Union Calendar No. 201
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3400
[Report No. 103–366, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI,
VII, VIII, IX, and X]
A BILL
To provide a more effective, efficient, and
responsive government.
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Committees on Armed Services, Education and Labor,
Energy and Commerce, Foreign Affairs, Government
Operations, Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence, and Ways and Means discharged; committed to
the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the
Union and ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 201
103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3400
[Report No. 103–366, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and
X]
To provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive government.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
OCTOBER 28, 1993
Mr. GEPHARDT introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
following committees for a period ending not later than November 15,
1993: Agriculture, Armed Services, Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs,
Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Foreign Affairs, Govern-
ment Operations, House Administration, the Judiciary, Merchant Marine
and Fisheries, Natural Resources, Permanent Select Committee on Intel-
ligence, Post Office and Civil Service, Public Works and Transportation,
Science, Space, and Technology, Veterans’ Affairs, and Ways and Means
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology with
amendments
[In Title II insert the part printed in italic]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs with amendments
[In Title XII omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service with
amendments
[In Title XIII omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Public Works and Transportation with
amendments
[In Titles III and XI omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Natural Resources with amendments
[In Titles IV and VII omit the part struck through, insert the part printed in italic and amend
the table of contents]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on House Administration with an amendment
[In Title XIV omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries with
amendments
[In Title XI omit the part in bold parentheses and insert the part printed in boldface roman]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on the Judiciary with amendments
[In Titles VIII and XVI omit the part struck through]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Agriculture with amendments
[In Title I omit the part struck through, insert the part printed in italic, and amend the table
of contents]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Reported from the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs with
an amendment
[In Title VI omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]
NOVEMBER 15, 1993
Committees on Armed Services, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce,
Foreign Affairs, Government Operations, Permanent Select Committee on
Intelligence, and Ways and Means discharged; committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be
printed
A BILL
To provide a more effective, efficient, and responsive
government.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Government Reform
and Savings Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
The table of contents is as follows:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Subtitle A—Department of Agriculture Reorganization
Subtitle B—Eliminate Federal Support for Wool and Mohair
Subtitle B—Eliminating Federal Support for Honey
Subtitle C—Eliminate Federal Support for Honey
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Polar Satellite Convergence
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Subtitle A—Create Incentives for the Department of Defense to Generate
Revenues
Subtitle B—Closure of the Uniform Services University of the Health
Sciences
Subtitle C—Streamline and Reorganize the United States Army Corps of
Engineers
TITLE IV—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Subtitle A—Alaska Power Administration Sale Authorization Act
Subtitle B—Federal-Private Cogeneration of Electricity
Subtitle C—Power Marketing Administration Debt Buyout
Subtitle C—Power Marketing Administrations
Subtitle D—Termination of Advanced Liquid Metal Reactor Program
TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle A—Increased Flexibility in Contracting for Medicare Claims
Processing
Subtitle B—Workers’ Compensation Data Exchange Pilot Projects
Subtitle C—Federal Clearinghouse on Death Information
Subtitle D—Continuing Disability Reviews
TITLE VI—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN
DEVELOPMENT
Subtitle A—Multifamily Property Disposition
Subtitle B—Merger of the Certificate and Voucher Programs
Subtitle C—Streamline HUD
Subtitle D—Refinance Section 235 Mortgages
Subtitle E—Section 8 Rents for New Construction and Rehabilitation
Projects
TITLE VII—DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Subtitle A—Improve the Federal Helium Program
Subtitle B A—Improve Minerals Management Service Royalty Collection
Subtitle C B—Phase Out the Mineral Institute Program
Subtitle C—Reorganization of Bureau of Indian Affairs
Subtitle D—Termination of Annual Direct Grant Assistance
TITLE VIII—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Bureau of Prisons Health Services User Fee
TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
Subtitle A—Deterrence of Fraud and Abuse in the FECA Program
Subtitle B—Enhancement of Reemployment Programs for Federal Employees
Disabled in the Performance of Duty
Subtitle C—Wage Determinations—McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act
and Davis-Bacon Act
Subtitle D—Elimination of Filing Requirement for Plan Descriptions, Sum-
mary Plan Descriptions, and Descriptions of Material Modifications to a
Plan
TITLE X—DEPARTMENT OF STATE/UNITED STATES
INFORMATION AGENCY
Reduction of Mission Operating Costs
TITLE XI—DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Subtitle A—Authority to Charge Tuition for Attendance at the United States
Merchant Marine Academy
Subtitle B—Reform of the Essential Air Service Program
Subtitle C—Repeal of Authorization for the Airway Science Program, Colle-
giate Training Initiative, and Air Carrier Maintenance Technical Training
Facility Grant Program
Subtitle D—Capital Budgeting
Subtitle E—Public Buildings
TITLE XII—DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
Subtitle A—Remove Certain Limitations and Restrictions Contained in
Veterans Law
Subtitle B—Closure of Supply Depots and Transfer of Revolving Supply
Fund Money
Subtitle C—Provision of Information from the Medicare and Medicaid
Coverage Data Bank to the Department of Veterans Affairs
Subtitle D—Veterans’ Appeals Improvement Act of 1993
TITLE XIII—HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Subtitle A—Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1993
Subtitle B—SES Annual Leave Accumulation
TITLE XIV—REINVENTING SUPPORT SERVICES
Government Information Dissemination and Printing Improvement Act of
1993
TITLE XV—STREAMLINING MANAGEMENT CONTROL
Authority to Increase Efficiency in Reporting to Congress
TITLE XVI—IMPROVING FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Subtitle A—Electronic Payments
Subtitle B—Franchise Funds and Innovation Funds
Subtitle C—Simplifying the Management Reporting Process
Subtitle D—Annual Financial Reports
Subtitle E—Strengthening Debt Collection Programs
Subtitle F—Improving Department of Justice Debt Collection
Subtitle G—Adjusting Civil Monetary penalties for Inflation
TITLE XVII—YEAR-END SPENDING
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE
Subtitle A—Department of
Agriculture Reorganization
SEC. 1001. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZA-
TION.
