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otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive 
order issued pursuant to existing law. 
SEC. 404. (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 knowledge, skills, 
and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official 
duties; 
(2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emo-
tional response or psychological stress in some participants; 
(3) does not require prior employee notification of the con-
tent and methods to be used in the training and written end 
of course evaluation; 
(4) contains any methods or content associated with reli-
gious or quasi-religious belief systems or ‘‘new age’’ belief sys-
tems as defined in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission 
Notice N–915.022, dated September 2, 1988; or 
(5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants’ 
personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace. 
(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. 405. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, none of 
the funds provided in this Act, provided by previous appropriations 
Acts to the agencies or entities funded in this Act that remain 
available for obligation or expenditure in fiscal year 2016, or pro-
vided from any accounts 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 reprogramming 
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 Congress; 
(4) proposes to use funds directed for a specific activity 
by either the House or Senate Committees on Appropriations 
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 programs, projects, or activities by 
$5,000,000 or 10 percent, whichever is less; or 
(7) creates, reorganizes, or restructures a branch, division, 
office, bureau, board, commission, agency, administration, or 
department different from the budget justifications submitted 
to the Committees on Appropriations or the table accompanying 
the explanatory statement accompanying this Act, whichever 
is more detailed, unless prior approval is received from the 
House and Senate Committees on Appropriations: 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 Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of 
the House of Representatives to establish the baseline for 
application of reprogramming and transfer authorities for the 
current fiscal year: Provided further, That the report shall 
include—
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(A) a table for each appropriation with a separate 
column to display the prior year enacted level, the Presi-
dent’s budget request, adjustments made by Congress, 
adjustments due to enacted rescissions, if appropriate, and 
the fiscal year enacted level; 
(B) a delineation in the table for each appropriation 
and its respective prior year enacted level by object class 
and program, project, and activity as detailed in the budget 
appendix for the respective appropriation; and 
(C) an identification of items of special congressional 
interest. 
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 2016 from appropriations made available 
for salaries and expenses for fiscal year 2016 in this Act, shall 
remain available through September 30, 2017, for each such account 
for the purposes authorized: Provided, That a request shall be 
submitted to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations 
for approval prior to the expenditure of such funds: Provided further, 
That these requests shall be made in compliance with reprogram-
ming guidelines under section 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to support any 
Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the power of 
eminent domain, unless eminent domain is employed only for a 
public use: Provided, That for purposes of this section, public use 
shall not be construed to include economic development that pri-
marily benefits private entities: Provided further, That any use 
of funds for mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway 
projects, as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the general 
public (including energy-related, communication-related, water- 
related and wastewater-related infrastructure), other structures 
designated for use by the general public or which have other 
common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve the general 
public and are subject to regulation and oversight by the govern-
ment, and projects for the removal of an immediate threat to 
public health and safety or brownfields as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Public 
Law 107–118) shall be considered a public use for purposes of 
eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality of 
the United States Government, except pursuant to a transfer made 
by, or transfer authority provided in, this Act or any other appro-
priations Act. 
SEC. 409. 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 or her period of active military 
or naval service, and has within 90 days after his or her 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 or her former position and has been certified by the Office 
of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties 
of his or her former position and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 410. No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may 
be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in expending
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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. 411. No funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
under this Act shall be made available to any person or entity 
that has been convicted of violating the Buy American Act (41 
U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 412. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used for first-class airline accommodations in contravention of 
sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of title 41, Code of Federal 
Regulations. 
SEC. 413. (a) None of the funds made available by this Act 
may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier permit under 
sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, United States Code, or 
exemption application under section 40109 of that title of an air 
carrier already holding an air operators certificate issued by a 
country that is party to the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport 
Agreement where such approval would contravene United States 
law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway Air Transport 
Agreement. 
