H. R. 3010
One Hundred Ninth Congress
of the
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and five 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, 
and Education, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2006, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 
not otherwise appropriated, for the Departments of Labor, Health 
and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2006, and for other purposes, 
namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 
EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION 
TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES 
(INCLUDING RESCISSIONS) 
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act of 
1998, the Denali Commission Act of 1998, and the Women in 
Apprenticeship and Non-Traditional Occupations Act of 1992, 
including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, the 
construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and other facilities, 
and the purchase of real property for training centers as authorized 
by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; $2,652,411,000 plus 
reimbursements, of which $1,688,411,000 is available for obligation 
for the period July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007; except that 
amounts determined by the Secretary of Labor to be necessary 
pursuant to sections 173(a)(4)(A) and 174(c) of the Workforce Invest-
ment Act of 1998 shall be available from October 1, 2005, until 
expended; and of which $950,000,000 is available for obligation 
for the period April 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007, to carry 
out chapter 4 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998; and of 
which $8,000,000 is available for the period July 1, 2006, through 
June 30, 2009, for necessary expenses of construction, rehabilitation, 
and acquisition of Job Corps centers: Provided, That notwith-
standing any other provision of law, of the funds provided herein 
under section 137(c) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, 
$282,800,000 shall be for activities described in section 132(a)(2)(A) 
of such Act and $1,193,264,000 shall be for activities described 
in section 132(a)(2)(B) of such Act: Provided further, That 
$125,000,000 shall be available for Community-Based Job Training 
Grants, which shall be from funds reserved under section
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132(a)(2)(A) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and shall 
be used to carry out such grants under section 171(d) of such 
Act, except that the 10 percent limitation otherwise applicable 
to the amount of funds that may be used to carry out section 
171(d) shall not be applicable to funds used for Community-Based 
Job Training grants: Provided further, That funds provided to carry 
out section 132(a)(2)(A) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 
may be used to provide assistance to a State for State-wide 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 economic development needs; and 
train such eligible dislocated workers: Provided further, That 
$7,936,000 shall be for carrying out section 172 of the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998: Provided further, That $982,000 shall be 
for carrying out Public Law 102–530: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law or related regulation, 
$80,557,000 shall be for carrying out section 167 of the Workforce 
Investment Act of 1998, including $75,053,000 for formula grants, 
$5,000,000 for migrant and seasonal housing (of which not less 
than 70 percent shall be for permanent housing), and $504,000 
for other discretionary purposes, and that the Department shall 
take no action limiting the number or proportion of eligible partici-
pants receiving related assistance services or discouraging grantees 
from providing such services: Provided further, That notwith-
standing the transfer limitation under section 133(b)(4) of such 
Act, up to 30 percent of such funds may be transferred by a 
local board if approved by the Governor: Provided further, That 
funds provided to carry out section 171(d) of the Workforce Invest-
ment Act of 1998 may be used for demonstration projects that 
provide assistance to new entrants in the workforce and incumbent 
workers: Provided further, That no funds from any other appropria-
tion shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps 
centers. 
For necessary expenses of the Workforce Investment Act of 
1998, including the purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and other facili-
ties, and the purchase of real property for training centers as 
authorized by the Act; $2,463,000,000 plus reimbursements, of 
which $2,363,000,000 is available for obligation for the period 
October 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007, and of which $100,000,000 
is available for the period October 1, 2006, through June 30, 2009, 
for necessary expenses of construction, rehabilitation, and acquisi-
tion of Job Corps centers. 
Of the funds provided under this heading in Public Law 108–
7 to carry out section 173(a)(4)(A) of the Workforce Investment 
Act of 1998, $20,000,000 are rescinded. 
Of the funds provided under this heading in Public Law 107–
117, $5,000,000 are rescinded. 
Of the funds provided under this heading in division F of 
Public Law 108–447 for Community-Based Job Training Grants, 
$125,000,000 is rescinded. 