Pursuant to authorities proposed in the Department
of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1993 (H.R. 3171)
and current legal authorities, the Secretary of Agriculture
shall take action to restructure and reinvent the Depart-
ment of Agriculture by reducing the number of agencies
in the Department, reducing headquarters and adminis-
trative staffing and overhead, closing or consolidating un-
necessary field locations, and taking such other actions as
may be necessary to reduce the staffing of the department
by not less than 7,500 staff years and save a total of not
less than $1.64 billion in fiscal years 1995 through 1999.
Subtitle B—Eliminate Federal
Support for Wool and Mohair
SEC. 1101. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 703 OF NATIONAL
WOOL ACT OF 1954.
Section 703 of the National Wool Act of 1954 (7
U.S.C. 1782) is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (a) and inserting the
following new subsection:
‘‘(a) Subject to subsection (b)(3), the Secretary of
Agriculture shall, through the Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion, make loans and payments to producers of wool and
mohair through December 31, 1995.’’;
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘1997’’
and inserting ‘‘1995’’; and
(B) by striking paragraph (3) and insert-
ing the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) No loans, purchases, or payments shall be made
for the 1996 and subsequent marketing years, except that
loans and payments for the 1995 marketing year shall be
paid in 1996.’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(4)(A) Through December 31, 1995, the Secretary
shall offer to wool and mohair producers recourse loans
under terms and conditions that are prescribed by the Sec-
retary, except that the loans shall be administered at no
net cost to the Federal Government.
‘‘(B) A producer who fails to repay a loan made
under subparagraph (A) by the end of the following mar-
keting year shall be ineligible for a loan under this Act
for
that
marketing
year
and
subsequent
marketing
years.’’.
SEC. 1102. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 704 OF NATIONAL
WOOL ACT OF 1954.
Section 704(a) of the National Wool Act of 1954 (7
U.S.C. 1783(a)) is amended by inserting after the first
sentence the following new sentence: ‘‘In the case of each
of the 1994 and 1995 marketing years, the payments shall
be 75 and 50 percent, respectively, of the amount other-
wise determined under the preceding sentence.’’.
SEC. 1103. REPEAL OF NATIONAL WOOL ACT OF 1954.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Effective December 31, 1995, the
National Wool Act of 1954 (7 U.S.C. 1781 et seq.) is
repealed.
(b) APPLICATION.—The repeal made by subsection
(a) shall apply to both the wool and mohair programs.
(c) PROHIBITION.—Effective beginning December
31, 1995, the Secretary of Agriculture may not provide
loans or payments for wool or mohair by using the funds
of the Commodity Credit Corporation or under the author-
ity of any law.
SEC. 1104. REPEAL OF SECTION 702 OF NATIONAL WOOL
ACT OF 1954, ETC.
(a) Section 702 of the National Wool Act of 1954
(7 U.S.C. 1781) is repealed.
(b) Section 703 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1782) is
amended—
(1) by striking the section heading and insert-
ing the following new section heading: ‘‘SUPPORT
PRICE FOR WOOL AND MOHAIR’’;
(2) in subsection (b)(1)(i), by striking ‘‘such
price support’’ and inserting ‘‘the support price’’;
and
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘price sup-
port’’ and inserting ‘‘support under this section’’.
(c) Section 704 of such Act (7 U.S.C. 1783) is
amended—
(1) by striking the section heading and insert-
ing the following new section heading:
‘‘SEC. 704. PAYMENTS.’’;
and
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘If payments
are utilized as a means of price support, the’’ and
inserting ‘‘The’’.
(d) The first sentence of section 706 of such Act (7
U.S.C. 1785) is amended by striking ‘‘price support oper-
ations’’ and inserting ‘‘operations under this Act’’.
SEC. 1105. SAVINGS PROVISION.
A provision of this subtitle may not affect the liability
of any person under any provision of law as in effect be-
fore the effective date of the provision.
Subtitle C—Eliminate Federal
Support for Honey
SEC. 1201. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 207 OF AGRICUL-
TURAL ACT OF 1949.
Section 207 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C.
1446h) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘1998’’ each place it appears, in
subsections (a), (c), and (j), and inserting ‘‘1995’’;
(2) by striking ‘‘loan’’ each place it appears ex-
cept for subsection (d), and inserting ‘‘nonrecourse
loan’’; and
(3) in subsection (a), by striking paragraphs
(3), (4), and (5) and inserting the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(4)(i) No loans, purchases, or payments shall
be made for the 1996 and subsequent crop years.
‘‘(ii) Through December 31, 1995, the Sec-
retary shall offer to honey producers recourse loans
under terms and conditions that are prescribed by
the Secretary, except that the loans shall be admin-
istered at no net cost to the Federal Government.
‘‘(iii) A producer who fails to repay a loan made
under clause (ii) by the end of the following market-
ing year shall be ineligible for a loan under this Act
for that marketing year and subsequent marketing
years.’’.
SEC. 1202. FURTHER AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 207 OF AG-
RICULTURAL ACT OF 1949.
Section 207 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C.
