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made available to 100 percent of the eligible workforce: 
Provided, That, of the total amounts appropriated to the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the 
National Science Foundation, $5,000,000 shall be avail-
able to each agency only upon such certification: Provided 
further, That both agencies shall provide quarterly reports 
to the Committees on Appropriations on the status of tele-
commuting programs, including the number of Federal 
employees eligible for, and participating in, such pro-
grams: Provided further, That both agencies shall des-
ignate a ‘‘Telework Coordinator’’ to be responsible for 
overseeing the implementation and operations of telecom-
muting programs, and serve as a point of contact on such 
programs for the Committees on Appropriations. 
SEC. 621. (a) Tracing studies conducted by the Bu-
reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are re-
leased without adequate disclaimers regarding the limita-
tions of the data. 
(b) The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and 
Explosives shall include in all such data releases, language 
similar to the following that would make clear that trace 
data cannot be used to draw broad conclusions about fire-
arms-related crime: 
(1) Firearm traces are designed to assist law 
enforcement authorities in conducting investigations
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by tracking the sale and possession of specific fire-
arms. Law enforcement agencies may request fire-
arms traces for any reason, and those reasons are 
not necessarily reported to the Federal Government. 
Not all firearms used in crime are traced and not all 
firearms traced are used in crime. 
(2) Firearms selected for tracing are not chosen 
for purposes of determining which types, makes or 
models of firearms are used for illicit purposes. The 
firearms selected do not constitute a random sample 
and should not be considered representative of the 
larger universe of all firearms used by criminals, or 
any subset of that universe. Firearms are normally 
traced to the first retail seller, and sources reported 
for firearms traced do not necessarily represent the 
sources or methods by which firearms in general are 
acquired for use in crime. 
SEC. 622. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in violation of section 212(a)(10)(C) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act. 
SEC. 623. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act may be used to issue 
patents on claims directed to or encompassing a human 
organism.
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SEC. 624. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay expenses for any United States 
delegation to any specialized agency, body, or commission 
of the United Nations if such commission is chaired or 
presided over by a country, the government of which the 
Secretary of State has determined, for purposes of section 
6(j)(1) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 
U.S.C. App. 2405(j)(1)), has provided support for acts of 
international terrorism. 
SEC. 625. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), 
a project to construct a diplomatic facility of the United 
States may not include office space or other accommoda-
tions for an employee of a Federal agency or department 
if the Secretary of State determines that such department 
or agency has not provided to the Department of State 
the full amount of funding required by subsection (e) of 
section 604 of the Secure Embassy Construction and 
Counterterrorism Act of 1999 (as enacted into law by sec-
tion 1000(a)(7) of Public Law 106–113 and contained in 
appendix G of that Act; 113 Stat. 1501A–453), as amend-
ed by section 629 of the Departments of Commerce, Jus-
tice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2005. 
(b) Notwithstanding the prohibition in subsection (a), 
a project to construct a diplomatic facility of the United
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States may include office space or other accommodations 
for members of the Marine Corps. 
SEC. 626. None of the funds made available in this 
Act shall be used in any way whatsoever to support or 
justify the use of torture by any official or contract em-
ployee of the United States Government. 
SEC. 627. Of the amounts made available in this Act, 
$393,616,321 from ‘‘Department of State’’; $27,938,072 
from ‘‘Department of Justice’’; $14,107,754 from ‘‘De-
partment of Commerce’’; $426,314 from ‘‘United States 
Trade Representative’’; $575,116 from ‘‘Broadcasting 
Board of Governors’’; $291,855 from ‘‘National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration’’; and $79,754 from 
‘‘National Science Foundation’’ shall be available for the 
purposes of implementing the Capital Security Cost Shar-
ing program. 
SEC. 628. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used in contravention of the provisions of sub-
sections (e) and (f) of section 301 of the United States 
Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 
Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–25; 22 U.S.C. 7631(e) and 
(f)). 
SEC. 629. None of the funds made available to NASA 
in this Act may be used for voluntary separation incentive 
payments as provided for in subchapter II of chapter 35
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of title 5, United States Code, unless the Administrator 
of NASA has first certified to Congress that such pay-
ments would not result in the loss of skills related to the 
safety of the Space Shuttle or the International Space Sta-
tion or to the conduct of independent safety oversight in 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
SEC. 630. Notwithstanding 40 U.S.C. 524, 571, and 
572, the Administrator of the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration may sell the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration-owned property on the Camp 
Parks Military Reservation, Alameda County, California, 
and credit the net proceeds of such sales as offsetting col-
lections to its Exploration, science and aeronautics ac-
count. Such funds shall be available until expended; to be 
used to replace the facilities at Camp Parks that are still 
required, to improve other National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration-owned facilities, or both. 
SEC. 631. (a) IN GENERAL.—The President of the 
United States through his designee the Administrator of 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and 
in consultation with other Federal agencies shall develop 
a national aeronautics policy to guide the aeronautics pro-
grams of the Administration through 2020. 
(b) CONTENT.—At a minimum, the national aero-
nautics policy shall describe—
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(1) the priority areas of research for aero-
nautics through fiscal year 2011; 
(2) the basis on which and the process by which 
priorities for ensuing fiscal years will be selected; 
(3) the facilities and personnel needed to carry 
out the program through fiscal year 2011; and 
(4) the budget assumptions on which the na-
tional aeronautics policy is based. 
