$720,000,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $100,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from 
amounts available for obligation in this Act from the Fund 
established by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of 
Public Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101), notwithstanding 
section 1402(d) of such Act of 1984, and merged with the 
amounts otherwise made available under this heading: 
Provided, That except as otherwise provided by law, not 
to exceed 5 percent of funds made available under this 
heading may be used for expenses related to evaluation, 
training, and technical assistance: Provided further, That 
of the amount provided— 
(1) $257,000,000 is for grants to combat vio-
lence against women, as authorized by part T of the 
1968 Act, and any applicable increases for the 
amount of such grants, as authorized by section 
5903 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023: Provided, That 
$10,000,000 shall be for any such increases under 
such section 5903, which shall apply to fiscal year 
2026 grants funded by amounts provided in this 
paragraph; 
(2) $51,000,000 is for transitional housing as-
sistance grants for victims of domestic violence, dat-
ing violence, stalking, or sexual assault as authorized 
by section 40299 of the 1994 Act; 
(3) $2,500,000 is for the National Institute of 
Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics for re-
search, evaluation, and statistics of violence against 
women and related issues addressed by grant pro-
grams of the Office on Violence Against Women, 
which shall be transferred to ‘‘Research, Evaluation 
and Statistics’’ for administration by the Office of 
Justice Programs; 
(4) $17,000,000 is for a grant program to pro-
vide services to advocate for and respond to youth 
victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking; assistance to children and 
youth exposed to such violence; assistance to middle 
and high school students through education and 
other services related to such violence; and programs 
to engage men and youth in preventing domestic vio-
lence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking: 
Provided, That unobligated balances available for 
the programs authorized by sections 41201, 41204, 
41303, and 41305 of the 1994 Act, prior to its 
amendment by the 2013 Act, shall be available for 
this program: Provided further, That 10 percent of 
the total amount available for this grant program
shall be available for grants under the program au-
thorized by section 2015 of the 1968 Act: Provided 
further, That the definitions and grant conditions in 
section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this 
program; 
(5) $60,500,000 is for grants to improve the 
criminal justice response as authorized by part U of 
title I of the 1968 Act, of which up to $4,000,000 
is for a homicide reduction initiative; up to 
$2,000,000 is for a domestic violence lethality reduc-
tion initiative; and up to $5,000,000 is for an initia-
tive to promote effective policing and prosecution re-
sponses to domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking, including evaluation of the ef-
fectiveness of funded interventions (‘‘Policing and 
Prosecution Initiative’’); 
(6) $79,500,000 is for sexual assault victims 
assistance, as authorized by section 41601 of the 
1994 Act; 
(7) $50,500,000 is for rural domestic violence 
and child abuse enforcement assistance grants, as 
authorized by section 40295 of the 1994 Act; 
(8) $25,000,000 is for grants to reduce violent 
crimes against women on campus, as authorized by 
section 304 of the 2005 Act, of which $12,500,000
is for grants to Historically Black Colleges and Uni-
versities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and Tribal 
colleges and universities; 
(9) $55,000,000 is for legal assistance for vic-
tims, as authorized by section 1201 of the 2000 Act; 
(10) $9,000,000 is for enhanced training and 
services to end violence against and abuse of women 
in later life, as authorized by section 40801 of the 
1994 Act; 
(11) $21,000,000 is for grants to support fami-
lies in the justice system, as authorized by section 
1301 of the 2000 Act: Provided, That unobligated 
balances available for the programs authorized by 
section 1301 of the 2000 Act and section 41002 of 
the 1994 Act, prior to their amendment by the 2013 
Act, shall be available for this program; 
(12) $11,500,000 is for education and training 
to end violence against and abuse of women with 
disabilities, as authorized by section 1402 of the 
2000 Act; 
(13) $1,000,000 is for the National Resource 
Center on Workplace Responses to assist victims of 
domestic violence, as authorized by section 41501 of 
the 1994 Act;
(14) $2,000,000 is for analysis and research on 
violence against Indian women, including as author-
ized by section 904 of the 2005 Act: Provided, That 
such funds may be transferred to ‘‘Research, Eval-
uation and Statistics’’ for administration by the Of-
fice of Justice Programs; 
(15) $500,000 is for a national clearinghouse 
that provides training and technical assistance on 
issues relating to sexual assault of American Indian 
and Alaska Native women; 
(16) $14,500,000 is for programs to assist 
Tribal Governments in exercising special Tribal 
criminal jurisdiction, as authorized by section 204 of 
the Indian Civil Rights Act: Provided, That the 
grant conditions in section 40002(b) of the 1994 Act 
shall apply to grants made; 
(17) $1,500,000 is for the purposes authorized 
under the 2015 Act; 
(18) $14,000,000 is for a grant program as au-
thorized by section 41801 of the 1994 Act: Provided, 
That the definitions and grant conditions in section 
109 of the 2022 Act shall apply to this program; 
(19) $10,000,000 is for culturally specific serv-
ices for victims, as authorized by section 121 of the 
2005 Act;
(20) $4,500,000 is for an initiative to support 
cross-designation of tribal prosecutors as Tribal Spe-
cial Assistant United States Attorneys: Provided, 
That the definitions and grant conditions in section 
40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this initiative; 
(21) $1,000,000 is for an initiative to support 
victims of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual 
assault, and stalking, including through the provi-
sion of technical assistance, as authorized by section 
206 of the 2022 Act: Provided, That the definitions 
and grant conditions in section 40002 of the 1994 
Act shall apply to this initiative; 
(22) $2,000,000 is for a National Deaf Services 
Line to provide services to Deaf victims of domestic 
violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalk-
ing: Provided, That the definitions and grant condi-
tions in section 40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply 
to this service line; 
(23) $4,500,000 is for grants for outreach and 
services to underserved populations, as authorized by 
section 120 of the 2005 Act; 
(24) $3,000,000 is for an initiative to provide 
financial assistance to victims, including evaluation 
of the effectiveness of funded projects: Provided,
That the definitions and grant conditions in section 
40002 of the 1994 Act shall apply to this initiative; 
(25) $5,000,000 is for trauma-informed, victim- 
centered training for law enforcement, and related 
research and evaluation activities, as authorized by 
section 41701 of the 1994 Act; 
(26) $12,000,000 is for grants to support ac-
cess to sexual assault nurse examinations, as author-
ized by section 304 of title III of the 2004 Act: Pro-
vided, That the grant conditions in section 40002 of 
the 1994 Act shall apply to this program; and 
(27) $5,000,000 is for local law enforcement 
grants for prevention, enforcement, and prosecution 
of cybercrimes against individuals, as authorized by 
section 1401 of the 2022 Act, and for a National 
Resource Center on Cybercrimes Against Individ-
uals, as authorized by section 1402 of the 2022 Act: 
Provided, That the grant conditions in section 40002 
of the 1994 Act shall apply to this paragraph. 
OFFICE OF JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
RESEARCH, EVALUATION AND STATISTICS 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by title I of the Omnibus 
Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (‘‘title I of 
the 1968 Act’’) (Public Law 90–351); the Violent Crime
Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 
103–322) (‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Juvenile Justice and De-
linquency Prevention Act of 1974 (‘‘the 1974 Act’’) (Pub-
lic Law 93–415); the Missing Children’s Assistance Act 
(34 U.S.C. 11291 et seq.); the Prosecutorial Remedies and 
Other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today Act 
of 2003 (Public Law 108–21) (‘‘the PROTECT Act’’); the 
Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108–405); the 
Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Re-
authorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 
2005 Act’’); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (title 
II of Public Law 101–647); the Second Chance Act of 
2007 (Public Law 110–199); the Victims of Crime Act 
of 1984 (chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98–473); 
the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 
(Public Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the 
PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110– 
401); subtitle C of title II of the Homeland Security Act 
of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002 Act’’); the 
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public Law 108– 
79) (‘‘PREA’’); the NICS Improvement Amendments Act 
of 2007 (Public Law 110–180); the Violence Against 
Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113– 
4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Comprehensive Addiction and 
Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198); the First
Step Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–391); and other pro-
grams, $55,000,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which— 
(1) $33,000,000 is for criminal justice statistics 
programs and other activities as authorized by part 
C of title I of the 1968 Act; and 
(2) $22,000,000 is for research, development, 
and evaluation programs, and other activities as au-
thorized by part B of title I of the 1968 Act and 
subtitle C of title II of the 2002 Act, and for activi-
ties authorized by or consistent with the First Step 
Act of 2018. 
STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by the Violent Crime Control 
and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–322) 
(‘‘the 1994 Act’’); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90–351) (‘‘the 1968 
Act’’); the Justice for All Act of 2004 (Public Law 108– 
405); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 (Public Law 
101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Trafficking Victims Pro-
tection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109– 
164) (‘‘the TVPRA of 2005’’); the Violence Against 
Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act
of 2005 (Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the 
Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 
(Public Law 109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the Vic-
tims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 
(Public Law 106–386) (‘‘the Victims of Trafficking Act’’); 
the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public 
Law 110–180); subtitle C of title II of the Homeland Se-
curity Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) (‘‘the 2002 
Act’’); the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (Public 
Law 108–79) (‘‘PREA’’); the Second Chance Act of 2007 
(Public Law 110–199); the Prioritizing Resources and Or-
ganization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008 (Public 
Law 110–403); the Victims of Crime Act of 1984 (Public 
Law 98–473); the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and 
Crime Reduction Reauthorization and Improvement Act 
of 2008 (Public Law 110–416); the Violence Against 
Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (Public Law 113– 
4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Comprehensive Addiction and 
Recovery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198) (‘‘CARA’’); 
the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public 
Law 114–324); Kevin and Avonte’s Law (division Q of 
Public Law 115–141) (‘‘Kevin and Avonte’s Law’’); the 
Keep Young Athletes Safe Act of 2018 (title III of division 
S of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘the Keep Young Athletes 
Safe Act’’); the STOP School Violence Act of 2018 (title
V of division S of Public Law 115–141) (‘‘the STOP 
School Violence Act’’); the Fix NICS Act of 2018 (title 
VI of division S of Public Law 115–141); the Project Safe 
Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–185); the SUPPORT for Patients and 
Communities Act (Public Law 115–271); the Second 
Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 
391); the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate 
Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 111–84); the Ashanti 
Alert Act of 2018 (Public Law 115–401); the Missing Per-
sons and Unidentified Remains Act of 2019 (Public Law 
116–277); the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act (34 U.S.C. 