1446h) is amended—
(1) After subsection (b)(2), by inserting the
following:
‘‘(3) In the case of the 1994 and 1995 market-
ing years, the quantity of honey for which a pro-
ducer may receive a nonrecourse loan shall be re-
duced by 25 and 50 percent, respectively, of the
lesser of—
‘‘(i)
the
amount
requested
for
a
nonrecourse loan, or
‘‘(ii) the most recent five year average of
previous loan placements.
‘‘(4) The honey not eligible for the nonrecourse
loan shall be eligible for a recourse loan but shall
not be eligible for a loan deficiency payment.’’;
(2) In paragraphs (3) and (4), by striking
‘‘(3)’’ and ‘‘(4)’’ and inserting ‘‘(4)’’ and ‘‘(5)’’; and
(3) After subsection (c)(2), by inserting the fol-
lowing new paragraph:
‘‘(3) In the case of the 1994 and 1995 market-
ing years, the quantity of honey for which a pro-
ducer can receive loan deficiency payments shall be
75 and 50 percent, respectively, of the lesser of—
‘‘(i) the amount requested for honey eligi-
ble for nonrecourse loans, or
‘‘(ii) the average amount received in loan
deficiency
payments
for
the
previous
five
years.’’.
SEC. 1203. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 405A OF AGRICUL-
TURAL ACT OF 1949.
Section 405A of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7
U.S.C. 1425a) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘$125,000’’
and inserting ‘‘$75,000’’; and
(2) in subsection (a), by striking all that follows
‘‘Provided, however,’’ and inserting ‘‘In the case of
the 1994 and 1995 marketing years, the amount
that a producer can forfeit shall be limited by the
amount that can be put under loan as determined
under section 207(b) and (c) of this Act.’’.
SEC. 1204. REPEAL OF SECTION 207 OF AGRICULTURAL ACT
OF 1949.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Effective December 31, 1995,
Section 207 of the Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C.
1446h) is repealed.
(b) PROHIBITION.—Effective beginning December
31, 1995, the Secretary of Agriculture may not provide
loans or payments for honey by using the funds of the
Commodity Credit Corporation or under the authority of
any law, except that the Commodity Credit Corporation
may settle any outstanding loans made on or before
December 31, 1995.
SEC. 1205. SAVINGS PROVISION.
A provision of this subtitle may not affect the liability
of any person under any provision of law as in effect be-
fore the effect date of the provision.
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE
Subtitle A—Department of
Agriculture Reorganization
SEC. 1001. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE REORGANIZA-
TION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Agriculture shall
(1) consolidate field, regional, and national offices within
the Department of Agriculture and (2) reduce personnel by
not less than 7,500 staff years, so as to achieve a reduction
in expenditures by the Department of not less than
$1,640,000,000 during the period fiscal years 1995 through
1999.
(b) AUTHORITIES.—In consolidating offices and reduc-
ing personnel as required by subsection (a), the Secretary
shall take such action on the basis of the powers vested in
the Secretary under other laws.
Subtitle B—Eliminating Federal
Support for Honey
SEC. 1101. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 207 OF THE AGRICUL-
TURAL ACT OF 1949.
(a) Section 207(a) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—For each of the 1991 through 1995
crops of honey, the price of honey shall be supported through
loans, purchases, or other operations, except that for the
1994 and 1995 crops, the price of honey shall be supported
through recourse loans.
‘‘(1) For the 1991 through 1993 crop years, the
rate of support shall be not less than 53.8 cents per
pound.
‘‘(2) For the 1994 and 1995 crop years, the Sec-
retary shall provide recourse loans to producers at
such a rate that minimizes costs and forfeitures, ex-
cept that such rate shall not be less than 44 cents a
pound. Section 407 shall not be applicable to honey
forfeited to the Commodity Credit Corporation under
loans made under this paragraph.
‘‘(3) A producer who fails to repay a loan made
under paragraph (2) by the end of the crop year fol-
lowing the crop year for which such loan was made
shall be ineligible for a loan under this section for
subsequent crop years, except that the Secretary may
waive this provision in any case where in which the
Secretary determines that the failure to repay the
loan was due to hardship conditions or circumstances
beyond the control of the producer.’’.
(b) Section 207(b) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by striking ‘‘for a crop’’ and inserting ‘‘for the
1991 through 1993 crops’’.
(c) Section 207(c) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by striking ‘‘1998’’ and inserting ‘‘1993’’.
(d) Section 207(e) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by—
(1) striking subparagraphs (D) through (G);
(2) inserting ‘‘and’’ after the semicolon following
subparagraph (B); and
(3) changing the semicolon following subpara-
graph (C) to a period.
(e) Section 207(j) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by striking ‘‘1998’’ and inserting ‘‘1995’’.
SEC. 1102. AMENDMENT TO SECTION 405 OF THE AGRICUL-
TURAL ACT OF 1949.
Section 405(a) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by striking in the first sentence ‘‘section 405A’’
and inserting ‘‘sections 207 and 405A’’.
SEC. 1103. AMENDMENTS TO SECTION 405A OF THE AGRI-
CULTURAL ACT OF 1949.
Section 405A(a) of the Agricultural Act of 1949 is
amended by striking all that follows ‘‘1992 crop year,’’ and
inserting ‘‘and $150,000 in the 1993 crop year.’’.
SEC. 1104. SAVINGS PROVISION.
A provision of this subtitle may not affect the liability
of any person under any provision of law as in effect before
the effective date of the provision.
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF
COMMERCE
SEC. 2001. POLAR SATELLITE CONVERGENCE.
