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of Inspector General and remain available until expended 
for oversight and auditing purposes associated with this 
section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to the Office 
for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the re-
quirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes 
to improve services for victims of crime. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-
nate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of 
students who participate in programs for which financial 
assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents 
or legal guardians of such students. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 513. (a) The Inspectors General of the Depart-
ment of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Na-
tional Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Cor-
poration shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector 
General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for 
which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit 
reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which 
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may include preliminary findings and a description of 
areas of particular interest, within 180 days after initi-
ating such an audit and every 180 days thereafter until 
any such audit is completed. 
(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit 
described in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is 
completed, the Secretary, Attorney General, Adminis-
trator, Director, or President, as appropriate, shall make 
the results of the audit available to the public on the Inter-
net website maintained by the Department, Administra-
tion, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The results 
shall be made available in redacted form to exclude— 
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of 
title 5, United States Code; and 
(2) sensitive personal information for any indi-
vidual, the public access to which could be used to 
commit identity theft or for other inappropriate or 
unlawful purposes. 
(c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded 
by amounts appropriated by this Act shall submit a state-
ment to the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, 
the Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, 
certifying that no funds derived from the grant or contract 
will be made available through a subcontract or in any 
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other manner to another person who has a financial inter-
est in the person awarded the grant or contract. 
(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of 
this section shall take effect 30 days after the date on 
which the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, in consultation with the Director of the Office of 
Government Ethics, determines that a uniform set of rules 
and requirements, substantially similar to the require-
ments in such subsections, consistently apply under the 
executive branch ethics program to all Federal depart-
ments, agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available under this Act may be used by the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aer-
onautics and Space Administration, or the National 
Science Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate- 
impact information system, as defined for security cat-
egorization in the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 
Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-
egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-
tems’’ unless the agency has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to 
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inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and 
moderate-impact information systems within the 
Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 
threat information provided by the FBI and other 
appropriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other ap-
propriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of 
any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated 
with the acquisition of such system, including any 
risk associated with such system being produced, 
manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 
identified by the United States Government as pos-
ing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, 
those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by 
the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic 
of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
or the Russian Federation. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used to acquire a 
high-impact or moderate-impact information system re-
viewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head 
of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has— 
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(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the 
FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a 
mitigation strategy for any identified risks; 
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 
the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in 
the national interest of the United States; and 
(3) reported that determination to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-
eral. 
SEC. 515. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-
ployee of the United States Government. 
SEC. 516. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to include in any new bilateral or multi-
lateral trade agreement the text of— 
(1) paragraph 2 of article 16.7 of the United 
States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of article 17.9 of the United 
States–Australia Free Trade Agreement; or 
(3) paragraph 4 of article 15.9 of the United 
States–Morocco Free Trade Agreement. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to authorize or issue a national security 
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letter in contravention of any of the following laws author-
izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 
1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Secu-
rity Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM 
Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reason-
able cause to believe that the total program cost has in-
creased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall 
immediately inform the respective Secretary, Adminis-
trator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Di-
rector shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 30 days in writing of such increase, 
and shall include in such notice: the date on which such 
determination was made; a statement of the reasons for 
such increases; the action taken and proposed to be taken 
to control future cost growth of the project; changes made 
in the performance or schedule milestones and the degree 
to which such changes have contributed to the increase 
in total program costs or procurement costs; new esti-
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mates of the total project or procurement costs; and a 
statement validating that the project’s management struc-
ture is adequate to control total project or procurement 
costs. 
SEC. 519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intel-
ligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be 
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-
tion 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3094) during fiscal year 2026 until the enactment of the 
Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to enter into 
a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to 
award a grant in excess of such amount unless the pro-
spective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the 
agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best 
of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has 
filed all Federal tax returns required during the three 
years preceding the certification, has not been convicted 
of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certifi-
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or 
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offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-
nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-
ment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or 
judicial proceeding. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 521. (a) Of the unobligated balances available 
to the Department of Commerce, the following funds are 
hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September 
30, 2026, from the following accounts in the specified 
amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Economic Development Administration— 
Economic 
Development 
Assistance 
Programs’’, 
$60,000,000, only from prior year appropriations 
that remain available until expended; and 
(2) 
‘‘Census 
Working 
Capital 
Fund’’, 
$15,000,000. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances from prior year ap-
propriations available to the Department of Justice, the 
following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not 
later than September 30, 2026, from the following ac-
counts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office on Violence Against Women—Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $36,000,000; 
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(2) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office of Justice Programs’’, $250,000,000; 
and 
(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$25,000,000. 
(c) Of the unobligated balances available to the De-
partment of Justice, the following funds are hereby per-
manently rescinded, not later than September 30, 2026, 
from the following accounts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $210,000,000; 
and 
(2) ‘‘Legal Activities—Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, 
$113,200,000. 
(d) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report no later than 
September 1, 2026, specifying the amount of each rescis-
sion made pursuant to subsections (a), (b), and (c). 
(e) The amounts rescinded in subsections (a), (b), 
and (c) shall not be from amounts that were designated 
by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief require-
ment pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985. 
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(f) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsections 
(b) and (c) shall not be from— 
(1) amounts provided under subparagraph (Q) 
of paragraph (1) under the heading ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice 
Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement As-
sistance’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 
117–103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts pro-
vided under subparagraph (R) of paragraph (1) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Office of Justice Programs—State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II 
of division C of Public Law 118–42; or 
(2) amounts provided under paragraph (7) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Community Oriented Policing Serv-
ices—Community Oriented Policing Services Pro-
grams’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 117– 
103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts provided 
under paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community Ori-
ented Policing Services—Community Oriented Polic-
ing Services Programs’’ in title II of division C of 
Public Law 118–42. 
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$19,700,000 shall be available until September 30, 2027, 
for program direction. 
GRID DEPLOYMENT 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for grid de-
ployment in carrying out the purposes of the Department 
of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), in-
cluding the acquisition or condemnation of any real prop-
erty or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, con-
struction, or expansion, $25,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, 
That of such amount, 
$6,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2027, 
for program direction. 
NUCLEAR ENERGY 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for nuclear 
energy activities in carrying out the purposes of the De-
partment of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any 
real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisi-
tion, construction, or expansion, $1,785,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of such 
amount, $88,000,000 shall be available until September 
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