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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS AND MANAGEMENT 
For environmental programs and management, in-
cluding necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, for 
personnel and related costs and travel expenses, including 
uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 5901–5902; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the per 
diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable for sen-
ior level positions under 5 U.S.C. 5376; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; hire, maintenance, and operation of air-
craft; purchase of reprints; library memberships in soci-
eties or associations which issue publications to members 
only or at a price to members lower than to subscribers 
who are not members; construction, alteration, repair, re-
habilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$75,000 per project; and not to exceed $9,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, $2,192,552,000 
(increased by $550,000) (reduced by $1,000,000) (in-
creased by $1,000,000) (reduced by $5,400,000) (in-
creased by $5,400,000), which shall remain available until 
September 30, 2005, including administrative costs of the 
brownfields program under the Small Business Liability 
Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act of 2002. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector
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General Act of 1978, as amended, and for construction, 
alteration, repair, rehabilitation, and renovation of facili-
ties, not to exceed $75,000 per project, $36,808,000, to 
remain available until September 30, 2005. 
BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES 
For construction, repair, improvement, extension, al-
teration, and purchase of fixed equipment or facilities of, 
or for use by, the Environmental Protection Agency, 
$42,918,000 (reduced by $550,000), to remain available 
until expended. 
HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE SUPERFUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses to carry out the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liabil-
ity Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, including sec-
tions 111(c)(3), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (e)(4) (42 U.S.C. 
9611), and for construction, alteration, repair, rehabilita-
tion, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed $75,000 
per project; $1,275,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, consisting of $200,000,000, as authorized by sec-
tion 517(a) of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthor-
ization Act of 1986 (SARA), as amended, and 
$1,075,000,000 as a payment from general revenues to 
the Hazardous Substance Superfund for purposes as au-
thorized by section 517(b) of SARA, as amended: Pro-
vided, That funds appropriated under this heading may
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be allocated to other Federal agencies in accordance with 
section 111(a) of CERCLA: Provided further, That of the 
funds appropriated under this heading, $13,214,000 shall 
be transferred to the ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’ appro-
priation to remain available until September 30, 2005, 
and $44,697,000 shall be transferred to the ‘‘Science and 
technology’’ appropriation to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2005. 
LEAKING UNDERGROUND STORAGE TANK TRUST FUND 
For necessary expenses to carry out leaking under-
ground storage tank cleanup activities authorized by sec-
tion 205 of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthoriza-
tion Act of 1986, and for construction, alteration, repair, 
rehabilitation, and renovation of facilities, not to exceed 
$75,000 
per 
project, 
$72,545,000 
(increased 
by 
$7,300,000), to remain available until expended. 
OIL SPILL RESPONSE 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Environ-
mental Protection Agency’s responsibilities under the Oil 
Pollution Act of 1990, $16,209,000, to be derived from 
the Oil Spill Liability trust fund, to remain available until 
expended. 
