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Calendar No. 801
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H.R. 4635
[Report No. 106–410]
Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing
and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards,
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2001, and for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
JUNE 22, 2000
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations
SEPTEMBER 13, 2000
Reported by Mr. BOND, with an amendment
[Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Af-
fairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sun-
dry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corpora-
tions, and offices for the fiscal year ending September
30, 2001, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Veteran Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development,
and
for
sundry
independent
agencies,
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fis-
cal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other pur-
poses, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on
behalf of veterans and a pilot program for disability ex-
aminations as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters
11, 13, 18, 51, 53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or
on behalf of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C.
chapters 15, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 92 Stat. 2508); and bur-
ial benefits, emergency and other officers’ retirement pay,
adjusted-service credits and certificates, payment of pre-
miums due on commercial life insurance policies guaran-
teed under the provisions of Article IV of the Soldiers’
and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act of 1940, as amended, and
for other benefits as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107,
1312, 1977, and 2106, chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61;
50 U.S.C. App. 540–548; 43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat. 735;
76 Stat. 1198), $22,766,276,000, to remain available
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until expended: Provided, That not to exceed $17,419,000
of the amount appropriated shall be reimbursed to ‘‘Gen-
eral operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Medical care’’ for necessary
expenses in implementing those provisions authorized in
the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, and in
the Veterans’ Benefits Act of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters
51, 53, and 55), the funding source for which is specifi-
cally provided as the ‘‘Compensation and pensions’’ appro-
priation: Provided further, That such sums as may be
earned on an actual qualifying patient basis, shall be reim-
bursed to ‘‘Medical facilities revolving fund’’ to augment
the funding of individual medical facilities for nursing
home care provided to pensioners as authorized.
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation
benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55,
and 61, $1,664,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That funds shall be available to pay any
court order, court award or any compromise settlement
arising from litigation involving the vocational training
program authorized by section 18 of Public Law 98–77,
as amended.
VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES
For military and naval insurance, national service life
insurance, servicemen’s indemnities, service-disabled vet-
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erans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72
Stat. 487, $19,850,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
VETERANS HOUSING BENEFIT PROGRAM FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such
sums as may be necessary to carry out the program, as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Pro-
vided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying
such loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Con-
gressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended: Provided fur-
ther, That during fiscal year 2001, within the resources
available, not to exceed $300,000 in gross obligations for
direct loans are authorized for specially adapted housing
loans.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $161,484,000,
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
EDUCATION LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. 3698, as amended: Provided, That such
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costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $3,400.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $220,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $52,000, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $2,726,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $432,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
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NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, sub-
chapter V, as amended, $532,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General
operating expenses’’.
GUARANTEED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LOANS FOR
HOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Not to exceed $750,000 of the amounts appropriated
by this Act for ‘‘General operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Med-
ical care’’ may be expended for the administrative ex-
penses to carry out the guaranteed loan program author-
ized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter VI.
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MEDICAL CARE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facili-
ties; for furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and
outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, including care and treat-
ment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the depart-
ment; and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies, and
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equipment; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental
thereto for beneficiaries receiving care in the department;
administrative expenses in support of planning, design,
project management, real property acquisition and disposi-
tion, construction and renovation of any facility under the
jurisdiction or for the use of the department; oversight,
engineering and architectural activities not charged to
project cost; repairing, altering, improving or providing fa-
cilities in the several hospitals and homes under the juris-
diction of the department, not otherwise provided for, ei-
ther by contract or by the hire of temporary employees
and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances there-
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; aid to State
homes as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative
and legal expenses of the department for collecting and
recovering amounts owed the department as authorized
under 38 U.S.C. chapter 17, and the Federal Medical
Care Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq. and such sums
as necessary to fund cost comparison studies as referred
to in 38 U.S.C. 8110(a)(5): $20,281,587,000, plus reim-
bursements: Provided, That of the funds made available
under this heading, not more than $3,000,000,000 may
be used for the operation and maintenance of facilities:
Provided further, That of the funds made available under
this heading, $927,000,000 is for the equipment and land
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and structures object classifications only, which amount
shall not become available for obligation until August 1,
2001, and shall remain available until September 30,
2002: Provided further, That of the funds made available
under this heading, not to exceed $900,000,000 shall be
available until September 30, 2002: Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading, not to ex-
ceed $28,134,000 may be transferred to and merged with
the appropriation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
conduct by contract a program of recovery audits for the
fee basis and other medical services contracts with respect
to payments for hospital care; and, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302(b), amounts collected, by setoff or otherwise,
as the result of such audits shall be available, without fis-
cal year limitation, for the purposes for which funds are
appropriated under this heading and the purposes of pay-
ing a contractor a percentage of the amount collected as
a result of an audit carried out by the contractor: Provided
further, That all amounts so collected under the preceding
proviso with respect to a designated health care region (as
that term is defined in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2)) shall be
allocated, net of payments to the contractor, to that re-
gion.
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In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105–
33 establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Med-
ical Care Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited
to such Fund pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be trans-
ferred to this account, to remain available until expended
for the purposes of this account.
None of the foregoing funds may be transferred to
the Department of Justice for the purposes of supporting
tobacco litigation.
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of
medical and prosthetic research and development as au-
thorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until
September
30,
2002,
$321,000,000
(increased
by
$5,000,000) (increased by $25,000,000), plus reimburse-
ments.
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
ministrative expenses in support of capital policy activi-
ties, $62,000,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities
Management Field Service, including project management
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and real property administration (including leases, site ac-
quisition
and
disposal
activities
directly
supporting
projects), shall be provided to Department of Veterans Af-
fairs components only on a reimbursable basis, and such
amounts will remain available until September 30, 2001.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary operating expenses of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including
uniforms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General
Services Administration for security guard services, and
the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas em-
ployee mail, $1,006,000,000 (increased by $4,000,000 for
transfers authorized by law; decreased by $4,000,000 from
general administrative expenses): Provided, That of the
funds made available under this heading, not to exceed
$50,050,000 shall be available until September 30, 2002:
Provided further, That funds under this heading shall be
available to administer the Service Members Occupational
Conversion and Training Act.
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NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of the National Cemetery Administration, not oth-
erwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances
therefor; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; pur-
chase of two passenger motor vehicles for use in cemeterial
operations;
and
hire
of
passenger
motor
vehicles,
$106,889,000: Provided, That travel expenses shall not ex-
ceed $1,125,000: Provided further, That of the amount
made available under this heading, not to exceed $125,000
may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation
for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $46,464,000: Provided, That of the amount
made available under this heading, not to exceed $28,000
may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation
for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the
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purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38,
United States Code, including planning, architectural and
engineering services, maintenance or guarantee period
services costs associated with equipment guarantees pro-
vided under the project, services of claims analysts, offsite
utility and storm drainage system construction costs, and
site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is
$4,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were
made available in a previous major project appropriation,
$62,140,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That except for advance planning of projects (in-
cluding market-based assessments of health care needs
which may or may not lead to capital investments) funded
through the advance planning fund and the design of
projects funded through the design fund, none of these
funds shall be used for any project which has not been
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this ap-
propriation for fiscal year 2001, for each approved project,
shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction
documents contract by September 30, 2001; and (2) by
the awarding of a construction contract by September 30,
2002: Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly
report in writing to the Committees on Appropriations any
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approved major construction project in which obligations
are not incurred within the time limitations established
above: Provided further, That no funds from any other ac-
count except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be obli-
gated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving
a project which was approved in the budget process and
funded in this account until 1 year after substantial com-
pletion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of
Veterans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with
respect to that part only.
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including plan-
ning, architectural and engineering services, maintenance
or guarantee period services costs associated with equip-
ment guarantees provided under the project, services of
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system
construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title
38, United States Code, where the estimated cost of a
project is less than $4,000,000, $100,000,000, to remain
available until expended, along with unobligated balances
of previous ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’ appropriations
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which are hereby made available for any project where the
estimated cost is less than $4,000,000: Provided, That
funds in this account shall be available for: (1) repairs
to any of the nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction
or for the use of the department which are necessary be-
cause of loss or damage caused by any natural disaster
or catastrophe; and (2) temporary measures necessary to
prevent or to minimize further loss by such causes.
PARKING REVOLVING FUND
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 8109, income from fees collected, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall be available for all author-
ized expenses.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE
FACILITIES
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to re-
model, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care
to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131–8137,
$60,000,000 (increased by $30,000,000), to remain avail-
able until expended.
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ficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits
to veterans, and persons receiving such treatment under
5 U.S.C. 7901–7904 or 42 U.S.C. 5141–5204), unless re-
imbursement of cost is made to the ‘‘Medical care’’ ac-
count at such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ‘‘Com-
pensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and
‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ shall be available
for payment of prior year accrued obligations required to
be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall
be available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X
of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law
100–86, except that if such obligations are from trust
fund accounts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation
and pensions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, during fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall, from the National Service Life Insurance
Fund (38 U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans’ Special Life Insur-
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ance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Gov-
ernment Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reim-
burse the ‘‘General operating expenses’’ account for the
cost of administration of the insurance programs financed
through those accounts: Provided, That reimbursement
shall be made only from the surplus earnings accumulated
in an insurance program in fiscal year 2001, that are
available for dividends in that program after claims have
been paid and actuarially determined reserves have been
set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of administra-
tion of an insurance program exceeds the amount of sur-
plus earnings accumulated in that program, reimburse-
ment shall be made only to the extent of such surplus
earnings: Provided further, That the Secretary shall deter-
mine the cost of administration for fiscal year 2001, which
is properly allocable to the provision of each insurance pro-
gram and to the provision of any total disability income
insurance included in such insurance program.
SEC. 108. (a) Notwithstanding sections 1710B(e)(2)
and 1729B(b) of title 38 United States Code, and any
other provision of law, any amount received or collected
by the Department of Veterans Affairs during fiscal year
2001 under any of the following provisions of law shall
be deposited in the Department of Veterans Affairs Med-
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ical Care Fund, to be available in accordance with section
1829A(c) of title 38 United States Code:
(1) Section 1710B of title 38 United States
Code.
(2) Section 1722A(b) of title 38 United States
Code.
(3) Section 8165(a) of title 38 United States
Code.
(4) Section 113 of the Veterans Millennium
Health Care and Benefits Act (Public Law 106–117;
of title 38 United States Code.
(b) Provisions of law referred to in subsection (a)
shall be treated as provisions of law referred to in sub-
section (b) of section 1729A of of title 38 United States
Code, for purposes of subsections (d), (e), and (f) of that
section during fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 109. In accordance with section 1557 of title
31, United States Code, the following obligated balance
shall be exempt from subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such
title and shall remain available for expenditure until Sep-
tember 30, 2003: funds obligated by the Department of
Veterans Affairs for a contract with the Institute for Clin-
ical Research to study the application of artificial neural
networks to the diagnosis and treatment of prostate can-
cer through the Cooperative DoD/VA Medical Research
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program from funds made available to the Department of
Veterans Affairs by the Department of Defense Appro-
priations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103–335) under the
heading ‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation,
Defense-Wide’’.
SEC. 110. As HR LINK$ will not be part of the
Franchise Fund in fiscal year 2001, funds budgeted in
customer accounts to purchase HR LINK$ services from
the Franchise Fund shall be transferred to the General
Administration portion of the ‘‘General operating ex-
penses’’ appropriation in the following amounts: $78,000
from the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, $358,000 from
the ‘‘National cemetery administration’’, $1,106,000 from
‘‘Medical care’’, $84,000 from ‘‘Medical administration
and miscellaneous operating expenses’’, and $38,000 shall
be reprogrammed within the ‘‘General operating ex-
penses’’ appropriation from the Veterans Benefits Admin-
istration to General Administration for the same purpose.
SEC. 111. Not to exceed $1,600,000 from the ‘‘Med-
ical care’’ appropriation shall be transferred to the ‘‘Gen-
eral operating expenses’’ appropriation to fund personnel
services costs of employees providing legal services and ad-
ministrative support for the Office of General Counsel.
SEC. 112. Section 9305 of Public Law 105–33, The
Balanced Budget Act of 1997, is repealed.
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SEC. 113. None of the funds in this Act may be used
to procure information technology systems, engage in new
initiatives, or implement a policy affecting total procure-
ment costs over $2,000,000 in non-medical resources and
$4,000,000 in medical resources without the approval of
the Department of Veterans Affairs Capital Investment
Board.
