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GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEES HEALTH
BENEFITS
For payment of Government contributions with respect to
retired employees, as authorized by chapter 89 of title 5, United
States Code, and the Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits
Act (74 Stat. 849), as amended, such sums as may be necessary.
GOVERNMENT PAYMENT FOR ANNUITANTS, EMPLOYEE LIFE
INSURANCE
For payment of Government contributions with respect to
employees retiring after December 31, 1989, as required by chapter
87 of title 5, United States Code, such sums as may be necessary.
PAYMENT TO CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY FUND
For financing the unfunded liability of new and increased
annuity benefits becoming effective on or after October 20, 1969,
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 8348, and annuities under special Acts
to be credited to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund,
such sums as may be necessary: Provided, That annuities author-
ized by the Act of May 29, 1944, as amended, and the Act of
August 19, 1950, as amended (33 U.S.C. 771–775), may hereafter
be paid out of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNSEL
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses to carry out functions of the Office
of Special Counsel pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 2
of 1978, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–
454), the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 (Public Law 101–
12), Public Law 103–424, and the Uniformed Services Employment
and Reemployment Act of 1994 (Public Law 103–353), including
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, payment of fees and
expenses for witnesses, rental of conference rooms in the District
of Columbia and elsewhere, and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
$9,740,000.
UNITED STATES TAX COURT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, including contract reporting and other
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $35,179,000: Provided,
That travel expenses of the judges shall be paid upon the written
certificate of the judge.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Independent Agencies Appropria-
tions Act, 2000’’.
TITLE V—GENERAL PROVISIONS
THIS ACT
SEC. 501. 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. 502. The expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, 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. 503. None of the funds made available by this Act shall
be available for any activity or for paying the salary of any Govern-
ment employee where funding an activity or paying a salary to
a Government employee would result in a decision, determination,
rule, regulation, or policy that would prohibit the enforcement of
section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930.
SEC. 504. None of the funds made available by this Act shall
be available in fiscal year 2000 for the purpose of transferring
control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center located
at Glynco, Georgia, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Department
of the Treasury.
SEC. 505. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act
shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position,
other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee
who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and
has satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval
service, and has within 90 days after his release from such service
or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of
not more than 1 year, made application for restoration to his former
position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Manage-
ment as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position
and has not been restored thereto.
SEC. 506. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending
the assistance the entity will comply with sections 2 through 4
of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known
as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 507. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND
PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or products that may
be authorized to be purchased with financial assistance provided
under this Act, it is the sense of the Congress that entities receiving
such assistance should, in expending the assistance, purchase only
American-made equipment and products.
(b) NOTICE TO RECIPIENTS OF ASSISTANCE.—In providing finan-
cial assistance under this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall
provide to each recipient of the assistance a notice describing the
statement made in subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 508. If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a
‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with the same
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States
that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible
to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds provided
pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and
ineligibility procedures described in sections 9.400 through 9.409
of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 509. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available
to pay for an abortion, or the administrative expenses in connection
with any health plan under the Federal employees health benefit
program which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions.
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SEC. 510. The provision of section 509 shall not apply where
the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried
to term, or the pregnancy is the result of an act of rape or incest.
SEC. 511. Except as otherwise specifically provided by law,
not to exceed 50 percent of unobligated balances remaining available
at the end of fiscal year 2000 from appropriations made available
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2000 in this Act, shall
remain available through September 30, 2001, for each such account
for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be
submitted to the Committees on Appropriations for approval prior
to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, That these
requests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming guide-
lines.
SEC. 512. None of the funds made available in this Act may
be used by the Executive Office of the President to request from
the Federal Bureau of Investigation any official background inves-
tigation report on any individual, except when—
(1) such individual has given his or her express written
consent for such request not more than 6 months prior to
the date of such request and during the same presidential
administration; or
(2) such request is required due to extraordinary cir-
cumstances involving national security.
SEC. 513. Notwithstanding section 515 of Public Law 104–
208, 50 percent of the unobligated balances available to the White
House Office, Salaries and Expenses appropriations in fiscal year
1997, shall remain available through September 30, 2000, for the
purposes of satisfying the conditions of section 515 of the Treasury
and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999.
SEC. 514. The cost accounting standards promulgated under
section 26 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (Public
Law 93–400; 41 U.S.C. 422) shall not apply with respect to a
contract under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program
established under chapter 89 of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 515. INVENTORY
OF FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAMS. The
Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall prepare
an inventory of existing Federal grant programs after consulting
each agency that administers Federal grant programs including
formula funds, competitive grant funds, block grant funds, and
direct payments. The inventory shall include the name of the pro-
gram, a copy of relevant statutory and regulatory guidelines, the
funding level in fiscal year 1999, a list of the eligibility criteria
both statutory and regulatory, and a copy of the application form.
The Director shall submit the inventory no later than 6 months
after enactment to the Committees on Appropriations and relevant
authorizing committees.
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS
SEC. 601. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act may
be used to pay travel to the United States for the immediate
family of employees serving abroad in cases of death or life threat-
ening illness of said employee.
SEC. 602. No department, agency, or instrumentality of the
United States receiving appropriated funds under this or any other
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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 the
illegal use, possession, or distribution of controlled substances (as
defined in the Controlled Substances Act) by the officers and
employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality.
SEC. 603. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the maximum
amount allowable during the current fiscal year in accordance with
section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), for the
purchase of any passenger motor vehicle (exclusive of buses, ambu-
lances, law enforcement, and undercover surveillance vehicles), is
hereby fixed at $8,100 except station wagons for which the max-
imum shall be $9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded
by not to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to
exceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided further,
That the limits set forth in this section may not be exceeded
by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid vehicles purchased
for demonstration under the provisions of the Electric and Hybrid
Vehicle Research, Development, and Demonstration Act of 1976:
Provided further, That the limits set forth in this section may
be exceeded by the incremental cost of clean alternative fuels
vehicles acquired pursuant to Public Law 101–549 over the cost
of comparable conventionally fueled vehicles.
SEC. 604. Appropriations of the executive departments and
independent establishments for the current fiscal year available
for expenses of travel, or for the expenses of the activity concerned,
are hereby made available for quarters allowances and cost-of-
living allowances, in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 5922–5924.
SEC. 605. Unless otherwise specified during the current fiscal
year, no part of any appropriation contained in this or any other
Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any officer or employee
of the Government of the United States (including any agency
the majority of the stock of which is owned by the Government
of the United States) whose post of duty is in the continental
United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United
States; (2) is a person in the service of the United States on
the date of the enactment of this Act who, being eligible for citizen-
ship, has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of
the United States prior to such date and is actually residing in
the United States; (3) is a person who owes allegiance to the
United States; (4) is an alien from Cuba, Poland, South Vietnam,
the countries of the former Soviet Union, or the Baltic countries
lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence;
(5) is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled
in the United States after January 1, 1975; or (6) is a national
of the People’s Republic of China who qualifies for adjustment
of status pursuant to the Chinese Student Protection Act of 1992:
Provided, That for the purpose of this section, an affidavit signed
by any such person shall be considered prima facie evidence that
the requirements of this section with respect to his or her status
have been complied with: Provided further, That any person making
a false affidavit shall be guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction,
shall be fined no more than $4,000 or imprisoned for not more
than 1 year, or both: Provided further, That the above penal clause
shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other
provisions of existing law: Provided further, That any payment