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88, 112–10, 112–74, and 113–6 for payments for contract 
support costs associated with self-determination or self-gov-
ernance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual funding 
agreements with the Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian 
Health Service as funded by such Acts, are the total 
amounts available for fiscal years 1994 through 2013 for 
such purposes, except that the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
tribes and tribal organizations may use their tribal priority 
allocations for unmet contract support costs of ongoing con-
tracts, grants, self-governance compacts, or annual funding 
agreements. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2014 LIMITATION 
SEC. 406. Amounts provided under the headings ‘‘De-
partment of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs and Bu-
reau of Indian Education, Operation of Indian Programs’’ 
and ‘‘Department of Health and Human Services, Indian 
Health Service, Indian Health Services’’ in the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2014 (Public Law 113–76) are 
the only amounts available for contract support costs aris-
ing out of self-determination or self-governance contracts, 
grants, compacts, or annual funding agreements with the 
Bureau of Indian Affairs or the Indian Health Service for 
activities funded by the fiscal year 2014 appropriation: 
Provided, That such amounts provided by that Act are not 
available for payment of claims for contract support costs
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for prior years, or for repayments of payments for settle-
ments or judgments awarding contract support costs for 
prior years. 
CONTRACT SUPPORT COSTS, FISCAL YEAR 2015 LIMITATION 
SEC. 407. Amounts provided by this Act for fiscal year 
2015 under the headings ‘‘Department of Health and 
Human Services, Indian Health Service, Indian Health 
Services’’ and ‘‘Department of the Interior, Bureau of In-
dian Affairs and Bureau of Indian Education, Operation 
of Indian Programs’’ are the only amounts available for 
contract support costs arising out of self-determination or 
self-governance contracts, grants, compacts, or annual fund-
ing agreements for fiscal year 2015 with the Bureau of In-
dian Affairs or the Indian Health Service: Provided, That 
such amounts provided by this Act are not available for 
payment of claims for contract support costs for prior 
years, or for repayments of payments for settlements or 
judgments awarding contract support costs for prior years. 
FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS 
SEC. 408. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not be 
considered to be in violation of subparagraph 6(f)(5)(A) of 
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. 1604(f)(5)(A)) solely because more 
than 15 years have passed without revision of the plan for 
a unit of the National Forest System. Nothing in this sec-
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tion exempts the Secretary from any other requirement of 
the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1600 et seq.) or any other law: Provided, 
That if the Secretary is not acting expeditiously and in 
good faith, within the funding available, to revise a plan 
for a unit of the National Forest System, this section shall 
be void with respect to such plan and a court of proper 
jurisdiction may order completion of the plan on an acceler-
ated basis. 
PROHIBITION WITHIN NATIONAL MONUMENTS 
SEC. 409. No funds provided in this Act may be ex-
pended to conduct preleasing, leasing and related activities 
under either the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181 et seq.) 
or the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1331 
et seq.) within the boundaries of a National Monument es-
tablished pursuant to the Act of June 8, 1906 (16 U.S.C. 
431 et seq.) as such boundary existed on January 20, 2001, 
except where such activities are allowed under the Presi-
dential proclamation establishing such monument. 
LIMITATION ON TAKINGS 
SEC. 410. Unless otherwise provided herein, no funds 
appropriated in this Act for the acquisition of lands or in-
terests in lands may be expended for the filing of declara-
tions of taking or complaints in condemnation without the 
approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appro-
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priations: Provided, That this provision shall not apply to 
funds appropriated to implement the Everglades National 
Park Protection and Expansion Act of 1989, or to funds 
appropriated for Federal assistance to the State of Florida 
to acquire lands for Everglades restoration purposes. 
TIMBER SALE REQUIREMENTS 
SEC. 411. No timber sale in Alaska’s Region 10 shall 
be advertised if the indicated rate is deficit (defined as the 
value of the timber is not sufficient to cover all logging and 
stumpage costs and provide a normal profit and risk allow-
ance under the Forest Service’s appraisal process) when ap-
praised using a residual value appraisal. The western red 
cedar timber from those sales which is surplus to the needs 
of the domestic processors in Alaska, shall be made available 
to domestic processors in the contiguous 48 United States 
at prevailing domestic prices. All additional western red 
cedar volume not sold to Alaska or contiguous 48 United 
States domestic processors may be exported to foreign mar-
kets at the election of the timber sale holder. All Alaska yel-
low cedar may be sold at prevailing export prices at the 
election of the timber sale holder. 
PROHIBITION ON NO-BID CONTRACTS 
SEC. 412. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act to executive branch agencies may 
be used to enter into any Federal contract unless such con-
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tract is entered into in accordance with the requirements 
of Chapter 33 of title 41, United States Code, or Chapter 
137 of title 10, United States Code, and the Federal Acqui-
sition Regulation, unless— 
(1) Federal law specifically authorizes a contract 
to be entered into without regard for these require-
ments, including formula grants for States, or feder-
ally recognized Indian tribes; or 
(2) such contract is authorized by the Indian 
Self-Determination and Education and Assistance 
Act (Public Law 93–638, 25 U.S.C. 450 et seq.) or by 
any other Federal laws that specifically authorize a 
contract within an Indian tribe as defined in section 
4(e) of that Act (25 U.S.C. 450b(e)); or 
(3) such contract was awarded prior to the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
POSTING OF REPORTS 
SEC. 413. (a) Any agency receiving funds made avail-
able in this Act, shall, subject to subsections (b) and (c), 
post on the public website of that agency any report re-
quired to be submitted by the Congress in this or any other 
Act, upon the determination by the head of the agency that 
it shall serve the national interest. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to a report if—
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(1) the public posting of the report compromises 
national security; or 
(2) the report contains proprietary information. 
(c) The head of the agency posting such report shall 
do so only after such report has been made available to the 
requesting Committee or Committees of Congress for no less 
than 45 days. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS GRANT GUIDELINES 
SEC. 414. Of the funds provided to the National En-
dowment for the Arts— 
(1) The Chairperson shall only award a grant to 
an individual if such grant is awarded to such indi-
vidual for a literature fellowship, National Heritage 
Fellowship, or American Jazz Masters Fellowship. 
(2) The Chairperson shall establish procedures to 
ensure that no funding provided through a grant, ex-
cept a grant made to a State or local arts agency, or 
regional group, may be used to make a grant to any 
other organization or individual to conduct activity 
independent of the direct grant recipient. Nothing in 
this subsection shall prohibit payments made in ex-
change for goods and services. 
(3) No grant shall be used for seasonal support 
to a group, unless the application is specific to the
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contents of the season, including identified programs 
and/or projects. 
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM 
PRIORITIES 
SEC. 415. (a) In providing services or awarding finan-
cial assistance under the National Foundation on the Arts 
and the Humanities Act of 1965 from funds appropriated 
under this Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment 
for the Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing 
services or awarding financial assistance for projects, pro-
ductions, workshops, or programs that serve underserved 
populations. 
(b) In this section: 
(1) The term ‘‘underserved population’’ means a 
population of individuals, including urban minori-
ties, who have historically been outside the purview of 
arts and humanities programs due to factors such as 
a high incidence of income below the poverty line or 
to geographic isolation. 
(2) The term ‘‘poverty line’’ means the poverty 
line (as defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance with sec-
tion 673(2) of the Community Services Block Grant 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9902(2))) applicable to a family of the 
size involved.
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(c) In providing services and awarding financial as-
sistance under the National Foundation on the Arts and 
Humanities Act of 1965 with funds appropriated by this 
Act, the Chairperson of the National Endowment for the 
Arts shall ensure that priority is given to providing services 
or awarding financial assistance for projects, productions, 
workshops, or programs that will encourage public knowl-
edge, education, understanding, and appreciation of the 
arts. 
(d) With funds appropriated by this Act to carry out 
section 5 of the National Foundation on the Arts and Hu-
manities Act of 1965— 
(1) the Chairperson shall establish a grant cat-
egory for projects, productions, workshops, or pro-
grams that are of national impact or availability or 
are able to tour several States; 
(2) the Chairperson shall not make grants ex-
ceeding 15 percent, in the aggregate, of such funds to 
any single State, excluding grants made under the 
authority of paragraph (1); 
(3) the Chairperson shall report to the Congress 
annually and by State, on grants awarded by the 
Chairperson in each grant category under section 5 of 
such Act; and
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(4) the Chairperson shall encourage the use of 
grants to improve and support community-based 
music performance and education. 
ARTS INDEMNITY LIMITATIONS 
SEC. 416. Section 5 of the Arts and Artifacts Indem-
nity Act (20 U.S.C. 974) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$10,000,000,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$15,000,000,000’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘$5,000,000,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$7,500,000,000’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘$1,200,000,000’’ and in-
serting ‘‘$1,800,000,000’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘$750,000,000’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘$1,000,000,000’’. 
STATUS OF BALANCES OF APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 417. The Department of the Interior, the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency, the Forest Service, and the 
Indian Health Service shall provide the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 
quarterly reports on the status of balances of appropriations 
including all uncommitted, committed, and unobligated 
funds in each program and activity.
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REPORT ON USE OF CLIMATE CHANGE FUNDS 
SEC. 418. Not later than 120 days after the date on 
which the President’s fiscal year 2016 budget request is sub-
mitted to the Congress, the President shall submit a com-
prehensive report to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate describing in 
detail all Federal agency funding, domestic and inter-
national, for climate change programs, projects, and activi-
ties in fiscal years 2014 and 2015, including an accounting 
of funding by agency with each agency identifying climate 
change programs, projects, and activities and associated 
costs by line item as presented in the President’s Budget 
Appendix, and including citations and linkages where prac-
ticable to each strategic plan that is driving funding within 
each climate change program, project, and activity listed 
in the report. 
PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS 
SEC. 419. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available in this Act or any other 
Act may be used to promulgate or implement any regula-
tion requiring the issuance of permits under title V of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7661 et seq.) for carbon dioxide, 
nitrous oxide, water vapor, or methane emissions resulting 
from biological processes associated with livestock produc-
tion.
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GREENHOUSE GAS REPORTING RESTRICTIONS 
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
none of the funds made available in this or any other Act 
may be used to implement any provision in a rule, if that 
provision requires mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas 
emissions from manure management systems. 
AMERICAN BATTLEFIELD PROTECTION PROGRAM GRANTS 
SEC. 421. Section 7301(c) of Public Law 111–11 (16 
U.S.C. 469k–1(c)) is amended by striking ‘‘2014’’ and in-
serting ‘‘2021’’. 
RECREATION FEE 
SEC. 422. Section 810 of the Federal Lands Recreation 
Enhancement Act (16 U.S.C. 6809) is amended by striking 
‘‘10 years after December 8, 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘on Sep-
tember 30, 2016’’. 
MODIFICATION OF AUTHORITIES 
SEC. 423. (a) Section 8162(m)(3) of the Department 
of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (40 U.S.C. 8903 note; 
Public Law 106–79) is amended by striking ‘‘September 30, 
2014’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2015’’. 
(b) For fiscal year 2015, the authority provided by the 
provisos under the heading ‘‘Dwight D. Eisenhower Memo-
rial Commission—Capital Construction’’ in division E of 
Public Law 112–74 shall not be in effect.