SEC. 114. Not later than March 30, 2001, the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to the Committees
on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representa-
tives a report on the program of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs for the establishment and operation at De-
partment medical centers of Mental Illness Research, Edu-
cation and Clinical Centers (MIRECCs). The report shall
include the following:
(1) Identification of the allocation by the Sec-
retary, from funds appropriated for the Department
in this Act and for prior fiscal years, of funds for
such Centers, including the number of Centers for
which funds were provided and the locations of those
Centers.
(2) A description of the research activities car-
ried out by those Centers with respect to major men-
tal illnesses affecting veterans.
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TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND (HCF)
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities and assistance to prevent the involun-
tary displacement of low-income families, the elderly and
the disabled because of the loss of affordable housing
stock, expiration of subsidy contracts (other than con-
tracts for which amounts are provided under another
heading in this Act) or expiration of use restrictions, or
other changes in housing assistance arrangements, and for
other purposes, $13,275,388,459 and amounts that are
recaptured in this account and recaptured under the ap-
propriation for ‘‘Annual contributions for assisted hous-
ing’’, to remain available until expended: Provided, That
of
the
total
amount
provided
under
this
heading,
$9,075,388,459 and the aforementioned recaptures shall
be available on October 1, 2000, and $4,200,000,000 shall
be available on October 1, 2001, shall be for assistance
under the United States Housing Act of 1937 (‘‘the Act’’
herein) (42 U.S.C. 1437): Provided further, That of the
total amount available for use in connection with expiring
or
terminating
section
subsidy
contracts,
up
to
$37,000,000 shall be available for assistance under sub-
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title F of title IV of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless
Assistance Act for use in connection with the renewal of
contracts, which contracts may be renewed noncompeti-
tively and for 1-year terms, in addition to amounts other-
wise available for such renewals: Provided further, That
the foregoing amounts be for use in connection with expir-
ing or terminating section 8 subsidy contracts, for amend-
ments to section 8 subsidy contracts, for enhanced vouch-
ers (including amendments and renewals) under any provi-
sion of law authorizing such assistance under section 8(t)
of the Act (47 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), and contracts entered
into pursuant to section 441 and, for terms of 1 year, sec-
tion 473 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance
Act: Provided further, That amounts available under the
first proviso under this heading shall be available for sec-
tion 8 rental assistance under the Act: (1) pursuant to
section 24 of the Act or to other authority for the revital-
ization of severely distressed public housing, as set forth
in the Appropriations Acts for the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995,
and 1997, and in the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions
and Appropriations Act of 1996; (2) for the conversion
of section 23 projects to assistance under section 8; (3)
for funds to carry out the family unification program; (4)
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for the relocation of witnesses in connection with efforts
to combat crime in public and assisted housing pursuant
to a request from a law enforcement or prosecution agen-
cy; (5) for tenant protection assistance, including replace-
ment and relocation assistance; (6) for renewal of assist-
ance under the shelter plus care program; and (7) for the
renewal of section 8 contracts for units in a project that
is subject to an approved plan of action under the Emer-
gency Low Income Housing Preservation Act of 1987 or
the Low-Income Housing Preservation and Resident
Homeownership Act of 1990: Provided further, That of the
total
amount
provided
under
this
heading,
up
to
$25,000,000 shall be made available to nonelderly disabled
families affected by the designation of a public housing
development under section 7 of such Act, the establish-
ment of preferences in accordance with section 651 of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (42
U.S.C. 1361l), or the restriction of occupancy to elderly
families in accordance with section 658 of such Act, and
to the extent the Secretary determines that such amount
is not needed to fund applications for such affected fami-
lies, to other nonelderly disabled families: Provided further:
That up to $192,000,000 from amounts available under
this heading shall be made available for administrative
fees and other expenses to cover the cost of administering
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rental assistance programs under section 8 of the Act:
Provided further, That the fee otherwise authorized under
section 8(q) of such Act shall be determined in accordance
with section 8(q), as in effect immediately before the en-
actment of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility
Act of 1998: Provided further, That of the total amount
provided under this heading up to $66,000,000 shall be
available for very low income families living in properties
constructed under the low-income housing tax credit pro-
gram as authorized, as long as the vouchers are awarded
within 4 months after the rule implementing this program
is finalized: Provided further, That of the total amount
provided under this heading, up to $60,000,000 shall be
made available for incremental vouchers under section 8
of the Act on a fair share basis to those PHAs that have
a 97 percent occupancy rate: Provided further, That any
funds appropriated in the immediately preceding proviso
that are not awarded by February 1, 2001, shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for the ‘‘Pub-
lic housing capital fund’’: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall use up to $660,000 of the amount provided
under this heading for monitoring public housing agencies
that increase payment standards under the authority
under section 8(o)(1)(E)(i) of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(1)(E)(i) and for con-
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ducting detailed evaluations of the effects of using assist-
ance as authorized under section 8(o)(1)(E): Provided fur-
ther, That $11,000,000 shall be transferred to the Work-
ing Capital Fund for the development and maintenance
of information technology systems: Provided further, That
amounts provided under this heading shall be available for
use for particular activities described in any proviso under
this heading only to the extent that amounts provided
under this heading remain available after amounts have
been made available for the activities under all other pre-
ceding provisos under this heading in the full amounts
provided in such provisos; except that for purposes of this
proviso, the first, second, and third provisos under this
heading shall be considered to be a single proviso: Pro-
vided further, That of the balances remaining in the HCF
account, $275,388,459 shall be rescinded on or about Sep-
tember 30, 2001: Provided further, That any obligated bal-
ances of contract authority that have been terminated
shall be canceled.
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to
carry out capital and management activities for public
housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42
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U.S.C. 1437), $2,800,000,000, to remain available until
expended, of which up to $50,000,000 shall be for car-
rying out activities under section 9(h) of such Act, for
lease adjustments to section 23 projects and $43,000,000
shall be transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the
development and maintenance of information technology
systems: Provided, That no funds may be used under this
heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937: Provided further,
That of the total amount, up to $75,000,000 shall be
available for the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment to make grants to public housing agencies for
emergency capital needs resulting from emergencies and
natural disasters in fiscal year 2001.
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND
For payments to public housing agencies for the oper-
ation and management of public housing, as authorized
by section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937,
as amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $3,138,000,000 (in-
creased by $1,000,000), to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That no funds may be used under this
heading for the purposes specified in section 9(k) of the
United States Housing Act of 1937.
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DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR
LOW-INCOME HOUSING
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For grants to public housing agencies and Indian
tribes and their tribally designated housing entities for use
in eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized
by 42 U.S.C. 11901–11908, for grants for federally as-
sisted low-income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909,
and for drug information clearinghouse services author-
ized by 42 U.S.C. 11921–11925, $300,000,000, to remain
available until expended, of which $5,000,000 shall be
solely for technical assistance, technical assistance grants,
and program assessment for or on behalf of public housing
agencies, resident organizations, and Indian tribes and
their tribally designated housing entities (including up to
$150,000 for the cost of necessary travel for participants
in such training) for oversight training and improved man-
agement of this program, and $10,000,000 shall be used
in connection with efforts to combat violent crime in public
and assisted housing under the Operation Safe Home Pro-
gram administered by the Inspector General of the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided,
That of the amount under this heading, $10,000,000 shall
be provided to the Office of Inspector General for Oper-
ation Safe Home.
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REVITALIZATION OF SEVERELY DISTRESSED PUBLIC
HOUSING (HOPE VI)
For grants to public housing agencies for demolition,
site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based
assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24
of the United States Housing Act of 1937, $565,000,000,
to remain available until expended, of which the Secretary
may use up to $10,000,000 for technical assistance and
contract expertise, to be provided directly or indirectly by
grants, contracts or cooperative agreements, including
training and cost of necessary travel for participants in
such training, by or to officials and employees of the de-
partment and of public housing agencies and to residents:
Provided, That none of such funds shall be used directly
or indirectly by granting competitive advantage in awards
to settle litigation or pay judgments, unless expressly per-
mitted herein.
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the Native American Housing Block Grants pro-
gram, as authorized under title I of the Native American
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996
(NAHASDA) (Public Law 104–330), $620,000,000, to
remain available until expended, of which $2,000,000 shall
be contracted through the Secretary as technical assist-
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ance and capacity building to be used by the National
American Indian Housing Council in support of the imple-
mentation of NAHASDA, and $6,000,000 shall be to sup-
port the inspection of Indian housing units, contract ex-
pertise, and technical assistance in the training, oversight,
and management of Indian housing and tenant-based as-
sistance, including up to $300,000 for related travel and
$2,000,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital
Fund for the development and maintenance of information
technology systems: Provided, That of the amount pro-
vided under this heading, $6,000,000 shall be made avail-
able for the cost of guaranteed notes and other obligations,
as authorized by title VI of NAHASDA: Provided further,
That such costs, including the costs of modifying such
notes and other obligations, shall be as defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amend-
ed: Provided further, That these funds are available to sub-
sidize the total principal amount of any notes and other
obligations, any part of which is to be guaranteed, not to
exceed $54,600,000: Provided further, That for adminis-
trative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan program,
up to $200,000 from amounts in the first proviso, which
shall be transferred to and merged with the appropriation
for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’, to be used only for the ad-
ministrative costs of these guarantees.
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INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by
section 184 of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1992 (106 Stat. 3739), $6,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the costs of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of
which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $71,956,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the guaranteed loan program, up to $150,000 from
amounts in the first paragraph, which shall be transferred
to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and
expenses’’, to be used only for the administrative costs of
these guarantees.
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS
Housing
Opportunity
Act
(42
U.S.C.
12901),
$232,000,000 (increased by $18,000,000), to remain
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary
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may use up to 1 percent of the funds under this heading
for training, oversight, and technical assistance activities.
RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
For the Office of Rural Housing and Economic De-
velopment in the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment, $20,000,000 to remain available until ex-
pended, which amount shall be awarded by June 1, 2001,
to Indian tribes, State housing finance agencies, State
community and/or economic development agencies, local
rural nonprofits and community development corporations
to support innovative housing and economic development
activities in rural areas: Provided, That all grants shall
be awarded on a competitive basis as specified in section
102 of the HUD Reform Act.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For assistance to units of State and local govern-
ment, and to other entities, for economic and community
development
activities,
and
for
other
purposes,
$4,505,000,000: Provided, That of the amount provided,
$4,214,050,000 is for carrying out the community devel-
opment block grant program under title I of the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended
(the ‘‘Act’’ herein) (42 U.S.C. 5301), to remain available
until September 30, 2003: Provided, That $67,000,000
shall be for flexible grants to Indian tribes notwith-
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standing section 106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000 shall
be available as a grant to the Housing Assistance Council,
$3,000,000 shall be available as a grant to the National
American Indian Housing Council, and $39,500,000 shall
be for grants pursuant to section 107 of the Act: Provided
further, That $15,000,000 shall be transferred to the
Working Capital Fund for the development and mainte-
nance of information technology systems: Provided further,
That $20,000,000 shall be for grants pursuant to the Self
Help Housing Opportunity Program: Provided further,
That not to exceed 20 percent of any grant made with
funds appropriated herein (other than a grant made avail-
able in this paragraph to the Housing Assistance Council
or the National American Indian Housing Council, or a
grant using funds under section 107(b)(3) of the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended)
shall be expended for ‘‘Planning and Management Devel-
opment’’ and ‘‘Administration’’ as defined in regulations
promulgated by the department.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$23,450,000 shall be made available for capacity building,
of which $20,000,000 shall be made available for ‘‘Capac-
ity Building for Community Development and Affordable
Housing’’, for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for
activities as authorized by section 4 of the HUD Dem-
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onstration Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–120), as in effect
immediately before June 12, 1997, with not less than
$4,000,000 of the funding to be used in rural areas, in-
cluding tribal areas, and of which $3,450,000 shall be for
capacity building activities administered by Habitat for
Humanity International.
