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as authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corpora-
tion Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $119,800,000, of which 
$5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing pro-
gram. 
UNITED STATES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON 
HOMELESSNESS 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses (including payment of sala-
ries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms, and the employment of ex-
perts and consultants under section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code) of the United States Interagency Council on 
Homelessness in carrying out the functions pursuant to 
title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, 
as amended, $2,000,000. 
Title II of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance 
Act, as amended, is amended in section 209 by striking 
‘‘2007’’ and inserting ‘‘2008’’. 
TITLE IV 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFERS OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 401. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal 
year 2008 pay raises for programs funded in this Act shall 
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act or 
previous appropriations Acts. 
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SEC. 402. None of the funds in this Act shall be used 
for the planning or execution of any program to pay the 
expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal parties 
intervening in regulatory or adjudicatory proceedings 
funded in this Act. 
SEC. 403. None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current 
fiscal year, nor may any be transferred to other appropria-
tions, unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 404. The expenditure of any appropriation 
under this Act for any consulting service through procure-
ment contract pursuant to section 3109 of title 5, United 
States Code, shall be limited to those contracts where such 
expenditures are a matter of public record and available 
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order 
issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, 
none of the funds provided in this Act, provided by pre-
vious appropriations Acts to the agencies or entities fund-
ed in this Act that remain available for obligation or ex-
penditure in fiscal year 2008, or provided from any ac-
counts in the Treasury derived by the collection of fees 
and available to the agencies funded by this Act, shall be 
available for obligation or expenditure through a re-
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programming of funds that: (1) creates a new program; 
(2) eliminates a program, project, or activity; (3) increases 
funds or personnel for any program, project, or activity 
for which funds have been denied or restricted by the Con-
gress; (4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific ac-
tivity by either the House or Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations for a different purpose; (5) augments existing 
programs, projects, or activities in excess of $5,000,000 
or 10 percent, whichever is less; (6) reduces existing pro-
grams, projects, or activities by $5,000,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is less; or (7) creates, reorganizes, or restruc-
tures a branch, division, office, bureau, board, commis-
sion, agency, administration, or department different from 
the budget justifications submitted to the House and Sen-
ate Committees on Appropriations or the table accom-
panying the statement of the managers accompanying this 
Act, whichever is more detailed, unless prior approval is 
received from the House and Senate Committees on Ap-
propriations: Provided, That not later than 60 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, each agency funded by 
this Act shall submit a report to the House and Senate 
Committees on Appropriations to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for 
the current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report 
shall include: (1) a table for each appropriation with a 
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separate column to display the President’s budget request, 
adjustments made by Congress, adjustments due to en-
acted rescissions, if appropriate, and the fiscal year en-
acted level; (2) a delineation in the table for each appro-
priation both by object class and program, project, and 
activity as detailed in the budget appendix for the respec-
tive appropriation; and (3) an identification of items of 
special congressional interest: Provided further, That the 
amount appropriated or limited for salaries and expenses 
for an agency shall be reduced by $100,000 per day for 
each day after the required date that the report has not 
been submitted to the Congress. 
SEC. 406. Except as otherwise specifically provided 
by law, not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances 
remaining available at the end of fiscal year 2008 from 
appropriations made available for salaries and expenses 
for fiscal year 2008 in this Act, shall remain available 
through September 30, 2009, for each such account for 
the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall 
be submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for ap-
proval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided 
further, That these requests shall be made in compliance 
with reprogramming guidelines. 
SEC. 407. All Federal agencies and departments that 
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House 
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and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all sole 
source contracts by no later than July 31, 2008. Such re-
port shall include the contractor, the amount of the con-
tract and the rationale for using a sole source contract. 
SEC. 408. (a) None of the funds made available in 
this Act may be obligated or expended for any employee 
training that— 
(1) does not meet identified needs for knowl-
edge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the 
performance of official duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high lev-
els of emotional response or psychological stress in 
some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification 
of the content and methods to be used in the train-
ing and written end of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated 
with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or 
‘‘new age’’ belief systems as defined in Equal Em-
ployment 
Opportunity 
Commission 
Notice 
N– 
915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, par-
ticipants’ personal values or lifestyle outside the 
workplace. 
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(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict, or 
otherwise preclude an agency from conducting training 
bearing directly upon the performance of official duties. 
SEC. 409. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with an entity 
that does not participate in the basic pilot program de-
scribed in section 403(a) of the Illegal Immigration Re-
form and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 
1324a note). 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2008’’. 
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Union Calendar No. 148 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 3074 
[Report No. 110–238] 
A BILL 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2008, and for other pur-
poses. 
JULY 18, 2007 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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