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(c) DATA ANALYSIS.—Data development and analysis 
under this section shall be performed by an institution of 
higher education with GIS capabilities. If the organization 
receiving the grant under subsection (a) does not have GIS 
capabilities, such organization shall contract with one or 
more entities with— 
(1) technological capabilities and resources to 
perform advanced image processing, GIS program-
ming, and data analysis; and 
(2) the ability to— 
(A) process remotely sensed imagery with 
high spatial resolution; 
(B) deploy global positioning systems; 
(C) process and synthesize existing, vari-
able-format gas well, pipeline, gathering facility, 
and reservoir data; 
(D) create and query GIS databases with 
infrastructure location and attribute informa-
tion; 
(E) write computer programs to customize 
relevant GIS software; 
(F) generate maps, charts, and graphs 
which summarize findings from data research for 
presentation to different audiences; and
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(G) deliver data in a variety of formats, in-
cluding Internet Map Server for query and dis-
play, desktop computer display, and access 
through handheld personal digital assistants. 
(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are 
authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Energy 
for carrying out this section— 
(1) $1,500,000 for fiscal year 2006; and 
(2) $450,000 for each of the fiscal years 2007 
through 2010. 
(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘GIS’’ means geographic information systems tech-
nology that facilitates the organization and management of 
data with a geographic component.
Union Calendar No. 122 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 1640 
[Report No. 109–215, Part I] 
A BILL 
To ensure jobs for our future with secure and 
reliable energy. 
JULY 29, 2005 
Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
with an amendment 
JULY 29, 2005 
Committees on Science, Resources, Education and the 
Workforce, Transportation and Infrastructure, Finan-
cial Services, and Agriculture discharged; committed to 
the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the 
Union and ordered to be printed
mittees a report on the results of the analysis required 
by subsection (a). 
SEC. 214. AMOUNTS FOR ARMORED SYSTEMS MODERNIZA-
TION PROGRAM. 
Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
in section 201 for the Armored Systems Modernization 
program—
(1) $100,000,000 may be made available for 
manned ground vehicles in advanced component de-
velopment and prototypes; 
(2) $2,322,197,000 may be made available for 
future combat systems common operating environ-
ment in systems development and demonstration; 
(3) $47,203,000 may be made available for re-
connaissance platforms and sensors in advanced 
component development and prototypes; 
(4) $58,130,000 may be made available for re-
connaissance platforms and sensors in advanced 
technology development; 
(5) $2,504,000 may be made available for unat-
tended sensors in advanced component development 
and prototypes; and
(6) $86,445,000 may be made available for 
robotic ground systems in advanced component de-
velopment and prototypes. 
SEC. 215. LIMITATION ON SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT AND 
DEMONSTRATION OF MANNED GROUND VE-
HICLES UNDER ARMORED SYSTEMS MOD-
ERNIZATION PROGRAM. 
Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
in section 201 for the Armored Systems Modernization 
program, no funds may be obligated for systems develop-
ment and demonstration of manned ground vehicles until 
the objective requirements for those vehicles with respect 
to lethality and survivability have been met and dem-
onstrated in a relevant environment to be at least equal 
to the lethality and survivability for the manned ground 
vehicles to be replaced by those vehicles. 
SEC. 216. TESTING OF INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6 BY 
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 331 of the Ronald W. 
Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2005 (Public Law 108—375; 118 Stat. 1850) is 
amended—
(1) by redesignating subsection (d) as sub-
section (e);
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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1641 
To make the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 
2002 voluntary. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 14, 2005 
Mr. FLAKE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To make the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes- 
Oxley Act of 2002 voluntary. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Competitiveness En-
hancement and Opportunity Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT OF INTERNAL CON-
TROLS VOLUNTARY. 
Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (15 
U.S.C. 7262) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘requiring each annual re-
port’’ and inserting ‘‘permitting each annual re-
port’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘which shall—’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘which, if containing such internal control 
report, shall—’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘shall attest’’ and inserting 
‘‘may attest’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘attestation made’’ and in-
serting ‘‘attestation if made’’. 
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telecommunications service or wireless hybrid 
service account wherein the purchaser has a 
pre-existing relationship with the wireless serv-
ice provider; or 
(C) payphone service, as that term is de-
fined in section 276(d) of the Communications 
Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 276(d)). 
