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otherwise in effect (including pursuant to subsection (a) 
of this section) for such Association and Corporation, but 
in no case to an amount that exceeds the amount specified 
in the matter following the comma in section 201(a)(1)(B) 
of the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008. 
SEC. 235. FHA Reverse Mortgage Loan Limits for 
fiscal year 2010. For mortgages for which the mortgagee 
issues credit approval for the borrower during fiscal year 
2010, the second sentence of section 255(g) of the Na-
tional Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1715z-20(g)) shall be con-
sidered to require that in no case may the benefits of in-
surance under such section 255 exceed 150 percent of the 
maximum dollar amount in effect under the sixth sentence 
of section 305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage 
Corporation Act (12 U.S.C. 1454(a)(2)). 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Appropriations Act, 2010’’. 
TITLE III 
RELATED 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
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amended, $7,200,000: Provided, That, notwithstanding 
any other provision of law, there may be credited to this 
appropriation funds received for publications and training 
expenses. 
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, $23,712,000: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $2,000 shall be available for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses. 
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) $99,200,000, of which not to exceed $2,000 
may be used for official reception and representation ex-
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penses. The amounts made available to the National 
Transportation Safety Board in this Act include amounts 
necessary to make lease payments on an obligation in-
curred in fiscal year 2001 for a capital lease. Of the funds 
provided, up to $100,000 shall be provided through reim-
bursement to the Department of Transportation’s Office 
of Inspector General to audit the National Transportation 
Safety Board’s financial statements. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $133,000,000: Provided, 
That section 605(a) of the Neighborhood Reinvestment 
Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8104(a)) is amended by add-
ing at the end of the first sentence, prior to the period, 
‘‘, except that the board-appointed officers may be paid 
salary at a rate not to exceed level II of the Executive 
Schedule’’:
Provided
further,
That
in
addition, 
$63,800,000 shall be made available until expended to the 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation for mortgage 
foreclosure mitigation activities, under the following terms 
and conditions:
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(1) The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion (‘‘NRC’’), shall make grants to counseling inter-
mediaries approved by the Department of Housing 
and Urban Development (HUD) (with match to be 
determined by the NRC based on affordability and 
the economic conditions of an area; a match also 
may be waived by the NRC based on the aforemen-
tioned conditions) to provide mortgage foreclosure 
mitigation assistance primarily to States and areas 
with high rates of defaults and foreclosures pri-
marily in the subprime housing market to help elimi-
nate the default and foreclosure of mortgages of 
owner-occupied single-family homes that are at risk 
of such foreclosure. Other than areas with high rates 
of defaults and foreclosures, grants may also be pro-
vided to approved counseling intermediaries based on 
a geographic analysis of the Nation by the NRC 
which determines where there is a prevalence of 
subprime mortgages that are risky and likely to fail, 
including any trends for mortgages that are likely to 
default and face foreclosure. A State Housing Fi-
nance Agency may also be eligible where the State 
Housing Finance Agency meets all the requirements 
under this paragraph. A HUD-approved counseling 
intermediary shall meet certain mortgage foreclosure
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mitigation assistance counseling requirements, as de-
termined by the NRC, and shall be approved by 
HUD or the NRC as meeting these requirements. 
(2) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
shall only be made available to homeowners of 
owner-occupied homes with mortgages in default or 
in danger of default. These mortgages shall likely be 
subject to a foreclosure action and homeowners will 
be provided such assistance that shall consist of ac-
tivities that are likely to prevent foreclosures and re-
sult in the long-term affordability of the mortgage 
retained pursuant to such activity or another posi-
tive outcome for the homeowner. No funds made 
available under this paragraph may be provided di-
rectly to lenders or homeowners to discharge out-
standing mortgage balances or for any other direct 
debt reduction payments. 
(3) The use of Mortgage Foreclosure Mitigation 
Assistance by approved counseling intermediaries 
and State Housing Finance Agencies shall involve a 
reasonable analysis of the borrower’s financial situa-
tion, an evaluation of the current value of the prop-
erty that is subject to the mortgage, counseling re-
garding the assumption of the mortgage by another 
non-Federal party, counseling regarding the possible
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purchase of the mortgage by a non-Federal third 
party, counseling and advice of all likely restruc-
turing and refinancing strategies or the approval of 
a work-out strategy by all interested parties. 
(4) NRC may provide up to 15 percent of the 
total funds under this paragraph to its own charter 
members with expertise in foreclosure prevention 
counseling, subject to a certification by the NRC 
that the procedures for selection do not consist of 
any procedures or activities that could be construed 
as an unacceptable conflict of interest or have the 
appearance of impropriety. 
(5)
HUD-approved
counseling
entities
and 
State Housing Finance Agencies receiving funds 
under this paragraph shall have demonstrated expe-
rience in successfully working with financial institu-
tions as well as borrowers facing default, delin-
quency and foreclosure as well as documented coun-
seling capacity, outreach capacity, past successful 
performance and positive outcomes with documented 
counseling
plans
(including
post
mortgage
fore-
closure mitigation counseling), loan workout agree-
ments and loan modification agreements. NRC may 
use other criteria to demonstrate capacity in under-
served areas.
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(6) Of the total amount made available under 
this paragraph, up to $3,000,000 may be made 
available to build the mortgage foreclosure and de-
fault mitigation counseling capacity of counseling 
intermediaries through NRC training courses with 
HUD-approved counseling intermediaries and their 
partners, except that private financial institutions 
that participate in NRC training shall pay market 
rates for such training. 
(7) Of the total amount made available under 
this paragraph, up to 4 percent may be used for as-
sociated administrative expenses for the NRC to 
carry out activities provided under this section. 
(8) Mortgage foreclosure mitigation assistance 
grants may include a budget for outreach and adver-
tising, and training, as determined by the NRC. 
(9) The NRC shall report quarterly to the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations as 
well as the Senate Banking Committee and House 
Financial Services Committee on its efforts to miti-
gate mortgage default. Such reports shall identify 
successful strategies and methods for preserving 
homeownership and the long-term affordability of at- 
risk mortgages and shall include recommended ef-
forts that will or likely can assist in the success of
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this program as well as an analysis of any policy and 
procedures that failed to result in successful mort-
gage foreclosure mitigation. The report shall include 
an analysis of the details and use of any post mitiga-
tion counseling of assisted borrowers designed to en-
sure the continued long-term affordability of the 
mortgages which were the subject of the mortgage 
foreclosure mitigation assistance. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex-
perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 
title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended, $2,400,000. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 401. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2010 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. 402. 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. 403. 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. 404. 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 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-
penditure in fiscal year 2010, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
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programming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity 
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Con-
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac-
tivity by either the House or Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations for a different purpose; (5) augments existing 
programs, projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less; (6) reduces existing pro-
grams, projects, or activities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is less; or (7) creates, reorganizes, or restruc-
tures a branch, division, office, bureau, board, commis-
sion, agency, administration, or department different from 
the budget justifications submitted to the Committees on 
Appropriations or the table accompanying the explanatory 
statement accompanying this Act, whichever is more de-
tailed, unless prior approval is received from the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided, That 
not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, each agency funded by this Act shall submit a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
of the House of Representatives to establish the baseline 
for application of reprogramming and transfer authorities 
for the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the re-
port shall include: (1) a table for each appropriation with
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a separate column to display the President’s budget re-
quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to 
enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year en-
acted level; (2) a delineation in the table for each appro-
priation both by object class and program, project, and 
activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the respec-
tive appropriation; and (3) an identification of items of 
special congressional interest: Provided further, That the 
amount appropriated or limited for salaries and expenses 
for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for 
each day after the required date that the report has not 
been submitted to the Congress. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2010 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2010 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2011, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations for approval prior to the expenditure of such 
funds: Provided further, That these requests shall be made 
in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under sec-
tion 405 of this Act.
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SEC. 407. All Federal agencies and departments that 
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all sole 
source contracts by no later than July 31, 2010. Such re-
port shall include the contractor, the amount of the con-
tract and the rationale for using a sole source contract. 
SEC. 408. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this 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. 409. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects 
as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the gen-
eral public (including energy-related, communication-re-
lated, water-related and wastewater-related infrastruc-
ture), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-util-
ity functions that serve the general public and are subject 
to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization
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Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 410. 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. 411. 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 
Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
form the duties of his former position and has not been 
restored thereto. 
SEC. 412. 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
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(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 413. 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. 414. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase a light bulb for an office 
building unless the light bulb has, to the extent prac-
ticable, an Energy Star or Federal Energy Management 
Program designation. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by Amtrak to provide free alcohol. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to establish, issue, implement, adminster, 
or enforce any prohibition or restriction on the establish-
ment or effectiveness of any occupancy preference for vet-
erans in supportive housing for the elderly that: (1) is pro-
vided assistance by the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development; and (2)(A) is or would be located on prop-
erty of the Department of Veterans Affairs; or (B) is sub-
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ject to an enhanced use lease with the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs. 