The Departments of Commerce and Defense and the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall pro-
pose a single operational polar environmental and weather
satellite system, which meets national needs. It is the sense
of Congress that such a proposed system, contingent on the
provision of adequate resources to fully meet the national
security interests of the United States, shall be operated as
a civil system by the Department of Commerce. A detailed
implementation plan shall be submitted to Congress by the
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
in consultation with the Departments of Commerce and
Defense and the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration, by April 30, 1994. The plan shall be designed to
result in savings of up to $300 million in budget authority
and up to $251 million in outlays between fiscal years
1994 and 1999. The National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration shall jointly develop a plan to implement
a program modelled after the Operational Satellite Im-
provement Program for the purpose of making incremental
enhancements in operational weather satellite systems. The
goal of the plan shall be to achieve these enhancements in
a cost effective manner by implementing procedures aimed
at avoiding duplication of effort, cost overruns, and sched-
ule delays. The Administrators of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration and the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration shall submit to Congress no
later than April 30, 1994, a report detailing the elements
of the plan and outlining savings in budget authority and
budget outlays projected through fiscal year 1999.
TITLE III—DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE
Subtitle A—Create Incentives for
the Department of Defense to
Generate Revenues
SEC. 3001. INCENTIVES FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO
GENERATE REVENUES.
Section 2577 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking subsections (b) and (c), and inserting
the following new subsection:
‘‘(b) Proceeds from the sale of recyclable materials
at an installation shall be credited to funds available for
operations and maintenance at that installation, and, at
the discretion of the installation commander, to the
nonappropriated morale and welfare account of the instal-
lation to be used for any morale and welfare activity.’’.
Subtitle B—Closure of the Uniform
Services 
University 
of 
the
Health Sciences
SEC. 3101. CLOSURE OF UNIFORM SERVICES UNIVERSITY
OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES.
(a) REPEAL OF AUTHORITY.—Chapter 104 of title
10, United States Code, is hereby repealed.
(b) PHASE-OUT PROCESS.—(1) Notwithstanding any
other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense shall
phase out the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences, beginning in fiscal year 1995, and ending with
the closure of such University not later than September
30, 1998. No provision of section 2687 of title 10, United
States Code, or of any other law establishing preconditions
to the closure of any activity of the Department of Defense
shall operate to establish any precondition to the phase-
out and closure of the Uniformed Services University of
the Health Sciences pursuant to this subtitle.
(2) Under the phase-out process required by para-
graph (1), the Secretary of Defense is authorized to exer-
cise all of the authorities pertaining to the operation of
the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
that were granted to the Secretary of Defense, the Board
of Regents, or the Dean of the Uniformed Services Univer-
sity of the Health Sciences by chapter 104 of title 10,
United States Code, prior to enactment of the repeal of
that chapter by subsection (a). Such authorities may be
exercised by the Secretary of Defense so as to achieve an
orderly phase-out of operations of the Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences.
(3) No new class of students may be admitted to
begin studies in the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences after September 30, 1994. No students
may be awarded degrees by such University after Septem-
ber 30, 1998, except that the Secretary of Defense may
grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis for any students
who by that date have completed substantially all degree
requirements.
(c) AUTHORITIES UNAFFECTED.—(1) Commissioned
service obligations incurred by students of the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences shall be unaf-
fected by enactment of the repeal of chapter 104 of title
10, United States Code, by subsection (a).
(2) Nothing in this subtitle shall be construed as lim-
iting the exercise by the Secretary of Defense of other au-
thorities under law pertaining to health sciences edu-
cation, training and professional development, graduate
medical education, medical and scientific research, and
similar activities. To the extent any such activities had
been assigned by the Secretary of Defense to the Uni-
formed Services University of the Health Sciences, the
Secretary of Defense’s authority to assign such activities
to any other component or entity of the Department of
Defense shall be unaffected by the phase-out and closure
of the Uniformed Services University of the Health
Sciences pursuant to this subtitle.
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) Section 178 of
title 10, United States Code, pertaining to the Henry M.
Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military
Medicine, is amended—
(A) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Department of Defense’’;
(B) in subsection (c)(1)(B), by striking ‘‘the
Dean of the Uniformed Services University of the
Health Sciences’’ and inserting ‘‘a person designated
by the Secretary of Defense’’; and
(C) in subsection (g)(1), by striking ‘‘Uni-
formed Services University of the Health Sciences’’
and inserting ‘‘Secretary of Defense’’.
(2) Section 466 of the Public Health Service Act (42
U.S.C. section 286a), pertaining to the Board of Regents
of the National Library of Medicine, is amended in sub-
section (a)(1)(B) by striking ‘‘the Dean of the Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences’’.
(3) The table of chapters and the table of sections
at the beginning of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed by striking references to chapter 104 and sections 2112
through 2115.
(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This section shall be effective
upon the date of enactment.
Subtitle C—Streamline and Reor-
ganize the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers
SEC. 3201. STREAMLINING AND REORGANIZATION OF
CORPS OF ENGINEERS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the (a)
DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN.—The Secretary of the Army shall
develop a plan to reorganize the United States Army Corps
of Engineers by reorganizing the headquarters offices, re-
ducing the number of division offices, and restructuring
the district functions so as to increase the efficiency of
the United States Army Corps of Engineers and reduce
staff and costs, with the goal of achieving approximately
$50 million in net annual savings by fiscal year 1998.
(b) TRANSMITTAL AND APPROVAL OF PLAN.—The Sec-
retary of the Army shall transmit to Congress the plan de-
veloped under subsection (a) for approval. The Secretary
shall not implement such plan until it is approved by Con-
gress.
