In the Senate of the United States,
August 4 (legislative day, July 20), 1994.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 4624) entitled ‘‘An Act making appropriations for
the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards,
commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year end-
ing September 30, 1995, and for other purposes’’, do pass
with the following
AMENDMENTS:
Ω1æPage 8, line 8, after ‘‘1996’’ insert: : Provided fur-
ther, That of the $15,622,452,000 made available under this
heading for fiscal year 1994 in Public Law 103–124, the
$9,863,265,000 restricted by section 509 of Public Law 103–
124 for personnel compensation and benefits expenditures
is reduced to $9,813,265,000
Ω2æPage 8, line 14, after ‘‘bursements’’ insert: : Pro-
vided, That the Secretary may obligate not more than
$500,000 of the funds made available under this heading
for an epidemiological study of veterans who underwent ra-
dium nasopharyngeal irradiation
Ω3æPage 10, line 14, strike out ø$887,909,000¿ and in-
sert: $893,285,000
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Ω4æPage 11, line 7, strike out ø$32,219,000¿ and insert:
$31,819,000
Ω5æPage 11, line 22, strike out ø$101,965,000¿ and in-
sert: $208,000,000
Ω6æPage 12, line 23, after ‘‘only’’ insert: : Provided fur-
ther, That of the amount provided under this heading,
$7,100,000 shall be for design of a new medical center/nurs-
ing home in Brevard County, Florida and $6,900,000 shall
be for the Orlando, Florida, satellite outpatient clinic
Ω7æPage 14, line 3, strike out ø$1,400,000¿ and insert:
$16,300,000
Ω8æPage 14, line 15, strike out ø$37,397,000¿ and in-
sert: $47,397,000
Ω9æPage 17, line 12, strike out ø$100,000,000¿ and in-
sert: $50,000,000
Ω10æPage 17, line 23, strike out ø$1,275,000,000¿ and
insert: $1,500,000,000
Ω11æPage 17, after line 24, insert:
NATIONAL HOMEOWNERSHIP TRUST DEMONSTRATION
PROGRAM
For the National Homeownership Trust Demonstra-
tion program, as authorized by title III of the National Af-
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Ω16æPage 18, line 17, strike out ø$3,600,000,000¿ and
insert: $3,800,000,000
Ω17æPage 18, line 19, strike out ø.54 per centun¿ and
insert: $15,000,000
Ω18æPage 18, line 24, strike out all after ‘‘survey’’ over
to and including ‘‘Program’’ in line 2 on page 19
Ω19æPage 19, line 4, strike out ø$2,643,000,000¿ and
insert: $2,144,582,000
Ω20æPage 19, line 7, after ‘‘1437f(o))’’ insert: : Provided
further, That of the amount provided for rental assistance,
up to $350,000,000 shall be available for the Pension Fund
Partnership program, as authorized by section 6 of the
HUD Demonstration Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–120);
$20,000,000 shall be for the Community Viability Fund;
$50,000,000 shall be for the Colonias program; and
$500,000,000 shall be for the Neighborhood Leveraged In-
vestment Program (LIFT)
Ω21æPage 19, line 7, strike out all after ‘‘1437f(o))’’
down to and including ‘‘Act’’ in line 13
Ω22æPage 19, line 18, strike out ø$1,202,100,000¿ and
insert: $735,000,000
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Ω23æPage 19, line 22, strike out ødeposition¿ and insert:
disposition
Ω24æPage 19, line 22, strike out ø$100,000,000¿ and
insert: $250,000,000
Ω25æPage 20, line 20, strike out ø$156,000,000¿ and
insert: $186,000,000
Ω26æPage 20, line 23, strike out ø$150,000,000¿ and
insert: $75,000,000
Ω27æPage 21, line 10, strike out all after ‘‘1992’’ down
to and including ‘‘opportunity’’ in line 12
Ω28æPage 21, line 12, after ‘‘opportunity’’ insert: : Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding the language preceding
the first proviso of this paragraph, $135,000,000 shall be
used for special purpose grants in accordance with the
terms and conditions specified for such grants in Senate
Report 103–311
Ω29æPage 21, line 14, strike out ø$1,158,000,000¿ and
insert: $1,300,000,000
Ω30æPage 22, line 17, strike out ø$3,705,000,000¿ and
insert: $2,992,000,000
Ω31æPage 23, strike out lines 6 to 8
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Ω32æPage 24, strike out lines 13 to 17 and insert:
For contracts with payments to public housing agen-
cies and nonprofit corporations for congregate services pro-
grams, $25,000,000, to remain available until September
30, 1995, of which up to $6,267,000 shall be for entities
operating such programs in accordance with the provisions
of the Congregate Services Act of 1978, as amended, and
the balance shall be for programs under section 802 of the
Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act (Pub-
lic Law 101–625).
