In the Senate of the United States,
August 31, 1998.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 4276) entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations for
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judi-
ciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending Septem-
ber 30, 1999, and for other purposes.’’, do pass with the fol-
lowing
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judici-
ary, and related agencies programs for the fiscal year end-
ing September 30, 1999, and for other purposes, namely:
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the administration of the
Department of Justice, $76,199,000, of which not to exceed
$3,317,000 is for the Facilities Program 2000, to remain
available until expended: Provided, That not to exceed 43
permanent positions and 44 full-time equivalent workyears
and $7,860,000 shall be expended for the Department Lead-
ership Program: Provided further, That not to exceed 39
permanent positions and 39 full-time equivalent workyears
and $4,660,000 shall be expended for the Offices of Legisla-
tive Affairs and Public Affairs: Provided further, That the
latter two aforementioned offices shall not be augmented by
personnel details, temporary transfers of personnel on either
a reimbursable or non-reimbursable basis or any other type
of formal or informal transfer or reimbursement of person-
nel or funds on either a temporary or long-term basis: Pro-
vided further, That the Attorney General is authorized to
transfer, under such terms and conditions as the Attorney
General shall specify, forfeited real or personal property of
limited or marginal value, as such value is determined by
guidelines established by the Attorney General, to a State
or local government agency, or its designated contractor or
transferee, for use to support drug abuse treatment, drug
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and crime prevention and education, housing, job skills,
and other community-based public health and safety pro-
grams: Provided further, That any transfer under the pre-
ceding proviso shall not create or confer any private right
of action in any person against the United States, and shall
be treated as a reprogramming under section 605 of this
Act.
JOINT AUTOMATED BOOKING SYSTEM
For expenses necessary for the nationwide deployment
of a Joint Automated Booking System, $10,000,000, to re-
main available until expended.
COUNTERTERRORISM FUND
For necessary expenses, as determined by the Attorney
General, $19,999,000, to remain available until expended,
to reimburse any Department of Justice organization for
(1) the costs incurred in reestablishing the operational ca-
pability of an office or facility which has been damaged
or destroyed as a result of any domestic or international
terrorist incident, (2) the costs of providing support to
counter, investigate or prosecute domestic or international
terrorism, including payment of rewards in connection
with these activities, (3) the costs of conducting a terrorism
threat assessment of Federal agencies and their facilities,
(4) the costs associated with ensuring the continuance of
essential Government functions during a time of emergency,
and (5) the costs of activities related to the protection of
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the Nation’s critical infrastructure: Provided, That any
Federal agency may be reimbursed for costs associated with
implementation of the recommendations of the President’s
Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection: Provided
further, That any agency receiving services from the De-
partment of Justice from the Fund may reimburse the Fund
and that any such reimbursement shall remain available
in the Fund until expended: Provided further, That funds
provided under this paragraph shall be available only after
the Attorney General notifies the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate in ac-
cordance with section 605 of this Act.
In addition, for necessary expenses, as determined by
the Attorney General, $174,000,000, to remain available
until expended, for transfer to the Office of Justice Pro-
grams (OJP), for counterterrorism grants, contracts, coop-
erative agreements, and other assistance (including
amounts for management and administration which shall
be transferred to and merged with the ‘‘Justice Assistance’’
account), to cities, States, territories, and local jurisdic-
tions; of which $95,000,000 shall be available for equipping
first responders in cities, States, territories, and local juris-
dictions; of which $5,000,000 shall be available to reimburse
the Department of Health and Human Services for costs
associated with Metropolitan Medical Strike Teams; of
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which $10,000,000 shall be available for technical assistance
and evaluation; of which $7,000,000 shall be available for
law enforcement first responder training; of which
$22,000,000 shall be available for public safety first re-
sponder training provided through the National Domestic
Preparedness Consortium; of which $25,000,000 shall be
available for firefighter and emergency medical services
equipment; and of which $10,000,000 shall be available for
situational training exercises.
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS
For expenses necessary for the administration of par-
don and clemency petitions and immigration related activi-
ties, $41,858,000.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General
Act of 1978, as amended, $33,211,000; including not to ex-
ceed $10,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confiden-
tial character, to be expended under the direction of, and
to be accounted for solely under the certificate of, the Attor-
ney General; and for the acquisition, lease, maintenance,
and operation of motor vehicles, without regard to the gen-
eral purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year:
Provided, That up to one-tenth of one percent of the Depart-
ment of Justice’s allocation from the Violent Crime Reduc-
tion Trust Fund grant programs may be transferred at the
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discretion of the Attorney General to this account for the
audit or other review of such grant programs, as authorized
by section 130005 of the Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322).
UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole
Commission as authorized by law, $7,969,000.
LEGAL ACTIVITIES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES
For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the
Department of Justice, not otherwise provided for, includ-
ing not to exceed $20,000 for expenses of collecting evidence,
to be expended under the direction of, and to be accounted
for solely under the certificate of, the Attorney General; and
rent of private or Government-owned space in the District
of Columbia; and for annual obligations of membership in
law-based international organizations pursuant to treaties
ratified pursuant to the advice and consent of the Senate,
conventions, or specific Acts of Congress, notwithstanding
any other provision of law; $485,511,000; of which not to
exceed $10,000,000 for litigation support contracts shall re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of the funds
available in this appropriation, not to exceed $17,834,000
shall remain available until expended for office automation
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systems for the legal divisions covered by this appropria-
tion, and for the United States Attorneys, the Antitrust Di-
vision, and offices funded through ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’,
General Administration: Provided further, That of the total
amount appropriated, not to exceed $1,000 shall be avail-
able to the United States National Central Bureau,
INTERPOL, for official reception and representation ex-
penses.
In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the De-
partment of Justice associated with processing cases under
the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, as
amended, not to exceed $4,028,000, to be appropriated from
the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of antitrust
and kindred laws, $86,588,000: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, not to exceed
$86,588,000 of offsetting collections derived from fees col-
lected for premerger notification filings under the Hart-
Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15
U.S.C. 18(a)) shall be retained and used for necessary ex-
penses in this appropriation, and shall remain available
until expended: Provided further, That the sum herein ap-
propriated from the General Fund shall be reduced as such
offsetting collections are received during fiscal year 1999,
so as to result in a final fiscal year 1999 appropriation
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from the General Fund estimated at not more than $0: Pro-
vided further, That the third proviso under the heading
‘‘Salaries and Expenses, Antitrust Division’’ in Public Law
105–119 is repealed.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United
States Attorneys, including intergovernmental and coopera-
tive agreements, $1,083,642,000; of which not to exceed
$2,500,000 shall be available until September 30, 2000, for
(1) training personnel in debt collection, (2) locating debt-
ors and their property, (3) paying the net costs of selling
property, and (4) tracking debts owed to the United States
Government: Provided, That of the total amount appro-
priated, not to exceed $8,000 shall be available for official
reception and representation expenses: Provided further,
That not to exceed $10,000,000 of those funds available for
automated litigation support contracts shall remain avail-
able until expended: Provided further, That not to exceed
$1,200,000 for the design, development, and implementation
of an information systems strategy for D.C. Superior Court
shall remain available until expended: Provided further,
That not to exceed $2,500,000 for the operation of the Na-
tional Advocacy Center shall remain available until ex-
pended: Provided further, That not to exceed $1,000,000
shall remain available until expended for the expansion of
existing Violent Crime Task Forces in United States Attor-
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neys Offices into demonstration projects, including inter-
governmental, inter-local, cooperative, and task-force agree-
ments, however denominated, and contracts with State and
local prosecutorial and law enforcement agencies engaged
in the investigation and prosecution of violent crimes: Pro-
vided further, That, in addition to reimbursable full-time
equivalent workyears available to the Office of the United
States Attorneys, not to exceed 8,960 positions and 9,125
full-time equivalent workyears shall be supported from the
funds appropriated in this Act for the United States Attor-
neys: Provided further, that of the total amount appro-
priated, not to exceed $3,000,000 shall remain available to
hire additional assistant United States Attorneys and in-
vestigators to enforce Federal laws designed to keep firearms
out of the hands of criminals, and the Attorney General
is directed to initiate a selection process to identify two (2)
major metropolitan areas (which shall not be in the same
geographic area of the United States) which have an unusu-
ally high incidence of gun-related crime, where the funds
described in this subsection shall be expended: Provided fur-
ther, That $2,300,000 shall be used to provide for additional
assistant United States attorneys and investigators to serve
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden County, New
Jersey, to enforce Federal laws designed to prevent the pos-
session by criminals of firearms (as that term is defined
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in section 921(a) of title 18, United States Code), of which
$1,500,000 shall be used to provide for those attorneys and
investigators in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and $800,000
shall be used to provide for those attorneys and investigators
in Camden County, New Jersey.