TITLE IV—DEPARTMENT OF
ENERGY
Subtitle A—Alaska Power Adminis-
tration Sale Authorization Act
SEC. 4001. SHORT TITLE.
This subtitle may be cited as the ‘‘Alaska Power Ad-
ministration Sale Authorization Act’’.
SEC. 4002. SALE OF SNETTISHAM AND EKLUTNA HYDRO-
ELECTRIC PROJECTS.
(a) The Secretary of Energy may sell the Snettisham
Hydroelectric Project (referred to in this subtitle as
‘‘Snettisham’’) to the State of Alaska Power Authority
(now known as the Alaska Industrial Development and
Export Authority, and referred to in this subtitle as the
‘‘Authority’’), or its successor, in accordance with the Feb-
ruary 10, 1989, Snettisham Purchase Agreement between
the Alaska Power Administration of the United States De-
partment of Energy and the Authority.
(b) The Secretary of Energy may sell the Eklutna
Hydroelectric Project (referred to in this subtitle as
‘‘Eklutna’’) to the Municipality of Anchorage doing busi-
ness as Municipal Light and Power, the Chugach Electric
Association, Inc., and the Matanuska Electric Association,
Inc. (referred to in this subtitle as ‘‘Eklutna Purchasers’’)
in accordance with the August 2, 1989, Eklutna Purchase
Agreement between the United States Department of En-
ergy and the Eklutna Purchasers.
(c) The heads of other affected Federal departments
and agencies, including the Secretary of the Interior, shall
assist the Secretary of Energy in implementing the sales
authorized by this Act.
(d) The Secretary of Energy shall deposit sale pro-
ceeds in the Treasury of the United States to the credit
of miscellaneous receipts.
(e) There are authorized to be appropriated such
sums as are necessary to prepare or acquire Eklutna and
Snettisham assets for sale and conveyance, such prepara-
tions to provide sufficient title to ensure the beneficial use,
enjoyment, and occupancy to the purchasers of the assets
to be sold.
(f) No later than one year after both of the sales au-
thorized in section 4002 have occurred, as measured by
the Transaction Dates stipulated in the Purchase Agree-
ments, the Secretary of Energy shall—
(1) complete the business of, and close out, the
Alaska Power Administration; and
(2) prepare and submit to Congress a report
documenting the sales.
SEC. 4003. ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS.
Before taking any action authorized in section 4002,
the Secretary shall assess the feasibility of alternative op-
tions for maximizing the return to the Treasury from the
sale of the Alaska Power Marketing Administration.
Subtitle B—Federal-Private
Cogeneration of Electricity
SEC. 4101. FEDERAL-PRIVATE COGENERATION OF ELEC-
TRICITY.
Section 804(2)(B) of the National Energy Conserva-
tion Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 8287c(2)(B)) is amended by
striking ‘‘, excluding any cogeneration process for other
than a federally owned building or buildings or other fed-
erally owned facilities.’’.
Subtitle C—Power Marketing
Administration Debt Buyout
PART 1—BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
DEBT BUYOUT
SEC. 4201. SHORT TITLE.
This part may be cited as the ‘‘Bonneville Power Ad-
ministration Repayment Bonds Act’’.
SEC. 4202. SALE OF BONDS.
Notwithstanding any other law and without fiscal
year limitation—
(1) in addition to the authority in section 13 of
the Federal Columbia River Transmission System
Act (16 U.S.C. 838k), the Administrator may issue
and sell bonds, notes, and other evidences of indebt-
edness (referred to in this part as ‘‘Bonds’’) in the
manner and amounts the Administrator, considers
appropriate in the name of and for and on behalf of
the Bonneville Power Administration, to—
(A) satisfy the unpaid repayment obliga-
tion associated with the appropriated capital in-
vestment made in the Federal Columbia River
Power System before the issuance of the Bonds
authorized under this part takes place, but not
including
Federal
irrigation
investments
as-
signed to be repaid from power revenues; and
(B) refund Bonds;
(2) the Administrator shall transfer, and the
Secretary of the Treasury shall accept for the ac-
count of the General Fund, the net proceeds of the
Bonds referred to in paragraph (1)(A), and when
the Secretary of the Treasury receives the net pro-
ceeds, the repayment obligation associated with the
part of the appropriated capital investment in the
Federal Columbia River Power System covered by
the Bonds is considered to be satisfied forever;
(3) the Secretary of the Treasury, in consulta-
tion with the Administrator, shall establish the
amount of proceeds needed to satisfy the unpaid re-
payment obligation associated with the part of the
capital investment referred to in paragraph (1)(A)
as the amount necessary to increase the sum of the
net proceeds and the discounted present value of the
remaining Federal debt service of the Federal Co-
lumbia River Power System by $100 million relative
to the discounted present value of the total Federal
debt service of the Federal Columbia River Power
System as provided by the Administrator based upon
the repayment schedule that would have been paid
under repayment policy and practices in effect on
September 1, 1993;
(4) to determine the discounted present values
in paragraph (3), the Secretary of the Treasury
shall use discount rates based on the secondary mar-
ket’s average yield for the most recently issued 30-
year Treasury bonds when the Bonds authorized in
paragraph (1) are issued;
(5) these Bonds shall be in the forms and de-
nominations, bear the maturities (without respect to
the remaining average service life of the capital in-
vestment associated with the repayment obligation
satisfied by the Bonds issued under this part), be is-
sued and sold at the times, prices, discounts, and
yields, and be subject to other terms and conditions
(including variable rates) as the Administrator con-
siders appropriate;
(6) under section 2(f) of the Bonneville Project
Act of 1937 (16 U.S.C. 832a(f)) and this part, the
Administrator may enter into any contract that the
Administrator considers necessary for the purposes
of carrying out this part including, but not limited
to, contracts for—
(A) the payment of the principal, interest,
and premium, if any, on Bonds issued under
this part;
(B) the purchase or redemption of those