30507); the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization 
Act of 2022 (division W of Public Law 117–103) (‘‘the 
2022 Act’’); the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Pri-
vacy Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–263); and other pro-
grams, $2,400,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended as follows— 
(1) $964,000,000 for the Edward Byrne Memo-
rial Justice Assistance Grant program as authorized 
by subpart 1 of part E of title I of the 1968 Act 
(except that section 1001(c), and the special rules 
for Puerto Rico under section 505(g), of title I of 
the 1968 Act shall not apply for purposes of this 
Act), of which, notwithstanding such subpart 1—
(A) $12,500,000 is for an Officer Robert 
Wilson III memorial initiative on Preventing Vi-
olence Against Law Enforcement and Ensuring 
Officer Resilience and Survivability (VALOR); 
(B) $3,000,000 is for the operation, main-
tenance, and expansion of the National Missing 
and Unidentified Persons System; 
(C) $6,000,000 is for a grant program for 
State and local law enforcement to provide offi-
cer training on responding to individuals with 
mental illness or disabilities, including for pur-
poses described in the Law Enforcement De-Es-
calation Training Act of 2022 (Public Law 
117–325); 
(D) $2,500,000 is for a student loan re-
payment assistance program pursuant to sec-
tion 952 of Public Law 110–315; 
(E) $15,000,000 is for prison rape preven-
tion and prosecution grants to States and units 
of local government, and other programs, as au-
thorized by PREA; 
(F) $2,500,000 is for the Missing Ameri-
cans Alert Program (title XXIV of the 1994 
Act), as amended by Kevin and Avonte’s Law;
(G) $13,000,000 is for grants authorized 
under the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant 
Authorization Act of 2018 (Public Law 115– 
185); 
(H) $11,500,000 is for the Capital Litiga-
tion Improvement Grant Program, as author-
ized by section 426 of Public Law 108–405, 
and for grants for wrongful conviction review; 
(I) $3,000,000 is for the program specified 
in paragraph (1)(I) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in di-
vision B of Public Law 117–328; 
(J) $1,000,000 is for the purposes of the 
Ashanti Alert Communications Network as au-
thorized under the Ashanti Alert Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–401); 
(K) $2,750,000 is for a grant program to 
replicate and support family-based alternative 
sentencing programs; 
(L) $3,000,000 is for a rural violent crime 
initiative, including assistance for law enforce-
ment; 
(M) $3,000,000 is for grants authorized 
under the Missing Persons and Unidentified 
Remains Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–277);
(N) $1,000,000 is for the purposes author-
ized under section 1506 of the 2022 Act; and 
(O) $537,978,926 is for discretionary 
grants to improve the functioning of the crimi-
nal justice system, to prevent or combat juve-
nile delinquency, and to assist victims of crime 
(other than compensation), which shall be made 
available for the OJP—Byrne projects, and in 
the amounts, specified in the table titled ‘‘Com-
munity Project Funding/Congressionally Di-
rected Spending’’ included for this division in 
the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act): Provided, That such amounts 
may not be transferred for any other purpose; 
(2) $202,500,000 for the State Criminal Alien 
Assistance Program, as authorized by section 
241(I)(5) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 
U.S.C. 1231(I)(5)): Provided, That no jurisdiction 
shall request compensation for any cost greater than 
the actual cost for Federal immigration and other 
detainees housed in State and local detention facili-
ties; 
(3) $83,500,000 for victim services programs 
for victims of trafficking, as authorized by section
107(b)(2) of the Victims of Trafficking Act, by the 
TVPRA of 2005, or programs authorized under 
Public Law 113–4; 
(4) $7,500,000 for a grant program to prevent 
and address economic, high technology, white collar, 
and Internet crime, including as authorized by sec-
tion 401 of Public Law 110–403, of which not less 
than $2,500,000 is for intellectual property enforce-
ment grants including as authorized by section 401, 
and $2,000,000 is for grants to develop databases 
on Internet of Things device capabilities and to build 
and execute training modules for law enforcement; 
(5) $19,000,000 for sex offender management 
assistance, as authorized by the Adam Walsh Act, 
and related activities, of which $1,000,000 is for the 
National Sex Offender Public Website; 
(6) $30,000,000 for the Patrick Leahy Bullet-
proof Vest Partnership Grant Program, as author-
ized by section 2501 of title I of the 1968 Act: Pro-
vided, That $1,500,000 shall be transferred directly 
to the National Institute of Standards and Tech-
nology’s Office of Law Enforcement Standards for 
research, testing, and evaluation programs; 
(7) $83,000,000 for grants to States to up-
grade criminal and mental health records for the
National Instant Criminal Background Check Sys-
tem, of which no less than $24,000,000 shall be for 
grants made under the authorities of the NICS Im-
provement Amendments Act of 2007 (Public Law 
110–180) and Fix NICS Act of 2018; 
(8) $32,500,000 for Paul Coverdell Forensic 
Sciences Improvement Grants under part BB of title 
I of the 1968 Act; 
(9) $138,000,000 for DNA-related and forensic 
programs and activities, of which— 
(A) $115,000,000 is for the purposes au-
thorized under section 2 of the DNA Analysis 
Backlog Elimination Act of 2000 (Public Law 
106–546) (the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog 
Grant Program): Provided, That up to 4 per-
cent of funds made available under this para-
graph may be used for the purposes described 
in the DNA Training and Education for Law 
Enforcement, 
Correctional 
Personnel, 
and 
Court Officers program (Public Law 108–405, 
section 303); 
(B) $6,000,000 is for other local, State, 
and Federal forensic activities; 
(C) $13,000,000 is for the purposes de-
scribed in the Kirk Bloodsworth Post-Convic-
tion DNA Testing Grant Program (Public Law 
108–405, section 412); and 
(D) $4,000,000 is for Sexual Assault Fo-
rensic Exam Program grants, including as au-
thorized by section 304 of Public Law 108–405; 
(10) $50,000,000 for community-based grant 
programs to improve the response to sexual assault, 
including assistance for investigation and prosecu-
tion of related cold cases; 
(11) $14,000,000 for the court-appointed spe-
cial advocate program, as authorized by section 217 
of the 1990 Act; 
(12) $48,000,000 for assistance to Indian 
Tribes; 
(13) $111,000,000 for offender reentry pro-
grams and research, as authorized by the Second 
Chance Act of 2007 (Public Law 110–199) and by 
the Second Chance Reauthorization Act of 2018 
(Public Law 115–391), without regard to the time 
limitations specified at section 6(1) of such Act, of 
which not to exceed— 
(A) $8,000,000 is for a program to im-
prove State, local, and Tribal probation or pa-
role supervision efforts and strategies;
(B) $5,000,000 is for children of incarcer-
ated parents demonstration programs to en-
hance and maintain parental and family rela-
tionships for incarcerated parents as a reentry 
or recidivism reduction strategy; 
(C) $5,000,000 is for additional replication 
sites employing the Project HOPE Opportunity 
Probation with Enforcement model imple-
menting swift and certain sanctions in proba-
tion, of which no less than $500,000 shall be 
used for a project that provides training, tech-
nical assistance, and best practices; and 
(D) $10,000,000 is for a grant program 
for crisis stabilization and community reentry, 
as authorized by the Crisis Stabilization and 
Community Reentry Act of 2020 (Public Law 
116–281): 
Provided, That up to $7,500,000 of funds made 
available in this paragraph may be used for perform-
ance-based awards for Pay for Success projects, of 
which up to $5,000,000 shall be for Pay for Success 
programs implementing the Permanent Supportive 
Housing Model and reentry housing; 
(14) $403,000,000 for comprehensive opioid 
use reduction activities, including as authorized by
CARA, and for the following programs, which shall 
address opioid, stimulant, and substance use dis-
orders consistent with underlying program authori-
ties, of which— 
(A) $86,000,000 is for Drug Courts, as 
authorized by section 1001(a)(25)(A) of title I 
of the 1968 Act; 
(B) $35,000,000 is for mental health 
courts and adult and juvenile collaboration pro-
gram grants, as authorized by parts V and HH 
of title I of the 1968 Act, and the Mentally Ill 
Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Re-
authorization and Improvement Act of 2008 
(Public Law 110–416); 
(C) $30,000,000 is for grants for Residen-
tial Substance Abuse Treatment for State Pris-
oners, as authorized by part S of title I of the 
1968 Act; 
(D) $32,000,000 is for a veterans treat-
ment courts program, of which $4,000,000 is 
for a national center for veterans justice; 
(E) $35,000,000 is for a program to mon-
itor prescription drugs and scheduled listed 
chemical products; and
(F) $185,000,000 is for a comprehensive 
opioid, stimulant, and substance use disorder 
program; 
(15) $2,500,000 for a competitive grant pro-
gram authorized by the Keep Young Athletes Safe 
Act; 
(16) $82,000,000 for grants to be administered 
by the Bureau of Justice Assistance for purposes au-
thorized under the STOP School Violence Act; 
(17) $3,000,000 for grants to State and local 
law enforcement agencies for the expenses associated 
with the investigation and prosecution of criminal of-
fenses involving civil rights, as authorized by the 
Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crimes Reau-
thorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–325); 
(18) $17,000,000 for grants to State, local, and 
Tribal law enforcement agencies to conduct edu-
cational outreach and training on hate crimes and to 
investigate and prosecute hate crimes, as authorized 
by section 4704 of the Matthew Shepard and James 
Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act (Public Law 
111–84); 
(19) $9,000,000 for grants specified in para-
graph (20) under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law
Enforcement Assistance’’ in division B of Public 
Law 117–328; 
(20) $9,000,000 for programs authorized under 
the Jabara-Heyer NO HATE Act (34 U.S.C. 
30507); 
(21) $84,000,000 for initiatives to improve po-
lice-community relations, of which $15,000,000 is 
for a competitive matching grant program for pur-
chases of body-worn cameras for State, local, and 
Tribal law enforcement; $19,000,000 is for a justice 
reinvestment initiative, for activities related to crimi-
nal justice reform and recidivism reduction; and 
$50,000,000 is for a community violence interven-
tion and prevention initiative; and 
(22) $7,500,000 for a grant program as author-
ized by the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Pri-
vacy Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–263): 
Provided, That, if a unit of local government uses any of 
the funds made available under this heading to increase 
the number of law enforcement officers, the unit of local 
government will achieve a net gain in the number of law 
enforcement officers who perform non-administrative pub-
lic sector safety service: Provided further, That in the 
spending plan submitted pursuant to section 528 of this 
Act, the Office of Justice Programs shall specifically and
explicitly identify all changes in the administration of com-
petitive grant programs for fiscal year 2026, including 
changes to applicant eligibility, priority areas or 
weightings, and the application review process. 
JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAMS 
For grants, contracts, cooperative agreements, and 
other assistance authorized by the Juvenile Justice and 
Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 (Public Law 93–415) 
(‘‘the 1974 Act’’); title I of the Omnibus Crime Control 
and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Public Law 90–351) (‘‘the 
1968 Act’’); the Violence Against Women and Department 
of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 (Public Law 109– 
162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the Missing Children’s Assistance 
Act (34 U.S.C. 11291 et seq.); the PROTECT Act (Public 
Law 108–21); the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 
(Public Law 101–647) (‘‘the 1990 Act’’); the Adam Walsh 
Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (Public Law 
109–248) (‘‘the Adam Walsh Act’’); the PROTECT Our 
Children Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–401) (‘‘the 2008 
Act’’); the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act 
of 2013 (Public Law 113–4) (‘‘the 2013 Act’’); the Justice 
for All Reauthorization Act of 2016 (Public Law 114– 
324); the Missing Children’s Assistance Act of 2018 (Pub-
lic Law 115–267); the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 
2018 (Public Law 115–385); the Victims of Crime Act
of 1984 (chapter XIV of title II of Public Law 98–473) 
(‘‘the 1984 Act’’); the Comprehensive Addiction and Re-
covery Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–198); and other juve-
nile justice programs, $375,000,000, to remain available 
until expended as follows— 
(1) $65,000,000 for programs authorized by 
section 221 of the 1974 Act, and for training and 
technical assistance to assist small, nonprofit organi-
zations with the Federal grants process: Provided, 
That of the amounts provided under this paragraph, 
$500,000 shall be for a competitive demonstration 
grant program to support emergency planning 
among State, local, and Tribal juvenile justice resi-
dential facilities; 
(2) $105,000,000 for youth mentoring grants; 
(3) $50,500,000 for delinquency prevention, of 
which, pursuant to sections 261 and 262 of the 
1974 Act— 
(A) $4,000,000 shall be for grants to pre-
vent trafficking of girls; 
(B) $16,000,000 shall be for the Tribal 
Youth Program; 
(C) $4,500,000 shall be for competitive 
grants focusing on girls in the juvenile justice 
system;
(D) $10,500,000 shall be for an initiative 
relating to youth affected by opioids, stimu-
lants, and substance use disorder; 
(E) $9,000,000 shall be for an initiative 
relating to children exposed to violence; and 
(F) $2,000,000 shall be for the Arts in Ju-
venile Justice Demonstration Program; 
(4) $43,000,000 for programs authorized by 
the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990; 
(5) $105,000,000 for missing and exploited 
children programs, including as authorized by sec-
tions 404(b) and 405(a) of the 1974 Act (except 
that section 102(b)(4)(B) of the 2008 Act (Public 
Law 110–401) shall not apply for purposes of this 
Act); 
(6) $4,500,000 for child abuse training pro-
grams for judicial personnel and practitioners, as 
authorized by section 222 of the 1990 Act; and 
(7) $2,000,000 for a program to improve juve-
nile indigent defense: 
Provided, That not more than 10 percent of each amount 
may be used for research, evaluation, and statistics activi-
ties designed to benefit the programs or activities author-
ized: Provided further, That not more than 2 percent of 
the amounts designated under paragraphs (1) through (3)
and (6) may be used for training and technical assistance: 
Provided further, That the two preceding provisos shall not 
apply to grants and projects administered pursuant to sec-
tions 261 and 262 of the 1974 Act and to missing and 
exploited children programs. 
PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICER BENEFITS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For payments and expenses authorized under section 
1001(a)(4) of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968, such sums as are necessary (in-
cluding amounts for administrative costs), to remain avail-
able until expended; and $34,800,000 for payments au-
thorized by section 1201(b) of such Act and for edu-
cational assistance authorized by section 1218 of such Act, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That not-
withstanding section 205 of this Act, upon a determina-
tion by the Attorney General that emergent circumstances 
require additional funding for such disability and edu-
cation payments, the Attorney General may transfer such 
amounts to ‘‘Public Safety Officer Benefits’’ from avail-
able appropriations for the Department of Justice as may 
be necessary to respond to such circumstances: Provided 
further, That any transfer pursuant to the preceding pro-
viso shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 
505 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation
or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures 
set forth in that section. 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES 
COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING SERVICES PROGRAMS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities authorized by the Violent Crime Con-
trol and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (Public Law 103– 
322); the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act 
of 1968 (‘‘the 1968 Act’’); the Violence Against Women 
and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act of 2005 
(Public Law 109–162) (‘‘the 2005 Act’’); the American 
Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2017 (Public Law 115– 
37); the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness 
Act of 2017 (Public Law 115–113) (‘‘the LEMHW Act’’); 
the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act (Public 
Law 115–271); the Supporting and Treating Officers In 
Crisis Act of 2019 (Public Law 116–32) (‘‘the STOIC 
Act’’); and the Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training 
Act of 2022 (Public Law 117–325), $800,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That any bal-
ances made available through prior year deobligations 
shall only be available in accordance with section 505 of 
this Act: Provided further, That of the amount provided 
under this heading—
(1) $253,093,613 is for grants under section 
1701 of title I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381) 
for the hiring and rehiring of additional career law 
enforcement officers under part Q of such title not-
withstanding subsection (i) of such section: Pro-
vided, That, notwithstanding section 1704(c) of such 
title (34 U.S.C. 10384(c)), funding for hiring or re-
hiring a career law enforcement officer may not ex-
ceed $125,000 unless the Director of the Office of 
Community Oriented Policing Services grants a 
waiver from this limitation: Provided further, That of 
the amounts appropriated under this paragraph, 
$32,000,000 is for improving Tribal law enforce-
ment, including hiring, equipment, training, anti- 
methamphetamine activities, and anti-opioid activi-
ties: Provided further, That of the amounts appro-
priated under this paragraph, $44,000,000 is for re-
gional information sharing activities, as authorized 
by part M of title I of the 1968 Act, which shall be 
transferred to and merged with ‘‘Research, Evalua-
tion, and Statistics’’ for administration by the Office 
of Justice Programs: Provided further, That of the 
amounts appropriated under this paragraph, no less 
than $4,000,000 is to support the Tribal Access 
Program: Provided further, That of the amounts ap-
propriated under this paragraph, $10,000,000 is for 
training, peer mentoring, mental health program ac-
tivities, and other support services as authorized 
under the LEMHW Act and the STOIC Act: Pro-
vided further, That of the amounts appropriated 
under this paragraph, $5,500,000 is for the collabo-
rative reform model of technical assistance in fur-
therance of section 1701 of title I of the 1968 Act 
(34 U.S.C. 10381); 
(2) $11,500,000 is for activities authorized by 
the POLICE Act of 2016 (Public Law 114–199); 
(3) $13,500,000 is for competitive grants to 
State law enforcement agencies in States with high 
seizures of precursor chemicals, finished meth-
amphetamine, laboratories, and laboratory dump sei-
zures: Provided, That funds appropriated under this 
paragraph shall be utilized for investigative purposes 
to locate or investigate illicit activities, including 
precursor diversion, laboratories, or methamphet-
amine traffickers; 
(4) $34,500,000 is for competitive grants to 
statewide law enforcement agencies in States with 
high rates of primary treatment admissions for her-
oin and other opioids: Provided, That these funds 
shall be utilized for investigative purposes to locate
or investigate illicit activities, including activities re-
lated to the distribution of heroin or unlawful dis-
tribution of prescription opioids, or unlawful heroin 
and prescription opioid traffickers through statewide 
collaboration; 
(5) $53,000,000 is for competitive grants to be 
administered by the Community Oriented Policing 
Services Office for purposes authorized under the 
STOP School Violence Act (title V of division S of 
Public Law 115–141); 
(6) $18,000,000 is for community policing de-
velopment activities in furtherance of section 1701 
of title I of the 1968 Act (34 U.S.C. 10381); 
(7) $401,406,387 is for a law enforcement tech-
nologies and interoperable communications program, 
and related law enforcement and public safety equip-
ment, which shall be made available for the COPS 
Tech projects, and in the amounts, specified in the 
table titled ‘‘Community Project Funding/Congres-
sionally Directed Spending’’ included for this divi-
sion in the explanatory statement described in sec-
tion 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act): Provided, That such amounts may 
not be transferred for any other purpose: Provided 
further, That grants funded by such amounts shall
not be subject to section 1703 of title I of the 1968 
Act (34 U.S.C. 10383); and 
(8) $15,000,000 is for activities authorized by 
the Law Enforcement De-Escalation Training Act of 
2022 (Public Law 117–325). 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 201. In addition to amounts otherwise made 
available in this title for official reception and representa-
tion expenses, a total of not to exceed $50,000 from funds 
appropriated to the Department of Justice in this title 
shall be available to the Attorney General for official re-
ception and representation expenses. 