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND
For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee
Program, 
as 
authorized 
by 
U.S.C. 
589a(a),
$108,248,000, to remain available until expended and to
be derived from the United States Trustee System Fund:
Provided, That, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, deposits to the Fund shall be available in such amounts
as may be necessary to pay refunds due depositors: Pro-
vided further, That, notwithstanding any other provision
of law, $100,000,000 of offsetting collections derived from
fees collected pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 589a(b) shall be re-
tained and used for necessary expenses in this appropria-
tion and remain available until expended: Provided further,
That the sum herein appropriated from the Fund shall be
reduced as such offsetting collections are received during fis-
cal year 1999, so as to result in a final fiscal year 1999
appropriation from the Fund not to exceed $8,248,000: Pro-
vided further, That the fourth proviso under the heading
‘‘United States Trustee Fund’’ in Public Law 105–119 is
repealed.
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS SETTLEMENT
COMMISSION
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of
the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, including serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,227,000.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES MARSHALS
SERVICE
For necessary expenses of the United States Marshals
Service; including the acquisition, lease, maintenance, and
operation of vehicles, and the purchase of passenger motor
vehicles for police-type use, without regard to the general
purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year,
$501,752,000, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 561(i); of which
not to exceed $6,000 shall be available for official reception
and representation expenses; and of which not to exceed
$4,000,000 for development, implementation, maintenance
and support, and training for an automated prisoner infor-
mation system, shall remain available until expended.
CONSTRUCTION
For planning, constructing, renovating, equipping,
and maintaining United States Marshals Service prisoner-
holding space in United States courthouses and federal
buildings, including the renovation and expansion of pris-
oner movement areas, elevators, and sallyports, $4,000,000,
to remain available until expended.
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JUSTICE PRISONER AND ALIEN TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM
FUND, UNITED STATES MARSHALS SERVICE
There is hereby established a Justice Prisoner and
Alien Transportation System Fund for the payment of nec-
essary expenses related to the scheduling and transportation
of United States prisoners and illegal and criminal aliens
in the custody of the United States Marshals Service, as
authorized in 18 U.S.C. 4013, including, without limita-
tion, salaries and expenses, operations, and the acquisition,
lease, and maintenance of aircraft and support facilities:
Provided, That the Fund shall be reimbursed or credited
with advance payments from amounts available to the De-
partment of Justice, other Federal agencies, and other
sources at rates that will recover the expenses of Fund oper-
ations, including, without limitation, accrual of annual
leave and depreciation of plant and equipment of the Fund:
Provided further, That proceeds from the disposal of Fund
aircraft shall be credited to the Fund: Provided further,
That amounts in the Fund shall be available without fiscal
year limitation, and may be used for operating equipment
lease agreements that do not exceed five years: Provided fur-
ther, That with respect to the transportation of Federal,
State, local and territorial prisoners and detainees, the
lease or rent of aircraft by the Justice Prisoner Air Trans-
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port System shall be considered use of public aircraft pursu-
ant to 49 U.S.C. section 40102(a)(37).
For the initial capitalization costs of the Fund,
$10,000,000.
FEDERAL PRISONER DETENTION
For expenses, related to United States prisoners in the
custody of the United States Marshals Service as authorized
in 18 U.S.C. 4013, but not including expenses otherwise
provided for in appropriations available to the Attorney
General, $407,018,000, as authorized by 28 U.S.C. 561(i),
to remain available until expended.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES
For expenses, mileage, compensation, and per diems
of witnesses, for expenses of contracts for the procurement
and supervision of expert witnesses, for private counsel ex-
penses, and for per diems in lieu of subsistence, as author-
ized by law, including advances, $95,000,000, to remain
available until expended; of which not to exceed $6,000,000
may be made available for planning, construction, renova-
tions, maintenance, remodeling, and repair of buildings,
and the purchase of equipment incident thereto, for pro-
tected witness safesites; of which not to exceed $1,000,000
may be made available for the purchase and maintenance
of armored vehicles for transportation of protected wit-
nesses; and of which not to exceed $4,000,000 may be made
available for the purchase, installation and maintenance of