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement or enforce the requirement 
under section 12(c) of the United States Housing Act of 
1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437j(c); relating to community service). 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2010’’. 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban 
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending 
September 30, 2010, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$100,975,000, of which not to exceed $2,631,000 shall be 
available for the immediate Office of the Secretary; not to 
exceed $986,000 shall be available for the immediate Office 
of the Deputy Secretary; not to exceed $20,359,000 shall be 
available for the Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed 
$10,107,000 shall be available for the Office of the Under
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Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed 
$10,559,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed 
$2,400,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed 
$26,265,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $2,123,000 shall 
be available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 
$1,711,000 shall be available for the Office of the Executive 
Secretariat; not to exceed $1,499,000 shall be available for 
the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utiliza-
tion; not to exceed $9,072,000 for the Office of Intelligence, 
Security, and Emergency Response; and not to exceed 
$13,263,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Information Officer: Provided, That the Secretary of Trans-
portation is authorized to transfer funds appropriated for 
any office of the Office of the Secretary to any other office 
of the Office of the Secretary: Provided further, That no ap-
propriation for any office shall be increased or decreased 
by more than 5 percent by all such transfers: Provided fur-
ther, That notice of any change in funding greater than 
5 percent shall be submitted for approval to the House and 
Senate Committees on Appropriations: Provided further, 
That not to exceed $60,000 shall be for allocation within 
the Department for official reception and representation ex-
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penses as the Secretary may determine: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, excluding 
fees authorized in Public Law 107–71, there may be cred-
ited to this appropriation up to $2,500,000 in funds re-
ceived in user fees: Provided further, That none of the funds 
provided in this Act shall be available for the position of 
Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs. 
NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS 
For capital investments in surface transportation in-
frastructure, $1,100,000,000, to remain available through 
September 30, 2012: Provided, That the Secretary of Trans-
portation shall distribute funds provided under this heading 
as discretionary grants to be awarded to a State, local gov-
ernment, transit agency, or a collaboration among such en-
tities on a competitive basis for projects that will have a 
significant impact on the Nation, a metropolitan area, or 
a region: Provided further, That projects eligible for funding 
provided under this heading shall include, but not be lim-
ited to, highway or bridge projects eligible under title 23, 
United States Code; public transportation projects eligible 
under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code; passenger 
and freight rail transportation projects; and port infra-
structure investments: Provided further, That in distrib-
uting funds provided under this heading, the Secretary 
shall take such measures so as to ensure an equitable geo-
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graphic distribution of funds, an appropriate balance in 
addressing the needs of urban and rural communities, and 
the investment in a variety of transportation modes: Pro-
vided further, That a grant funded under this heading shall 
be not less than $10,000,000 and not greater than 
$300,000,000: Provided further, That not more than 25 per-
cent of the funds made available under this heading may 
be awarded to projects in a single State: Provided further, 
That the Federal share of the costs for which an expenditure 
is made under this heading shall be, at the option of the 
recipient, up to 80 percent: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall give priority to projects that require a contribu-
tion of Federal funds in order to complete an overall financ-
ing package: Provided further, That not less than 
$250,000,000 of the funds provided under this heading shall 
be for projects located in rural communities: Provided fur-
ther, That for projects located in rural communities, the 
minimum grant size shall be $1,000,000 and the Secretary 
may increase the Federal share of costs above 80 percent: 
Provided further, That projects conducted using funds pro-
vided under this heading must comply with the require-
ments of subchapter IV of chapter 31 of title 40, United 
States Code: Provided further, That the Secretary shall pub-
lish criteria on which to base the competition for any grants 
awarded under this heading no sooner than 60 days after
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tivities, and making grants, to remain available until ex-
pended, $8,233,000. 
WORKING CAPITAL FUND 
Necessary expenses for operating costs and capital out-
lays of the Working Capital Fund, not to exceed 
$147,500,000, shall be paid from appropriations made 
available to the Department of Transportation: Provided, 
That such services shall be provided on a competitive basis 
to entities within the Department of Transportation: Pro-
vided further, That the above limitation on operating ex-
penses shall not apply to non-DOT entities: Provided fur-
ther, That no funds appropriated in this Act to an agency 
of the Department shall be transferred to the Working Cap-
ital Fund without the approval of the agency modal admin-
istrator: Provided further, That no assessments may be lev-
ied against any program, budget activity, subactivity or 
project funded by this Act unless notice of such assessments 
and the basis therefor are presented to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations and are approved by such 
Committees. 
MINORITY BUSINESS RESOURCE CENTER PROGRAM 
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $353,000, as author-
ized by 49 U.S.C. 332: Provided, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in sec-
tion 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Provided
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further, That these funds are available to subsidize total 
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not 
to exceed $18,367,000. In addition, for administrative ex-
penses to carry out the guaranteed loan program, $570,000. 
MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH 
For necessary expenses of Minority Business Resource 
Center outreach activities, $3,074,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2011: Provided, That notwithstanding 
49 U.S.C. 332, these funds may be used for business oppor-
tunities related to any mode of transportation. 