(3) The term ‘‘prepaid calling card provider’’ 
has the meaning given the term ‘‘prepaid calling 
card provider’’ by section 64.5000(b) of the Federal 
Communications 
Commission’s 
regulations 
(47 
C.F.R. 64.5000(b)). Such term shall also include— 
(A) a provider of a prepaid calling card 
that uses VoIP service or a successor protocol; 
and 
(B) a provider of a prepaid calling card 
that allows users to pay in advance for a speci-
fied amount of minutes through an electronic or 
other mechanism. 
(4) The term ‘‘prepaid calling card distributor’’ 
means any entity or person that purchases prepaid 
calling cards from a prepaid calling card provider or 
another prepaid calling card distributor and sells, re- 
sells, issues, or distributes such cards to one or more
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chapter and outstanding at one time may not exceed 
$2,000,000,000. 
‘‘(d) FULL FAITH AND CREDIT.—The full faith and 
credit of the United States Government is pledged to the 
payment of a guarantee made under this chapter, for both 
principal and interest, including interest (as may be pro-
vided for in the guarantee) accruing between the date of 
default under a guaranteed obligation and the date of pay-
ment in full of the guarantee. 
‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated $25,000,000 to carry out 
this section for each of fiscal years 2008 through 2011. 
‘‘§ 55604. Interagency coordination 
‘‘The Secretary of Transportation shall establish a 
board to identify and seek solutions to impediments hin-
dering effective use of short sea transportation. The board 
shall include representatives of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency and other Federal, State, and local govern-
mental entities and private sector entities. 
‘‘§ 55605. Research on short sea transportation 
‘‘The Secretary of Transportation, in consultation 
with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency, may conduct research on short sea transportation, 
regarding—
(2) the estimated expenditures and proposed 
appropriations for that project in the future-years 
defense program are $100,000,000 or more. 
(b) DISPLAY
IN BUDGET JUSTIFICATION MATE-
RIALS.—In the budget justification materials submitted to 
Congress in support of the Department of Defense budget 
for any fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of the 
President under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States 
Code), the amount requested for research, development, 
test, and evaluation activities shall be set forth in a man-
ner that complies with subsection (a). 
(c) NOT APPLICABLE TO MISSILE DEFENSE.—This 
section does not apply to the Missile Defense Agency. 
SEC. 223. SMALL BUSINESS INNOVATION RESEARCH PHASE 
III ACCELERATION PILOT PROGRAM. 
(a) PILOT PROGRAM TO EXPAND ROLE OF SMALL 
BUSINESS CONCERNS IN DEFENSE ACQUISITION.—
(1) PILOT
PROGRAM.—The Secretary of De-
fense shall designate the Secretary of a military de-
partment to carry out a pilot program, to be known 
as the ‘‘Small Business Innovation Research Phase 
III Acceleration Pilot Program’’ to expand the role 
of small business concerns in the defense acquisition 
process by designating certain Department of De-
fense research or research and development projects
for accelerated transition under the Small Business 
Innovation Research Program (in this section re-
ferred to as the SBIR program), as defined in sec-
tion 9(e)(4) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
638(e)(4)). 
(2) ACCELERATED TRANSITION.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘accelerated transition’’ means the ex-
peditious transfer under existing authority from the 
second phase of the SBIR program (as described in 
section 9(e)(4)(B) of the Small Business Act (15 
U.S.C. 638(e)(4)(B))) to the third phase, in which 
applications of research or research and development 
projects are funded (as described in section 
9(e)(4)(C)(i) of such Act). 
(b) DESIGNATION OF PROJECTS FOR ACCELERATED 
TRANSITION.—For each of fiscal years 2006 through 
2008, the Secretary designated under subsection (a)(1) 
shall designate for accelerated transition under the pilot 
program under this section at least 10 research or re-
search and development projects for which funds have 
been provided by that Secretary through a second phase 
award under the SBIR program. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than September 30, 2008, 
the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional 
defense committees a report which contains the following:
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‘‘(1) the environmental and transportation ben-
efits to be derived from short sea transportation al-
ternatives for other forms of transportation; 
‘‘(2) technology, vessel design, and other im-
provements that would reduce emissions, increase 
fuel economy, and lower costs of short sea transpor-
tation and increase the efficiency of intermodal 
transfers; and 
‘‘(3) identify and seek solutions to impediments 
to short sea transportation projects designated 
under section 55601. 