Of the amount made available under this heading, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use
up to $55,000,000 for supportive services for public hous-
ing residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United
States Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and for grants
for service coordinators and congregate services for the el-
derly and disabled residents of public and assisted hous-
ing: Provided, That amounts made available for con-
gregate services and service coordinators for the elderly
and disabled under this heading and in prior fiscal years
may be used by grantees to reimburse themselves for costs
incurred in connection with providing service coordinators
previously advanced by grantees out of other funds due
to delays in the granting by or receipt of funds from the
Secretary, and the funds so made available to grantees
for congregate services or service coordinators under this
heading or in prior years shall be considered as expended
by the grantees upon such reimbursement. The Secretary
shall not condition the availability of funding made avail-
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able under this heading or in prior years for congregate
services or service coordinators upon any grantee’s obliga-
tion or expenditure of any prior funding.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$10,000,000 shall be available for neighborhood initiatives
that are utilized to improve the conditions of distressed
and blighted areas and neighborhoods, to stimulate invest-
ment, economic diversification, and community revitaliza-
tion in areas with population outmigration or a stagnating
or declining economic base, or to determine whether hous-
ing benefits can be integrated more effectively with welfare
reform initiatives: Provided, that any unobligated balances
of amounts set aside for neighborhood initiatives in fiscal
years 1998, 1999, and 2000 may be utilized for any of
the foregoing purposes.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
notwithstanding any other provision of law, $45,000,000
shall be available for YouthBuild program activities au-
thorized by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez
National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such
activities shall be an eligible activity with respect to any
funds made available under this heading: Provided, That
local YouthBuild programs that demonstrate an ability to
leverage private and nonprofit funding shall be given a pri-
ority for YouthBuild funding: Provided further, That of
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the amount provided under this paragraph, $3,750,000
shall be set aside and made available for a grant to
YouthBuild USA for capacity building for community de-
velopment and affordable housing activities as specified in
section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of 1993, as
amended.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$10,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic
Development Initiative (EDI), to finance a variety of eco-
nomic development efforts.
For the cost of guaranteed loans, $28,000,000, as au-
thorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1974: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as de-
fined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of
1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize total loan principal, any part of
which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,217,000,000,
notwithstanding any aggregate limitation on outstanding
obligations guaranteed in section 108(k) of the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1974: Provided fur-
ther, That in addition, for administrative expenses to carry
out the guaranteed loan program, $1,000,000, which shall
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘Salaries and expenses’’.
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BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT
For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by
section 108(q) of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974, as amended, for Brownfields redevelop-
ment projects, $20,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development shall make these grants available on
a competitive basis as specified in section 102 of the De-
partment of Housing and Urban Development Reform Act
of 1989.
HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIPS PROGRAM
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the HOME investment partnerships program, as
authorized under title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez Na-
tional
Affordable
Housing
Act,
as
amended,
$1,585,000,000 to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That up to $15,000,000 of these funds shall be
available for Housing Counseling under section 106 of the
Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968: Provided
further, That $17,000,000 shall be transferred to the
Working Capital Fund for the development and mainte-
nance of information technology systems.
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HOMELESS ASSISTANCE GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the emergency shelter grants program (as au-
thorized under subtitle B of title IV of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, as amended); the
supportive housing program (as authorized under subtitle
C of title IV of such Act); the section 8 moderate rehabili-
tation single room occupancy program (as authorized
under the United States Housing Act of 1937, as amend-
ed) to assist homeless individuals pursuant to section 441
of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act; and
the shelter plus care program (as authorized under sub-
title F of title IV of such Act), $1,020,000,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That not less than 30
percent of these funds shall be used for permanent hous-
ing, and all funding for services must be matched by 25
percent in funding by each grantee: Provided further, That
all awards of assistance under this heading shall be re-
quired to coordinate and integrate homeless programs
with other mainstream health, social services, and employ-
ment programs for which homeless populations may be eli-
gible, including Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insur-
ance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families,
Food Stamps, and services funding through the Mental
Health and Substance Abuse Block Grant, Workforce In-
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vestment Act, and the Welfare-to-Work grant program:
Provided further, That up to 1.5 percent of the funds ap-
propriated under this heading is transferred to the Work-
ing Capital Fund to be used for technical assistance and
management information systems.
HOUSING PROGRAMS
HOUSING FOR SPECIAL POPULATIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For assistance for the purchase, construction, acqui-
sition, or development of additional public and subsidized
housing units for low income families not otherwise pro-
vided for, $911,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That $710,000,000 shall be for capital
advances, including amendments to capital advance con-
tracts, for housing for the elderly, as authorized by section
202 of the Housing Act of 1959, as amended, and for
project rental assistance, and amendments to contracts for
project rental assistance, for the elderly under such section
202(c)(2), and for supportive services associated with the
housing, of which amount $50,000,000 shall be for service
coordinators and the continuation of existing congregate
service grants for residents of assisted housing projects
and of which amount $50,000,000 shall be for grants
under section 202b of the Housing Act of 1959 (12 U.S.C.
1701q–2) for conversion of eligible projects under such
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section to assisted living or related use: Provided further,
That of the amount under this heading, $201,000,000
shall be for capital advances, including amendments to
capital advance contracts, for supportive housing for per-
sons with disabilities, as authorized by section 811 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, for
project rental assistance, for amendments to contracts for
project rental assistance, and supportive services associ-
ated with the housing for persons with disabilities as au-
thorized by section 811 of such Act: Provided further, That
$1,000,000, to be divided evenly between the appropria-
tions for the section 202 and section 811 programs, shall
be transferred to the Working Capital Fund for the devel-
opment and maintenance of information technology sys-
tems: Provided further, That the Secretary shall designate
at least 25 percent but no more than 50 percent of the
amounts earmarked under this paragraph for section 811
of such Act for tenant-based assistance, as authorized
under that section, including such authority as may be
waived under the next proviso, which assistance is 5 years
in duration: Provided further, That the Secretary may
waive any provision of such section 202 and such section
811 (including the provisions governing the terms and
conditions of project rental assistance and tenant-based
assistance) that the Secretary determines is not necessary
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to achieve the objectives of these programs, or that other-
wise impedes the ability to develop, operate, or administer
projects assisted under these programs, and may make
provision for alternative conditions or terms where appro-
priate.
FLEXIBLE SUBSIDY FUND
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
From the Rental Housing Assistance Fund, all un-
committed balances of excess rental charges as of Sep-
tember 30, 2000, and any collections made during fiscal
year 2001, shall be transferred to the Flexible Subsidy
Fund, as authorized by section 236(g) of the National
Housing Act, as amended.
FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
FHA—MUTUAL MORTGAGE INSURANCE PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
During fiscal year 2001, commitments to guarantee
loans to carry out the purposes of section 203(b) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed a loan
principal of $160,000,000,000.
During fiscal year 2001, obligations to make direct
loans to carry out the purposes of section 204(g) of the
National Housing Act, as amended, shall not exceed
$100,000,000: Provided, That the foregoing amount shall
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be for loans to nonprofit and governmental entities in con-
nection with sales of single family real properties owned
by the Secretary and formerly insured under the Mutual
Mortgage Insurance Fund.
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out
the guaranteed and direct loan program, $330,888,000,
of which not to exceed $324,866,000 shall be transferred
to the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’; and not
to exceed $4,022,000 shall be transferred to the appro-
priation for ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’. In addition, for
administrative contract expenses, $160,000,000, of which
$96,500,000 shall be transferred to the Working Capital
Fund for the development and maintenance of information
technology systems: Provided, That to the extent guaran-
teed loan commitments exceed $65,500,000,000 on or be-
fore April 1, 2001 an additional $1,400 for administrative
contract expenses shall be available for each $1,000,000
in additional guaranteed loan commitments (including a
pro rata amount for any amount below $1,000,000), but
in no case shall funds made available by this proviso ex-
ceed $16,000,000.
FHA—GENERAL AND SPECIAL RISK PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by
sections 238 and 519 of the National Housing Act (12
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U.S.C. 1715z–3 and 1735c), including the cost of loan
guarantee modifications (as that term is defined in section
502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amend-
ed), $101,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That these funds are available to subsidize total
loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed, of
up
to
$21,000,000,000:
Provided
further,
That
any
amounts made available in any prior appropriations Act
for the cost (as such term is defined in section 502 of
the Congressional Budget Act of 1974) of guaranteed
loans that are obligations of the funds established under
section 238 or 519 of the National Housing Act that have
not been obligated or that are deobligated shall be avail-
able to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
in connection with the making of such guarantees and
shall remain available until expended, notwithstanding the
expiration of any period of availability otherwise applicable
to such amounts.
Gross obligations for the principal amount of direct
loans, as authorized by sections 204(g), 207(l), 238, and
519(a) of the National Housing Act, shall not exceed
$50,000,000; of which not to exceed $30,000,000 shall be
for bridge financing in connection with the sale of multi-
family real properties owned by the Secretary and for-
merly insured under such Act; and of which not to exceed
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GOVERNMENT NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION
GUARANTEES OF MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES LOAN
GUARANTEE PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
New commitments to issue guarantees to carry out
the purposes of section 306 of the National Housing Act,
as amended
(12 U.S.C.
1721(g)),
shall
not exceed
$200,000,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2002.
For administrative expenses necessary to carry out
the
guaranteed
mortgage-backed
securities
program,
$9,383,000 to be derived from the GNMA guarantees of
mortgage-backed securities guaranteed loan receipt ac-
count, of which not to exceed $9,383,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’.
POLICY DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH
RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
For contracts, grants, and necessary expenses of pro-
grams of research and studies relating to housing and
urban problems, not otherwise provided for, as authorized
by title V of the Housing and Urban Development Act
of 1970, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1701z–1 et seq.), includ-
ing carrying out the functions of the Secretary under sec-
tion 1(a)(1)(i) of Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1968,
$40,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
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2002, of which $10,000,000 shall be for the Partnership
for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) Initiative.
FAIR HOUSING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
FAIR HOUSING ACTIVITIES
For contracts, grants, and other assistance, not oth-
erwise provided for, as authorized by title VIII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Fair Housing
Amendments Act of 1988, and section 561 of the Housing
and Community Development Act of 1987, as amended,
$44,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
2002, of which $22,000,000 shall be to carry out activities
pursuant to such section 561: Provided, That no funds
made available under this heading shall be used to lobby
the executive or legislative branches of the Federal Gov-
ernment in connection with a specific contract, grant or
loan.
OFFICE OF LEAD HAZARD CONTROL
LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION
For the Lead Hazard Reduction Program, as author-
ized by sections 1011 and 1053 of the Residential Lead-
Based Hazard Reduction Act of 1992, $80,000,000 to re-
main available until expended, of which $1,000,000 shall
be for CLEARCorps and $10,000,000 shall be for the
Healthy Homes Initiative, pursuant to sections 501 and
502 of the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1970
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that shall include research, studies, testing, and dem-
onstration efforts, including education and outreach con-
cerning lead-based paint poisoning and other housing-re-
lated environmental diseases and hazards.
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary administrative and non-administrative
expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, not otherwise provided for, including not to ex-
ceed $7,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $1,004,380,000 (reduced by $1,000,000), of which
$518,000,000 shall be provided from the various funds of
the Federal Housing Administration, $9,383,000 shall be
provided from funds of the Government National Mort-
gage Association, $1,000,000 shall be provided from the
‘‘Community development block grants program’’ account,
$150,000 shall be provided by transfer from the ‘‘Title
VI Indian federal guarantees program’’ account, and
$200,000 shall be provided by transfer from the ‘‘Indian
housing loan guarantee fund program’’ account: Provided,
That the Secretary is prohibited from using any funds
under this heading or any other heading in this Act for
employing more than 77 schedule C and 20 noncareer
Senior Executive Service employees: Provided further,
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That the community builder fellow program shall be termi-
nated in its entirety by September 1, 2000: Provided fur-
ther, That, hereafter, no individual may be employed in
a position of the Department of Housing and Urban De-
velopment that is designated as ‘‘community builder’’ un-
less such individual is appointed to such position subject
to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing
appointments in the competitive service: Provided further,
That any individual employed in such a position shall be
considered to be an employee for purposes of subchapter
III of chapter 73 of title 5, United States Code (commonly
known as the Hatch Act).
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $83,000,000, of which $22,343,000 shall be
provided from the various funds of the Federal Housing
Administration and $10,000,000 shall be provided from
the amount earmarked for Operation Safe Home in the
appropriation for ‘‘Drug elimination grants for low-income
housing’’: Provided, That the Inspector General shall have
independent authority over all personnel issues within the
Office of Inspector General.
