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106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H.R. 4985
Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal
Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent
Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 26, 2000
Mr. KOLBE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Appropriations
A BILL
Making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the
United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of
the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and for other
purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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
Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service,
the Executive Office of the President, and certain Inde-
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pendent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2001, and for other purposes, namely:
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
DEPARTMENTAL OFFICES
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Departmental Offices
including operation and maintenance of the Treasury
Building and Annex; hire of passenger motor vehicles;
maintenance, repairs, and improvements of, and purchase
of commercial insurance policies for, real properties leased
or owned overseas, when necessary for the performance
of official business; not to exceed $2,900,000 for official
travel expenses; not to exceed $3,813,000, to remain avail-
able until expended for information technology moderniza-
tion requirements; not to exceed $150,000 for official re-
ception and representation expenses; not to exceed
$258,000 for unforeseen emergencies of a confidential na-
ture, to be allocated and expended under the direction of
the Secretary of the Treasury and to be accounted for
solely on his certificate, $156,315,000: Provided, That the
Office of Foreign Assets Control shall be funded at no less
than $11,439,000: Provided further, That of these
amounts $2,900,000 is available for grants to State and
local law enforcement groups to help fight money laun-
dering.
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TREASURY INSPECTOR GENERAL FOR TAX
ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Treasury Inspector
General for Tax Administration in carrying out the In-
spector General Act of 1978, as amended, including pur-
chase (not to exceed 150 for replacement only for police-
type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C.
1343(b)); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such
rates as may be determined by the Inspector General for
Tax Administration; not to exceed $6,000,000 for official
travel expenses; and not to exceed $500,000 for unfore-
seen emergencies of a confidential nature, to be allocated
and expended under the direction of the Inspector General
for Tax Administration, $118,427,000.
TREASURY BUILDING AND ANNEX REPAIR AND
RESTORATION
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the
Treasury Building and Annex, $31,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
EXPANDED ACCESS TO FINANCIAL SERVICES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
To develop and implement programs to expand access
to financial services for low- and moderate-income individ-
uals, $2,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
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vided, That of these funds, such sums as may be necessary
may be transferred to accounts of the Department’s of-
fices, bureaus, and other organizations: Provided further,
That this transfer authority shall be in addition to any
other transfer authority provided in this Act.
FINANCIAL CRIMES ENFORCEMENT NETWORK
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Financial Crimes En-
forcement Network, including hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles; travel expenses of non-Federal law enforcement
personnel to attend meetings concerned with financial in-
telligence activities, law enforcement, and financial regula-
tion; not to exceed $14,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses; and for assistance to Federal law en-
forcement agencies, with or without reimbursement,
$37,576,000, of which not to exceed $2,800,000 shall re-
main available until September 30, 2003; and of which
$2,275,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2002: Provided, That funds appropriated in this account
may be used to procure personal services contracts.
COUNTERTERRORISM FUND
For necessary expenses, as determined by the Sec-
retary, $55,000,000, to remain available until expended,
to reimburse any Department of the Treasury organiza-
tion for the costs of providing support to counter, inves-
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tigate, or prosecute terrorism, including payment of re-
wards in connection with these activities: Provided, That
the entire amount is designated by the Congress as an
emergency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)
of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control
Act of 1985, as amended: Provided further, That the entire
amount shall be available only to the extent that an official
budget request for a specific dollar amount that includes
designation of the entire amount of the request as an
emergency requirement as defined in such Act is trans-
mitted by the President to the Congress.
FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Center, as a bureau of the Department of
the Treasury, including materials and support costs of
Federal law enforcement basic training; purchase (not to
exceed 52 for police-type use, without regard to the gen-
eral purchase price limitation) and hire of passenger
motor vehicles; for expenses for student athletic and re-
lated activities; uniforms without regard to the general
purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year; the
conducting of and participating in firearms matches and
presentation of awards; for public awareness and enhanc-
ing community support of law enforcement training; not
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to exceed $11,500 for official reception and representation
expenses; room and board for student interns; and services
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $94,483,000, of which
up to $17,043,000 for materials and support costs of Fed-
eral law enforcement basic training shall remain available
until September 30, 2003: Provided, That the Center is
authorized to accept and use gifts of property, both real
and personal, and to accept services, for authorized pur-
poses, including funding of a gift of intrinsic value which
shall be awarded annually by the Director of the Center
to the outstanding student who graduated from a basic
training program at the Center during the previous fiscal
year, which shall be funded only by gifts received through
the Center’s gift authority: Provided further, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, students attend-
ing training at any Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center site shall reside in on-Center or Center-provided
housing, insofar as available and in accordance with Cen-
ter policy: Provided further, That funds appropriated in
this account shall be available, at the discretion of the Di-
rector, for the following: training United States Postal
Service law enforcement personnel and Postal police offi-
cers; State and local government law enforcement training
on a space-available basis; training of foreign law enforce-
ment officials on a space-available basis with reimburse-
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ment of actual costs to this appropriation, except that re-
imbursement may be waived by the Secretary for law en-
forcement training activities in foreign countries under-
taken pursuant to section 801 of the Antiterrorism and
Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, Public Law 104–
32; training of private sector security officials on a space-
available basis with reimbursement of actual costs to this
appropriation; and travel expenses of non-Federal per-
sonnel to attend course development meetings and training
sponsored by the Center: Provided further, That the Cen-
ter is authorized to obligate funds in anticipation of reim-
bursements from agencies receiving training sponsored by
the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, except
that total obligations at the end of the fiscal year shall
not exceed total budgetary resources available at the end
of the fiscal year: Provided further, That the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center is authorized to provide
training for the Gang Resistance Education and Training
program to Federal and non-Federal personnel at any fa-
cility in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms: Provided further, That the Federal Law
Enforcement Training Center is authorized to provide
short-term medical services for students undergoing train-
ing at the Center.
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ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND
RELATED EXPENSES
For expansion of the Federal Law Enforcement
Training Center, for acquisition of necessary additional
real property and facilities, and for ongoing maintenance,
facility improvements, and related expenses, $29,205,000,
to remain available until expended.
INTERAGENCY LAW ENFORCEMENT
INTERAGENCY CRIME AND DRUG ENFORCEMENT
For expenses necessary to conduct investigations and
convict offenders involved in organized crime drug traf-
ficking, including cooperative efforts with State and local
law enforcement, as it relates to the Treasury Department
law enforcement violations such as money laundering, vio-
lent crime, and smuggling, $103,476,000, of which
$7,827,000 shall remain available until expended.
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Financial Management
Service, 
$206,851,000, 
of 
which 
not 
to 
exceed
$10,635,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2003, for information systems modernization initiatives;
and of which not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for
official reception and representation expenses.
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BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed
812 vehicles for police-type use, of which 650 shall be for
replacement only, and hire of passenger motor vehicles;
hire of aircraft; services of expert witnesses at such rates
as may be determined by the Director; for payment of per
diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees where a
major investigative assignment requires an employee to
work 16 hours or more per day or to remain overnight
at his or her post of duty; not to exceed $20,000 for offi-
cial reception and representation expenses; for training of
State and local law enforcement agencies with or without
reimbursement, including training in connection with the
training and acquisition of canines for explosives and fire
accelerants detection; not to exceed $50,000 for coopera-
tive research and development programs for Laboratory
Services and Fire Research Center activities; and provi-
sion of laboratory assistance to State and local agencies,
with or without reimbursement, $768,695,000, of which
not to exceed $1,000,000 shall be available for the pay-
ment of attorneys’ fees as provided by 18 U.S.C.
924(d)(2); of which up to $2,000,000 shall be available
for the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or air-
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craft available for official use by a State or local law en-
forcement agency if the conveyance will be used in joint
law enforcement operations with the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco and Firearms and for the payment of overtime
salaries including Social Security and Medicare, travel,
fuel, training, equipment, supplies, and other similar costs
of State and local law enforcement personnel, including
sworn officers and support personnel, that are incurred
in joint operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms: Provided, That no funds made available by
this or any other Act may be used to transfer the func-
tions, missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, To-
bacco and Firearms to other agencies or Departments in
fiscal year 2001: Provided further, That no funds appro-
priated herein shall be available for salaries or administra-
tive expenses in connection with consolidating or central-
izing, within the Department of the Treasury, the records,
or any portion thereof, of acquisition and disposition of
firearms maintained by Federal firearms licensees: Pro-
vided further, That no funds appropriated herein shall be
used to pay administrative expenses or the compensation
of any officer or employee of the United States to imple-
ment an amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 178.118
or to change the definition of ‘‘Curios or relics’’ in 27 CFR
178.11 or remove any item from ATF Publication
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5300.11 as it existed on January 1, 1994: Provided fur-
ther, That none of the funds appropriated herein shall be
available to investigate or act upon applications for relief
from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c):
Provided further, That such funds shall be available to in-
vestigate and act upon applications filed by corporations
for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 18
U.S.C. 925(c): Provided further, That no funds under this
Act may be used to electronically retrieve information
gathered pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 923(g)(4) by name or any
personal identification code.
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Customs
Service, including purchase and lease of up to 1,050 motor
vehicles of which 550 are for replacement only and of
which 1,030 are for police-type use and commercial oper-
ations; hire of motor vehicles; contracting with individuals
for personal services abroad; not to exceed $40,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; and awards
of compensation to informers, as authorized by any Act
enforced by the United States Customs Service,
$1,863,765,000, of which such sums as become available
in the Customs User Fee Account, except sums subject
to section 13031(f)(3) of the Consolidated Omnibus Budg-
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et Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (19 U.S.C.
58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of the total,
not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for
rental space in connection with preclearance operations;
not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be available until expended
for research; of which not less than $100,000 shall be
available to promote public awareness of the child pornog-
raphy tipline; of which not less than $200,000 shall be
available for Project Alert; not to exceed $5,000,000 shall
be available until expended for conducting special oper-
ations pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2081; not to exceed
$8,000,000 shall be available until expended for the pro-
curement of automation infrastructure items, including
hardware, software, and installation; and not to exceed
$5,000,000 shall be available until expended for repairs
to Customs facilities: Provided, That uniforms may be
purchased without regard to the general purchase price
limitation for the current fiscal year: Provided further,
That notwithstanding any other provision of law, the fiscal
year aggregate overtime limitation prescribed in sub-
section 5(c)(1) of the Act of February 13, 1911 (19
U.S.C. 261 and 267) shall be $30,000.
HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEE COLLECTION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses related to the collection
of the Harbor Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law
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103–182, $3,000,000, to be derived from the Harbor
Maintenance Trust Fund and to be transferred to and
merged with the Customs ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ ac-
count for such purposes.
OPERATION, MAINTENANCE AND PROCUREMENT, AIR AND
MARINE INTERDICTION PROGRAMS
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary
for the operation and maintenance of marine vessels, air-
craft, and other related equipment of the Air and Marine
Programs, including operational training and mission-re-
lated travel, and rental payments for facilities occupied by
the air or marine interdiction and demand reduction pro-
grams, the operations of which include the following: the
interdiction of narcotics and other goods; the provision of
support to Customs and other Federal, State, and local
agencies in the enforcement or administration of laws en-
forced by the Customs Service; and, at the discretion of
the Commissioner of Customs, the provision of assistance
to Federal, State, and local agencies in other law enforce-
ment and emergency humanitarian efforts, $133,228,000,
which shall remain available until expended: Provided,
That no aircraft or other related equipment, with the ex-
ception of aircraft which is one of a kind and has been
identified as excess to Customs requirements and aircraft
which has been damaged beyond repair, shall be trans-
ferred to any other Federal agency, department, or office
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outside of the Department of the Treasury, during fiscal
year 2001 without the prior approval of the Committees
on Appropriations.