‘‘§ 55606. Short sea transportation defined 
‘‘In this chapter, the term ‘short sea transportation’ 
means the carriage by vessel of cargo— 
‘‘(1) that is— 
‘‘(A) contained in intermodal cargo con-
tainers and loaded by crane on the vessel; or 
‘‘(B) loaded on the vessel by means of 
wheeled technology; and 
‘‘(2) that is— 
‘‘(A) loaded at a port in the United States 
and unloaded at another port in the United 
States or a port in Canada located in the Great 
Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway System; or
of section 402(g) of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986), and any earnings thereon; 
and 
‘‘(ii) elective deferrals (and any earn-
ings thereon) that are required to be in-
vested in such securities under the terms 
of the plan or at the direction of a person 
other than the individual or any bene-
ficiary, 
except that this subparagraph shall not apply to 
any such securities during any period during 
which the individual or any beneficiary has the 
right to direct the plan to divest such securities 
and to reinvest an equivalent amount in other 
investment options of the plan;’’. 
(b) PRIORITIES.—Section 507(a)(4) of title 11, 
United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (B), by indenting the left 
margin of clauses (i) and (ii) 2 ems to the right and 
redesignating such clauses as subclauses (I) and 
(II), respectively; 
(2) by indenting the left margin of subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) 2 ems to the right and redesig-
nating such subparagraphs as clauses (i) and (ii), 
respectively;
(3) in the matter preceding clause (i), as so re-
designated, by striking ‘‘Fourth’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘plan—’’ and inserting the following: 
‘‘Fourth—
‘‘(A) allowed unsecured claims for con-
tributions to an employee benefit plan—’’. 
(4) by striking the period at the end and insert-
ing the following: ‘‘or’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(B) allowed unsecured claims with respect 
to rights or interests in equity securities of the 
debtor, or an affiliate of the debtor, that are 
held in a pension plan (within the meaning of 
section 3(2) of the Employee Retirement In-
come Security Act of 1974), without regard to 
when services were rendered or limitation in 
amount, and measured by the market value of 
the stock at the time the stock was contributed 
to, or purchased by, the plan.’’. 
SEC. 8. WAGE PRIORITY AND EMPLOYEE BENEFIT CAP. 
Section 507(a) of title 11, United States Code, is 
amended—
(1) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘$4,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$13,500’’; and
(2) 
in 
paragraph 
(4)(B)(i), 
by 
striking 
‘‘$4,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$13,500’’. 
SEC. 9. SUBORDINATION. 
Section 510(b) of title 11, United States Code, is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, other than a claim described in 
section 105(5)(C).’’ after ‘‘claim’’ the 1st place it appears. 
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‘‘(B) loaded at a port in Canada located in 
the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway Sys-
tem and unloaded at a port in the United 
States.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of chapters 
at the beginning of subtitle V of such title is amended 
by inserting after the item relating to chapter 555 the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘556. Short Sea Transportation ....................................................55601’’. 
(c) REGULATIONS.— 
(1) INTERIM
REGULATIONS.—Not later than 
December 31, 2007, the Secretary of Transportation 
shall issue temporary regulations to implement the 
program under this section. Subchapter II of chap-
ter 5 of title 5, United States Code, does not apply 
to a temporary regulation issued under this para-
graph or to an amendment to such a temporary reg-
ulation. 
(2) FINAL REGULATIONS.—Not later than Oc-
tober 1, 2008, the Secretary shall issue final regula-
tions to implement the program under this section. 
SEC. 8402. SHORT SEA SHIPPING ELIGIBILITY FOR CAPITAL 
CONSTRUCTION FUND. 
(a) DEFINITION
OF QUALIFIED VESSEL.—Section 
53501 of title 46, United States Code, is amended—
tion technology, employee skills enhancement, and 
management of customers and suppliers. 
(3) Technology, techniques, and processes ap-
propriate to enhancing the productivity of shipyard 
infrastructure. 