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OFFICE OF FEDERAL HOUSING ENTERPRISE OVERSIGHT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For carrying out the Federal Housing Enterprise Fi-
nancial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, including not
to exceed $500 for official reception and representation
expenses, $22,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to be derived from the Federal Housing Enter-
prise Oversight Fund: Provided, That not to exceed such
amount shall be available from the General Fund of the
Treasury to the extent necessary to incur obligations and
make expenditures pending the receipt of collections to the
Fund: Provided further, That the General Fund amount
shall be reduced as collections are received during the fis-
cal year so as to result in a final appropriation from the
General Fund estimated at not more than $0.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
FINANCING ADJUSTMENT FACTORS
SEC. 201. Fifty percent of the amounts of budget au-
thority, or in lieu thereof 50 percent of the cash amounts
associated with such budget authority, that are recaptured
from projects described in section 1012(a) of the Stewart
B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act of
1988 (Public Law 100–628; 102 Stat. 3224, 3268) shall
be rescinded, or in the case of cash, shall be remitted to
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the Treasury, and such amounts of budget authority or
cash recaptured and not rescinded or remitted to the
Treasury shall be used by State housing finance agencies
or local governments or local housing agencies with
projects approved by the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development for which settlement occurred after January
1, 1992, in accordance with such section. Notwithstanding
the previous sentence, the Secretary may award up to 15
percent of the budget authority or cash recaptured and
not rescinded or remitted to the Treasury to provide
project owners with incentives to refinance their project
at a lower interest rate.
FAIR HOUSING AND FREE SPEECH
SEC. 202. None of the amounts made available under
this Act may be used during fiscal year 2001 to investigate
or prosecute under the Fair Housing Act any otherwise
lawful activity engaged in by one or more persons, includ-
ing the filing or maintaining of a non-frivolous legal ac-
tion, that is engaged in solely for the purpose of achieving
or preventing action by a Government official or entity,
or a court of competent jurisdiction.
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
GRANTS
SEC. 203. (a) ELIGIBILITY.—Notwithstanding sec-
tion 854(c)(1)(A) of the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act
(42 U.S.C. 12903(c)(1)(A)), from any amounts made
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available under this title for fiscal year 2001 that are allo-
cated under such section, the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development shall allocate and make a grant, in
the amount determined under subsection (b), for any
State that—
(1) received an allocation in a prior fiscal year
under clause (ii) of such section; and
(2) is not otherwise eligible for an allocation for
fiscal year 2001 under such clause (ii) because the
areas in the State outside of the metropolitan statis-
tical areas that qualify under clause (i) in fiscal year
2001 do not have the number of cases of acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome required under such
clause.
(b) AMOUNT.—The amount of the allocation and
grant for any State described in subsection (a) shall be
an amount based on the cumulative number of AIDS cases
in the areas of that State that are outside of metropolitan
statistical areas that qualify under clause (i) of such sec-
tion 845(c)(1)(A) in fiscal year 2001, in proportion to
AIDS cases among cities and States that qualify under
clauses (i) and (ii) of such section and States deemed eligi-
ble under subsection (a).
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(c) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—Section 856 of the
Act is amended by adding the following new subsection
at the end:
‘‘(h) ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW.—For purposes of
environmental review, a grant under this subtitle shall be
treated as assistance for a special project that is subject
to section 305(c) of the Multifamily Housing Property
Disposition Reform Act of 1994, and shall be subject to
the regulations issued by the Secretary to implement such
section.’’.
ENHANCED DISPOSITION AUTHORITY
SEC. 204. Section 204 of the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent
Agencies
Appropriations
Act,
1997,
is
amended by striking ‘‘and 2000’’ and inserting ‘‘2000,
and thereafter’’.
MAXIMUM PAYMENT STANDARD FOR ENHANCED
VOUCHERS
SEC. 205. Section 8(t)(1)(B) of the United States
Housing Act of 1937 is amended by inserting ‘‘and any
other reasonable limit prescribed by the Secretary’’ imme-
diately before the semicolon.
VOUCHERS FOR DIFFICULT UTILIZATION AREAS
SEC. 206. Section 8(o)(1) of the United States Hous-
ing Act of 1937 (42 U.S.C. 1437f(o)(1)) is amended—
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(1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘subpara-
graph (D)’’ and inserting ‘‘subparagraphs (D) and
(E)’’;
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as sub-
paragraph (F); and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(E) DIFFICULT UTILIZATION AREAS.—
‘‘(i) CRITERIA.—The Secretary shall
establish
criteria
setting
forth
require-
ments for treatment of areas as difficult
utilization areas with respect to the vouch-
er program under this subsection, which
may include criteria specifying a low va-
cancy rate for rental housing, a particular
rate of inflation in rental housing costs,
failure to lease units by more than 30 per-
cent of families issued vouchers having an
applicable payment standard of 110 per-
cent of the fair market rental or higher,
and any other criteria the Secretary con-
siders appropriate.
‘‘(ii) USE OF ASSISTANCE.—Any pub-
lic housing agency that serves a difficult
utilization area may—
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‘‘(I) increase the payment stand-
ard applicable to all or part of such
area for any size of dwelling unit to
not more than 150 percent of the fair
market rental established under sub-
section (c) for the same size of dwell-
ing unit in the same market area; and
‘‘(II) use amounts provided for
assistance under this section to make
payments or provide services to assist
families issued vouchers under this
subsection to lease suitable housing,
except that the cost of any such pay-
ments or services for a family may not
exceed the agency’s average cost per
family of 6 months of monthly assist-
ance payments.’’.
TITLE III—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
of the American Battle Monuments Commission, including
the acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign coun-
tries; purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of
national cemeteries and monuments outside of the United
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States and its territories and possessions; rent of office
and garage space in foreign countries; purchase (one for
replacement only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign coun-
tries,
when
required
by
law
of
such
countries,
$28,000,000, to remain available until expended.
CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including
hire of passenger vehicles, and for services authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed
the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate payable for
senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, $8,000,000,
$5,000,000 of which to remain available until September
30, 2001 and $3,000,000 of which to remain available
until September 30, 2002: Provided, That the Chemical
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board shall have not
more than three career Senior Executive Service positions.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
To carry out the Community Development Banking
and Financial Institutions Act of 1994, including services
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals
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not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for
ES–3, $105,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 2002, of which $5,000,000 shall be for technical as-
sistance and training programs designed to benefit Native
American Communities, and up to $9,500,000 may be
used for administrative expenses, up to $23,000,000 may
be used for the cost of direct loans, and up to $1,000,000
may be used for administrative expenses to carry out the
direct loan program: Provided, That the cost of direct
loans, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans not to exceed $53,000,000: Provided further,
That administrative costs of the Technical Assistance Pro-
gram under section 108, the Training Program under sec-
tion 109, and the costs of the Native American Lending
Study under section 117 shall not be considered to be ad-
ministrative expenses of the Fund.
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Consumer Product
Safety Commission, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles, services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
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alent to the maximum rate payable under 5 U.S.C. 5376,
purchase of nominal awards to recognize non-Federal offi-
cials’ contributions to Commission activities, and not to
exceed $500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $51,000,000.
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS
OPERATING EXPENSES
Of the funds appropriated under this heading in Pub-
lic Law 106–74, the Corporation for National and Com-
munity Service shall use such amounts of such funds as
may be necessary to carry out the orderly termination of
the programs, activities, and initiatives under the National
Community Service Act of 1990 (Public Law 103–82) and
the Corporation: Provided, That such sums shall be uti-
lized to resolve all responsibilities and obligations in con-
nection with said Corporation.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $5,000,000.
COURT OF APPEALS FOR VETERANS CLAIMS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the operation of the
United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, as
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authorized by 38 U.S.C. 7251–7298, $12,500,000, of
which $895,000, shall be available for the purpose of pro-
viding financial assistance as described, and in accordance
with the process and reporting procedures set forth, under
this heading in Public Law 102–229.
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—CIVIL
CEMETERIAL EXPENSES, ARMY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, as authorized by law, for
maintenance, operation, and improvement of Arlington
National Cemetery and Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home Na-
tional Cemetery, including the purchase of two passenger
motor vehicles for replacement only, and not to exceed
$1,000 for official reception and representation expenses,
$17,949,000, to remain available until expended.
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
SCIENCES
For necessary expenses for the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences in carrying out activities
set forth in section 311(a) of the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of
1980, as amended, $60,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2002.
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AGENCY FOR TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND DISEASE
REGISTRY
TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PUBLIC
HEALTH
For necessary expenses for the Agency for Toxic Sub-
stances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) in carrying out
activities set forth in sections 104(i), 111(c)(4), and
111(c)(14) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse,
Compensation
and
Liability
Act
of
1980
(CERCLA), as amended, section 118(f) of the Superfund
Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA),
as amended, and section 3019 of the Solid Waste Disposal
Act, as amended, $70,000,000, to be derived from the
Hazardous Substance Superfund Trust Fund pursuant to
section 517(a) of SARA (26 U.S.C. 9507), to remain
available until September 30, 2002: Provided, That not
withstanding any other provision of law, in lieu of per-
forming a health assessment under section 104(i)(6) of
CERCLA, the Administrator of ATSDR may conduct
other appropriate health studies, evaluations, or activities,
including, without limitation, biomedical testing, clinical
evaluations, medical monitoring, and referral to accredited
health care providers: Provided further, That in per-
forming any such health assessment or health study, eval-
uation, or activity, the Administrator of ATSDR shall not
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be bound by the deadlines in section 104(i)(6)(A) of
CERCLA: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
priated under this heading shall be available for the Agen-
cy for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry to issue in
excess of 40 toxicological profiles pursuant to section
104(i) of CERCLA during the fiscal years 2001 and 2002,
and existing profiles may be updated as necessary.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
For science and technology, including research and
development activities, which shall include research and
development activities under the Comprehensive Environ-
mental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of
1980, as amended; necessary expenses for personnel and
related costs and travel expenses, including uniforms, or
allowances therefore, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–
5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at
rates for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equiv-
alent to the maximum rate payable for senior level posi-
tions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; procurement of laboratory
equipment and supplies; other operating expenses in sup-
port of research and development; construction, alteration,
repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to
exceed $75,000 per project, $650,000,000, which shall re-
main available until September 30, 2002.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for
personnel and related costs and travel expenses, including
uniforms, or allowances therefore, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
craft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers
who are not members; construction, alteration, repair, re-
habilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000 for official
reception and representation expenses, $1,900,000,000
(reduced by $5,000,000), which shall remain available
until September 30, 2002: Provided, That none of the
funds appropriated by this Act shall be used to propose
or issue rules, regulations, decrees, or orders for the pur-
pose of implementation, or in preparation for implementa-
tion, of the Kyoto Protocol which was adopted on Decem-
ber 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference
of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Conven-
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tion on Climate Change, which has not been submitted to
the Senate for advice and consent to ratification pursuant
to article II, section 2, clause 2, of the United States Con-
stitution, and which has not entered into force pursuant
to article 25 of the Protocol: Provided further, That any
limitation imposed under this Act on funds made available
by this Act for the Environmental Protection Agency shall
not apply to activities specified in the previous proviso re-
lated to the Kyoto Protocol which are otherwise authorized
by law: Provided further, That none of the funds made
available in this Act may be used to implement or admin-
ister the interim guidance issued on February 5, 1998,
by the Environmental Protection Agency relating to title
VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and designated as the
‘‘Interim Guidance for Investigating Title VI Administra-
tive Complaints Challenging Permits’’ with respect to
complaints filed under such title after October 21, 1998,
and until guidance is finalized. Nothing in this proviso
may be construed to restrict the Environmental Protection
Agency from developing or issuing final guidance relating
to title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds made available in this or any
prior Act may be used to make a final determination on
or implement any new rule relative to the Proposed Revi-
sions to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination
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System Program and Federal Antidegradation Policy and
the Proposed Revisions to the Water Quality Planning and
Management Regulations Concerning Total Maximum
Daily Loads, published in the Federal Register on August
23, 1999.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction,
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $34,000,000, to
remain available until September 30, 2002.
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of,
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency,
$23,931,000, to remain available until expended.
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sec-
tions 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C.
