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110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3721 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
APRIL 24, 2008 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and 
Governmental Affairs 
AN ACT 
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 1190 Lorena Road in Lorena, Texas, as the 
‘‘Marine Gunnery Sgt. John D. Fry Post Office Build-
ing’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. MARINE GUNNERY SGT. JOHN D. FRY POST OF-
FICE BUILDING. 
(a) DESIGNATION.—The facility of the United States 
Postal Service located at 1190 Lorena Road in Lorena, 
Texas, shall be known and designated as the ‘‘Marine 
Gunnery Sgt. John D. Fry Post Office Building’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall 
be deemed to be a reference to the ‘‘Marine Gunnery Sgt. 
John D. Fry Post Office Building’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 23, 2008. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
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SEC. 108. The United States Fish and Wildlife Serv-
ice shall, in carrying out its responsibilities to protect 
threatened and endangered species of salmon, implement 
a system of mass marking of salmonid stocks, intended 
for harvest, that are released from federally operated or 
federally financed hatcheries including but not limited to 
fish releases of coho, chinook, and steelhead species. 
Marked fish must have a visible mark that can be readily 
identified by commercial and recreational fishers. 
SEC. 109. No funds appropriated for the Department 
of the Interior by this Act or any other Act shall be used 
to study or implement any plan to drain Lake Powell or 
to reduce the water level of the lake below the range of 
water levels required for the operation of the Glen Canyon 
Dam. 
SEC. 110. Notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to acquire 
lands, waters, or interests therein including the use of all 
or part of any pier, dock, or landing within the State of 
New York and the State of New Jersey, for the purpose 
of operating and maintaining facilities in the support of 
transportation and accommodation of visitors to Ellis, 
Governors, and Liberty Islands, and of other program and 
administrative activities, by donation or with appropriated 
funds, including franchise fees (and other monetary con-
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it does not advantage foreign-grown tobacco 
over domestically grown tobacco; and 
‘‘(D) invite the Secretary of Agriculture to 
provide any information or analysis which the 
Secretary of Agriculture believes is relevant to 
the proposed tobacco product standard. 
‘‘(3) FINDING.—A notice of proposed rule-
making for the revocation of a tobacco product 
standard shall set forth a finding with supporting 
justification that the tobacco product standard is no 
longer appropriate for the protection of the public 
health. 
‘‘(4) COMMENT.—The Secretary shall provide 
for a comment period of not less than 60 days. 
‘‘(d) PROMULGATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—After the expiration of the 
period for comment on a notice of proposed rule-
making published under subsection (c) respecting a 
tobacco product standard and after consideration of 
comments submitted under subsections (b) and (c) 
and any report from the Tobacco Products Scientific 
Advisory Committee, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) if the Secretary determines that the 
standard would be appropriate for the protec-
tion of the public health, promulgate a regula-
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3726 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the deduction for 
real property taxes on the principal residences to all individuals whether 
or not they itemize other deductions. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2007 
Mr. HILL (for himself, Mr. FOSSELLA, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. DON-
NELLY, Mr. ELLSWORTH, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. HALL of New York, 
Mr. PATRICK J. MURPHY of Pennsylvania, Mr. PENCE, Ms. BERKLEY, 
Mr. BUCHANAN, Mr. VISCLOSKY, and Mr. KAGEN) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the 
deduction for real property taxes on the principal resi-
dences to all individuals whether or not they itemize 
other deductions. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
The Act may be cited as the ‘‘Property Tax Relief 
Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Healthcare costs have grown on average 2.5 
percentage points faster than the United States 
gross domestic product since 1970. 
(2) The Secretary of Energy estimates that en-
ergy costs will continue to dramatically rise for at 
least the next 3 years. 
(3) The national average for property taxes is 
over $900, placing a large burden on middle class 
families. 
(4) Indiana property owners pay 3.4 percent of 
their income in property taxes, which is the 14th 
highest percentage in the Nation. 
(5) Indiana property taxes are predicted to 
jump another 25 percent in 2008. 
