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amount (of not less than $110) that each of its employees of the 
National Capital Region is eligible to receive. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds appropriated in this title for 
grants under section 171 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 
may be obligated prior to the preparation and submission of a 
report by the Secretary of Labor to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate detailing 
the planned uses of such funds. 
SEC. 106. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to the Denali Commission through the Depart-
ment of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where 
Denali Commission projects will be constructed. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American Competi-
tiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 may be used 
for any purpose other than training in the occupations and indus-
tries for which employers are using H–1B visas to hire foreign 
workers, and the related activities necessary to support such 
training: Provided, That the preceding limitation shall not apply 
to grants awarded under section 107 of this title and to multi- 
year grants awarded in response to competitive solicitations issued 
prior to April 15, 2007. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds available in this Act or available 
to the Secretary of Labor from other sources for Community-Based 
Job Training grants and grants authorized under section 414(c) 
of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act 
of 1998 shall be obligated for a grant awarded on a non-competitive 
basis. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of Labor shall take no action to amend, 
through regulatory or administration action, the definition estab-
lished in 20 CFR 667.220 for functions and activities under title 
I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, or to modify, through 
regulatory or administrative action, the procedure for redesignation 
of local areas as specified in subtitle B of title I of that Act (including 
applying the standards specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that 
Act, but notwithstanding the time limits specified in section 
116(a)(3)(B) of that Act), until such time as legislation reauthorizing 
the Act is enacted. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall permit 
or require the Secretary of Labor to withdraw approval for such 
redesignation from a State that received the approval not later 
than October 12, 2005, or to revise action taken or modify the 
redesignation procedure being used by the Secretary in order to 
complete such redesignation for a State that initiated the process 
of such redesignation by submitting any request for such redesigna-
tion not later than October 26, 2005. 
SEC. 110. None of the funds made available in this or any 
other Act shall be available to finalize or implement any proposed 
regulation under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Wagner- 
Peyser Act of 1933, or the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform 
Act of 2002 until such time as legislation reauthorizing the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the Trade Adjustment Assist-
ance Reform Act of 2002 is enacted. 
SEC. 111. (a) On or before November 30, 2007, the Secretary 
of Labor shall, pursuant to section 6 of the Occupational Safety 
and Health Act of 1970, promulgate a final occupational safety 
and health standard concerning employer payment for personal 
protective equipment. The final standard shall provide no less
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protection to employees and shall have no further exceptions from 
the employer payment requirement than the proposed rule pub-
lished in the Federal Register on March 31, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 
15402). 
(b) In the event that such standard is not promulgated by 
the date required, the proposed standard on employer payment 
for personal protective equipment published in the Federal Register 
on March 31, 1999 (64 Fed. Reg. 15402) shall become effective 
as if such standard had been promulgated as a final standard 
by the Secretary of Labor. 
SEC. 112. None of the funds available in this Act may be 
used to carry out a public-private competition or direct conversion 
under Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any 
successor administrative regulation, directive or policy until 60 
days after the Government Accountability Office provides a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate on the use of competitive sourcing at the 
Department of Labor. 
SEC. 113. (a) Not later than June 20, 2008, the Secretary 
of Labor shall propose regulations pursuant to section 303(y) of 
the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, consistent with 
the recommendations of the Technical Study Panel established 
pursuant to section 11 of the Mine Improvement and New Emer-
gency Response (MINER) Act (Public Law 109–236), to require 
that in any coal mine, regardless of the date on which it was 
opened, belt haulage entries not be used to ventilate active working 
places without prior approval from the Assistant Secretary. Further, 
a mine ventilation plan incorporating the use of air coursed through 
belt haulage entries to ventilate active working places shall not 
be approved until the Assistant Secretary has reviewed the elements 
of the plan related to the use of belt air and determined that 
the plan at all times affords at least the same measure of protection 
where belt haulage entries are not used to ventilate working places. 
The Secretary shall finalize the regulations not later than December 
31, 2008. 
(b) Not later than June 15, 2008, the Secretary of Labor shall 
propose regulations pursuant to section 315 of the Federal Coal 
Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, consistent with the rec-
ommendations of the National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health pursuant to section 13 of the MINER Act (Public Law 
109–236), requiring rescue chambers, or facilities that afford at 
least the same measure of protection, in underground coal mines. 
The Secretary shall finalize the regulations not later than December 
31, 2008. 