Ω33æPage 25, strike out lines 2 to 9 and insert:
For the HOPE VI/urban revitalization demonstration
program under the third paragraph under the head ‘‘Home-
ownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere grants
(HOPE grants)’’ in the Department of Veterans Affairs and
Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 1993, Public Law 102–389, 106
Stat. 1571, 1579, $500,000,000, to remain available until
expended: Provided, That notwithstanding the first proviso
of such third paragraph, the Secretary shall have discretion
to approve funding for more than fifteen applicants: Pro-
vided further, That notwithstanding the third proviso of
such third paragraph, the Secretary may provide funds for
more than 500 units for each participating city: Provided
further, That in selecting HOPE VI implementation grants
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recipients in fiscal year 1995, the Secretary must first
award such grants to those cities or jurisdictions which have
received HOPE VI planning grants in fiscal year 1993 or
fiscal year 1994: Provided further, That the requirement of
the immediately proceeding proviso shall not limit the Sec-
retary’s discretion to limit funding to amounts he deems
appropriate, nor shall it prevent the Secretary from guar-
anteeing that all implementation grant recipients conform
with the requirements of the HOPE VI/urban revitalization
demonstration program: Provided further, That of the fore-
going $500,000,000, the Secretary may use up to $2,500,000
for technical assistance under such urban revitalization
demonstration, to be made available directly, or indirectly,
under contracts or grants, as appropriate: Provided further,
That nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the Secretary
from conforming the program standards and criteria set
forth herein, with subsequent authorization legislation that
may be enacted into law.
Ω34æPage 25, line 15, strike out ø$265,000,000¿ and
insert: $315,000,000
Ω35æPage 25, line 21, strike out all after ‘‘training)’’
down to and including ‘‘firms’’ in line 24
Ω36æPage 25, line 24, after ‘‘firms’’ insert: : Provided,
That not more than $236,250,000 shall be available for
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grants to housing authorities with greater than 1,250 public
housing units: Provided further, That not more than
$63,000,000 shall be available for grants to housing au-
thorities with less than 1,250 public housing units: Pro-
vided further, That not more than $15,750,000 shall be
available for grants for federally-assisted, low-income hous-
ing
Ω37æPage 29, line 14, strike out ø$152,000,000¿ and
insert: $188,395,000
Ω38æPage 29, line 22, after ‘‘$20,885,072,000’’ insert:
: Provided further, That of the foregoing amount provided
to subsidize program costs, not more than $47,098,750 may
be obligated by January 1, 1995, not more than
$94,197,500 may be obligated by April 1, 1995, not more
than $160,135,750 may be obligated by July 1, 1995
Ω39æPage 32, line 8, strike out ø$61,500,000¿ and in-
sert: $44,000,000
Ω40æPage 32, line 16, strike out all after ‘‘Development’’
down to and including ‘‘homeless’’ in line 22
Ω41æPage 32, line 22, strike out all after ‘‘homeless’’
over to and including ‘‘note)’’ in line 2 on page 33
Ω42æPage 33, line 17, strike out ø$40,000,000¿ and in-
sert: $44,000,000
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Ω43æPage 34, line 12, strike out ø$962,173,000¿ and
insert: $947,398,000
Ω44æPage 36, strike out lines 10 to 18
Ω45æPage 36, strike out lines 19 to 23
Ω46æPage 37, strike out all after line 2 over to and in-
cluding line 2 on page 38
Ω47æPage 38, after line 2 insert:
Subparagraph (A) of the first sentence of section
203(b)(2) of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C.
1709(b)(2)) is amended by striking clause (ii) and all that
follows through ‘‘May 12, 1992;’’ and inserting the follow-
ing:
‘‘(ii) 75 percent of the dollar amount
limitation 
determined 
under 
section
305(a)(2) of the Federal Home Loan Mort-
gage Corporation Act for a residence of the
applicable size;
except that the applicable dollar amount limita-
tion in effect for any area under this subpara-
graph may not be less than the greater of the dol-
lar amount limitation in effect under this section
for the area on the date of enactment of the
Housing Choice and Community Investment Act
of 1994 or 38 percent of the dollar amount limi-
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tation determined under section 305(a)(2) of the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act
for a residence of the applicable size;’’.