(d) SELECTION
OF
PARTICIPATING
ENTITIES.—
Using the applications submitted under subsection (c), the 
Secretary of the Navy shall select entities to receive funds 
under subsection (a)(1) based on their ability to research 
and develop innovative technologies, processes, and infra-
structure to alleviate areas of shipyard construction ineffi-
ciencies discovered under the assessment described in sub-
section (f). 
(e) SHIPYARD USE OF DEVELOPED TECHNOLOGIES, 
PROCESSES, AND INFRASTRUCTURE.—Upon making a de-
termination that a technology, process, or infrastructure 
improvement developed using funds provided under sub-
section (a)(1) will improve the productivity and cost-effec-
tiveness of naval vessel construction, the Secretary of the 
Navy may provide funds under subsection (a)(2) to a ship-
yard to facilitate the purchase of such technology, process, 
or infrastructure improvement. 
(f) ASSESSMENTS OF NAVAL VESSEL CONSTRUCTION 
INEFFICIENCIES.—
distributors of such cards or to one or more retail 
sellers of such cards. 
(5) The term ‘‘wireless hybrid service’’ is de-
fined as a service that integrates both commercial 
mobile radio service (as defined by section 20.3 of 
the Federal Communications Commission’s regula-
tions (47 C.F.R. 20.3)) and VoIP service. 
(6) The term ‘‘VoIP service’’ has the meaning 
given the term ‘‘interconnected Voice over Internet 
protocol service’’ by section 9.3 of the Federal Com-
munications Commission’s regulations (47 C.F.R. 
9.3). Such term shall include any voice calling serv-
ice that utilizes a voice over Internet protocol or any 
successor protocol in the transmission of the call. 
(7) The term ‘‘fees’’ includes all charges, fees, 
taxes, or surcharges applicable to a prepaid calling 
card that are— 
(A) required by Federal law or regulation 
or order of the Federal Communications Com-
mission or by the laws and regulations of any 
State or political subdivision of a State; or 
(B) expressly permitted to be assessed 
under Federal law or regulation or order of the 
Federal Communications Commission or under
the laws and regulations of any State or polit-
ical subdivision of a State. 
(8) The term ‘‘additional charge’’ means any 
charge assessed by a prepaid calling card provider or 
prepaid calling card distributor for the use of a pre-
paid calling card, other than a fee or rate. 
(9) The term ‘‘international preferred destina-
tion’’ means one or more specific international des-
tinations named on a prepaid calling card or on the 
packaging material accompanying a prepaid calling 
card. 
SEC. 3. REQUIRED DISCLOSURES OF PREPAID CALLING 
CARDS. 
(a) REQUIRED DISCLOSURE.—Any prepaid calling 
card provider or prepaid calling card distributor shall dis-
close clearly and conspicuously the following information 
relating to the terms and conditions of the prepaid calling 
card: 
(1) The name of the prepaid calling card pro-
vider and such provider’s customer service telephone 
number and hours of service. 
(2)(A) The number of domestic interstate min-
utes available from the prepaid calling card and the 
number of available minutes for all international
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House Calendar No. 239 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1284 
[Report No. 110–720] 
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to the House amend-
ments to the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 2642) making appro-
priations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, 
and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2008, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 19, 2008 
Ms. SLAUGHTER, from the Committee on Rules, reported the following resolu-
tion; which was referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed 
RESOLUTION 
Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to 
the House amendments to the Senate amendment to 
the bill (H.R. 2642) making appropriations for military 
construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and 
related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 
30, 2008, and for other purposes. 
Resolved, That upon adoption of this resolution it 
shall be in order to take from the Speaker’s table the bill 
(H.R. 2642) making appropriations for military construc-
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(1) PERIODIC ASSESSMENTS REQUIRED.—The 
Secretary of the Navy shall conduct, in the third 
quarter of each fiscal year or as often as necessary, 
an assessment of the following aspects of naval ves-
sel construction to determine where and to what ex-
tent inefficiencies exist and to what extent innovative 
design and production technologies, processes, and 
infrastructure can be developed to alleviate such in-
efficiencies: 
(A) Program design, engineering, and pro-
duction engineering. 