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USE OF AMERICAN IRON AND STEEL 
SEC. 424. (a)(1) None of the funds made available by 
a State water pollution control revolving fund as authorized 
by section 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act (42 U.S.C. 
300j–12) shall be used for a project for the construction, 
alteration, maintenance, or repair of a public water system 
or treatment works unless all of the iron and steel products 
used in the project are produced in the United States. 
(2) In this section, the term ‘‘iron and steel products’’ 
means the following products made primarily of iron or 
steel: lined or unlined pipes and fittings, manhole covers 
and other municipal castings, hydrants, tanks, flanges, pipe 
clamps and restraints, valves, structural steel, reinforced 
precast concrete, and construction materials. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply in any case or cat-
egory of cases in which the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency (in this section referred to as the 
‘‘Administrator’’) finds that— 
(1) applying subsection (a) would be inconsistent 
with the public interest; 
(2) iron and steel products are not produced in 
the United States in sufficient and reasonably avail-
able quantities and of a satisfactory quality; or
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(3) inclusion of iron and steel products produced 
in the United States will increase the cost of the over-
all project by more than 25 percent. 
(c) If the Administrator receives a request for a waiver 
under this section, the Administrator shall make available 
to the public on an informal basis a copy of the request 
and information available to the Administrator concerning 
the request, and shall allow for informal public input on 
the request for at least 15 days prior to making a finding 
based on the request. The Administrator shall make the re-
quest and accompanying information available by elec-
tronic means, including on the official public Internet Web 
site of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(d) This section shall be applied in a manner con-
sistent with United States obligations under international 
agreements. 
(e) The Administrator may retain up to 0.25 percent 
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Clean and 
Drinking Water State Revolving Funds for carrying out the 
provisions described in subsection (a)(1) for management 
and oversight of the requirements of this section. 
(f) This section does not apply with respect to a project 
if a State agency approves the engineering plans and speci-
fications for the project, in that agency’s capacity to ap-
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prove such plans and specifications prior to a project re-
questing bids, prior to the date of the enactment of this Act. 
FUNDING PROHIBITION 
SEC. 425. None of the funds made available by this 
or any other Act may be used to regulate the lead content 
of ammunition, ammunition components, or fishing tackle 
under the Toxic Substances Control Act (15 U.S.C. 2601 
et seq.) or any other law. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the 
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2015’’. 
DIVISION G—DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, 
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, AND 
EDUCATION, AND RELATED AGENCIES 
APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2015 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Innovation 
and Opportunity Act (referred to in this Act as ‘‘WIOA’’), 
the Second Chance Act of 2007, and the Women in Appren-
ticeship and Non-Traditional Occupations Act of 1992
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(‘‘WANTO Act’’), $3,139,706,000, plus reimbursements, 
shall be available. Of the amounts provided: 
(1) for grants to States for adult employment 
and training activities, youth activities, and dis-
located worker employment and training activities, 
$2,624,108,000 as follows: 
(A) $776,736,000 for adult employment and 
training activities, of which $64,736,000 shall be 
available for the period July 1, 2015, through 
June 30, 2016, and of which $712,000,000 shall 
be available for the period October 1, 2015 
through June 30, 2016; 
(B) $831,842,000 for youth activities, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2015 
through June 30, 2016; and 
(C) $1,015,530,000 for dislocated worker 
employment and training activities, of which 
$155,530,000 shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016, and of 
which $860,000,000 shall be available for the pe-
riod October 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016: 
Provided, That notwithstanding section 128(a)(1) of the 
WIOA, the amount available to the Governor for statewide 
workforce investment activities shall not exceed 10 percent
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of the amount allotted to the State from each of the appro-
priations under the preceding subparagraphs; 
(2) 
for 
federally 
administered 
programs, 
$429,520,000 as follows: 
(A) $220,859,000 for the dislocated workers 
assistance national reserve, of which $20,859,000 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2015 
through September 30, 2016, and of which 
$200,000,000 shall be available for the period 
October 1, 2015 through September 30, 2016: 
Provided, That funds provided to carry out sec-
tion 132(a)(2)(A) of the WIOA may be used to 
provide assistance to a State for statewide or 
local use in order to address cases where there 
have been worker dislocations across multiple 
sectors or across multiple local areas and such 
workers remain dislocated; coordinate the State 
workforce development plan with emerging eco-
nomic development needs; and train such eligible 
dislocated workers: Provided further, That funds 
provided to carry out sections 168(b) and 169(c) 
of the WIOA may be used for technical assistance 
and demonstration projects, respectively, that 
provide assistance to new entrants in the work-
force and incumbent workers: Provided further,
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That notwithstanding section 168(b) of the 
WIOA and section 170(b) of the Workforce In-
vestment Act of 1998 (referred to in this Act as 
‘‘WIA’’), of the funds provided under this sub-
paragraph, and the funds available from the ap-
propriation under this subparagraph under the 
authority of the WIA in Public Law 113–76, the 
Secretary of Labor (referred to in this title as 
‘‘Secretary’’) may reserve not more than 10 per-
cent of such funds to provide technical assistance 
and carry out additional activities related to the 
transition to the WIOA; 
(B) $46,082,000 for Native American pro-
grams, which shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016; 
(C) $81,896,000 for migrant and seasonal 
farmworker programs under section 167 of the 
WIOA, including $75,885,000 for formula grants 
(of which not less than 70 percent shall be for 
employment and training services), $5,517,000 
for migrant and seasonal housing (of which not 
less than 70 percent shall be for permanent hous-
ing), and $494,000 for other discretionary pur-
poses, which shall be available for the period 
July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016: Provided,
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That notwithstanding any other provision of law 
or related regulation, the Department of Labor 
shall take no action limiting the number or pro-
portion of eligible participants receiving related 
assistance services or discouraging grantees from 
providing such services; 
(D) $994,000 for carrying out the WANTO 
Act, which shall be available for the period July 
1, 2015 through June 30, 2016; and 
(E) $79,689,000 for YouthBuild activities 
as described in section 171 of the WIOA, which 
shall be available for the period April 1, 2015 
through June 30, 2016; 
(3) for national activities, $86,078,000, as fol-
lows: 
(A) $82,078,000 for ex-offender activities, 
under the authority of section 169 of the WIOA 
and section 212 of the Second Chance Act of 
2007, which shall be available for the period 
April 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016: Provided, 
That of this amount, $20,000,000 shall be for 
competitive grants to national and regional 
intermediaries for activities that prepare young 
ex-offenders and school dropouts for employment,
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with a priority for projects serving high-crime, 
high-poverty areas; and 
(B) $4,000,000 for the Workforce Data 
Quality Initiative, under the authority of section 
169 of the WIOA, which shall be available for the 
period July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. 
JOB CORPS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
To carry out subtitle C of title I of the WIOA, includ-
ing Federal administrative expenses, the purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alteration, 
and repairs of buildings and other facilities, and the pur-
chase of real property for training centers as authorized by 
the WIOA, $1,688,155,000, plus reimbursements, as follows: 
(1) $1,580,825,000 for Job Corps Operations, 
which shall be available for the period July 1, 2015 
through June 30, 2016; 
(2) $75,000,000 for construction, rehabilitation 
and acquisition of Job Corps Centers, which shall be 
available for the period July 1, 2015 through June 
30, 2018, and which may include the acquisition, 
maintenance, and repair of major items of equip-
ment: Provided, That the Secretary may transfer up 
to 15 percent of such funds to meet the operational 
needs of such centers or to achieve administrative effi-
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ciencies: Provided further, That any funds transferred 
pursuant to the preceding proviso shall not be avail-
able for obligation after June 30, 2016: Provided fur-
ther, That the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer; and 
(3) $32,330,000 for necessary expenses of Job 
Corps, including expenses under the authority of the 
WIA, which shall be available for obligation for the 
period October 1, 2014 through September 30, 2015: 
Provided, That no funds from any other appropriation 
shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps 
centers: Provided further, That an entity operating a Job 
Corps center that is ranked among the top 5 percent of all 
Job Corps centers based on the Outcome Measurement Sys-
tem for program year 2013 shall be eligible to compete in 
any selection process to operate such center that is carried 
out during the period beginning on October 1, 2014 and 
ending on June 30, 2015. 
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS 
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 
(referred to in this Act as ‘‘OAA’’), $434,371,000, which 
shall be available for the period July 1, 2015 through June 
30, 2016, and may be recaptured and reobligated in accord-
ance with section 517(c) of the OAA.
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FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES 
For payments during fiscal year 2015 of trade adjust-
ment benefit payments and allowances under part I of sub-
chapter B of chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974, 
and section 246 of that Act; and for training, employment 
and case management services, allowances for job search 
and relocation, and related State administrative expenses 
under part II of subchapter B of chapter 2 of title II of 
the Trade Act of 1974, and including benefit payments, al-
lowances, training, employment and case management serv-
ices, and related State administration provided pursuant 
to section 231(a) and section 233(b) of the Trade Adjust-
ment Assistance Extension Act of 2011, $710,600,000, to-
gether with such amounts as may be necessary to be charged 
to the subsequent appropriation for payments for any pe-
riod subsequent to September 15, 2015. 
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT 
SERVICE OPERATIONS 
For authorized administrative expenses, $81,566,000, 
together with not to exceed $3,495,584,000 which may be 
expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund (‘‘the Trust 
Fund’’), of which: 
(1) $2,757,793,000 from the Trust Fund is for 
grants to States for the administration of State un-
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employment insurance laws as authorized under title 
III of the Social Security Act (including not less than 
$60,000,000 to conduct in-person reemployment and 
eligibility assessments and unemployment insurance 
improper payment reviews, and to provide reemploy-
ment services and referrals to training as appro-
priate, $10,000,000 for activities to address the 
misclassification of workers, and $3,000,000 for con-
tinued support of the Unemployment Insurance Integ-
rity Center of Excellence), the administration of un-
employment insurance for Federal employees and for 
ex-service members as authorized under 5 U.S.C. 
