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made to any officer or employee contrary to the provisions of this
section shall be recoverable in action by the Federal Government.
This section shall not apply to citizens of Ireland, Israel, or the
Republic of the Philippines, or to nationals of those countries allied
with the United States in a current defense effort, or to inter-
national broadcasters employed by the United States Information
Agency, or to temporary employment of translators, or to temporary
employment in the field service (not to exceed 60 days) as a result
of emergencies.
SEC. 606. Appropriations available to any department or agency
during the current fiscal year for necessary expenses, including
maintenance or operating expenses, shall also be available for pay-
ment to the General Services Administration for charges for space
and services and those expenses of renovation and alteration of
buildings and facilities which constitute public improvements per-
formed in accordance with the Public Buildings Act of 1959 (73
Stat. 749), the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972 (87 Stat.
216), or other applicable law.
SEC. 607. In addition to funds provided in this or any other
Act, all Federal agencies are authorized to receive and use funds
resulting from the sale of materials, including Federal records dis-
posed of pursuant to a records schedule recovered through recycling
or waste prevention programs. Such funds shall be available until
expended for the following purposes:
(1) Acquisition, waste reduction and prevention, and
recycling programs as described in Executive Order No. 13101
(September 14, 1998), including any such programs adopted
prior to the effective date of the Executive order.
(2) Other Federal agency environmental management pro-
grams, including, but not limited to, the development and
implementation of hazardous waste management and pollution
prevention programs.
(3) Other employee programs as authorized by law or as
deemed appropriate by the head of the Federal agency.
SEC. 608. Funds made available by this or any other Act for
administrative expenses in the current fiscal year of the corpora-
tions and agencies subject to chapter 91 of title 31, United States
Code, shall be available, in addition to objects for which such
funds are otherwise available, for rent in the District of Columbia;
services in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified
under this head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable
to the expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in
the Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in the
event any functions budgeted as administrative expenses are subse-
quently transferred to or paid from other funds, the limitations
on administrative expenses shall be correspondingly reduced.
SEC. 609. No part of any appropriation for the current fiscal
year contained in this or any other Act shall be paid to any person
for the filling of any position for which he or she has been nominated
after the Senate has voted not to approve the nomination of said
person.
SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation contained in this or
any other Act shall be available for interagency financing of boards
(except Federal Executive Boards), commissions, councils, commit-
tees, or similar groups (whether or not they are interagency entities)
which do not have a prior and specific statutory approval to receive
financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality.
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SEC. 611. Funds made available by this or any other Act to
the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be available for
employment of guards for all buildings and areas owned or occupied
by the Postal Service and under the charge and control of the
Postal Service, and such guards shall have, with respect to such
property, the powers of special policemen provided by the first
section of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281;
40 U.S.C. 318), and, as to property owned or occupied by the
Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the same actions
as the Administrator of General Services may take under the provi-
sions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended
(62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a and 318b), attaching thereto penal
consequences under the authority and within the limits provided
in section 4 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat.
281; 40 U.S.C. 318c).
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available pursuant to the
provisions of this Act shall be used to implement, administer, or
enforce any regulation which has been disapproved pursuant to
a resolution of disapproval duly adopted in accordance with the
applicable law of the United States.
SEC. 613. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and
except as otherwise provided in this section, no part of any of
the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2000, by this or any other
Act, may be used to pay any prevailing rate employee described
in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code—
(1) during the period from the date of expiration of the
limitation imposed by section 614 of the Treasury and General
Government Appropriations Act, 1999, until the normal effec-
tive date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that is
to take effect in fiscal year 2000, in an amount that exceeds
the rate payable for the applicable grade and step of the
applicable wage schedule in accordance with such section 614;
and
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder of fiscal
year 2000, in an amount that exceeds, as a result of a wage
survey adjustment, the rate payable under paragraph (1) by
more than the sum of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect in fiscal
year 2000 under section 5303 of title 5, United States
Code, in the rates of pay under the General Schedule;
and
(B) the difference between the overall average percent-
age of the locality-based comparability payments taking
effect in fiscal year 2000 under section 5304 of such title
(whether by adjustment or otherwise), and the overall aver-
age percentage of such payments which was effective in
fiscal year 1999 under such section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no prevailing
rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or (C) of section
5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and no employee covered
by section 5348 of such title, may be paid during the periods
for which subsection (a) is in effect at a rate that exceeds the
rates that would be payable under subsection (a) were subsection
(a) applicable to such employee.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable to an
employee who is covered by this section and who is paid from
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a schedule not in existence on September 30, 1999, shall be deter-
mined under regulations prescribed by the Office of Personnel
Management.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates of pre-
mium pay for employees subject to this section may not be changed
from the rates in effect on September 30, 1999, except to the
extent determined by the Office of Personnel Management to be
consistent with the purpose of this section.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for service
performed after September 30, 1999.