AUTOMATION MODERNIZATION
For expenses not otherwise provided for Customs
automated systems, $258,400,000, to remain available
until expended, of which $5,400,000 shall be for the Inter-
national Trade Data System, and not less than
$130,000,000 shall be for the development of the Auto-
mated Commercial Environment: Provided, That none of
the funds appropriated under this heading may be obli-
gated for the Automated Commercial Environment until
the United States Customs Service prepares and submits
to the Committees on Appropriations a final plan for ex-
penditure that: (1) meets the capital planning and invest-
ment control review requirements established by the Office
of Management and Budget, including OMB Circular A–
11, part 3; (2) complies with the United States Customs
Service’s Enterprise Information Systems Architecture;
(3) complies with the acquisition rules, requirements,
guidelines, and systems acquisition management practices
of the Federal Government; (4) is reviewed and approved
by the Customs Investment Review Board, the Depart-
ment of the Treasury, and the Office of Management and
Budget; and (5) is reviewed by the General Accounting
Office: Provided further, That none of the funds appro-
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priated under this heading may be obligated for the Auto-
mated Commercial Environment until that final expendi-
ture plan has been approved by the Committees on Appro-
priations.
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
ADMINISTERING THE PUBLIC DEBT
For necessary expenses connected with any public-
debt issues of the United States, $187,301,000, of which
not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for official recep-
tion and representation expenses, and of which not to ex-
ceed $2,000,000 shall remain available until expended for
systems modernization: Provided, That the sum appro-
priated herein from the General Fund for fiscal year 2001
shall be reduced by not more than $4,400,000 as definitive
security issue fees and Treasury Direct Investor Account
Maintenance fees are collected, so as to result in a final
fiscal year 2001 appropriation from the General Fund es-
timated at $182,901,000. In addition, $23,600, to be de-
rived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse
the Bureau for administrative and personnel expenses for
financial management of the Fund, as authorized by sec-
tion 1012 of Public Law 101–380; and in addition, to be
appropriated from the General Fund, such sums as may
be necessary for administrative expenses in association
with the South Dakota Trust Fund and the Cheyenne
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River Sioux Tribe Terrestrial Wildlife Restoration and
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Terrestrial Restoration Trust
Fund, as authorized by sections 603(f) and 604(f) of Pub-
lic Law 106–53.
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
PROCESSING, ASSISTANCE, AND MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice for tax returns processing; revenue accounting; tax law
and account assistance to taxpayers by telephone and cor-
respondence; providing an independent taxpayer advocate
within the Service; programs to match information returns
and tax returns; management services; rent and utilities;
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates
as 
may 
be 
determined 
by 
the 
Commissioner,
$3,567,001,000, of which up to $3,950,000 shall be for
the Tax Counseling for the Elderly Program, and of which
not to exceed $25,000 shall be for official reception and
representation expenses.
TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice for determining and establishing tax liabilities; pro-
viding litigation support; issuing technical rulings; pro-
viding service to tax exempt customers, including employee
plans, tax exempt organizations, and government entities;
examining employee plans and exempt organizations; con-
ducting criminal investigation and enforcement activities;
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securing unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts;
compiling statistics of income and conducting compliance
research; purchase (for police-type use, not to exceed 850)
and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b));
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates
as 
may 
be 
determined 
by 
the 
Commissioner,
$3,382,402,000, of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall
remain available until September 30, 2003, for research.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE
For funding essential earned income tax credit com-
pliance and error reduction initiatives pursuant to section
5702 of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law
105–33), 
$145,000,000, 
of 
which 
not 
to 
exceed
$10,000,000 may be used to reimburse the Social Security
Administration for the costs of implementing section 1090
of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Serv-
ice for information systems and telecommunications sup-
port, including developmental information systems and
operational information systems; the hire of passenger
motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as au-
thorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as may be deter-
mined by the Commissioner, $1,545,090,000 which shall
remain available until September 30, 2002.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—INTERNAL REVENUE
SERVICE
SEC. 101. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-
tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue
Service may be transferred to any other Internal Revenue
Service appropriation upon the advance approval of the
Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 102. The Internal Revenue Service shall main-
tain a training program to ensure that Internal Revenue
Service employees are trained in taxpayers’ rights, in deal-
ing courteously with the taxpayers, and in cross-cultural
relations.
SEC. 103. The Internal Revenue Service shall insti-
tute and enforce policies and procedures that will safe-
guard the confidentiality of taxpayer information.
SEC. 104. Funds made available by this or any other
Act to the Internal Revenue Service shall be available for
improved facilities and increased manpower to provide suf-
ficient and effective 1–800 help line service for taxpayers.
The Commissioner shall continue to make the improve-
ment of the Internal Revenue Service 1–800 help line serv-
ice a priority and allocate resources necessary to increase
phone lines and staff to improve the Internal Revenue
Service 1–800 help line service.
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UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Secret
Service, including purchase of not to exceed 844 vehicles
for police-type use, of which 541 shall be for replacement
only, and hire of passenger motor vehicles; purchase of
American-made side-car compatible motorcycles; hire of
aircraft; training and assistance requested by State and
local governments, which may be provided without reim-
bursement; services of expert witnesses at such rates as
may be determined by the Director; rental of buildings in
the District of Columbia, and fencing, lighting, guard
booths, and other facilities on private or other property
not in Government ownership or control, as may be nec-
essary to perform protective functions; for payment of per
diem and/or subsistence allowances to employees where a
protective assignment during the actual day or days of the
visit of a protectee require an employee to work 16 hours
per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty;
the conducting of and participating in firearms matches;
presentation of awards; for travel of Secret Service em-
ployees on protective missions without regard to the limi-
tations on such expenditures in this or any other Act if
approval is obtained in advance from the Committees on
Appropriations; for research and development; for making
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grants to conduct behavioral research in support of protec-
tive research and operations; not to exceed $25,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; not to ex-
ceed $100,000 to provide technical assistance and equip-
ment to foreign law enforcement organizations in counter-
feit investigations; for payment in advance for commercial
accommodations as may be necessary to perform protec-
tive functions; and for uniforms without regard to the gen-
eral purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year,
$823,800,000, of which $3,633,000 shall be available as
a grant for activities related to the investigations of ex-
ploited children and shall remain available until expended:
Provided, That up to $18,000,000 provided for protective
travel shall remain available until September 30, 2002.
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, IMPROVEMENTS, AND
RELATED EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of construction, repair, alter-
ation, and improvement of facilities, $8,941,000, to re-
main available until expended.
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF THE
TREASURY
SEC. 110. Any obligation or expenditure by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury in connection with law enforcement
activities of a Federal agency or a Department of the
Treasury law enforcement organization in accordance with
31 U.S.C. 9703(g)(4)(B) from unobligated balances re-
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maining in the Fund on September 30, 2001, shall be
made in compliance with reprogramming guidelines.
SEC. 111. Appropriations to the Department of the
Treasury in this Act shall be available for uniforms or al-
lowances therefor, as authorized by law (5 U.S.C. 5901),
including maintenance, repairs, and cleaning; purchase of
insurance for official motor vehicles operated in foreign
countries; purchase of motor vehicles without regard to the
general purchase price limitations for vehicles purchased
and used overseas for the current fiscal year; entering into
contracts with the Department of State for the furnishing
of health and medical services to employees and their de-
pendents serving in foreign countries; and services author-
ized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 112. The funds provided to the Bureau of Alco-
hol, Tobacco and Firearms for fiscal year 2001 in this
Act for the enforcement of the Federal Alcohol Adminis-
tration Act shall be expended in a manner so as not to
diminish enforcement efforts with respect to section 105
of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act.
SEC. 113. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-
tions in this Act made available to the Federal Law En-
forcement Training Center, Financial Crimes Enforce-
ment Network, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms,
United States Customs Service, and United States Secret
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Service may be transferred between such appropriations
upon the advance approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations. No transfer may increase or decrease any such
appropriation by more than 2 percent.
SEC. 114. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-
tions in this Act made available to the Departmental Of-
fices, Office of Inspector General, Treasury Inspector Gen-
eral for Tax Administration, Financial Management Serv-
ice, and Bureau of the Public Debt, may be transferred
between such appropriations upon the advance approval
of the Committees on Appropriations. No transfer may in-
crease or decrease any such appropriation by more than
2 percent.
SEC. 115. Not to exceed 2 percent of any appropria-
tion made available in this Act to the Internal Revenue
Service may be transferred to the Treasury Inspector Gen-
eral for Tax Administration’s appropriation upon the ad-
vance approval of the Committees on Appropriations. No
transfer may increase or decrease any such appropriation
by more than 2 percent.
SEC. 116. Of the funds available for the purchase of
law enforcement vehicles, no funds may be obligated until
the Secretary of the Treasury certifies that the purchase
by the respective Treasury bureau is consistent with De-
partmental vehicle management principles: Provided, That
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the Secretary may delegate this authority to the Assistant
Secretary for Management.
SEC. 117. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
or otherwise available to the Department of the Treasury
or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used
to redesign the $1 Federal Reserve note.
SEC. 118. Hereafter, funds made available by this or
any other Act may be used to pay premium pay for protec-
tive services authorized by section 3056(a) of title 18,
United States Code, without regard to the limitation on
the rate of pay payable during a pay period contained in
section 5547(c)(2) of title 5, United States Code, except
that such premium pay shall not be payable to an em-
ployee to the extent that the aggregate of the employee’s
basic and premium pay for the year would otherwise ex-
ceed the annual equivalent of that limitation. The term
premium pay refers to the provisions of law cited in the
first sentence of section 5547(a) of title 5, United States
Code. Payment of additional premium pay payable under
this section may be made in a lump sum on the last pay-
day of the calendar year.
SEC. 119. The Secretary of the Treasury may trans-
fer funds from ‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’, Financial Man-
agement Service, to the Debt Services Account as nec-
essary to cover the costs of debt collection: Provided, That
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such amounts shall be reimbursed to such Salaries and
Expenses account from debt collections received in the
Debt Services Account.
SEC. 120. Under the heading of Treasury Franchise
Fund in Public Law 104–208, delete the following: the
phrases ‘‘pilot, as authorized by section 403 of Public Law
103–356,’’; and ‘‘as provided in such section’’; and the
final proviso. After the phrase ‘‘to be available’’, insert
‘‘without fiscal year limitation,’’. After the phrase, ‘‘estab-
lished in the Treasury a franchise fund’’, insert, ‘‘until Oc-
tober 1, 2002’’.
SEC. 121. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no reorganization of the field operations of the United
States Customs Service Office of Field Operations shall
result in a reduction in service to the area served by the
Port of Racine, Wisconsin, below the level of service pro-
vided in fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 122. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shall
reimburse the subcontractor that provided services in
1993 and 1994 pursuant to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms contract number TATF 93–3 from amounts
appropriated for fiscal year 2001 or unobligated balances
from prior fiscal years, and such reimbursement shall
cover the cost of all professional services rendered, plus
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interest calculated in accordance with the Contract Dis-
pute Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Treasury Department
Appropriations Act, 2001’’.
TITLE II—POSTAL SERVICE
PAYMENT TO THE POSTAL SERVICE FUND
For payment to the Postal Service Fund for revenue
forgone on free and reduced rate mail, pursuant to sub-
sections (c) and (d) of section 2401 of title 39, United
States Code, $96,093,000, of which $67,093,000 shall not
be available for obligation until October 1, 2001: Provided,
That mail for overseas voting and mail for the blind shall
continue to be free: Provided further, That 6-day delivery
and rural delivery of mail shall continue at not less than
the 1983 level: Provided further, That none of the funds
made available to the Postal Service by this Act shall be
used to implement any rule, regulation, or policy of charg-
ing any officer or employee of any State or local child sup-
port enforcement agency, or any individual participating
in a State or local program of child support enforcement,
a fee for information requested or provided concerning an
address of a postal customer: Provided further, That none
of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to consoli-
date or close small rural and other small post offices in
fiscal year 2001.