(B) Organization and operating systems. 
(C) Steelwork production. 
(D) Ship construction and outfitting. 
(2) RELATION
TO
INDEPENDENT
NAVY
SHIP 
CONSTRUCTION ASSESSMENT.—The assessments re-
quired by paragraph (1) shall occur subsequent to, 
and take into consideration the results of, the study 
of the cost effectiveness of the ship construction pro-
gram of the Navy required by section 1014 of the 
Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108–375; 118 
Stat. 2041). 
(g) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Of the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated pursuant to section 201(2) for
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110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1289 
Urging the President to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission 
to work with the United Kingdom Financial Services Authority to estab-
lish position limits on oil futures traded by traders on the Interconti-
nental Exchange that are similar to those established by the Commodity 
Futures Trading Commission for traders on the New York Mercantile 
Exchange. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 19, 2008 
Mr. SHAYS (for himself and Mr. PERLMUTTER) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
RESOLUTION 
Urging the President to direct the Commodity Futures Trad-
ing Commission to work with the United Kingdom Fi-
nancial Services Authority to establish position limits 
on oil futures traded by traders on the Intercontinental 
Exchange that are similar to those established by the 
Commodity Futures Trading Commission for traders on 
the New York Mercantile Exchange. 
Whereas, on June 16, 2008, the average retail price of gaso-
line in the United States reached $4.134 per gallon, 
which is an increase of $1.077 per gallon over one year 
ago, and has nearly doubled over the last three years; 
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other cooperating entity under this Act is sold or 
conveyed in whole or part, or is not managed in con-
formity with paragraph (1), title to the land shall, 
at the discretion of the Secretary, vest in the United 
States. 
(4) FEDERALLY OWNED LAND.—Any federally 
owned land acquired by the Secretary in the Karst 
Region shall be managed by the Secretary in accord-
ance with paragraphs (1) and (2) and the Forest 
and Rangeland Renewable Resources Research Act 
of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 1641 et seq.). 
(d) WILLING SELLERS.—Any land acquired by the 
Secretary in the Karst Region shall be acquired only from 
a willing seller. 
(e) RELATION TO OTHER AUTHORITIES.—Nothing in 
this Act— 
(1) diminishes any other authority that the Sec-
retary may have to acquire, protect, and manage 
land and natural resources in the Commonwealth; or 
(2) exempts the Federal Government from 
Commonwealth water laws. 
SEC. 5. PUERTO RICO KARST CONSERVATION FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 
Treasury an interest bearing account to be known as the 
‘‘Puerto Rico Karst Conservation Fund’’.
(b) CREDITS TO FUNDS.—There shall be credited to 
the Fund— 
(1) amounts appropriated to the Fund; 
(2) amounts donated to the Fund; 
(3) amounts received by the Administrator of 
General Services from the disposal of surplus real 
property in the Commonwealth under subtitle I of 
title 40, United States Code; and 
(4) interest derived from amounts in the Fund. 
(c) USE OF FUND.—Amounts in the Fund shall be 
available to the Secretary until expended, without further 
appropriation, to carry out section 4. 
SEC. 6. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
(a) DONATIONS.— 
(1) AUTHORITY
TO
ACCEPT.—The Secretary 
may accept donations, including land and money, 
made by public and private agencies, corporations, 
organizations, and individuals in furtherance of the 
purposes of this Act. 
(2) TREATMENT OF DONORS.—The Secretary 
may accept donations even if the donor conducts 
business with or is regulated by the Department of 
Agriculture or any other Federal agency. 
(3) TREATMENT OF DONATIONS.—A donation 
of land, property and money accepted by the Sec-
retary under the authority of this Act shall be con-
sidered as a gift, bequest, or devise to the United 
States in the same manner as provided in Public 
Law 95–442 (7 U.S.C. 2269). 
(b) RELATION TO FOREST LEGACY PROGRAM.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—All land in the Karst Region 
shall be eligible for inclusion in the Forest Legacy 
Program. 
(2) COST SHARING.—The Secretary may credit 
donations made under subsection (a) to satisfy any 
cost-sharing requirements of the Forest Legacy Pro-
gram. 
SEC. 7. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
There are authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as are necessary to carry out this Act. 
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