SEC. 3. DEDUCTION FOR REAL PROPERTY TAXES ON PRIN-
CIPAL RESIDENCES ALLOWED TO ALL INDI-
VIDUALS WHETHER OR NOT THEY ITEMIZE 
OTHER DEDUCTIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 62 of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (defining adjusted gross 
income) is amended by inserting after paragraph (21) the 
following new paragraph: 
‘‘(22) PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE REAL PROPERTY 
TAXES.—The deduction allowed by section 164(a)(1) 
for State and local real property taxes on any resi-
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dence allocable to the period during the taxable year 
that the residence is owned and used by the tax-
payer as the taxpayer’s principal residence (within 
the meaning of section 121).’’. 
(b) NO EFFECT ON COMPUTATION OF ALTERNATIVE 
MINIMUM TAXABLE INCOME.—The last sentence of sub-
paragraph (A) of section 56(b)(1) of such Code is amend-
ed by inserting before the period ‘‘(other than the amount 
allowable under section 62(a)(22))’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 2. PREMIUM PAY FOR MULTILINGUAL PROFICIENCY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 5545 of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(e)(1) An employee in a position requiring the use 
of one or more languages besides English is entitled to 
his rate of basic pay plus premium pay amounting to 5 
percent of that rate. 
‘‘(2) This subsection does not apply to an employee 
in a position the classification of which takes into account 
the language requirement referred to in paragraph (1), ex-
cept— 
‘‘(A) to the extent that the rates of basic pay 
for the position are not at least 5 percent greater 
than the rates that would otherwise apply in the ab-
sence of the language requirement; and 
‘‘(B) in such other circumstances as the Office 
may by regulation prescribe. 
‘‘(3) The Office shall prescribe any regulations nec-
essary to carry out this subsection.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) The heading for section 5545 of title 5, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ‘‘and 
hazardous’’ and inserting ‘‘, hazardous, and 
multilingual-proficiency’’. 
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(2) The table of sections for chapter 55 of title 
5, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
item relating to section 5545 and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘5545. Night, standby, irregular, hazardous, and multilingual-proficiency duty 
differential.’’. 
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‘‘(III) in the case of an application for 
transfer of ownership of 11 or more 
projects, 120 days. 
‘‘(iii) DEADLINE FOR OFFICE OF RENTAL 
HOUSING PRESERVATION.—In the case of any 
complete application for a transfer of ownership 
of a project, or projects, that is transferred pur-
suant to clause (i), shall be processed, and ap-
proved or denied, before the expiration of the 
period that begins upon receipt of the complete 
application and consists of— 
‘‘(I) in the case of an application for 
transfer of ownership of a single project, 
30 days; 
‘‘(II) in the case of an application for 
transfer of ownership of multiple projects, 
but not exceeding 10 projects, 60 days; 
and 
‘‘(III) in the case of an application for 
transfer of ownership of 11 or more 
projects, 120 days. 
‘‘(iv) APPEALS.—Only decisions regarding 
complete applications shall be appealable to the 
National Appeals Division of the Department of 
Agriculture.’’. 
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SEC. 2. CAP ON ALLOCATED FUNDS FOR EARMARKS. 
Section 302 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(h) EARMARK ALLOCATION CAP.— 
‘‘(1) FURTHER DIVISION OF AMOUNTS.—In the 
Senate and in the House of Representatives, the 
amounts allocated to the Committees on Appropria-
tions under subsection (a) shall be further divided to 
establish an allocation of— 
‘‘(A) $14,500,000,000 of total new budget 
authority and total outlays for earmarks in ap-
propriation measures for the first fiscal year of 
the first concurrent resolution on the budget to 
which this subsection applies; and 
‘‘(B) an amount of total new budget au-
thority and total outlays for earmarks in appro-
priation measures for the first fiscal year of 
each ensuing concurrent resolution on the budg-
et equal to one percent of total new budget au-
thority and total outlays allocated to such com-
mittees under subsection (a) for that fiscal 
year. 
‘‘(2) DIVISION BY MEMBERSHIP.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The $14,500,000 of 
new budget authority and outlays shall be 
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habitats for native wildlife, plant, and fish species in 
the San Luis Valley.’’; 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—In administering the 
Baca National Wildlife Refuge, the Secretary shall, 
to the maximum extent practicable— 
‘‘(A) emphasize migratory bird conserva-
tion; and 
‘‘(B) take into consideration the role of the 
Refuge in broader landscape conservation ef-
forts.’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d)— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) subject to any agreement in existence as of 
the date of enactment of this paragraph, and to the 
extent consistent with the purposes of the Refuge, 
use decreed water rights on the Refuge in approxi-
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(4) any account for Department of Energy de-
fense activities included in an Energy and Water 
Development Appropriations Act. 