PAYMENTS TO AIR CARRIERS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
In addition to funds made available from any other 
source to carry out the essential air service program under 
49 U.S.C. 41731 through 41742, $125,000,000, to be derived 
from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That, in determining be-
tween or among carriers competing to provide service to a 
community, the Secretary may consider the relative subsidy 
requirements of the carriers: Provided further, That, if the 
funds under this heading are insufficient to meet the costs 
of the essential air service program in the current fiscal 
year, the Secretary shall transfer such sums as may be nec-
essary to carry out the essential air service program from
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any available amounts appropriated to or directly adminis-
tered by the Office of the Secretary for such fiscal year. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
OF TRANSPORTATION 
SEC. 101. 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. 102. None of the funds made available in this 
Act to the Department of Transportation may be obligated 
for the Office of the Secretary of Transportation to approve 
assessments or reimbursable agreements pertaining to funds 
appropriated to the modal administrations in this Act, ex-
cept for activities underway on the date of enactment of 
this Act, unless such assessments or agreements have com-
pleted the normal reprogramming process for Congressional 
notification. 
SEC. 103. None of the funds made available under this 
Act may be obligated or expended to establish or implement 
a program under which essential air service communities 
are required to assume subsidy costs commonly referred to 
as the EAS local participation program. 
SEC. 104. The Secretary or his or her designee may 
engage in activities with States and State legislators to con-
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sider proposals related to the reduction of motorcycle fatali-
ties. 
FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION 
OPERATIONS 
(AIRPORT AND AIRWAY TRUST FUND) 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Aviation Admin-
istration, not otherwise provided for, including operations 
and research activities related to commercial space trans-
portation, administrative expenses for research and develop-
ment, establishment of air navigation facilities, the oper-
ation (including leasing) and maintenance of aircraft, sub-
sidizing the cost of aeronautical charts and maps sold to 
the public, lease or purchase of passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only, in addition to amounts made available 
by Public Law 108–176, $9,359,131,000, of which 
$5,277,648,000 shall be derived from the Airport and Air-
way Trust Fund, of which not to exceed $7,305,902,000 
shall be available for air traffic organization activities; not 
to exceed $1,236,565,000 shall be available for aviation safe-
ty activities; not to exceed $14,737,000 shall be available 
for commercial space transportation activities; not to exceed 
$113,681,000 shall be available for financial services activi-
ties; not to exceed $100,428,000 shall be available for human 
resources program activities; not to exceed $341,977,000
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shall be available for region and center operations and re-
gional coordination activities; not to exceed $196,063,000 
shall be available for staff offices; and not to exceed 
$49,778,000 shall be available for information services: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary utilize not less than $18,500,000 
of the funds provided for aviation safety activities to pay 
for staff increases in the Office of Aviation Flight Standards 
and the Office of Aircraft Certification: Provided further, 
That none of the funds provided for increases to the staffs 
of the aviation flight standards and aircraft certification 
offices shall be used for other purposes: Provided further, 
That not to exceed 2 percent of any budget activity, except 
for aviation safety budget activity, may be transferred to 
any budget activity under this heading: Provided further, 
That no transfer may increase or decrease any appropria-
tion by more than 2 percent: Provided further, That any 
transfer in excess of 2 percent shall be treated as a re-
programming of funds under section 405 of this Act and 
shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: 
Provided further, That not later than March 31 of each fis-
cal year hereafter, the Administrator of the Federal Avia-
tion Administration shall transmit to Congress an annual 
update to the report submitted to Congress in December 
2004 pursuant to section 221 of Public Law 108–176: Pro-
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vided further, That the amount herein appropriated shall 
be reduced by $100,000 for each day after March 31 that 
such report has not been submitted to the Congress: Pro-
vided further, That not later than March 31 of each fiscal 
year hereafter, the Administrator shall transmit to Congress 
a companion report that describes a comprehensive strategy 
for staffing, hiring, and training flight standards and air-
craft certification staff in a format similar to the one uti-
lized for the controller staffing plan, including stated attri-
tion estimates and numerical hiring goals by fiscal year: 
Provided further, That the amount herein appropriated 
shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for each day after 
March 31 that such report has not been submitted to Con-
gress: Provided further, That funds may be used to enter 
into a grant agreement with a nonprofit standard-setting 
organization to assist in the development of aviation safety 
standards: Provided further, That none of the funds in this 
Act shall be available for new applicants for the second ca-
reer training program: Provided further, That none of the 
funds in this Act shall be available for the Federal Aviation 
Administration to finalize or implement any regulation 
that would promulgate new aviation user fees not specifi-
cally authorized by law after the date of the enactment of 
this Act: Provided further, That there may be credited to 
this appropriation funds received from States, counties,