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Postal Service Appro-
priations Act, 2001’’.
TITLE III—EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESI-
DENT AND FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO THE
PRESIDENT
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT AND THE WHITE
HOUSE OFFICE
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT
For compensation of the President, including an ex-
pense allowance at the rate of $50,000 per annum as au-
thorized by 3 U.S.C. 102, $390,000: Provided, That none
of the funds made available for official expenses shall be
expended for any other purpose and any unused amount
shall revert to the Treasury pursuant to section 1552 of
title 31, United States Code: Provided further, That none
of the funds made available for official expenses shall be
considered as taxable to the President.
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the White House as au-
thorized by law, including not to exceed $3,850,000 for
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 105;
subsistence expenses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 105, which
shall be expended and accounted for as provided in that
section; hire of passenger motor vehicles, newspapers,
periodicals, teletype news service, and travel (not to exceed
$100,000 to be expended and accounted for as provided
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by 3 U.S.C. 103); and not to exceed $19,000 for official
entertainment expenses, to be available for allocation with-
in the Executive Office of the President, $53,288,000:
Provided, That $9,072,000 of the funds appropriated shall
be available for reimbursements to the White House Com-
munications Agency.
EXECUTIVE RESIDENCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE
OPERATING EXPENSES
For the care, maintenance, repair and alteration, re-
furnishing, improvement, heating, and lighting, including
electric power and fixtures, of the Executive Residence at
the White House and official entertainment expenses of
the President, $10,900,000, to be expended and accounted
for as provided by 3 U.S.C. 105, 109, 110, and 112–114.
REIMBURSABLE EXPENSES
For the reimbursable expenses of the Executive Resi-
dence at the White House, such sums as may be nec-
essary: Provided, That all reimbursable operating expenses
of the Executive Residence shall be made in accordance
with the provisions of this paragraph: Provided further,
That, notwithstanding any other provision of law, such
amount for reimbursable operating expenses shall be the
exclusive authority of the Executive Residence to incur ob-
ligations and to receive offsetting collections, for such ex-
penses: Provided further, That the Executive Residence
shall require each person sponsoring a reimbursable polit-
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ical event to pay in advance an amount equal to the esti-
mated cost of the event, and all such advance payments
shall be credited to this account and remain available until
expended: Provided further, That the Executive Residence
shall require the national committee of the political party
of the President to maintain on deposit $25,000, to be
separately accounted for and available for expenses relat-
ing to reimbursable political events sponsored by such
committee during such fiscal year: Provided further, That
the Executive Residence shall ensure that a written notice
of any amount owed for a reimbursable operating expense
under this paragraph is submitted to the person owing
such amount within 60 days after such expense is in-
curred, and that such amount is collected within 30 days
after the submission of such notice: Provided further, That
the Executive Residence shall charge interest and assess
penalties and other charges on any such amount that is
not reimbursed within such 30 days, in accordance with
the interest and penalty provisions applicable to an out-
standing debt on a United States Government claim under
section 3717 of title 31, United States Code: Provided fur-
ther, That each such amount that is reimbursed, and any
accompanying interest and charges, shall be deposited in
the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided further,
That the Executive Residence shall prepare and submit
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to the Committees on Appropriations, by not later than
90 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this
Act, a report setting forth the reimbursable operating ex-
penses of the Executive Residence during the preceding
fiscal year, including the total amount of such expenses,
the amount of such total that consists of reimbursable offi-
cial and ceremonial events, the amount of such total that
consists of reimbursable political events, and the portion
of each such amount that has been reimbursed as of the
date of the report: Provided further, That the Executive
Residence shall maintain a system for the tracking of ex-
penses related to reimbursable events within the Executive
Residence that includes a standard for the classification
of any such expense as political or nonpolitical: Provided
further, That no provision of this paragraph may be con-
strued to exempt the Executive Residence from any other
applicable requirement of subchapter I or II of chapter
37 of title 31, United States Code.
WHITE HOUSE REPAIR AND RESTORATION
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of the
Executive Residence at the White House, $968,000, to re-
main available until expanded, for projects for required
maintenance, safety and health issues, Presidential transi-
tion, telecommunications infrastructure repair, and con-
tinued preventive maintenance.
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SPECIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE PRESIDENT AND THE
OFFICIAL RESIDENCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to enable the Vice President
to provide assistance to the President in connection with
specially assigned functions; services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109 and 3 U.S.C. 106, including subsistence ex-
penses as authorized by 3 U.S.C. 106, which shall be ex-
pended and accounted for as provided in that section; and
hire of passenger motor vehicles, $3,673,000.
OPERATING EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For the care, operation, refurnishing, improvement,
heating and lighting, including electric power and fixtures,
of the official residence of the Vice President; the hire of
passenger motor vehicles; and not to exceed $90,000 for
official entertainment expenses of the Vice President, to
be accounted for solely on his certificate, $354,000: Pro-
vided, That advances or repayments or transfers from this
appropriation may be made to any department or agency
for expenses of carrying out such activities.
COUNCIL OF ECONOMIC ADVISERS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Council of Economic
Advisors in carrying out its functions under the Employ-
ment Act of 1946 (15 U.S.C. 1021), $4,110,000.
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OFFICE OF POLICY DEVELOPMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Policy Devel-
opment, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109
and 3 U.S.C. 107, $4,032,000.
NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the National Security
Council, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109, $7,165,000.
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administra-
tion, including services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109
and 3 U.S.C. 107, and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
$43,737,000, of which $9,905,000 shall be available until
September 30, 2002 for a capital investment plan which
provides for the continued modernization of the informa-
tion technology infrastructure.
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Office of Management
and Budget, including hire of passenger motor vehicles
and 
services 
as 
authorized 
by 
U.S.C. 
3109,
$68,786,000, of which not to exceed $5,000,000 shall be
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available to carry out the provisions of chapter 35 of title
44, United States Code: Provided, That, as provided in
31 U.S.C. 1301(a), appropriations shall be applied only
to the objects for which appropriations were made except
as otherwise provided by law: Provided further, That none
of the funds appropriated in this Act for the Office of
Management and Budget may be used for the purpose of
reviewing any agricultural marketing orders or any activi-
ties or regulations under the provisions of the Agricultural
Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U.S.C. 601 et seq.):
Provided further, That none of the funds made available
for the Office of Management and Budget by this Act may
be expended for the altering of the transcript of actual
testimony of witnesses, except for testimony of officials of
the Office of Management and Budget, before the Com-
mittees on Appropriations or the Committees on Veterans’
Affairs or their subcommittees: Provided further, That the
preceding shall not apply to printed hearings released by
the Committees on Appropriations or the Committees on
Veterans’ Affairs.
OFFICE OF NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of National
Drug Control Policy; for research activities pursuant to
the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthoriza-
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tion Act of 1998 (title VII of division C of Public Law
105–277); not to exceed $8,000 for official reception and
representation expenses; and for participation in joint
projects or in the provision of services on matters of mu-
tual interest with nonprofit, research, or public organiza-
tions or agencies, with or without reimbursement,
$24,759,000, of which $2,100,000 shall remain available
until expended, consisting of $1,100,000 for policy re-
search and evaluation, and $1,000,000 for the National
Alliance for Model State Drug Laws, and up to $600,000
for the evaluation of the Drug-Free Communities Act:
Provided, That the Office is authorized to accept, hold,
administer, and utilize gifts, both real and personal, public
and private, without fiscal year limitation, for the purpose
of aiding or facilitating the work of the Office.
COUNTERDRUG TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CENTER
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the Counterdrug Tech-
nology Assessment Center for research activities pursuant
to the Office of National Drug Control Policy Reauthor-
ization Act of 1998 (title VII of Division C of Public Law
105–277), $29,053,000, which shall remain available until
expended, consisting of $15,803,000 for counternarcotics
research and development projects, and $13,250,000 for
the continued operation of the technology transfer pro-
gram: Provided, That the $15,803,000 for counter-
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narcotics research and development projects shall be avail-
able for transfer to other Federal departments or agencies.
FEDERAL DRUG CONTROL PROGRAMS
HIGH INTENSITY DRUG TRAFFICKING AREAS PROGRAM
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of National
Drug Control Policy’s High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Areas Program, $206,500,000 for drug control activities
consistent with the approved strategy for each of the des-
ignated High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, of which
no less than 51 percent shall be transferred to State and
local entities for drug control activities, which shall be ob-
ligated within 120 days of the date of the enactment of
this Act: Provided, That up to 49 percent, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2002, may be transferred to Fed-
eral agencies and departments at a rate to be determined
by the Director: Provided further, That, of this latter
amount, $1,800,000 shall be used for auditing services:
Provided further, That HIDTAs designated as of Sep-
tember 30, 2000, shall be funded at fiscal year 2000 levels
unless the Director submits to the Committees, and the
Committees approve, justification for changes in those lev-
els based on clearly articulated priorities for the HIDTA
program, as well as published ONDCP performance meas-
ures of effectiveness.
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SPECIAL FORFEITURE FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For activities to support a national anti-drug cam-
paign for youth, and other purposes, authorized by Public
Law 105–277, $233,600,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That such funds may be transferred to
other Federal departments and agencies to carry out such
activities: Provided further, That of the funds provided,
$185,000,000 shall be to support a national media cam-
paign, as authorized in the Drug-Free Media Campaign
Act of 1998: Provided further, That of the funds provided,
$3,300,000 shall be made available to the United States
Olympic Committee’s anti-doping program no later than
30 days after the enactment of this Act: Provided further,
That of the funds provided, $40,000,000 shall be to con-
tinue a program of matching grants to drug-free commu-
nities, as authorized in the Drug-Free Communities Act
of 1997: Provided further, That of the funds provided,
$1,000,000 shall be available to the National Drug Court
Institute.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Executive Office Ap-
propriations Act, 2001’’.
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TITLE IV—INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE
BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Committee for Pur-
chase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
established by the Act of June 23, 1971, Public Law 92–
28, $4,158,000.
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to carry out the provisions
of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, as amend-
ed, $40,500,000, of which no less than $4,689,500 shall
be available for internal automated data processing sys-
tems, and of which not to exceed $5,000 shall be available
for reception and representation expenses.