8501–8523, and the administration of trade readjust-
ment allowances, reemployment trade adjustment as-
sistance, and alternative trade adjustment assistance 
under the Trade Act of 1974 and under sections 
231(a) and 233(b) of the Trade Adjustment Assistance 
Extension Act of 2011, and shall be available for obli-
gation by the States through December 31, 2015, ex-
cept that funds used for automation acquisitions shall 
be available for Federal obligation through December 
31, 2015, and for State obligation through September 
30, 2017, or, if the automation acquisition is being 
carried out through consortia of States, for State obli-
gation through September 30, 2020, and for expendi-
770 
ture through September 30, 2021, and funds for com-
petitive grants awarded to States for improved oper-
ations, to conduct in-person assessments and reviews 
and provide reemployment services and referrals, and 
to address misclassification of workers shall be avail-
able for Federal obligation through December 31, 2015 
and for obligation by the States through September 
30, 2017, and funds used for unemployment insur-
ance workloads experienced by the States through 
September 30, 2015 shall be available for Federal ob-
ligation through December 31, 2015: Provided, That 
funds provided under this heading for fiscal year 
2011 through fiscal year 2014 for automation acquisi-
tions that are being carried out by consortia of States 
shall be available for expenditure by the States for six 
fiscal years after the fiscal year in which the funds 
were obligated to the States; 
(2) $12,892,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-
tional activities necessary to support the administra-
tion of the Federal-State unemployment insurance 
system; 
(3) $642,771,000 from the Trust Fund, together 
with $21,413,000 from the General Fund of the Treas-
ury, is for grants to States in accordance with section 
6 of the Wagner-Peyser Act, and shall be available for
771 
Federal obligation for the period July 1, 2015 through 
June 30, 2016; 
(4) $19,818,000 from the Trust Fund is for na-
tional activities of the Employment Service, including 
administration of the work opportunity tax credit 
under section 51 of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, and the provision of technical assistance and 
staff training under the Wagner-Peyser Act; 
(5) $62,310,000 from the Trust Fund is for the 
administration of foreign labor certifications and re-
lated activities under the Immigration and Nation-
ality Act and related laws, of which $48,028,000 shall 
be available for the Federal administration of such 
activities, and $14,282,000 shall be available for 
grants to States for the administration of such activi-
ties; and 
(6) $60,153,000 from the General Fund is to 
provide workforce information, national electronic 
tools, and one-stop system building under the Wagner- 
Peyser Act and shall be available for Federal obliga-
tion for the period July 1, 2015 through June 30, 
2016: 
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly In-
sured Unemployment (‘‘AWIU’’) for fiscal year 2015 is pro-
jected by the Department of Labor to exceed 2,957,000, an
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additional $28,600,000 from the Trust Fund shall be avail-
able for obligation for every 100,000 increase in the AWIU 
level (including a pro rata amount for any increment less 
than 100,000) to carry out title III of the Social Security 
Act: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this Act 
that are allotted to a State to carry out activities under 
title III of the Social Security Act may be used by such 
State to assist other States in carrying out activities under 
such title III if the other States include areas that have 
suffered a major disaster declared by the President under 
the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency As-
sistance Act: Provided further, That the Secretary may use 
funds appropriated for grants to States under title III of 
the Social Security Act to make payments on behalf of 
States for the use of the National Directory of New Hires 
under section 453(j)(8) of such Act: Provided further, That 
the Secretary may use funds appropriated for grants to 
States under title III of the Social Security Act to make 
payments on behalf of States to the entity operating the 
State Information Data Exchange System: Provided fur-
ther, That funds appropriated in this Act which are used 
to establish a national one-stop career center system, or 
which are used to support the national activities of the Fed-
eral-State unemployment insurance, employment service, or 
immigration programs, may be obligated in contracts,
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grants, or agreements with States and non-State entities: 
Provided further, That States awarded competitive grants 
for improved operations under title III of the Social Secu-
rity Act, or awarded grants to support the national activi-
ties of the Federal-State unemployment insurance system, 
may award subgrants to other States under such grants, 
subject to the conditions applicable to the grants: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated under this Act for activi-
ties authorized under title III of the Social Security Act 
and the Wagner-Peyser Act may be used by States to fund 
integrated Unemployment Insurance and Employment 
Service automation efforts, notwithstanding cost allocation 
principles prescribed under the Office of Management and 
Budget Circular A–87: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary, at the request of a State participating in a consor-
tium with other States, may reallot funds allotted to such 
State under title III of the Social Security Act to other 
States participating in the consortium in order to carry 
out activities that benefit the administration of the unem-
ployment compensation law of the State making the request: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may collect fees for 
the costs associated with additional data collection, anal-
yses, and reporting services relating to the National Agri-
cultural Workers Survey requested by State and local gov-
ernments, public and private institutions of higher edu-
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cation, and non-profit organizations and may utilize such 
sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, 
for the National Agricultural Workers Survey infrastruc-
ture, methodology, and data to meet the information collec-
tion and reporting needs of such entities, which shall be 
credited to this appropriation and shall remain available 
until September 30, 2016, for such purposes. 
In addition, $20,000,000 from the Employment Secu-
rity Administration Account of the Unemployment Trust 
Fund shall be available for in-person reemployment and eli-
gibility assessments and unemployment insurance improper 
payment reviews and to provide reemployment services and 
referrals to training as appropriate, which shall be avail-
able for Federal obligations through December 31, 2015, and 
for State obligation through September 30, 2017. 
ADVANCES TO THE UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND AND 
OTHER FUNDS 
For repayable advances to the Unemployment Trust 
Fund as authorized by sections 905(d) and 1203 of the So-
cial Security Act, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust 
Fund as authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986; and for nonrepayable advances to 
the revolving fund established by section 901(e) of the Social 
Security Act, to the Unemployment Trust Fund as author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 8509, and to the ‘‘Federal Unemployment
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Benefits and Allowances’’ account, such sums as may be 
necessary, which shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2016. 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses of administering employment and train-
ing programs, $104,577,000, together with not to exceed 
$49,982,000 which may be expended from the Employment 
Security Administration Account in the Unemployment 
Trust Fund. 
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Employee Benefits Secu-
rity Administration, $181,000,000. 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION 
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORPORATION FUND 
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (‘‘Cor-
poration’’) is authorized to make such expenditures, includ-
ing financial assistance authorized by subtitle E of title IV 
of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 
within limits of funds and borrowing authority available 
to the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make 
such contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal 
year limitations, as provided by 31 U.S.C. 9104, as may 
be necessary in carrying out the program, including associ-
ated administrative expenses, through September 30, 2015,
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for the Corporation: Provided, That none of the funds avail-
able to the Corporation for fiscal year 2015 shall be avail-
able for obligations for administrative expenses in excess of 
$415,394,000: Provided further, That to the extent that the 
number of new plan participants in plans terminated by 
the Corporation exceeds 100,000 in fiscal year 2015, an 
amount not to exceed an additional $9,200,000 shall be 
available through September 30, 2016, for obligation for ad-
ministrative expenses for every 20,000 additional termi-
nated participants: Provided further, That obligations in 
excess of the amounts provided in this paragraph may be 
incurred for unforeseen and extraordinary pretermination 
expenses or extraordinary multiemployer program related 
expenses after approval by the Office of Management and 
Budget and notification of the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Wage and Hour Divi-
sion, including reimbursement to State, Federal, and local 
agencies and their employees for inspection services ren-
dered, $227,500,000.
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OFFICE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT STANDARDS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Labor-Manage-
ment Standards, $39,129,000. 
OFFICE OF FEDERAL CONTRACT COMPLIANCE PROGRAMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Federal Con-
tract Compliance Programs, $106,476,000. 
OFFICE OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PROGRAMS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Workers’ Com-
pensation 
Programs, 
$110,823,000, 
together 
with 
$2,177,000 which may be expended from the Special Fund 
in accordance with sections 39(c), 44(d), and 44(j) of the 
Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the payment of compensation, benefits, and ex-
penses (except administrative expenses) accruing during the 
current or any prior fiscal year authorized by 5 U.S.C. 81; 
continuation of benefits as provided for under the heading 
‘‘Civilian War Benefits’’ in the Federal Security Agency 
Appropriation Act, 1947; the Employees’ Compensation 
Commission Appropriation Act, 1944; sections 4(c) and 5(f) 
of the War Claims Act of 1948; and 50 percent of the addi-
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tional compensation and benefits required by section 10(h) 
of the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act, 
$210,000,000, together with such amounts as may be nec-
essary to be charged to the subsequent year appropriation 
for the payment of compensation and other benefits for any 
period subsequent to August 15 of the current year: Pro-
vided, That amounts appropriated may be used under 5 
U.S.C. 8104 by the Secretary to reimburse an employer, 
who is not the employer at the time of injury, for portions 
of the salary of a re-employed, disabled beneficiary: Pro-
vided further, That balances of reimbursements unobligated 
on September 30, 2014, shall remain available until ex-
pended for the payment of compensation, benefits, and ex-
penses: Provided further, That in addition there shall be 
transferred to this appropriation from the Postal Service 
and from any other corporation or instrumentality required 
under 5 U.S.C. 8147(c) to pay an amount for its fair share 
of the cost of administration, such sums as the Secretary 
determines to be the cost of administration for employees 
of such fair share entities through September 30, 2015: Pro-
vided further, That of those funds transferred to this ac-
count from the fair share entities to pay the cost of adminis-
tration of the Federal Employees’ Compensation Act, 
$60,334,000 shall be made available to the Secretary as fol-
lows:
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(1) For enhancement and maintenance of auto-
mated data processing systems operations and tele-
communications systems, $19,499,000; 
(2) For automated workload processing oper-
ations, including document imaging, centralized mail 
intake, and medical bill processing, $22,968,000; 
(3) For periodic roll disability management and 
medical review, $16,482,000; 
(4) For program integrity, $1,385,000; and 
(5) The remaining funds shall be paid into the 
Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: 
Provided further, That the Secretary may require that any 
person filing a notice of injury or a claim for benefits under 
5 U.S.C. 81, or the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Com-
pensation Act, provide as part of such notice and claim, 
such identifying information (including Social Security ac-
count number) as such regulations may prescribe. 
SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR DISABLED COAL MINERS 
For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Act of 1977, as amended by Public Law 107– 
275, $77,262,000, to remain available until expended. 
For making after July 31 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title IV of such Act, 
for costs incurred in the current fiscal year, such amounts 
as may be necessary.
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For making benefit payments under title IV for the 
first quarter of fiscal year 2016, $21,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES, ENERGY EMPLOYEES 
OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND 
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Em-
ployees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, 
$56,406,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That the Secretary may require that any person filing a 
claim for benefits under the Act provide as part of such 
claim such identifying information (including Social Secu-
rity account number) as may be prescribed. 
