the purpose of any applicable law, for 
fiscal year 2004, the city of Norman, Oklahoma, shall be
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considered to be part of the Oklahoma City Transpor-
tation Management Area. 
SEC. 614. None of the funds in this Act may be obli-
gated for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation 
to approve assessments or reimbursable agreements per-
taining to funds appropriated to the modal administra-
tions in this Act, except for activities underway on the 
date of enactment of this Act, unless such assessments 
or agreements have completed the normal reprogramming 
process for Congressional notification. 
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 616. Rebates, refunds, incentive payments, 
minor fees and other funds received by the Department 
of Transportation from travel management centers, 
charge card programs, the subleasing of building space, 
and miscellaneous sources are to be credited to appropria-
tions of the Department of Transportation and allocated 
to elements of the Department of Transportation using 
fair and equitable criteria and such funds shall be avail-
able until expended.
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SEC. 617. Amounts made available in this or any 
other Act that the Secretary determines represent im-
proper payments by the Department of Transportation to 
a third party contractor under a financial assistance 
award, which are recovered pursuant to law, shall be avail-
able—
(1) to reimburse the actual expenses incurred 
by the Department of Transportation in recovering 
improper payments; and 
(2) to pay contractors for services provided in 
recovering improper payments: Provided, That 
amounts in excess of that required for paragraphs 
(1) and (2)—
(A) shall be credited to and merged with 
the appropriation from which the improper pay-
ments were made, and shall be available for the 
purposes and period for which such appropria-
tions are available; or 
(B) if no such appropriation remains avail-
able, shall be deposited in the Treasury as mis-
cellaneous receipts: Provided further, That prior 
to the transfer of any such recovery to an ap-
propriations account, the Secretary shall notify 
the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
priations of the amount and reasons for such
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transfer: Provided further, That for purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘improper payments,’’ 
has the same meaning as that provided in sec-
tion 2(d)(2) of Public Law 107–300. 
SEC. 618. The Secretary of Transportation is author-
ized to transfer the unexpended balances available for the 
bonding assistance program from ‘‘Office of the Secretary, 
Salaries and expenses’’ to ‘‘Minority Business Outreach’’. 
SEC. 619. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the 
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would 
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of 
the Tariff Act of 1930. 
SEC. 620. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his period of active military or naval service, and 
has within 90 days after his release from such service or 
from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his former position and has been certified by the
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Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
form the duties of his former position and has not been 
restored thereto. 
SEC. 621. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 
(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 622. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2004 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2004 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2005, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided 
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines. 
SEC. 623. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President 
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any 
official background investigation report on any individual, 
except when—
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(1) such individual has given his or her express 
written consent for such request not more than 6 
months prior to the date of such request and during 
the same presidential administration; or 
(2) such request is required due to extraor-
dinary circumstances involving national security. 
SEC. 624. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made 
available to the Office pursuant to court approval. 
SEC. 625. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 626. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 
expenses in connection with any health plan under the 
Federal employees health benefits program which provides 
any benefits or coverage for abortions. 
SEC. 627. The provision of section 626 shall not 
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered
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if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 
result of an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 628. For the purpose of assisting State-sup-
ported intercity rail service, in order to demonstrate 
whether competition will provide higher quality rail pas-
senger service at reasonable prices, the Secretary of 
Transportation, working with affected States, shall de-
velop and implement a procedure for fair competitive bid-
ding by Amtrak and non-Amtrak operators for State-sup-
ported routes: Provided, That in the event a State desires 
to select or selects a non-Amtrak operator for the route, 
the State may make an agreement with Amtrak to use 
facilities and equipment of, or have services provided by, 
Amtrak under terms agreed to by the State and Amtrak 
to enable the non-Amtrak operator to provide the State-
supported service: Provided further, That if the parties 
cannot agree on terms, the Secretary shall, as a condition 
of receipt of Federal grant funds, order that the facilities 
and equipment be made available and the services be pro-
vided by Amtrak under reasonable terms and compensa-
tion: Provided further, That when prescribing reasonable 
compensation to Amtrak, the Secretary shall consider 
quality of service as a major factor when determining 
whether, and the extent to which, the amount of com-
pensation shall be greater than the incremental costs of
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using the facilities and providing the services: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may reprogram up to 
$5,000,000 from the Amtrak operating grant funds for 
costs associated with the implementation of the fair bid 
procedure and demonstration of competition under this 
section. 
SEC. 629. None of the funds provided in this Act, 
provided by previous appropriations Acts to the agencies 
or entities funded in this Act that remain available for 
obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2004, or provided 
from any accounts in the Treasury derived by the collec-
tion of fees and available to the agencies funded by this 
Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that—
(1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds for any program, project, or 
activity for which funds have been denied or re-
stricted by the Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity by either the House or Senate Committees 
on Appropriations for a different purpose; 
(5) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities in excess of $5,000,000 or 10 percent, which-
ever is less; or
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(6) reduces existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities by 10 percent—
unless the House and Senate Committees on Appropria-
tions are notified at least 15 days in advance of such re-
programming.