(f ) For the purpose of administering any provision of law
(including any rule or regulation that provides premium pay, retire-
ment, life insurance, or any other employee benefit) that requires
any deduction or contribution, or that imposes any requirement
or limitation on the basis of a rate of salary or basic pay, the
rate of salary or basic pay payable after the application of this
section shall be treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to permit or
require the payment to any employee covered by this section at
a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable were this section
not in effect.
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide for excep-
tions to the limitations imposed by this section if the Office deter-
mines that such exceptions are necessary to ensure the recruitment
or retention of qualified employees.
SEC. 614. During the period in which the head of any depart-
ment or agency, or any other officer or civilian employee of the
Government appointed by the President of the United States, holds
office, no funds may be obligated or expended in excess of $5,000
to furnish or redecorate the office of such department head, agency
head, officer, or employee, or to purchase furniture or make
improvements for any such office, unless advance notice of such
furnishing or redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees
on Appropriations. For the purposes of this section, the word ‘‘office’’
shall include the entire suite of offices assigned to the individual,
as well as any other space used primarily by the individual or
the use of which is directly controlled by the individual.
SEC. 615. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no execu-
tive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/or lease any addi-
tional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations,
to be used for the purpose of conducting Federal law enforcement
training without the advance approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations, except that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
is authorized to obtain the temporary use of additional facilities
by lease, contract, or other agreement for training which cannot
be accommodated in existing Center facilities.
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31, United
States Code, or section 610 of this Act, funds made available for
fiscal year 2000 by this or any other Act shall be available for
the interagency funding of national security and emergency
preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple
Federal departments, agencies, or entities, as provided by Executive
Order No. 12472 (April 3, 1984).
SEC. 617. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any
other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department,
agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of
any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-
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determining character excepted from the competitive service pursu-
ant to section 3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certifi-
cation to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of
the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality employing
the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position was not
created solely or primarily in order to detail the employee to the
White House.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal
employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from—
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
(2) the National Security Agency;
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the
collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through
reconnaissance programs;
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Depart-
ment of State;
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air
Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation
and the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department
of Justice, the Department of Transportation, the Department
of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing
intelligence functions; and
(7) the Director of Central Intelligence.
SEC. 618. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the
United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other
Act for fiscal year 2000 shall obligate or expend any such funds,
unless such department, agency, or instrumentality has in place,
and will continue to administer in good faith, a written policy
designed to ensure that all of its workplaces are free from discrimi-
nation and sexual harassment and that all of its workplaces are
not in violation of title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as
amended, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, and
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
SEC. 619. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
may be used to pay for the expenses of travel of employees, including
employees of the Executive Office of the President, not directly
responsible for the discharge of official governmental tasks and
duties: Provided, That this restriction shall not apply to the family
of the President, Members of Congress or their spouses, Heads
of State of a foreign country or their designees, persons providing
assistance to the President for official purposes, or other individuals
so designated by the President.
SEC. 620. None of the funds appropriated in this or any other
Act shall be used to acquire information technologies which do
not comply with part 39.106 (Year 2000 compliance) of the Federal
Acquisition Regulation, unless an agency’s Chief Information Officer
determines that noncompliance with part 39.106 is necessary to
the function and operation of the requesting agency or the acquisi-
tion is required by a signed contract with the agency in effect
before the date of the enactment of this Act. Any waiver granted
by the Chief Information Officer shall be reported to the Office
of Management and Budget, and copies shall be provided to Con-
gress.
SEC. 621. None of the funds made available in this Act for
the United States Customs Service may be used to allow the
importation into the United States of any good, ware, article, or