SEC. 202. None of the funds appropriated by this 
title shall be available to pay for an abortion, except where 
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus 
were carried to term, or in the case of rape or incest: Pro-
vided, That should this prohibition be declared unconstitu-
tional by a court of competent jurisdiction, this section 
shall be null and void. 
SEC. 203. None of the funds appropriated under this 
title shall be used to require any person to perform, or 
facilitate in any way the performance of, any abortion. 
SEC. 204. Nothing in the preceding section shall re-
move the obligation of the Director of the Bureau of Pris-
ons to provide escort services necessary for a female in-
mate to receive such service outside the Federal facility: 
Provided, That nothing in this section in any way dimin-
ishes the effect of section 203 intended to address the phil-
osophical beliefs of individual employees of the Bureau of 
Prisons. 
SEC. 205. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropria-
tion made available for the current fiscal year for the De-
partment of Justice in this Act may be transferred be-
tween such appropriations, but no such appropriation, ex-
cept as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased 
by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, 
That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated 
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation except in com-
pliance with the procedures set forth in that section: Pro-
vided further, That this section shall not apply to the fol-
lowing— 
(1) paragraph 1(O) under the heading ‘‘State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’; and 
(2) paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘Commu-
nity Oriented Policing Services Programs’’. 
SEC. 206. None of the funds made available under 
this title may be used by the Federal Bureau of Prisons 
or the United States Marshals Service for the purpose of
transporting an individual who is a prisoner pursuant to 
conviction for crime under State or Federal law and is 
classified as a maximum or high security prisoner, other 
than to a prison or other facility certified by the Federal 
Bureau of Prisons as appropriately secure for housing 
such a prisoner. 
SEC. 207. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this 
Act may be used by Federal prisons to purchase cable tele-
vision services, or to rent or purchase audiovisual or elec-
tronic media or equipment used primarily for recreational 
purposes. 
(b) Subsection (a) does not preclude the rental, main-
tenance, or purchase of audiovisual or electronic media or 
equipment for inmate training, religious, or educational 
programs. 
SEC. 208. None of the funds made available under 
this title shall be obligated or expended for any new or 
enhanced information technology program having total es-
timated development costs in excess of $100,000,000, un-
less the Deputy Attorney General and the investment re-
view board certify to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate that the 
information technology program has appropriate program 
management controls and contractor oversight mecha-
nisms in place, and that the program is compatible with 
the enterprise architecture of the Department of Justice. 
SEC. 209. The notification thresholds and procedures 
set forth in section 505 of this Act shall apply to devi-
ations from the amounts designated for specific activities 
in this Act and in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act), and to any use of deobligated balances of 
funds provided under this title in previous years. 
SEC. 210. None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
may be used to plan for, begin, continue, finish, process, 
or approve a public-private competition under the Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any suc-
cessor administrative regulation, directive, or policy for 
work performed by employees of the Bureau of Prisons 
or of Federal Prison Industries, Incorporated. 
SEC. 211. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, no funds shall be available for the salary, benefits, 
or expenses of any United States Attorney assigned dual 
or additional responsibilities by the Attorney General or 
his designee that exempt that United States Attorney 
from the residency requirements of section 545 of title 28, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 212. At the discretion of the Attorney General, 
and in addition to any amounts that otherwise may be
available (or authorized to be made available) by law, with 
respect to funds appropriated by this title under the head-
ings ‘‘Research, Evaluation and Statistics’’, ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’, and ‘‘Juvenile Jus-
tice Programs’’— 
(1) up to 2 percent of funds made available to 
the Office of Justice Programs for grant or reim-
bursement programs may be used by such Office to 
provide training and technical assistance; and 
(2) up to 2 percent of funds made available for 
grant or reimbursement programs under such head-
ings, except for amounts appropriated specifically for 
research, evaluation, or statistical programs adminis-
tered by the National Institute of Justice and the 
Bureau of Justice Statistics, shall be transferred to 
and merged with funds provided to the National In-
stitute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statis-
tics, to be used by them for research, evaluation, or 
statistical purposes, without regard to the authoriza-
tions for such grant or reimbursement programs. 
This section shall not apply to paragraph 1(O) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Assistance’’. 
SEC. 213. Upon request by a grantee for whom the 
Attorney General has determined there is a fiscal hard-
ship, the Attorney General may, with respect to funds ap-
propriated in this or any other Act making appropriations 
for fiscal years 2023 through 2026 for the following pro-
grams, waive the following requirements: 
(1) For the adult and juvenile offender State 
and local reentry demonstration projects under part 
FF of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and 
Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10631 et seq.), 
the requirements under section 2976(g)(1) of such 
part (34 U.S.C. 10631(g)(1)). 
(2) For grants to protect inmates and safe-
guard communities as authorized by section 6 of the 
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (34 U.S.C. 
30305(c)(3)), the requirements of section 6(c)(3) of 
such Act. 
SEC. 214. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, section 20109(a) of subtitle A of title II of the Violent 
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (34 
U.S.C. 12109(a)) shall not apply to amounts made avail-
able by this or any other Act. 
SEC. 215. None of the funds made available under 
this Act, other than for the national instant criminal back-
ground check system established under section 103 of the 
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (34 U.S.C. 
40901), may be used by a Federal law enforcement officer
to facilitate the transfer of an operable firearm to an indi-
vidual if the Federal law enforcement officer knows or sus-
pects that the individual is an agent of a drug cartel, un-
less law enforcement personnel of the United States con-
tinuously monitor or control the firearm at all times. 
SEC. 216. (a) None of the income retained in the De-
partment of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to 
title I of Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 
527 note) shall be available for obligation during fiscal 
year 2026, except up to $12,000,000 may be obligated for 
implementation of a unified Department of Justice finan-
cial management system. 
(b) Not to exceed $30,000,000 of the unobligated bal-
ances transferred to the capital account of the Department 
of Justice Working Capital Fund pursuant to title I of 
Public Law 102–140 (105 Stat. 784; 28 U.S.C. 527 note) 
shall be available for obligation in fiscal year 2026, and 
any use, obligation, transfer, or allocation of such funds 
shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under sec-
tion 505 of this Act. 
(c) Not to exceed $10,000,000 of the excess unobli-
gated balances available under section 524(c)(8)(E) of 
title 28, United States Code, shall be available for obliga-
tion during fiscal year 2026, and any use, obligation,
transfer or allocation of such funds shall be treated as a 
reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act. 
SEC. 217. Discretionary funds that are made avail-
able in this Act for the Office of Justice Programs may 
be used to participate in Performance Partnership Pilots 
authorized under such authorities as have been enacted 
for Performance Partnership Pilots in appropriations acts 
in prior fiscal years and the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 218. The Attorney General shall submit to the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate quarterly reports on the Crime Vic-
tims Fund, the Working Capital Fund, the Three Percent 
Fund, and the Assets Forfeiture Fund. Such quarterly re-
ports shall contain at least the same level of information 
and detail for each Fund as was provided to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
and the Senate in fiscal year 2024. 
SEC. 219. None of the funds made available under 
this Act may be used to conduct, contract for, or otherwise 
support, live tissue training, unless the Attorney General 
issues a written, non-delegable determination that such 
training is medically necessary and cannot be replicated 
by alternatives. 
SEC. 220. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Department of Justice to target
or investigate parents who peacefully protest at school 
board meetings and are not suspected of engaging in un-
lawful activity. 
SEC. 221. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to investigate or prosecute religious insti-
tutions on the basis of their religious beliefs. 
SEC. 222. Any remaining unobligated balances from 
amounts originally made available under the heading 
‘‘Federal Bureau of Investigation—Construction’’ in the 
Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2016 (title II 
of division B of Public Law 114–113) or in the Depart-
ment of Justice Appropriations Act, 2017 (title II of divi-
sion B of Public Law 115–31) for the new Federal Bureau 
of Investigation consolidated headquarters facility in the 
National Capital Region that were subsequently repro-
grammed pursuant to a notification received by the Com-
mittees on Appropriations from the Assistant Attorney 
General for Administration on July 1, 2025, may not be 
further obligated until the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion submits to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate the contracted 
and completed architectural and engineering plan for the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation’s new headquarters build-
ing for review: Provided, That classified portions of the
architectural and engineering plan shall be submitted 
through a classified annex. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Justice 
Appropriations Act, 2026’’. 
TITLE III 
SCIENCE 
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 et seq.), hire of 
passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, not to exceed 
$2,250 for official reception and representation expenses, 
and rental of conference rooms in the District of Colum-
bia, $7,965,000. 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
SCIENCE 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of science research and devel-
opment activities, including research, development, oper-
ations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, fa-
cility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft control, 
and communications activities; program management; per-
sonnel and related costs, including uniforms or allowances
therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 
5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase and hire 
of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, charter, 
maintenance, and operation of mission and administrative 
aircraft, $7,250,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2027: Provided, That of the amount made 
available under this heading, the total amount specified 
in the table under this heading in the explanatory state-
ment described in section 4 (in the matter preceding divi-
sion A of this Act) shall be for the purposes and in not 
less than the amount for each such purpose specified in 
such table. 
AERONAUTICS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of aeronautics research and 
development activities, including research, development, 
operations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, 
facility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft con-
trol, and communications activities; program manage-
ment; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 
5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; pur-
chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, 
lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and
administrative aircraft, $935,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027. 
SPACE TECHNOLOGY 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of space technology research 
and development activities, including research, develop-
ment, operations, support, and services; maintenance and 
repair, facility planning and design; space flight, space-
craft control, and communications activities; program 
management; personnel and related costs, including uni-
forms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 
5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel ex-
penses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and 
purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of 
mission and administrative aircraft, $920,500,000, to re-
main available until September 30, 2027. 
EXPLORATION 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of exploration research and 
development activities, including research, development, 
operations, support, and services; maintenance and repair, 
facility planning and design; space flight, spacecraft con-
trol, and communications activities; program manage-
ment; personnel and related costs, including uniforms or 
allowances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and
5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; pur-
chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, 
lease, charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and 
administrative aircraft, $7,783,000,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2027: Provided, That the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate, concurrent with the annual 
budget submission, a 5-year budget profile for an inte-
grated system that includes the Space Launch System, the 
Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, Human Landing Sys-
tem, and associated ground systems. 
SPACE OPERATIONS 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of space operations research 
and development activities, including research, develop-
ment, operations, support and services; space flight, space-
craft control, and communications activities, including op-
erations, production, and services; maintenance and re-
pair, facility planning and design; program management; 
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allow-
ances therefor, as authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 
of title 5, United States Code; travel expenses; purchase 
and hire of passenger motor vehicles; and purchase, lease, 
charter, maintenance, and operation of mission and ad-
ministrative aircraft, $4,175,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027. 
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND 
MATHEMATICS ENGAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of aerospace and aeronautical 
education research and development activities, including 
research, development, operations, support, and services; 
program management; personnel and related costs, includ-
ing uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sec-
tions 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel 
expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and operation 
of mission and administrative aircraft, $143,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, 
That of the amount made available under this heading, 
the total amount specified in the table under this heading 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act) shall 
be for the purposes and in not less than the amount for 
each such purpose specified in such table. 
SAFETY, SECURITY AND MISSION SERVICES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics, space 
technology, exploration, space operations and education
research and development activities, including research, 
development, operations, support, and services; mainte-
nance and repair, facility planning and design; space 
flight, spacecraft control, and communications activities; 
program management; personnel and related costs, includ-
ing uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by sec-
tions 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United States Code; travel 
expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; 
not to exceed $63,000 for official reception and represen-
tation expenses; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-
nance, and operation of mission and administrative air-
craft, $3,000,000,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2027: Provided, That if available balances in 
the ‘‘Science, Space, and Technology Education Trust 
Fund’’ are not sufficient to provide for the grant disburse-
ments required under the third and fourth provisos under 
such heading in the Department of Housing and Urban 
Development-Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1989 (Public Law 100–404) as amended by the Depart-
ments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 
1995 (Public Law 103–327), up to $1,000,000 shall be 
available from amounts made available under this heading 
to make such grant disbursements: Provided further, That 
of the amounts appropriated under this heading,
$58,417,135 shall be made available for the SSMS 
projects, and in the amounts, specified in the table titled 
‘‘Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed 
Spending’’ included for this division in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act): Provided further, That 
the amounts made available for the projects referenced in 
the preceding proviso may not be transferred for any other 
purpose. 
CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND 
RESTORATION 
For necessary expenses for construction of facilities 
including repair, rehabilitation, revitalization, and modi-
fication of facilities, construction of new facilities and ad-
ditions to existing facilities, facility planning and design, 
and restoration, and acquisition or condemnation of real 
property, as authorized by law, and environmental compli-
ance and restoration, $185,336,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2031: Provided, That proceeds from 
leases deposited into this account shall be available for a 
period of 5 years to the extent and in amounts as provided 
in annual appropriations Acts: Provided further, That such 
proceeds referred to in the preceding proviso shall be avail-
able for obligation for fiscal year 2026 in an amount not 
to exceed $33,000,000: Provided further, That each annual
budget request shall include an annual estimate of gross 
receipts and collections and proposed use of all funds col-
lected pursuant to section 20145 of title 51, United States 
Code. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$46,500,000, of which $2,500,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2027. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
Funds for any announced prize otherwise authorized 
shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until 
a prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn. 