Ω48æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Beginning fiscal year 1995, the Government National
Mortgage Association shall permit Ginnie Mae II mortgage-
backed securities to be eligible as collateral for multiclass
securities that such Association guarantees, in accordance
with the Notice published at 59 Fed. Reg. 27290 (May 26,
1994) and successor Notices.
Ω49æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Section 8(c)(2)(A) of the United States Housing Act
of 1937 is amended by inserting at the end the following:
‘‘However, where the maximum monthly rent, for a unit
in a new construction, substantial rehabilitation, or mod-
erate rehabilitation project, to be adjusted using an annual
adjustment factor exceeds the fair market rental for an ex-
isting dwelling unit in the market area, the Secretary shall
adjust the rent only to the extent that the owner dem-
onstrates that the adjusted rent would not exceed the rent
for an unassisted unit of similar quality, type, and age in
the same market area, as determined by the Secretary. The
immediately foregoing sentence shall be effective only dur-
ing fiscal year 1995.’’.
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The immediately foregoing amendment shall apply to
all contracts for new construction, substantial rehabilita-
tion, and moderate rehabilitation projects under which
rents are adjusted under section 8(c)(2)(A) of such Act by
applying an annual adjustment factor.
Ω50æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Section 8(c)(2)(A) of the United States Housing Act
of 1937, as amended by the immediately foregoing amend-
ment to such section, is further amended by inserting at
the end the following: ‘‘For any unit occupied by the same
family at the time of the last annual rental adjustment,
where the assistance contract provides for the adjustment
of the maximum monthly rent by applying an annual ad-
justment factor and where the rent for a unit is otherwise
eligible for an adjustment based on the full amount of the
factor, 0.01 shall be subtracted from the amount of the fac-
tor, except that the factor shall not be reduced to less than
1.0. The immediately foregoing sentence shall be effective
only during fiscal year 1995.’’.
The immediately foregoing shall hereafter apply to all
contracts that are subject to section 8(c)(2)(A) of such Act
and that provide for rent adjustments using an annual ad-
justment factor.
Ω51æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
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The United States Housing Act of 1937 is amended
in each of sections 6(c)(4)(A)(ii) and 8(d)(1)(A)(ii), by
striking ‘‘and (V)’’ and inserting in lieu thereof the follow-
ing: ‘‘(V) assisting families that include one or more adult
members who are employed; and (VI)’’; in sections
6(c)(4)(A)(ii) and 8(d)(1)(A)(ii), by inserting after the
final semicolon in each the following: ‘‘subclause (V) shall
be effective only during fiscal year 1995;’’; and in the penul-
timate sentence of section 16(c), by striking ‘‘under the sys-
tem’’ and all that follows up to the period.
Ω52æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937
(42 U.S.C. 1437f) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new subsection:
‘‘(aa) REFINANCING INCENTIVE.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may pay all
or a part of the up front costs of refinancing for each
project that—
‘‘(A) is constructed, substantially rehabili-
tated, or moderately rehabilitated under this sec-
tion;
‘‘(B) is subject to an assistance contract
under this section; and
‘‘(C) was subject to a mortgage that has
been refinanced under section 223(a)(7) or sec-
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tion 223(f) of the National Housing Act to lower
the periodic debt service payments of the owner.
‘‘(2) SHARE FROM REDUCED ASSISTANCE PAY-
MENTS.—The Secretary may pay the up front cost of
refinancing only—
‘‘(A) to the extent that funds accrue to the
Secretary from the reduced assistance payments
that results from the refinancing; and
‘‘(B) after the application of amounts in ac-
cordance with section 1012 of the Stewart B.
McKinney Homeless Assistance Amendments Act
of 1988.’’.
Section 223(a)(7) of the National Housing Act (42
U.S.C. 1751n(a)(7)) is amended in subparagraph (B), by
striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; and by inserting, before ‘‘: Pro-
vided further’’ in said paragraph, the following: ‘‘; and (D)
any multifamily mortgage that is refinanced under this
paragraph shall be documented through amendments to the
existing insurance contract and shall not be structured
through the provisions of a new insurance contract’’.
The amendments of the two immediately preceding
paragraphs shall be effective only during fiscal year 1995.