FEDERAL LABOR RELATIONS AUTHORITY
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the
Federal Labor Relations Authority, pursuant to Reorga-
nization Plan Numbered 2 of 1978, and the Civil Service
Reform Act of 1978, including services authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, including hire of experts and consultants,
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,
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$25,058,000: Provided, That public members of the Fed-
eral Service Impasses Panel may be paid travel expenses
and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by law
(5 U.S.C. 5703) for persons employed intermittently in
the Government service, and compensation as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109: Provided further, That notwithstanding
31 U.S.C. 3302, funds received from fees charged to non-
Federal participants at labor-management relations con-
ferences shall be credited to and merged with this account,
to be available without further appropriation for the costs
of carrying out these conferences.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
REAL PROPERTY ACTIVITIES
FEDERAL BUILDINGS FUND
LIMITATIONS ON AVAILABILITY OF REVENUE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount to be deposited in, and to
be used for the purposes of, the Fund established pursu-
ant to section 210(f) of the Federal Property and Admin-
istration Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C. 490(f)),
$464,154,000. The revenues and collections deposited into
the Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of real
property management and related activities not otherwise
provided for, including operation, maintenance, and pro-
tection of federally owned and leased buildings; rental of
buildings in the District of Columbia; restoration of leased
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premises; moving governmental agencies (including space
adjustments and telecommunications relocation expenses)
in connection with the assignment, allocation and transfer
of space; contractual services incident to cleaning or serv-
icing buildings, and moving; repair and alteration of feder-
ally owned buildings including grounds, approaches and
appurtenances; care and safeguarding of sites; mainte-
nance, preservation, demolition, and equipment; acquisi-
tion of buildings and sites by purchase, condemnation, or
as otherwise authorized by law; acquisition of options to
purchase buildings and sites; conversion and extension of
federally owned buildings; preliminary planning and de-
sign of projects by contract or otherwise; construction of
new buildings (including equipment for such buildings);
and payment of principal, interest, and any other obliga-
tions for public buildings acquired by installment purchase
and purchase contract; in the aggregate amount of
$5,971,509,000 of which (1) $472,176,000 shall remain
available until expended for construction (including funds
for sites and expenses and associated design and construc-
tion services) of additional projects at the following loca-
tions: California, Los Angeles, U.S. Courthouse; District
of Columbia, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Headquarters; Florida, Saint Petersburg, Combined Law
Enforcement Facility; Maryland, Montgomery County,
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Food and Drug Administration Consolidation; Michigan,
Sault St. Marie, Border Station; Mississippi, Biloxi-Gulf-
port, U.S. Courthouse; Montana, Eureka/Roosville, Bor-
der Station; Virginia, Richmond, U.S. Courthouse; Wash-
ington, Seattle, U.S. Courthouse: Provided, That funding
for any project identified above may be exceeded to the
extent that savings are effected in other such projects, but
not to exceed 10 percent of the amounts included in an
approved prospectus, if required, unless advance approval
is obtained from the Committees on Appropriations of a
greater amount: Provided further, That all funds for direct
construction projects shall expire on September 30, 2002,
and remain in the Federal Buildings Fund except for
funds for projects as to which funds for design or other
funds have been obligated in whole or in part prior to such
date; (2) $671,193,000 shall remain available until ex-
pended for repairs and alterations which includes associ-
ated design and construction services: Provided further,
That funds in the Federal Buildings Fund for Repairs and
Alterations shall, for prospectus projects, be limited to the
amount by project, as follows, except each project may be
increased by an amount not to exceed 10 percent unless
advance approval is obtained from the Committees on Ap-
propriations of a greater amount:
Repairs and alterations:
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Arizona:
Phoenix, Federal Building Courthouse,
$26,962,000
California:
Santa Ana, Federal Building, $27,864,000
District of Columbia:
Internal Revenue Service Headquarters
(Phase 1), $31,780,000
Main 
State 
Building, 
(Phase 
3),
$28,775,000
Maryland:
Woodlawn, SSA National Computer Cen-
ter, $4,285,000
Michigan:
Detroit, 
McNamara 
Federal 
Building,
$26,999,000
Missouri:
Kansas City, Richard Bolling Federal
Building, $25,882,000
Kansas City, Federal Building, 8930 Ward
Parkway, $8,964,000
Nebraska:
Omaha, 
Zorinsky 
Federal 
Building,
$45,960,000
New York:
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New 
York 
City, 
Foley 
Square,
$5,037,000
Ohio:
Cincinnati, Potter Stewart U.S. Court-
house, $18,434,000
Pennsylvania:
Pittsburgh, U.S. Post Office-Courthouse,
$54,144,000
Utah:
Salt Lake City, Bennett Federal Building,
$21,199,000
Virginia:
Reston, J.W. Powell Federal Building
(Phase 2), $22,993,000
Nationwide:
Design Program, $21,915,000
Energy Program, $5,000,000
Glass 
Fragment 
Retention 
Program,
$5,000,000
Basic 
Repairs 
and 
Alterations,
$290,000,000:
Provided further, That additional projects for which
prospectuses have been fully approved may be funded
under this category only if advance notice is transmitted
to the Committees on Appropriations: Provided further,
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That the amounts provided in this or any prior Act for
‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ may be used to fund costs asso-
ciated with implementing security improvements to build-
ings necessary to meet the minimum standards for secu-
rity in accordance with current law and in compliance with
the reprogramming guidelines of the appropriate Commit-
tees of the House and Senate: Provided further, That the
difference between the funds appropriated and expended
on any projects in this or any prior Act, under the heading
‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’, may be transferred to Basic
Repairs and Alterations or used to fund authorized in-
creases in prospectus projects: Provided further, That all
funds for repairs and alterations prospectus projects shall
expire on September 30, 2002, and remain in the Federal
Buildings Fund except funds for projects as to which
funds for design or other funds have been obligated in
whole or in part prior to such date: Provided further, That
the amount provided in this or any prior Act for Basic
Repairs and Alterations may be used to pay claims against
the Government arising from any projects under the head-
ing ‘‘Repairs and Alterations’’ or used to fund authorized
increases in prospectus projects; (3) $185,369,000 for in-
stallment acquisition payments including payments on
purchase contracts which shall remain available until ex-
pended; (4) $2,944,905,000 for rental of space which shall
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remain available until expended; and (5) $1,624,771,000
for building operations which shall remain available until
expended: Provided further, That in addition to amounts
made available herein, $276,400,000 shall be deposited to
the Fund, to become available on October 1, 2001, and
remain available until expended for the following construc-
tion projects (including funds for sites and expenses and
associated design and construction services): District of
Columbia, U.S. Courthouse Annex; Florida, Miami, U.S.
Courthouse; Massachusetts, Springfield, U.S. Courthouse;
New York, Buffalo, U.S. Courthouse: Provided further,
That funding for any project identified above may be ex-
ceeded to the extent that savings are effected in other such
projects, but not to exceed 10 percent of the amounts in-
cluded in an approved prospectus, if required, unless ad-
vance approval is obtained from the Committees on Appro-
priations of a greater amount: Provided further, That
funds available to the General Services Administration
shall not be available for expenses of any construction, re-
pair, alteration and acquisition project for which a pro-
spectus, if required by the Public Buildings Act of 1959,
as amended, has not been approved, except that necessary
funds may be expended for each project for required ex-
penses for the development of a proposed prospectus: Pro-
vided further, That funds available in the Federal Build-
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ings Fund may be expended for emergency repairs when
advance approval is obtained from the Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided further, That amounts necessary to
provide reimbursable special services to other agencies
under section 210(f)(6) of the Federal Property and Ad-
ministrative Services Act of 1949, as amended (40 U.S.C.
490(f)(6)) and amounts to provide such reimbursable
fencing, lighting, guard booths, and other facilities on pri-
vate or other property not in Government ownership or
control as may be appropriate to enable the United States
Secret Service to perform its protective functions pursuant
to 18 U.S.C. 3056, shall be available from such revenues
and collections: Provided further, That revenues and col-
lections and any other sums accruing to this Fund during
fiscal year 2001, excluding reimbursements under section
210(f)(6) of the Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 490(f)(6)) in excess of
$5,971,509,000 shall remain in the Fund and shall not
be available for expenditure except as authorized in appro-
priations Acts.
POLICY AND OPERATIONS
For expenses authorized by law, not otherwise pro-
vided for, for Government-wide policy and oversight activi-
ties associated with asset management activities; utiliza-
tion and donation of surplus personal property; transpor-
tation; procurement and supply; Government-wide respon-
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sibilities relating to automated data management, tele-
communications, information resources management, and
related technology activities; utilization survey, deed com-
pliance inspection, appraisal, environmental and cultural
analysis, and land use planning functions pertaining to ex-
cess and surplus real property; agency-wide policy direc-
tion; Board of Contract Appeals; accounting, records man-
agement, and other support services incident to adjudica-
tion of Indian Tribal Claims by the United States Court
of Federal Claims; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109; and not to exceed $5,000 for official reception and
representation 
expenses, 
$123,920,000, 
of 
which
$27,301,000 shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That none of the funds appropriated from this Act
shall be available to convert the Old Post Office at 1100
Pennsylvania Avenue in Northwest Washington, D.C.,
from office use to any other use until a comprehensive
plan, which shall include street-level retail use, has been
approved by the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure,
and the Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works: Provided further, That no funds from this Act shall
be available to acquire by purchase, condemnation, or oth-
erwise the leasehold rights of the existing lease with pri-
vate parties at the Old Post Office prior to the approval
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of the comprehensive plan by the Senate Committee on
Appropriations, the House Committee on Transportation
and Infrastructure, and the Senate Committee on Envi-
ronment and Public Works.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General and services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$34,520,000: Provided, That not to exceed $15,000 shall
be available for payment for information and detection of
fraud against the Government, including payment for re-
covery of stolen Government property: Provided further,
That not to exceed $2,500 shall be available for awards
to employees of other Federal agencies and private citizens
in recognition of efforts and initiatives resulting in en-
hanced Office of Inspector General effectiveness.
ALLOWANCES AND OFFICE STAFF FOR FORMER
PRESIDENTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For carrying out the provisions of the Act of August
25, 1958, as amended (3 U.S.C. 102 note), and Public
Law 95–138, $2,517,000: Provided, That the Adminis-
trator of General Services shall transfer to the Secretary
of the Treasury such sums as may be necessary to carry
out the provisions of such Acts.
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EXPENSES, PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION
For expenses necessary to carry out the Presidential
Transition Act of 1963, as amended, $7,100,000.
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION—GENERAL
PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. The appropriate appropriation or fund
available to the General Services Administration shall be
credited with the cost of operation, protection, mainte-
nance, upkeep, repair, and improvement, included as part
of rentals received from Government corporations pursu-
ant to law (40 U.S.C. 129).
SEC. 402. Funds available to the General Services
Administration shall be available for the hire of passenger
motor vehicles.
SEC. 403. Funds in the Federal Buildings Fund
made available for fiscal year 2001 for Federal Buildings
Fund activities may be transferred between such activities
only to the extent necessary to meet program require-
ments: Provided, That any proposed transfers shall be ap-
proved in advance by the Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 404. No funds made available by this Act shall
be used to transmit a fiscal year 2002 request for United
States Courthouse construction that: (1) does not meet
the design guide standards for construction as established
and approved by the General Services Administration, the
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Judicial Conference of the United States, and the Office
of Management and Budget; and (2) does not reflect the
priorities of the Judicial Conference of the United States
as set out in its approved 5–year construction plan: Pro-
vided, That the fiscal year 2002 request must be accom-
panied by a standardized courtroom utilization study of
each facility to be constructed, replaced, or expanded.
SEC. 405. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used to increase the amount of occupiable square feet,
provide cleaning services, security enhancements, or any
other service usually provided through the Federal Build-
ings Fund, to any agency that does not pay the rate per
square foot assessment for space and services as deter-
mined by the General Services Administration in compli-
ance with the Public Buildings Amendments Act of 1972
(Public Law 92–313).
SEC. 406. Funds provided to other Government agen-
cies by the Information Technology Fund, General Serv-
ices Administration, under 40 U.S.C. 757 and sections
5124(b) and 5128 of Public Law 104–106, Information
Technology Management Reform Act of 1996, for per-
formance of pilot information technology projects which
have potential for Government-wide benefits and savings,
may be repaid to this Fund from any savings actually in-
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curred by these projects or other funding, to the extent
feasible.
SEC. 407. From funds made available under the
heading ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund, Limitations on Avail-
ability of Revenue’’, claims against the Government of less
than $250,000 arising from direct construction projects
and acquisition of buildings may be liquidated from sav-
ings effected in other construction projects with prior noti-
fication to the Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 408. Section 411 of Public Law 106–58 is
amended by striking ‘‘April 30, 2001’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘April 30, 2002’’.
SEC. 409. DESIGNATION
OF RONALD N. DAVIES
FEDERAL BUILDING AND UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE.
(a) The Federal building and courthouse located at 102
North 4th Street, Grand Forks, North Dakota, shall be
known and designated as the ‘‘Ronald N. Davies Federal
Building and United States Courthouse’’.
(b) Any reference in a law, map, regulation, docu-
ment, paper, or other record of the United States to the
Federal building and courthouse referred to in section 1
shall be deemed to be a reference to the Ronald N. Davies
Federal Building and United States Courthouse.