Bonds;
(C) the payment of costs and expenses in-
cidental to this payment, purchase, and re-
demption; or
(D) the creation of reserve and other funds
to be held by a trustee, which funds the Admin-
istrator may pledge exclusively to pay those
costs for which the funds were created and es-
tablish a lien on the funds in favor of the bene-
ficiaries of the funds under any indenture, reso-
lution, or other agreement entered into in con-
nection with the issuance of Bonds under this
part;
(7) Bonds issued under this part—
(A) shall be issuable and payable through
the Federal wire system;
(B) are negotiable instruments that may
be accepted as security for all fiduciary, trust,
and public funds, the investment or deposit of
which is under the authority or control of any
officer or agency of the United States;
(C) may be held without limitation by na-
tional banks;
(D) qualify as legal investments for banks,
savings and loan institutions, and credit unions;
and
(E) are eligible collateral for Federal ad-
vances and discounts, for deposits of the United
States, and for the Treasury tax and loan
accounts;
(8) Bonds issued under this part are not in-
tended to be and are not secured by the full faith
and credit of the United States;
(9) Bonds issued under this part are exempt
both as to principal and interest from all taxation by
any State or local taxing authority, except estate, in-
heritance, and gift taxes;
(10) Bonds issued under this part shall contain
a recital that they are issued under this part and
this recital is conclusive evidence of the regularity of
the issuance and sale of the Bonds and their
validity;
(11) the Bonds issued under this part, all re-
ceipts of the Secretary of the Treasury under this
part, any portion of the fund established under the
Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act
(16 U.S.C. 838 et seq.) related to these Bonds, all
receipts and disbursements of that fund related to
these Bonds, and all expenditures by the Adminis-
trator related to these Bonds—
(A) are exempt from any general budget
limitation imposed by statute on expenditures
and net lending (budget outlays) of the United
States Government, sequestration order, or dis-
cretionary spending limit;
(B) are exempt from any order issued pur-
suant to sections 251, 252, or 253 of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 900 et seq.); and
(C) are not subject to apportionment under
subchapter II of chapter 15 of title 31, United
States Code;
(12) in all future contracts for the sale of elec-
tric power, transmission, or other services, the Ad-
ministrator shall include provisions specifying that
after the repayment obligation is fully and forever
satisfied,
the
Administrator’s
rates
for
electric
power, transmission, or other services shall not in-
clude any form of economic rent to be returned to
the United States Government, including, without
limitation, a falling water charge or any other fee for
use of Federal facilities for power generation or
transmission, that relates to a project, facility, or
separable unit of a project or facility associated with
the satisfied repayment obligation, other than a
charge necessary to repay the new indebtedness in-
curred under this part. Amounts provided under sec-
tion 1304 of title 31, United States Code, shall be
the sole source for payment of a judgment against
the Administrator or the United States on a claim
for a violation of the contract provision required by
this paragraph;
(13) the Administrator shall offer to amend the
Administrator’s existing contracts for the sale of
electric power, transmission, or other services to in-
clude the provisions described in paragraph (12);
and
(14) the Administrator shall consult with the
Secretary of the Treasury regarding the timing and
structure of the bonds issued under this part.
SEC. 4203. PAYMENT OF BOND COSTS.
Section 11(b)(6) of the Federal Columbia River
Transmission System Act (16 U.S.C. 838i(b)(6)), is
amended by striking ‘‘or’’ before ‘‘(iv)’’ and by inserting
before the semicolon ‘‘, or (v) to pay the cost of financing
and debt service, including premiums, if any, on Bond is-
sued by the Bonneville Power Administration’’.
SEC. 4204. COMBINED REPAYMENT STUDY.
Section 7(a) of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power
Planning and Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 893e(a)), is
amended by adding after paragraph (2) the following:
‘‘(3) In establishing power and transmission
rates, the Administrator may base them on a single,
combined generation and transmission repayment
study which demonstrates that all indebtedness is
repaid by its due date. The use of such a study is
sufficient for the commission to approve the rates as
meeting repayment requirements.’’.
SEC. 4205. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this part—
(1) ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Administrator
of the Bonneville Power Administration; and
(2) ‘‘appropriated capital investment made in
the Federal Columbia River Power System’’ means
an investment made by the United States that—
(A) is made using Federal appropriations;
(B) is for a project or separable feature of
a project that is placed in service;
(C) is allocated to power and required by
law to be repaid from the power revenues by
the Administrator;
(D) is not allocated or suballocated to irri-
gation; and
(E) excludes an investment made using
funds borrowed under section 13 of the Federal
Columbia River Transmission System Act.
PART 2—OTHER POWER MARKETING
ADMINISTRATIONS DEBT BUYOUT
SEC. 4206. SHORT TITLE.
This part may be cited as the ‘‘Power Marketing Ad-
ministrations Financing Act’’.
SEC. 4207. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this part—
(1) ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Administrator
of the Southeastern Power Administration, the Ad-
ministrator of the Southwestern Power Administra-
tion, and the Administrator of the Western Area
Power Administration;
(2) ‘‘Fund’’ means the Power Marketing Ad-
ministration Sinking Fund established under section
4209; and
(3) ‘‘Power marketing administration’’ means
the Southeastern Power Administration, the South-
western Power Administration, and the Western
Area Power Administration.