Ω53æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Section 601 of title VI of S. 2281 (103d Cong., 2d
Sess), as reported to the Senate on July 13 (legislative day,
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July 11), 1994 (S. Rep. 103–307), is hereby incorporated
into this Act, and such section 601 is deemed enacted into
law upon enactment of this Act: Provided, That the provi-
sions of such section 601 shall be effective only during fiscal
year 1995.
Ω54æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Title VIII of S. 2281 (103d Cong., 2d Sess), as reported
to the Senate on July 13 (legislative day, July 11), 1994
(S. Rep. 103–307), is hereby incorporated into this Act, and
such title VIII is deemed enacted into law upon enactment
of this Act.
Ω55æPage 38, after line 10, insert:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the New
York City Housing Authority is authorized to use not more
than $12,420,000, from development reservation number
NY36P005324 for 100 public housing units previous award-
ed from funds appropriated under Public Law 101–507
(Nov. 5, 1990), for the purpose of completing a homeowner-
ship program involving not more than 463 dwelling units
located in Bronx County, in the City of New York, in ac-
cordance with a certain submission dated November 16,
1993 made in response to a Notice of Funding Availability
issued at 58 Fed. Reg. 41127. The Secretary of Housing
and Urban Development shall thereafter add a similar
number of existing non-Federal public housing units, des-
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ignated by the Authority, to the agency’s inventory of feder-
ally-assisted public housing developments and said units
shall, for all purposes other than the repayment of any debt
associated with their development or rehabilitation, be con-
sidered as if initially developed under title I of the Housing
Act of 1937.
Ω56æPage 40, strike out lines 3 to 5
Ω57æPage 40, after line 5 insert:
For necessary expenses in carrying out activities pur-
suant to section 112(r)(6) of the Clean Air Act, including
hire of passenger vehicles, and for services authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed
the per diem equivalent to the maximum rate payable for
senior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376, $4,250,000.
Ω58æPage 40, after line 5 insert:
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS FUND
PROGRAM ACCOUNT
For grants, loans, and technical assistance to qualify-
ing community development lenders, and administrative
expenses of the Fund, $125,000,000, to remain available
until September 30, 1996, of which $100,000,000 shall be-
come available on September 23, 1995: Provided, That of
the funds made available under this heading, up to
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Ω67æPage 41, line 16, strike out ø$1,000,000¿ and in-
sert: $2,000,000
Ω68æPage 41, line 21, strike out ø$9,289,000¿ and in-
sert: $9,429,000
Ω69æPage 41, line 23, strike out ø$650,000¿ and insert:
$790,000
Ω70æPage 42, strike out all after line 13 over to and
including line 13 on page 43
Ω71æPage 43, after line 13 insert:
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
For research and development activities, including
procurement of laboratory equipment and supplies; other
operating expenses in support of research and development;
and construction, alteration, repair, rehabilitation and ren-
ovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 per project;
$350,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
1996: Provided, That not more than $50,567,000 of these
funds shall be available for procurement of laboratory
equipment, supplies, and other operating expenses in sup-
port of research and development.
Ω72æPage 43, after line 13 insert:
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ABATEMENT, CONTROL, AND COMPLIANCE
For abatement, control, and compliance activities, in-
cluding hire of passenger motor vehicles; hire, maintenance,
and operation of aircraft; purchase of reprints; library
memberships in societies or associations which issue publi-
cations to members only or at a price to members lower
than to subscribers who are not members; construction, al-
teration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities,
not to exceed $75,000 per project; and not to exceed $6,000
for 
official 
reception 
and 
representation 
expenses;
$1,427,000,000, to remain available until September 30,
1996: Provided, That not more than $296,772,500 of these
funds shall be available for operating expenses: Provided
further, That none of the funds appropriated under this
head shall be available to the National Oceanic and Atmos-
pheric Administration pursuant to section 118(h)(3) of the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended: Provided
further, That none of these funds may be expended for pur-
poses of resource conservation and recovery panels estab-
lished under section 2003 of the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 6913), or for support
to State, regional, local, and interstate agencies in accord-
ance with subtitle D of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, as
amended, other than section 4008(a)(2) or 4009 (42 U.S.C.
6948, 6949): Provided further, That from funds appro-
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priated under this heading, the Administrator may make
grants to federally recognized Indian governments for the
development of multimedia environmental programs.