SEC. 410. From the funds made available under the
heading ‘‘Federal Buildings Fund Limitations on Rev-
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enue’’, in addition to amounts provided in budget activities
above, up to $2,500,000 shall be available for the con-
struction of a road and acquisition of the property nec-
essary for construction of said road and associated port
of entry facilities: Provided, That said property shall in-
clude a 125 foot wide right of way beginning approxi-
mately 700 feet east of Highway 11 at the northeast cor-
ner of the existing port facilities and going north approxi-
mately 4,750 feet and approximately 10.22 acres adjacent
to the port of entry in Township 29 S. Range 8W., Section
14: Provided further, That construction of the road shall
occur only after this property is deeded and conveyed to
the United States by and through the General Services
Administration without reimbursement or cost to the
United States at the election of its current landholder:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, and subject to the foregoing conditions, the
Administrator of General Services shall construct a road
to the Columbus, New Mexico Port of Entry Station on
the property, connecting the port with a road to be built
by the County of Luna, New Mexico to connect to State
Highway 11: Provided further, That notwithstanding any
other provision of law, Luna County shall construct the
roadway from State Highway 11 to the terminus of the
northbound road to be constructed by the General Services
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Administration in time for completion of the road to be
constructed by the General Services Administration: Pro-
vided further, That upon completion of the construction
of the road by the General Services Administration, and
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Adminis-
trator of General Services shall convey to the municipality
of Luna County, New Mexico, without reimbursement, all
right, title, and interest of the United States to that por-
tion of the property constituting the improved road and
standard county road right of way which is not required
for the operation of the port of entry: Provided further,
That the General Services Administration on behalf of the
United States upon conveyance of the property to the mu-
nicipality of Luna, New Mexico, shall retain the balance
of the property located adjacent to the port, consisting of
approximately 12 acres, to be owned or otherwise managed
by the Administrator pursuant to the Federal Property
and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended:
Provided further, That the General Services Administra-
tion is authorized to acquire such additional real property
and rights in real property as may be necessary to con-
struct said road and provide a contiguous site for the port
of entry: Provided further, That the United States shall
incur no liability for any environmental laws or conditions
existing at the property at the time of conveyance to the
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United States or in connection with the construction of
the road: Provided further, That Luna County and the Vil-
lage of Columbus shall be responsible for providing ade-
quate access and egress to existing properties east of the
port of entry: Provided further, That the Bureau of Land
Management, the International Boundary and Water
Commission, the Federal Inspection Agencies and the De-
partment of State shall take all actions necessary to facili-
tate the construction of the road and expansion of the port
facilities.
SEC. 411. DESIGNATION
OF J. BRATTON DAVIS
UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURTHOUSE. (a) The
United States bankruptcy courthouse at 1100 Laurel
Street in Columbia, South Carolina, shall be known and
designated as the ‘‘J. Bratton Davis United States Bank-
ruptcy Courthouse’’.
(b) Any reference in a law, map, regulation, docu-
ment, paper, or other record of the United States to the
United States bankruptcy courthouse referred to in sec-
tion 1 shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘J. Bratton
Davis United States Bankruptcy Courthouse’’.
SEC. 412. (a) The United States Courthouse Annex
located at 901 19th Street in Denver, Colorado is hereby
designated as the ‘‘Alfred A. Arraj United States Court-
house Annex’’.
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(b) Any reference in a law, map, regulation, docu-
ment, or paper or other record of the United States to
the Courthouse Annex herein referred to in subsection (a)
shall be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Alfred A. Arraj
United States Courthouse Annex’’.
SEC. 413. DESIGNATION OF THE PAUL COVERDELL
DORMITORY. The dormitory building currently being con-
structed on the Core Campus of the Federal Law Enforce-
ment Training Center in Glynco, Georgia, shall be known
and designated as the ‘‘Paul Coverdell Dormitory’’.
MERIT SYSTEMS PROTECTION BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the
Merit Systems Protection Board pursuant to Reorganiza-
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Re-
form Act of 1978, including services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District
of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, and direct procurement of survey printing,
$29,437,000 together with not to exceed $2,430,000 for
administrative expenses to adjudicate retirement appeals
to be transferred from the Civil Service Retirement and
Disability Fund in amounts determined by the Merit Sys-
tems Protection Board.
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FEDERAL PAYMENT TO MORRIS K. UDALL SCHOLAR-
SHIP
AND EXCELLENCE
IN NATIONAL ENVIRON-
MENTAL POLICY FOUNDATION
For payment to the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and
Excellence in National Environmental Trust Fund, to be
available for the purposes of Public Law 102–252,
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended.
ENVIRONMENTAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION FUND
For payment to the Environmental Dispute Resolu-
tion Fund to carry out activities authorized in the Envi-
ronmental Policy and Conflict Resolution Act of 1998,
$1,250,000, to remain available until expended.
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in connection with the admin-
istration of the National Archives (including the Informa-
tion Security Oversight Office) and archived Federal
records and related activities, as provided by law, and for
expenses necessary for the review and declassification of
documents, and for the hire of passenger motor vehicles,
$209,393,000: Provided, That the Archivist of the United
States is authorized to use any excess funds available from
the amount borrowed for construction of the National Ar-
chives facility, for expenses necessary to provide adequate
storage for holdings.
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REPAIRS AND RESTORATION
For the repair, alteration, and improvement of ar-
chives facilities, and to provide adequate storage for hold-
ings, $95,150,000, to remain available until expended of
which $88,000,000 is to complete renovation of the Na-
tional Archives Building.
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PUBLICATIONS AND RECORDS
COMMISSION
GRANTS PROGRAM
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for allocations and grants for
historical publications and records as authorized by 44
U.S.C. 2504, as amended, $6,450,000, to remain available
until expended.
OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the
Office of Government Ethics pursuant to the Ethics in
Government Act of 1978, as amended and the Ethics Re-
form Act of 1989, including services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109, rental of conference rooms in the District
of Columbia and elsewhere, hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles, and not to exceed $1,500 for official reception and
representation expenses, $9,684,000.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS)
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the
Office of Personnel Management pursuant to Reorganiza-
tion Plan Numbered 2 of 1978 and the Civil Service Re-
form Act of 1978, including services as authorized by 5
U.S.C. 3109; medical examinations performed for veterans
by private physicians on a fee basis; rental of conference
rooms in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; hire of
passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $2,500 for official
reception and representation expenses; advances for reim-
bursements to applicable funds of the Office of Personnel
Management and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for
expenses incurred under Executive Order No. 10422 of
January 9, 1953, as amended; and payment of per diem
and/or subsistence allowances to employees where Voting
Rights Act activities require an employee to remain over-
night at his or her post of duty, $94,095,000; and in addi-
tion $101,986,000 for administrative expenses, to be
transferred from the appropriate trust funds of the Office
of Personnel Management without regard to other stat-
utes, including direct procurement of printed materials,
for the retirement and insurance programs, of which
$10,500,000 shall remain available until expended for the
cost of automating the retirement recordkeeping systems:
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Provided, That the provisions of this appropriation shall
not affect the authority to use applicable trust funds as
provided by sections 8348(a)(1)(B) and 8909(g) of title
5, United States Code: Provided further, That no part of
this appropriation shall be available for salaries and ex-
penses of the Legal Examining Unit of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management established pursuant to Executive
Order No. 9358 of July 1, 1943, or any successor unit
of like purpose: Provided further, That the President’s
Commission on White House Fellows, established by Exec-
utive Order No. 11183 of October 3, 1964, may, during
fiscal year 2001, accept donations of money, property, and
personal services in connection with the development of
a publicity brochure to provide information about the
White House Fellows, except that no such donations shall
be accepted for travel or reimbursement of travel expenses,
or for the salaries of employees of such Commission.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF TRUST FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act, as amended, including services as authorized
by 5 U.S.C. 3109, hire of passenger motor vehicles,
$1,360,000; and in addition, not to exceed $9,745,000 for
administrative expenses to audit, investigate, and provide
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other oversight of the Office of Personnel Management’s
retirement and insurance programs, to be transferred
from the appropriate trust funds of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management, as determined by the Inspector Gen-
eral: Provided, That the Inspector General is authorized
to rent conference rooms in the District of Columbia and
elsewhere.
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEES
HEALTH BENEFITS
For payment of Government contributions with re-
spect to retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89
of title 5, United States Code, and the Retired Federal
Employees Health Benefits Act (74 Stat. 849), as amend-
ed, such sums as may be necessary.
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEE
LIFE INSURANCE
For payment of Government contributions with re-
spect to employees retiring after December 31, 1989, as
required by chapter 87 of title 5, United States Code, such
sums as may be necessary.
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND
DISABILITY FUND
For financing the unfunded liability of new and in-
creased annuity benefits becoming effective on or after Oc-
tober 20, 1969, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and an-
nuities under special Acts to be credited to the Civil Serv-
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ice Retirement and Disability Fund, such sums as may
be necessary: Provided, That annuities authorized by the
Act of May 29, 1944, as amended, and the Act of August
19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 771–775), may here-
after be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Dis-
ability Fund.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the
Office of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan
Numbered 2 of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of
1978 (Public Law 95–454), the Whistleblower Protection
Act of 1989 (Public Law 101–12), Public Law 103–424,
and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemploy-
ment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–353), including serv-
ices as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and
expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the
District of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger
motor vehicles, $11,147,000.
UNITED STATES TAX COURT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting
and other services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109,
$37,305,000: Provided, That travel expenses of the judges
shall be paid upon the written certificate of the judge.
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This title may be cited as the ‘‘Independent Agencies
Appropriations Act, 2001’’.
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
THIS ACT
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 502. The expenditure of any appropriation
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited
to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter
of public record and available for public inspection, except
where otherwise provided under existing law, or under ex-
isting Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.
SEC. 503. None of the funds made available by this
Act shall be available for any activity or for paying the
salary of any Government employee where funding an ac-
tivity or paying a salary to a Government employee would
result in a decision, determination, rule, regulation, or pol-
icy that would prohibit the enforcement of section 307 of
the Tariff Act of 1930.
SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this
Act shall be available in fiscal year 2001 for the purpose
of transferring control over the Federal Law Enforcement
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Training Center located at Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia,
New Mexico, out of the Department of the Treasury.
SEC. 505. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his period of active military or naval service, and
has within 90 days after his release from such service or
from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a pe-
riod of not more than 1 year, made application for restora-
tion to his former position and has been certified by the
Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to per-
form the duties of his former position and has not been
restored thereto.
SEC. 506. No funds appropriated pursuant to this
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933
(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’).
SEC. 507. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equip-
ment or products that may be authorized to be purchased
with financial assistance provided under this Act, it is the
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sense of the Congress that entities receiving such assist-
ance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only
American-made equipment and products.
(b) NOTICE
TO RECIPIENTS
OF ASSISTANCE.—In
providing financial assistance under this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall provide to each recipient of
the assistance a notice describing the statement made in
subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 508. If it has been finally determined by a court
or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription with the same meaning, to any product sold in
or shipped to the United States that is not made in the
United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive
any contract or subcontract made with funds provided
pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspen-
sion, and ineligibility procedures described in sections
9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
SEC. 509. No funds appropriated by this Act shall
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative
expenses in connection with any health plan under the
Federal employees health benefit program which provides
any benefits or coverage for abortions.
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SEC. 510. The provision of section 509 shall not
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered
if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the
result of an act of rape or incest.
SEC. 511. Except as otherwise specifically provided
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2001 from
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses
for fiscal year 2001 in this Act, shall remain available
through September 30, 2002, for each such account for
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance
with reprogramming guidelines.
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any
official background investigation report on any individual,
except when—
(1) such individual has given his or her express
written consent for such request not more than 6
months prior to the date of such request and during
the same presidential administration; or
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(2) such request is required due to extraor-
dinary circumstances involving national security.
