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the development and design of the risk-based inspection program 
and FSIS has addressed and resolved issues identified by OIG. 
CHAPTER 2
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 6201. Hereafter, Federal employees at the National Energy 
Technology Laboratory shall be classified as inherently govern-
mental for the purpose of the Federal Activities Inventory Reform 
Act of 1998 (31 U.S.C. 501 note). 
SEC. 6202. None of the funds made available under this or 
any other Act shall be used during fiscal year 2007 to make, 
or plan or prepare to make, any payment on bonds issued by 
the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration (referred 
in this section as the ‘‘Administrator’’) or for an appropriated Fed-
eral Columbia River Power System investment, if the payment 
is both—
(1) greater, during any fiscal year, than the payments 
calculated in the rate hearing of the Administrator to be made 
during that fiscal year using the repayment method used to 
establish the rates of the Administrator as in effect on October 
1, 2006; and 
(2) based or conditioned on the actual or expected net 
secondary power sales receipts of the Administrator. 
CHAPTER 3
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 6301. (a) Section 102(a)(3)(B) of the Help America Vote 
Act of 2002 (42 U.S.C. 15302(a)(3)(B)) is amended by striking 
‘‘January 1, 2006’’ and inserting ‘‘March 1, 2008’’. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 
as if included in the enactment of the Help America Vote Act 
of 2002. 
SEC. 6302. The structure of any of the offices or components 
within the Office of National Drug Control Policy shall remain 
as they were on October 1, 2006. None of the funds appropriated 
or otherwise made available in the Continuing Appropriations Reso-
lution, 2007 (Public Law 110–5) may be used to implement a 
reorganization of offices within the Office of National Drug Control 
Policy without the explicit approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. 
SEC. 6303. From the amount provided by section 21067 of 
the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110–
5), the National Archives and Records Administration may obligate 
monies necessary to carry out the activities of the Public Interest 
Declassification Board. 
SEC. 6304. Notwithstanding the notice requirement of the 
Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the 
Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies 
Appropriations Act, 2006, 119 Stat. 2509 (Public Law 109–115), 
as continued in section 104 of the Continuing Appropriations Reso-
lution, 2007 (Public Law 110–5), the District of Columbia Courts 
may reallocate not more than $1,000,000 of the funds provided 
for fiscal year 2007 under the Federal Payment to the District
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of Columbia Courts for facilities among the items and entities 
funded under that heading for operations. 
SEC. 6305. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in coordination 
with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in consultation 
with the Departments of State and Energy, shall prepare and 
submit to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the House 
Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee on Banking, 
Housing, and Urban Affairs, the House Committee on Financial 
Services, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the House 
Foreign Affairs Committee a written report, which may include 
a classified annex, containing the names of companies which either 
directly or through a parent or subsidiary company, including 
partly-owned subsidiaries, are known to conduct significant busi-
ness operations in Sudan relating to natural resource extraction, 
including oil-related activities and mining of minerals. The reporting 
provision shall not apply to companies operating under licenses 
from the Office of Foreign Assets Control or otherwise expressly 
exempted under United States law from having to obtain such 
licenses in order to operate in Sudan. 
(b) Not later than 45 days following the submission to Congress 
of the list of companies conducting business operations in Sudan 
relating to natural resource extraction as required above, the Gen-
eral Services Administration shall determine whether the United 
States Government has an active contract for the procurement 
of goods or services with any of the identified companies, and 
provide notification to the appropriate committees of Congress, 
which may include a classified annex, regarding the companies, 
nature of the contract, and dollar amounts involved. 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION) 
SEC. 6306. (a) Of the funds provided for the General Services 
Administration, ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ in section 21061 of 
the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (division B of Public 
Law 109–289, as amended by Public Law 110–5), $4,500,000 are 
rescinded. 
(b) For an additional amount for the General Services Adminis-
tration, ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’, $4,500,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 2008. 
(c) With the additional amount of $9,336,000 appropriated in 
Public Law 110–5 and in this Act, above the amount appropriated 
in Public Law 109–115, of which $4,500,000 remains available 
for obligation in fiscal year 2008, the Office of Inspector General 
shall hire additional staff for internal audits and investigations, 
and the remaining funds shall be for one-time associated needs 
such as information technology and other such administrative sup-
port. 
SEC. 6307. Section 21073 of the Continuing Appropriations 
Resolution, 2007 (Public Law 110–5) is amended by adding a new 
subsection (j) as follows: 
‘‘(j) Notwithstanding section 101, any appropriation or funds 
made available to the District of Columbia pursuant to this Act 
for ‘Federal Payment for Foster Care Improvement in the District 
of Columbia’ shall be available in accordance with an expenditure 
plan submitted by the Mayor of the District of Columbia not later 
than 60 days after the enactment of this section which details 
the activities to be carried out with such Federal Payment.’’.