SEC. 4208. REPAYMENT OF EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, within 12 months
after the enactment of this Act, each Administrator shall
develop, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, and shall implement a plan for paying the United
States Treasury the discounted present value of principal
and interest payments on power investments scheduled to
be paid to the United States Treasury as provided by the
Administrator under existing law and repayment practices
by that power marketing administration, as well as a one-
time additional payment of $12,500,000 by the Southeast-
ern Power Administration, $12,500,000 by the Southwest-
ern Power Administration, and $50,000,000 by the West-
ern Area Power Administration. Each Administrator shall
issue revenue bonds as provided in section 4210 to pay
the obligation to the United States Treasury addressed in
this section, except that the issuance of these bonds shall
occur only if each Administrator determines by means of
financial studies that the refinancing will not cause an in-
crease in power rates over existing repayment practices.
When the Treasury receives full payment from an Admin-
istrator, it shall consider the repayment obligation of the
Administration associated with the payment fully and for-
ever discharged.
(b) In all future contracts for the sale of electric
power, transmission, or other services, each Administrator
shall include provisions agreeing that when the repayment
obligation is fully and forever discharged under subsection
(a), the Administrator’s rates for electric power, trans-
mission, or other services shall not, other than is necessary
to repay the new indebtedness incurred under this Act,
include any charge in place of the satisfied obligation or
include any other similar form of economic rent by or re-
turned to the United States (including, without limitation,
a falling water charge or any other type of user fee for
use of Federal facilities for the purpose of power genera-
tion and transmission) on account of any project, facility,
or separable unit of a project or facility associated with
the repayment obligation satisfied.
(c) Each Administrator shall offer to amend existing
contracts for the sale of electric power, transmission, or
other services to include the provision described in sub-
section (b).
SEC. 4209. POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATION SINKING
FUND.
(a) There is established in the Treasury of the United
States a Power Marketing Administration Sinking Fund.
The Secretary of the Treasury, acting as trustee for the
power marketing administrations, shall establish and
maintain a separate account in the Fund for each power
marketing administration, and monies of one power mar-
keting administration shall not be commingled with mon-
ies of another power marketing administration. Within the
separate account for each power marketing administra-
tion, separate projects or systems shall be accounted for
separately. An Administrator may deposit into the Fund
the monies derived from revenues that the Administrator
considers appropriate to ensure that the bonds issued
under section 4210 are refunded in a timely manner.
(b) Balances in the Fund shall earn interest at a rate
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury.
(c) An Administrator may make expenditures from
the Administrator’s account in the Fund without further
appropriation and without fiscal year limitation to pay in-
debtedness incurred from bonds issued under section
4210.
(d) Each power marketing administration shall main-
tain its books of account in substantial conformance with
the Uniform System of Accounts of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission.
(e) The financial transactions of an Administrator
shall be audited by independent financial auditors, and re-
ports of the results of each audit shall be made to the
Congress within 61⁄2 months following the end of the fiscal
year covered by the audit.
SEC. 4210. REVENUE BONDS.
(a) Each Administrator, in consultation with the Sec-
retary of the Treasury, may issue and sell from time to
time in the name of, and for and on behalf of, the respec-
tive power marketing administration bonds, notes, and
other evidences of indebtedness (in this section collectively
referred to as ‘‘bonds’’) to refinance existing indebtedness
as provided in section 4208 and to issue and sell bonds
to refund those bonds. The bonds shall be in the forms
and denominations, bear maturities (without respect to
the remaining average service life of facilities), and be sub-
ject to terms and conditions as prescribed by the Adminis-
trator taking into account terms and conditions prevailing
in the market for similar bonds and financing practices
of the utility industry. Provisions for early retirement of
bonds may be prescribed by each Administrator. The
bonds shall bear interest at a rate determined by the
Administrator.
(b) Each Administrator may enter into any contract
that the Administrator considers necessary for the pur-
poses of carrying out this part including, but not limited
to, contracts for—
(1) the payment of the principal, interest, and
premium, if any, on bonds issued under this part;
(2) their purchase or redemption;
(3) the payment of costs and expenses inciden-
tal to their payment, purchase, and redemption; or
(4) the creation of reserve and other funds to
be held by the Secretary of the Treasury as trustee,
which funds the Administrator may pledge exclu-
sively to pay those costs for which the funds were
created and may establish a lien on the funds in
favor of the beneficiaries of the funds under any in-
denture, resolution, or other agreement entered into
in connection with the issuance of bonds under this
part.
(c) Bonds issued under this part—
(1) shall be issuable and negotiable through the
Federal wire system;
(2) are negotiable instruments that may be ac-
cepted as security for all fiduciary, trust, and public
funds, the investment or deposit of which is under
the authority or control of any officer or agency of
the United States;
(3) may be held, without limitation, by national
banks;
(4) qualify as legal instruments for banks, sav-
ings and loan institutions, and credit unions; and
(5) are eligible collateral for Federal advances
and discounts, for deposits of the United States, and
for Treasury tax and loan accounts.
(d) Bonds issued under this part are exempt both as
to principal and interest from all taxation by any State
or local taxing authority, except estate, inheritance, and
gift taxes.
(e) Bonds issued under this part shall contain a re-
cital that they are issued under this part and such a recital
is conclusive evidence of the regularity of the issuance and
sale of the bonds and their validity.
(f) These bonds are not intended to be and are not
secured by the full faith and credit of the United States.