SEC. 513. The cost accounting standards promul-
gated under section 26 of the Office of Federal Procure-
ment Policy Act (Public Law 93–400; 41 U.S.C. 422)
shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed-
eral Employees Health Benefits Program established
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 514. (a) IN GENERAL.—As soon as practicable
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Archivist
of the United States shall transfer to the Gerald R. Ford
Foundation, as trustee, all right, title, and interest of the
United States in and to the approximately 2.3 acres of
land located within Grand Rapids, Michigan, and further
described in subsection (b), such grant to be in trust, with
the beneficiary being the National Archives and Records
Administration, for the purpose of supporting the facilities
and programs of the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, and the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, in accordance with a trust agreement to
be agreed upon by the Archivist and the Gerald R. Ford
Foundation.
(b) LAND DESCRIPTION.—The land to be transferred
pursuant to subsection (a) is described as follows:
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The following premises in the City of Grand Rapids,
County of Kent, State of Michigan, described as:
That part of Block 2, Converse Plat, and that part of Block 2 of J.W. Con-
verse Replatted Addition, and that part of Government
Lot 1 of Section 25, T7N, R12W, City of Grand Rapids,
Kent County, Michigan, described as: BEGINNING at
the NE corner of Lot 1 of Block 2 of Converse Plat;
thence East 245.0 feet along the South line of Bridge
Street; thence South 230.0 feet along a line which is par-
allel with and 170 feet East from the East line of Front
Avenue as originally platted; thence West 207.5 feet par-
allel with the South line of Bridge Street; thence South
along the centerline of vacated Front Avenue 109 feet
more or less to the extended centerline of vacated Douglas
Street; thence West along the centerline of vacated Doug-
las Street 237.5 feet more or less to the East line of
Scribner Avenue; thence North along the East line of
Scribner Avenue 327 feet more or less to a point which
is 7.0 feet South from the NW corner of Lot 8 of Block
2 of Converse Plat; thence Easterly 200 feet more or less
to the place of beginning, also described as:
Parcel A—Lots 9 & 10, Block 2 of Converse Plat, being the subdivision of Gov-
ernment Lots 1 & 2, Section 25, T7N, R12W; also Lots 11–
24, Block 2 of J.W. Converse Replatted Addition; also part of
N 1⁄2 of Section 25, T7N, R12W commencing at SE corner
Lot 24, Block 2 of J.W. Converse Replatted Addition, thence
N to NE corner of Lot 9 of Converse Plat, thence E 16 feet,
thence S to SW corner of Lot 23 of J.W. Converse Replatted
Addition, thence W 16 feet to beginning.
Parcel B—Part of Section 25, T7N, R12W, commencing on S line of Bridge
Street 50 feet E of E line of Front Avenue, thence S 107.85
feet, thence 77 feet, thence N to a point on S line of said street
which is 80 feet E of beginning, thence W to beginning.
Parcel C—Part of Section 25, T7N, R12W, commencing at SE corner Bridge
Street & Front Avenue, thence E 50 feet, thence S 107.85 feet
to alley, thence W 50 feet to E line Front Avenue, thence N
106.81 feet to beginning.
Parcel D—Part of Government Lot 1, Section 25, T7N, R12W, commencing at
a point on S line of Bridge Street (66′ wide) 170 feet E of
E line of Front Avenue (75′ wide), thence S 230 feet parallel
with Front Avenue, thence W 170 feet parallel with Bridge
Street to E line of Front Avenue, thence N along said line to
a point 106.81 feet S of intersection of said line with extension
of N & S line of Bridge Street, thence E 127 feet, thence
northerly to a point on S line of Bridge Street 130 feet E of
E line of Front Avenue, thence E along S line of Bridge Street
to beginning.
Parcel E—Lots 1 through 8 of Block 2 of Converse Plat, being the subdivision
of Government Lots 1 and 2, Section 25, T7N, R12W.
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Also part of N 1⁄2 of Section 25, T7N, R12W, commencing at NW corner
of Lot 9, Block 2 of J.W. Converse Replatted Addition;
thence N 15 feet to SW corner of Lot 8; thence E 200
feet to SE corner Lot 1; thence S 15 feet to NE corner
of Lot 10; thence W 200 feet to beginning.
Together with any portion of vacated streets and alleys that have become
part of the above property.
(c) TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—
(1) COMPENSATION.—The land transferred
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be transferred with-
out compensation to the United States.
(2) APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE.—
In the event that the Gerald R. Ford Foundation for
any reason is unable or unwilling to continue to
serve as trustee, the Archivist of the United States
is authorized to appoint a successor trustee.
(3) REVERSIONARY INTEREST.—If the Archivist
of the United States determines that the Gerald R.
Ford Foundation (or a successor trustee appointed
under paragraph (2)) has breached its fiduciary duty
under the trust agreement entered into pursuant to
this section, the land transferred pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall revert to the United States under
the administrative jurisdiction of the Archivist.
SEC. 515. (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget shall, by not later than
September 30, 2001, and with public and Federal agency
involvement, issue guidelines under sections 3504(d)(1)
and 3516 of title 44, United States Code, that provide
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policy and procedural guidance to Federal agencies for en-
suring and maximizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and
integrity of information (including statistical information)
disseminated by Federal agencies in fulfillment of the pur-
poses and provisions of chapter 35 of title 44, United
States Code, commonly referred to as the Paperwork Re-
duction Act.
(b) CONTENT
OF
GUIDELINES.—The guidelines
under subsection (a) shall—
(1) apply to the sharing by Federal agencies of,
and access to, information disseminated by Federal
agencies; and
(2) require that each Federal agency to which
the guidelines apply—
(A) issue guidelines ensuring and maxi-
mizing the quality, objectivity, utility, and in-
tegrity of information (including statistical in-
formation) disseminated by the agency, by not
later than 1 year after the date of issuance of
the guidelines under subsection (a);
(B) establish administrative mechanisms
allowing affected persons to seek and obtain
correction of information maintained and dis-
seminated by the agency that does not comply
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with the guidelines issued under subsection (a);
and
(C) report periodically to the Director—
(i) the number and nature of com-
plaints received by the agency regarding
the accuracy of information disseminated
by the agency; and
(ii) how such complaints were handled
by the agency.
SEC. 516. For the purpose of resolving litigation and
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made
available to the Office pursuant to court approval.
SEC. 517. None of the funds appropriated by this Act
shall be used to propose or issue rules, regulations, de-
crees, or orders for the purpose of implementation, or in
preparation for implementation, of the Kyoto Protocol,
which was adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto,
Japan, at the Third Conference of the Parties to the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which has not been submitted to the Senate for
advice and consent to ratification pursuant to article II,
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section 2, clause 2, of the United States Constitution, and
which has not entered into force pursuant to article 25
of the Protocol.
SEC. 518. Not later than July 1, 2001, the Director
of the Office of Management and Budget shall submit a
report to the Committee on Appropriations and the Com-
mittee on Governmental Affairs in the Senate and the
Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Gov-
ernment Reform of the House of Representatives that (1)
evaluates, for each agency, the extent to which implemen-
tation of chapter 35 of title 31, United States Code, as
amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104–13), has reduced burden imposed by rules issued
by the agency, including the burden imposed by each
major rule issued by the agency; (2) includes a determina-
tion, based on such evaluation, of the need for additional
procedures to ensure achievement of the purposes of that
chapter, as set forth in section 3501 of title 31, United
States Code, and evaluates the burden imposed by each
major rule that imposes more than 10,000,000 hours of
burden, and identifies specific reductions expected to be
achieved in each of fiscal years 2001 and 2002 in the bur-
den imposed by all rules issued by each agency that issued
such a major rule.
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TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS
SEC. 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other
Act may be used to pay travel to the United States for
the immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases
of death or life threatening illness of said employee.
SEC. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2001 shall obligate
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the offi-
cers and employees of such department, agency, or instru-
mentality.
SEC. 603. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor
vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement,
and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at
$8,100 except station wagons for which the maximum
shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be ex-
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ceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles,
and by not to exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehi-
cles: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this sec-
tion may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for elec-
tric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under
the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976:
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section
may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alter-
native fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law
101–549 over the cost of comparable conventionally fueled
vehicles.
SEC. 604. Appropriations of the executive depart-
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924.
SEC. 605. Unless otherwise specified during the cur-
rent fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained
in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensa-
tion of any officer or employee of the Government of the
United States (including any agency the majority of the
stock of which is owned by the Government of the United
States) whose post of duty is in the continental United
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States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United
States; (2) is a person in the service of the United States
on the date of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible
for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to be-
come a citizen of the United States prior to such date and
is actually residing in the United States; (3) is a person
who owes allegiance to the United States; (4) is an alien
from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam, the countries of the
former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully ad-
mitted to the United States for permanent residence; (5)
is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee pa-
roled in the United States after January 1, 1975; or (6)
is a national of the People’s Republic of China who quali-
fies for adjustment of status pursuant to the Chinese Stu-
dent Protection Act of 1992: Provided, That for the pur-
pose of this section, an affidavit signed by any such person
shall be considered prima facie evidence that the require-
ments of this section with respect to his or her status have
been complied with: Provided further, That any person
making a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and,
upon conviction, shall be fined no more than $4,000 or
imprisoned for not more than 1 year, or both: Provided
further, That the above penal clause shall be in addition
to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of ex-
isting law: Provided further, That any payment made to
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any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this
section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Gov-
ernment. This section shall not apply to citizens of Ire-
land, Israel, or the Republic of the Philippines, or to na-
tionals of those countries allied with the United States in
a current defense effort, or to international broadcasters
employed by the United States Information Agency, or to
temporary employment of translators, or to temporary em-
ployment in the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as
a result of emergencies.
SEC. 606. Appropriations available to any depart-
ment or agency during the current fiscal year for nec-
essary expenses, including maintenance or operating ex-
penses, shall also be available for payment to the General
Services Administration for charges for space and services
and those expenses of renovation and alteration of build-
ings and facilities which constitute public improvements
performed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of
1959 (73 Stat. 749), the Public Buildings Amendments
of 1972 (87 Stat. 216), or other applicable law.
SEC. 607. In addition to funds provided in this or
any other Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to re-
ceive and use funds resulting from the sale of materials,
including Federal records disposed of pursuant to a
records schedule recovered through recycling or waste pre-
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vention programs. Such funds shall be available until ex-
pended for the following purposes:
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention,
and recycling programs as described in Executive
Order No. 13101 (September 14, 1998), including
any such programs adopted prior to the effective
date of the Executive order.
(2) Other Federal agency environmental man-
agement programs, including, but not limited to, the
development and implementation of hazardous waste
management and pollution prevention programs.
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by
law or as deemed appropriate by the head of the
Federal agency.
SEC. 608. Funds made available by this or any other
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available,
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-
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penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other
funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be
correspondingly reduced.
SEC. 609. No part of any appropriation for the cur-
rent fiscal year contained in this or any other Act shall
be paid to any person for the filling of any position for
which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has
voted not to approve the nomination of said person.
SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency
financing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards),
commissions, councils, committees, or similar groups
(whether or not they are interagency entities) which do
not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive
financial support from more than one agency or instru-
mentality.
SEC. 611. Funds made available by this or any other
Act to the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall
be available for employment of guards for all buildings and
areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service and under
the charge and control of the Postal Service, and such
guards shall have, with respect to such property, the pow-
ers of special policemen provided by the first section of
the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40
U.S.C. 318), and, as to property owned or occupied by
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the Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the
same actions as the Administrator of General Services
may take under the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of the
Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C.
318a and 318b), attaching thereto penal consequences
under the authority and within the limits provided in sec-
tion 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat.
281; 40 U.S.C. 318c).
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available pursuant
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement,
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the
United States.