The Secretary of Labor shall take no action to amend, through 
regulatory or administration action, the definition established in 
20 CFR 667.220 for functions and activities under title I of the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, or to modify, through regulatory 
or administrative action, the procedure for redesignation of local
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areas as specified in subtitle B of title I of that Act (including 
applying the standards specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that 
Act, but notwithstanding the time limits specified in section 
116(a)(3)(B) of that Act), until such time as legislation reauthorizing 
the Act is enacted. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall permit 
or require the Secretary of Labor to withdraw approval for such 
redesignation from a State that received the approval not later 
than October 12, 2005, or to revise action taken or modify the 
redesignation procedure being used by the Secretary in order to 
complete such redesignation for a State that initiated the process 
of such redesignation by submitting any request for such redesigna-
tion not later than October 26, 2005. 
COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT FOR OLDER AMERICANS 
To carry out title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as 
amended, $436,678,000. 
FEDERAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS AND ALLOWANCES 
For payments during the current fiscal year of trade adjustment 
benefit payments and allowances under part I and section 246; 
and for training, allowances for job search and relocation, and 
related State administrative expenses under part II of chapter 
2, title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (including the benefits and 
services described under sections 123(c)(2) and 151(b) and (c) of 
the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act of 2002, Public Law 
107–210), $966,400,000, together with such amounts as may be 
necessary to be charged to the subsequent appropriation for pay-
ments for any period subsequent to September 15 of the current 
year. 
STATE UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICE 
OPERATIONS 
For authorized administrative expenses, $125,312,000, together 
with not to exceed $3,266,766,000 (including not to exceed 
$1,228,000 which may be used for amortization payments to States 
which had independent retirement plans in their State employment 
service agencies prior to 1980), which may be expended from the 
Employment Security Administration Account in the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund including the cost of administering section 51 
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, section 7(d) 
of the Wagner-Peyser Act, as amended, the Trade Act of 1974, 
as amended, the Immigration Act of 1990, and the Immigration 
and Nationality Act, as amended, and of which the sums available 
in the allocation for activities authorized by title III of the Social 
Security Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 502–504), and the sums avail-
able in the allocation for necessary administrative expenses for 
carrying out 5 U.S.C. 8501–8523, shall be available for obligation 
by the States through December 31, 2006, except that funds used 
for automation acquisitions shall be available for obligation by 
the States through September 30, 2008; of which $125,312,000, 
together with not to exceed $700,000,000 of the amount which 
may be expended from said trust fund, shall be available for obliga-
tion for the period July 1, 2006, through June 30, 2007, to fund 
activities under the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, including 
the cost of penalty mail authorized under 39 U.S.C. 3202(a)(1)(E)
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made available to States in lieu of allotments for such purpose: 
Provided, That to the extent that the Average Weekly Insured 
Unemployment (AWIU) for fiscal year 2006 is projected by the 
Department of Labor to exceed 2,800,000, an additional $28,600,000 
shall be available for obligation for every 100,000 increase in the 
AWIU level (including a pro rata amount for any increment less 
than 100,000) from the Employment Security Administration 
Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund: Provided further, 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 Federal-State unemployment insurance 
or immigration programs, may be obligated in contracts, grants 
or agreements with non-State entities: Provided further, That funds 
appropriated in this Act for activities authorized under the Wagner-
Peyser Act, as amended, and title III of the Social Security Act, 
may be used by the States to fund integrated Employment Service 
and Unemployment Insurance automation efforts, notwithstanding 
cost allocation principles prescribed under Office of Management 
and Budget Circular A–87. 
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 Social Security Act, 
as amended, and to the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund as 
authorized by section 9501(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1954, as amended; and for nonrepayable advances to the Unemploy-
ment Trust Fund as authorized by section 8509 of title 5, United 
States Code, and to the ‘‘Federal unemployment benefits and allow-
ances’’ account, to remain available until September 30, 2007, 
$465,000,000. 
In addition, for making repayable advances to the Black Lung 
Disability Trust Fund in the current fiscal year after September 
15, 2006, for costs incurred by the Black Lung Disability Trust 
Fund in the current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses of administering employment and training pro-
grams, $117,123,000, together with not to exceed $82,877,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
WORKERS COMPENSATION PROGRAMS 
(RESCISSION) 
Of funds provided under this heading in the Emergency Supple-
mental Appropriations Act, 2002 (Public Law 107–117, division 
B), $120,000,000 are rescinded. 
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Employee Benefits Security 
Administration, $134,900,000.