(c) PROPORTIONATE APPLICATION.—Any rescission 
made by subsection (a) shall be applied proportionately— 
(1) to each discretionary account and each item 
of budget authority described in such subsection; 
and 
(2) within each such account and item, to each 
program, project, and activity (with programs, 
projects, and activities as delineated in the appro-
priation Act or accompanying reports for the rel-
evant fiscal year covering such account or item, or 
for accounts and items not included in appropriation 
Acts, as delineated in the most recently submitted 
President’s budget). 
(d) SUBSEQUENT APPROPRIATION LAWS.—In the 
case of any fiscal year 2007 appropriation Act enacted 
after the enactment of this section, any rescission required 
by subsection (a) shall take effect immediately after the 
enactment of such Act. 
(e) OMB REPORT.—Within 30 days after the enact-
ment of this section (or, if later, 30 days after the enact-
ment of any fiscal year 2007 appropriation Act), the Di-
rector of the Office of Management and Budget shall sub-
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TITLE IX—AMENDMENTS TO 
OTHER EDUCATION LAWS 
PART A—EDUCATION OF THE DEAF ACT OF 1986 
SEC. 901. LAURENT CLERC NATIONAL DEAF EDUCATION 
CENTER. 
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Section 104(a)(1)(A) of 
the Education of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 
4304(a)(1)(A)) is amended by inserting after ‘‘maintain 
and operate’’ the following: ‘‘, at the Laurent Clerc Na-
tional Deaf Education Center,’’. 
(b) ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 104(b) of the Edu-
cation of the Deaf Act of 1986 (20 U.S.C. 4304(b)) 
is amended— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A) of paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘elementary 
and secondary education programs’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education 
Center’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘elemen-
tary and secondary education programs’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Laurent Clerc National Deaf Edu-
cation Center’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (4)(C)— 
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(1) engages in, or threatens to engage in, any 
act, practice or policy that is inconsistent with its 
purposes set forth in section 2(b); or 
(2) refuses, fails, or neglects to discharge its 
obligations under this Act, or threaten to do so; 
the Attorney General of the United States may petition 
in the United States District Court for the District of Co-
lumbia for such equitable relief as may be necessary or 
appropriate. 
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
For fiscal year 2008, there are authorized to be ap-
propriated such sums as may be necessary, to be made 
available to the Foundation for organizational costs. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Morley Nelson Snake 
River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area Act’’. 
SEC. 2. RENAMING OF SNAKE RIVER BIRDS OF PREY NA-
TIONAL CONSERVATION AREA. 
(a) RENAMING.—Public Law 103–64 is amended— 
(1) in section 2(2) (16 U.S.C. 460iii–1(2)), by 
inserting ‘‘Morley Nelson’’ before ‘‘Snake River 
Birds of Prey National Conservation Area’’; and 
(2) in section 3(a)(1) (16 U.S.C. 460iii– 
2(a)(1)), by inserting ‘‘Morley Nelson’’ before 
‘‘Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation 
Area’’. 
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, reg-
ulation, document, paper, or other record of the United 
States to the Snake River Birds of Prey National Con-
servation Area shall be deemed to be a reference to the 
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Con-
servation Area. 
(c) TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS.—Public Law 103–64 
is further amended—
(1) in section 3(a)(1) (16 U.S.C. 460iii– 
2(a)(1)), by striking ‘‘(hereafter referred to as the 
‘conservation area’)’’; and 
(2) in section 4 (16 U.S.C. 460iii–3)— 
(A) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ‘‘Con-
servation Area’’ and inserting ‘‘conservation 
area’’; and 
(B) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘Visitors 
Center’’ and inserting ‘‘visitors center’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives April 22, 2008. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3734 
AN ACT 
To rename the Snake River Birds of Prey National 
Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the 
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey Na-
tional Conservation Area in honor of the late 
Morley Nelson, an international authority on 
birds of prey, who was instrumental in the estab-
lishment of this National Conservation Area, and 
for other purposes.