BLACK LUNG DISABILITY TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Such sums as may be necessary from the Black Lung 
Disability Trust Fund (the ‘‘Fund’’), to remain available 
until expended, for payment of all benefits authorized by 
section 9501(d)(1), (2), (6), and (7) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986; and repayment of, and payment of interest 
on advances, as authorized by section 9501(d)(4) of that 
Act. In addition, the following amounts may be expended 
from the Fund for fiscal year 2015 for expenses of operation 
and administration of the Black Lung Benefits program, 
as authorized by section 9501(d)(5): not to exceed 
$33,321,000 for transfer to the Office of Workers’ Compensa-
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tion Programs, ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to exceed 
$30,403,000 for transfer to Departmental Management, 
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’; not to exceed $327,000 for trans-
fer to Departmental Management, ‘‘Office of Inspector Gen-
eral’’; and not to exceed $356,000 for payments into mis-
cellaneous receipts for the expenses of the Department of the 
Treasury. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Occupational Safety 
and Health Administration, $552,787,000, including not to 
exceed $100,850,000 which shall be the maximum amount 
available for grants to States under section 23(g) of the Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Act (the ‘‘Act’’), which grants 
shall be no less than 50 percent of the costs of State occupa-
tional safety and health programs required to be incurred 
under plans approved by the Secretary under section 18 
of the Act; and, in addition, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
3302, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration 
may retain up to $499,000 per fiscal year of training insti-
tute course tuition and fees, otherwise authorized by law 
to be collected, and may utilize such sums for occupational 
safety and health training and education: Provided, That 
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the Secretary is author-
ized, during the fiscal year ending September 30, 2015, to
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collect and retain fees for services provided to Nationally 
Recognized Testing Laboratories, and may utilize such 
sums, in accordance with the provisions of 29 U.S.C. 9a, 
to administer national and international laboratory rec-
ognition programs that ensure the safety of equipment and 
products used by workers in the workplace: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated under this para-
graph shall be obligated or expended to prescribe, issue, ad-
minister, or enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order 
under the Act which is applicable to any person who is en-
gaged in a farming operation which does not maintain a 
temporary labor camp and employs 10 or fewer employees: 
Provided further, That no funds appropriated under this 
paragraph shall be obligated or expended to administer or 
enforce any standard, rule, regulation, or order under the 
Act with respect to any employer of 10 or fewer employees 
who is included within a category having a Days Away, 
Restricted, or Transferred (‘‘DART’’) occupational injury 
and illness rate, at the most precise industrial classification 
code for which such data are published, less than the na-
tional average rate as such rates are most recently published 
by the Secretary, acting through the Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics, in accordance with section 24 of the Act, except—
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(1) to provide, as authorized by the Act, con-
sultation, technical assistance, educational and train-
ing services, and to conduct surveys and studies; 
(2) to conduct an inspection or investigation in 
response to an employee complaint, to issue a citation 
for violations found during such inspection, and to 
assess a penalty for violations which are not corrected 
within a reasonable abatement period and for any 
willful violations found; 
(3) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to imminent dangers; 
(4) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to health hazards; 
(5) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to a report of an employment accident which 
is fatal to one or more employees or which results in 
hospitalization of two or more employees, and to take 
any action pursuant to such investigation authorized 
by the Act; and 
(6) to take any action authorized by the Act with 
respect to complaints of discrimination against em-
ployees for exercising rights under the Act: 
Provided further, That the foregoing proviso shall not apply 
to any person who is engaged in a farming operation which 
does not maintain a temporary labor camp and employs
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10 or fewer employees: Provided further, That $10,537,000 
shall be available for Susan Harwood training grants. 
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Mine Safety and Health 
Administration, $375,887,000, including purchase and be-
stowal of certificates and trophies in connection with mine 
rescue and first-aid work, and the hire of passenger motor 
vehicles, including up to $2,000,000 for mine rescue and 
recovery activities and not less than $8,441,000 for state 
assistance grants: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, not to exceed $750,000 may be collected by 
the National Mine Health and Safety Academy for room, 
board, tuition, and the sale of training materials, otherwise 
authorized by law to be collected, to be available for mine 
safety and health education and training activities: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, the 
Mine Safety and Health Administration is authorized to 
collect and retain up to $2,499,000 from fees collected for 
the approval and certification of equipment, materials, and 
explosives for use in mines, and may utilize such sums for 
such activities: Provided further, That the Secretary is au-
thorized to accept lands, buildings, equipment, and other 
contributions from public and private sources and to pros-
ecute projects in cooperation with other agencies, Federal,
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State, or private: Provided further, That the Mine Safety 
and Health Administration is authorized to promote health 
and safety education and training in the mining commu-
nity through cooperative programs with States, industry, 
and safety associations: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary is authorized to recognize the Joseph A. Holmes Safe-
ty Association as a principal safety association and, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, may provide 
funds and, with or without reimbursement, personnel, in-
cluding service of Mine Safety and Health Administration 
officials as officers in local chapters or in the national orga-
nization: Provided further, That any funds available to the 
Department of Labor may be used, with the approval of 
the Secretary, to provide for the costs of mine rescue and 
survival operations in the event of a major disaster. 
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statis-
tics, including advances or reimbursements to State, Fed-
eral, and local agencies and their employees for services ren-
dered, $527,212,000, together with not to exceed $65,000,000 
which may be expended from the Employment Security Ad-
ministration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
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OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability Em-
ployment Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and 
initiatives, and award grants furthering the objective of 
eliminating barriers to the training and employment of 
people with disabilities, $38,500,000. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, 
including the hire of three passenger motor vehicles, 
$337,621,000, together with not to exceed $308,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Adminis-
tration account in the Unemployment Trust Fund: Pro-
vided, That $64,825,000 for the Bureau of International 
Labor Affairs shall be available for obligation through De-
cember 31, 2015: Provided further, That funds available to 
the Bureau of International Labor Affairs may be used to 
administer or operate international labor activities, bilat-
eral and multilateral technical assistance, and micro-
finance programs, by or through contracts, grants, sub-
grants and other arrangements: Provided further, That not 
more than $58,825,000 shall be for programs to combat ex-
ploitative child labor internationally and not less than
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$6,000,000 shall be used to implement model programs that 
address worker rights issues through technical assistance in 
countries with which the United States has free trade agree-
ments or trade preference programs: Provided further, That 
$8,040,000 shall be used for program evaluation and shall 
be available for obligation through September 30, 2016: 
Provided further, That funds available for program evalua-
tion may be transferred to any other appropriate account 
in the Department for such purpose: Provided further, That 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days 
in advance of any transfer: Provided further, That the funds 
available to the Women’s Bureau may be used for grants 
to serve and promote the interests of women in the work-
force. 
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $231,872,000 may be derived from the 
Employment Security Administration account in the Un-
employment Trust Fund to carry out the provisions of 
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States Code, of 
which: 
(1) $175,000,000 is for Jobs for Veterans State 
grants under 38 U.S.C. 4102A(b)(5) to support dis-
abled veterans’ outreach program specialists under 
section 4103A of such title and local veterans’ employ-
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ment representatives under section 4104(b) of such 
title, and for the expenses described in section 
4102A(b)(5)(C), which shall be available for obliga-
tion by the States through December 31, 2015 and not 
to exceed 3 percent for the necessary Federal expendi-
tures for data systems and contract support to allow 
for the tracking of participant and performance infor-
mation: Provided, That, in addition, such funds may 
be used to support such specialists and representatives 
in the provision of services to transitioning members 
of the Armed Forces who have participated in the 
Transition Assistance Program and have been identi-
fied as in need of intensive services, to members of the 
Armed Forces who are wounded, ill, or injured and 
receiving treatment in military treatment facilities or 
warrior transition units, and to the spouses or other 
family caregivers of such wounded, ill, or injured 
members; 
(2) $14,000,000 is for carrying out the Transi-
tion Assistance Program under 38 U.S.C. 4113 and 
10 U.S.C. 1144; 
(3) $39,458,000 is for Federal administration of 
chapters 41, 42, and 43 of title 38, United States 
Code; and
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(4) $3,414,000 is for the National Veterans’ Em-
ployment and Training Services Institute under 38 
U.S.C. 4109: 
Provided, That the Secretary may reallocate among the ap-
propriations provided under paragraphs (1) through (4) 
above an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the appropria-
tion from which such reallocation is made. 
In addition, from the General Fund of the Treasury, 
$38,109,000 is for carrying out programs to assist homeless 
veterans and veterans at risk of homelessness who are 
transitioning from certain institutions under sections 2021, 
2021A, and 2023 of title 38, United States Code: Provided, 
That notwithstanding subsections (c)(3) and (d) of section 
2023, the Secretary may award grants through September 
30, 2015, to provide services under such section: Provided 
further, That services provided under section 2023 may in-
clude, in addition to services to the individuals described 
in subsection (e) of such section, services to veterans recently 
released from incarceration who are at risk of homelessness. 
IT MODERNIZATION 
For necessary expenses for Department of Labor cen-
tralized infrastructure technology investment activities re-
lated to support systems and modernization, $15,394,000.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector Gen-
eral Act of 1978, $76,000,000, together with not to exceed 
$5,590,000 which may be expended from the Employment 
Security Administration account in the Unemployment 
Trust Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
for the Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary and bo-
nuses of an individual, either as direct costs or any prora-
tion as an indirect cost, at a rate in excess of Executive 
Level II. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary 
funds (pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the 
current fiscal year for the Department of Labor in this Act 
may be transferred between a program, project, or activity, 
but no such program, project, or activity shall be increased 
by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Provided, 
That the transfer authority granted by this section shall not 
be used to create any new program or to fund any project 
or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act: 
Provided further, That the Committees on Appropriations
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of the House of Representatives and the Senate are notified 
at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order 13126, 
none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
pursuant to this Act shall be obligated or expended for the 
procurement of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or 
harvested or services rendered, in whole or in part, by forced 
or indentured child labor in industries and host countries 
already identified by the United States Department of 
Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds made available to the De-
partment of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the 
American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act 
of 1998 may be used for any purpose other than competitive 
grants for training individuals over the age of 16 who are 
not currently enrolled in school within a local educational 
agency in the occupations and industries for which employ-
ers are using H–1B visas to hire foreign workers, and the 
related activities necessary to support such training: Pro-
vided, That the preceding limitation shall not apply to 
funding provided pursuant to solicitations for grant appli-
cations issued prior to January 15, 2014. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Admin-
istration’’ shall be used by a recipient or subrecipient of
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such funds to pay the salary and bonuses of an individual, 
either as direct costs or indirect costs, at a rate in excess 
of Executive Level II. This limitation shall not apply to 
vendors providing goods and services as defined in Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A–133. Where States 
are recipients of such funds, States may establish a lower 
limit for salaries and bonuses of those receiving salaries and 
bonuses from subrecipients of such funds, taking into ac-
count factors including the relative cost-of-living in the 
State, the compensation levels for comparable State or local 
government employees, and the size of the organizations 
that administer Federal programs involved including Em-
ployment and Training Administration programs. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 106. Notwithstanding section 102, the Secretary 
may transfer funds made available to the Employment and 
Training Administration by this Act, either directly or 
through a set-aside, for technical assistance services to 
grantees to ‘‘Program Administration’’ when it is deter-
mined that those services will be more efficiently performed 
by Federal employees: Provided, That this section shall not 
apply to section 171 of the WIOA. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 107. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more 
than 0.5 percent from each appropriation made available
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in this Act identified in subsection (b) in order to carry 
out evaluations of any of the programs or activities that 
are funded under such accounts. Any funds reserved under 
this section shall be transferred to ‘‘Departmental Manage-
ment’’ for use by the Office of the Chief Evaluation Officer 
within the Department of Labor, and shall be available for 
obligation through September 30, 2016: Provided, That such 
funds shall only be available if the Chief Evaluation Officer 
of the Department of Labor submits a plan to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
the Senate describing the evaluations to be carried out 15 
days in advance of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: 
‘‘Training and Employment Services’’, ‘‘Job Corps’’, ‘‘Com-
munity Service Employment for Older Americans’’, ‘‘State 
Unemployment Insurance and Employment Service Oper-
ations’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security Administration’’, 
‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs’’, ‘‘Wage and 
Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal Contract Compliance 
Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Management Standards’’, ‘‘Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Administration’’, ‘‘Mine 
Safety and Health Administration’’, funding made avail-
able to the ‘‘Bureau of International Affairs’’ and ‘‘Wom-
en’s Bureau’’ within the ‘‘Departmental Management, Sala-
794 
ries and Expenses’’ account, and ‘‘Veterans Employment 
and Training’’. 
