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ment personnel, to participate in the fractional aircraft 
ownership pilot program. 
SEC. 640. Each Executive department and agency 
shall evaluate the creditworthiness of an individual before 
issuing the individual a government purchase charge card 
or government travel charge card. The department or agen-
cy may not issue a government purchase charge card or 
government travel charge card to an individual that either 
lacks a credit history or is found to have an unsatisfactory 
credit history as a result of this evaluation: Provided, That 
this restriction shall not preclude issuance of a restricted-
use charge, debit, or stored value card made in accordance 
with agency procedures to (a) an individual with an unsat-
isfactory credit history where such card is used to pay trav-
el expenses and the agency determines there is no suitable 
alternative payment mechanism available before issuing the 
card, or (b) an individual who lacks a credit history. Each 
Executive department and agency shall establish guidelines 
and procedures for disciplinary actions to be taken against 
agency personnel for improper, fraudulent, or abusive use 
of government charge cards, which shall include appro-
priate disciplinary actions for use of charge cards for pur-
poses, and at establishments, that are inconsistent with the 
official business of the Department or agency or with appli-
cable standards of conduct. Disciplinary actions may in-
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clude, but are not limited to, the review of the security clear-
ance of the individual involved and the modification or rev-
ocation of such security clearance in light of the review. 
SEC. 641. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig-
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of con-
ducting Federal law enforcement training without the ad-
vance approval of the Committees on Appropriations, ex-
cept that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is 
authorized to obtain the temporary use of additional facili-
ties by lease, contract, or other agreement for training 
which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities. 
SEC. 642. Not later than December 31 of each year, 
the head of each agency shall submit to Congress a report 
on the competitive sourcing activities performed during the 
previous fiscal year by Federal Government sources that are 
on the list required under the Federal Activities Inventory 
Reform Act of 1998 (Public Law 105–270; 31 U.S.C. 501 
note). The report shall include—
(1) the number of full time equivalent Federal 
employees studied for competitive sourcing; 
(2) the total agency cost required to carry out its 
competitive sourcing program;
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(3) the costs attributable to paying outside con-
sultants and contractors to carry out the agency’s 
competitive sourcing program; 
(4) the costs attributable to paying agency per-
sonnel to carry out its competitive sourcing program; 
and 
(5) an estimate of the savings attributed as a re-
sult of the agency competitive sourcing program. 
SEC. 643. (a) None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to administer or enforce part 515 of title 
31, Code of Federal Regulations (the Cuban Assets Control 
Regulations) with respect to any travel or travel-related 
transaction. 
(b) The limitation established in subsection (a) shall 
not apply to the administration of general or specific li-
censes for travel or travel-related transactions, shall not 
apply to section 515.204, 515.206, 515.332, 515.536, 
515.544, 515.547, 515.560(c)(3), 515.569, 515.571, or 
515.803 of such part 515, and shall not apply to trans-
actions in relation to any business travel covered by section 
515.560(g) of such part 515. 
(c) This section shall take effect one day after date of 
enactment. 
SEC. 644. (a) Not later than December 31 of each year, 
the head of each executive agency shall submit to Congress
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(instead of the report required by section 642) a report on 
the competitive sourcing activities on the list required under 
the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (Public 
Law 105-270; 31 U.S.C. 501 note) that were performed for 
such executive agency during the previous fiscal year by 
Federal Government sources. The report shall include—
(1) the total number of competitions completed; 
(2) the total number of competitions announced, 
together with a list of the activities covered by such 
competitions; 
(3) the total number (expressed as a full-time 
employee equivalent number) of the Federal employees 
studied under completed competitions; 
(4) the total number (expressed as a full-time 
employee equivalent number) of the Federal employees 
that are being studied under competitions announced 
but not completed; 
(5) the incremental cost directly attributable to 
conducting the competitions identified under para-
graphs (1) and (2), including costs attributable to 
paying outside consultants and contractors; 
(6) an estimate of the total anticipated savings, 
or a quantifiable description of improvements in serv-
ice or performance, derived from completed competi-
tions;
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(7) actual savings, or a quantifiable description 
of improvements in service or performance, derived 
from the implementation of competitions completed 
after May 29, 2003; 
(8) the total projected number (expressed as a 
full-time employee equivalent number) of the Federal 
employees that are to be covered by competitions 
scheduled to be announced in the fiscal year covered 
by the next report required under this section; and 
(9) a general description of how the competitive 
sourcing decisionmaking processes of the executive 
agency are aligned with the strategic workforce plan 
of that executive agency. 
(b) The head of an executive agency may not be re-
quired, under Office of Management and Budget Circular 
A–76 or any other policy, directive, or regulation, to con-
duct a follow-on public-private competition to a prior pub-
lic-private competition conducted under such circular with-
in five years of the prior public-private competition if the 
activity or function covered by the prior public-private 
competition was performed by Federal Government employ-
ees as a result of the prior public-private competition. 
(c) Hereafter, the head of an executive agency may ex-
pend funds appropriated or otherwise made available for 
any purpose to the executive agency under this or any other
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Act to monitor (in the administration of responsibilities 
under Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or 
any related policy, directive, or regulation) the performance 
of an activity or function of the executive agency that has 
previously been subjected to a public-private competition 
under such circular. 
(d) For the purposes of subchapter V of chapter 35 of 
title 31, United States Code—
(1) the person designated to represent employees 
of the Federal Government in a public-private com-
petition regarding the performance of an executive 
agency activity or function under Office of Manage-
ment and Budget Circular A–76—
(A) shall be treated as an interested party 
on behalf of such employees; and 
(B) may submit a protest with respect to 
such public-private competition on behalf of such 
employees; and 
(2) the Comptroller General shall dispose of such 
a protest in accordance with the policies and proce-
dures applicable to protests described in section 
3551(1) of such title under the procurement protest 
system provided under such subchapter. 
(e) An activity or function of an executive agency that 
is converted to contractor performance under Office of Man-