SEC. 613. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section,
no part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year
2001, by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any
prevailing 
rate 
employee 
described 
in 
section
5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code—
(1) during the period from the date of expira-
tion of the limitation imposed by section 613 of the
Treasury and General Government Appropriations
Act, 2000, until the normal effective date of the ap-
plicable wage survey adjustment that is to take ef-
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fect in fiscal year 2001, in an amount that exceeds
the rate payable for the applicable grade and step of
the applicable wage schedule in accordance with
such section 613; and
(2) during the period consisting of the remain-
der of fiscal year 2001, in an amount that exceeds,
as a result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate
payable under paragraph (1) by more than the sum
of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking ef-
fect in fiscal year 2001 under section 5303 of
title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay
under the General Schedule; and
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age percentage of the locality-based com-
parability payments taking effect in fiscal year
2001 under section 5304 of such title (whether
by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall av-
erage percentage of such payments which was
effective in fiscal year 2000 under such section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code,
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title,
may be paid during the periods for which subsection (a)
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is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would
be payable under subsection (a) were subsection (a) appli-
cable to such employee.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable
to an employee who is covered by this section and who
is paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30,
2000, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by
the Office of Personnel Management.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30,
2000, except to the extent determined by the Office of
Personnel Management to be consistent with the purpose
of this section.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for
service performed after September 30, 2000.
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision
of law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribu-
tion, or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the
basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary
or basic pay payable after the application of this section
shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
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(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by
this section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be
payable were this section not in effect.
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section
if the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary
to ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employ-
ees.
SEC. 614. During the period in which the head of
any department or agency, or any other officer or civilian
employee of the Government appointed by the President
of the United States, holds office, no funds may be obli-
gated or expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or re-
decorate the office of such department head, agency head,
officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or make im-
provements for any such office, unless advance notice of
such furnishing or redecoration is expressly approved by
the Committees on Appropriations. For the purposes of
this section, the word ‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite
of offices assigned to the individual, as well as any other
space used primarily by the individual or the use of which
is directly controlled by the individual.
SEC. 615. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct,
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and/or lease any additional facilities, except within or con-
tiguous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose
of conducting Federal law enforcement training without
the advance approval of the Committees on Appropria-
tions, except that the Federal Law Enforcement Training
Center is authorized to obtain the temporary use of addi-
tional facilities by lease, contract, or other agreement for
training which cannot be accommodated in existing Center
facilities.
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31,
United States Code, or section 610 of this Act, funds
made available for fiscal year 2001 by this or any other
Act shall be available for the interagency funding of na-
tional security and emergency preparedness telecommuni-
cations initiatives which benefit multiple Federal depart-
ments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive
Order No. 12472 (April 3, 1984).
SEC. 617. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any
Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality for
the salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a
position of a confidential or policy-determining character
excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section
3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification
to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of
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the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality
employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C
position was not created solely or primarily in order to
detail the employee to the White House.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to
Federal employees or members of the armed services de-
tailed to or from—
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
(2) the National Security Agency;
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
(4) the offices within the Department of De-
fense for the collection of specialized national foreign
intelligence through reconnaissance programs;
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of
the Department of State;
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Ad-
ministration of the Department of Justice, the De-
partment of Transportation, the Department of the
Treasury, and the Department of Energy per-
forming intelligence functions; and
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence.
SEC. 618. No department, agency, or instrumentality
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under
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this or any other Act for fiscal year 2001 shall obligate
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
sure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimination
and sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces are
not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
as amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
of 1967, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
SEC. 619. None of the funds made available in this
Act for the United States Customs Service may be used
to allow the importation into the United States of any
good, ware, article, or merchandise mined, produced, or
manufactured by forced or indentured child labor, as de-
termined pursuant to section 307 of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1307).
SEC. 620. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be available for the payment
of the salary of any officer or employee of the Federal
Government, who—
(1) prohibits or prevents, or attempts or threat-
ens to prohibit or prevent, any other officer or em-
ployee of the Federal Government from having any
direct oral or written communication or contact with
any Member, committee, or subcommittee of the
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Congress in connection with any matter pertaining
to the employment of such other officer or employee
or pertaining to the department or agency of such
other officer or employee in any way, irrespective of
whether such communication or contact is at the ini-
tiative of such other officer or employee or in re-
sponse to the request or inquiry of such Member,
committee, or subcommittee; or
(2) removes, suspends from duty without pay,
demotes, reduces in rank, seniority, status, pay, or
performance of efficiency rating, denies promotion
to, relocates, reassigns, transfers, disciplines, or dis-
criminates in regard to any employment right, enti-
tlement, or benefit, or any term or condition of em-
ployment of, any other officer or employee of the
Federal Government, or attempts or threatens to
commit any of the foregoing actions with respect to
such other officer or employee, by reason of any
communication or contact of such other officer or
employee with any Member, committee, or sub-
committee of the Congress as described in paragraph
(1).
SEC. 621. (a) None of the funds made available in
this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for
any employee training that—
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(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the
performance of official duties;
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in
some participants;
(3) does not require prior employee notification
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation;
(4) contains any methods or content associated
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N–
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the
workplace.
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties.
SEC. 622. No funds appropriated in this or any other
Act may be used to implement or enforce the agreements
in Standard Forms 312 and 4414 of the Government or
any other nondisclosure policy, form, or agreement if such
policy, form, or agreement does not contain the following
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provisions: ‘‘These restrictions are consistent with and do
not supersede, conflict with, or otherwise alter the em-
ployee obligations, rights, or liabilities created by Execu-
tive Order No. 12958; section 7211 of title 5, U.S.C. (gov-
erning disclosures to Congress); section 1034 of title 10,
United States Code, as amended by the Military Whistle-
blower Protection Act (governing disclosure to Congress
by members of the military); section 2302(b)(8) of title
5, United States Code, as amended by the Whistleblower
Protection Act (governing disclosures of illegality, waste,
fraud, abuse or public health or safety threats); the Intel-
ligence Identities Protection Act of 1982 (50 U.S.C. 421
et seq.) (governing disclosures that could expose confiden-
tial Government agents); and the statutes which protect
against disclosure that may compromise the national secu-
rity, including sections 641, 793, 794, 798, and 952 of
title 18, United States Code, and section 4(b) of the Sub-
versive Activities Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. 783(b)). The
definitions, requirements, obligations, rights, sanctions,
and liabilities created by said Executive order and listed
statutes are incorporated into this agreement and are con-
trolling.’’: Provided, That notwithstanding the preceding
paragraph, a nondisclosure policy form or agreement that
is to be executed by a person connected with the conduct
of an intelligence or intelligence-related activity, other
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than an employee or officer of the United States Govern-
ment, may contain provisions appropriate to the particular
activity for which such document is to be used. Such form
or agreement shall, at a minimum, require that the person
will not disclose any classified information received in the
course of such activity unless specifically authorized to do
so by the United States Government. Such nondisclosure
forms shall also make it clear that they do not bar disclo-
sures to Congress or to an authorized official of an execu-
tive agency or the Department of Justice that are essential
to reporting a substantial violation of law.
SEC. 623. No part of any funds appropriated in this
or any other Act shall be used by an agency of the execu-
tive branch, other than for normal and recognized execu-
tive-legislative relationships, for publicity or propaganda
purposes, and for the preparation, distribution or use of
any kit, pamphlet, booklet, publication, radio, television or
film presentation designed to support or defeat legislation
pending before the Congress, except in presentation to the
Congress itself.
SEC. 624. (a) IN GENERAL.—For calendar year 2002
and each year thereafter, the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall prepare and submit to
Congress, with the budget submitted under section 1105
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of title 31, United States Code, an accounting statement
and associated report containing—
(1) an estimate of the total annual costs and
benefits (including quantifiable and nonquantifiable
effects) of Federal rules and paperwork, to the ex-
tent feasible—
(A) in the aggregate;
(B) by agency and agency program; and
(C) by major rule;
(2) an analysis of impacts of Federal regulation
on State, local, and tribal government, small busi-
ness, wages, and economic growth; and
(3) recommendations for reform.
(b) NOTICE.—The Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall provide public notice and an oppor-
tunity to comment on the statement and report under sub-
section (a) before the statement and report are submitted
to Congress.
(c) GUIDELINES.—To implement this section, the Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget shall issue
guidelines to agencies to standardize—
(1) measures of costs and benefits; and
(2) the format of accounting statements.
(d) PEER REVIEW.—The Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall provide for independent
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and external peer review of the guidelines and each ac-
counting statement and associated report under this sec-
tion. Such peer review shall not be subject to the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.).
SEC. 625. None of the funds appropriated by this or
any other Act may be used by an agency to provide a Fed-
eral employee’s home address to any labor organization
except when the employee has authorized such disclosure
or when such disclosure has been ordered by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
SEC. 626. Hereafter, the Secretary of the Treasury
is authorized to establish scientific certification standards
for explosives detection canines, and shall provide, on a
reimbursable basis, for the certification of explosives de-
tection canines employed by Federal agencies, or other
agencies providing explosives detection services at airports
in the United States.
SEC. 627. None of the funds made available in this
Act or any other Act may be used to provide any non-
public information such as mailing or telephone lists to
any person or any organization outside of the Federal
Government without the approval of the Committees on
Appropriations.
SEC. 628. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be used for publicity or propa-
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ganda purposes within the United States not heretofore
authorized by the Congress.
SEC. 629. (a) In this section the term ‘‘agency’’—
(1) means an Executive agency as defined
under section 105 of title 5, United States Code;
(2) includes a military department as defined
under section 102 of such title, the Postal Service,
and the Postal Rate Commission; and
(3) shall not include the General Accounting
Office.
(b) Unless authorized in accordance with law or regu-
lations to use such time for other purposes, an employee
of an agency shall use official time in an honest effort
to perform official duties. An employee not under a leave
system, including a Presidential appointee exempted under
section 6301(2) of title 5, United States Code, has an obli-
gation to expend an honest effort and a reasonable propor-
tion of such employee’s time in the performance of official
duties.
SEC. 630. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
Act may be used to enter into or renew a contract which
includes a provision providing prescription drug coverage,
except where the contract also includes a provision for con-
traceptive coverage.
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(b) Nothing in this section shall apply to a contract
with—
(1) any of the following religious plans:
(A) Personal Care’s HMO;
(B) Care Choices;
(C) OSF Health Plans, Inc.; and
(2) any existing or future plan, if the carrier
for the plan objects to such coverage on the basis of
religious beliefs.
(c) In implementing this section, any plan that enters
into or renews a contract under this section may not sub-
ject any individual to discrimination on the basis that the
individual refuses to prescribe or otherwise provide for
contraceptives because such activities would be contrary
to the individual’s religious beliefs or moral convictions.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to re-
quire coverage of abortion or abortion-related services.
SEC. 631. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1346 and sec-
tion 610 of this Act, funds made available for fiscal year
2001 by this or any other Act to any department or agen-
cy, which is a member of the Joint Financial Management
Improvement Program (JFMIP), shall be available to fi-
nance an appropriate share of JFMIP administrative
costs, as determined by the JFMIP, but not to exceed a
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priations by the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget.
SEC. 633. (a) IN GENERAL.—In accordance with reg-
ulations promulgated by the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment, an Executive agency which provides or proposes to
provide child care services for Federal employees may use
appropriated funds (otherwise available to such agency for
salaries and expenses) to provide child care, in a Federal
or leased facility, or through contract, for civilian employ-
ees of such agency.
(b) AFFORDABILITY.—Amounts so provided with re-
spect to any such facility or contractor shall be applied
to improve the affordability of child care for lower income
Federal employees using or seeking to use the child care
services offered by such facility or contractor.
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘Executive agency’’ has the meaning given such term
by section 105 of title 5, United States Code, but does
not include the General Accounting Office.
(d) NOTIFICATION.—None of the funds made avail-
able in this or any other Act may be used to implement
the provisions of this section absent advance notification
to the Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 634. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, a woman may breastfeed her child at any location
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in a Federal building or on Federal property, if the woman
and her child are otherwise authorized to be present at
the location.