SEC. 108. (a) FLEXIBILITY WITH RESPECT TO THE 
CROSSING OF H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS WORKING IN THE 
SEAFOOD INDUSTRY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), if a 
petition for H–2B nonimmigrants filed by an em-
ployer in the seafood industry is granted, the em-
ployer may bring the nonimmigrants described in the 
petition into the United States at any time during 
the 120-day period beginning on the start date for 
which the employer is seeking the services of the non-
immigrants without filing another petition. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS FOR CROSSINGS AFTER 90TH 
DAY.—An employer in the seafood industry may not 
bring H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States 
after the date that is 90 days after the start date for 
which the employer is seeking the services of the non-
immigrants unless the employer— 
(A) completes a new assessment of the local 
labor market by— 
(i) listing job orders in local news-
papers on 2 separate Sundays; and 
(ii) posting the job opportunity on the 
appropriate Department of Labor Elec-
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tronic Job Registry and at the employer’s 
place of employment; and 
(B) offers the job to an equally or better 
qualified United States worker who— 
(i) applies for the job; and 
(ii) will be available at the time and 
place of need. 
(3) EXEMPTION FROM RULES WITH RESPECT TO 
STAGGERING.—The Secretary of Labor shall not con-
sider an employer in the seafood industry who brings 
H–2B nonimmigrants into the United States during 
the 120-day period specified in paragraph (1) to be 
staggering the date of need in violation of section 
655.20(d) of title 20, Code of Federal Regulations, or 
any other applicable provision of law. 
(b) H–2B NONIMMIGRANTS DEFINED.—In this section, 
the term ‘‘H–2B nonimmigrants’’ means aliens admitted 
to 
the 
United 
States 
pursuant 
to 
section 
101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality 
Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(B)). 
SEC. 109. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corpora-
tion to take any action in connection with any asserted li-
ability under subsection (e) of section 4062 of the Employee 
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974: Provided, That
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this section shall cease to apply upon the enactment of any 
bill that amends such subsection. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 110. (a) The Secretary may reserve not more 
than 0.25 percent from each appropriation made available 
in this Act identified in subsection (b) in order to carry 
out information technology purchases and upgrades for any 
of the programs or activities that are funded under such 
accounts. Any funds reserved under this section shall be 
transferred to ‘‘Departmental Management’’ for use by the 
Office of the Chief Information Officer within the Depart-
ment of Labor, and shall be available for obligation through 
September 30, 2016: Provided, That such funds shall only 
be available if the Chief Information Officer of the Depart-
ment of Labor submits a plan to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
describing the purchases and upgrades to be carried out and 
an explanation of why funds are not needed in the donor 
account 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
(b) The accounts referred to in subsection (a) are: 
‘‘Employment and Training Administration Program Ad-
ministration’’, funding made available for Federal admin-
istration within ‘‘Job Corps’’, ‘‘Foreign Labor Certification 
Program Administration’’, ‘‘Employee Benefits Security 
Administration’’, ‘‘Office of Workers’ Compensation Pro-
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grams’’, ‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’, ‘‘Office of Federal 
Contract Compliance Programs’’, ‘‘Office of Labor Manage-
ment Standards’’, ‘‘Occupational Safety and Health Ad-
ministration’’, ‘‘Mine Safety and Health Administration’’, 
‘‘Veterans Employment and Training’’, ‘‘Bureau of Labor 
Statistics’’, and ‘‘Office of Disability Employment Policy’’. 
SEC. 111. (a) Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards 
Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 207) shall be applied as if the fol-
lowing text is part of such section: 
‘‘(s)(1) The provisions of this section shall not apply 
for a period of 2 years after the occurrence of a major dis-
aster to any employee— 
‘‘(A) employed to adjust or evaluate claims 
resulting from or relating to such major disaster, 
by an employer not engaged, directly or through 
an affiliate, in underwriting, selling, or mar-
keting property, casualty, or liability insurance 
policies or contracts; 
‘‘(B) who receives from such employer on 
average weekly compensation of not less than 
$591.00 per week or any minimum weekly 
amount established by the Secretary, whichever 
is greater, for the number of weeks such employee 
is engaged in any of the activities described in 
subparagraph (C); and
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‘‘(C) whose duties include any of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) interviewing insured individuals, 
individuals who suffered injuries or other 
damages or losses arising from or relating 
to a disaster, witnesses, or physicians; 
‘‘(ii) inspecting property damage or re-
viewing factual information to prepare 
damage estimates; 
‘‘(iii) evaluating and making rec-
ommendations regarding coverage or com-
pensability of claims or determining liabil-
ity or value aspects of claims; 
‘‘(iv) negotiating settlements; or 
‘‘(v) making recommendations regard-
ing litigation. 
‘‘(2) The exemption in this subsection shall not 
affect the exemption provided by section 13(a)(1). 
‘‘(3) For purposes of this subsection— 
‘‘(A) the term ‘major disaster’ means any 
disaster or catastrophe declared or designated by 
any State or Federal agency or department; 
‘‘(B) the term ‘employee employed to adjust 
or evaluate claims resulting from or relating to 
such major disaster’ means an individual who
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timely secured or secures a license required by 
applicable law to engage in and perform the ac-
tivities described in clauses (i) through (v) of 
paragraph (1)(C) relating to a major disaster, 
and is employed by an employer that maintains 
worker compensation insurance coverage or pro-
tection for its employees, if required by applica-
ble law, and withholds applicable Federal, State, 
and local income and payroll taxes from the 
wages, salaries and any benefits of such employ-
ees; and 
‘‘(C) the term ‘affiliate’ means a company 
that, by reason of ownership or control of 25 per-
cent or more of the outstanding shares of any 
class of voting securities of one or more compa-
nies, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled 
by, or is under common control with, another 
company.’’. 
(b) This section shall be effective on the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Labor 
Appropriations Act, 2015’’.
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TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
SERVICES 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
PRIMARY HEALTH CARE 
For carrying out titles II and III of the Public Health 
Service Act (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘PHS Act’’) with 
respect to primary health care and the Native Hawaiian 
Health Care Act of 1988, $1,491,522,000: Provided, That 
no more than $100,000 shall be available until expended 
for carrying out the provisions of section 224(o) of the PHS 
Act, including associated administrative expenses and rel-
evant evaluations: Provided further, That no more than 
$99,893,000 shall be available until expended for carrying 
out the provisions of Public Law 104–73 and for expenses 
incurred by the Department of Health and Human Services 
(referred to in this Act as ‘‘HHS’’) pertaining to adminis-
trative claims made under such law: Provided further, That 
of funds provided for the Health Centers program, as de-
fined by section 330 of the PHS Act, by this Act or any 
other Act for fiscal year 2015, not less than $165,000,000 
shall be obligated in fiscal year 2015 as base grant adjust-
ments, not less than $350,000,000 shall be obligated in fiscal 
year 2015 to support new access points including approved 
and unfunded applications from fiscal year 2014, grants
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to expand medical services, behavioral health, oral health, 
pharmacy, and vision services, and up to $150,000,000 
shall be obligated in fiscal year 2015 for construction and 
capital improvement costs. 
HEALTH WORKFORCE 
For carrying out titles III, VII, and VIII of the PHS 
Act with respect to the health workforce, section 1128E of 
the Social Security Act, and the Health Care Quality Im-
provement Act of 1986, $751,600,000: Provided, That sec-
tions 747(c)(2), 751(j)(2), 762(k), and the proportional 
funding amounts in paragraphs (1) through (4) of section 
756(e) of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds made avail-
able under this heading: Provided further, That for any pro-
gram operating under section 751 of the PHS Act on or 
before January 1, 2009, the Secretary may hereafter waive 
any of the requirements contained in sections 751(d)(2)(A) 
and 751(d)(2)(B) of such Act for the full project period of 
a grant under such section: Provided further, That no funds 
shall be available for section 340G–1 of the PHS Act: Pro-
vided further, That fees collected for the disclosure of infor-
mation under section 427(b) of the Health Care Quality Im-
provement Act of 1986 and sections 1128E(d)(2) and 1921 
of the Social Security Act shall be sufficient to recover the 
full costs of operating the programs authorized by such sec-
tions and shall remain available until expended for the Na-
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tional Practitioner Data Bank: Provided further, That 
funds transferred to this account to carry out section 846 
and subpart 3 of part D of title III of the PHS Act may 
be used to make prior year adjustments to awards made 
under such sections. 
MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH 
For carrying out titles III, XI, XII, and XIX of the 
PHS Act with respect to maternal and child health, title 
V of the Social Security Act, and section 712 of the Amer-
ican Jobs Creation Act of 2004, $851,738,000: Provided, 
That notwithstanding sections 502(a)(1) and 502(b)(1) of 
the Social Security Act, not more than $77,093,000 shall 
be available for carrying out special projects of regional and 
national significance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of such 
Act and $10,276,000 shall be available for projects described 
in paragraphs (A) through (F) of section 501(a)(3) of such 
Act. 
RYAN WHITE HIV/AIDS PROGRAM 
For carrying out title XXVI of the PHS Act with re-
spect 
to 
the 
Ryan 
White 
HIV/AIDS 
program, 
$2,318,781,000, of which $1,970,881,000 shall remain 
available to the Secretary through September 30, 2017, for 
parts A and B of title XXVI of the PHS Act, and of which 
not less than $900,313,000 shall be for State AIDS Drug
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Assistance Programs under the authority of section 2616 
or 311(c) of such Act. 
HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS 
For carrying out titles III and XII of the PHS Act 
with respect to health care systems, and the Stem Cell 
Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, $103,193,000, of 
which $122,000 shall be available until expended for facili-
ties renovations at the Gillis W. Long Hansen’s Disease 
Center. 
RURAL HEALTH 
For carrying out titles III and IV of the PHS Act with 
respect to rural health, section 427(a) of the Federal Coal 
Mine Health and Safety Act, the Cardiac Arrest Survival 
Act of 2000, and sections 711 and 1820 of the Social Secu-
rity Act, $147,471,000, of which $41,609,000 from general 
revenues, notwithstanding section 1820(j) of the Social Se-
curity Act, shall be available for carrying out the Medicare 
rural hospital flexibility grants program: Provided, That 
of the funds made available under this heading for Medicare 
rural hospital flexibility grants, $14,942,000 shall be avail-
able for the Small Rural Hospital Improvement Grant Pro-
gram for quality improvement and adoption of health infor-
mation technology and up to $1,000,000 shall be to carry 
out section 1820(g)(6) of the Social Security Act, with funds 
provided for grants under section 1820(g)(6) available for
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the purchase and implementation of telehealth services, in-
cluding pilots and demonstrations on the use of electronic 
health records to coordinate rural veterans care between 
rural providers and the Department of Veterans Affairs 
electronic health record system: Provided further, That not-
withstanding section 338J(k) of the PHS Act, $9,511,000 
shall be available for State Offices of Rural Health. 