SEC. 630. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to require a State or local government 
to post a traffic control device or variable message sign, 
or any other type of traffic warning sign, in a language 
other than English, except with respect to the names of 
cities, streets, places, events, or signs related to an inter-
national border. 
SEC. 631. EXEMPTION FROM LIMITATIONS ON PRO-
CUREMENT
OF FOREIGN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 
THAT IS A COMMERCIAL ITEM.—(a) EXEMPTION.—Not-
withstanding any other provision of law, in order to pro-
mote Government access to commercial information tech-
nology, the restriction on purchasing nondomestic articles, 
materials, and supplies set forth in the Buy American Act 
(41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.), and the prohibition on acquiring 
foreign products under section 302(a)(1) of the Trade 
Agreements Act of 1979 (Public Law 96–39; 19 U.S.C. 
2512(a)(1)), shall not apply to the acquisition by the Fed-
eral Government of information technology (as defined in 
section 11101 of title 40, United States Code, that is a
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commercial item (as defined in section 4(12) of the Office 
of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12)). 
(b) DEFINITION.—Section 11101(6) of title 40, 
United States Code, is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (A), by inserting after 
‘‘storage,’’ the following: ‘‘analysis, evaluation,’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘ancillary 
equipment,’’ and inserting ‘‘ancillary equipment (in-
cluding imaging peripherals, input, output, and stor-
age devices necessary for security and surveillance), 
peripheral equipment designed to be controlled by 
the central processing unit of a computer,’’. 
SEC. 632. It is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that empowerment zones within cities should have 
the necessary flexibility to expand to include relevant com-
munities so that empowerment zone benefits are equitably 
distributed. 
SEC. 633. It is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that all census tracts contained in an empowerment 
zone, either fully or partially, should be equitably accorded 
the same benefits. 
SEC. 634. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force—
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(1) the proposed rule relating to the determina-
tion that real estate brokerage is an activity that is 
financial in nature or incidental to a financial activ-
ity published in the Federal Register on January 3, 
2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 307 et seq.); or 
(2) the revision proposed in such rule to section 
1501.2 of title 12 of the Code of Federal Regula-
tions. 
SEC. 635. It is the sense of Congress that, after prop-
er documentation, justification, and review, the Depart-
ment of Transportation should consider programs to reim-
burse general aviation ground support services at Ronald 
Reagan Washington National Airport, and airports lo-
cated within fifteen miles of Ronald Reagan Washington 
National Airport, for their financial losses due to Govern-
ment actions after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 
2001. 
SEC. 636. It is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that public private partnerships (PPPs) could help 
eliminate some of the cost drivers behind complex, capital-
intensive highway and transit projects. The House of Rep-
resentatives encourages the Secretary of Transportation 
to apply available funds to select projects that are in the 
development phase, eligible under title 23 and title 49,
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United States Code, except 23 U.S.C. 133(b)(8), and that 
employ a PPP strategy. 
TITLE VII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 701. Funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act may be used to pay travel to the United States for 
the immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases 
of death or life threatening illness of said employee. 
SEC. 702. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2004 shall obligate 
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the offi-
cers and employees of such department, agency, or instru-
mentality. 
SEC. 703. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor 
vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, 
and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at
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$8,100 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be ex-
ceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, 
and by not to exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehi-
cles: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this sec-
tion may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for elec-
tric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under 
the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section 
may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alter-
native fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 
101–549 over the cost of comparable conventionally fueled 
vehicles. 
SEC. 704. Appropriations of the executive depart-
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 
SEC. 705. Unless otherwise specified during the cur-
rent fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained 
in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensa-
tion of any officer or employee of the Government of the 
United States (including any agency the majority of the
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stock of which is owned by the Government of the United 
States) whose post of duty is in the continental United 
States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United 
States; (2) is a person in the service of the United States 
on the date of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible 
for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to be-
come a citizen of the United States prior to such date and 
is actually residing in the United States; (3) is a person 
who owes allegiance to the United States; (4) is an alien 
from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam, the countries of the 
former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully ad-
mitted to the United States for permanent residence; (5) 
is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee pa-
roled in the United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) 
is a national of the People’s Republic of China who quali-
fies for adjustment of status pursuant to the Chinese Stu-
dent Protection Act of 1992: Provided, That for the pur-
pose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such person 
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the require-
ments of this section with respect to his or her status have 
been complied with: Provided further, That any person 
making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and, 
upon conviction, shall be fined no more than $4,000 or 
imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both: Provided 
further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition
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to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of ex-
isting law: Provided further, That any payment made to 
any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this 
section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Gov-
ernment. This section shall not apply to citizens of Ire-
land, Israel, or the Republic of the Philippines, or to na-
tionals of those countries allied with the United States in 
a current defense effort, or to international broadcasters 
employed by the United States Information Agency, or to 
temporary employment of translators, or to temporary em-
ployment in the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as 
a result of emergencies. 
SEC. 706. Appropriations available to any depart-
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec-
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex-
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General 
Services Administration for charges for space and services 
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build-
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements 
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 
1959 (73 Stat. 749), the Public Buildings Amendments 
of 1972 (87 Stat. 216), or other applicable law. 