SEC. 114. None of the funds appropriated in this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Administration’’ shall be 
used by a recipient or subrecipient of such funds to pay the salary 
and bonuses of an individual, either as direct costs or indirect 
costs, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation 
shall not apply to vendors providing goods and services as defined 
in OMB Circular A–133. Where States are recipients of such funds, 
States may establish a lower limit for salaries and bonuses of 
those receiving salaries and bonuses from subrecipients of such 
funds, taking into account factors including the relative cost-of- 
living in the State, the compensation levels for comparable State 
or local government employees, and the size of the organizations
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that administer Federal programs involved including Employment 
and Training Administration programs. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Labor Appropria-
tions Act, 2008’’. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
HEALTH RESOURCES AND SERVICES 
For carrying out titles II, III, IV, VII, VIII, X, XII, XIX, and 
XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, section 427(a) of the Federal 
Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, title V and sections 1128E, 
and 711, and 1820 of the Social Security Act, the Health Care 
Quality Improvement Act of 1986, the Native Hawaiian Health 
Care Act of 1988, the Cardiac Arrest Survival Act of 2000, and 
section 712 of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, 
$7,235,468,000, of which $317,684,000 shall be available for 
construction and renovation (including equipment) of health care 
and other facilities and other health-related activities as specified 
in the statement of the managers on the conference report accom-
panying this Act, and of which $38,538,000 from general revenues, 
notwithstanding section 1820(j) of the Social Security Act, shall 
be available for carrying out the Medicare rural hospital flexibility 
grants program under such section: Provided, That of the funds 
made available under this heading, $160,000 shall be available 
until expended for facilities renovations at the Gillis W. Long 
Hansen’s Disease Center: Provided further, That $40,000,000 of 
the funding provided for community health centers shall be for 
base grant adjustments for existing health centers: Provided further, 
That in addition to fees authorized by section 427(b) of the Health 
Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, fees shall be collected 
for the full disclosure of information under the Act sufficient to 
recover the full costs of operating the National Practitioner Data 
Bank, and shall remain available until expended to carry out that 
Act: Provided further, That fees collected for the full disclosure 
of information under the ‘‘Health Care Fraud and Abuse Data 
Collection Program’’, authorized by section 1128E(d)(2) of the Social 
Security Act, shall be sufficient to recover the full costs of operating 
the program, and shall remain available until expended to carry 
out that Act: Provided further, That no more than $40,000 is avail-
able until expended for carrying out the provisions of 42 U.S.C. 
233(o) including associated administrative expenses and relevant 
evaluations: Provided further, That no more than $44,055,000 is 
available until expended for carrying out the provisions of Public 
Law 104–73 and for expenses incurred by the Department of Health 
and Human Services pertaining to administrative claims made 
under such law: Provided further, That of the funds made available 
under this heading, $310,910,000 shall be for the program under 
title X of the Public Health Service Act to provide for voluntary 
family planning projects: Provided further, That amounts provided 
to said projects under such title shall not be expended for abortions, 
that all pregnancy counseling shall be nondirective, and that such 
amounts shall not be expended for any activity (including the 
publication or distribution of literature) that in any way tends
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to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal 
or candidate for public office: Provided further, That of the funds 
available under this heading, $1,868,809,000 shall remain available 
to the Secretary of Health and Human Services through September 
30, 2010, for parts A and B of title XXVI of the Public Health 
Service Act: Provided further, That within the amounts provided 
for part A of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act, $9,377,000 
is available to the Secretary of Health and Human Services through 
September 30, 2010, and shall be made available to qualifying 
jurisdictions within 45 days of enactment, for increasing supple-
mental grants for fiscal year 2008 to metropolitan areas that 
received grant funding in fiscal year 2007 under subpart I of part 
A of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act to ensure that 
an area’s total funding under subpart I of part A for fiscal year 
2007, together with the amount of this additional funding, is not 
less than 91.6 percent of the amount of such area’s total funding 
under part A for fiscal year 2006, and to transitional areas that 
received grant funding in fiscal year 2007 under subpart II of 
part A of title XXVI of the Public Health Service Act to ensure 
that an area’s total funding under subpart II of part A for fiscal 
year 2007, together with the amount of this additional funding, 
is not less than 86.6 percent of the amount of such area’s total 
funding under part A for fiscal year 2006: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding section 2603(c)(1) of the Public Health Service 
Act, the additional funding to areas under the immediately pre-
ceding proviso, which may be used for costs incurred during fiscal 
year 2007, shall be available to the area for obligation from the 
date of the award through the end of the grant year for the award: 
Provided further, That $822,570,000 shall be for State AIDS Drug 
Assistance Programs authorized by section 2616 of the Public 
Health Service Act: Provided further, That in addition to amounts 
provided herein, $25,000,000 shall be available from amounts avail-
able under section 241 of the Public Health Service Act to carry 
out parts A, B, C, and D of title XXVI of the Public Health Service 
Act to fund section 2691 Special Projects of National Significance: 
Provided further, That, notwithstanding sections 502(a)(1) and 
502(b)(1) of the Social Security Act, not to exceed $103,666,000 
is available for carrying out special projects of regional and national 
significance pursuant to section 501(a)(2) of such Act and 
$10,586,000 is available for projects described in paragraphs (A) 
through (F) of section 501(a)(3) of such Act: Provided further, That 
of the funds provided, $39,283,000 shall be provided to the Denali 
Commission as a direct lump payment pursuant to Public Law 
106–113: Provided further, That of the funds provided, $25,000,000 
shall be provided for the Delta Health Initiative as authorized 
in section 219 of this Act and associated administrative expenses: 
Provided further, That notwithstanding section 747(e)(2) of the PHS 
Act, not less than $5,000,000 shall be for general dentistry pro-
grams, not less than $5,000,000 shall be for pediatric dentistry 
programs and not less than $24,614,000 shall be for family medicine 
programs: Provided further, That of the funds available under this 
heading, $12,000,000 shall be provided for the National Cord Blood 
Inventory pursuant to the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research 
Act of 2005.