FAMILY PLANNING 
For carrying out the program under title X of the PHS 
Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects, 
$286,479,000: Provided, That amounts provided to said 
projects under such title shall not be expended for abortions, 
that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and 
that such amounts shall not be expended for any activity 
(including the publication or distribution of literature) that 
in any way tends to promote public support or opposition 
to any legislative proposal or candidate for public office. 
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 
For program support in the Health Resources and 
Services Administration, $154,000,000: Provided, That 
funds made available under this heading may be used to 
supplement program support funding provided under the 
headings ‘‘Primary Health Care’’, ‘‘Health Workforce’’, 
‘‘Maternal and Child Health’’, ‘‘Ryan White HIV/AIDS 
Program’’, ‘‘Health Care Systems’’, and ‘‘Rural Health’’.
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VACCINE INJURY COMPENSATION PROGRAM TRUST FUND 
For payments from the Vaccine Injury Compensation 
Program Trust Fund (the ‘‘Trust Fund’’), such sums as 
may be necessary for claims associated with vaccine-related 
injury or death with respect to vaccines administered after 
September 30, 1988, pursuant to subtitle 2 of title XXI of 
the PHS Act, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That for necessary administrative expenses, not to exceed 
$7,500,000 shall be available from the Trust Fund to the 
Secretary. 
CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION 
IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES 
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII, and XXI, and 
section 2821 of the PHS Act, titles II and IV of the Immi-
gration and Nationality Act, and section 501 of the Refugee 
Education Assistance Act, with respect to immunization 
and respiratory diseases, $573,105,000. 
HIV/AIDS, VIRAL HEPATITIS, SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED 
DISEASES, AND TUBERCULOSIS PREVENTION 
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII, and XXIII of the 
PHS Act with respect to HIV/AIDS, viral hepatitis, sexu-
ally transmitted diseases, and tuberculosis prevention, 
$1,117,609,000.
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EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII, and section 
2821 of the PHS Act, titles II and IV of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, and section 501 of the Refugee Edu-
cation Assistance Act, with respect to emerging and zoonotic 
infectious diseases, $352,990,000: Provided, That of the 
funds available under this heading, $30,000,000 shall be for 
the Advanced Molecular Detection initiative. 
CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION 
For carrying out titles II, III, XI, XV, XVII, and XIX 
of the PHS Act with respect to chronic disease prevention 
and health promotion, $747,220,000: Provided, That funds 
appropriated under this account may be available for mak-
ing grants under section 1509 of the PHS Act for not less 
than 21 States, tribes, or tribal organizations: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds available under this heading, 
$7,500,000 shall be available to continue and expand com-
munity specific extension and outreach programs to combat 
obesity in counties with the highest levels of obesity: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds provided under this head-
ing, $80,000,000 shall be available for a program consisting 
of three-year grants of no less than $100,000 per year to 
non-governmental entities, local public health offices, school 
districts, local housing authorities, local transportation au-
thorities or Indian tribes to implement evidence-based
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chronic disease prevention strategies: Provided further, 
That applicants for grants described in the previous proviso 
shall determine the population to be served and shall agree 
to work in collaboration with multi-sector partners: Pro-
vided further, That the proportional funding requirements 
under section 1503(a) of the PHS Act shall not apply to 
funds made available under this heading. 
BIRTH DEFECTS, DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, 
DISABILITIES AND HEALTH 
For carrying out titles II, III, XI, and XVII of the 
PHS Act with respect to birth defects, developmental dis-
abilities, disabilities and health, $131,781,000. 
PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENTIFIC SERVICES 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 
Act with respect to health statistics, surveillance, health 
informatics, and workforce development, $481,061,000. 
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 
Act with respect to environmental health, $166,404,000. 
INJURY PREVENTION AND CONTROL 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 
Act with respect to injury prevention and control, 
$170,447,000: Provided, That of the funds provided under 
this heading, $20,000,000 shall be available for an evidence- 
based prescription drug overdose prevention program.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND 
HEALTH 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 
Act, sections 101, 102, 103, 201, 202, 203, 301, and 501 
of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act, section 13 of 
the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act, 
and sections 20, 21, and 22 of the Occupational Safety and 
Health Act, with respect to occupational safety and health, 
$334,863,000. 
ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS 
COMPENSATION PROGRAM 
For necessary expenses to administer the Energy Em-
ployees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act, 
$55,358,000, to remain available until expended: Provided, 
That this amount shall be available consistent with the pro-
vision regarding administrative expenses in section 151(b) 
of division B, title I of Public Law 106–554. 
GLOBAL HEALTH 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 
Act with respect to global health, $416,517,000, of which 
$128,421,000 for international HIV/AIDS shall remain 
available through September 30, 2016: Provided, That funds 
may be used for purchase and insurance of official motor 
vehicles in foreign countries: Provided further, That these
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funds are in addition to amounts provided in section 137 
of Public Law 113–164. 
PUBLIC HEALTH PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE 
For carrying out titles II, III, and XVII of the PHS 
Act with respect to public health preparedness and response, 
and for expenses necessary to support activities related to 
countering potential biological, nuclear, radiological, and 
chemical threats to civilian populations, $1,352,551,000, of 
which $534,343,000 shall remain available until expended 
for the Strategic National Stockpile: Provided, That in the 
event the Director of the CDC activates the Emergency Op-
erations Center, the Director of the CDC may detail CDC 
staff without reimbursement for up to 45 days to support 
the work of the CDC Emergency Operations Center, so long 
as the Director provides a notice to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
within 15 days of the use of this authority and a full report 
within 30 days after use of this authority which includes 
the number of staff and funding level broken down by the 
originating center and number of days detailed: Provided 
further, That funds appropriated under this heading may 
be used to support a contract for the operation and mainte-
nance of an aircraft in direct support of activities through-
out CDC to ensure the agency is prepared to address public 
health preparedness emergencies.
810 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For acquisition of real property, equipment, construc-
tion, and renovation of facilities, $10,000,000, which shall 
remain available until September 30, 2019: Provided, That 
funds previously set-aside by CDC for repair and upgrade 
of the Lake Lynn Experimental Mine and Laboratory shall 
be used to acquire a replacement mine safety research facil-
ity. 
CDC-WIDE ACTIVITIES AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out titles II, III, XVII and XIX, and 
section 2821 of the PHS Act and for cross-cutting activities 
and program support for activities funded in other appro-
priations included in this Act for the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention, $113,570,000: Provided, That 
paragraphs (1) through (3) of subsection (b) of section 2821 
of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds appropriated under 
this heading and in all other accounts of the CDC: Provided 
further, That employees of CDC or the Public Health Serv-
ice, both civilian and commissioned officers, detailed to 
States, municipalities, or other organizations under author-
ity of section 214 of the PHS Act, or in overseas assign-
ments, shall be treated as non-Federal employees for report-
ing purposes only and shall not be included within any 
personnel ceiling applicable to the Agency, Service, or HHS
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during the period of detail or assignment: Provided further, 
That CDC may use up to $10,000 from amounts appro-
priated to CDC in this Act for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses when specifically approved by the Di-
rector of CDC: Provided further, That in addition, such 
sums as may be derived from authorized user fees, which 
shall be credited to the appropriation charged with the cost 
thereof: Provided further, That with respect to the previous 
proviso, authorized user fees from the Vessel Sanitation Pro-
gram shall be available through September 30, 2016: Pro-
vided further, That of the funds made available under this 
heading and in all other accounts of CDC, up to $1,000 
per eligible employee of CDC shall be made available until 
expended for Individual Learning Accounts. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH 
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to cancer, $4,950,396,000, of which up to 
$8,000,000 may be used for facilities repairs and improve-
ments at the National Cancer Institute—Frederick Feder-
ally Funded Research and Development Center in Fred-
erick, Maryland.
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NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to cardiovascular, lung, and blood diseases, 
and blood and blood products, $2,997,870,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL 
RESEARCH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to dental and craniofacial diseases, 
$399,886,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND 
KIDNEY DISEASES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to diabetes and digestive and kidney dis-
ease, $1,749,681,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND 
STROKE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to neurological disorders and stroke, 
$1,605,205,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS 
DISEASES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to allergy and infectious diseases, 
$4,358,841,000.
813 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act 
with 
respect 
to 
general 
medical 
sciences, 
$2,371,476,000, of which $715,000,000 shall be from funds 
available under section 241 of the PHS Act: Provided, That 
not less than $273,325,000 is provided for the Institutional 
Development Awards program. 
EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD 
HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to child health and human development, 
$1,286,571,000. 
NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to eye diseases and visual disorders, 
$684,191,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH 
SCIENCES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to environmental health sciences, 
$667,502,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to aging, $1,199,468,000.
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND 
MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin 
diseases, $521,665,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER 
COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to deafness and other communication dis-
orders, $405,302,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NURSING RESEARCH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to nursing research, $140,953,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND 
ALCOHOLISM 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to alcohol abuse and alcoholism, 
$447,408,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to drug abuse, $1,028,614,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to mental health, $1,463,036,000.
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NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to human genome research, $499,356,000. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGING AND 
BIOENGINEERING 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to biomedical imaging and bioengineering 
research, $330,192,000. 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR COMPLEMENTARY AND 
INTEGRATIVE HEALTH 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to complementary and integrative health, 
$124,681,000: Provided, That these funds may be used to 
support the transition enacted in section 224 of this Act. 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH 
DISPARITIES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to minority health and health disparities 
research, $269,154,000. 
JOHN E. FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER 
For carrying out the activities of the John E. Fogarty 
International Center (described in subpart 2 of part E of 
title IV of the PHS Act), $67,786,000.
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NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to health information communications, 
$336,939,000: Provided, That of the amounts available for 
improvement of information systems, $4,000,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 2016: Provided further, That 
in fiscal year 2015, the National Library of Medicine may 
enter into personal services contracts for the provision of 
services in facilities owned, operated, or constructed under 
the jurisdiction of the National Institutes of Health (re-
ferred to in this title as ‘‘NIH’’). 
NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL 
SCIENCES 
For carrying out section 301 and title IV of the PHS 
Act with respect to translational sciences, $635,230,000: 
Provided, That up to $9,835,000 shall be available to imple-
ment section 480 of the PHS Act, relating to the Cures Ac-
celeration Network: Provided further, That at least 
$474,746,000 is provided to the Clinical and Translational 
Sciences Awards program. 