SEC. 707. In addition to funds provided in this or 
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re-
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials,
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including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a 
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre-
vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex-
pended for the following purposes: 
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, 
and recycling programs as described in Executive 
Order No. 13101 (September 14, 1998), including 
any such programs adopted prior to the effective 
date of the Executive order. 
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man-
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the 
development and implementation of hazardous waste 
management and pollution prevention programs. 
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by 
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the 
Federal agency. 
SEC. 708. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year 
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of 
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition 
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available, 
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance 
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this 
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the 
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the
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Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in 
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other 
funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be 
correspondingly reduced. 
SEC. 709. No part of any appropriation for the cur-
rent fiscal year contained in this or any other Act shall 
be paid to any person for the filling of any position for 
which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has 
voted not to approve the nomination of said person. 
SEC. 710. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency 
financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), 
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups 
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do 
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive 
financial support from more than one agency or instru-
mentality. 
SEC. 711. Funds made available by this or any other 
Act to the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall 
be available for employment of guards for all buildings and 
areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service and under 
the charge and control of the Postal Service, and such 
guards shall have, with respect to such property, the pow-
ers of special policemen provided by the first section of
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the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 
U.S.C. 318), and, as to property owned or occupied by 
the Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the 
same actions as the Administrator of General Services 
may take under the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of the 
Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 
318a and 318b), attaching thereto penal consequences 
under the authority and within the limits provided in sec-
tion 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 
281; 40 U.S.C. 318c). 
SEC. 712. None of the funds made available pursuant 
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, 
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly 
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the 
United States. 
SEC. 713. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, 
no part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 
2004, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any 
prevailing 
rate 
employee 
described 
in 
section 
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code—
(1) during the period from the date of expira-
tion of the limitation imposed by the comparable sec-
tion for the previous fiscal years until the normal ef-
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or basic pay payable after the application of this section 
shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay. 
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by 
this section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be 
payable were this section not in effect. 
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide 
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section 
if the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary 
to ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employ-
ees. 
SEC. 714. During the period in which the head of 
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian 
employee of the Government appointed by the President 
of the United States, holds office, no funds may be obli-
gated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or re-
decorate the office of such department head, agency head, 
officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or make im-
provements for any such office, unless advance notice of 
such furnishing or redecoration is expressly approved by 
the Committees on Appropriations. For the purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite 
of offices assigned to the individual, as well as any other 
space used primarily by the individual or the use of which 
is directly controlled by the individual.
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SEC. 715. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 710 of this Act, funds 
made available for the current fiscal year by this or any 
other Act shall be available for the interagency funding 
of national security and emergency preparedness tele-
communications initiatives which benefit multiple Federal 
departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Execu-
tive Order No. 12472 (April 3, 1984). 
SEC. 716. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any 
Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality for 
the salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a 
position of a confidential or policy-determining character 
excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section 
3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification 
to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of 
the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality 
employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C 
position was not created solely or primarily in order to 
detail the employee to the White House. 
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to 
Federal employees or members of the armed services de-
tailed to or from—
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency; 
(2) the National Security Agency;
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(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; 
(4) the offices within the Department of De-
fense for the collection of specialized national foreign 
intelligence through reconnaissance programs; 
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of 
the Department of State; 
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, 
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Department 
of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration 
of the Department of Justice, the Department of 
Transportation, the Department of the Treasury, 
and the Department of Energy performing intel-
ligence functions; and 
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence. 
SEC. 717. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for the current fiscal year shall obli-
gate or expend any such funds, unless such department, 
agency, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue 
to administer in good faith, a written policy designed to 
ensure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimina-
tion and sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces 
are not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act
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of 1964, as amended, the Age Discrimination in Employ-
ment Act of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 
SEC. 718. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment 
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal 
Government, who—
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any 
direct oral or written communication or contact with 
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the 
Congress in connection with any matter pertaining 
to the employment of such other officer or employee 
or pertaining to the department or agency of such 
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of 
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-
sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member, 
committee, or subcommittee; or 
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay, 
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or 
performance of efficiency rating, denies promotion 
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-
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ployment of, any other officer or employee of the 
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to 
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to 
such other officer or employee, by reason of any 
communication or contact of such other officer or 
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph 
(1). 
SEC. 719. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for 
any employee training that—
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N–
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
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(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 720. No funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the agreements 
in Standard Forms 312 and 4414 of the Government or 
any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement if such 
policy, form, or agreement does not contain the following 
provisions: ‘‘These restrictions are consistent with and do 
not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter the em-
ployee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by Execu-
tive Order No. 12958; section 7211 of title 5, United 
States Code (governing disclosures to Congress); section 
1034 of title 10, United States Code, as amended by the 
Military Whistleblower Protection Act (governing disclo-
sure to Congress by members of the military); section 
2302(b)(8) of title 5, United States Code, as amended by 
the Whistleblower Protection Act (governing disclosures of 
illegality, waste, fraud, abuse or public health or safety 
threats); the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 
(50 U.S.C. 421 et seq.) (governing disclosures that could 
expose confidential Government agents); and the statutes