Not to exceed 10 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration in this Act may be 
transferred between such appropriations, but no such ap-
propriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall 
be increased by more than 20 percent by any such trans-
fers. Any funds transferred to ‘‘Construction and Environ-
mental Compliance and Restoration’’ for construction ac-
tivities shall not increase that account by more than 20 
percent. Balances so transferred shall be merged with and 
available for the same purposes and the same time period
as the appropriations to which transferred. Any transfer 
pursuant to this provision shall be treated as a reprogram-
ming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section. 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation pro-
vided for the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion under previous appropriations Acts that remains 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026 
may be transferred between such appropriations, but no 
such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically pro-
vided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any 
such transfers. Any transfer pursuant to this provision 
shall retain its original availability and shall be treated 
as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation except in com-
pliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
The spending plan required by this Act shall be pro-
vided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-
tion at the theme, program, project, and activity level. The 
spending plan, as well as any subsequent change of an 
amount established in that spending plan that meets the 
notification requirements of section 505 of this Act, shall 
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 
Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure
except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that 
section. 
Not more than 20 percent or $50,000,000, whichever 
is less, of the amounts made available in the current-year 
Construction and Environmental Compliance and Restora-
tion (CECR) appropriation may be applied to CECR 
projects funded under previous years’ CECR appropria-
tions. Use of current-year funds under this provision shall 
be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
Of the amounts made available in this Act under the 
heading ‘‘Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathe-
matics Engagement’’ (‘‘STEM Engagement’’), up to 
$5,000,000 shall be available to jointly fund, with an addi-
tional amount of up to $1,000,000 each from amounts 
made available in this Act under the headings ‘‘Science’’, 
‘‘Aeronautics’’, ‘‘Space Technology’’, ‘‘Exploration’’, and 
‘‘Space Operations’’, projects and activities for engaging 
students in STEM and increasing STEM research capac-
ities of universities, including Minority Serving Institu-
tions. 
Not to exceed $38,500,000 made available for the 
current fiscal year in this Act within ‘‘Safety, Security and 
Mission Services’’ may be transferred to the Working Cap-
ital Fund of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration. Balances so transferred shall be available until ex-
pended only for activities described in section 30102(b)(3) 
of title 51, United States Code, as amended by this Act, 
and shall remain available until expended. Any transfer 
pursuant to this provision shall be treated as a reprogram-
ming of funds under section 505 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation except in compliance with the 
procedures set forth in that section. 
There is hereby established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund to be known as the ‘‘National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration Nonrecurring Expenses 
Fund’’ (the Fund). Unobligated balances of expired dis-
cretionary funds appropriated for this or any succeeding 
fiscal year from the General Fund of the Treasury to the 
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) 
by this or any other Act may be transferred (not later 
than the end of the fifth fiscal year after the last fiscal 
year for which such funds are available for the purposes 
for which appropriated) into the Fund. Amounts deposited 
in the Fund shall be available until expended, and in addi-
tion to such other funds as may be available for such pur-
poses, for facilities infrastructure improvements, including 
nonrecurring maintenance, necessary for the operation of 
NASA, subject to approval by the Office of Management
and Budget. Amounts in the Fund may not be available 
for the purpose described in subsection (b)(3) of section 
30102 of title 51, United States Code. Amounts in the 
Fund may be obligated only after the Committees on Ap-
propriations of the House of Representatives and the Sen-
ate are notified at least 30 days in advance of the planned 
use of funds. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), 
and Public Law 86–209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.); services 
as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, United States 
Code; maintenance and operation of aircraft and purchase 
of flight services for research support; acquisition of air-
craft; and authorized travel; $7,176,500,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2027: Provided, That of the 
amounts appropriated under this heading, not to exceed 
$700,000,000 shall remain available until expended for 
polar research and operations support, and for reimburse-
ment to other Federal agencies for operational and science 
support and logistical and other related activities for the 
United States Antarctic program: Provided further, That 
of the amounts in the preceding proviso, not less than 
$118,800,000 shall be for U.S. Antarctic Logistical Sup-
port: Provided further, That receipts for scientific support 
services and materials furnished by the National Research 
Centers and other National Science Foundation supported 
research facilities may be credited to this appropriation. 
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construc-
tion, commissioning, and upgrading of major research 
equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursu-
ant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42 
U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), including authorized travel, 
$251,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
STEM EDUCATION 
For necessary expenses in carrying out science, math-
ematics, and engineering education and human resources 
programs and activities pursuant to the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.), includ-
ing services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 
United States Code, authorized travel, and rental of con-
ference rooms in the District of Columbia, $938,250,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, 
That of the amount made available under this heading, 
the total amount specified in the table under this heading 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act) shall
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be for the purposes and in not less than the amount for 
each such purpose specified in such table. 
AGENCY OPERATIONS AND AWARD MANAGEMENT 
For agency operations and award management nec-
essary in carrying out the National Science Foundation 
Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1861 et seq.); services authorized 
by section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; uniforms or allowances therefor, as 
authorized by sections 5901 and 5902 of title 5, United 
States Code; rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia; and reimbursement of the Department of 
Homeland 
Security 
for 
security 
guard 
services; 
$355,000,000: Provided, That not to exceed $12,000 is 
for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-
vided further, That contracts may be entered into under 
this heading in fiscal year 2026 for maintenance and oper-
ation of facilities and for other services to be provided dur-
ing the next fiscal year. 
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
and the employment of experts and consultants under sec-
tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code) involved in car-
rying out section 4 of the National Science Foundation
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Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 
(42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.), $5,090,000: Provided, That not 
to exceed $2,500 shall be available for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 
1978, $24,160,000, of which $1,500,000 shall remain 
available until September 30, 2027. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made 
available for the current fiscal year for the National 
Science Foundation in this Act may be transferred be-
tween such appropriations, but no such appropriation shall 
be increased by more than 10 percent by any such trans-
fers. Any transfer pursuant to this paragraph shall be 
treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 505 
of this Act and shall not be available for obligation except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
The Director of the National Science Foundation 
(NSF) shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate at least 30 
days in advance of any planned divestment through trans-
fer, decommissioning, termination, or deconstruction of
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any NSF-owned facilities or any NSF capital assets (in-
cluding land, structures, and equipment) valued greater 
than $2,500,000. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Science Appropria-
tions Act, 2026’’. 
TITLE IV 
RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Commission on Civil 
Rights, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
$14,350,000: Provided, That none of the funds appro-
priated in this paragraph may be used to employ any indi-
viduals under Schedule C of subpart C of part 213 of title 
5 of the Code of Federal Regulations exclusive of one spe-
cial assistant for each Commissioner: Provided further, 
That none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph 
shall be used to reimburse Commissioners for more than 
75 billable days, with the exception of the chairperson, 
who is permitted 125 billable days: Provided further, That 
the Chair may accept and use any gift or donation to carry 
out the work of the Commission: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated in this paragraph shall be 
used for any activity or expense that is not explicitly au-
thorized by section 3 of the Civil Rights Commission Act
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of 1983 (42 U.S.C. 1975a): Provided further, That not-
withstanding the preceding proviso, $2,000,000 shall be 
used to separately fund the Commission on the Social Sta-
tus of Black Men and Boys. 
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Equal Employment 
Opportunity Commission as authorized by title VII of the 
Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Em-
ployment Act of 1967, the Equal Pay Act of 1963, the 
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, section 501 of 
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Civil Rights Act of 
1991, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act 
(GINA) of 2008 (Public Law 110–233), the ADA Amend-
ments Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–325), the Lilly 
Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–2), and 
Public Law 117–328, including services as authorized by 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles as authorized by section 1343(b) of 
title 31, United States Code; nonmonetary awards to pri-
vate citizens; and up to $32,500,000 for payments to 
State and local enforcement agencies for authorized serv-
ices to the Commission, $435,382,000, of which 
$2,788,000 shall be for the Office of the Inspector Gen-
eral: Provided, That the Commission is authorized to make
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available for official reception and representation expenses 
not to exceed $2,250 from available funds: Provided fur-
ther, That the Commission may take no action to imple-
ment any workforce repositioning, restructuring, or reor-
ganization until such time as the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate 
have been notified of such proposals, in accordance with 
the reprogramming requirements of section 505 of this 
Act: Provided further, That the Chair may accept and use 
any gift or donation to carry out the work of the Commis-
sion. 
INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the International Trade 
Commission, including hire of passenger motor vehicles 
and services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 
United States Code, and not to exceed $2,250 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $122,000,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which not less than 
$2,096,176 shall be for the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 
U.S.C. 401 et seq.).
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LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION 
For payment to the Legal Services Corporation to 
carry out the purposes of the Legal Services Corporation 
Act of 1974, $540,000,000, of which $496,300,000 is for 
basic field programs and required independent audits; 
$6,000,000 is for the Office of Inspector General, of which 
such amounts as may be necessary may be used to conduct 
additional audits of recipients; $26,200,000 is for manage-
ment and grants oversight; $4,750,000 is for client self- 
help and information technology; $4,750,000 is for a Pro 
Bono Innovation Fund; and $2,000,000 is for loan repay-
ment assistance: Provided, That the budget execution for 
the payment to the Legal Services Corporation shall be 
carried out in this fiscal year in the same manner as such 
budget execution was carried out in fiscal year 2024 and 
such payment shall be made in full as an annual install-
ment paid to the Corporation at the beginning of the fiscal 
year in such amounts as specified under this heading: Pro-
vided further, That the Legal Services Corporation may 
continue to provide locality pay to officers and employees 
at a rate no greater than that provided by the Federal 
Government to Washington, DC-based employees as au-
thorized by section 5304 of title 5, United States Code, 
notwithstanding section 1005(d) of the Legal Services
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Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996d(d)): Provided further, 
That the authorities provided in section 205 of this Act 
shall be applicable to the Legal Services Corporation: Pro-
vided further, That, for the purposes of section 505 of this 
Act, the Legal Services Corporation shall be considered 
an agency of the United States Government. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS—LEGAL SERVICES 
CORPORATION 
None of the funds appropriated in this Act to the 
Legal Services Corporation shall be expended for any pur-
pose prohibited or limited by, or contrary to any of the 
provisions of, sections 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, and 506 
of Public Law 105–119, and all funds appropriated in this 
Act to the Legal Services Corporation shall be subject to 
the same terms and conditions set forth in such sections, 
except that all references in sections 502 and 503 to 1997 
and 1998 shall be deemed to refer instead to 2025 and 
2026, respectively. 
Section 501 of the Departments of Commerce, Jus-
tice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 1998 (Public Law 105–119) is amended 
by adding the following new subsection at the end: 
‘‘(d) MODIFIED GOVERNING BODY REQUIREMENT.— 
For purposes of this Act, section 1007(c) of the Legal
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Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 2996f(c)) shall be ap-
plied by substituting ‘33 percent’ for ‘60 percent’.’’. 
Section 502(2) of the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 1996 (Public Law 104–134) is 
amended by striking subparagraph (B) in its entirety and 
replacing it with the following: 
‘‘(B) is governed by a board of directors or 
other governing body, 33 percent of which is 
comprised of attorneys who are members of the 
bar of a State, as defined in section 1002(8) of 
the Legal Services Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 
2996a(8)), in which the legal assistance is to be 
provided;’’. 
MARINE MAMMAL COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Marine Mammal Com-
mission as authorized by title II of the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), 
$4,300,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027. 
OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE 
REPRESENTATIVE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the United 
States Trade Representative, including the hire of pas-
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senger motor vehicles and the employment of experts and 
consultants as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, 
United States Code, $65,000,000, of which $1,000,000 
shall remain available until expended: Provided, That of 
the total amount made available under this heading, not 
to exceed $124,000 shall be available for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
TRADE ENFORCEMENT TRUST FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For activities of the United States Trade Representa-
tive authorized by section 611 of the Trade Facilitation 
and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 (19 U.S.C. 4405), 
including transfers, $23,000,000, to be derived from the 
Trade Enforcement Trust Fund: Provided, That any 
transfer pursuant to subsection (d)(1) of such section shall 
be treated as a reprogramming under section 505 of this 
Act. 
STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the State Justice Institute, 
as authorized by the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 
(42 U.S.C. 10701 et seq.) $7,640,000, of which $500,000 
shall remain available until September 30, 2027: Provided, 
That not to exceed $2,250 shall be available for official 
reception and representation expenses: Provided further,
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That, for the purposes of section 505 of this Act, the State 
Justice Institute shall be considered an agency of the 
United States Government. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS AND RESCISSIONS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 501. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes 
not authorized by the Congress. 
SEC. 502. 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. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract, pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, 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 existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 504. If any provision of this Act or the applica-
tion of such provision to any person or circumstances shall 
be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the applica-
tion of each provision to persons or circumstances other
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than those as to which it is held invalid shall not be af-
fected thereby. 
SEC. 505. (a) None of the funds provided under this 
Act, or provided under previous appropriations Acts to the 
agencies funded by this Act that remain available for obli-
gation or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that: (1) creates or ini-
tiates a new program, project, or activity; (2) eliminates 
a program, project, or activity; (3) increases funds or per-
sonnel by any means for any project or activity for which 
funds have been denied or restricted; (4) relocates an of-
fice or employees; (5) reorganizes or renames offices, pro-
grams, or activities; (6) contracts out or privatizes any 
functions or activities presently performed by Federal em-
ployees; (7) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities in excess of $500,000 or 5 percent, whichever is 
less, or reduces by 5 percent funding for any program, 
project, or activity, or numbers of personnel by 5 percent; 
(8) results from any general savings, including savings 
from a reduction in personnel, which would result in a 
change in existing programs, projects, or activities as ap-
proved by Congress; unless the House and Senate Com-
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mittees on Appropriations are notified 30 days in advance 
of such reprogramming of funds. 
SEC. 506. (a) 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 inscription with the same meaning, to any product 
sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made 
in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to re-
ceive any contract or subcontract made with funds made 
available in 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. 
(b)(1) To the extent practicable, with respect to au-
thorized purchases of promotional items, funds made 
available by this Act shall be used to purchase items that 
are manufactured, produced, or assembled in the United 
States, its territories or possessions. 
(2) The term ‘‘promotional items’’ has the meaning 
given the term in OMB Circular A–87, Attachment B, 
Item (1)(f)(3). 
SEC. 507. (a) The Departments of Commerce and 
Justice, the National Science Foundation, and the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration shall provide 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
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resentatives and the Senate a quarterly report on the sta-
tus of balances of appropriations at the account level. For 
unobligated, uncommitted balances and unobligated, com-
mitted balances the quarterly reports shall separately 
identify the amounts attributable to each source year of 
appropriation from which the balances were derived. For 
balances that are obligated, but unexpended, the quarterly 
reports shall separately identify amounts by the year of 
obligation. 