(b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise 
preclude the Secretary of Transportation from granting a foreign 
air carrier permit or an exemption to such an air carrier where 
such authorization is consistent with the U.S.-E.U.-Iceland-Norway 
Air Transport Agreement and United States law. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to send or otherwise pay for the attendance of more than 
50 employees of a single agency or department of the United States 
Government, who are stationed in the United States, at any single 
international conference unless the relevant Secretary reports to 
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations at least 5 
days in advance that such attendance is important to the national 
interest: Provided, That for purposes of this section the term ‘‘inter-
national conference’’ shall mean a conference occurring outside of 
the United States attended by representatives of the United States 
Government and of foreign governments, international organiza-
tions, or nongovernmental organizations. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Federal Transit Administration to implement, admin-
ister, or enforce section 18.36(c)(2) of title 49, Code of Federal 
Regulations, for construction hiring purposes. 
SEC. 416. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used in contravention of the 5th or 14th Amendment to the 
Constitution or title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used by the Department of Transportation, the Department 
of Housing and Urban Development, or any other Federal agency 
to lease or purchase new light duty vehicles for any executive 
fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inventory, except in accordance with 
Presidential Memorandum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 
24, 2011. 
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used in contravention of subpart E of part 5 of the regulations 
of the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (24 CFR part 
5, subpart E, relating to restrictions on assistance to noncitizens). 
SEC. 419. None of the funds made available by this Act may 
be used to provide financial assistance in contravention of section
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214(d) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 
(42 U.S.C. 1436a(d)). 
SEC. 420. For an additional amount for ‘‘Community Planning 
and Development, Community Development Fund’’, $300,000,000, 
to remain available until expended, for necessary expenses for 
activities authorized under title I of the Housing and Community 
Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq.) related to disaster 
relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, 
and economic revitalization in the most impacted and distressed 
areas resulting from a major disaster declared in 2015 pursuant 
to the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 
Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) related to the consequences of Hurricane 
Joaquin and adjacent storm systems, Hurricane Patricia, and other 
flood events: Provided, That funds shall be awarded directly to 
the State or unit of general local government at the discretion 
of the Secretary: Provided further, That prior to the obligation 
of funds a grantee shall submit a plan to the Secretary for approval 
detailing the proposed use of all funds, including criteria for eligi-
bility and how the use of these funds will address long-term recovery 
and restoration of infrastructure and housing and economic revital-
ization in the most impacted and distressed areas: Provided further, 
That such funds may not be used for activities reimbursable by, 
or for which funds are made available by, the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency or the Army Corps of Engineers: Provided 
further, That funds allocated under this heading shall not be consid-
ered relevant to the non-disaster formula allocations made pursuant 
to section 106 of the Housing and Community Development Act 
of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5306): Provided further, That a State or subdivi-
sion thereof may use up to five percent of its allocation for adminis-
trative costs: Provided further, That in administering the funds 
under this heading, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Develop-
ment may waive, or specify alternative requirements for, any provi-
sion of any statute or regulation that the Secretary administers 
in connection with the obligation by the Secretary or the use by 
the recipient of these funds (except for requirements related to 
fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and the environ-
ment), if the Secretary finds that good cause exists for the waiver 
or alternative requirement and such waiver or alternative require-
ment would not be inconsistent with the overall purpose of title 
I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974: Provided 
further, That, notwithstanding the preceding proviso, recipients of 
funds provided under this heading that use such funds to supple-
ment Federal assistance provided under section 402, 403, 404, 
406, 407, or 502 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and 
Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) may adopt, 
without review or public comment, any environmental review, 
approval, or permit performed by a Federal agency, and such adop-
tion shall satisfy the responsibilities of the recipient with respect 
to such environmental review, approval or permit: Provided further, 
That, notwithstanding section 104(g)(2) of the Housing and Commu-
nity Development Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5304(g)(2)), the Secretary 
may, upon receipt of a request for release of funds and certification, 
immediately approve the release of funds for an activity or project 
assisted under this heading if the recipient has adopted an environ-
mental review, approval or permit under the preceding proviso 
or the activity or project is categorically excluded from review 
under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C.