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000
per project; $1,270,000,000 (of which $100,000,000 shall
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not become available until September 1, 2001), to remain
available until expended, consisting of $630,000,000, as
authorized by section 517(a) of the Superfund Amend-
ments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA), as
amended by Public Law 101–508, and $640,000,000 as
a payment from general revenues to the Hazardous Sub-
stance Superfund for purposes as authorized by section
517(b) of SARA, as amended: Provided, That funds ap-
propriated under this heading may be allocated to other
Federal agencies in accordance with section 111(a) of
CERCLA: Provided further, That of the funds appro-
priated under this heading, $11,500,000 shall be trans-
ferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appropriation
to remain available until September 30, 2002, and
$35,000,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Science and tech-
nology’’ appropriation to remain available until September
30, 2002.
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK PROGRAM
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair,
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed
$75,000 per project, $79,000,000, to remain available
until expended.
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OIL SPILL RESPONSE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990, $15,000,000, to be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, and to remain available
until expended.
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing
funds
and
performance
partnership
grants,
$3,176,957,000, to remain available until expended, of
which $1,200,000,000 shall be for making capitalization
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as
amended, $825,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended;
$75,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, plan-
ning, design, construction and related activities in connec-
tion with the construction of high priority water and
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mex-
ico Border, after consultation with the appropriate border
commission; $8,000,000 shall be for grants to the State
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater infra-
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structure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages;
$1,068,957,000 shall be for grants, including associated
program support costs, to States, federally recognized
tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollu-
tion control agencies for multi-media or single media pol-
lution prevention, control and abatement and related ac-
tivities, including activities pursuant to the provisions set
forth under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for
making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for
particulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties: Provided, That notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended, the
limitation on the amounts in a State water pollution con-
trol revolving fund that may be used by a State to admin-
ister the fund shall not apply to amounts included as prin-
cipal in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2001 and
prior years where such amounts represent costs of admin-
istering the fund, to the extent that such amounts are or
were deemed reasonable by the Administrator, accounted
for separately from other assets in the fund, and used for
eligible purposes of the fund, including administration of
the fund: Provided further, That notwithstanding section
518(f) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, the
Administrator is authorized to use the amounts appro-
priated for any fiscal year under section 319 of that Act
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to make grants to Indian tribes pursuant to section 319(h)
and 518(e) of that Act: Provided further, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, all claims for prin-
cipal and interest registered through any current grant
dispute or any other such dispute hereafter filed by the
Environmental Protection Agency relative to construction
grants
numbers
C–180840–01,
C–180840–04,
C–
470319–03, and C–470319–04, are hereby resolved in
favor of the grantee.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
For fiscal year 2001 and thereafter, the obligated
balances of sums available in multiple-year appropriations
accounts shall remain available through the seventh fiscal
year after their period of availability has expired for liqui-
dating obligations made during the period of availability.
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire
of passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception
and representation expenses, and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia, $5,150,000.
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COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office
of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No.
1 of 1977, $2,900,000: Provided, That notwithstanding
section 202 of the National Environmental Policy Act of
1970, the Council shall consist of one member, appointed
by the President, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all powers,
functions, and duties of the Council.
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $33,661,000, to be de-
rived from the Bank Insurance Fund, the Savings Asso-
ciation Insurance Fund, and the FSLIC Resolution Fund.
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FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
DISASTER RELIEF
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses in carrying out the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), $300,000,000, and, notwith-
standing 42 U.S.C. 5203, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $5,500,000 shall be transferred to
‘‘Emergency management planning and assistance’’ for
the consolidated emergency management performance
grant program; of which $30,000,000 shall be transferred
to the ‘‘Flood map modernization fund’’ account; and up
to $50,000,000 may be obligated for pre-disaster mitiga-
tion projects and repetitive loss buyouts (in addition to
funding provided by 42 U.S.C. 5170c) following disaster
declarations.
DISASTER ASSISTANCE DIRECT LOAN PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For the cost of direct loans, $1,295,000, as author-
ized by section 319 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Re-
lief and Emergency Assistance Act: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds
are available to subsidize gross obligations for the prin-
cipal amount of direct loans not to exceed $19,000,000.
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In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct loan program, $420,000.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
including hire and purchase of motor vehicles as author-
ized by 31 U.S.C. 1343; uniforms, or allowances therefor,
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not
to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum
rate payable for senior level positions under 5 U.S.C.
5376; expenses of attendance of cooperating officials and
individuals at meetings concerned with the work of emer-
gency preparedness; transportation in connection with the
continuity of Government programs to the same extent
and in the same manner as permitted the Secretary of
a Military Department under 10 U.S.C. 2632; and not to
exceed $2,500 for official reception and representation ex-
penses, $190,000,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $8,015,000.
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EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND ASSISTANCE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
to carry out activities under the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968, as amended, and the Flood Disaster Protec-
tion Act of 1973, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.),
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.), the Earthquake
Hazards Reduction Act of 1977, as amended (42 U.S.C.
7701 et seq.), the Federal Fire Prevention and Control
Act of 1974, as amended (15 U.S.C. 2201 et seq.), the
Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C.
App. 2061 et seq.), sections 107 and 303 of the National
Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 404–405),
and Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1978, $267,000,000.
And in addition, $5,500,000 to be derived by transfer
from the ‘‘Disaster relief’’ account.
RADIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUND
The aggregate charges assessed during fiscal year
2001, as authorized by Public Law 106–74, shall not be
less than 100 percent of the amounts anticipated by the
agency necessary for its radiological emergency prepared-
ness program for the next fiscal year. The methodology
for assessment and collection of fees shall be fair and equi-
table; and shall reflect costs of providing such services,
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including administrative costs of collecting such fees. Fees
received pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the
Fund as offsetting collections and will become available
for authorized purposes on October 1, 2001, and remain
available until expended.
EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM
To carry out an emergency food and shelter program
pursuant to title III of Public Law 100–77, as amended,
$110,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That total administrative costs shall not exceed 31⁄2
percent of the total appropriation.
FLOOD MAP MODERNIZATION FUND
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses pursuant to section 1360 of
the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, $30,000,000
to be derived by transfer from the ‘‘Disaster relief’’ ac-
count, and such additional sums as may be received under
1360(g) or provided by State or local governments or
other political subdivisions for cost-shared mapping activi-
ties under section 1360(f)(2), to remain available until ex-
pended.
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities under the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968, the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973,
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as amended, not to exceed $25,736,000 for salaries and
expenses associated with flood mitigation and flood insur-
ance operations, and not to exceed $77,307,000 for flood
mitigation, including up to $20,000,000 for expenses
under section 1366 of the National Flood Insurance Act,
which amount shall be available for transfer to the Na-
tional Flood Mitigation Fund until September 30, 2002.
In fiscal year 2001, no funds in excess of: (1) $55,000,000
for operating expenses; (2) $455,627,000 for agents’ com-
missions and taxes; and (3) $40,000,000 for interest on
Treasury borrowings shall be available from the National
Flood Insurance Fund without prior notice to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations.
Section 1309(a)(2) of the National Flood Insurance
Act of 1968 (42 U.S.C. 4016(a)(2)), as amended by Pub-
lic Law 104–208, is further amended by striking ‘‘2000’’
and inserting ‘‘2001’’.
The first sentence of section 1376(c) of the National
Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as amended (42 U.S.C.
4127(c)), is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 2000’’
and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2001’’.
NATIONAL FLOOD MITIGATION FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Notwithstanding
sections
1366(b)(3)(B)–(C)
and
1366(f) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as
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amended, $20,000,000 to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002, for activities designed to reduce the risk
of flood damage to structures pursuant to such Act, of
which $20,000,000 shall be derived from the National
Flood Insurance Fund.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
FEDERAL CONSUMER INFORMATION CENTER FUND
For necessary expenses of the Federal Consumer In-
formation Center, including services authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, $7,122,000, to be deposited into the Federal
Consumer Information Center Fund: Provided, That the
appropriations, revenues, and collections deposited into
the Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of Fed-
eral Consumer Information Center activities in the aggre-
gate amount of $12,000,000. Appropriations, revenues,
and collections accruing to this Fund during fiscal year
2001 in excess of $12,000,000 shall remain in the Fund
and shall not be available for expenditure except as au-
thorized in appropriations Acts.
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
HUMAN SPACE FLIGHT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in the conduct and support of human space flight research
and development activities, including research, develop-
ment, operations, and services; maintenance; construction
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of facilities including revitalization and modification of fa-
cilities, construction of new facilities and additions to ex-
isting facilities, facility planning and design, and acquisi-
tion or condemnation of real property, as authorized by
law; space flight, spacecraft control and communications
activities including operations, production, and services;
and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and operation
of mission and administrative aircraft, $5,499,900,000
(reduced by $25,000,000) (reduced by $2,800,000), to re-
main available until September 30, 2002.
SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND TECHNOLOGY
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics and
technology research and development activities, including
research, development, operations, and services; mainte-
nance; construction of facilities including revitalization,
and modification of facilities, construction of new facilities
and additions to existing facilities, facility planning and
design, and acquisition or condemnation of real property,
as authorized by law; space flight, spacecraft control and
communications activities including operations, produc-
tion, and services; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-
nance and operation of mission and administrative air-
craft, $5,606,700,000 (reduced by $30,000,000) (in-
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creased by $2,800,000), to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002.
MISSION SUPPORT
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for,
in carrying out mission support for human space flight
programs and science, aeronautical, and technology pro-
grams, including research operations and support; mainte-
nance; construction of facilities including revitalization
and modification of facilities, construction of new facilities
and additions to existing facilities, facility planning and
design, environmental compliance and restoration, and ac-
quisition or condemnation of real property, as authorized
by law; program management; personnel and related costs,
including uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; travel expenses; purchase, lease,
charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and ad-
ministrative aircraft; not to exceed $40,000 for official re-
ception and representation expenses; and purchase (not to
exceed 33 for replacement only) and hire of passenger
motor vehicles, $2,584,000,000 to remain available until
September 30, 2002.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $23,000,000.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science,
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this
appropriations Act, when any activity has been initiated
by the incurrence of obligations for construction of facili-
ties as authorized by law, such amount available for such
activity shall remain available until expended. This provi-
sion does not apply to the amounts appropriated in ‘‘Mis-
sion support’’ pursuant to the authorization for minor re-
vitalization and construction of facilities, and facility plan-
ning and design.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science,
aeronautics and technology’’, or ‘‘Mission support’’ by this
appropriations Act, the amounts appropriated for con-
struction of facilities shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2003.
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Mission support’’ and ‘‘Office of
Inspector General’’, amounts made available by this Act
for personnel and related costs and travel expenses of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall re-
main available until September 30, 2001 and may be used
to enter into contracts for training, investigations, costs
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associated with personnel relocation, and for other serv-
ices, to be provided during the next fiscal year. Funds for
announced prizes otherwise authorized shall remain avail-
able, without fiscal year limitation, until the prize is
claimed or the offer is withdrawn.
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
During fiscal year 2001, gross obligations of the Cen-
tral Liquidity Facility for the principal amount of new di-
rect loans to member credit unions, as authorized by title
III of the Federal Credit Union Act (12 U.S.C. 1795 et
seq.), shall not exceed $3,000,000,000: Provided, That ad-
ministrative expenses of the Central Liquidity Facility
shall
not
exceed
$296,303:
Provided
further,
That
$1,000,000 shall be transferred to the Community Devel-
opment Revolving Loan Fund, of which $650,000, to-
gether with amounts of principal and interest on loans re-
paid, shall be available until expended for loans to commu-
nity development credit unions, and $350,000 shall be
available until expended for technical assistance to low-
income and community development credit unions.
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1861–1875), and the Act to establish a National Medal
of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–1881); services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; authorized travel; acquisition, mainte-
nance and operation of aircraft and purchase of flight
services for research support; $3,135,690,000 (reduced by
$18,000,000), of which not to exceed $264,500,000 (re-
duced by $18,000,000) shall remain available until ex-
pended for Polar research and operations support, and for
reimbursement to other Federal agencies for operational
and science support and logistical and other related activi-
ties for the United States Antarctic Program; the balance
to remain available until September 30, 2002: Provided,
That receipts for scientific support services and materials
furnished by the National Research Centers and other Na-
tional Science Foundation supported research facilities
may be credited to this appropriation: Provided further,
That to the extent that the amount appropriated is less
than the total amount authorized to be appropriated for
included program activities, all amounts, including floors
and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for those pro-
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gram activities or their subactivities shall be reduced pro-
portionally.
