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(4) The Association, or any successor thereto,
shall maintain adequate records and accounts of all
financial transactions and operations carried out
with such distributions, and such records shall be
available at all times for audit and investigation by
the Architect of the Capitol and the Comptroller
General.
(c) NO TITLE IN UNITED STATES.—Nothing in this
section shall be construed to vest title to the Congressional
Cemetery in the United States.
SEC. 209. (a) For fiscal year 1999, the amount avail-
able for expenditure by the Architect of the Capitol from
the fund established under section 4 of the Act entitled
‘‘An Act to authorize acquisition of certain real property
for the Library of Congress, and for other purposes’’, ap-
proved December 15, 1997 (Public Law 105–144; 111
Stat. 2688), may not exceed $2,500,000.
(b) The portion of the appropriated funds made avail-
able to the Architect of the Capitol for fiscal year 1999
which the Architect may expend for improvements to the
National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper,
Virginia (not including any funds made available from the
fund described in subsection (a)) may not exceed an
amount equal to one third of the amount of funds appro-
priated from the fund described in subsection (a) for the
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fiscal year, except that the Architect may expend a greater
amount for such purposes with the approval of the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and the Senate.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Doc-
uments necessary to provide for the cataloging and index-
ing of Government publications and their distribution to
the public, Members of Congress, other Government agen-
cies, and designated depository and international exchange
libraries as authorized by law, $29,264,000: Provided,
That travel expenses, including travel expenses of the De-
pository Library Council to the Public Printer, shall not
exceed $150,000: Provided further, That amounts of not
more than $2,000,000 from current year appropriations
are authorized for producing and disseminating Congres-
sional serial sets and other related publications for 1997
and 1998 to depository and other designated libraries.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE REVOLVING FUND
The Government Printing Office is hereby authorized
to make such expenditures, within the limits of funds
available and in accord with the law, and to make such
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year
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limitations as provided by section 9104 of title 31, United
States Code, as may be necessary in carrying out the pro-
grams and purposes set forth in the budget for the current
fiscal year for the Government Printing Office revolving
fund: Provided, That not more than $2,500 may be ex-
pended on the certification of the Public Printer in connec-
tion with official representation and reception expenses:
Provided further, That the revolving fund shall be available
for the hire or purchase of not more than twelve passenger
motor vehicles: Provided further, That expenditures in con-
nection with travel expenses of the advisory councils to
the Public Printer shall be deemed necessary to carry out
the provisions of title 44, United States Code: Provided
further, That the revolving fund shall be available for tem-
porary or intermittent services under section 3109(b) of
title 5, United States Code, but at rates for individuals
not more than the daily equivalent of the annual rate of
basic pay for level V of the Executive Schedule under sec-
tion 5316 of such title: Provided further, That the revolv-
ing fund and the funds provided under the headings ‘‘OF-
FICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS’’ and ‘‘SALA-
RIES AND EXPENSES’’ together may not be available for
the full-time equivalent employment of more than 3,416
workyears: Provided further, That activities financed
through the revolving fund may provide information in any
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format: Provided further, That the revolving fund shall not
be used to administer any flexible or compressed work
schedule which applies to any manager or supervisor in
a position the grade or level of which is equal to or higher
than GS–15: Provided further, That expenses for attend-
ance at meetings shall not exceed $75,000.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the General Accounting
Office, including not more than $7,000 to be expended on
the certification of the Comptroller General of the United
States in connection with official representation and recep-
tion expenses; temporary or intermittent services under
section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, but at rates
for individuals not more than the daily equivalent of the
annual rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive
Schedule under section 5315 of such title; hire of one pas-
senger motor vehicle; advance payments in foreign coun-
tries in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3324; benefits com-
parable to those payable under sections 901(5), 901(6)
and 901(8) of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C.
4081(5), 4081(6) and 4081(8)); and under regulations
prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United
States, rental of living quarters in foreign countries,
$354,238,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C.
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9105 hereafter amounts reimbursed to the Comptroller
General pursuant to that section shall be deposited to the
appropriation of the General Accounting Office then avail-
able and remain available until expended, and not more
than $2,000,000 of such funds shall be available for use
in fiscal year 1999: Provided further, That this appropria-
tion and appropriations for administrative expenses of any
other department or agency which is a member of the
Joint Financial Management Improvement Program
(JFMIP) shall be available to finance an appropriate
share of JFMIP costs as determined by the JFMIP, in-
cluding the salary of the Executive Director and secretar-
ial support: Provided further, That this appropriation and
appropriations for administrative expenses of any other
department or agency which is a member of the National
Intergovernmental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergov-
ernmental Audit Forum shall be available to finance an
appropriate share of either Forum’s costs as determined
by the respective Forum, including necessary travel ex-
penses of non-Federal participants. Payments hereunder
to either Forum or to the JFMIP may be credited as reim-
bursements to any appropriation from which costs in-
volved are initially financed: Provided further, That this
appropriation and appropriations for administrative ex-
penses of any other department or agency which is a mem-
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ber of the American Consortium on International Public
Administration (ACIPA) shall be available to finance an
appropriate share of ACIPA costs as determined by the
ACIPA, including any expenses attributable to member-
ship of ACIPA in the International Institute of Adminis-
trative Sciences.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. No part of the funds appropriated in this
Act shall be used for the maintenance or care of private
vehicles, except for emergency assistance and cleaning as
may be provided under regulations relating to parking fa-
cilities for the House of Representatives issued by the
Committee on House Oversight and for the Senate issued
by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. No part of the funds appropriated in this
Act shall remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year
1999 unless expressly so provided in this Act.