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS 
For environmental programs and infrastructure as-
sistance, including capitalization grants for State revolv-
ing 
funds 
and 
performance 
partnership 
grants,
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$3,601,950,000, to remain available until expended, of 
which $1,200,000,000 shall be for making capitalization 
grants for the Clean Water State Revolving Funds under 
title VI of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as 
amended (the ‘‘Act’’), of which up to $68,000,000 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; $850,000,000 shall be for capitalization grants 
for the Drinking Water State Revolving Funds under sec-
tion 1452 of the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended; 
$50,000,000 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; $25,000,000 shall be for grants to the State 
of Alaska to address drinking water and wastewater infra-
structure needs of rural and Alaska Native Villages;
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$195,000,000 shall be for making grants for the construc-
tion of drinking water, wastewater and storm water infra-
structure and for water quality protection in accordance 
with the terms and conditions specified for such grants 
in the report accompanying this legislation; $8,250,000 
for grants for construction of alternative decentralized 
wastewater facilities under the National Decentralized 
Wastewater Demonstration program, in accordance with 
the terms and conditions specified in the report accom-
panying this legislation; $93,500,000 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; and 
$1,180,200,000 shall be for grants, including associated 
program support costs, to States, federally recognized 
tribes, interstate agencies, tribal consortia, and air pollu-
tion control agencies for multi-media or single media pol-
lution prevention, control and abatement and related ac-
tivities, including activities pursuant to the provisions set 
forth under this heading in Public Law 104–134, and for 
making grants under section 103 of the Clean Air Act for 
particulate matter monitoring and data collection activi-
ties, of which and subject to terms and conditions specified 
by the Administrator, $50,000,000 shall be for carrying
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out section 128 of CERCLA, as amended, and 
$20,000,000 shall be for National Environmental Infor-
mation Exchange Network grants, including associated 
program support costs: Provided, That for fiscal year 
2004, State authority under section 302(a) of Public Law 
104–182 shall remain in effect: Provided further, That 
notwithstanding section 603(d)(7) of the Act, the limita-
tion on the amounts in a State water pollution control re-
volving fund that may be used by a State to administer 
the fund shall not apply to amounts included as principal 
in loans made by such fund in fiscal year 2004 and prior 
years where such amounts represent costs of admin-
istering the fund to the extent that such amounts are or 
were deemed reasonable by the Administrator, accounted 
for separately from other assets in the fund, and used for 
eligible purposes of the fund, including administration: 
Provided further, That for fiscal year 2004, and notwith-
standing section 518(f) of the Act, the Administrator is 
authorized to use the amounts appropriated for any fiscal 
year under section 319 of that Act to make grants to In-
dian tribes pursuant to sections 319(h) and 518(e) of that 
Act: Provided further, That for fiscal year 2004, notwith-
standing the limitation on amounts in section 518(c) of 
the Act, up to a total of 11⁄2 percent of the funds appro-
priated for State Revolving Funds under title VI of that
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Act may be reserved by the Administrator for grants 
under section 518(c) of such Act: Provided further, That 
no funds provided by this legislation to address the water, 
wastewater and other critical infrastructure needs of the 
colonias in the United States along the United States-
Mexico border shall be made available to a county or mu-
nicipal government unless that government has established 
an enforceable local ordinance, or other zoning rule, which 
prevents in that jurisdiction the development or construc-
tion of any additional colonia areas, or the development 
within an existing colonia the construction of any new 
home, business, or other structure which lacks water, 
wastewater, or other necessary infrastructure: Provided 
further, That the referenced statement of the managers 
under this heading in Public Law 108–7, item number 
383, is deemed to be amended by adding after the word 
‘‘overflow’’, ‘‘and water infrastructure’’: Provided further, 
That the referenced statement of the managers under this 
heading in Public Law 108–07, item number 255, is 
deemed to be amended by inserting ‘‘water and’’ after the 
words ‘‘Mississippi for’’: Provided further, That the ref-
erenced statement of the managers under this heading in 
Public Law 108–07, item number 256, is deemed to be 
amended by adding after the word ‘‘for’’, ‘‘water and’’.
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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
For fiscal year 2004, notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 
6303(1) and 6305(1), the Administrator of the Environ-
mental Protection Agency, in carrying out the Agency’s 
function to implement directly Federal environmental pro-
grams required or authorized by law in the absence of an 
acceptable tribal program, may award cooperative agree-
ments to federally-recognized Indian Tribes or Intertribal 
consortia, if authorized by their member Tribes, to assist 
the Administrator in implementing Federal environmental 
programs for Indian Tribes required or authorized by law, 
except that no such cooperative agreements may be award-
ed from funds designated for State financial assistance 
agreements. 
None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act shall be used to promulgate a final 
regulation to implement changes in the payment of pes-
ticide tolerance processing fees as proposed at 64 Fed. 
Reg. 31040, or any similar proposals. The Environmental 
Protection Agency may proceed with the development of 
such a rule. 
