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(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 manage-
ment programs, including, but not limited to, the de-
velopment 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 Fed-
eral agency. 
SEC. 608. 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 expenses 
are subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds,
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the limitations on administrative expenses shall be cor-
respondingly reduced. 
SEC. 609. No part of any appropriation for the current 
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. 610. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency fi-
nancing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), com-
missions, 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 instrumentality. 
SEC. 611. 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 powers 
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 pro-
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visions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as 
amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a and 318b), attach-
ing thereto penal consequences under the authority and 
within the limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June 
1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c). 
SEC. 612. 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. 613. (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 expiration 
of the limitation imposed by the comparable section 
for previous fiscal years until the normal effective 
date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is 
to take effect in fiscal year 2004, in an amount that 
exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and 
step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance 
with such section; and
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(2) during the period consisting of the remainder 
of fiscal year 2004, in an amount that exceeds, as a 
result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable 
under paragraph (1) by more than the sum of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect 
in fiscal year 2004 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 
com-
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year 
2004 under section 5304 of such title (whether by 
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average 
percentage of such payments which was effective 
in the previous fiscal year 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) applicable to such em-
ployee. 
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable 
to an employee who is covered by this section and who is
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paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30, 
2003, 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, 
2003, except to the extent determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel 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, 2003. 
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of 
law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) 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 
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
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the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary to 
ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees. 
SEC. 614. During the period in which the head of any 
department or agency, or any other officer or civilian em-
ployee of the Government appointed by the President of the 
United States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or 
expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or redecorate the 
office of such department head, agency head, officer, or em-
ployee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements 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. 
SEC. 615. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, 
United States Code, or section 610 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 na-
tional security and emergency preparedness telecommuni-
cations initiatives which benefit multiple Federal depart-
ments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive Order 
No. 12472 (April 3, 1984).