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property, as authorized by law; environmental compliance and res-
toration; space flight, spacecraft control, and communications activi-
ties; program management; personnel and related costs, including 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901– 
5902; travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; not to exceed $70,000 for official reception and representa-
tion expenses; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance, and oper-
ation of mission and administrative aircraft, $3,306,387,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2010: Provided, That 
$2,024,000,000, together with not more than $9,000,000 to be 
derived from receipts pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 2459j, shall be available 
for center management and operations: Provided further, That not-
withstanding 42 U.S.C. 2459j, proceeds from enhanced use leases 
that may be made available for obligation for fiscal year 2009 
shall not exceed $9,000,000: Provided further, That each annual 
budget request shall include an annual estimate of gross receipts 
and collections and proposed use of all funds collected pursuant 
to 42 U.S.C. 2459j: Provided further, That not less than $45,000,000 
shall be available for independent verification and validation activi-
ties, of which $5,000,000 shall be available to develop core 
verification and validation competencies with small businesses, and 
$40,000,000 shall be available for operations of the independent 
verification and validation facility: Provided further, That within 
the amounts appropriated $67,500,000 shall be used for the projects, 
and in the amounts, specified in the explanatory statement 
described in section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this 
consolidated Act). 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector General in 
carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, $33,600,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2010. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Notwithstanding the limitation on the duration of availability 
of funds appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration for any account in this Act, except for ‘‘Office of 
Inspector General’’, when any activity has been initiated by the 
incurrence of obligations for construction of facilities or environ-
mental compliance and restoration activities as authorized by law, 
such amount available for such activity shall remain available 
until expended. This provision does not apply to the amounts appro-
priated for institutional minor revitalization and minor construction 
of facilities, and institutional facility planning and design. 
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of funds 
appropriated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
for any account in this Act, except for ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, 
the amounts appropriated for construction of facilities shall remain 
available until September 30, 2011. 
Funds for announced prizes otherwise authorized shall remain 
available, without fiscal year limitation, until the prize is claimed 
or the offer is withdrawn. 
Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available 
for the current fiscal year for the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration in this Act may be transferred between such appro-
priations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically
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provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such 
transfers. Any transfer pursuant to 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. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds shall 
be used to implement any Reduction in Force or other involuntary 
separations (except for cause) by the National Aeronautics and 
Space Administration prior to September 30, 2009. 
The unexpired balances of the Science, Aeronautics, and Explo-
ration account, for activities for which funds are provided under 
this Act, may be transferred to the new accounts established in 
this Act that provide such activity. Balances so transferred shall 
be merged with the funds in the newly established accounts, but 
shall be available under the same terms, conditions and period 
of time as previously appropriated. 
For the closeout of all Space Shuttle contracts and associated 
programs, amounts that have expired but have not been cancelled 
in the Human Space Flight, Space Flight Capabilities, and Explo-
ration Capabilities appropriations accounts shall remain available 
through fiscal year 2015 for the liquidation of valid obligations 
incurred during the period of fiscal year 2001 through fiscal year 
2009. 
Funding designations and minimum funding requirements con-
tained in any other Act shall not be applicable to funds appropriated 
by this title for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 
The Administrator of NASA shall, not later than February 
2, 2009, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report 
that delineates by fiscal year, mission directorate and object class 
the full costs necessary for Space Shuttle retirement and transition 
activities for fiscal years 2006 through 2015 that includes, but 
is not limited to, the following: 
(1) the costs for environmental compliance and remediation; 
(2) the gross and net proceeds from exchange sales of 
excess Space Shuttle equipment; 
(3) the costs to maintain required facilities at Kennedy 
Space Center during the gap in human space flight; 
(4) the costs associated with preservation of historic prop-
erties; 
(5) the costs of workforce transition; and 
(6) other costs related to Space Shuttle retirement and 
transition. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National Science 
Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), and 
the Act to establish a National Medal of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880– 
1881); services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and 
operation of aircraft and purchase of flight services for research 
support; 
acquisition 
of 
aircraft; 
and 
authorized 
travel; 
$5,183,100,000, to remain available until September 30, 2010, of 
which not to exceed $540,000,000 shall remain available until 
expended for polar research and operations support, and for 
reimbursement to other Federal agencies for operational and science