H. R. 2608 
One Hundred Twelfth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, 
the fifth day of January, two thousand and eleven 
An Act 
Making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2012, 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 hereby appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of applicable cor-
porate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, for the several depart-
ments, agencies, corporations, and other organizational units of 
Government for fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes, namely: 
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate 
for operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts 
for fiscal year 2011 and under the authority and conditions provided 
in such Acts, for continuing projects or activities (including the 
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise 
specifically provided for in this Act, that were conducted in fiscal 
year 2011, and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority 
were made available in the following appropriations Acts: 
(1) The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2011 
(division A of Public Law 112–10). 
(2) The Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011 
(division B of Public Law 112–10). 
(b) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) is hereby 
reduced by 1.503 percent. 
SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made available or 
authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of 
Defense shall be used for (1) the new production of items not 
funded for production in fiscal year 2011 or prior years; (2) the 
increase in production rates above those sustained with fiscal year 
2011 funds; or (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of 
any project, activity, operation, or organization (defined as any 
project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program element, and 
subprogram within a program element, and for any investment 
items defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity within an 
appropriation account and an R–1 line item that includes a program 
element and subprogram element within an appropriation account) 
for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not avail-
able during fiscal year 2011. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense 
shall be used to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance 
procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement 
unless specifically appropriated later.
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SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be available 
to the extent and in the manner that would be provided by the 
pertinent appropriations Act. 
SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in section 102, no 
appropriation or funds made available or authority granted pursu-
ant to section 101 shall be used to initiate or resume any project 
or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were 
not available during fiscal year 2011. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant 
to this Act shall cover all obligations or expenditures incurred 
for any project or activity during the period for which funds or 
authority for such project or activity are available under this Act. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act or in the 
applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2012, appropriations 
and funds made available and authority granted pursuant to this 
Act shall be available until whichever of the following first occurs: 
(1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any project 
or activity provided for in this Act; (2) the enactment into law 
of the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2012 without 
any provision for such project or activity; or (3) November 18, 
2011. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this Act shall be 
charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization 
whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, or 
authorization is contained is enacted into law. 
SEC. 108. Appropriations made and funds made available by 
or authority granted pursuant to this Act may be used without 
regard to the time limitations for submission and approval of appor-
tionments set forth in section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, 
but nothing in this Act may be construed to waive any other 
provision of law governing the apportionment of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
except section 106, for those programs that would otherwise have 
high initial rates of operation or complete distribution of appropria-
tions at the beginning of fiscal year 2012 because of distributions 
of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or others, such 
high initial rates of operation or complete distribution shall not 
be made, and no grants shall be awarded for such programs funded 
by this Act that would impinge on final funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This Act shall be implemented so that only the 
most limited funding action of that permitted in the Act shall 
be taken in order to provide for continuation of projects and activi-
ties. 
SEC. 111. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory payments 
whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for 
fiscal year 2011, and for activities under the Food and Nutrition 
Act of 2008, activities shall be continued at the rate to maintain 
program levels under current law, under the authority and condi-
tions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 
2011, to be continued through the date specified in section 106(3). 
(b) Notwithstanding section 106, obligations for mandatory pay-
ments due on or about the first day of any month that begins 
after October 2011 but not later than 30 days after the date specified 
in section 106(3) may continue to be made, and funds shall be 
available for such payments. 
SEC. 112. Amounts made available under section 101 for civilian 
personnel compensation and benefits in each department and
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agency may be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary 
to avoid furloughs within such department or agency, consistent 
with the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2011, except 
that such authority provided under this section shall not be used 
until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions 
to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses. 
SEC. 113. Funds appropriated by this Act may be obligated 
and expended notwithstanding section 10 of Public Law 91–672 
(22 U.S.C. 2412), section 15 of the State Department Basic Authori-
ties Act of 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2680), section 313 of the Foreign Rela-
tions Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (22 U.S.C. 
6212), and section 504(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 414(a)(1)). 
SEC. 114. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), each amount 
incorporated by reference in this Act that was previously designated 
as being for contingency operations directly related to the global 
war on terrorism pursuant to section 3(c)(2) of H. Res. 5 (112th 
Congress) and as an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
403(a) of S. Con. Res. 13 (111th Congress), the concurrent resolution 
on the budget for fiscal year 2010, is designated by the Congress 
for Overseas Contingency Operations/Global War on Terrorism 
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emer-
gency Deficit Control Act of 1985, except that such amount shall 
be available only if the President subsequently so designates such 
amount and transmits such designation to the Congress. Section 
101(b) of this Act shall not apply to any amount so designated. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to amounts for ‘‘Department 
of 
Justice—Federal 
Bureau 
of 
Investigation—Salaries 
and 
Expenses’’. 
SEC. 115. During the period covered by this Act, discretionary 
amounts appropriated for fiscal year 2012 that were provided in 
advance by appropriations Acts shall be available in the amounts 
provided in such Acts, reduced by the percentage in section 101(b). 
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding section 101, amounts made available 
by this Act for ‘‘Department of Defense—Operation and Mainte-
nance—Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’ may be used by 
the Secretary of Defense for operations and activities of the Office 
of Security Cooperation in Iraq and security assistance teams, 
including life support, transportation and personal security, and 
facilities renovation and construction: Provided, That the authority 
made by this section shall continue in effect through the date 
specified in section 106(3) of this Act: Provided further, That section 
9014 of division A of Public Law 112–10 shall not apply to funds 
appropriated by this Act. 
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding section 101, funds made available 
in title IX of division A of Public Law 112–10 for ‘‘Overseas Contin-
gency Operations’’ shall be available at a rate for operations not 
to exceed the rate permitted by H.R. 2219 (112th Congress) as 
passed by the House of Representatives on July 8, 2011. 
SEC. 118. The authority provided by section 127b of title 10, 
United States Code, shall continue in effect through the date speci-
fied in section 106(3) of this Act. 
SEC. 119. The authority provided by section 1202 of the John 
Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 
(Public Law 109–364; 120 Stat. 2412), as extended by section 
1204(b) of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 4623), shall