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marine officers holding licenses issued
by the Secretary of Transportation
under title 46, United States Code.
‘‘(II) 
TAX-EXEMPT
ORGANIZA-
TION.—The term ‘tax-exempt organi-
zation’ means any organization (other
than a governmental unit) exempt
from tax under this subtitle.
‘‘(III) TAX-EXEMPT
ORGANIZA-
TION PLAN COVERING 50 PERCENT OF
ITS
EMPLOYEES.—A plan shall be
treated as a plan maintained by a tax-
exempt organization if at least 50 per-
cent of the employees benefiting under
the plan are employees of a tax-ex-
empt organization. If less than 50
percent of the employees benefiting
under a plan are employees of a tax-
exempt organization, the plan shall be
treated as a plan maintained by a tax-
exempt organization only with respect
to employees of such an organiza-
tion.’’.
each of fiscal years 2000 through 2003. Amounts appro-
priated pursuant to this subsection are authorized to re-
main available until expended.
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2082
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore pension limits
to equitable levels, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 8, 1999
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore
pension limits to equitable levels, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. AMENDMENT OF 1986 CODE.
Whenever in this Act an amendment or repeal is ex-
pressed in terms of an amendment to, or repeal of, a sec-
tion or other provision, the reference shall be considered
to be made to a section or other provision of the Internal
Revenue Code.
SEC. 2. INCREASE IN RETIREMENT PLAN LIMITS.
(a) DEFINED BENEFIT PLANS.—
(1) DOLLAR LIMIT.—
(A) Subparagraph (A) of section 415(b)(1)
(relating to limitation for defined benefit plans)
is amended by striking ‘‘$90,000’’ and inserting
‘‘$180,000’’.
(B) Subparagraphs (C) and (D) of section
415(b)(2) are each amended by striking
‘‘$90,000’’ each place it appears in the head-
ings and the text and inserting ‘‘$180,000’’.
(2) LIMIT
REDUCED
WHEN
BENEFIT
BEGINS
BEFORE
AGE
62.—Subparagraph (C) of section
415(b)(2) is amended by striking ‘‘the social security
retirement age’’ each place it appears in the heading
and text and inserting ‘‘age 62’’.
(3) LIMIT INCREASED WHEN BENEFIT BEGINS
AFTER
AGE
65.—Subparagraph (D) of section
415(b)(2) is amended by striking ‘‘the social security
retirement age’’ each place it appears in the heading
and text and inserting ‘‘age 65’’.
(4) MULTIEMPLOYER PLANS AND PLANS MAIN-
TAINED BY GOVERNMENTS AND TAX EXEMPT ORGA-
NIZATIONS.—Subparagraph (F) of section 415(b)(2)
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(F) MULTIEMPLOYER PLANS AND PLANS
MAINTAINED BY GOVERNMENTS AND TAX-EX-
EMPT ORGANIZATIONS.—
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a
governmental plan (within the meaning of
section 414(d)), a plan maintained by a
tax-exempt organization, a multiemployer
plan (as defined in section 414(f)), or a
qualified merchant marine plan, subpara-
graph (C) shall be applied as if the last
sentence thereof read as follows: ‘The re-
duction under this subparagraph shall not
reduce the limitation of paragraph (1)(A)
below (i) $130,000 if the benefit begins at
or after age 55, or (ii) if the benefit begins
before age 55, the equivalent of the
$130,000 limitation for age 55.’
‘‘(ii) 
DEFINITIONS
AND
SPECIAL
RULE.—For 
purposes 
of 
this
subparagraph—
‘‘(I) QUALIFIED MERCHANT MA-
RINE PLAN.—The term ‘qualified mer-
chant marine plan’ means a plan in
existence on January 1, 1986, the
participants in which are merchant
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ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of acquisition, construction,
renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore
facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related
thereto, $370,426,000, of which $20,000,000 shall be derived
from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of which
$123,560,000 shall be available to acquire, repair, renovate
or improve vessels, small boats and related equipment, to
remain available until September 30, 2004; $33,210,000
shall be available to acquire new aircraft and increase avia-
tion capability, to remain available until September 30,
2002; $52,726,000 shall be available for other equipment,
to remain available until September 30, 2002; $63,800,000
shall be available for shore facilities and aids to navigation
facilities, to remain available until September 30, 2002;
$52,930,000 shall be available for personnel compensation
and benefits and related costs, to remain available until
September 30, 2001; and $44,200,000 shall be deposited in
the Deepwater Replacement Project Revolving Fund to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That funds re-
ceived from the sale of HU–25 aircraft shall be credited to
this appropriation for the purpose of acquiring new aircraft
and increasing aviation capacity: Provided further, That
the Commandant of the Coast Guard is authorized to and
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106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2083
To provide for the appointment by the Attorney General of a special counsel
when investigation or prosecution of a person by an office or official
of the Department of Justice may result in a personal, financial, or
political conflict of interest.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 9, 1999
Mr. GEKAS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide for the appointment by the Attorney General
of a special counsel when investigation or prosecution
of a person by an office or official of the Department
of Justice may result in a personal, financial, or political
conflict of interest.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Special Counsel Act
of 1999’’.
SEC. 2. APPOINTMENT OF SPECIAL COUNSEL.
(a) APPOINTMENT.—Upon a determination of the At-
torney General that—
(1) the investigation or prosecution of any per-
son for an alleged violation of Federal criminal law
by any office or official of the Department of Justice
may result in a personal, financial, or political con-
flict of interest, and
(2) it is in the public interest for the Attorney
General to resolve any such conflict of interest by
appointing a special counsel to head a temporary Of-
fice of Special Counsel within the Department of
Justice,
the Attorney General may appoint a counsel to head such
Office.
(b) REGULATIONS.—The Attorney General shall
issue (and may amend from time to time thereafter) regu-
lations to—
(1) govern the conduct of any investigation or
prosecution by a special counsel appointed by the
Attorney General under subsection (a); and
(2) to provide that the special counsel may be
removed from office only by the personal action of
the Attorney General and only for good cause.
The first regulations under this subsection shall be issued
and made effective no later than 90 days from the date
of enactment of this Act.
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(B) by inserting ‘‘(1)’’ after ‘‘ADVISORY
COMMITTEE.—’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(2) In addition to the duties outlined in paragraph
(1), the advisory committee shall conduct periodic evalua-
tions of the funding, management, implementation, and ac-
tivities of the Program, the Next Generation Internet pro-
gram, and the Networking and Information Technology Re-
search and Development program, and shall report not less
frequently than once every 2 fiscal years to the Committee
on Science of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the
Senate on its findings and recommendations. The first re-
port shall be due within 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of the Networking and Information Technology Re-
search and Development Act.’’; and
(2) in subsection (c)(1)(A) and (2), by inserting
‘‘, including the Next Generation Internet program
and the Networking and Information Technology Re-
search and Development program’’ after ‘‘Program’’
each place it appears.
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(1) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘for any plan year
of any such plan, or any fiscal year of any such
other arrangement;’’ after ‘‘single employer’’, and by
inserting ‘‘during such year or at any time during
the preceding 1-year period’’ after ‘‘control group’’;
(2) in clause (iii)—
(A) by striking ‘‘common control shall not
be based on an interest of less than 25 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘an interest of greater than 25
percent may not be required as the minimum
interest necessary for common control’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘similar to’’ and inserting
‘‘consistent and coextensive with’’;
(3) by redesignating clauses (iv) and (v) as
clauses (v) and (vi), respectively; and
(4) by inserting after clause (iii) the following
new clause:
‘‘(iv) in determining, after the application of
clause (i), whether benefits are provided to employ-
ees of two or more employers, the arrangement shall
be treated as having only one participating employer
if, after the application of clause (i), the number of
individuals who are employees and former employees
of any one participating employer and who are cov-
ered under the arrangement is greater than 75 per-
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(3) PROGRAMMING ACCOUNTABILITY.—The United 
States Agency for International Development shall take all 
necessary steps to ensure that the equivalent of the local 
currencies disbursed pursuant to subsection (a)(2)(A) 
from the separate account established pursuant to sub-
section (a)(1) are used for the purposes agreed upon pur-
suant to subsection (a)(2). 
(4) TERMINATION
OF
ASSISTANCE
PROGRAMS.—
Upon termination of assistance to a country under chapter 
1 or 10 of part I or chapter 4 of part II (as the case 
may be), any unencumbered balances of funds which re-
main in a separate account established pursuant to sub-
section (a) shall be disposed of for such purposes as may 
be agreed to by the government of that country and the 
United States Government. 
(5) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—The Administrator 
of the United States Agency for International Develop-
ment shall report on an annual basis as part of the jus-
tification documents submitted to the Committees on Ap-
propriations on the use of local currencies for the adminis-
trative requirements of the United States Government as 
authorized in subsection (a)(2)(B), and such report shall 
include the amount of local currency (and United States 
dollar equivalent) used and/or to be used for such purpose 
in each applicable country.
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considers appropriate. The Commission may admin-
ister oaths or affirmations to witnesses appearing
before it.
‘‘(2) POWERS OF MEMBERS AND AGENTS.—Any
member or agent of the Commission may, if author-
ized by the Commission, take any action which the
Commission is authorized to take by this section.
‘‘(3) OBTAINING
OFFICIAL
DATA.—The Com-
mission may secure directly from any department or
agency of the United States information necessary
to enable it to carry out this Act. Upon request of
the Chairperson of the Commission, the head of that
department or agency shall furnish that information
to the Commission.
‘‘(4) MAILS.—The Commission may use the
United States mails in the same manner and under
the same conditions as other departments and agen-
cies of the United States.
‘‘(5) ADMINISTRATIVE
SUPPORT
SERVICES.—
Upon the request of the Commission, the Adminis-
trator of General Services shall provide to the Com-
mission, on a reimbursable basis, the administrative
support services necessary for the Commission to
carry out its responsibilities under this Act.
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ovate or improve vessels, small boats and related equip-
ment, to remain available until September 30, 2004,
$38,310,000 shall be available to acquire new aircraft and
increase aviation capability, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002, $59,400,000 shall be available for other
equipment, to remain available until September 30, 2002,
$55,800,000 shall be available for shore facilities and aids
to navigation facilities, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002; and $50,930,000 shall be available for
personnel compensation and benefits and related costs, to
remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided,
That the Commandant may dispose of surplus real prop-
erty by sale or lease and the proceeds shall be credited
to this appropriation: Provided further, That upon initial
submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2001 Presi-
dent’s budget, the Secretary of Transportation shall trans-
mit to the Congress a comprehensive capital investment
plan for the United States Coast Guard which includes
funding for each budget line item for fiscal years 2001
through 2005, with total funding for each year of the plan
constrained to the funding targets for those years as esti-
mated and approved by the Office of Management and
Budget.
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Fairfield Transit, Solano County buses, Cali-
fornia
Fayette County, intermodal facilities and buses,
Pennsylvania
Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Transit
System buses, Arkansas
Flint buses and bus facilities, Michigan
Florence, University of North Alabama pedes-
trian walkways, Alabama
Folsom multimodal facility, California
Fort Dodge, Intermodal Facility (Phase II),
Iowa
Fort Worth bus and paratransit vehicle project,
Texas
Fort Worth Transit Authority Corridor Redevel-
opment Program, Texas
Franklin County buses and bus facilities, Mis-
souri
Fuel cell bus and bus facilities program, George-
town University, District/Columbia
Gainesville buses and equipment, Florida
Galveston buses and bus facilities, Texas
Gary, Transit Consortium buses, Indiana
Gees Bend Ferry facilities, Wilcox County, Ala-
bama
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Solano Links intercity transit OTR bus pur-
chase, California
Somerset County bus facilities and buses, Penn-
sylvania
South Amboy, Regional Intermodal Transpor-
tation Initiative, New Jersey
South Bend, Urban Intermodal Transportation
Facility, Indiana
South Carolina statewide bus and bus facility.
South Carolina Virtual Transit Enterprise,
South Carolina
South Dakota statewide bus facilities and buses,
South Dakota
South Metro Area Rapid Transit (SMART)
maintenance facility, Oregon
Southeast Missouri transportation service rural,
elderly, disabled service, Missouri
Springfield Metro/VRE pedestrian link, Virginia
Springfield, Union Station, Massachusetts
St. Joseph buses and vans, Missouri
St. Louis, Bi-state Intermodal Center, Missouri
St. Louis Bi-state Metro Link buses
Sunset Empire Transit District intermodal
transit facility, Oregon
Syracuse CNG buses and facilities, New York
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in section 502 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974:
Provided further, That these funds are available to sub-
sidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct
loans not to exceed $13,775,000. In addition, for adminis-
trative expenses to carry out the direct loan program,
$400,000.
MINORITY BUSINESS OUTREACH
For necessary expenses of Minority Business Re-
source Center outreach activities, $2,900,000, of which
$2,635,000 shall remain available until September 30,
2001: Provided, That notwithstanding 49 U.S.C. 332,
these funds may be used for business opportunities related
to any mode of transportation.
COAST GUARD
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the operation and mainte-
nance of the Coast Guard, not otherwise provided for; pur-
chase of not to exceed five passenger motor vehicles for
replacement only; payments pursuant to section 156 of
Public Law 97–377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note),
and section 229(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.
429(b)); and recreation and welfare, $2,791,000,000, of
which $300,000,000 shall be available for defense-related
activities; and of which $25,000,000 shall be derived from
the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund: Provided, That none
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of the funds appropriated in this or any other Act shall
be available for pay or administrative expenses in connec-
tion with shipping commissioners in the United States:
Provided further, That none of the funds provided in this
Act shall be available for expenses incurred for yacht docu-
mentation under 46 U.S.C. 12109, except to the extent
fees are collected from yacht owners and credited to this
appropriation: Provided further, That the Commandant
shall reduce both military and civilian employment levels
for the purpose of complying with Executive Order No.
12839: Provided further, That up to $615,000 in user fees
collected pursuant to section 1111 of Public Law 104–
324 shall be credited to this appropriation as offsetting
collections in fiscal year 2000: Provided further, That none
of the funds in this Act shall be available for the Coast
Guard to plan, finalize, or implement any regulation that
would promulgate new maritime user fees not specifically
authorized by law after the date of enactment of this Act.
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS
For necessary expenses of acquisition, construction,
renovation, and improvement of aids to navigation, shore
facilities, vessels, and aircraft, including equipment related
thereto, $410,000,000, of which $20,000,000 shall be de-
rived from the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund; of which
$205,560,000 shall be available to acquire, repair, ren-
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each Federal agency which
operates or directs one or more Federal laboratories
or which conducts activities under sections 207 and
209 of title 35, United States Code, shall report an-
nually to the Office of Management and Budget, as
part of the agency’s annual budget submission, on
the activities performed by that agency and its Fed-
eral laboratories under the provisions of this section
and of sections 207 and 209 of title 35, United
States Code.
‘‘(2) CONTENTS.—The report shall include—
‘‘(A) an explanation of the agency’s tech-
nology transfer program for the preceding fiscal
year and the agency’s plans for conducting its
technology transfer function, including its plans
for securing intellectual property rights in lab-
oratory innovations with commercial promise
and plans for managing its intellectual property
so as to advance the agency’s mission and ben-
efit the competitiveness of United States indus-
try; and
‘‘(B) information on technology transfer
activities 
for 
the 
preceding 
fiscal 
year,
including—
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tember 30, 2002, $59,400,000 shall be available for other
equipment, to remain available until September 30, 2002,
$55,800,000 shall be available for shore facilities and aids
to navigation facilities, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2002; and $50,930,000 shall be available for
personnel compensation and benefits and related costs, to
remain available until September 30, 2001: Provided,
That the Commandant may dispose of surplus real prop-
erty by sale or lease and the proceeds shall be credited
to this appropriation: Provided further, That upon initial
submission to the Congress of the fiscal year 2001 Presi-
dent’s budget, the Secretary of Transportation shall trans-
mit to the Congress a comprehensive capital investment
plan for the United States Coast Guard which includes
funding for each budget line item for fiscal years 2001
through 2005, with total funding for each year of the plan
constrained to the funding targets for those years as esti-
mated and approved by the Office of Management and
Budget.
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE AND RESTORATION
For necessary expenses to carry out the Coast
Guard’s environmental compliance and restoration func-
tions under chapter 19 of title 14, United States Code,
$18,000,000, to remain available until expended.
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Tacoma-Seattle Sounder commuter rail project;
Tampa Bay regional rail system;
Twin Cities Transitways Corridors projects; and
the
Washington Metro Blue Line extension—Addison
Road.
The following new fixed guideway systems and exten-
sions to existing systems are eligible to receive funding for
alternatives analysis and preliminary engineering:
Atlanta—Lindbergh Station to MARTA West
Line feasibility study;
Atlanta MARTA South DeKalb comprehensive
transit program;
Baltimore Central Downtown MIS;
Bergen County, NJ/Cross County light rail
project;
Birmingham, Alabama transit corridor;
Boston North Shore Corridor and Blue Line ex-
tension to Beverly;
Boston Urban Ring project;
Bridgeport Intermodal Corridor project, Con-
necticut;
Calais, ME Branch Rail Line regional transit
program;
Charleston, SC Monobeam corridor project;
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Cincinnati Northeast/Northern Kentucky rail
line project;
Colorado—Roaring Fork Valley Rail;
Detroit—commuter rail to Detroit metropolitan
airport feasibility study;
El Paso—Juarez international fixed guideway;
Girdwood, Alaska commuter rail project;
Harrisburg-Lancaster Capitol Area Transit Cor-
ridor 1 commuter rail;
Houston Advanced Transit Program;
Indianapolis 
Northeast 
Downtown 
Corridor
project;
Jacksonville fixed guideway corridor;
Johnson County, Kansas I–35 commuter rail
project;
Kenosha-Racine-Milwaukee 
rail 
extension
project;
Knoxville to Memphis commuter rail feasibility
study;
Miami Metrorail Palmetto extension;
Montpelier-St. Albans, VT commuter rail study;
Nashua, NY-Lowell, MA commuter rail project;
New Jersey Trans-Hudson midtown corridor
study;
New London waterfront access project;
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New York Second Avenue Subway feasibility
study;
Old Saybrook—Hartford Rail Extension;
Philadelphia SEPTA commuter rail, R–3 con-
nection—Elwyn to Wawa;
Philadelphia SEPTA Cross County Metro;
Salt Lake City light rail extensions;
Santa Fe/El Dorado rail link;
Stamford fixed guideway connector;
Stockton Altamont Commuter Rail;
Virginia Railway Express Woodbridge transit
access station improvements project;
Washington, D.C. Dulles Corridor extension
project;
Western Montana regional transportation/com-
muter rail study;
Wilmington, DE downtown transit connector;
and the
Wilsonville to Washington County, OR connec-
tion to Westside.
DISCRETIONARY GRANTS
(LIQUIDATION OF CONTRACT AUTHORIZATION)
(HIGHWAY TRUST FUND, MASS TRANSIT ACCOUNT)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for pay-
ment of previous obligations incurred in carrying out 49
U.S.C. 5338(b), $1,500,000,000, to remain available until
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expended and to be derived from the Mass Transit Account
of the Highway Trust Fund.
JOB ACCESS AND REVERSE COMMUTE GRANTS
For necessary expenses to carry out section 3037 of the
Federal Transit Act of 1998, $15,000,000, to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That no more than
$75,000,000 of budget authority shall be available for these
purposes.
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT
CORPORATION
SAINT LAWRENCE SEAWAY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corpora-
tion is hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within
the limits of funds and borrowing authority available to
the Corporation, and in accord with law, and to make such
contracts and commitments without regard to fiscal year
limitations as provided by section 104 of the Government
Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary
in carrying out the programs set forth in the Corporation’s
budget for the current fiscal year.
OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE
(HARBOR MAINTENANCE TRUST FUND)
For necessary expenses for operations and mainte-
nance of those portions of the Saint Lawrence Seaway oper-
ated and maintained by the Saint Lawrence Seaway Devel-
SEC. 4. ATTORNEY GENERAL REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Section 2320(f) of title 18, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘criminal tampering with prod-
uct identification codes under section 1365A,’’ after
‘‘involve’’; and
(2) in paragraph (4), by inserting ‘‘1365A,’’
after ‘‘sections’’.
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