SEC. 303. Whenever in this Act any office or position
not specifically established by the Legislative Pay Act of
1929 is appropriated for or the rate of compensation or
designation of any office or position appropriated for is
different from that specifically established by such Act,
the rate of compensation and the designation in this Act
shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided,
That the provisions in this Act for the various items of
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official expenses of Members, officers, and committees of
the Senate and House of Representatives, and clerk hire
for Senators and Members of the House of Representa-
tives shall be the permanent law with respect thereto.
SEC. 304. 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. 305. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that,
to the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and prod-
ucts purchased with funds made available in this Act
should be American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
(c) 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
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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 section
9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
SEC. 306. Such sums as may be necessary are appro-
priated to the account described in subsection (a) of sec-
tion 415 of Public Law 104–1 to pay awards and settle-
ments as authorized under such subsection.
SEC. 307. Amounts available for administrative ex-
penses of any legislative branch entity which participates
in the Legislative Branch Financial Managers Council
(LBFMC) established by charter on March 26, 1996, shall
be available to finance an appropriate share of LBFMC
costs as determined by the LBFMC, except that the total
LBFMC costs to be shared among all participating legisla-
tive branch entities (in such allocations among the entities
as the entities may determine) may not exceed $1,500.
SEC. 308. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, hereafter the Architect of the Capitol is authorized
to enter into energy savings performance contracts for en-
ergy savings projects in the Capitol Complex under the
following conditions:
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(1) the Architect of the Capitol shall obtain the
approval of the Appropriations Committees of the
House and Senate prior to entering into such con-
tracts;
(2) contracts shall conform to the requirements
of 42 U.S.C. 8287(a);
(3) the Architect of the Capitol shall compete
such contracts to the extent practicable among en-
ergy service contractors meeting the standards for
qualification developed by the Secretary of Energy
under 42 U.S.C. 8287(b);
(4) services offered by the Department of En-
ergy in connection with energy savings performance
contracts shall be made available to the Architect of
the Capitol upon request to carry out the authority
granted under this section; and
(5) if payment would be required for furnishing
similar services to an executive agency, payment
therefor shall be made by the Architect by reim-
bursement; such payment may be credited to the ap-
plicable appropriations of the Secretary of Energy.
SEC. 309. (a) SEVERANCE PAY FOR ALL EMPLOYEES
OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.—Section 5595(a)
of title 5, United States Code, as amended by section 310
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of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998, is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(F), by striking ‘‘, but only
with respect to the United States Senate Res-
taurants’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), in clause (viii) in the mat-
ter following subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘of the
United States Senate Restaurants’’.
(b) EARLY RETIREMENT FOR ALL EMPLOYEES OF
THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.—Section 310(b)(1) of
the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (40
U.S.C. 174j–1(b)(1)) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A),
by striking ‘‘of the United States Senate Res-
taurants’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘1999;’’
and inserting ‘‘1999 (or, in the case of an individual
who is not an employee of the United States Senate
Restaurants, on or after the date of the enactment
of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1999
and before October 1, 2001);’’.
(c) VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE PAYMENTS
FOR ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAP-
ITOL.—Section 310(c) of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 1998 (40 U.S.C. 174j–1(c)) is amended—
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(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘of the United
States Senate Restaurants’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2)—
(A) by striking ‘‘not more than 50’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘1999’’ and inserting
‘‘1999 (or, in the case of an individual who is
not an employee of the United States Senate
Restaurants, on or after the date of the enact-
ment of the Legislative Branch Appropriations
Act, 1999 and before October 1, 2001)’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
sentence: ‘‘The number of employees of the
United States Senate Restaurants to whom vol-
untary separation incentive payments may be
offered under the program established under
the previous sentence may not exceed 50.’’.
(d) RETRAINING, JOB PLACEMENT, AND COUNSEL-
ING SERVICES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES OF THE ARCHITECT
OF
THE CAPITOL.—Section 310(e) of the Legislative
Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (40 U.S.C. 174j–1(e))
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(A), by striking ‘‘of the
United States Senate Restaurants’’; and
(2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘the
United States Senate Restaurants of ’’.