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out the responsibilities of the Office of 
the Director, NIH, $1,401,134,000, of which up to 
$25,000,000 may be used to carry out section 213 of this
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Act: Provided, That funding shall be available for the pur-
chase of not to exceed 29 passenger motor vehicles for re-
placement only: Provided further, That all funds credited 
to the NIH Management Fund shall remain available for 
one fiscal year after the fiscal year in which they are depos-
ited: Provided further, That $165,000,000 shall be for the 
National Children’s Study (‘‘NCS’’) or research related to 
the Study’s goals and mission, and any funds in excess of 
the estimated need shall be transferred to and merged with 
the accounts for the various Institutes and Centers to sup-
port activity related to the goals and objectives of the NCS: 
Provided further, That NIH shall submit a spend plan on 
the NCS’s next phase to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate not later 
than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act: Pro-
vided further, That $533,039,000 shall be available for the 
Common Fund established under section 402A(c)(1) of the 
PHS Act: Provided further, That of the funds provided, 
$10,000 shall be for official reception and representation 
expenses when specifically approved by the Director of the 
NIH: Provided further, That the Office of AIDS Research 
within the Office of the Director of the NIH may spend 
up to $8,000,000 to make grants for construction or renova-
tion of facilities as provided for in section 2354(a)(5)(B) 
of the PHS Act: Provided further, That NIH shall contract
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with the National Academy of Sciences for a Blue Ribbon 
Commission on Scientific Literacy and Standing: Provided 
further, That NIH shall submit to Congress an NIH-wide 
5-year scientific strategic plan as outlined in sections 
402(b)(3) and 402(b)(4) of the PHS Act no later than 1 
year after enactment of this Act. 
In addition to other funds appropriated for the Com-
mon Fund established under section 402A(c) of the PHS 
Act, $12,600,000 is appropriated to the Common Fund 
from the 10-year Pediatric Research Initiative Fund de-
scribed in section 9008 of title 26, United States Code, for 
the purpose of carrying out section 402(b)(7)(B)(ii) of the 
PHS Act (relating to pediatric research), as authorized in 
the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For the study of, construction of, renovation of, and 
acquisition of equipment for, facilities of or used by NIH, 
including the acquisition of real property, $128,863,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2019. 
SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 
ADMINISTRATION 
MENTAL HEALTH 
For carrying out titles III, V, and XIX of the PHS 
Act with respect to mental health, and the Protection and 
Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act,
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$1,045,936,000: Provided, That notwithstanding section 
520A(f)(2) of the PHS Act, no funds appropriated for car-
rying out section 520A shall be available for carrying out 
section 1971 of the PHS Act: Provided further, That in ad-
dition to amounts provided herein, $21,039,000 shall be 
available under section 241 of the PHS Act to carry out 
subpart I of part B of title XIX of the PHS Act to fund 
section 1920(b) technical assistance, national data, data 
collection and evaluation activities, and further that the 
total available under this Act for section 1920(b) activities 
shall not exceed 5 percent of the amounts appropriated for 
subpart I of part B of title XIX: Provided further, That 
section 520E(b)(2) of the PHS Act shall not apply to funds 
appropriated in this Act for fiscal year 2015: Provided fur-
ther, That of the amount appropriated under this heading, 
$45,887,000 shall be for the National Child Traumatic 
Stress Initiative as described in section 582 of the PHS 
Act: Provided further, That notwithstanding section 
565(b)(1) of the PHS Act, technical assistance may be pro-
vided to a public entity to establish or operate a system 
of comprehensive community mental health services to chil-
dren with a serious emotional disturbance, without regard 
to whether the public entity receives a grant under section 
561(a) of such Act: Provided further, That States shall ex-
pend at least 5 percent of the amount each receives for car-
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rying out section 1911 of the PHS Act to support evidence- 
based programs that address the needs of individuals with 
early serious mental illness, including psychotic disorders, 
regardless of the age of the individual at onset: Provided 
further, That none of the funds provided for section 1911 
of the PHS Act shall be subject to section 241 of such Act. 
SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT 
For carrying out titles III, V, and XIX of the PHS 
Act with respect to substance abuse treatment and section 
1922(a) of the PHS Act with respect to substance abuse pre-
vention, $2,102,658,000: Provided, That in addition to 
amounts provided herein, the following amounts shall be 
available under section 241 of the PHS Act: (1) $79,200,000 
to carry out subpart II of part B of title XIX of the PHS 
Act to fund section 1935(b) technical assistance, national 
data, data collection and evaluation activities, and further 
that the total available under this Act for section 1935(b) 
activities shall not exceed 5 percent of the amounts appro-
priated for subpart II of part B of title XIX; and (2) 
$2,000,000 to evaluate substance abuse treatment programs: 
Provided further, That none of the funds provided for sec-
tion 1921 of the PHS Act shall be subject to section 241 
of such Act.
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SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION 
For carrying out titles III and V of the PHS Act with 
respect to substance abuse prevention, $175,219,000. 
HEALTH SURVEILLANCE AND PROGRAM SUPPORT 
For program support and cross-cutting activities that 
supplement activities funded under the headings ‘‘Mental 
Health’’, ‘‘Substance Abuse Treatment’’, and ‘‘Substance 
Abuse Prevention’’ in carrying out titles III, V, and XIX 
of the PHS Act and the Protection and Advocacy for Indi-
viduals with Mental Illness Act in the Substance Abuse and 
Mental Health Services Administration, $150,232,000: Pro-
vided, That in addition to amounts provided herein, 
$31,428,000 shall be available under section 241 of the PHS 
Act to supplement funds available to carry out national 
surveys on drug abuse and mental health, to collect and 
analyze program data, and to conduct public awareness 
and technical assistance activities: Provided further, That, 
in addition, fees may be collected for the costs of publica-
tions, data, data tabulations, and data analysis completed 
under title V of the PHS Act and provided to a public or 
private entity upon request, which shall be credited to this 
appropriation and shall remain available until expended 
for such purposes: Provided further, That amounts made 
available in this Act for carrying out section 501(m) of the 
PHS Act shall remain available through September 30,
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2016: Provided further, That funds made available under 
this heading may be used to supplement program support 
funding provided under the headings ‘‘Mental Health’’, 
‘‘Substance Abuse Treatment’’, and ‘‘Substance Abuse Pre-
vention’’. 
AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY 
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY 
For carrying out titles III and IX of the PHS Act, 
part A of title XI of the Social Security Act, and section 
1013 of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and 
Modernization Act of 2003, $363,698,000: Provided, That 
section 947(c) of the PHS Act shall not apply in fiscal year 
2015: Provided further, That in addition, amounts received 
from Freedom of Information Act fees, reimbursable and 
interagency agreements, and the sale of data shall be cred-
ited to this appropriation and shall remain available until 
September 30, 2016. 
CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES 
GRANTS TO STATES FOR MEDICAID 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles 
XI and XIX of the Social Security Act, $234,608,916,000, 
to remain available until expended. 
For making, after May 31, 2015, payments to States 
under title XIX or in the case of section 1928 on behalf 
of States under title XIX of the Social Security Act for the
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last quarter of fiscal year 2015 for unanticipated costs in-
curred for the current fiscal year, such sums as may be nec-
essary. 
For making payments to States or in the case of sec-
tion 1928 on behalf of States under title XIX of the Social 
Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016, 
$113,272,140,000, to remain available until expended. 
Payment under such title XIX may be made for any 
quarter with respect to a State plan or plan amendment 
in effect during such quarter, if submitted in or prior to 
such quarter and approved in that or any subsequent quar-
ter. 
PAYMENTS TO HEALTH CARE TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
Fund and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance 
Trust Fund, as provided under sections 217(g), 1844, and 
1860D–16 of the Social Security Act, sections 103(c) and 
111(d) of the Social Security Amendments of 1965, section 
278(d)(3) of Public Law 97–248, and for administrative 
expenses incurred pursuant to section 201(g) of the Social 
Security Act, $259,212,000,000. 
In addition, for making matching payments under sec-
tion 1844 and benefit payments under section 1860D–16 
of the Social Security Act that were not anticipated in 
budget estimates, such sums as may be necessary.
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PROGRAM MANAGEMENT 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles 
XI, XVIII, XIX, and XXI of the Social Security Act, titles 
XIII and XXVII of the PHS Act, the Clinical Laboratory 
Improvement Amendments of 1988, and other responsibil-
ities of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, not 
to exceed $3,669,744,000, to be transferred from the Federal 
Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Supple-
mentary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, as authorized by 
section 201(g) of the Social Security Act; together with all 
funds collected in accordance with section 353 of the PHS 
Act and section 1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act, funds 
retained by the Secretary pursuant to section 302 of the 
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006; and such sums 
as may be collected from authorized user fees and the sale 
of data, which shall be credited to this account and remain 
available until September 30, 2020: Provided, That all 
funds derived in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 9701 from or-
ganizations established under title XIII of the PHS Act 
shall be credited to and available for carrying out the pur-
poses of this appropriation: Provided further, That the Sec-
retary is directed to collect fees in fiscal year 2015 from 
Medicare Advantage organizations pursuant to section 
1857(e)(2) of the Social Security Act and from eligible orga-
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nizations with risk-sharing contracts under section 1876 of 
that Act pursuant to section 1876(k)(4)(D) of that Act. 
HEALTH CARE FRAUD AND ABUSE CONTROL ACCOUNT 
In addition to amounts otherwise available for pro-
gram integrity and program management, $672,000,000, to 
remain available through September 30, 2016, to be trans-
ferred from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund, 
as authorized by section 201(g) of the Social Security Act, 
of which $477,120,000 shall be for the Medicare Integrity 
Program at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Serv-
ices, including administrative costs, to conduct oversight ac-
tivities for Medicare Advantage under Part C and the Medi-
care Prescription Drug Program under Part D of the Social 
Security Act and for activities described in section 1893(b) 
of such Act, of which $67,200,000 shall be for the Depart-
ment of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector 
General to carry out fraud and abuse activities authorized 
by section 1817(k)(3) of such Act, of which $67,200,000 
shall be for the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance 
Program (‘‘CHIP’’) program integrity activities, and of 
which $60,480,000 shall be for the Department of Justice 
to carry out fraud and abuse activities authorized by sec-
tion 1817(k)(3) of such Act: Provided, That the report re-
quired by section 1817(k)(5) of the Social Security Act for
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fiscal year 2015 shall include measures of the operational 
efficiency and impact on fraud, waste, and abuse in the 
Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP programs for the funds pro-
vided by this appropriation: Provided further, That of the 
amount provided under this heading, $311,000,000 is pro-
vided to meet the terms of section 251(b)(2)(C)(ii) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985, as amended, and $361,000,000 is additional new 
budget 
authority 
specified 
for 
purposes 
of 
section 
251(b)(2)(C) of such Act. 
ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT 
AND FAMILY SUPPORT PROGRAMS 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles 
I, IV–D, X, XI, XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act 
and the Act of July 5, 1960, $2,438,523,000, to remain 
available until expended; and for such purposes for the first 
quarter of fiscal year 2016, $1,160,000,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
For carrying out, after May 31 of the current fiscal 
year, except as otherwise provided, titles I, IV–D, X, XI, 
XIV, and XVI of the Social Security Act and the Act of 
July 5, 1960, for the last 3 months of the current fiscal 
year for unanticipated costs, incurred for the current fiscal 
year, such sums as may be necessary.
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LOW INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE 
For making payments under subsections (b) and (d) 
of section 2602 of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance 
Act of 1981, $3,390,304,000: Provided, That all but 
$491,000,000 of this amount shall be allocated as though 
the total appropriation for such payments for fiscal year 
2015 was less than $1,975,000,000: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 2609A(a), of the amounts appro-
priated under section 2602(b), not more than $2,988,000 
of such amounts may be reserved by the Secretary for tech-
nical assistance, training, and monitoring of program ac-
tivities for compliance with internal controls, policies and 
procedures and may, in addition to the authorities provided 
in section 2609A(a)(1), use such funds through contracts 
with private entities that do not qualify as nonprofit orga-
nizations. 