Ω73æPage 43, line 21, strike out ø$935,000,000¿ and
insert: $922,000,000
Ω74æPage 43, strike out line 23
Ω75æPage 44, line 3, strike out all after ‘‘project,’’ down
to and including ‘‘expenses’’ in line 8 and insert:
$28,542,000
Ω76æPage 44, strike out lines 9 to 14
Ω77æPage 44, after line 14 insert:
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of,
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency,
$43,870,000, to remain available until expended.
Ω78æPage 44, line 22, strike out ø$1,435,000,000¿ and
insert: $1,200,000,000
Ω79æPage 44, line 23, strike out ø$1,185,000,000¿ and
insert: $950,000,000
Ω80æPage 45, line 9, after ‘‘CERCLA’’ insert: : Provided
further, That $15,384,000 of the funds appropriated under
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this heading shall be transferred to the Office of Inspector
General appropriation to remain available until September
30, 1995
Ω81æPage 46, line 3, after ‘‘contract’’ insert: : Provided
further, That nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit the
Administrator from conforming the program standards and
criteria set forth herein, with subsequent authorization leg-
islation that may be enacted into law
Ω82æPage 46, line 12, after ‘‘expenses’’ insert: : Provided
further, That $669,000 of the funds appropriated under this
heading shall be transferred to the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral appropriation to remain available until September 30,
1995
Ω83æPage 46, strike out all after line 21 over to and
including line 25 on page 47
Ω84æPage 47, after line 25 insert:
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE/STATE REVOLVING FUNDS
For necessary expenses for capitalization grants for
State revolving funds to support water infrastructure fi-
nancing, and to carry out the purposes of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, as amended, and the Water Quality
Act of 1987, $3,400,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, of which $22,500,000 shall be for making grants
under section 104(b)(3) of the Federal Water Pollution Con-
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trol Act, as amended; $100,000,000 shall be for making
grants under section 319 of the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act, as amended; $52,500,000 shall be for section
510 of the Water Quality Act of 1987; $47,500,000 shall
be made available in consultation with the appropriate bor-
der commission for architectural, engineering, and design,
and related activities in connection with wastewater facili-
ties in the vicinity of Nogales, Arizona, and Mexicali, Mex-
ico, and planning and design of other high priority
wastewater facilities in the area of the Mexican border, the
purpose of which facilities is to control municipal
wastewater from Mexico; $50,000,000 shall be for grants to
the State of Texas, which shall be matched by an equal
amount of State funds from State sources, for the purpose
of improving wastewater treatment in colonias in that
State; $10,000,000 shall be for a grant to the State of New
Mexico, which is to be matched by an equal amount of State
funds from State sources, for the purpose of improving
wastewater treatment in colonias in that State; $70,000,000
shall be for making grants under section 1443(a) of the Pub-
lic Health Service Act; and, notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, $369,700,000 shall be for making grants with
a 55 percent Federal share for the construction of
wastewater treatment facilities in accordance with the
terms and conditions specified for such grants in Senate
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Report 103–311: Provided, That notwithstanding any other
provision of law, $500,000,000 made available under this
heading in Public Law 103–124, and earmarked to not be-
come available until May 31, 1994, which date was ex-
tended to September 30, 1994, in Public Law 103–211, shall
be available immediately and without further authorization
for making grants with a 55 percent Federal share for the
construction of wastewater treatment facilities in accord-
ance with the terms and conditions specified for such grants
in Senate Report 103–311: Provided further, That the grant
awarded from funds appropriated under the paragraph
with the heading ‘‘Construction grants’’ in title III of the
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban
Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act, 1990 (103 Stat. 858) for construction of a connector
sewer line, consisting of a main trunk line and 4 pump
stations for the town of Honea Path, South Carolina, to
the wastewater treatment facility in the town of Ware
Shoals, South Carolina, shall include demolition of
Chiquola Mill Lagoon, Clatworthy Lagoon, Corner Creek
Lagoon, and Still Branch Lagoon: Provided further, That
none of the funds provided under this heading for State re-
volving funds shall be allocated based on the 1992 Needs
Survey Report to Congress.
Ω85æPage 48, strike out line 1 and insert:
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
Ω86æPage 48, after line 15 insert:
None of the funds provided in this Act may be used
within the Environmental Protection Agency for any final
action by the Administrator or her delegate for signing and
publishing for promulgation of a rule concerning any new
standard for radon in drinking water.