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT
For
necessary
expenses
of
major
construction
projects pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act
of
1950,
as
amended,
including
authorized
travel,
$76,600,000, to remain available until expended.
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and
engineering education and human resources programs and
activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation
Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, authorized
travel, and rental of conference rooms in the District of
Columbia, $694,310,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002: Provided, That to the extent that the
amount of this appropriation is less than the total amount
authorized to be appropriated for included program activi-
ties, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified
in the authorizing Act for those program activities or their
subactivities shall be reduced proportionally.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out
the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
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3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed
$9,000 for official reception and representation expenses;
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
5901–5902; rental of conference rooms in the District of
Columbia; reimbursement of the General Services Admin-
istration for security guard services; $152,000,000: Pro-
vided, That contracts may be entered into under ‘‘Salaries
and expenses’’ in fiscal year 2001 for maintenance and
operation of facilities, and for other services, to be pro-
vided during the next fiscal year.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General as authorized by the Inspector General Act of
1978, as amended, $5,700,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2002.
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), $90,000,000, of which
$5,000,000 shall be for a homeownership program that
is used in conjunction with section 8 assistance under the
United States Housing Act of 1937.
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SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective
Service System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for
civilian employees; and not to exceed $1,000 for official
reception and representation expenses; $23,000,000: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act
may be expended for or in connection with the induction
of any person into the Armed Forces of the United States.
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and
III of this Act are expendable for travel expenses and no
specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expendi-
tures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts
set forth therefore in the budget estimates submitted for
the appropriations: Provided, That this provision does not
apply to accounts that do not contain an object classifica-
tion for travel: Provided further, That this section shall
not apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials
of local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service
System; to travel performed directly in connection with
care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connec-
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tion with major disasters or emergencies declared or deter-
mined by the President under the provisions of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act; to travel performed by the Offices of Inspector Gen-
eral in connection with audits and investigations; or to
payments to interagency motor pools where separately set
forth in the budget schedules: Provided further, That if
appropriations in titles I, II, and III exceed the amounts
set forth in budget estimates initially submitted for such
appropriations, the expenditures for travel may cor-
respondingly exceed the amounts therefore set forth in the
estimates in the same proportion.
SEC. 402. Appropriations and funds available for the
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and the Selective Service System
shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase
of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 403. Funds of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora-
tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of
1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations
on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract
or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
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services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Asso-
ciation, Government National Mortgage Association, Fed-
eral Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financ-
ing Bank, Federal Reserve banks or any member thereof,
Federal Home Loan banks, and any insured bank within
the meaning of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 404. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by,
or is part of, a voucher or abstract which de-
scribes the payee or payees and the items or
services for which such expenditure is being
made; or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to
such certification, and without such a voucher
or abstract, is specifically authorized by law;
and
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(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit
by the General Accounting Office or is specifically
exempt by law from such audit.
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency may be expended for the trans-
portation of any officer or employee of such department
or agency between their domicile and their place of em-
ployment, with the exception of any officer or employee
authorized such transportation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or
5 U.S.C. 7905.
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to re-
cipients that do not share in the cost of conducting re-
search resulting from proposals not specifically solicited
by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost
sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of in-
terest of the grantee or contractor and the Government
in the research.
SEC. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used,
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimburse-
ment for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether
retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more
than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of
the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by
law.
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SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act
shall be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise com-
pensate, non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or
adjudicatory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the au-
thority of the Consumer Product Safety Commission pur-
suant to section 7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act
(15 U.S.C. 2056 et seq.).
SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under an existing Executive Order issued pur-
suant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of
any appropriation under this Act for contracts for any
consulting service shall be limited to contracts which are:
(1) a matter of public record and available for public in-
spection; and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available
list of all contracts entered into within 24 months prior
to the date on which the list is made available to the public
and of all contracts on which performance has not been
completed by such date. The list required by the preceding
sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall include a
narrative description of the work to be performed under
each such contract.
SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
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U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for a contract for services unless such
executive agency: (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning: (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared; and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to
such contract.
SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section
406, none of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide
a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to
any officer or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 414. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of
real property if the estimated annual rental is more than
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$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress
and a period of 30 days has expired following the date
on which the report is received by the Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act
should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office
of Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2001 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity,
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official
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to which the funds are made available that the program,
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private
property rights, or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are sub-
ject to the Government Corporation Control Act, as
amended, are hereby authorized to make such expendi-
tures, within the limits of funds and borrowing authority
available to each such corporation or agency and in accord
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by
section 104 of the Act as may be necessary in carrying
out the programs set forth in the budget for 2001 for such
corporation or agency except as hereinafter provided: Pro-
vided, That collections of these corporations and agencies
may be used for new loan or mortgage purchase commit-
ments only to the extent expressly provided for in this Act
(unless such loans are in support of other forms of assist-
ance provided for in this or prior appropriations Acts), ex-
cept that this proviso shall not apply to the mortgage in-
surance or guaranty operations of these corporations, or
where loans or mortgage purchases are necessary to pro-
tect the financial interest of the United States Govern-
ment.
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SEC. 420. NASA Full Cost Accounting. Title III of
the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, Public
Law 85–568, is amended by adding the following new sec-
tion at the end:
‘‘SEC. 312. (a) Appropriations for the Administration
for fiscal year 2002 and thereafter shall be made in three
accounts, ‘‘Human space flight’’, ‘‘Science, aeronautics
and technology,’’ and an account for amounts appro-
priated for the necessary expenses of the Office of Inspec-
tor General. Appropriations shall remain available for 2
fiscal years. Each account shall include the planned full
costs of the Administration’s related activities.
‘‘(b) To ensure the safe, timely, and successful ac-
complishment of Administration missions, the Administra-
tion may transfer amounts for Federal salaries and bene-
fits; training, travel and awards; facility and related costs;
information
technology
services;
publishing
services;
science, engineering, fabricating and testing services; and
other administrative services among accounts, as nec-
essary.
‘‘(c) The Administrator, in consultation with the Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget, shall de-
termine what balances from the ‘‘Mission support’’ ac-
count are to be transferred to the ‘‘Human space flight’’
and ‘‘Science, aeronautics and technology’’ accounts. Such
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balances shall be transferred and merged with the
‘‘Human space flight’’ and ‘‘Science, aeronautics and tech-
nology’’ accounts, and remain available for the period of
which originally appropriated.’’.
SEC. 421. None of the funds provided in title II for
technical assistance, training, or management improve-
ments may be obligated or expended unless HUD provides
to the Committees on Appropriations a description of each
proposed activity and a detailed budget estimate of the
costs associated with each activity as part of the Budget
Justifications. For fiscal year 2001, HUD shall transmit
this information to the Committees by November 1, 2000,
for 30 days of review.
SEC. 422. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act,
no part of any appropriation for the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall be available for any ac-
tivity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget esti-
mates submitted to the Congress.
SEC. 423. PESTICIDE TOLERANCE FEES. None of the
funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this
Act shall be used to promulgate a final regulation to im-
plement changes in the payment of pesticide tolerance
processing fees as proposed at 64 Fed. Reg. 31040, or
any similar proposals. The Environmental Protection
Agency may proceed with the development of such a rule.
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SEC. 424. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and effective with enactment of this Act, the General
Services Administration shall allocate one Senior Execu-
tive Service slot for the position of Director, Federal Con-
sumer Information Center, from the total number of Sen-
ior Executive Service positions authorized to the General
Services Administration by the Office of Personnel Man-
agement: Provided, That said Senior Executive Service
slot shall be a permanent career reserved position and
filled with all due speed: Provided further, That this Senior
Executive Service slot shall remain hereafter in the Fed-
eral Consumer Information Center. Such funds as may be
necessary to carry out this provision shall be made avail-
able from funds appropriated to the Federal Consumer In-
formation Center Fund.
SEC. 425. None of the funds provided in title III of
this Act shall be obligated or expended to support joint
research programs between the United States Air Force
and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Specifically, none of the funds in this Act shall be used
to support the activities of the AF—NASA Council on
Aeronautics and the AFSPC—NRO—NASA Partnership
Council.
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used prior to June 15, 2001, for the designa-
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tion, or approval of the designation, of any area as an
ozone nonattainment area under the Clean Air Act pursu-
ant to the 8-hour national ambient air quality standard
for ozone that was promulgated by the Environmental
Protection Agency on July 18, 1997, (62 Fed. Reg.
38,356, p. 38855) and remanded by the District of Colum-
bia Court of Appeals on May 14, 1999, in the case, Amer-
ican Trucking Ass’ns. v. EPA (No. 97–1440, 1999
Westlaw 300618).
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to administer the Communities for Safer
Guns Coalition.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001’’.
DIVISION A
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards,
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year
ending September 30, 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on be-
half of veterans and a pilot program for disability examina-
tions as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, chapters 11, 13,
18, 51, 53, 55, and 61); pension benefits to or on behalf
of veterans as authorized by law (38 U.S.C. chapters 15,
51, 53, 55, and 61; 92 Stat. 2508); and burial benefits,
emergency and other officers’ retirement pay, adjusted-serv-
ice credits and certificates, payment of premiums due on
commercial life insurance policies guaranteed under the
provisions of Article IV of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil
Relief Act of 1940, as amended, and for other benefits as
authorized by law (38 U.S.C. 107, 1312, 1977, and 2106,
chapters 23, 51, 53, 55, and 61; 50 U.S.C. App. 540–548;
43 Stat. 122, 123; 45 Stat. 735; 76 Stat. 1198),
$22,766,276,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $17,419,000 of the amount appro-
priated shall be reimbursed to ‘‘General operating expenses’’
and ‘‘Medical care’’ for necessary expenses in implementing
those provisions authorized in the Omnibus Budget Rec-
onciliation Act of 1990, and in the Veterans’ Benefits Act
of 1992 (38 U.S.C. chapters 51, 53, and 55), the funding
source for which is specifically provided as the ‘‘Compensa-
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tion and pensions’’ appropriation: Provided further, That
such sums as may be earned on an actual qualifying pa-
tient basis, shall be reimbursed to ‘‘Medical facilities revolv-
ing fund’’ to augment the funding of individual medical
facilities for nursing home care provided to pensioners as
authorized.
READJUSTMENT BENEFITS
For the payment of readjustment and rehabilitation
benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapters 21, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 39, 51, 53, 55, and
61, $1,634,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That expenses for rehabilitation program services
and assistance which the Secretary is authorized to provide
under section 3104(a) of title 38, United States Code, other
than under subsection (a)(1), (2), (5) and (11) of that sec-
tion, shall be charged to the account: Provided further, That
funds shall be available to pay any court order, court award
or any compromise settlement arising from litigation in-
volving the vocational training program authorized by sec-
tion 18 of Public Law 98–77, as amended.
VETERANS INSURANCE AND INDEMNITIES
For military and naval insurance, national service life
insurance, servicemen’s indemnities, service-disabled vet-
erans insurance, and veterans mortgage life insurance as
authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 19; 70 Stat. 887; 72 Stat.
487, $19,850,000, to remain available until expended.
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VETERANS HOUSING BENEFIT PROGRAM FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct and guaranteed loans, such sums
as may be necessary to carry out the program, as authorized
by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, as amended: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That during fiscal
year 2001, within the resources available, not to exceed
$300,000 in gross obligations for direct loans are authorized
for specially adapted housing loans.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, $162,000,000,
which may be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
EDUCATION LOAN FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $1,000, as authorized by
38 U.S.C. 3698, as amended: Provided, That such costs, in-
cluding the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of
direct loans not to exceed $3,400.
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In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $220,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION LOANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of direct loans, $52,000, as authorized by
38 U.S.C. chapter 31, as amended: Provided, That such
costs, including the cost of modifying such loans, shall be
as defined in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act
of 1974, as amended: Provided further, That these funds are
available to subsidize gross obligations for the principal
amount of direct loans not to exceed $2,726,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the direct loan program, $432,000, which may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, sub-
chapter V, as amended, $532,000, which may be transferred
to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General oper-
ating expenses’’.
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GUARANTEED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LOANS FOR
HOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Not to exceed $750,000 of the amounts appropriated
by this Act for ‘‘General operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Medical
care’’ may be expended for the administrative expenses to
carry out the guaranteed loan program authorized by 38
U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter VI.