(b) The report described in subsection (a) shall be 
submitted within 30 days of the end of each quarter. 
(c) If a department or agency is unable to fulfill any 
aspect of a reporting requirement described in subsection 
(a) due to a limitation of a current accounting system, 
the department or agency shall fulfill such aspect to the 
maximum extent practicable under such accounting sys-
tem and shall identify and describe in each quarterly re-
port the extent to which such aspect is not fulfilled. 
SEC. 508. Any costs incurred by a department or 
agency funded under this Act resulting from, or to pre-
vent, personnel actions taken in response to funding re-
ductions included in this Act shall be absorbed within the 
total budgetary resources available to such department or 
agency: Provided, That the authority to transfer funds be-
tween appropriations accounts as may be necessary to
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carry out this section is provided in addition to authorities 
included elsewhere in this Act: Provided further, That use 
of funds to carry out this section shall be treated as a 
reprogramming of funds under section 505 of this Act and 
shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except 
in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section: 
Provided further, That for the Department of Commerce, 
this section shall also apply to actions taken for the care 
and protection of loan collateral or grant property. 
SEC. 509. None of the funds provided by this Act 
shall be available to promote the sale or export of tobacco 
or tobacco products, or to seek the reduction or removal 
by any foreign country of restrictions on the marketing 
of tobacco or tobacco products, except for restrictions 
which are not applied equally to all tobacco or tobacco 
products of the same type. 
SEC. 510. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, amounts deposited or available in the Fund estab-
lished by section 1402 of chapter XIV of title II of Public 
Law 98–473 (34 U.S.C. 20101) in any fiscal year in ex-
cess of $1,950,000,000 shall not be available for obligation 
until the following fiscal year: Provided, That notwith-
standing section 1402(d) of such Act, of the amounts 
available from the Fund for obligation: (1) $10,000,000 
shall be transferred to the Department of Justice Office
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of Inspector General and remain available until expended 
for oversight and auditing purposes associated with this 
section; and (2) 5 percent shall be available to the Office 
for Victims of Crime for grants, consistent with the re-
quirements of the Victims of Crime Act, to Indian Tribes 
to improve services for victims of crime. 
SEC. 511. None of the funds made available to the 
Department of Justice in this Act may be used to discrimi-
nate against or denigrate the religious or moral beliefs of 
students who participate in programs for which financial 
assistance is provided from those funds, or of the parents 
or legal guardians of such students. 
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 513. (a) The Inspectors General of the Depart-
ment of Commerce, the Department of Justice, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Na-
tional Science Foundation, and the Legal Services Cor-
poration shall conduct audits, pursuant to the Inspector 
General Act (5 U.S.C. App.), of grants or contracts for 
which funds are appropriated by this Act, and shall submit 
reports to Congress on the progress of such audits, which
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may include preliminary findings and a description of 
areas of particular interest, within 180 days after initi-
ating such an audit and every 180 days thereafter until 
any such audit is completed. 
(b) Within 60 days after the date on which an audit 
described in subsection (a) by an Inspector General is 
completed, the Secretary, Attorney General, Adminis-
trator, Director, or President, as appropriate, shall make 
the results of the audit available to the public on the Inter-
net website maintained by the Department, Administra-
tion, Foundation, or Corporation, respectively. The results 
shall be made available in redacted form to exclude— 
(1) any matter described in section 552(b) of 
title 5, United States Code; and 
(2) sensitive personal information for any indi-
vidual, the public access to which could be used to 
commit identity theft or for other inappropriate or 
unlawful purposes. 
(c) Any person awarded a grant or contract funded 
by amounts appropriated by this Act shall submit a state-
ment to the Secretary of Commerce, the Attorney General, 
the Administrator, Director, or President, as appropriate, 
certifying that no funds derived from the grant or contract 
will be made available through a subcontract or in any
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other manner to another person who has a financial inter-
est in the person awarded the grant or contract. 
(d) The provisions of the preceding subsections of 
this section shall take effect 30 days after the date on 
which the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget, in consultation with the Director of the Office of 
Government Ethics, determines that a uniform set of rules 
and requirements, substantially similar to the require-
ments in such subsections, consistently apply under the 
executive branch ethics program to all Federal depart-
ments, agencies, and entities. 
SEC. 514. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available under this Act may be used by the 
Departments of Commerce and Justice, the National Aer-
onautics and Space Administration, or the National 
Science Foundation to acquire a high-impact or moderate- 
impact information system, as defined for security cat-
egorization in the National Institute of Standards and 
Technology’s (NIST) Federal Information Processing 
Standard Publication 199, ‘‘Standards for Security Cat-
egorization of Federal Information and Information Sys-
tems’’ unless the agency has— 
(1) reviewed the supply chain risk for the infor-
mation systems against criteria developed by NIST 
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to
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inform acquisition decisions for high-impact and 
moderate-impact information systems within the 
Federal Government; 
(2) reviewed the supply chain risk from the pre-
sumptive awardee against available and relevant 
threat information provided by the FBI and other 
appropriate agencies; and 
(3) in consultation with the FBI or other ap-
propriate Federal entity, conducted an assessment of 
any risk of cyber-espionage or sabotage associated 
with the acquisition of such system, including any 
risk associated with such system being produced, 
manufactured, or assembled by one or more entities 
identified by the United States Government as pos-
ing a cyber threat, including but not limited to, 
those that may be owned, directed, or subsidized by 
the People’s Republic of China, the Islamic Republic 
of Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, 
or the Russian Federation. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available under this Act may be used to acquire a 
high-impact or moderate-impact information system re-
viewed and assessed under subsection (a) unless the head 
of the assessing entity described in subsection (a) has—
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(1) developed, in consultation with NIST, the 
FBI, and supply chain risk management experts, a 
mitigation strategy for any identified risks; 
(2) determined, in consultation with NIST and 
the FBI, that the acquisition of such system is in 
the national interest of the United States; and 
(3) reported that determination to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate and the agency Inspector Gen-
eral. 
SEC. 515. 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. 516. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to include in any new bilateral or multi-
lateral 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. 
SEC. 517. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to authorize or issue a national security
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letter in contravention of any of the following laws author-
izing the Federal Bureau of Investigation to issue national 
security letters: The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 
1978; The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 
1986; The Fair Credit Reporting Act; The National Secu-
rity Act of 1947; USA PATRIOT Act; USA FREEDOM 
Act of 2015; and the laws amended by these Acts. 
SEC. 518. If at any time during any quarter, the pro-
gram manager of a project within the jurisdiction of the 
Departments of Commerce or Justice, the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration, or the National Science 
Foundation totaling more than $75,000,000 has reason-
able cause to believe that the total program cost has in-
creased by 10 percent or more, the program manager shall 
immediately inform the respective Secretary, Adminis-
trator, or Director. The Secretary, Administrator, or Di-
rector shall notify the House and Senate Committees on 
Appropriations within 30 days in writing of such increase, 
and shall include in such notice: the date on which such 
determination was made; a statement of the reasons for 
such increases; the action taken and proposed to be taken 
to control future cost growth of the project; changes made 
in the performance or schedule milestones and the degree 
to which such changes have contributed to the increase 
in total program costs or procurement costs; new esti-
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mates of the total project or procurement costs; and a 
statement validating that the project’s management struc-
ture is adequate to control total project or procurement 
costs. 
SEC. 519. Funds appropriated by this Act, or made 
available by the transfer of funds in this Act, for intel-
ligence or intelligence related activities are deemed to be 
specifically authorized by the Congress for purposes of sec-
tion 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
3094) during fiscal year 2026 until the enactment of the 
Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2026. 
SEC. 520. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available by this Act may be used to enter into 
a contract in an amount greater than $5,000,000 or to 
award a grant in excess of such amount unless the pro-
spective contractor or grantee certifies in writing to the 
agency awarding the contract or grant that, to the best 
of its knowledge and belief, the contractor or grantee has 
filed all Federal tax returns required during the three 
years preceding the certification, has not been convicted 
of a criminal offense under the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986, and has not, more than 90 days prior to certifi-
cation, been notified of any unpaid Federal tax assessment 
for which the liability remains unsatisfied, unless the as-
sessment is the subject of an installment agreement or
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offer in compromise that has been approved by the Inter-
nal Revenue Service and is not in default, or the assess-
ment is the subject of a non-frivolous administrative or 
judicial proceeding. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 521. (a) Of the unobligated balances available 
to the Department of Commerce, the following funds are 
hereby permanently rescinded, not later than September 
30, 2026, from the following accounts in the specified 
amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Economic Development Administration— 
Economic 
Development 
Assistance 
Programs’’, 
$60,000,000, only from prior year appropriations 
that remain available until expended; and 
(2) 
‘‘Census 
Working 
Capital 
Fund’’, 
$15,000,000. 
(b) Of the unobligated balances from prior year ap-
propriations available to the Department of Justice, the 
following funds are hereby permanently rescinded, not 
later than September 30, 2026, from the following ac-
counts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office on Violence Against Women—Violence 
Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Pro-
grams’’, $36,000,000;
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(2) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Office of Justice Programs’’, $250,000,000; 
and 
(3) ‘‘State and Local Law Enforcement Activi-
ties—Community 
Oriented 
Policing 
Services’’, 
$25,000,000. 
(c) Of the unobligated balances available to the De-
partment of Justice, the following funds are hereby per-
manently rescinded, not later than September 30, 2026, 
from the following accounts in the specified amounts— 
(1) ‘‘Working Capital Fund’’, $210,000,000; 
and 
(2) ‘‘Legal Activities—Assets Forfeiture Fund’’, 
$113,200,000. 
(d) The Departments of Commerce and Justice shall 
submit to the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate a report no later than 
September 1, 2026, specifying the amount of each rescis-
sion made pursuant to subsections (a), (b), and (c). 
(e) The amounts rescinded in subsections (a), (b), 
and (c) shall not be from amounts that were designated 
by the Congress as an emergency or disaster relief require-
ment pursuant to the concurrent resolution on the budget 
or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985.
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(f) The amounts rescinded pursuant to subsections 
(b) and (c) shall not be from— 
(1) amounts provided under subparagraph (Q) 
of paragraph (1) under the heading ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Activities—Office of Justice 
Programs—State and Local Law Enforcement As-
sistance’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 
117–103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts pro-
vided under subparagraph (R) of paragraph (1) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Office of Justice Programs—State 
and Local Law Enforcement Assistance’’ in title II 
of division C of Public Law 118–42; or 
(2) amounts provided under paragraph (7) 
under the heading ‘‘State and Local Law Enforce-
ment Activities—Community Oriented Policing Serv-
ices—Community Oriented Policing Services Pro-
grams’’ in title II of division B of Public Law 117– 
103 or Public Law 117–328, or amounts provided 
under paragraph (7) under the heading ‘‘State and 
Local Law Enforcement Activities—Community Ori-
ented Policing Services—Community Oriented Polic-
ing Services Programs’’ in title II of division C of 
Public Law 118–42.
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SEC. 522. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to purchase first class or premium airline 
travel in contravention of sections 301–10.122 through 
301–10.124 of title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 523. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to send or otherwise pay for the attend-
ance of more than 50 employees from a Federal depart-
ment or agency, who are stationed in the United States, 
at any single conference occurring outside the United 
States unless— 
(1) such conference is a law enforcement train-
ing or operational conference for law enforcement 
personnel and the majority of Federal employees in 
attendance are law enforcement personnel stationed 
outside the United States; or 
(2) such conference is a scientific conference 
and the department or agency head determines that 
such attendance is in the national interest and noti-
fies the Committees on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives and the Senate within at least 15 
days of that determination and the basis for that de-
termination. 
SEC. 524. The Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget shall instruct any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States receiving funds appro-
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priated under this Act to track undisbursed balances in 
expired grant accounts and include in its annual perform-
ance plan and performance and accountability reports the 
following: 
(1) Details on future action the department, 
agency, or instrumentality will take to resolve 
undisbursed balances in expired grant accounts. 
(2) The method that the department, agency, or 
instrumentality uses to track undisbursed balances 
in expired grant accounts. 
(3) Identification of undisbursed balances in ex-
pired grant accounts that may be returned to the 
Treasury of the United States. 
(4) In the preceding 3 fiscal years, details on 
the total number of expired grant accounts with 
undisbursed balances (on the first day of each fiscal 
year) for the department, agency, or instrumentality 
and the total finances that have not been obligated 
to a specific project remaining in the accounts. 
SEC. 525. To the extent practicable, funds made 
available in this Act should be used to purchase light bulbs 
that are ‘‘Energy Star’’ qualified or have the ‘‘Federal En-
ergy Management Program’’ designation. 
SEC. 526. (a) None of the funds made available by 
this Act may be used for the National Aeronautics and
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Space Administration (NASA) or the Office of Science 
and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop, design, plan, 
promulgate, implement, or execute a bilateral policy, pro-
gram, order, or contract of any kind to participate, col-
laborate, or coordinate bilaterally in any way with China 
or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are 
specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of 
enactment of this Act. 
(b) None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to effectuate the hosting of official Chinese visitors 
at facilities belonging to or utilized by NASA. 
(c) The limitations described in subsections (a) and 
(b) shall not apply to activities which NASA or OSTP, 
after consultation with the Federal Bureau of Investiga-
tion, have certified— 
(1) pose no risk of resulting in the transfer of 
technology, data, or other information with national 
security or economic security implications to China 
or a Chinese-owned company; and 
(2) will not involve knowing interactions with 
officials who have been determined by the United 
States to have direct involvement with violations of 
human rights. 
(d) Any certification made under subsection (c) shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the
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House of Representatives and the Senate, and the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation, no later than 30 days prior to 
the activity in question and shall include a description of 
the purpose of the activity, its agenda, its major partici-
pants, and its location and timing. 
SEC. 527. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be used to maintain or establish a computer 
network unless such network blocks the viewing, 
downloading, and exchanging of pornography. 
(b) Nothing in subsection (a) shall limit the use of 
funds necessary for any Federal, State, Tribal, or local 
law enforcement agency or any other entity carrying out 
criminal investigations, prosecution, adjudication, or other 
law enforcement- or victim assistance-related activity. 
