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previously transmitted under the following sentence), a
copy of such report.’’.
(c) COORDINATION PROVISIONS.—Subsection (d) of
section 2008 of title 39, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(d) Nothing’’ and inserting
‘‘(d)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), noth-
ing’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2)(A) Before obtaining any audit or report under
paragraph (1), the Postal Service shall give the Inspector
General advance written notice of that intention.
‘‘(B) Any exercise of power under paragraph (1) shall
be subject to any authority available to the Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out section 4(a) of the Inspector General
Act of 1978.’’.
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This subsection shall take
effect on the date of enactment of this Act.
SEC. 514. 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 benefit program which provides
any benefits or coverage for abortions.
SEC. 515. The provision of section 514 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. 516. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
Act may be expended by the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment to enter into or renew any contract under section
8902 of title 5, United States Code, for a health benefits
plan—
(1) which provides coverage for prescription
drugs, unless such plan also provides equivalent cov-
erage for all prescription contraceptive drugs or de-
vices approved by the Food and Drug Administra-
tion, or generic equivalents approved as substitutable
by the Food and Drug Administration; or
(2) which provides benefits for outpatient serv-
ices provided by a health care professional, unless
such plan also provides equivalent benefits for out-
patient contraceptive services.
(b) For purposes of this section—
(1) the term ‘‘contraceptive drug or device’’
means a drug or device intended for preventing
pregnancy; and
(2) the term ‘‘outpatient contraceptive services’’
means consultations, examinations, procedures, and
medical services, provided on an outpatient basis
and related to the use of contraceptive methods (in-
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cluding natural family planning) to prevent preg-
nancy.
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS
SEC. 601. 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. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under
this or any other Act for fiscal year 1999 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. 603. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1345, any
agency, department, or instrumentality of the United
States which provides or proposes to provide child care
services for Federal employees may, in fiscal year 1999
and thereafter, reimburse any Federal employee or any
person employed to provide such services for travel, trans-
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portation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training
classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with
the provision of such services: Provided, That any per
diem allowance made pursuant to this section shall not
exceed the rate specified in regulations prescribed pursu-
ant to section 5707 of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 604. 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
$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
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101–549 over the cost of comparable conventionally fueled
vehicles.
SEC. 605. 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. 606. 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
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 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)
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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
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.
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SEC. 607. 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. 608. 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,
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. 12873 (October 20, 1993), 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
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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. 609. 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
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. 610. 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.
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SEC. 611. 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. 612. 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
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).
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SEC. 613. 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. 614. (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
1999 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 section 614 of the
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government
Appropriations Act, 1998, until the normal effective
date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that
is to take effect in fiscal year 1999, in an amount
that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable
grade and step of the applicable wage schedule in
accordance with such section 614; and
(2) during the period consisting of the remain-
der of fiscal year 1999, in an amount that exceeds,
as a result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate
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payable under paragraph (1) by more than the sum
of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking ef-
fect in fiscal year 1999 under section 5303 of
title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay
under the General Schedule; and
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age percentage of the locality-based comparabil-
ity payments taking effect in fiscal year 1999
under section 5304 of such title (whether by
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall aver-
age percentage of such payments which was ef-
fective in fiscal year 1998 under such section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code,
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title,
may be paid during the periods for which subsection (a)
is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would
be payable under subsection (a) were subsection (a) appli-
cable to such employee.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable
to an employee who is covered by this section and who
is paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30,
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1998, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by
the Office of Personnel Management.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30,
1998, except to the extent determined by the Office of
Personnel Management to be consistent with the purpose
of this section.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for
service performed after September 30, 1998.
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision
of law (including section 8431 of title 5, United States
Code, and any rule or regulation that provides premium
pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other employee ben-
efit) that requires any deduction or contribution, or that
imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis of a
rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic pay
payable after the application of this section shall be treat-
ed 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