The Environmental Protection Agency may not use 
any of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
by this Act to implement the Registration Fee system 
codified at 40 Code of Federal Regulations Subpart U
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(sections 152.400 et seq.) if its authority to collect mainte-
nance fees pursuant to FIFRA section 4(i)(5) is extended 
for at least 1 year beyond September 30, 2003. 
Section 136a–1 of title 7, U.S.C. is amended—
(1) in subsection (i)(5)(C)(i) by striking 
‘‘2003’’ and inserting ‘‘2004’’; 
(2) in subsection (i)(5)(H) by striking ‘‘2003’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2004’’; 
(3) in subsection (i)(6) by striking ‘‘2003’’ and 
inserting ‘‘2004’’; and 
(4) in subsection (k)(3)(A) by striking ‘‘2003’’ 
and inserting ‘‘2004’’. 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT 
OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Science and 
Technology Policy, in carrying out the purposes of the Na-
tional Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and 
Priorities Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. 6601 and 6671), hire 
of passenger motor vehicles, and services as authorized by 
5 U.S.C. 3109, not to exceed $2,500 for official reception 
and representation expenses, and rental of conference 
rooms in the District of Columbia, $7,027,000. 
COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND OFFICE OF 
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 
For necessary expenses to continue functions as-
signed to the Council on Environmental Quality and Office
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of Environmental Quality pursuant to the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act of 1969, the Environmental Quality 
Improvement Act of 1970, and Reorganization Plan No. 
1 of 1977, and not to exceed $750 for official reception 
and representation expenses, $3,238,000: Provided, That 
notwithstanding section 202 of the National Environ-
mental Policy Act of 1970, the Council shall consist of 
one member, appointed by the President, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and 
exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council. 
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE 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, $30,125,000, to be de-
rived from the Bank Insurance Fund, the Savings Asso-
ciation Insurance Fund, and the FSLIC Resolution Fund. 
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION 
FEDERAL CITIZEN INFORMATION CENTER FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Citizen Infor-
mation Center, including services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109, $12,500,000, to be deposited into the Federal Cit-
izen Information Center Fund: Provided, That the appro-
priations, revenues, and collections deposited into the 
Fund shall be available for necessary expenses of Federal
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Citizen Information Center activities in the aggregate 
amount of $18,000,000. Appropriations, revenues, and 
collections accruing to this Fund during fiscal year 2004 
in excess of $18,000,000 shall remain in the Fund and 
shall not be available for expenditure except as authorized 
in appropriations Acts. 
INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON THE HOMELESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
and the employment of experts and consultants under sec-
tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code) of the Inter-
agency Council on the Homeless in carrying out the func-
tions pursuant to title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless 
Assistance Act, as amended, $1,500,000. 
NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION 
SPACE FLIGHT CAPABILITIES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of space flight capabilities re-
search and development activities, including research, de-
velopment, operations, support and services; maintenance; 
construction of facilities including repair, rehabilitation, 
revitalization and modification of facilities, construction of 
new facilities and additions to existing facilities, facility
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planning and design, and acquisition or condemnation of 
real property, as authorized by law; environmental compli-
ance and restoration; space flight, spacecraft control and 
communications activities including operations, produc-
tion, and services; program management; personnel and 
related costs, including uniforms or allowances therefor, 
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; travel expenses; 
purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to ex-
ceed $35,000 for official reception and representation ex-
penses; and purchase, lease, charter, maintenance and op-
eration 
of 
mission 
and 
administrative 
aircraft, 
$7,806,100,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005, of which $15,000,000 of amounts for the Space 
Shuttle Life Extension Program shall be for the develop-
ment and independent assessment of concepts to increase 
Space Shuttle crew survivability for crew sizes of 4 to 7 
astronauts by at least a factor of 20 relative to the dem-
onstrated crew survival rate of the Space Shuttle to date, 
and of which amounts as determined by the Administrator 
for salaries and benefits; training, travel and awards; facil-
ity and related costs; information technology services; 
science, engineering, fabricating and testing services; and 
other administrative services may be transferred to 
‘‘Science, aeronautics and exploration’’ in accordance with
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section 312(b) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act 
of 1958, as amended by Public Law 106–377. 
SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS AND EXPLORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, 
in the conduct and support of science, aeronautics and ex-
ploration research and development activities, including 
research, development, operations, support and services; 
maintenance; construction of facilities including repair, re-
habilitation, revitalization, and modification of facilities, 
construction of new facilities and additions to existing fa-
cilities, facility planning and design, and acquisition or 
condemnation of real property, as authorized by law; envi-
ronmental compliance and restoration; space flight, space-
craft control and communications activities including oper-
ations, production, and services; program management; 
personnel and related costs, including uniforms or allow-
ances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; 
travel expenses; purchase and hire of passenger motor ve-
hicles; not to exceed $35,000 for official reception and rep-
resentation expenses; and purchase, lease, charter, mainte-
nance and operation of mission and administrative air-
craft, $7,707,900,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2005, of which amounts as determined by the 
Administrator for salaries and benefits; training, travel 
and awards; facility and related costs; information tech-
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nology services; science, engineering, fabricating and test-
ing services; and other administrative services may be 
transferred to ‘‘Space flight capabilities’’ in accordance 
with section 312(b) of the National Aeronautics and Space 
Act of 1958, as amended by Public Law 106–377. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
as amended, $26,300,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of 
funds appropriated for ‘‘Science, aeronautics and explo-
ration’’, or ‘‘Space flight capabilities’’ by this appropria-
tions Act, when any activity has been initiated by the in-
currence of obligations for construction of facilities or en-
vironmental compliance and restoration activities as au-
thorized by law, such amount available for such activity 
shall remain available until expended. This provision does 
not apply to the amounts appropriated for institutional 
minor revitalization and construction of facilities, and in-
stitutional facility planning and design. 
Notwithstanding the limitation on the availability of 
funds appropriated for ‘‘Science, aeronautics and explo-
ration’’, or ‘‘Space flight capabilities’’ by this appropria-
tions Act, the amounts appropriated for construction of 
facilities shall remain available until September 30, 2006.
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From amounts made available in this Act for these 
activities, the Administration may transfer amounts be-
tween aeronautics of the ‘‘Science, Aeronautics and Explo-
ration’’ account and crosscutting technologies of the 
‘‘Space flight capabilities’’ account. 
Funds for announced prizes otherwise authorized 
shall remain available, without fiscal year limitation, until 
the prize is claimed or the offer is withdrawn. 
The unexpired balances of prior appropriations to 
NASA for activities for which funds are provided under 
this Act may be transferred to the new account established 
for the appropriation that provides such activity under this 
Act. Balances so transferred may be merged with funds 
in the newly established account and thereafter may be 
accounted for as one fund under the same terms and con-
ditions. 
NATIONAL CREDIT UNION ADMINISTRATION 
CENTRAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
During fiscal year 2004, gross obligations of the Cen-
tral Liquidity Facility for the principal amount of new di-
rect loans to member credit unions, as authorized by 12 
U.S.C. 1795 et seq., shall not exceed $1,500,000,000: Pro-
vided, That administrative expenses of the Central Liquid-
ity Facility in fiscal year 2004 shall not exceed $310,000.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT REVOLVING LOAN FUND 
For the Community Development Revolving Loan 
Fund program as authorized by 42 U.S.C. 9812, 9822 
and 9910, $1,000,000 for technical assistance to low-in-
come and community development credit unions. 