SEC. 528. The Departments of Commerce and Jus-
tice, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the National Science Foundation, the Commission on Civil 
Rights, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 
the International Trade Commission, the Legal Services 
Corporation, the Marine Mammal Commission, the Offices 
of Science and Technology Policy and the United States 
Trade Representative, and the State Justice Institute 
shall submit spending plans, signed by the respective de-
partment or agency head, to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate
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not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this 
Act: Provided, That the spending plans submitted pursu-
ant to this section shall contain at least the same level 
of detail as the spending plans submitted pursuant to this 
section in fiscal year 2024. 
SEC. 529. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
this Act, none of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this Act may be used to pay award or 
incentive fees for contractor performance that has been 
judged to be below satisfactory performance or for per-
formance that does not meet the basic requirements of a 
contract. 
SEC. 530. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (‘‘Legit-
imacy of Industrial Hemp Research’’) of the Agricultural 
Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of 
Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration. 
SEC. 531. None of the funds made available under 
this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with 
respect to any of the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, 
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken-
tucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, 
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York,
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North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Da-
kota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wash-
ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, or with 
respect to the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands, the United States Virgin 
Islands, Guam, or Puerto Rico, to prevent any of them 
from implementing their own laws that authorize the use, 
distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical mari-
juana. 
SEC. 532. The Department of Commerce, the Na-
tional Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Na-
tional Science Foundation shall provide a quarterly report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate on any official travel to China 
by any employee of such Department or agency, including 
the purpose of such travel. 
SEC. 533. Of the amounts made available by this Act, 
not less than 10 percent of each total amount provided, 
respectively, for Public Works grants authorized by the 
Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965 and 
grants authorized by section 27 of the Stevenson-Wydler 
Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 U.S.C. 3722) shall 
be allocated for assistance in persistent poverty counties: 
Provided, That for purposes of this section, the term ‘‘per-
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sistent poverty counties’’ means any county that has had 
20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over 
the past 30 years, as measured by the 1993 Small Area 
Income and Poverty Estimates, the 2000 decennial cen-
sus, and the most recent Small Area Income and Poverty 
Estimates, or any Territory or possession of the United 
States. 
SEC. 534. (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-
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—
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(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 
Provincial or Municipal Government of Canada; 
(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
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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-
other nation. The President shall terminate the require-
ments of a license when reasons for the temporary require-
ments have ceased. 
SEC. 535. 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 section 
478.112 or .113, for a permit to import United States ori-
gin ‘‘curios or relics’’ firearms, parts, or ammunition. 
SEC. 536. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
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sonnel to deny, or fail to act on, an application for the 
importation of any model of shotgun if— 
(1) all other requirements of law with respect to 
the proposed importation are met; and 
(2) no application for the importation of such 
model of shotgun, in the same configuration, had 
been denied by the Attorney General prior to Janu-
ary 1, 2011, on the basis that the shotgun was not 
particularly suitable for or readily adaptable to 
sporting purposes. 
SEC. 537. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be obligated or expended to implement the Arms 
Trade Treaty until the Senate approves a resolution of 
ratification for the Treaty. 
SEC. 538. None of the funds appropriated or other-
wise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to transfer, release, or assist in the transfer or release to 
or within the United States, its territories, or possessions 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed or any other detainee who— 
(1) is not a United States citizen or a member 
of the Armed Forces of the United States; and 
(2) is or was held on or after June 24, 2009, 
at the United States Naval Station, Guantanamo 
Bay, Cuba, by the Department of Defense.
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SEC. 539. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available in this or any other Act may be used 
to construct, acquire, or modify any facility in the United 
States, its territories, or possessions to house any indi-
vidual described in subsection (c) for the purposes of de-
tention or imprisonment in the custody or under the effec-
tive control of the Department of Defense. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply 
to any modification of facilities at United States Naval 
Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
(c) An individual described in this subsection is any 
individual who, as of June 24, 2009, is located at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and who— 
(1) is not a citizen of the United States or a 
member of the Armed Forces of the United States; 
and 
(2) is— 
(A) in the custody or under the effective 
control of the Department of Defense; or 
(B) otherwise under detention at United 
States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 
SEC. 540. Funds made available to the Department 
of Commerce and the Department of Justice in this Act 
and any remaining unobligated balances of funds made 
available to the Department of Commerce and the Depart-
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ment of Justice in prior year Acts, other than amounts 
designated by the Congress as being for an emergency re-
quirement pursuant to a concurrent resolution on the 
budget or the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985 or from amounts made available 
under the heading ‘‘Department of Justice—Legal Activi-
ties—Fees and Expenses of Witnesses’’, shall be available 
to provide payments pursuant to section 901(i)(2) of title 
IX of division J of the Further Consolidated Appropria-
tions Act, 2020 (22 U.S.C. 2680b(i)(2)): Provided, That 
payments made pursuant to the matter preceding this pro-
viso may not exceed $5,000,000 for the Department of 
Commerce and $10,000,000 for the Department of Jus-
tice. 
SEC. 541. (a)(1) Within 45 days of enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Commerce shall allocate amounts 
made available from the Creating Helpful Incentives to 
Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund for 
fiscal year 2026 pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
section 102(a) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (division A of 
Public Law 117–167) not otherwise allocated pursuant to 
section 546(a)(1)(B) of division C of Public Law 118–42, 
including the transfer authority in such paragraphs of 
that section of that Act, to the accounts specified, in the 
amounts specified, and for the projects and activities spec-
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ified, in the table titled ‘‘Department of Commerce Alloca-
tion of National Institute of Standards and Technology 
Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026’’ in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
(2) Within 45 days of enactment of this Act, the Di-
rector of the National Science Foundation shall allocate 
amounts made available from the Creating Helpful Incen-
tives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America 
Workforce and Education Fund for fiscal year 2026 pur-
suant to section 102(d)(1) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 (di-
vision A of Public Law 117–167), to the account specified, 
in the amounts specified, and for the projects and activi-
ties specified in the table titled ‘‘National Science Founda-
tion Allocation of Funds: CHIPS Act Fiscal Year 2026’’ 
in the explanatory statement described in section 4 (in the 
matter preceding division A of this consolidated Act). 
(b) Neither the President nor his designee may allo-
cate any amounts that are made available for any fiscal 
year under section 102(a)(2)(A) of the CHIPS Act of 
2022 or under section 102(d)(2) of such Act if there is 
in effect an Act making or continuing appropriations for 
part of a fiscal year for the Departments of Commerce 
and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: Provided, 
That in any fiscal year, the matter preceding this proviso
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shall not apply to the allocation, apportionment, or allot-
ment of amounts for continuing administration of pro-
grams allocated funds from the CHIPS for America Fund, 
which may be allocated only in amounts that are no more 
than the allocation for such purposes in subsection (a) of 
this section. 
(c) Subject to prior consultation with, and the regular 
notification procedures of, the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, and 
subject to the terms and conditions in section 505 of this 
Act— 
(1) the Secretary of Commerce may reallocate 
funds allocated to Industrial Technology Services for 
section 9906 of Public Law 116–283 by subsection 
(a)(1) of this section; and 
(2) the Director of the National Science Foun-
dation may reallocate funds allocated to the CHIPS 
for America Workforce and Education Fund by sub-
section (a)(2) of this section. 
(d) Concurrent with the annual budget submission of 
the President for fiscal year 2027, the Director of the Na-
tional Science Foundation, as appropriate, shall submit to 
the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate proposed allocations by ac-
count and by program, project, or activity, with detailed
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justifications, for amounts made available under section 
102(d)(2) of the CHIPS Act of 2022 for fiscal year 2027. 
(e) The Department of Commerce and the National 
Science Foundation, as appropriate, shall each provide the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and Senate quarterly reports on the status of bal-
ances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for 
America Fund for amounts allocated pursuant to sub-
section (a)(1) of this section and prior appropriations 
Acts, the status of balances of projects and activities fund-
ed by the Public Wireless Supply Chain Innovation Fund 
for amounts allocated pursuant to section 543(a)(2) of di-
vision B of Public Law 117–328, and the status of bal-
ances of projects and activities funded by the CHIPS for 
America Workforce and Education Fund for amounts allo-
cated pursuant to subsection (a)(2) of this section and 
prior appropriations Acts, including all uncommitted, com-
mitted, and unobligated funds. 
SEC. 542. In making Federal financial assistance, the 
Department of Commerce, the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration, and the National Science Founda-
tion shall continue to apply the negotiated indirect cost 
rates in section 200.414 of title 2, Code of Federal Regu-
lations, including with respect to the approval of devi-
ations from negotiated indirect cost rates, to the same ex-
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tent and in the same manner as such negotiated indirect 
cost rates were applied in fiscal year 2024: Provided, That 
none of the funds appropriated in this or prior Commerce, 
Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations 
Acts, or otherwise made available to the Department of 
Commerce, the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration, and the National Science Foundation may be used 
to develop, modify, or implement changes to such fiscal 
year 2024 negotiated indirect cost rates. 
SEC. 543. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to move the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Canine Training Center 
or the ATF National Canine Division from Front Royal, 
Virginia, to another location. 
SEC. 544. (a) Of the amounts made available under 
the heading ‘‘Department of Commerce—National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration—Operations, Re-
search, and Facilities’’, $507,000,000 shall be derived by 
transfer from the unobligated balances of amounts pre-
viously appropriated under such heading for fiscal year 
2026 in division J of the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58): Provided, That amounts 
derived by transfer pursuant to this subsection shall con-
tinue to be treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) 
of division A of Public Law 118–5.
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(b) Of the amounts made available under the heading 
‘‘Department of Commerce—National Telecommuni-
cations and Information Administration—Salaries and 
Expenses’’, $50,000,000 shall be derived by transfer from 
the unobligated balances of amounts previously appro-
priated under the heading ‘‘National Telecommunications 
and Information Administration’’ in division J of the In-
frastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117– 
58), of which $25,000,000 shall be from amounts 
repurposed or transferred for salaries and expenses, ad-
ministration, and oversight of programs pursuant to sec-
tion 542 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 
(Public Law 118–42) and $25,000,000 shall be from 
amounts made available under the heading ‘‘Middle Mile 
Deployment’’: Provided, That amounts derived by transfer 
pursuant to this subsection shall continue to be treated 
as amounts specified in section 103(b) of division A of 
Public Law 118–5. 
(c) Of the amounts made available under the heading 
‘‘Department of Commerce—Economic Development Ad-
ministration—Economic Development Assistance Pro-
grams’’, $16,276,000 shall be derived by transfer from the 
unobligated balances of amounts previously appropriated 
under the heading ‘‘National Telecommunications and In-
formation Administration’’ in division J of the Infrastruc-
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ture Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117–58) and 
repurposed or transferred for salaries and expenses, ad-
ministration, and oversight of programs pursuant to sec-
tion 542 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 
(Public Law 118–42): Provided, That amounts derived by 
transfer pursuant to this subsection shall continue to be 
treated as amounts specified in section 103(b) of division 
A of Public Law 118–5. 
(d) Of the amounts made available under the heading 
‘‘Department of Commerce—National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration—Procurement, Acquisition and 
Construction’’, $44,000,000 shall be derived by transfer 
from the unobligated balances of the Department of Com-
merce Nonrecurring Expenses Fund. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Commerce, Jus-
tice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 
2026’’.
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DIVISION B—ENERGY AND WATER DEVEL-
OPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES AP-
PROPRIATIONS ACT, 2026 
TITLE I 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY 
CORPS OF ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
The following appropriations shall be expended under 
the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the super-
vision of the Chief of Engineers for authorized civil func-
tions of the Department of the Army pertaining to river 
and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore pro-
tection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related efforts. 
INVESTIGATIONS 
For expenses necessary where authorized by law for 
the collection and study of basic information pertaining 
to river and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, 
shore protection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and re-
lated needs; for surveys and detailed studies, and plans 
and specifications of proposed river and harbor, flood and 
storm damage reduction, shore protection, and aquatic 
ecosystem restoration projects, and related efforts prior to 
construction; for restudy of authorized projects; and for 
miscellaneous investigations, and, when authorized by law, 
surveys and detailed studies, and plans and specifications
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of projects prior to construction, $150,384,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That the Secretary 
shall not deviate from the work plan, once the plan has 
been submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For expenses necessary for the construction of river 
and harbor, flood and storm damage reduction, shore pro-
tection, aquatic ecosystem restoration, and related 
projects authorized by law; for conducting detailed studies, 
and plans and specifications, of such projects (including 
those involving participation by States, local governments, 
or private groups) authorized or made eligible for selection 
by law (but such detailed studies, and plans and specifica-
tions, shall not constitute a commitment of the Govern-
ment to construction); $3,169,966,000, to remain avail-
able until expended; of which $217,983,000, to be derived 
from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, shall be to 
cover the Federal share of construction costs for facilities 
under the Dredged Material Disposal Facilities program; 
and of which such sums as are necessary to cover 25 per-
cent of the costs of construction, replacement, rehabilita-
tion, and expansion of inland waterways projects shall be 
derived from the Inland Waterways Trust Fund, except 
as otherwise specifically provided for in law: Provided,
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That the Secretary shall not deviate from the work plan, 
once the plan has been submitted to the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND TRIBUTARIES 
For expenses necessary for flood damage reduction 
projects and related efforts in the Mississippi River allu-
vial valley below Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as authorized 
by law, $531,588,000, to remain available until expended, 
of which $9,768,000, to be derived from the Harbor Main-
tenance Trust Fund, shall be to cover the Federal share 
of eligible operation and maintenance costs for inland har-
bors: Provided, That the Secretary shall not deviate from 
the work plan, once the plan has been submitted to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the operation, mainte-
nance, and care of existing river and harbor, flood and 
storm damage reduction, aquatic ecosystem restoration, 
and related projects authorized by law; providing security 
for infrastructure owned or operated by the Corps, includ-
ing administrative buildings and laboratories; maintaining 
harbor channels provided by a State, municipality, or 
other public agency that serve essential navigation needs
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of general commerce, where authorized by law; surveying 
and charting northern and northwestern lakes and con-
necting waters; clearing and straightening channels; and 
removing obstructions to navigation, $6,013,217,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $3,245,249,000, 
to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund, 
shall be to cover the Federal share of eligible operations 
and maintenance costs for coastal harbors and channels, 
and for inland harbors, of which $416,760,000 shall be 
for donor and energy ports as specified in section 102 of 
the Water Resources Development Act of 2020; of which 
$40,000,000, to be derived from the general fund of the 
Treasury, shall be for the design and construction to re-
place Federal dredges, in addition to amounts otherwise 
made available for such purposes, and shall be transferred 
to and merged with funds available for such purposes in 
the revolving fund established by the first section of the 
Act of July 27, 1953 (33 U.S.C. 576); of which such sums 
as may be necessary shall be derived from amounts col-
lected in this or prior fiscal years under section 210 of 
the Flood Control Act of 1968 (16 U.S.C. 460d–3) and 
are not otherwise appropriated shall be for resource pro-
tection, research, interpretation, and maintenance activi-
ties related to resource protection in the areas at which 
outdoor recreation is available; of which such sums as be-
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come available from fees collected under section 217 of 
Public Law 104–303 shall be used to cover the cost of 
operation and maintenance of the dredged material dis-
posal facilities for which such fees have been collected; and 
of which $62,000,000, to be derived from the general fund 
of the Treasury, shall be to carry out subsection (c) of 
section 2106 of the Water Resources Reform and Develop-
ment Act of 2014 (33 U.S.C. 2238c) and shall be des-
ignated as being for such purpose pursuant to paragraph 
(2) of section 14003 of division B of the Coronavirus Aid, 
Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 116–136): 
Provided, That funding derived from the Harbor Mainte-
nance Trust Fund for donor and energy ports shall be al-
located solely in accordance with section 2106 of the 
Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014: 
Provided further, That 1 percent of the total amount of 
funds provided for each of the programs, projects, or ac-
tivities funded under this heading shall not be allocated 
to a field operating activity prior to the beginning of the 
fourth quarter of the fiscal year and shall be available for 
use by the Chief of Engineers to fund such emergency ac-
tivities as the Chief of Engineers determines to be nec-
essary and appropriate, and that the Chief of Engineers 
shall allocate during the fourth quarter any remaining 
funds which have not been used for emergency activities
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proportionally in accordance with the amounts provided 
for the programs, projects, or activities: Provided further, 
That the Secretary shall not deviate from the work plan, 
once the plan has been submitted to the Committees on 
Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
REGULATORY PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary for administration of laws 
pertaining to regulation of navigable waters and wetlands, 
$221,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2027. 
