106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. J. RES. 109
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2001,
and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are hereby appropriated, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
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and out of applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts,
and funds, for the several departments, agencies, corpora-
tions, and other organizational units of Government for
the fiscal year 2001, and for other purposes, namely:
SEC. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 2000 for con-
tinuing projects or activities including the costs of direct
loans and loan guarantees (not otherwise specifically pro-
vided for in this joint resolution) which were conducted
in the fiscal year 2000 and for which appropriations,
funds, or other authority would be available in the fol-
lowing appropriations Acts:
(1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2001;
(2) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and
State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2001, notwithstanding section 15 of
the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956
and, section 313 of the Foreign Relations Authoriza-
tion Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995 (Public Law
103–236);
(3) the District of Columbia Appropriations
Act, 2001;
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able or granted under current operations, the pertinent
project or activity shall be continued at a rate for oper-
ations not exceeding the current rate: Provided further,
That whenever there is no amount made available under
any of these appropriations Acts as passed by the House
and Senate as of October 1, 2000, for a continuing project
or activity which was conducted in fiscal year 2000 and
for which there is fiscal year 2001 funding included in
the budget request, the pertinent project or activity shall
be continued at the rate for current operations under the
authority and conditions provided in the applicable appro-
priations Act for the fiscal year 2000.
(b) Whenever the amount which would be made avail-
able or the authority which would be granted under an
Act listed in this section as passed by the House as of
October 1, 2000, is different from that which would be
available or granted under such Act as passed by the Sen-
ate as of October 1, 2000, the pertinent project or activity
shall be continued at a rate for operations not exceeding
the current rate under the appropriation, fund, or author-
ity granted by the applicable appropriations Act for the
fiscal year 2001 and under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 2000.
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(c) Whenever an Act listed in this section has
been passed by only the House or only the Senate as of
October 1, 2000, the pertinent project or activity shall be
continued under the appropriation, fund, or authority
granted by the one House at a rate for operations not ex-
ceeding the current rate and under the authority and con-
ditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 2000: Provided, That whenever there is no
amount made available under any of these appropriations
Acts as passed by the House or the Senate as of October
1, 2000, for a continuing project or activity which was
conducted in fiscal year 2000 and for which there is fiscal
year 2001 funding included in the budget request, the per-
tinent project or activity shall be continued at the rate
for current operations under the authority and conditions
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal
year 2000.
SEC. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall
be available to the extent and in the manner which would
be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
SEC. 103. No appropriation or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used
to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap-
propriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 2000.
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SEC. 104. No provision which is included in an appro-
priations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was
not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal
year 2000 and which by its terms is applicable to more
than one appropriation, fund, or authority shall be appli-
cable to any appropriation, fund, or authority provided in
this joint resolution.
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority grant-
ed pursuant to this joint resolution shall cover all obliga-
tions or expenditures incurred for any program, project,
or activity during the period for which funds or authority
for such project or activity are available under this joint
resolution.
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint
resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act, appro-
priations and funds made available and authority granted
pursuant to this joint resolution shall be available until
(a) enactment into law of an appropriation for any project
or activity provided for in this joint resolution, or (b) the
enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act
by both Houses without any provision for such project or
activity, or (c) October 6, 2000, whichever first occurs.
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint
resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation,
fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such appli-
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cable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained is
enacted into law.
SEC. 108. No provision in the appropriations Act for
the fiscal year 2001 referred to in section 101 of this Act
that makes the availability of any appropriation provided
therein dependent upon the enactment of additional au-
thorizing or other legislation shall be effective before the
date set forth in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.
SEC. 109. Appropriations and funds made available
by or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution
may be used without regard to the time limitations for
submission and approval of apportionments set forth in
section 1513 of title 31, United States Code, but nothing
herein shall be construed to waive any other provision of
law governing the apportionment of funds.
SEC. 110. This joint resolution shall be implemented
so that only the most limited funding action of that per-
mitted in the joint resolution shall be taken in order to
provide for continuation of projects and activities.
SEC. 111. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, for those pro-
grams that had high initial rates of operation or complete
distribution of fiscal year 2000 appropriations at the be-
ginning of that fiscal year because of distributions of fund-
ing to States, foreign countries, grantees or others, similar
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distributions of funds for fiscal year 2001 shall not be
made and no grants shall be awarded for such programs
funded by this resolution that would impinge on final
funding prerogatives.
SEC. 112. Amounts provided by section 101 of this
joint resolution, for projects and activities in the Depart-
ments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary and
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, affected by
the termination of the Violent Crime Reduction Trust
Fund, shall be distributed into the accounts established
in the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2001, as passed by the House.
SEC. 113. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, the rate for oper-
ations for projects and activities that would be funded
under the heading ‘‘International Organizations and Con-
ferences, Contributions to International Organizations’’ in
the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Ju-
diciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001,
shall be the amount provided by the provisions of section
101 multiplied by the ratio of the number of days covered
by this resolution to 365.
SEC. 114. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, except section 106, only the following
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activities funded with Federal Funds for the District of
Columbia, may be continued under this joint resolution at
a rate for operations not exceeding the current rate, multi-
plied by the ratio of the number of days covered by this
joint resolution to 365: Resident Tuition Support, Correc-
tions Trustee Operations, Court Services and Offender
Supervision, District of Columbia Courts, and Defender
Services in District of Columbia Courts.
SEC. 
115. 
Activities 
authorized 
by 
sections
1309(a)(2), as amended by Public Law 104–208, and
1376(c) of the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968, as
amended (42 U.S.C. 4001 et seq.), may continue through
the date specified in section 106(c) of this joint resolution.
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding subsections (a)(2) and
(h)(1)(B) of section 3011 of Public Law 106–31, activities
authorized for fiscal year 2000 by such section may con-
tinue during the period covered by this joint resolution.
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, the rate for operations for projects
and activities for decennial census programs that would
be funded under the heading ‘‘Bureau of the Census, Peri-
odic Censuses and Programs’’ in the Departments of Com-
merce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001, shall be the budget
request.
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SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution except section 106, the United States
Geological Survey may sign a contract to maintain
Landsat–7 flight operations consistent with the Presi-
dent’s Budget proposal to transfer Landsat–7 flight oper-
ations responsibility from the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration to the United States Geological Sur-
vey beginning in fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this joint resolution, funds previously appropriated to the
American Section of the International Joint Commission
in Public Law 106–246 may be obligated and expended
in fiscal year 2001 without regard to section 15 of the
State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956, as
amended.
Passed the House of Representatives September 26,
2000.
Attest:
Clerk.
106TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. J. RES. 109
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal
year 2001, and for other purposes.