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(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 manage-
ment programs, including, but not limited to, the de-
velopment 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 Fed-
eral agency.
SEC. 806. 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 expenses
are subsequently transferred to or paid from other funds,
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the limitations on administrative expenses shall be cor-
respondingly reduced.
SEC. 807. No part of any appropriation for the current
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. 808. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency fi-
nancing of boards (except Federal Executive Boards), com-
missions, 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 instrumentality.
SEC. 809. 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 or under the
charge and control of the Postal Service. The Postal Service
may give such guards, with respect to such property, any
of the powers of special policemen provided under 40 U.S.C.
1315. The Postmaster General, or his designee, may take
any action that the Secretary of Homeland Security may
take under such section with respect to that property.
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SEC. 810. 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 joint resolution duly adopted in
accordance with the applicable law of the United States.
SEC. 811. (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 2006,
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 expiration
of the limitation imposed by the comparable section
for previous fiscal years until the normal effective
date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is
to take effect in fiscal year 2006, in an amount that
exceeds the rate payable for the applicable grade and
step of the applicable wage schedule in accordance
with such section; and
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder
of fiscal year 2006, 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 effect
in fiscal year 2006 under section 5303 of title 5,
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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
2006 under section 5304 of such title (whether by
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average
percentage of such payments which was effective
in the previous fiscal year 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) is in effect
at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such em-
ployee.
(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,
2005, 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,
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2005, except to the extent determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel 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, 2005.
(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 contribution,
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.
(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 employees.
SEC. 812. During the period in which the head of any
department or agency, or any other officer or civilian em-
ployee of the Government appointed by the President of the
United States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or
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expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or redecorate the
office of such department head, agency head, officer, or em-
ployee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements 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 term
‘‘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. 813. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31,
United States Code, or section 809 of this Act, funds made
available for the current fiscal year 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. 814. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Fed-
eral 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