(c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In developing the national 
aeronautics policy, the Administrator shall consider the 
following questions, which shall be discussed in the policy 
statement— 
(1) the extent to which NASA should focus on 
long-term, high-risk research or more incremental 
research or both and the expected impact on the 
U.S. aircraft and airline industries of those deci-
sions; 
(2) the extent to which NASA should address 
military and commercial needs; 
(3) how NASA will coordinate its aeronautics 
program with other Federal agencies; and 
(4) the extent to which NASA will fund univer-
sity research and the expected impact of that fund-
ing on the supply of U.S. workers for the aero-
nautics industry.
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(d) CONSULTATION.—In developing the national aer-
onautics policy, the Administrator shall consult widely 
with academic and industry experts and with other Fed-
eral agencies. The Administrator may enter into an ar-
rangement with the National Academy of Sciences to help 
develop the national aeronautics policy. 
(e) SCHEDULE.—The Administrator shall submit the 
new national aeronautics policy to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations and to the House Com-
mittee on Science and the Senate Committee on Com-
merce, Science, and Transportation no later than the date 
on which the President submits the proposed budget for 
the Federal government for fiscal year 2007 to the Con-
gress. The Administrator shall make available to the Con-
gress any study done by a non-governmental entity that 
was used in the development of the national aeronautics 
policy. 
SEC. 632. Any funds provided in this Act under ‘‘Na-
tional Science Foundation’’ used to implement E-Govern-
ment Initiatives shall be subject to the procedures set 
forth in section 605 of this Act. 
SEC. 633. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision 
of law or treaty, none of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available under this Act or any other Act may 
be expended or obligated by a department, agency, or in-
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strumentality of the United States to pay administrative 
expenses or to compensate an officer or employee of the 
United States in connection with requiring an export li-
cense for the export to Canada of components, parts, ac-
cessories or attachments for firearms listed in Category 
I, section 121.1 of title 22, Code of Federal Regulations 
(International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 
part 121, as it existed on April 1, 2005) with a total value 
not exceeding $500 wholesale in any transaction, provided 
that the conditions of subsection (b) of this section are 
met by the exporting party for such articles. 
(b) The foregoing exemption from obtaining an ex-
port license— 
(1) does not exempt an exporter from filing any 
Shipper’s Export Declaration or notification letter 
required by law, or from being otherwise eligible 
under the laws of the United States to possess, ship, 
transport, or export the articles enumerated in sub-
section (a); and 
(2) does not permit the export without a license 
of— 
(A) fully automatic firearms and compo-
nents and parts for such firearms, other than 
for end use by the Federal Government, or a
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Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada, 
or 
(B) barrels, cylinders, receivers (frames) or 
complete breech mechanisms for any firearm 
listed in Category I, other than for end use by 
the Federal Government, or a Provincial or Mu-
nicipal Government of Canada; or 
(C) articles for export from Canada to an-
other foreign destination. 
(c) In accordance with this section, the District Di-
rectors of Customs and postmasters shall permit the per-
manent or temporary export without a license of any un-
classified articles specified in subsection (a) to Canada for 
end use in Canada or return to the United States, or tem-
porary import of Canadian-origin items from Canada for 
end use in the United States or return to Canada for a 
Canadian citizen. 
(d) The President may require export licenses under 
this section on a temporary basis if the President deter-
mines, upon publication first in the Federal Register, that 
the Government of Canada has implemented or main-
tained inadequate import controls for the articles specified 
in subsection (a), such that a significant diversion of such 
articles has and continues to take place for use in inter-
national terrorism or in the escalation of a conflict in an-
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other nation. The President shall terminate the require-
ments of a license when reasons for the temporary require-
ments have ceased. 
SEC. 634. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no department, agency, or instrumentality of the 
United States receiving appropriated funds under this Act 
or any other Act shall obligate or expend in any way such 
funds to pay administrative expenses or the compensation 
of any officer or employee of the United States to deny 
any application submitted pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 
2778(b)(1)(B) and qualified pursuant to 27 CFR Sec. 
478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States ori-
gin ‘‘curios or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
SEC. 635. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to include in any bilateral or multilateral 
trade agreement the text of— 
(1) paragraph 2 of Article 16.7 of the United 
States-Singapore Free Trade Agreement; 
(2) paragraph 4 of Article 17.9 of the United 
States-Australia Free Trade Agreement; or 
(3) paragraph 4 of Article 15.9 of the United 
States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement.
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TITLE VII—RESCISSIONS 
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
ASSETS FORFEITURE FUND 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading, $62,000,000 are rescinded. 
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading, $38,500,000 are rescinded. 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading, $86,500,000 are rescinded. 
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 
EMERGENCY STEEL GUARANTEED LOAN PROGRAM 
ACCOUNT 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading from prior year appropriations, $35,000,000 are 
rescinded.
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RELATED AGENCIES 
UNITED STATES-CANADA ALASKA RAIL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
(RESCISSION) 
Of the unobligated balances available under this 
heading from prior year appropriations, $2,000,000 are 
rescinded. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Science, State, Justice, 
Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2006’’.
Union Calendar No. 66 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2862 
[Report No. 109–118] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for Science, the Depart-
ments of State, Justice, and Commerce, and re-
lated agencies for the fiscal year ending Sep-
tember 30, 2006, and for other purposes. 
JUNE 10, 2005 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed