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SEC. 813. The cost accounting standards promul-
gated under section 26 of the Office of Federal Procure-
ment Policy Act (Public Law 93–400; 41 U.S.C. 422) 
shall not apply with respect to a contract under the Fed-
eral Employees Health Benefits Program established 
under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 814. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the 
nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Of-
fice of Personnel Management may accept and utilize 
(without regard to any restriction on unanticipated travel 
expenses imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made 
available to the Office pursuant to court approval. 
SEC. 815. No funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available to pay for an abortion, or the administrative 
expenses in connection with any health plan under the 
Federal employees health benefits program which provides 
any benefits or coverage for abortions. 
SEC. 816. The provision of section 815 shall not 
apply where the life of the mother would be endangered 
if the fetus were carried to term, or the pregnancy is the 
result of an act of rape or incest. 
SEC. 817. In order to promote Government access to 
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur-
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set
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forth in the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.), 
shall not apply to the acquisition by the Federal Govern-
ment of information technology (as defined in section 
11101 of title 40, United States Code), that is a commer-
cial item (as defined in section 4(12) of the Office of Fed-
eral Procurement Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12)). 
SEC. 818. None of the funds made available in the 
Act may be used to finalize, implement, administer, or en-
force— 
(1) the proposed rule relating to the determina-
tion that real estate brokerage is an activity that is 
financial in nature or incidental to a financial activ-
ity published in the Federal Register on January 3, 
2001 (66 Fed. Reg. 307 et seq.); or 
(2) the revision proposed in such rule to section 
1501.2 of title 12 of the Code of Federal Regula-
tions. 
SEC. 819. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects
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as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the gen-
eral public (including energy-related, communication-re-
lated, water-related and wastewater-related infrastruc-
ture), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-util-
ity functions that serve the general public and are subject 
to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
TITLE IX—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 901. Funds appropriated in this or any other 
Act may be used to pay travel to the United States for 
the immediate family of employees serving abroad in cases 
of death or life threatening illness of said employee. 
SEC. 902. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2007 shall obligate 
or expend any such funds, unless such department, agen-
cy, or instrumentality has in place, and will continue to 
administer in good faith, a written policy designed to en-
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sure that all of its workplaces are free from the illegal 
use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances 
(as defined in the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 
802)) by the officers and employees of such department, 
agency, or instrumentality. 
SEC. 903. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor 
vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, 
and undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at 
$8,100 except station wagons for which the maximum 
shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be ex-
ceeded by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, 
and by not to exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehi-
cles: Provided further, That the limits set forth in this sec-
tion may not be exceeded by more than 5 percent for elec-
tric or hybrid vehicles purchased for demonstration under 
the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid Vehicle Re-
search, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976: 
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section 
may be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alter-
native fuels vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 
101–549 over the cost of comparable conventionally fueled 
vehicles.
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SEC. 904. Appropriations of the executive depart-
ments and independent establishments for the current fis-
cal year available for expenses of travel, or for the ex-
penses of the activity concerned, are hereby made available 
for quarters allowances and cost-of-living allowances, in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924. 
SEC. 905. Unless otherwise specified during the cur-
rent fiscal year, no part of any appropriation contained 
in this or any other Act shall be used to pay the compensa-
tion of any officer or employee of the Government of the 
United States (including any agency the majority of the 
stock of which is owned by the Government of the United 
States) whose post of duty is in the continental United 
States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United 
States; (2) is a person in the service of the United States 
on the date of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible 
for citizenship, has filed a declaration of intention to be-
come a citizen of the United States prior to such date and 
is actually residing in the United States; (3) is a person 
who owes allegiance to the United States; (4) is an alien 
from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam, the countries of the 
former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries lawfully ad-
mitted to the United States for permanent residence; (5) 
is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee pa-
roled in the United States after January 1, 1975; or (6)