486 
amended (the ‘‘Act’’); of which up to $75,000,000 shall 
be available for loans, including interest free loans as au-
thorized by 33 U.S.C. 1383(d)(1)(A), to municipal, inter- 
municipal, interstate, or State agencies or nonprofit enti-
ties for projects that provide treatment for or that mini-
mize sewage or stormwater discharges using one or more 
approaches which include, but are not limited to, decen-
tralized or distributed stormwater controls, decentralized 
wastewater treatment, low-impact development practices, 
conservation easements, stream buffers, or wetlands res-
toration; $829,029,000 shall be for capitalization grants 
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended; 
$20,000,000 shall be for architectural, engineering, plan-
ning, design, construction and related activities in connec-
tion with the construction of high priority water and 
wastewater facilities in the area of the United States-Mex-
ico Border, after consultation with the appropriate border 
commission; $18,500,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and waste infrastruc-
ture needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages: Provided, 
That, of these funds: (1) the State of Alaska shall provide 
a match of 25 percent; (2) no more than 5 percent of the 
funds may be used for administrative and overhead ex-
penses; and (3) the State of Alaska shall make awards 
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consistent with the State-wide priority list established in 
conjunction with the Agency and the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture for all water, sewer, waste disposal, and simi-
lar projects carried out by the State of Alaska that are 
funded under section 221 of the Federal Water Pollution 
Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1301) or the Consolidated Farm 
and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921 et seq.) which 
shall allocate not less than 25 percent of the funds pro-
vided 
for 
projects 
in 
regional 
hub 
communities; 
$145,000,000 shall be for making special project grants 
for the construction of drinking water, wastewater and 
storm water infrastructure and for water quality protec-
tion in accordance with the terms and conditions specified 
for such grants in the explanatory statement described in 
section 4 (in the matter preceding division A of this con-
solidated Act), and, for purposes of these grants, each 
grantee shall contribute not less than 45 percent of the 
cost of the project unless the grantee is approved for a 
waiver by the Agency; $97,000,000 shall be to carry out 
section 104(k) of the Comprehensive Environmental Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 
(CERCLA), as amended, including grants, interagency 
agreements, and associated program support costs; 
$60,000,000 shall be for grants under title VII, subtitle 
G of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, as amended; 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1300 
To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to prevent the use 
of the legal system in a manner that extorts money from State and 
local governments, and the Federal Government, and inhibits such gov-
ernments’ constitutional actions under the first, tenth, and fourteenth 
amendments. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 4, 2009 
Mr. BURTON of Indiana (for himself, Mr. LAMBORN, Mr. RADANOVICH, Mr. 
BROWN of South Carolina, Mr. WESTMORELAND, Mr. FRANKS of Ari-
zona, Ms. FOXX, Mr. MARCHANT, Mr. SIMPSON, Mr. FORTENBERRY, Mr. 
BARTON of Texas, and Mr. SOUDER) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Revised Statutes of the United States to 
prevent the use of the legal system in a manner that 
extorts money from State and local governments, and 
the Federal Government, and inhibits such governments’ 
constitutional actions under the first, tenth, and four-
teenth amendments. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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Calendar No. 714 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 3734 
AN ACT 
To rename the Snake River Birds of Prey National 
Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the 
Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey Na-
tional Conservation Area in honor of the late 
Morley Nelson, an international authority on 
birds of prey, who was instrumental in the estab-
lishment of this National Conservation Area, and 
for other purposes. 
APRIL 23, 2008 
Received; read twice and placed on the calendar 
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3738 
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to set a cap on allocated 
funds for earmarks. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 3, 2007 
Mr. GINGREY (for himself, Mr. AKIN, Mr. BISHOP of Utah, Mrs. BLACKBURN, 
Mr. COBLE, Mr. COLE of Oklahoma, Mr. EVERETT, Mr. FEENEY, Mr. 
FORTUN˜O, Mr. GARRETT of New Jersey, Mr. GOODE, Mr. HENSARLING, 
Mr. KLINE of Minnesota, Mr. KUHL of New York, Mr. LINDER, Mr. MIL-
LER of Florida, Mrs. MUSGRAVE, Mr. POE, and Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Rules, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to set 
a cap on allocated funds for earmarks. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Earmark Reform Act 
of 2007’’. 
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