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the National 
Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
1861–1875), and the Act to establish a National Medal 
of Science (42 U.S.C. 1880–1881); services as authorized 
by 5 U.S.C. 3109; maintenance and operation of aircraft 
and purchase of flight services for research support; acqui-
sition of aircraft; and authorized travel; $4,306,360,000 
(reduced by $5,000,000), of which not more than 
$355,000,000 (reduced by $5,000,000) shall remain avail-
able until expended for Polar research and operations sup-
port, and for reimbursement to other Federal agencies for 
operational and science support and logistical and other 
related activities for the United States Antarctic program; 
the balance to remain available until September 30, 2005: 
Provided, That receipts for scientific support services and 
materials furnished by the National Research Centers and 
other National Science Foundation supported research fa-
cilities may be credited to this appropriation: Provided fur-
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ther, That to the extent that the amount appropriated is 
less than the total amount authorized to be appropriated 
for included program activities, all amounts, including 
floors and ceilings, specified in the authorizing Act for 
those program activities or their subactivities shall be re-
duced proportionally and used for authorized purposes of 
this account. 
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES 
CONSTRUCTION 
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construc-
tion, commissioning, and upgrading of major research 
equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursu-
ant to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as 
amended, including authorized travel, $192,330,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES 
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and 
engineering education and human resources programs and 
activities pursuant to the National Science Foundation 
Act of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), includ-
ing services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, authorized 
travel, and rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia, $910,680,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2005: Provided, That to the extent that the 
amount of this appropriation is less than the total amount 
authorized to be appropriated for included program activi-
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ties, all amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified 
in the authorizing Act for those program activities or their 
subactivities shall be reduced proportionally. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out 
the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed 
$9,000 for official reception and representation expenses; 
uniforms or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 
5901–5902; rental of conference rooms in the District of 
Columbia; reimbursement of the General Services Admin-
istration for security guard services; $215,900,000: Pro-
vided, That contracts may be entered into under ‘‘Salaries 
and expenses’’ in fiscal year 2004 for maintenance and 
operation of facilities, and for other services, to be pro-
vided during the next fiscal year. 
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
and the employment of experts and consultants under sec-
tion 3109 of title 5, United States Code) involved in car-
rying out section 4 of the National Science Foundation 
Act of 1950 (42 U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 
(42 U.S.C. 1880 et seq.), $3,800,000: Provided, That not
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more than $9,000 shall be available for official reception 
and representation expenses. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 
1978, as amended, $10,000,000, to remain available until 
September 30, 2005. 
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION 
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT 
CORPORATION 
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, 
as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $115,000,000. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION 
Section 605(a) of the Neighborhood Reinvestment 
Corporation Act (42 U.S.C. 8104) is amended by—
(1) striking out ‘‘compensation’’ and inserting 
‘‘salary’’; and striking out ‘‘highest rate provided for 
GS–18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 
of title 5 United States Code’’; and inserting ‘‘rate 
for level IV of the Executive Schedule’’; and 
(2) inserting after the end the following sen-
tence: ‘‘The Corporation shall also apply the provi-
sions of section 5307 (a)(1), (b)(1), and (b)(2) of 
title 5, United States Code, governing limitations on
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certain pay as if its employees were Federal employ-
ees receiving payments under title 5.’’. 
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service Sys-
tem, including expenses of attendance at meetings and of 
training for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective 
Service System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for 
civilian employees; purchase of uniforms, or allowances 
therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of 
passenger motor vehicles; services as authorized by 5 
U.S.C. 3109; and not to exceed $750 for official reception 
and representation expenses; $28,290,000: Provided, That 
during the current fiscal year, the President may exempt 
this appropriation from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, 
whenever the President deems such action to be necessary 
in the interest of national defense: Provided further, That 
none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be ex-
pended for or in connection with the induction of any per-
son into the Armed Forces of the United States. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the 
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
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SEC. 402. 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 Officer or is specifically 
exempt by law from such audit. 
SEC. 403. None of the funds provided in this Act to 
any department or agency may be obligated or expended 
for: (1) the transportation of any officer or employee of 
such department or agency between the domicile and the 
place of employment of the officer or employee, with the 
exception of an officer or employee authorized such trans-
portation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or 5 U.S.C. 7905 or (2) 
to provide a cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants 
to any officer or employee of such department or agency.