FORMERLY UTILIZED SITES REMEDIAL ACTION PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary to clean up contamination 
from sites in the United States resulting from work per-
formed as part of the Nation’s early atomic energy pro-
gram, $75,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
FLOOD CONTROL AND COASTAL EMERGENCIES 
For expenses necessary to prepare for flood, hurri-
cane, and other natural disasters and support emergency 
operations, repairs, and other activities in response to 
such disasters as authorized by law, $40,000,000, to re-
main available until expended. 
EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the supervision and gen-
eral administration of the civil works program in the head-
quarters of the Corps of Engineers and the offices of the
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Division Engineers; and for costs of management and op-
eration of the Humphreys Engineer Center Support Activ-
ity, the Institute for Water Resources, the United States 
Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and 
the United States Army Corps of Engineers Finance Cen-
ter allocable to the civil works program, $220,000,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2027, of which not 
to exceed $5,000 may be used for official reception and 
representation purposes and only during the current fiscal 
year: Provided, That no part of any other appropriation 
provided in this title shall be available to fund the civil 
works activities of the Office of the Chief of Engineers 
or the civil works executive direction and management ac-
tivities of the division offices: Provided further, That any 
Flood Control and Coastal Emergencies appropriation 
may be used to fund the supervision and general adminis-
tration of emergency operations, repairs, and other activi-
ties in response to any flood, hurricane, or other natural 
disaster. 
OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE ARMY 
FOR CIVIL WORKS 
For the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army 
for Civil Works as authorized by 10 U.S.C. 7016(b)(3), 
$7,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2027: 
Provided, That not more than 75 percent of such amount
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may be obligated or expended until the Assistant Sec-
retary submits to the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress the report required under section 
101(d) of this Act and a work plan that allocates at least 
95 percent of the additional funding provided under each 
heading in the explanatory statement described in section 
4 (in the matter preceding division A of this consolidated 
Act), to specific programs, projects, or activities. 
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE AND INNOVATION 
PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For the cost of direct loans and for the cost of guar-
anteed loans, as authorized by the Water Infrastructure 
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014, $2,200,000, to re-
main available until expended, for safety projects to main-
tain, upgrade, and repair dams identified in the National 
Inventory of Dams with a primary owner type of State, 
local government, public utility, or private: Provided, That 
any activity that results in a decrease in the hazard or 
a decrease in the potential consequences of poor perform-
ance of a dam structure listed on the National Inventory 
of Dams with a primary owner type of State, local govern-
ment, public utility, or private shall be considered a safety 
project eligible for funds provided under this heading for 
that purpose by this or any prior Act: Provided further, 
That any safety project for a dam identified in the Na-
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tional Inventory of Dams with a primary owner type of 
State, local government, public utility, or private shall be 
eligible under section 5026(1)(A) of the Water Resources 
Reform and Development Act of 2014 (Public Law 113– 
121) (33 U.S.C. 3905(1)(A)) for funds provided under 
this heading for that purpose by this or any prior Act: 
Provided further, That no project may be funded with 
amounts provided under this heading in this or any prior 
Act for a dam that is identified as jointly owned in the 
National Inventory of Dams and where one of those joint 
owners is the Federal Government: Provided further, That 
not later than 90 days following the end of any submittal 
period occurring before or after the date of enactment of 
this Act of a solicitation of preliminary applications from 
prospective borrowers seeking credit assistance of funds 
made available under this heading by this or any prior 
Act, the Secretary shall provide to each applicant a written 
notice to inform the applicant whether the applicant will 
be invited to apply for credit assistance: Provided further, 
That amounts made available under this heading in this 
Act shall also be available for projects to construct, main-
tain, upgrade, and repair levees and ancillary features 
with a primary owner type of State, municipal, county, 
private, or other non-Federal entity: Provided further, 
That not later than 60 days after the date of enactment
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of this Act, the Secretary shall begin a rulemaking process 
to establish the process to provide financial assistance for 
projects to construct, maintain, upgrade, and repair levees 
and ancillary features with a primary owner type of State, 
municipal, county, private, or other non-Federal entity: 
Provided further, That no project may be funded with 
amounts provided under this heading for a levee unless 
the Secretary has certified in advance, in writing, that the 
levee is not owned, in whole or in part, by the Federal 
Government: Provided further, That such costs, including 
the cost of modifying such loans, shall be as defined in 
section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974: Pro-
vided further, That these funds are available to subsidize 
gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, 
including capitalized interest, and total loan principal, in-
cluding capitalized interest, any part of which is to be 
guaranteed, not to exceed $500,000,000: Provided further, 
That the use of direct loans or loan guarantee authority 
under this heading for direct loans or commitments to 
guarantee loans for any project, including any project that 
is made eligible for funds pursuant to the second proviso 
under this heading, shall be in accordance with the criteria 
published in the Federal Register on June 30, 2020 (85 
FR 39189) pursuant to the fourth proviso under the head-
ing ‘‘Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Pro-
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gram Account’’ in division D of the Further Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94): Provided 
further, That none of the direct loans or loan guarantee 
authority made available under this heading shall be avail-
able for any project unless the Secretary and the Director 
of the Office of Management and Budget have certified 
in advance in writing that the direct loan or loan guar-
antee, as applicable, and the project comply with the cri-
teria referenced in the previous proviso: Provided further, 
That any references to the Environmental Protection 
Agency (EPA) or the Administrator in the criteria ref-
erenced in the previous two provisos shall be deemed to 
be references to the Army Corps of Engineers or the Sec-
retary of the Army, respectively, for purposes of the direct 
loans or loan guarantee authority made available under 
this heading: Provided further, That for the purposes of 
carrying out the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the 
Director of the Congressional Budget Office may request, 
and the Secretary shall promptly provide, documentation 
and information relating to a project identified in a Letter 
of Interest submitted to the Secretary pursuant to a No-
tice of Funding Availability for applications for credit as-
sistance under the Water Infrastructure Finance and In-
novation Act Program, including with respect to a project
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that was initiated or completed before the date of enact-
ment of this Act. 
In addition, fees authorized to be collected pursuant 
to sections 5029 and 5030 of the Water Infrastructure 
Finance and Innovation Act of 2014 shall be deposited 
in this account, to remain available until expended. 
In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out 
the direct and guaranteed loan programs, notwithstanding 
section 5033 of the Water Infrastructure Finance and In-
novation Act of 2014, $5,000,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 2027. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—CORPS OF 
ENGINEERS—CIVIL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 101. (a) None of the funds provided in title I 
of this Act, or provided by previous appropriations Acts 
to the agencies or entities funded in title I of this Act 
that remain available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal 
year 2026, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
through a reprogramming of funds that: 
(1) creates or initiates a new program, project, 
or activity; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds or personnel for any pro-
gram, project, or activity for which funds have been
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denied or restricted by this Act, unless prior ap-
proval is received from the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific 
activity for a different purpose, unless prior approval 
is received from the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress; 
(5) augments or reduces existing programs, 
projects, or activities in excess of the amounts con-
tained in paragraphs (6) through (10), unless prior 
approval is received from the Committees on Appro-
priations of both Houses of Congress; 
(6) INVESTIGATIONS.—For a base level over 
$100,000, reprogramming of 25 percent of the base 
amount up to a limit of $150,000 per project, study 
or activity is allowed: Provided, That for a base level 
less than $100,000, the reprogramming limit is 
$25,000: Provided further, That up to $25,000 may 
be reprogrammed into any continuing study or activ-
ity that did not receive an appropriation for existing 
obligations and concomitant administrative expenses; 
(7) CONSTRUCTION.—For a base level over 
$2,000,000, reprogramming of 15 percent of the 
base amount up to a limit of $3,000,000 per project, 
study or activity is allowed: Provided, That for a
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base level less than $2,000,000, the reprogramming 
limit is $300,000: Provided further, That up to 
$3,000,000 may be reprogrammed for settled con-
tractor claims, changed conditions, or real estate de-
ficiency judgments: Provided further, That up to 
$300,000 may be reprogrammed into any continuing 
study or activity that did not receive an appropria-
tion for existing obligations and concomitant admin-
istrative expenses; 
(8) OPERATION
AND
MAINTENANCE.—Unlim-
ited reprogramming authority is granted for the 
Corps to be able to respond to emergencies: Pro-
vided, That the Chief of Engineers shall notify the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress of these emergency actions as soon there-
after as practicable: Provided further, That for a 
base level over $1,000,000, reprogramming of 15 
percent of the base amount up to a limit of 
$5,000,000 per project, study, or activity is allowed: 
Provided further, That for a base level less than 
$1,000,000, the reprogramming limit is $150,000: 
Provided further, That $150,000 may be repro-
grammed into any continuing study or activity that 
did not receive an appropriation;
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(9) MISSISSIPPI
RIVER
AND
TRIBUTARIES.— 
The reprogramming guidelines in paragraphs (6), 
(7), and (8) shall apply to the Investigations, Con-
struction, and Operation and Maintenance portions 
of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Account, re-
spectively; and 
(10) FORMERLY UTILIZED SITES REMEDIAL AC-
TION PROGRAM.—Reprogramming of up to 15 per-
cent of the base of the receiving project is permitted. 
(b) DE MINIMUS REPROGRAMMINGS.—In no case 
should a reprogramming for less than $50,000 be sub-
mitted to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress. 
(c) CONTINUING
AUTHORITIES
PROGRAM.—Sub-
section (a)(1) shall not apply to any project or activity 
funded under the continuing authorities program. 
(d) Not later than 60 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit a report to 
the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress to establish the baseline for application of re-
programming and transfer authorities for the current fis-
cal year which shall include: 
(1) A table for each appropriation with a sepa-
rate column to display the President’s budget re-
quest, adjustments made by Congress, adjustments
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due to enacted rescissions, if applicable, and the fis-
cal year enacted level; 
(2) A delineation in the table for each appro-
priation both by object class and program, project 
and activity as detailed in the budget appendix for 
the respective appropriations; and 
(3) An identification of items of special congres-
sional interest. 
SEC. 102. The Secretary shall allocate funds made 
available in this Act solely in accordance with the provi-
sions of this Act and in the explanatory statement de-
scribed in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A 
of this consolidated Act), including the determination and 
designation of new starts. 
SEC. 103. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this title may be used to award or modify any contract 
that commits funds beyond the amounts appropriated for 
that program, project, or activity that remain unobligated, 
except that such amounts may include any funds that have 
been made available through reprogramming pursuant to 
section 101. 
(b) Subsection (a) shall not apply to projects with 
awarded integrated design and construction contracts 
(IDaC) as of the date of enactment of this Act: Provided, 
That the Corps shall modify the existing IDaC contracts
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for such projects to incorporate the authority provided in 
33 U.S.C. 621 and DFARS 252.232–7007 pursuant to 
DFARS 232.703–1(1)(ii)(B) within 60 days of the date 
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the Corps 
shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress upon execution of such modifications 
for each project and upon commencement of work ad-
dressed in such modification: Provided further, That the 
Corps shall fully obligate any funds previously designated 
in Public Law 117–58 or prior appropriations bill as part 
of the modification, and as required supervision and ad-
ministration associated with that modification: Provided 
further, That amounts repurposed pursuant to this section 
shall continue to be treated as amounts specified in section 
103(b) of division A of Public Law 118–5. 
SEC. 104. The Secretary of the Army may transfer 
to the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Fish and Wildlife 
Service may accept and expend, up to $8,733,000 of funds 
provided in this title under the heading ‘‘Operation and 
Maintenance’’ to mitigate for fisheries lost due to Corps 
of Engineers projects. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for an open lake placement alternative for dredged mate-
rial, after evaluating the least costly, environmentally ac-
ceptable manner for the disposal or management of
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dredged material originating from Lake Erie or tributaries 
thereto, unless it is approved under a State water quality 
certification pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Water 
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1341): Provided, That 
until an open lake placement alternative for dredged mate-
rial is approved under a State water quality certification, 
the Corps of Engineers shall continue upland placement 
of such dredged material consistent with the requirements 
of section 101 of the Water Resources Development Act 
of 1986 (33 U.S.C. 2211). 
SEC. 106. Additional funding provided in this Act 
shall be allocated only to projects determined to be eligible 
by the Chief of Engineers. 