Ω87æPage 48, after line 15 insert:
None of the funds provided in this Act may be used
during fiscal year 1995 to sign, promulgate, implement or
enforce the requirement proposed as ‘‘Regulation of Fuels
and Fuel Additives: Individual Foreign Refinery Baseline
Requirements for Reformulated Gasoline’’ at volume 59 of
the Federal Register at pages 22800 through 22814.
Ω88æPage 48, after line 15 insert:
SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING THE ENVIRONMENTAL
SELF-EVALUATION PRIVILEGE
(a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds that—
(1) The intended effect of environmental protec-
tion statutes passed over the past three decades is to
improve and protect the natural and human environ-
ment.
(2) The President’s National Performance Re-
view concluded that the environmental laws and regu-
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lations implemented over the past decade have led to
significant improvements in environmental quality.
(3) The National Performance Review further
concludes that many of these laws, however, place a
very real cost burden on local governments. Localities
now struggle to comply with new requirements of the
Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air
Act, and Superfund, with little or no prospect of sig-
nificant increases in Federal grants and only limited
availability of loans in the future.
(4) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
estimates that, by the year 2000, local governments
will need to spend nearly $44,000,000,000 annually
to meet existing requirements.
(5) The National Performance Review states:
‘‘With the opportunity to ‘reinvent’ the way EPA
works with State and local governments, EPA has a
chance to significantly increase the effectiveness of our
Nation’s environmental programs.
(6) The National Performance Review acknowl-
edged that there are numerous examples where the
failure of EPA to devise better ways to protect the en-
vironment affordably may result in just the opposite
of the intended effect.
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(7) To further the goals of protecting and im-
proving the natural and human environment, the
States of Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky and Colorado
have passed laws establishing an ‘‘environmental self-
evaluation privilege’’.
(8) The EPA is currently considering modifying
its existing environmental auditing policy.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that—
(1) The National Performance Review is correct
in stating that EPA must recognize that increased
regulatory flexibility offers tremendous opportunity
for positive institutional change at Federal, State and
local levels.
(2) EPA must take advantage of these opportuni-
ties by finding ways to allow flexibility without com-
promising fairness, accountability and, above all, per-
formance.
(3) The EPA should seriously consider the ‘‘envi-
ronmental self-evaluation privilege’’, as enacted into
law by the States of Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky and
Colorado, as a low-cost opportunity to increase per-
formance toward the intended effect of environmental
protection statutes to improve and protect the natural
and human environment.
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Ω89æPage 49, strike out lines 13 to 17
Ω90æPage 49, line 20, strike out all after ‘‘319’’ down
to and including ‘‘417’’ in line 21
Ω91æPage 50, line 3, strike out all after ‘‘319’’ down to
and including ‘‘417’’ in line 4
Ω92æPage 50, line 8, strike out ø$145,000¿ and insert:
$95,000
Ω93æPage 50, line 23, strike out ø$165,000,000¿ and
insert: $162,000,000
Ω94æPage 51, line 20, strike out ø$220,345,000¿ and
insert: $212,960,000
Ω95æPage 56, line 5, strike out ø$5,592,900,000¿ and
insert: $5,573,900,000
Ω96æPage 56, after line 7 insert:
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS)
Ω97æPage 56, after line 19 insert:
Of the amounts provided under the heading, ‘‘CON-
STRUCTION OF FACILITIES’’, for the Consortium for Inter-
national Earth Science Information Network in Public
Law 102–389, $10,000,000 are rescinded.
Ω98æPage 56, after line 19 insert:
HR 4624 EAS
NATIONAL AERONAUTICAL FACILITIES
For construction of new national wind tunnel facili-
ties, including final design, modification of existing facili-
ties, necessary equipment, and for acquisition or condemna-
tion of real property as authorized by law, for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, $400,000,000, to
remain available until March 31, 1997.
Ω99æPage 57, line 14, strike out ø$2,549,587,000¿ and
insert: $2,559,587,000
Ω100æPage 57, line 14, after ‘‘$2,549,587,000’’ insert:
, to remain available until September 30, 1996
Ω101æPage 57, line 18, strike out ø$16,000,000¿ and
insert: $16,800,000
Ω102æPage 57, strike out all after line 20 over to and
including line 9 on page 58
Ω103æPage 59, after line 2 insert:
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of
funds appropriated for ‘‘Mission support’’, amounts made
available by this Act for personnel and related costs and
travel expenses of the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration shall remain available until September 30,
1995 and may be used to enter into contracts for training,
investigations, cost associated with personnel relocation,