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SEC. 404. 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. 405. 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. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, 
non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudica-
tory proceedings. 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. 407. Except as otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under an existing Executive order issued pur-
suant to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of
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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 24 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 performed under 
each such contract. 
SEC. 408. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to 
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office 
of Management and Budget Circular A–21. 
SEC. 409. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2004 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act. 
SEC. 410. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity, 
when it is made known to the Federal entity or official 
to which the funds are made available that the program, 
project, or activity is not in compliance with any Federal 
law relating to risk assessment, the protection of private 
property rights, or unfunded mandates.
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SEC. 411. Except in the case of entities that are 
funded solely with Federal funds or any natural persons 
that are funded under this Act, none of the funds in this 
Act shall be used for the planning or execution of any pro-
gram to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, 
non-Federal parties to lobby or litigate in respect to adju-
dicatory proceedings funded in this Act. A chief executive 
officer of any entity receiving funds under this Act shall 
certify that none of these funds have been used to engage 
in the lobbying of the Federal Government or in litigation 
against the United States unless authorized under existing 
law. 
SEC. 412. No part of any funds appropriated in this 
Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, 
other than for normal and recognized executive-legislative 
relationships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, and 
for the preparation, distribution or use of any kit, pam-
phlet, booklet, publication, radio, television or film presen-
tation designed to support or defeat legislation pending 
before the Congress, except in presentation to the Con-
gress itself. 
SEC. 413. All departments and agencies funded under 
this Act are encouraged, within the limits of the existing 
statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of 
‘‘E-Commerce’’ technologies and procedures in the con-
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duct of their business practices and public service activi-
ties. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriation Act. 
SEC. 415. 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. 416. Section 312 of the National Aeronautics 
and Space Administration of 1958, as amended, is further 
amended—
(1) by striking the second Sec. ‘‘312’’ and in-
serting ‘‘313’’; 
(2) by inserting the title, ‘‘Full Cost Appropria-
tions Account Structure’’, before Sec. 313; 
(3) in subsection (a)—
(A) by striking ‘‘Human space flight’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Space flight capabilities’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘technology’’ and inserting 
‘‘exploration’’; and
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(C) by striking ‘‘2002’’ and inserting 
‘‘2004’’; and 
(4) by striking subsection (c), and inserting the 
following new subsection: 
‘‘(c) The unexpired balances of prior appropriations 
to the Administration for activities authorized under this 
Act may be transferred to the new account established for 
such activity in subsection (a). Balances so transferred 
may be merged with funds in the newly established ac-
count and thereafter may be accounted for as one fund 
under the same terms and conditions’’. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to implement any policy prohibiting the 
Directors of the Veterans Integrated Service Networks 
from conducting outreach or marketing to enroll new vet-
erans within their respective Networks. 
SEC. 418. None of the funds provided in this Act may 
be expended to apply, in a numerical estimate of the bene-
fits of an agency action prepared pursuant to Executive 
Order No. 12866 or section 812 of the Clean Air Act, 
monetary values for adult premature mortality that differ 
based on the age of the adult.
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SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING WAIT TIMES FOR 
VETERANS 
SEC. 419. It is the sense of Congress that no veteran 
should wait more than 30 days for an initial doctor’s ap-
pointment. 
SEC. 420. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to accept, consider, or rely on third-party 
intentional dosing human studies for pesticides. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for voluntary separation incentive pay-
ments as provided for in subchapter II of chapter 35 of 
title 5, United States Code, unless the Administrator has 
first certified to Congress that such payments would not 
result in the loss of skills related to the safety of the Space 
Shuttle or the International Space Station or to the con-
duct of independent safety oversight in the National Aero-
nautics and Space Administration. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and 
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 25, 2003. 
Attest: 
JEFF TRANDAHL, 
Clerk. 
By DAN STRODEL, 
Assistant to the Clerk.
Calendar No. 267
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2861
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, 2004, 
and for other purposes. 
SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
Read the second time and placed on the calendar