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MEDICAL CARE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and oper-
ation of hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facili-
ties; for furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and
outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, including care and treatment
in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the department;
and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies, and equip-
ment; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental thereto
for beneficiaries receiving care in the department; adminis-
trative expenses in support of planning, design, project
management, real property acquisition and disposition,
construction and renovation of any facility under the juris-
diction or for the use of the department; oversight, engineer-
ing and architectural activities not charged to project cost;
repairing, altering, improving or providing facilities in the
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several hospitals and homes under the jurisdiction of the
department, not otherwise provided for, either by contract
or by the hire of temporary employees and purchase of ma-
terials; uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by
5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; aid to State homes as authorized by
38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative and legal expenses of the
department for collecting and recovering amounts owed the
department as authorized under 38 U.S.C. chapter 17, and
the Federal Medical Care Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 2651 et
seq., $20,281,587,000, plus reimbursements: Provided, That
of the funds made available under this heading,
$900,000,000 is for the equipment and land and structures
object classifications only, which amount shall not become
available for obligation until August 1, 2001, and shall re-
main available until September 30, 2002: Provided further,
That of the funds made available under this heading, not
to exceed $500,000,000 shall be available until September
30, 2002: Provided further, That of the funds made avail-
able under this heading, not to exceed $27,907,000 may be
transferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Gen-
eral operating expenses’’: Provided further, That the depart-
ment shall conduct by contract a program of recovery au-
dits for the fee basis and other medical services contracts
with respect to payments for hospital care; and, notwith-
standing 31 U.S.C. 3302(b), amounts collected, by setoff or
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otherwise, as the result of such audits shall be available,
without fiscal year limitation, for the purposes for which
funds are appropriated under this heading and the pur-
poses of paying a contractor a percent of the amount col-
lected as a result of an audit carried out by the contractor:
Provided further, That all amounts so collected under the
preceding proviso with respect to a designated health care
region (as that term is defined in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2))
shall be allocated, net of payments to the contractor, to that
region.
In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105–33
establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical
Care Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited to
such Fund pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be transferred
to this account, to remain available until expended for the
purposes of this account.
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of
medical and prosthetic research and development as author-
ized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until
September 30, 2001, $331,000,000, plus reimbursements.
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
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ministrative expenses in support of capital policy activities,
$62,000,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That technical
and consulting services offered by the Facilities Manage-
ment Field Service, including project management and real
property administration (including leases, site acquisition
and disposal activities directly supporting projects), shall
be provided to Department of Veterans Affairs components
only on a reimbursable basis, and such amounts will re-
main available until September 30, 2001.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary operating expenses of the Department of
Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including uni-
forms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses; hire of passenger
motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General Services
Administration for security guard services, and the Depart-
ment of Defense for the cost of overseas employee mail,
$1,050,000,000: Provided, That expenses for services and as-
sistance authorized under 38 U.S.C. 3104(a)(1), (2), (5)
and (11) that the Secretary determines are necessary to en-
able entitled veterans (1) to the maximum extent feasible,
to become employable and to obtain and maintain suitable
employment; or (2) to achieve maximum independence in
daily living, shall be charged to this account: Provided fur-
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ther, That of the funds made available under this heading,
not to exceed $45,000,000 shall be available until September
30, 2002: Provided further, That funds under this heading
shall be available to administer the Service Members Occu-
pational Conversion and Training Act.
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and oper-
ation of the National Cemetery Administration, not other-
wise provided for, including uniforms or allowances there-
for; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; purchase of
two passenger motor vehicles for use in cemeterial oper-
ations; and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $109,889,000:
Provided, That of the amount made available under this
heading, not to exceed $117,000 may be transferred to and
merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General operating ex-
penses’’.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, as
amended, $46,464,000: Provided, That of the amount made
available under this heading, not to exceed $30,000 may
be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
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CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103,
8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38, United States
Code, including planning, architectural and engineering
services, maintenance or guarantee period services costs as-
sociated with equipment guarantees provided under the
project, services of claims analysts, offsite utility and storm
drainage system construction costs, and site acquisition,
where the estimated cost of a project is $4,000,000 or more
or where funds for a project were made available in a pre-
vious major project appropriation, $48,540,000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That except for advance
planning of projects (including market-based assessments of
health care needs which may or may not lead to capital
investments) funded through the advance planning fund
and the design of projects funded through the design fund,
none of these funds shall be used for any project which has
not been considered and approved by the Congress in the
budgetary process: Provided further, That funds provided
in this appropriation for fiscal year 2001, for each ap-
proved project shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of
a construction documents contract by September 30, 2001;
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and (2) by the awarding of a construction contract by Sep-
tember 30, 2002: Provided further, That the Secretary shall
promptly report in writing to the Committees on Appro-
priations any approved major construction project in which
obligations are not incurred within the time limitations es-
tablished above: Provided further, That no funds from any
other account except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be
obligated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving
a project which was approved in the budget process and
funded in this account until one year after substantial com-
pletion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with respect
to that part only.
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including planning,
architectural and engineering services, maintenance or
guarantee period services costs associated with equipment
guarantees provided under the project, services of claims an-
alysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system construc-
tion costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the purposes
set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102, 8103, 8106,
8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title 38, United States
Code, where the estimated cost of a project is less than
$4,000,000, $162,000,000, to remain available until ex-
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pended, along with unobligated balances of previous ‘‘Con-
struction, minor projects’’ appropriations which are hereby
made available for any project where the estimated cost is
less than $4,000,000: Provided, That funds in this account
shall be available for: (1) repairs to any of the nonmedical
facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use of the depart-
ment which are necessary because of loss or damage caused
by any natural disaster or catastrophe; and (2) temporary
measures necessary to prevent or to minimize further loss
by such causes.
PARKING REVOLVING FUND
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 8109, income from fees collected, to remain available
until expended, which shall be available for all authorized
expenses except operations and maintenance costs, which
will be funded from ‘‘Medical care’’.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE
FACILITIES
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to re-
model, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care
to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131–8137,
$100,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS
CEMETERIES
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding,
or improving State veteran cemeteries as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’,
and ‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be trans-
ferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations.
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Department
of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries and ex-
penses shall be available for services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109.
SEC. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations for
‘‘Construction, major projects’’, ‘‘Construction, minor
projects’’, and the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’) shall be avail-
able for the purchase of any site for or toward the construc-
tion of any new hospital or home.
SEC. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hos-
pitalization or examination of any persons (except bene-
ficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits to
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veterans, and persons receiving such treatment under 5
U.S.C. 7901–7904 or 42 U.S.C. 5141–5204), unless reim-
bursement of cost is made to the ‘‘Medical care’’ account
at such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Department
of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ‘‘Compensation
and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and ‘‘Veterans in-
surance and indemnities’’ shall be available for payment
of prior year accrued obligations required to be recorded
by law against the corresponding prior year accounts with-
in the last quarter of fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall be
available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X
of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law 100–
86, except that if such obligations are from trust fund ac-
counts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation and pen-
sions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
during fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
shall, from the National Service Life Insurance Fund (38
U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans’ Special Life Insurance Fund
(38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Government Life
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Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reimburse the ‘‘General
operating expenses’’ account for the cost of administration
of the insurance programs financed through those accounts:
Provided, That reimbursement shall be made only from the
surplus earnings accumulated in an insurance program in
fiscal year 2001, that are available for dividends in that
program after claims have been paid and actuarially deter-
mined reserves have been set aside: Provided further, That
if the cost of administration of an insurance program ex-
ceeds the amount of surplus earnings accumulated in that
program, reimbursement shall be made only to the extent
of such surplus earnings: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary shall determine the cost of administration for fiscal
year 2001, which is properly allocable to the provision of
each insurance program and to the provision of any total
disability income insurance included in such insurance
program.
SEC. 108. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available in this Act for Medical Care appropriations of
the Department of Veterans Affairs may be obligated for
the realignment of the health care delivery system in Vet-
erans Integrated Service Network 12 (VISN 12) until 60
days after the Secretary of Veterans Affairs certifies that
the Department has: (1) consulted with veterans organiza-
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tions, medical school affiliates, employee representatives,
State veterans and health associations, and other interested
parties with respect to the realignment plan to be imple-
mented; and (2) made available to the Congress and the
public information from the consultations regarding pos-
sible impacts on the accessibility of veterans health care
services to affected veterans.
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
collections authorized by the Veterans Millennium Health
Care and Benefits Act (Public Law 106–117) and credited
to the appropriate Department of Veterans Affairs accounts
in fiscal year 2001, shall not be available for obligation or
expenditure unless appropriation language making such
funds available is enacted.
SEC. 110. Not to exceed $1,200,000 may be transferred
from the ‘‘Medical care’’ appropriation to the ‘‘General op-
erating expenses’’ appropriation to fund contracts and serv-
ices in support of the Veterans Benefits Administration’s
Benefits Delivery Center, Systems Development Center, and
Finance Center, located at the Department of Veterans Af-
fairs Medical Center, Hines, Illinois.
SEC. 111. Not to exceed $4,500,000 from the ‘‘Con-
struction, minor projects’’ appropriation and not to exceed
$2,000,000 from the ‘‘Medical care’’ appropriation may be
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transferred and merged with the Parking Revolving Fund
for surface parking lot projects.
TITLE II—DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING
HOUSING CERTIFICATE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For activities and assistance to prevent the involun-
tary displacement of low-income families, the elderly and
the disabled because of the loss of affordable housing stock,
expiration of subsidy contracts (other than contracts for
which amounts are provided under another heading in this
Act) or expiration of use restrictions, or other changes in
housing assistance arrangements, and for other purposes,
$13,171,000,000 and amounts that are recaptured in this
account to remain available until expended: Provided, That
of the total amount provided under this heading,
$13,131,000,000, of which $8,931,000,000 shall be available
on October 1, 2000 and $4,200,000,000 shall be available
on October 1, 2001, shall be for assistance under the United
States Housing Act of 1937 (‘‘the Act’’ herein) (42 U.S.C.
1437): Provided further, That the foregoing amounts be for
use in connection with expiring or terminating section 8
subsidy contracts, for amendments to section 8 subsidy con-
tracts, for enhanced vouchers (including amendments and
renewals) under any provision of law authorizing such as-
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sistance under section 8(t) of the United States Housing
Act of 1937 (47 U.S.C. 1437f(t)), and contracts entered into
pursuant to section 441 of the Stewart B. McKinney Home-
less Assistance Act: Provided further, That amounts avail-
able under the first proviso under this heading may be
available for section 8 rental assistance under the Act: (1)
pursuant to section 24 of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 or to other authority for the revitalization of se-
verely distressed public housing, as set forth in the Appro-
priations Acts for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agen-
cies for fiscal years 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997, and in
the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations
Act of 1996; (2) for the conversion of section 23 projects
to assistance under section 8; (3) for funds to carry out
the family unification program; (4) for the relocation of
witnesses in connection with efforts to combat crime in pub-
lic and assisted housing pursuant to a request from a law
enforcement or prosecution agency; (5) for tenant protection
assistance, including replacement and relocation assistance;
and (6) for the 1-year renewal of section 8 contracts for
units in a project that is subject to an approved plan of
action under the Emergency Low Income Housing Preser-
vation Act of 1987 or the Low-Income Housing Preserva-
tion and Resident Homeownership Act of 1990: Provided
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further, That of the total amount provided under this head-
ing, $40,000,000 shall be made available to nonelderly dis-
abled families affected by the designation of a public hous-
ing development under section 7 of such Act, the establish-
ment of preferences in accordance with section 651 of the
Housing and Community Development Act of 1992 (42
U.S.C. 1361l), or the restriction of occupancy to elderly
families in accordance with section 658 of such Act, and
to the extent the Secretary determines that such amount is
not needed to fund applications for such affected families,
to other nonelderly disabled families: Provided further, That
any section 8 funds determined by the Secretary to be in
excess of amounts needed to maintain the normal operation
and level of assistance of a section 8 program, including
reasonable reserves, shall be recaptured and used to fund
title I of the Housing Needs Act of 2000: Provided further,
That amounts available under this heading may be made
available for administrative fees and other expenses to cover
the cost of administering rental assistance programs under
section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937: Pro-
vided further, That the fee otherwise authorized under sec-
tion 8(q) of such Act shall be determined in accordance with
section 8(q), as in effect immediately before the enactment
of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of
1998: Provided further, That of the balances remaining
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from funds appropriated under this heading or the heading
‘‘Annual Contributions for Assisted Housing’’ during fiscal
year 2001 and prior years, $275,000,000 is rescinded.
PUBLIC HOUSING CAPITAL FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For the Public Housing Capital Fund Program to
carry out capital and management activities for public
housing agencies, as authorized under section 9 of the
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended (42 U.S.C.
1437), $2,955,000,000, to remain available until expended,
of which up to $50,000,000 shall be for carrying out activi-
ties under section 9(h) of such Act, and for lease adjust-
ments to section 23 projects: Provided further, That no
funds may be used under this heading for the purposes spec-
ified in section 9(k) of the United States Housing Act of
1937: Provided further, That of the total amount, up to
$75,000,000 shall be available for the Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development to make grants to public housing
agencies for emergency capital needs resulting from emer-
gencies and natural disasters in fiscal year 2001.
PUBLIC HOUSING OPERATING FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For payments to public housing agencies for the oper-
ation and management of public housing, as authorized by
section 9(e) of the United States Housing Act of 1937, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 1437g), $3,192,000,000, to remain
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available until expended: Provided, That no funds may be
used under this heading for the purposes specified in section
9(k) of the United States Housing Act of 1937.
DRUG ELIMINATION GRANTS FOR LOW-INCOME HOUSING
For grants to public housing agencies and Indian
tribes and their tribally designated housing entities for use
in eliminating crime in public housing projects authorized
by 42 U.S.C. 11901–11908, for grants for federally assisted
low-income housing authorized by 42 U.S.C. 11909, and for
drug information clearinghouse services authorized by 42
U.S.C. 11921–11925, $310,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That of the total amount provided
under this heading, up to $5,000,000 shall be solely for tech-
nical assistance, technical assistance grants, training, and
program assessment for or on behalf of public housing agen-
cies, resident organizations, and Indian tribes and their
tribally designated housing entities (including up to
$150,000 for the cost of necessary travel for participants
in such training) for oversight training and improved man-
agement of this program, and $10,000,000 shall be used in
connection with efforts to combat violent crime in public
and assisted housing under the Operation Safe Home Pro-
gram administered by the Inspector General of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amount under this heading, $10,000,000
shall be provided to the Office of Inspector General for Oper-
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ation Safe Home: Provided further, That of the amount
under this heading, $20,000,000 shall be available for a pro-
gram named the New Approach Anti-Drug program which
will provide competitive grants to entities managing or op-
erating public housing developments, federally assisted mul-
tifamily housing developments, or other multifamily hous-
ing developments for low-income families supported by non-
Federal governmental entities or similar housing develop-
ments supported by nonprofit private sources in order to
provide or augment security (including personnel costs), to
assist in the investigation and/or prosecution of drug re-
lated criminal activity in and around such developments,
and to provide assistance for the development of capital im-
provements at such developments directly relating to the se-
curity of such developments: Provided further, That grants
for the New Approach Anti-Drug program shall be made
on a competitive basis as specified in section 102 of the
Department of Housing and Urban Development Reform
Act of 1989.
REVITALIZATION OF SEVERELY DISTRESSED PUBLIC
HOUSING (HOPE VI)
For grants to public housing agencies for demolition,
site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based
assistance grants to projects as authorized by section 24 of
the United States Housing Act of 1937, $575,000,000 to re-
main available until expended of which the Secretary may
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use up to $10,000,000 for technical assistance and contract
expertise, to be provided directly or indirectly by grants,
contracts or cooperative agreements, including training and
cost of necessary travel for participants in such training,
by or to officials and employees of the department and of
public housing agencies and to residents: Provided, That
none of such funds shall be used directly or indirectly by
granting competitive advantage in awards to settle litiga-
tion or pay judgments, unless expressly permitted herein.
NATIVE AMERICAN HOUSING BLOCK GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the Native American Housing Block Grants pro-
gram, as authorized under title I of the Native American
Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996
(NAHASDA) (Public Law 104–330), $650,000,000, to re-
main available until expended, of which $4,000,000 shall
be contracted through the Secretary as technical assistance
and capacity building to be used by the National American
Indian Housing Council in support of the implementation
of NAHASDA and $2,000,000 shall be to support the in-
spection of Indian housing units, contract expertise, train-
ing, and technical assistance in the training, oversight, and
management of Indian housing and tenant-based assist-
ance, including up to $300,000 for related travel: Provided,
That none of the $2,000,000 for technical assistance and
other activities shall be made available to the Secretary
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until all funds allocated to the National American Indian
Housing Council for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 are made
available to such organization: Provided further, That of
the amount provided under this heading, $6,000,000 shall
be made available for the cost of guaranteed notes and other
obligations, as authorized by title VI of NAHASDA: Pro-
vided further, That such costs, including the costs of modi-
fying such notes and other obligations, shall be as defined
in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize the total principal amount of any notes and
other obligations, any part of which is to be guaranteed,
not to exceed $54,600,000: Provided further, That for ad-
ministrative expenses to carry out the guaranteed loan pro-
gram, up to $200,000 from amounts in the first proviso,
which shall be transferred to and merged with the appro-
priation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’, to be used only for
the administrative costs of these guarantees.
INDIAN HOUSING LOAN GUARANTEE FUND PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the cost of guaranteed loans, as authorized by sec-
tion 184 of the Housing and Community Development Act
of 1992 (106 Stat. 3739), $6,000,000, to remain available
until expended: Provided, That such costs, including the
costs of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in section
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502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended:
Provided further, That these funds are available to subsidize
total loan principal, any part of which is to be guaranteed,
not to exceed $71,956,000.
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out
the guaranteed loan program, up to $150,000 from amounts
in the first paragraph, which shall be transferred to and
merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’,
to be used only for the administrative costs of these guaran-
tees.
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS
For carrying out the Housing Opportunities for Per-
sons with AIDS program, as authorized by the AIDS Hous-
ing Opportunity Act (42 U.S.C. 12901), $232,000,000, to
remain available until expended: Provided, That the Sec-
retary shall renew all expiring contracts that meet all pro-
gram requirements before awarding funds for new contracts
and activities authorized under this heading: Provided fur-
ther, That the Secretary may use up to 0.75 percent of the
funds under this heading for technical assistance.
RURAL HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
For the Office of Rural Housing and Economic Devel-
opment in the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, $27,000,000, which amount shall be awarded by June
1, 2001 to Indian tribes, State housing finance agencies,
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State community and/or economic development agencies,
local rural nonprofits and community development cor-
porations to support innovative housing and economic de-
velopment activities in rural areas: Provided further, That
all grants shall be awarded on a competitive basis as speci-
fied in section 102 of the HUD Reform Act.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For grants to States and units of general local govern-
ment and for related expenses, not otherwise provided for,
to carry out a community development grants program as
authorized by title I of the Housing and Community Devel-
opment Act of 1974, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’ herein) (42
U.S.C. 5301), $4,800,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2002: Provided, That $67,000,000 shall be
for grants to Indian tribes notwithstanding section
106(a)(1) of such Act, $3,000,000 shall be available as a
grant to the Housing Assistance Council, $2,200,000 shall
be available as a grant to the National American Indian
Housing Council, and $41,500,000 shall be for grants pur-
suant to section 107 of the Act including $3,000,000 to sup-
port Alaska Native serving institutions and native Hawai-
ian serving institutions, as defined under the Higher Edu-
cation Act, as amended: Provided further, That not to ex-
ceed 20 percent of any grant made with funds appropriated
herein (other than a grant made available in this para-
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graph to the Housing Assistance Council or the National
American Indian Housing Council, or a grant using funds
under section 107(b)(3) of the Housing and Community De-
velopment Act of 1974, as amended) shall be expended for
‘‘Planning and Management Development’’ and ‘‘Adminis-
tration’’ as defined in regulations promulgated by the de-
partment.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$25,000,000 shall be made available for capacity building,
of which $20,000,000 shall be made available for ‘‘Capacity
Building for Community Development and Affordable
Housing’’, for LISC and the Enterprise Foundation for ac-
tivities as authorized by section 4 of the HUD Demonstra-
tion Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–120), as in effect imme-
diately before June 12, 1997, with not less than $5,000,000
of the funding to be used in rural areas, including tribal
areas.
Of the amount made available under this heading, the
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development may use up
to $55,000,000 for supportive services for public housing
residents, as authorized by section 34 of the United States
Housing Act of 1937, as amended, and for grants for service
coordinators and congregate services for the elderly and dis-
abled residents of public and assisted housing: Provided fur-
ther, That amounts made available for congregate services
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and service coordinators for the elderly and disabled under
this heading and in prior fiscal years may be used by
grantees to reimburse themselves for costs incurred in con-
nection with providing service coordinators previously ad-
vanced by grantees out of other funds due to delays in the
granting by or receipt of funds from the Secretary, and the
funds so made available to grantees for congregate services
or service coordinators under this heading or in prior years
shall be considered as expended by the grantees upon such
reimbursement. The Secretary shall not condition the avail-
ability of funding made available under this heading or in
prior years for congregate services or service coordinators
upon any grantee’s obligation or expenditure of any prior
funding.
Of the amount made available under this heading, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, $60,000,000 shall
be available for YouthBuild program activities authorized
by subtitle D of title IV of the Cranston-Gonzalez National
Affordable Housing Act, as amended, and such activities
shall be an eligible activity with respect to any funds made
available under this heading: Provided, That local
YouthBuild programs that demonstrate an ability to lever-
age private and nonprofit funding shall be given a priority
for YouthBuild funding: Provided further, That no more
than ten percent of any grant award may be used for ad-
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ministrative costs: Provided further, That not less than
$10,000,000 shall be available for grants to establish
YouthBuild programs in underserved and rural areas: Pro-
vided further, That of the amount provided under this para-
graph, $4,000,000 shall be set aside and made available for
a grant to Youthbuild USA for capacity building for com-
munity development and affordable housing activities as
specified in section 4 of the HUD Demonstration Act of
1993, as amended.
Of the amounts made available under this heading,
$2,000,000 shall be available to the Utah Housing Finance
Agency for the temporary use of relocatable housing during
the 2002 Winter Olympic Games provided such housing is
targeted to the housing needs of low-income families after
the Games.
Of the amounts made available under this heading,
$3,000,000 shall be awarded to Tribal Colleges and Univer-
sities to build, expand, renovate, and equip their facilities.
Of the amount made available under this heading,
$130,000,000 shall be available for grants for the Economic
Development Initiative (EDI) to finance a variety of eco-
nomic development efforts, including $123,000,000 for mak-
ing individual grants for targeted economic investments in
accordance with the terms and conditions specified for such
grants in Senate Report 106–410.
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For the cost of guaranteed loans, $29,000,000, as au-
thorized by section 108 of the Housing and Community De-
velopment Act of 1974: 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, as
amended: Provided further, That these funds are available
to subsidize total loan principal, any part of which is to
be guaranteed, not to exceed $1,261,000,000, notwith-
standing any aggregate limitation on outstanding obliga-
tions guaranteed in section 108(k) of the Housing and Com-
munity Development Act of 1974: Provided further, That
in addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the
guaranteed loan program, $1,000,000, which shall be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries
and expenses’’.
BROWNFIELDS REDEVELOPMENT
For Economic Development Grants, as authorized by
section 108(q) of the Housing and Community Development
Act of 1974, as amended, for Brownfields redevelopment
projects, $25,000,000, to remain available until expended:
Provided, That the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel-
opment shall make these grants available on a competitive
basis as specified in section 102 of the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development Reform Act of 1989.
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Board shall have not more than three career Senior Execu-
tive Service positions: Provided further, That there shall be
an Inspector General at the Board who shall have the du-
ties, responsibilities, and authorities specified in the Inspec-
tor General Act of 1978, as amended: Provided further,
That an individual appointed to the position of Inspector
General of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) shall, by virtue of such appointment, also hold the
position of Inspector General of the Board: Provided fur-
ther, That the Inspector General of the Board shall utilize
personnel of the Office of Inspector General of FEMA in
performing the duties of the Inspector General of the Board,
and shall not appoint any individuals to positions within
the Board.
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
FUND PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For grants, loans, and technical assistance to quali-
fying community development lenders, and administrative
expenses of the Fund, including services authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the
per diem rate equivalent to the rate for ES–3, $95,000,000,
to remain available until September 30, 2002, of which
$5,000,000 shall be for grants, loans, and technical assist-