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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
FSLIC RESOLUTION FUND
For payment of expenditures of the FSLIC Resolu-
tion Fund, for which other funds available to the FSLIC
Resolution Fund as authorized by Public Law 101–73 are
insufficient, $827,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended.
FDIC AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM
For the affordable housing program of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation under section 40 of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1831q),
$15,000,000 to pay for any losses resulting from the sale
of properties under the program, and for all administra-
tive and holding costs associated with operating the
program.
Notwithstanding any provisions of section 40 of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Act or any other provision of
law, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation shall be
deemed in compliance with such section if, in its sole dis-
cretion, the Corporation at any time modifies, amends or
waives any provisions of such section in order to maximize
the efficient use of the available appropriated funds. The
Corporation shall not be subject to suit for its failure to
comply with the requirements of this provision or section
40 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act.
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RESOLUTION TRUST CORPORATION
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
General Act of 1978, as amended, $32,000,000.
TITLE V
GENERAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 501. Where appropriations in titles I, II,
and III of this Act are expendable for travel expenses and
no specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expendi-
tures for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts
set forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted for
the appropriations: Provided, That this section shall not
apply to travel performed by uncompensated officials of
local boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service
System; to travel performed directly in connection with
care and treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs; to travel performed in connec-
tion with major disasters or emergencies declared or deter-
mined by the President under the provisions of the Robert
T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act; to travel performed by the Offices of Inspector Gen-
eral in connection with audits and investigations; or to
payments to interagency motor pools where separately set
forth in the budget schedules: Provided further, That if
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appropriations in titles I, II, and III exceed the amounts
set forth in budget estimates initially submitted for such
appropriations, the expenditures for travel may cor-
respondingly exceed the amounts therefor set forth in the
estimates in the same proportion.
SEC. 502. Appropriations and funds available for the
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing
and Urban Development and the Selective Service System
shall be available in the current fiscal year for purchase
of uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by law
(5 U.S.C. 5901–5902); hire of passenger motor vehicles;
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 503. Funds of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development subject to the Government Corpora-
tion Control Act or section 402 of the Housing Act of
1950 shall be available, without regard to the limitations
on administrative expenses, for legal services on a contract
or fee basis, and for utilizing and making payment for
services and facilities of Federal National Mortgage Asso-
ciation, Government National Mortgage Association, Fed-
eral Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financ-
ing Bank, Resolution Trust Corporation, Federal Reserve
banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan banks,
and any insured bank within the meaning of the Federal
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Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended (12
U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 504. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 505. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by,
or is part of, a voucher or abstract which de-
scribes the payee or payees and the items or
services for which such expenditure is being
made, or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to
such certification, and without such a voucher
or abstract, is specifically authorized by law;
and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit
by the General Accounting Office or is specifically
exempt by law from such audit.
SEC. 506. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency may be expended for the trans-
portation of any officer or employee of such department
or agency between his domicile and his place of employ-
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ment, with the exception of any officer or employee au-
thorized such transportation under title 31, United States
Code, section 1344.
SEC. 507. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to re-
cipients that do not share in the cost of conducting re-
search resulting from proposals not specifically solicited
by the Government: Provided, That the extent of cost
sharing by the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of in-
terest of the grantee or contractor and the Government
in the research.
SEC. 508. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used, directly or through grants, to pay or to provide
reimbursement for payment of the salary of a consultant
(whether retained by the Federal Government or a grant-
ee) at more than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for
Level IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifically au-
thorized by law.
SEC. 509. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act for personnel compensation and benefits shall be
available for other object classifications set forth in the
budget estimates submitted for the appropriations: Pro-
vided, That this section shall not apply to any part of the
appropriations contained in this Act for Offices of Inspec-
tor General personnel compensation and benefits.
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SEC. 510. None of the funds in this Act shall be used
to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Fed-
eral parties intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory pro-
ceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section
7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056
et seq.).
SEC. 511. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law or under an existing Executive order issued pursu-
ant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of
any appropriation under this Act for contracts for any
consulting service shall be limited to contracts which are
(1) a matter of public record and available for public in-
spection, and (2) thereafter included in a publicly available
list of all contracts entered into within twenty-four months
prior to the date on which the list is made available to
the public and of all contracts on which performance has
not been completed by such date. The list required by the
preceding sentence shall be updated quarterly and shall
include a narrative description of the work to be per-
formed under each such contract.
SEC. 512. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
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U.S.C. 401 et seq.) for a contract for services unless such
executive agency (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder, and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared, and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to
such contract.
SEC. 513. Except as otherwise provided in section
506, none of the funds provided in this Act to any depart-
ment or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide
a personal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to
any officer or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 514. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 515. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 1995 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
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SEC. 516. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of
real property if the estimated annual rental is more than
$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress
and a period of 30 days has expired following the date
on which the report is received by the Committees on Ap-
propriations.
SEC. 517. (a) The Resolution Trust Corporation
(‘‘Corporation’’) shall report to the Congress at least once
a month on the status of the review required by section
21A(b)(11)(B) of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act and
the actions taken with respect to the agreements described
in such section. The report shall describe, for each such
agreement, the review that has been conducted and the
action that has been taken, if any, to rescind or to restruc-
ture, modify, or renegotiate the agreement. In describing
the action taken, the Corporation is not required to pro-
vide detailed information regarding an ongoing investiga-
tion or negotiation. The Corporation shall exercise any
and all legal rights to restructure, modify, renegotiate or
rescind such agreement, notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, where the savings would be realized.
(b) To expend any appropriated funds for the purpose
of restructuring, modifying, or renegotiating the agree-
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ments described in subsection (a), the Corporation shall
certify to the Congress, for each such agreement, the fol-
lowing:
(1) the Corporation has completed its review of
the agreement, as required by section 21A(b)(11)(B)
of the Federal Home Loan Bank Act;
(2)(A) at the time of certification, in the opin-
ion of the Corporation and based upon the informa-
tion available to it, there is insufficient evidence or
other indication of fraud, mis-representation, failure
to disclose a material fact, failure to perform under
the terms of the agreement, improprieties in the bid-
ding process, failure to comply with any law, rule or
regulation regarding the validity of the agreement,
or any other legal basis sufficient for the rescission
of the agreement; or
(B) at the time of certification, the Corporation
finds that there may be sufficient evidence to pro-
vide a legal basis for the rescission of the assistance
agreement, but the Corporation determines that it
may be in the best interest of the Government of re-
structure, modify or renegotiate the assistance
agreement; and
(3) the Corporation has or will promptly exer-
cise any and all legal rights to modify, renegotiate,
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or restructure the agreement where savings would be
realized by such action.
SEC. 518. (a) PURCHASE
OF
AMERICAN-MADE
EQUIPMENT AND PRODUCTS.—It is the sense of the Con-
gress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all equip-
ment and products purchased with funds made available
in this Act should be American-made.
(b) NOTICE REQUIREMENT.—In providing financial
assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any en-
tity using funds made available in this Act, the head of
each Federal agency, to the greatest extent practicable,
shall provide to such entity a notice describing the state-
ment made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
This Act may be cited as the Departments of Veter-
ans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995.
Passed the House of Representatives June 29, 1994.
Attest:
Clerk.
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4624
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Develop-
ment, and for sundry independent agencies,
boards, commissions, corporations, and offices
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1995,
and for other purposes.