(g) The bonds issued under this part, all receipts of
the Secretary of the Treasury under this part, any portion
of the Fund established under section 4210 related to
these bonds, all receipts and disbursements of the Fund
related to these bonds, and all expenditures by an Admin-
istrator related to these bonds—
(1) are exempt from any general budget limita-
tion imposed by statute on expenditures and net
lending (budget outlays) of the United States Gov-
ernment,
sequestration
order,
or
discretionary
spending limit;
(2) are exempt from any order issued pursuant
to sections 251, 252, or 253 of the Balanced Budget
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2
U.S.C. 900 et seq.); and
(3) are not subject to apportionment under sub-
chapter II of chapter 15 of title 31, United States
Code.
(h) With respect to the Western Area Power Adminis-
tration, except as otherwise provided, this Act is consid-
ered to be a supplement to the Federal reclamation laws.
Subtitle C—Power Marketing
Administrations
SEC. 4201. POWER MARKETING ADMINISTRATIONS REFI-
NANCING STUDY.
The Administrators of the Southeastern, Southwestern
and Western Area Power Administrations, in consultation
with their respective firm power contractors and other in-
terested parties (including, where applicable, the Bureau of
Reclamation), shall study refinancing options, including
modifications to existing financial and accounting prac-
tices that may be required to effectively and efficiently issue
and manage revenue bonds. Such refinancing options shall,
for each of the power systems they administer, satisfy their
respective repayment obligations to the United States
Treasury without causing any increase in their respective
firm power rates beyond the rates that would otherwise re-
sult under rate-setting policies and practices in effect on
October 1, 1993. The results of such studies shall be submit-
ted no later than May 1, 1994, to the Speaker of the House
of Representatives and the President of the Senate. Such
studies shall be made within the limits of existing funding,
or, if necessary, with funds contributed by firm power con-
tractors.
SEC. 4202. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION REFI-
NANCING STUDY.
The Administrator of the Bonneville Power Adminis-
tration, in consultation with his customers and constitu-
ents, shall study options, including an open market buyout,
a Treasury buyout, or any other reasonable alternative that
would lead to a permanent resolution of the repayment re-
form initiative directed at Bonneville’s appropriation in-
vestment repayment obligation. Such refinancing options
shall satisfy the outstanding appropriated investment re-
payment obligation, without increasing rates beyond the
rates that would otherwise result under rate-setting policies
and practices in effect on October 1, 1993. The result of
this study shall be submitted to the Speaker of the House
of Representatives and the President of the Senate no later
than March 1, 1994.
Subtitle 
D—Termination 
of 
Ad-
vanced Liquid Metal Reactor
Program
SEC. 4301. TERMINATION OF ADVANCED LIQUID METAL RE-
ACTOR PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—No amount of funds provided for
any fiscal year may be obligated by the Secretary of Energy
after the date of the enactment of this Act for the civilian
portion of the advanced liquid metal reactor program, in-
cluding—
(1) the program’s promotion of the use of such
reactors for the disposal of high-level radioactive
waste; and
(2) Department of Energy support for regulatory
applications to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
for design certification for advanced liquid metal re-
actors or related licensed facilities.
(b) PROHIBITION OF OTHER USES.—The amount of
funds available on the date of the enactment of this Act for
obligation for the program described in subsection (a) shall
not be available for obligation by the Secretary of Energy
after such date for any other purpose.
(c) EXCEPTION.—Subsections (a) and (b) shall not
apply to obligations required to be incurred in terminating
the program described in subsection (a).
TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Subtitle A—Increased Flexibility in
Contracting 
for 
Medicare
Claims Processing
SEC. 5001. INCREASED FLEXIBILITY IN CONTRACTING FOR
MEDICARE CLAIMS PROCESSING.
(a) CARRIERS TO INCLUDE ENTITIES THAT ARE NOT
INSURANCE COMPANIES.—
‘‘(1) HOUSING PROJECTS OWNED BY THE SEC-
RETARY.—In
the
case
of
multifamily
housing
projects that are owned by the Secretary (or for
which the Secretary is mortgagee in possession), the
Secretary shall—
‘‘(A) to the greatest extent possible, main-
tain all such occupied projects in a decent, safe,
and sanitary condition;
‘‘(B) to the greatest extent possible, main-
tain full occupancy in all such projects; and
‘‘(C) maintain all such projects for pur-
poses of providing rental or cooperative hous-
ing.
‘‘(2) HOUSING PROJECTS SUBJECT TO A MORT-
GAGE HELD BY THE SECRETARY.—In the case of
any multifamily housing project that is subject to a
mortgage held by the Secretary, the Secretary shall
require the owner of the project to carry out the re-
quirements of paragraph (1).
‘‘(e) REQUIRED ASSISTANCE.—In carrying out the
goal specified in subsection (a)(3)(A), the Secretary shall
take not less than one of the following actions:
‘‘(1) CONTRACT WITH OWNER.—Enter into con-
tracts under section 8 of the United States Housing
Act of 1937, to the extent budget authority is avail-
‘‘(11) a description of actions undertaken pur-
suant to this section, including—
‘‘(A) a comparison of results between ac-
tions taken after enactment of the Housing and
Community Development Act of 1993 and ac-
tions taken in years prior to such enactment;
‘‘(B) a description of any impediments to
the disposition or management of multifamily
housing projects, together with a recommenda-
tion
of
proposed
legislative
or
regulatory
changes designed to ameliorate such impedi-
ments;
‘‘(C) a description of actions taken to re-
structure or commence foreclosure on delin-
quent multifamily mortgages held by the De-
partment; and
‘‘(D) a description of actions taken to
monitor and prevent the default of multifamily
housing mortgages held by the Federal Housing
Administration;
‘‘(12) a description of any of the functions per-
formed in connection with this section that are con-
tracted out to public or private entities or to States,
including—