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SEC. 6308. It is the sense of Congress that the Small Business 
Administration will provide, through funds available within 
amounts already appropriated for Small Business Administration 
disaster assistance, physical and economic injury disaster loans 
to Kansas businesses and homeowners devastated by the severe 
tornadoes, storms, and flooding that occurred beginning on May 
4, 2007. 
CHAPTER 4
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER 
SEC. 6401. Not to exceed $30,000,000 from unobligated balances 
remaining from prior appropriations for United States Coast Guard, 
‘‘Retired Pay’’, shall remain available until expended in the account 
and for the purposes for which the appropriations were provided, 
including the payment of obligations otherwise chargeable to lapsed 
or current appropriations for this purpose: Provided, That within 
45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the United States 
Coast Guard shall submit to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the Senate and the House of Representatives the following: 
(1) a report on steps being taken to improve the accuracy of its 
estimates for the ‘‘Retired Pay’’ appropriation; and (2) quarterly 
reports on the use of unobligated balances made available by this 
Act to address the projected shortfall in the ‘‘Retired Pay’’ appropria-
tion, as well as updated estimates for fiscal year 2008. 
SEC. 6402. (a) IN GENERAL.—Any contract, subcontract, task 
or delivery order described in subsection (b) shall contain the fol-
lowing: 
(1) A requirement for a technical review of all designs, 
design changes, and engineering change proposals, and a 
requirement to specifically address all engineering concerns 
identified in the review before the obligation of further funds 
may occur. 
(2) A requirement that the Coast Guard maintain technical 
warrant holder authority, or the equivalent, for major assets. 
(3) A requirement that no procurement subject to sub-
section (b) for lead asset production or the implementation 
of a major design change shall be entered into unless an inde-
pendent third party with no financial interest in the develop-
ment, construction, or modification of any component of the 
asset, selected by the Commandant, determines that such action 
is advisable. 
(4) A requirement for independent life-cycle cost estimates 
of lead assets and major design and engineering changes. 
(5) A requirement for the measurement of contractor and 
subcontractor performance based on the status of all work 
performed. For contracts under the Integrated Deepwater Sys-
tems program, such requirement shall include a provision that 
links award fees to successful acquisition outcomes (which shall 
be defined in terms of cost, schedule, and performance). 
(6) A requirement that the Commandant of the Coast 
Guard assign an appropriate officer or employee of the Coast 
Guard to act as chair of each integrated product team and
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higher-level team assigned to the oversight of each integrated 
product team. 
(7) A requirement that the Commandant of the Coast 
Guard may not award or issue any contract, task or delivery 
order, letter contract modification thereof, or other similar con-
tract, for the acquisition or modification of an asset under 
a procurement subject to subsection (b) unless the Coast Guard 
and the contractor concerned have formally agreed to all terms 
and conditions or the head of contracting activity for the Coast 
Guard determines that a compelling need exists for the award 
or issue of such instrument. 
(b) CONTRACTS, SUBCONTRACTS, TASK AND DELIVERY ORDERS 
COVERED.—Subsection (a) applies to—
(1) any major procurement contract, first-tier subcontract, 
delivery or task order entered into by the Coast Guard; 
(2) any first-tier subcontract entered into under such a 
contract; and 
(3) any task or delivery order issued pursuant to such 
a contract or subcontract. 
(c) EXPENDITURE OF DEEPWATER FUNDS.—Of the funds avail-
able for the Integrated Deepwater Systems program, $650,000,000 
may not be obligated until the Committees on Appropriations of 
the Senate and the House of Representatives receive an expenditure 
plan directly from the Coast Guard that—
(1) defines activities, milestones, yearly costs, and life-
cycle costs for each procurement of a major asset; 
(2) identifies life-cycle staffing and training needs of Coast 
Guard project managers and of procurement and contract staff; 
(3) identifies competition to be conducted in each procure-
ment; 
(4) describes procurement plans that do not rely on a 
single industry entity or contract; 
(5) contains very limited indefinite delivery/indefinite 
quantity contracts and explains the need for any indefinite 
delivery/indefinite quantity contracts; 
(6) complies with all applicable acquisition rules, require-
ments, and guidelines, and incorporates the best systems 
acquisition management practices of the Federal Government; 
(7) complies with the capital planning and investment con-
trol requirements established by the Office of Management 
and Budget, including circular A–11, part 7; 
(8) includes a certification by the head of contracting 
activity for the Coast Guard and the Chief Procurement Officer 
of the Department of Homeland Security that the Coast Guard 
has established sufficient controls and procedures and has suffi-
cient staffing to comply with all contracting requirements, and 
that any conflicts of interest have been sufficiently addressed; 
(9) includes a description of the process used to act upon 
deviations from the contractually specified performance require-
ments and clearly explains the actions taken on such deviations; 
(10) includes a certification that the Assistant Commandant 
of the Coast Guard for Engineering and Logistics is designated 
as the technical authority for all engineering, design, and logis-
tics decisions pertaining to the Integrated Deepwater Systems 
program; and 
(11) identifies progress in complying with the requirements 
of subsection (a).