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‘‘(iii) the defense agency head in violation 
of the permit, standard, regulation, condition, 
requirement, prohibition, or order at issue; or 
‘‘(B) if the head of the administering Federal 
agency or State has commenced and is diligently 
prosecuting a civil or criminal action in a court of 
the United States or a State to require compliance 
with such permit, standard, regulation, condition, re-
quirement, prohibition, or order. 
‘‘(4) No action may be commenced under paragraph 
(1)(B) prior to 60 days after the plaintiff has given notice 
to the head of the relevant administering Federal agency 
that the plaintiff will commence such action. Notice under 
this subsection shall be given in such manner as the head 
of the administering Federal agency shall prescribe by reg-
ulation. 
‘‘(5) In any action under this subsection, the head 
of the relevant administering Federal agency, if not a 
party, may intervene as a matter of right. 
‘‘(6) The court, in issuing any final order in any ac-
tion brought pursuant to this subsection, may award costs 
of litigation (including reasonable attorney and expert wit-
ness fees) to the prevailing or substantially prevailing 
party, whenever the court determines such an award is 
appropriate. The court may, if a temporary restraining 
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IV 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 32 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should adhere to the 
War Powers Resolution and obtain specific statutory authorization for 
the use of United States Armed Forces in Libya. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 31, 2011 
Mr. ROONEY submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of Congress that the President should 
adhere to the War Powers Resolution and obtain specific 
statutory authorization for the use of United States 
Armed Forces in Libya. 
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate 
concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that the 
President should adhere to the War Powers Resolution 
and obtain specific statutory authorization for the use of 
United States Armed Forces in Libya within 60 days of 
initiating military action in Libya, of which the President 
notified Congress of initial action on March 19, 2011, or 
terminate the use of United States Armed Forces in Libya 
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if specific statutory authorization for the use of United 
States Armed Forces in Libya is not obtained. 
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269 
pensation for the offset in another regu-
latory or market context). 
(C) RULEMAKING.—If by 2012 the Con-
gress has not enacted a statute for the express 
purpose of codifying the proposal developed 
under subparagraph (A) or an alternative to 
such proposal, the Administrator shall imple-
ment the proposal through rulemaking. 
(4) EXEMPTIONS.—The President may exempt 
an agency from complying with the emissions target 
established for that year under subsection (c) if the 
President determines it to be in the paramount in-
terest of the United States to do so. The agency 
shall, to the greatest extent practicable, continue to 
implement the provisions in the agency’s plan. Any 
exemption shall be for a period not in excess of one 
year, but additional exemptions may be granted for 
periods of not more than one year upon the Presi-
dent’s making a new determination. 
(f) STUDIES ON FEDERAL LANDS.—The Forest Serv-
ice, the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park 
Service, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 
shall— 
(1) within 3 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, conduct studies of the opportuni-
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I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3367 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assist in the recovery 
and development of the Virgin Islands by providing for a reduction 
in the tax imposed on distributions from certain retirement plans’ assets 
which are invested for at least 30 years, subject to defined withdrawals, 
under a Virgin Islands investment program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 3, 2007 
Mrs. CHRISTENSEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to assist 
in the recovery and development of the Virgin Islands 
by providing for a reduction in the tax imposed on dis-
tributions from certain retirement plans’ assets which 
are invested for at least 30 years, subject to defined 
withdrawals, under a Virgin Islands investment program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Virgin Islands Im-
provement Act of 2007’’. 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1664 
AN ACT 
To amend the executive compensation provisions of the 
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to pro-
hibit unreasonable and excessive compensation and com-
pensation not based on performance standards. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1665 
AN ACT 
To structure Coast Guard acquisition processes and policies, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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ties for management strategies, and identify those 
management strategies with the greatest potential, 
to— 
(A) enhance net biological sequestration of 
greenhouse gases on Federal lands they manage 
while avoiding harmful effects on other environ-
mental values; and 
(B) reduce negative impacts of global 
warming on biodiversity, water supplies, forest 
health, biological sequestration and storage, and 
related values; 
(2) within 4 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, study the results that could be 
achieved through applying management strategies 
identified as having the greatest potential to achieve 
the benefits described in paragraph (1) by imple-
menting field experiments on discrete portions of se-
lected land management units in different parts of 
the Nation to test such strategies; and 
(3) report to the Congress on the results of the 
studies. 