SEC. 635. Nothwithstanding section 1346 of title 31,
United States Code, or section 610 of this Act, funds
made available for fiscal year 2001 by this or any other
Act shall be available for the interagency funding of spe-
cific projects, workshops, studies, and similar efforts to
carry out the purposes of the National Science and Tech-
nology Council (authorized by Executive Order No.
12881), which benefit multiple Federal departments,
agencies, or entities: Provided, That the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget shall provide a report describing the
budget of and resources connected with the National
Science and Technology Council to the Committees on Ap-
propriations, the House Committee on Science; and the
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor-
tation 90 days after enactment of this Act.
SEC. 636. RETIREMENT PROVISIONS RELATING TO
CERTAIN MEMBERS OF THE POLICE FORCE OF THE MET-
ROPOLITAN WASHINGTON AIRPORTS AUTHORITY.—(a)
QUALIFIED MWAA POLICE OFFICER DEFINED.—For
purposes of this section, the term ‘‘qualified MWAA police
officer’’ means any individual who, as of the date of the
enactment of this Act—
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(1) is employed as a member of the police force
of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority
(hereinafter in this section referred to as an
‘‘MWAA police officer’’); and
(2) is subject to the Civil Service Retirement
System or the Federal Employees’ Retirement Sys-
tem by virtue of section 49107(b) of title 49, United
States Code.
(b) ELIGIBILITY TO BE TREATED AS A LAW EN-
FORCEMENT OFFICER FOR RETIREMENT PURPOSES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any qualified MWAA police
officer may, by written election submitted in accord-
ance with applicable requirements under subsection
(c), elect to be treated as a law enforcement officer
(within the meaning of section 8331 or 8401 of title
5, United States Code, as applicable), and to have
all prior service described in paragraph (2) similarly
treated.
(2) PRIOR SERVICE DESCRIBED.—The service
described in this paragraph is all service which an
individual performed, prior to the effective date of
such individual’s election under this section, as—
(A) an MWAA police officer; or
(B) a member of the police force of the
Federal Aviation Administration (hereinafter in
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this section referred to as an ‘‘FAA police offi-
cer’’).
(c) REGULATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall prescribe any regulations necessary to carry
out this section, including provisions relating to the time,
form, and manner in which any election under this section
shall be made. Such an election shall not be effective
unless—
(1) it is made before the employee separates
from service with the Metropolitan Washington Air-
ports Authority, but in no event later than 1 year
after the regulations under this subsection take ef-
fect; and
(2) it is accompanied by payment of an amount
equal to, with respect to all prior service of such em-
ployee which is described in subsection (b)(2)—
(A) the employee deductions that would
have been required for such service under chap-
ter 83 or 84 of title 5, U.S.C. (as the case may
be) if such election had then been in effect,
minus
(B) the total employee deductions and con-
tributions under such chapter 83 and 84 (as
applicable) that were actually made for such
service,
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taking into account only amounts required to be
credited to the Civil Service Retirement and Dis-
ability Fund. Any amount under paragraph (2) shall
be computed with interest, in accordance with sec-
tion 8334(e) of such title 5.
(d) GOVERNMENT
CONTRIBUTIONS.—Whenever a
payment under subsection (c)(2) is made by an individual
with respect to such individual’s prior service (as described
in subsection (b)(2)), the Metropolitan Washington Air-
ports Authority shall pay into the Civil Service Retirement
and Disability Fund any additional contributions for
which it would have been liable, with respect to such serv-
ice, if such individual’s election under this section had
then been in effect (and, to the extent of any prior FAA
police officer service, as if it had then been the employing
agency). Any amount under this subsection shall be com-
puted with interest, in accordance with section 8334(e) of
title 5, United States Code.
(e) CERTIFICATIONS.—The Office of Personnel Man-
agement shall accept, for the purpose of this section, the
certification of—
(1) the Metropolitan Washington Airports Au-
thority (or its designee) concerning any service per-
formed by an individual as an MWAA police officer;
and
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(2) the Federal Aviation Administration (or its
designee) concerning any service performed by an in-
dividual as an FAA police officer.
(f) REIMBURSEMENT TO COMPENSATE
FOR UN-
FUNDED LIABILITY.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Metropolitan Wash-
ington Airports Authority shall pay into the Civil
Service Retirement and Disability Fund an amount
(as determined by the Director of the Office of Per-
sonnel Management) equal to the amount necessary
to reimburse the Fund for any estimated increase in
the unfunded liability of the Fund (to the extent the
Civil Service Retirement System is involved), and for
any estimated increase in the supplemental liability
of the Fund (to the extent the Federal Employees’
Retirement System is involved), resulting from the
enactment of this section.
(2) PAYMENT
METHOD.—The Metropolitan
Washington Airports Authority shall pay the amount
so determined in five equal annual installments, with
interest (which shall be computed at the rate used
in the most recent valuation of the Federal Employ-
ees’ Retirement System).
SEC. 637. (a) For purposes of this section—
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(1) the term ‘‘comparability payment’’ refers to
a locality-based comparability payment under section
5304 of title 5, United States Code;
(2) the term ‘‘President’s pay agent’’ refers to
the pay agent described in section 5302(4) of such
title; and
(3) the term ‘‘pay locality’’ has the meaning
given such term by section 5302(5) of such title.
(b) Notwithstanding any provision of section 5304 of
title 5, United States Code, for purposes of determining
appropriate pay localities and making comparability pay-
ment recommendations, the President’s pay agent may, in
accordance with succeeding provisions of this section,
make comparisons of General Schedule pay and non-Fed-
eral pay within any of the metropolitan statistical areas
described in subsection (d)(3), using—
(1) data from surveys of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics;
(2) salary data sets obtained under subsection
(c); or
(3) any combination thereof.
(c) To the extent necessary in order to carry out this
section, the President’s pay agent may obtain any salary
data sets (referred to in subsection (b)) from any organi-
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zation or entity that regularly compiles similar data for
businesses in the private sector.
(d)(1)(A) This paragraph applies with respect to the
five metropolitan statistical areas described in paragraph
(3) which—
(i) have the highest levels of nonfarm employ-
ment (as determined based on data made available
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics); and
(ii) as of the date of the enactment of this Act,
have not previously been surveyed by the Bureau of
Labor Statistics (as discrete pay localities) for pur-
poses of section 5304 of title 5, United States Code.
(B) The President’s pay agent, based on such com-
parisons under subsection (b) as the pay agent considers
appropriate, shall: (i) determine whether any of the five
areas under subparagraph (A) warrants designation as a
discrete pay locality; and (ii) if so, make recommendations
as to what level of comparability payments would be ap-
propriate during 2002 for each area so determined.
(C)(i) Any recommendations under subparagraph
(B)(ii) shall be included—
(I) in the pay agent’s report under section
5304(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, submitted
for purposes of comparability payments scheduled to
become payable in 2002; or
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(II) if compliance with subclause (I) is imprac-
ticable, in a supplementary report which the pay
agent shall submit to the President and the Con-
gress no later than March 1, 2001.
(ii) In the event that the recommendations are com-
pleted in time to be included in the report described in
clause (i)(I), a copy of those recommendations shall be
transmitted by the pay agent to the Congress contempora-
neous with their submission to the President.
(D) Each of the five areas under subparagraph (A)
that so warrants, as determined by the President’s pay
agent, shall be designated as a discrete pay locality under
section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, in time for
it to be treated as such for purposes of comparability pay-
ments becoming payable in 2002.
(2) The President’s pay agent may, at any time after
the 180th day following the submission of the report under
subsection (f), make any initial or further determinations
or recommendations under this section, based on any pay
comparisons under subsection (b), with respect to any area
described in paragraph (3).
(3) An area described in this paragraph is any metro-
politan statistical area within the continental United
States that (as determined based on data made available
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Office of Per-
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sonnel Management, respectively) has a high level of non-
farm employment and at least 2,500 General Schedule em-
ployees whose post of duty is within such area.
(e)(1) The authority under this section to make pay
comparisons and to make any determinations or rec-
ommendations based on such comparisons shall be avail-
able to the President’s pay agent only for purposes of com-
parability payments becoming payable on or after January
1, 2002, and before January 1, 2007, and only with re-
spect to areas described in subsection (d)(3).
(2) Any comparisons and recommendations so made
shall, if included in the pay agent’s report under section
5304(d)(1) of title 5, United States Code, for any year
(or the pay agent’s supplementary report, in accordance
with subsection (d)(1)(C)(i)(II)), be considered and acted
on as the pay agent’s comparisons and recommendations
under such section 5304(d)(1) for the area and the year
involved.
(f)(1) No later than March 1, 2001, the President’s
pay agent shall submit to the Committee on Government
Reform of the House of Representatives, the Committee
on Governmental Affairs of the Senate, and the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and of the Senate, a report on the use of pay comparison
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data, as described in subsection (b)(2) or (3) (as appro-
priate), for purposes of comparability payments.
(2) The report shall include the cost of obtaining such
data, the rationale underlying the decisions reached based
on such data, and the relative advantages and disadvan-
tages of using such data (including whether the effort in-
volved in analyzing and integrating such data is commen-
surate with the benefits derived from their use). The re-
port may include specific recommendations regarding the
continued use of such data.
(g)(1) No later than May 1, 2001, the President’s
pay agent shall prepare and submit to the committees
specified in subsection (f)(1) a report relating to the ongo-
ing efforts of the Office of Personnel Management, the
Office of Management and Budget, and the Bureau of
Labor Statistics to revise the methodology currently being
used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in performing its
surveys under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code.
(2) The report shall include a detailed accounting of
any concerns the pay agent may have regarding the cur-
rent methodology, the specific projects the pay agent has
directed any of those agencies to undertake in order to
address those concerns, and a time line for the anticipated
completion of those projects and for implementation of the
revised methodology.
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(3) The report shall also include recommendations as
to how those ongoing efforts might be expedited, including
any additional resources which, in the opinion of the pay
agent, are needed in order to expedite completion of the
activities described in the preceding provisions of this sub-
section, and the reasons why those additional resources
are needed.
SEC. 638. FEDERAL FUNDS IDENTIFIED. Any re-
quest for proposals, solicitation, grant application, form,
notification, press release, or other publications involving
the distribution of Federal funds shall indicate the agency
providing the funds and the amount provided. This provi-
sion shall apply to direct payments, formula funds, and
grants received by a State receiving Federal funds.
SEC. 639. MANDATORY REMOVAL FROM EMPLOY-
MENT OF FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CON-
VICTED OF FELONIES. (a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 73 of
title 5, United States Code, is amended by adding after
subchapter VI the following:
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VII—MANDATORY REMOVAL FROM
EMPLOYMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
‘‘§ 7371. Mandatory removal from employment of law
enforcement officers convicted of felonies
‘‘(a) In this section, the term—
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‘‘(1) ‘conviction date’ means the date on which
an agency has notice of the date on which a convic-
tion of a felony is entered by a Federal or State
court, regardless of whether that conviction is ap-
pealed or is subject to appeal; and
‘‘(2) ‘law enforcement officer’ has the meaning
given that term under section 8331(20) or 8401(17).
‘‘(b) Any law enforcement officer who is convicted of
a felony shall be removed from employment without regard
to chapter 75 on the last day of the first applicable pay
period following the conviction date.
‘‘(c) This section does not prohibit the removal from
employment before a conviction date.’’.
(b) TECHNICAL AND CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
The table of sections for chapter 73 of title 5, United
States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating
to section 7363 the following:
‘‘SUBCHAPTER VI—MANDATORY REMOVAL FROM EMPLOYMENT OF
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
‘‘7551. Mandatory removal from employment of law enforcement officers con-
victed of felonies.’’.
SEC. 640. (a) CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYS-
TEM.—The table under section 8334(c) of title 5, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) in the matter relating to an employee by
striking:
‘‘7.5 ......
January 1, 2001, to December 31, 2002.