SEC. 107. Subject to consultation with the non-Fed-
eral sponsor and retaining sufficient amounts for the 
Corps of Engineers to carry out any of its responsibilities 
relating to the project and using appropriations made 
available to the project prior to the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of the Army shall make advance payments 
to the non-Federal sponsors for their use in completing 
construction of any project for flood risk management 
identified in implementation guidance for the Civil Works 
Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program issued by the 
Director of Civil Works on January 8, 2019 and that is 
under construction on the date of enactment of this Act
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and for which a prior executed Project Partnership Agree-
ment, as amended, specifically identifies Federal Work, 
Non-Federal Work, and a Federal Participation Amount 
in excess of $700,000,000: Provided, That amounts de-
scribed in the matter preceding this proviso shall be cred-
ited by the Secretary toward the Federal Participation 
Amount: Provided further, That prior to making any pay-
ments authorized in the matter preceding the first proviso, 
the Secretary and the non-Federal sponsors shall amend 
the Project Partnership Agreement executed for the 
project in order to implement any such payments and 
credits. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to carry out any water supply reallocation 
study under the Wolf Creek Dam, Lake Cumberland, Ken-
tucky, project authorized under the Act of July 24, 1946 
(60 Stat. 636, ch. 595). 
SEC. 109. Section 225(c)(2)(A)(ii) of the Water Re-
sources 
Development 
Act 
of 
1992 
(33 
U.S.C. 
2328(c)(2)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking ‘‘at recreation 
site at which the fee is collected’’ and inserting ‘‘at any 
recreation site or facility that is located at the civil works 
project at which the fee is collected’’.
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TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT 
CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT COMPLETION ACCOUNT 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Central 
Utah Project Completion Act, $23,000,000, to remain 
available until expended, of which $4,000,000 shall be de-
posited into the Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Con-
servation Account for use by the Utah Reclamation Miti-
gation and Conservation Commission: Provided, That of 
the amount provided under this heading, $1,950,000 shall 
be available until September 30, 2027, for expenses nec-
essary in carrying out related responsibilities of the Sec-
retary of the Interior: Provided further, That for fiscal 
year 2026, of the amount made available to the Commis-
sion under this Act or any other Act, the Commission may 
use an amount not to exceed $2,186,000 for administra-
tive expenses. 
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 
The following appropriations shall be expended to 
execute authorized functions of the Bureau of Reclama-
tion:
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WATER AND RELATED RESOURCES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For management, development, and restoration of 
water and related natural resources and for related activi-
ties, including the operation, maintenance, and rehabilita-
tion of reclamation and other facilities, participation in 
fulfilling related Federal responsibilities to Native Ameri-
cans, and related grants to, and cooperative and other 
agreements with, State and local governments, federally 
recognized Indian Tribes, and others, $1,465,630,000, to 
remain available until expended, of which $23,899,000 
shall be available for transfer to the Upper Colorado River 
Basin Fund and $7,679,000 shall be available for transfer 
to the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund; 
of which such amounts as may be necessary may be ad-
vanced to the Colorado River Dam Fund: Provided, That 
such transfers may be increased or decreased within the 
overall appropriation under this heading: Provided further, 
That of the total appropriated, the amount for program 
activities that can be financed by the Reclamation Fund, 
the Water Storage Enhancement Receipts account estab-
lished by section 4011(e) of Public Law 114–322, or the 
Bureau of Reclamation special fee account established by 
16 U.S.C. 6806 shall be derived from that Fund or ac-
count: Provided further, That funds contributed under 43
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U.S.C. 395 are available until expended for the purposes 
for which the funds were contributed: Provided further, 
That funds advanced under 43 U.S.C. 397a shall be cred-
ited to this account and are available until expended for 
the same purposes as the sums appropriated under this 
heading: Provided further, That of the amounts made 
available under this heading, $3,237,000 shall be depos-
ited in the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund estab-
lished by section 110 of title I of division B of appendix 
D of Public Law 106–554: Provided further, That in ac-
cordance with section 4007 of Public Law 114–322 and 
as recommended by the Secretary in a letter dated Janu-
ary 2, 2026, funding provided for such purpose in fiscal 
year 2025 shall be made available to the Sites Reservoir 
Project and the B.F. Sisk Dam Raise and Reservoir Ex-
pansion Project: Provided further, That in accordance with 
section 4009(a) of Public Law 114–322 and as rec-
ommended by the Secretary in a letter dated January 2, 
2026, funding provided for such purpose in fiscal year 
2025 and prior fiscal years shall be made available to the 
Kay Bailey Hutchison Expansion—Concentrate Pipeline 
Partial Replacement Project and the McAllen Brackish 
Groundwater Treatment Facility.
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CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT RESTORATION FUND 
For carrying out the programs, projects, plans, habi-
tat restoration, improvement, and acquisition provisions of 
the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, such sums 
as may be collected in fiscal year 2026 in the Central Val-
ley Project Restoration Fund pursuant to sections 
3407(d), 3404(c)(3), and 3405(f) of Public Law 102–575, 
to remain available until expended: Provided, That the Bu-
reau of Reclamation is directed to assess and collect the 
full amount of the additional mitigation and restoration 
payments authorized by section 3407(d) of Public Law 
102–575: Provided further, That none of the funds made 
available under this heading may be used for the acquisi-
tion or leasing of water for in-stream purposes if the water 
is already committed to in-stream purposes by a court 
adopted decree or order. 
CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA RESTORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Water 
Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act, 
consistent with plans to be approved by the Secretary of 
the Interior, $32,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which such amounts as may be necessary to 
carry out such activities may be transferred to appropriate 
accounts of other participating Federal agencies to carry
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out authorized purposes: Provided, That funds appro-
priated herein may be used for the Federal share of the 
costs of CALFED Program management: Provided fur-
ther, That CALFED implementation shall be carried out 
in a balanced manner with clear performance measures 
demonstrating concurrent progress in achieving the goals 
and objectives of the Program. 
POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION 
For expenses necessary for policy, administration, 
and related functions in the Office of the Commissioner, 
the Denver office, and offices in the six regions of the Bu-
reau of Reclamation, to remain available until September 
30, 2027, $64,000,000, to be derived from the Reclama-
tion Fund and be nonreimbursable as provided in 43 
U.S.C. 377, of which not to exceed $5,000 may be used 
for official reception and representation expenses: Pro-
vided, That no part of any other appropriation in this Act 
shall be available for activities or functions budgeted as 
policy and administration expenses. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Appropriations for the Bureau of Reclamation shall 
be available for purchase and replacement of not to exceed 
30 motor vehicles, which are for replacement only.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS—DEPARTMENT OF THE 
INTERIOR 
SEC. 201. (a) None of the funds provided in title II 
of this Act for Water and Related Resources, or provided 
by previous or subsequent appropriations Acts to the agen-
cies or entities funded in title II of this Act for Water 
and Related Resources that remain available for obligation 
or expenditure in fiscal year 2026, shall be available for 
obligation or expenditure through a reprogramming of 
funds that— 
(1) initiates or creates a new program, project, 
or activity; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; 
(3) increases funds for any program, project, or 
activity for which funds have been denied or re-
stricted by this Act, unless prior approval is received 
from the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress; 
(4) restarts or resumes any program, project or 
activity for which funds are not provided in this Act, 
unless prior approval is received from the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress; 
(5) transfers funds in excess of the following 
limits, unless prior approval is received from the
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Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of 
Congress: 
(A) 15 percent for any program, project or 
activity for which $2,000,000 or more is avail-
able at the beginning of the fiscal year; or 
(B) $400,000 for any program, project or 
activity for which less than $2,000,000 is avail-
able at the beginning of the fiscal year; 
(6) transfers more than $500,000 from either 
the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and Rehabili-
tation category or the Resources Management and 
Development category to any program, project, or 
activity in the other category, unless prior approval 
is received from the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress; or 
(7) transfers, where necessary to discharge legal 
obligations of the Bureau of Reclamation, more than 
$5,000,000 to provide adequate funds for settled 
contractor claims, increased contractor earnings due 
to accelerated rates of operations, and real estate de-
ficiency judgments, unless prior approval is received 
from the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress.
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(b) Subsection (a)(5) shall not apply to any transfer 
of funds within the Facilities Operation, Maintenance, and 
Rehabilitation category. 
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘transfer’’ 
means any movement of funds into or out of a program, 
project, or activity. 
(d) Except as provided in subsections (a) and (b), the 
amounts made available in this title under the heading 
‘‘Bureau of Reclamation—Water and Related Resources’’ 
shall be expended for the programs, projects, and activities 
specified in the ‘‘Final Bill’’ columns in the ‘‘Water and 
Related Resources’’ table included under the heading 
‘‘Title II—Department of the Interior’’ in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
(e) The Bureau of Reclamation shall submit reports 
on a quarterly basis to the Committees on Appropriations 
of both Houses of Congress detailing all the funds repro-
grammed between programs, projects, activities, or cat-
egories of funding. The first quarterly report shall be sub-
mitted not later than 60 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
SEC. 202. (a) None of the funds appropriated or oth-
erwise made available by this Act may be used to deter-
mine the final point of discharge for the interceptor drain
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for the San Luis Unit until development by the Secretary 
of the Interior and the State of California of a plan, which 
shall conform to the water quality standards of the State 
of California as approved by the Administrator of the En-
vironmental Protection Agency, to minimize any detri-
mental effect of the San Luis drainage waters. 
(b) The costs of the Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup 
Program and the costs of the San Joaquin Valley Drain-
age Program shall be classified by the Secretary of the 
Interior as reimbursable or nonreimbursable and collected 
until fully repaid pursuant to the ‘‘Cleanup Program— 
Alternative Repayment Plan’’ and the ‘‘SJVDP—Alter-
native Repayment Plan’’ described in the report entitled 
‘‘Repayment Report, Kesterson Reservoir Cleanup Pro-
gram and San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, Feb-
ruary 1995’’, prepared by the Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Reclamation. Any future obligations of funds 
by the United States relating to, or providing for, drainage 
service or drainage studies for the San Luis Unit shall 
be fully reimbursable by San Luis Unit beneficiaries of 
such service or studies pursuant to Federal reclamation 
law. 
SEC. 203. Section 9504(e) of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10364(e)) is
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amended by striking ‘‘$920,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$1,000,000,000’’. 
SEC. 204. (a) Title I of Public Law 108–361 (the 
Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act) (118 Stat. 1681), as 
amended, shall be applied by substituting ‘‘2026’’ for 
‘‘2022’’ each place it appears. 
(b) Section 103(f)(4)(A) of Public Law 108–361 (the 
Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act) (118 Stat. 1681) is 
amended by striking ‘‘$30,000,000’’ and inserting 
‘‘$32,600,000’’. 
SEC. 205. Section 9106(g)(2) of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (Public Law 111–11) shall 
be applied by substituting ‘‘2026’’ for ‘‘2022’’. 
SEC. 206. Section 301 of the Reclamation States 
Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 (43 U.S.C. 2241) 
shall be applied by substituting ‘‘$130,000,000’’ for 
‘‘$120,000,000’’. 
SEC. 207. Section 9503(f) of the Omnibus Public 
Land Management Act of 2009 (42 U.S.C. 10363(f)) shall 
be applied by substituting ‘‘2026’’ for ‘‘2023’’. 
SEC. 208. In this fiscal year and each fiscal year 
thereafter, notwithstanding the Act of May 9, 1938, (43 
U.S.C. 392a), all monies received by the United States 
in connection with the repayment or reimbursement of 
costs for all projects, including power, financed in whole
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or in part with money from the Aging Infrastructure Ac-
count created pursuant to section 9603(d) of the Omnibus 
Public Land Management Act of 2009 (43 U.S.C. 
510b(d)) shall be repaid and deposited to that account. 
SEC. 209. (a) Section 10609(a)(1) of the North-
western New Mexico Rural Water Projects Act (subtitle 
B of title X of Public Law 111–11)— 
(1) is amended by striking ‘‘$870,000,000’’ and 
inserting ‘‘$1,815,000,000’’; and 
(2) shall be applied by substituting ‘‘2026’’ for 
‘‘2024’’. 
(b) Section 10604(b)(3)(B) of the Northwestern New 
Mexico Rural Water Projects Act (subtitle B of title X 
of Public Law 111–11) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘MAXIMUM SHARE.—Notwithstanding subparagraph 
(A), the repayment obligation of the City shall not exceed 
$76,000,000’’. 
SEC. 210. Section 10 of Public Law 89–108, as 
amended (79 Stat. 433; 100 Stat. 424; 106 Stat. 4669; 
114 Stat. 2763A–291), is further amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)(1), by— 
(A) redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (D); and 
(B) inserting after subparagraph (B), the 
following:
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‘‘(C) OTHER
AMOUNTS.—In addition to 
the amounts made available under subpara-
graphs (A) and (B), there is authorized to be 
appropriated 
to 
carry 
out 
section 
7(a) 
$50,000,000.’’; and 
(2) in subsection (e), by inserting prior to the 
last sentence, the following: ‘‘Such indexing shall 
also be applied for the $50,000,000 amount under 
subsection (b)(1)(C) for costs incurred after the date 
of enactment.’’. 
TITLE III 
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
ENERGY PROGRAMS 
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for energy 
efficiency and renewable energy activities in carrying out 
the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization 
Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), including the acquisition or 
condemnation of any real property or any facility or for 
plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion, 
$3,100,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That of such amount, $224,000,000 shall be avail-
able until September 30, 2027, for program direction.
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CYBERSECURITY, ENERGY SECURITY, AND EMERGENCY 
RESPONSE 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for energy 
sector cybersecurity, energy security, and emergency re-
sponse activities in carrying out the purposes of the De-
partment of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any 
real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisi-
tion, construction, or expansion, $190,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of such amount, 
$24,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2027, 
for program direction. 
ELECTRICITY 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for elec-
tricity activities in carrying out the purposes of the De-
partment of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any 
real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisi-
tion, construction, or expansion, $235,000,000, to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That of such amount,
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$19,700,000 shall be available until September 30, 2027, 
for program direction. 
GRID DEPLOYMENT 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for grid de-
ployment in carrying out the purposes of the Department 
of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.), in-
cluding the acquisition or condemnation of any real prop-
erty or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, con-
struction, or expansion, $25,000,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, 
That of such amount, 
$6,000,000 shall be available until September 30, 2027, 
for program direction. 
NUCLEAR ENERGY 
For Department of Energy expenses including the 
purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and cap-
ital equipment, and other expenses necessary for nuclear 
energy activities in carrying out the purposes of the De-
partment of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101 et 
seq.), including the acquisition or condemnation of any 
real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisi-
tion, construction, or expansion, $1,785,000,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That of such 
amount, $88,000,000 shall be available until September