REFUGEE AND ENTRANT ASSISTANCE 
For necessary expenses for refugee and entrant assist-
ance activities authorized by section 414 of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act and section 501 of the Refugee Edu-
cation Assistance Act of 1980, and for carrying out section 
462 of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, section 235 of 
the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Re-
authorization Act of 2008, the Trafficking Victims Protec-
tion Act of 2000 (‘‘TVPA’’), section 203 of the Trafficking
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Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the 
Torture Victims Relief Act of 1998, $1,559,884,000, of 
which $1,533,394,000 shall remain available through Sep-
tember 30, 2017 for carrying out such sections 414, 501, 
462, and 235: Provided, That amounts available under this 
heading to carry out such section 203 and the TVPA shall 
also be available for research and evaluation with respect 
to activities under those authorities: Provided further, That 
the limitation in section 206 of this Act regarding transfers 
increasing any appropriation shall apply to transfers to 
appropriations under this heading by substituting ‘‘10 per-
cent’’ for ‘‘3 percent’’. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES FOR THE CHILD CARE AND 
DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT 
For carrying out the Child Care and Development 
Block Grant Act of 1990 (‘‘CCDBG Act’’), $2,435,000,000 
shall be used to supplement, not supplant State general rev-
enue funds for child care assistance for low-income families: 
Provided, That $19,357,000 shall be available for child care 
resource and referral and school-aged child care activities, 
of which $996,000 shall be available to the Secretary for 
a competitive grant for the operation of a national toll free 
referral line and Web site to develop and disseminate child 
care consumer education information for parents and help 
parents access child care in their local community: Pro-
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vided further, That, in addition to the amounts required 
to be reserved by the States under section 658G of the 
CCDBG Act, $305,906,000 shall be reserved by the States 
for activities authorized under section 658G, of which 
$112,187,000 shall be for activities that improve the quality 
of infant and toddler care: Provided further, That 
$9,851,000 shall be for use by the Secretary for child care 
research, demonstration, and evaluation activities: Pro-
vided further, That technical assistance under section 
658I(a)(3) of such Act may be provided directly, or through 
the use of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or 
interagency agreements. 
SOCIAL SERVICES BLOCK GRANT 
For making grants to States pursuant to section 2002 
of the Social Security Act, $1,700,000,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding subparagraph (B) of section 404(d)(2) of 
such Act, the applicable percent specified under such sub-
paragraph for a State to carry out State programs pursu-
ant to title XX–A of such Act shall be 10 percent. 
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES SERVICES PROGRAMS 
For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, the 
Runaway and Homeless Youth Act, the Head Start Act, the 
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, sections 303 
and 313 of the Family Violence Prevention and Services 
Act, the Native American Programs Act of 1974, title II
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of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption 
Reform Act of 1978 (adoption opportunities), the Aban-
doned Infants Assistance Act of 1988, part B–1 of title IV 
and sections 413, 1110, and 1115 of the Social Security 
Act; for making payments under the Community Services 
Block Grant Act (‘‘CSBG Act’’), sections 473B and 477(i) 
of the Social Security Act, and the Assets for Independence 
Act; for necessary administrative expenses to carry out such 
Acts and titles I, IV, V, X, XI, XIV, XVI, and XX of the 
Social Security Act, the Act of July 5, 1960, the Low In-
come Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, title IV of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act, and section 501 of the 
Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980; and for the ad-
ministration of prior year obligations made by the Admin-
istration for Children and Families under the Develop-
mental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act and 
the Help America Vote Act of 2002, $10,346,115,000, of 
which $37,943,000, to remain available through September 
30, 2016, shall be for grants to States for adoption incentive 
payments, as authorized by section 473A of the Social Secu-
rity Act and may be made for adoptions completed before 
September 30, 2015: Provided, That $8,598,095,000 shall 
be for making payments under the Head Start Act: Pro-
vided further, That of the amount in the previous proviso, 
$8,073,095,000 shall be available for payments under sec-
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tion 640 of the Head Start Act: Provided further, That of 
the amount provided for making payments under the Head 
Start Act, $25,000,000 shall be available for allocation by 
the Secretary to supplement activities described in para-
graphs (7)(B) and (9) of section 641(c) of such Act under 
the Designation Renewal System, established under the au-
thority of sections 641(c)(7), 645A(b)(12) and 645A(d) of 
such Act: Provided further, That amounts allocated to Head 
Start grantees at the discretion of the Secretary to supple-
ment activities pursuant to the previous proviso shall not 
be included in the calculation of the ‘‘base grant’’ in subse-
quent fiscal years, as such term is used in section 
640(a)(7)(A) of the Head Start Act: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 640 of the Head Start Act, of the 
amount provided for making payments under the Head 
Start Act, and in addition to funds otherwise available 
under section 640 for such purposes, $500,000,000 shall be 
available through March 31, 2016 for Early Head Start 
programs as described in section 645A of such Act, for con-
version of Head Start services to Early Head Start services 
as described in section 645(a)(5)(A) of such Act, and for 
discretionary grants for high quality infant and toddler 
care through Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, 
to entities defined as eligible under section 645A(d) of such 
Act, with such funds in this Act and Public Law 113–76
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match requirement in section 121(e) or the member support 
Federal share limitations in section 140 of the 1990 Act, 
and subject to partial waiver consistent with section 
2521.70 of title 45, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 403. Donations made to CNCS under section 196 
of the 1990 Act for the purposes of financing programs and 
operations under titles I and II of the 1973 Act or subtitle 
B, C, D, or E of title I of the 1990 Act shall be used to 
supplement and not supplant current programs and oper-
ations. 
SEC. 404. In addition to the requirements in section 
146(a) of the 1990 Act, use of an educational award for 
the purpose described in section 148(a)(4) shall be limited 
to individuals who are veterans as defined under section 
101 of the Act. 
SEC. 405. For the purpose of carrying out section 
189D of the 1990 Act: 
(1) Entities described in paragraph (a) of such 
section shall be considered ‘‘qualified entities’’ under 
section 3 of the National Child Protection Act of 1993 
(‘‘NCPA’’); and 
(2) Individuals described in such section shall be 
considered ‘‘volunteers’’ under section 3 of NCPA; and 
(3) State Commissions on National and Commu-
nity Service established pursuant to section 178 of the
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proprietary or that would create competi-
tive disadvantage. 
(ii) The requirements of clause (i) shall not 
apply to assistance for the purpose of building 
the capacity of such government to meet the re-
quirements of this subparagraph. 
(C) The Secretary of the Treasury or the 
Secretary of State, as appropriate, shall instruct 
the United States executive director of each 
international financial institution and the 
United States representatives to all forest-related 
multilateral financing mechanisms and processes 
to vote against any financing to support or pro-
mote the expansion of industrial scale logging or 
any other industrial scale extractive activity into 
areas that were primary/intact tropical forest as 
of December 30, 2013. 
(D) The Secretary of the Treasury shall in-
struct the United States executive director of 
each international financial institution that it is 
the policy of the United States to vote in relation 
to any loan, grant, strategy, or policy of such in-
stitution to support the construction of any large 
dam, only in accordance with the conditions 
under this section in the explanatory statement
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TITLE IX 
EBOLA RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS 
DEPARTMENT OF STATE 
ADMINISTRATION OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS 
DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR PROGRAMS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Diplomatic and Con-
sular Programs’’, $36,420,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2016, for necessary expenses to prevent, pre-
pare for, and respond to the Ebola virus disease outbreak: 
Provided, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 
DEVELOPMENT 
FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE PRESIDENT 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Operating Expenses’’, 
$19,037,000, to remain available until September 30, 2016, 
for necessary expenses to prevent, prepare for, and respond 
to the Ebola virus disease outbreak: Provided, That such 
amount is designated by the Congress as an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
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exceed $1,011,000 shall be available for the immediate Of-
fice of the Deputy Secretary; not to exceed $19,900,000 shall 
be available for the Office of the General Counsel; not to 
exceed $9,800,000 shall be available for the Office of the 
Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed 
$12,500,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed 
$2,500,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed 
$25,365,000 shall be available for the Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Administration; not to exceed $2,000,000 shall 
be available for the Office of Public Affairs; not to exceed 
$1,714,000 shall be available for the Office of the Executive 
Secretariat; not to exceed $1,414,000 shall be available for 
the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utiliza-
tion; not to exceed $10,600,000 shall be available for the 
Office of Intelligence, Security, and Emergency Response; 
and not to exceed $15,500,000 shall be available for the Of-
fice of the Chief Information Officer: Provided, That the 
Secretary of Transportation is authorized to transfer funds 
appropriated for any office of the Office of the Secretary 
to any other office of the Office of the Secretary: Provided 
further, That no appropriation for any office shall be in-
creased or decreased by more than 5 percent by all such 
transfers: Provided further, That notice of any change in
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ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OFFICES 
For necessary salaries and expenses for Administrative 
Support Offices, $518,100,000, of which not to exceed 
$47,000,000 shall be available for the Office of the Chief 
Financial Officer; not to exceed $94,000,000 shall be avail-
able for the Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed 
$200,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Administra-
tion; not to exceed $57,000,000 shall be available for the 
Office of the Chief Human Capital Officer; not to exceed 
$50,000,000 shall be available for the Office of Field Policy 
and Management; not to exceed $16,500,000 shall be avail-
able for the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer; not to 
exceed $3,200,000 shall be available for the Office of Depart-
mental Equal Employment Opportunity; not to exceed 
$4,400,000 shall be available for the Office of Strategic 
Planning and Management; and not to exceed $46,000,000 
shall be available for the Office of the Chief Information 
Officer: Provided, That funds provided under this heading 
may be used for necessary administrative and non-adminis-
trative expenses of the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development, not otherwise provided for, including pur-
chase 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: Provided further, 
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds ap-
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period beginning with fiscal year 2016 and ending 
with fiscal year 2020 shall be placed in a noninterest- 
bearing account within such fund in the following 
amounts: 
‘‘(I) for fiscal year 2016, $108,000,000; 
‘‘(II) for fiscal year 2017, $111,000,000; 
‘‘(III) for fiscal year 2018, $113,000,000; 
‘‘(IV) for fiscal year 2019, $149,000,000; 
and 
‘‘(V) for fiscal year 2020, $296,000,000; 
‘‘(ii) premiums received in fiscal years specified 
in subclauses (I) through (V) of clause (i) shall be al-
located in order first to the noninterest-bearing ac-
count in the amount specified and second to any 
other accounts within such fund; and 
‘‘(iii) financial assistance, as provided under 
section 4261, shall be withdrawn proportionately 
from the noninterest-bearing and other accounts with-
in the fund.’’. 
(c) REPORT.—In addition to any other report required 
by section 4022A(f), not later than June 1, 2016, the Pen-
sion Benefit Guaranty Corporation shall submit to Con-
gress a report that includes— 
(1) an analysis of whether the premium levels 
enacted under the amendment made by subsection (a)