(g) STUDY ON URBAN AND WILDLAND-URBAN FOR-
ESTRY PROGRAMS.—Within 2 years of the date of enact-
ment of this Act, the Forest Service, in consultation with 
appropriate State and local agencies, shall conduct a study 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1672 
AN ACT 
To reauthorize the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation 
Initiative Act to promote the protection of the resources 
of the Northwest Straits, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) apply to goods entered, or withdrawn from 
warehouse for consumption, on or after the 15th day after 
the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1674 
To amend the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act to allow for the 
treatment of the nonprofit corporation affiliate of the Bank as a commu-
nity development financial institution for purposes of the Community 
Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 23, 2009 
Mrs. MALONEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Financial Services 
A BILL 
To amend the National Consumer Cooperative Bank Act 
to allow for the treatment of the nonprofit corporation 
affiliate of the Bank as a community development finan-
cial institution for purposes of the Community Develop-
ment Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1994. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Consumer 
Cooperative Bank Act Amendments of 2009’’. 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1675 
AN ACT 
To amend section 811 of the Cranston-Gonzalez National 
Affordable Housing Act to improve the program under 
such section for supportive housing for persons with dis-
abilities. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(2) The obligation to permit individuals who are 
the subject of such personal health information to 
inspect and copy the personal health information 
concerning the individual pursuant to section 101. 
(3) The obligation to provide written notifica-
tion to an individual of the person’s privacy prac-
tices pursuant to section 111. 
(4) The obligation to promptly notify individ-
uals of an actual or suspected security breach of 
their personal health information pursuant to section 
113. 
(5) The obligation to establish and maintain ap-
propriate administrative, organizational, technical 
and physical safeguards to ensure the privacy, con-
fidentiality, security, accuracy, and integrity of per-
sonal health information that is accessed, main-
tained, modified, recorded, stored, destroyed, or oth-
erwise used or disclosed by such person pursuant to 
section 112. 
(6) The obligation to make publicly available on 
the Internet a list, including contact information, of 
each data partner with which the person has entered 
into a contract or relationship to provide services in-
volving personal health information pursuant to sec-
tion 114. 
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trade distortions must be to expand competitive 
market opportunities for United States exports and 
to obtain fairer and more open conditions of trade 
by reducing or eliminating tariff and nontariff bar-
riers and policies and practices of foreign govern-
ments directly related to trade that hinders market 
opportunities for United States exports or otherwise 
distorts United States trade. 
(2) One of the fundamental tenets of the World 
Trade Organization (WTO) is reciprocal market ac-
cess and, in fact, this principle is underscored in the 
Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade 
Organization which called for ‘‘entering into recip-
rocal and mutually advantageous arrangements di-
rected to the substantial reduction of tariffs and 
other barriers to trade and to the elimination of dis-
criminatory treatment in international trade rela-
tions’’. 
(3) If negotiations between the United States 
and a foreign country do not provide meaningful 
market access for products of United States domes-
tic producers who have sought market access assist-
ance from the United States Government, then the 
United States must not reduce or eliminate tariffs 
for products of the foreign country, having the same 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1676 
AN ACT 
To prevent tobacco smuggling, to ensure the collection of 
all tobacco taxes, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
(G) strategies to reduce barriers to energy 
efficiency investment by addressing split incen-
tives between commercial building owners and 
tenants; 
(6) development, dissemination, technical assist-
ance, and pilot project activities to improve the prac-
tice of monitoring, benchmarking, and disclosure of 
actual commercial building energy performance and 
operating costs, including— 
(A) improved methods of measuring and 
compiling energy performance data on a statis-
tically significant share of commercial new con-
struction, 
renovation, 
and 
energy 
retrofit 
projects; 
(B) development and dissemination of en-
ergy performance metrics for the commercial 
building stock and for important subcategories 
of commercial buildings; 
(C) improved methods of providing energy 
performance feedback to commercial building 
owners, operators, and occupants, including 
real-time feedback and comparisons to perform-
ance goals, past performance, and similar build-
ings; 
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of the opportunities of urban and wildland-urban interface 
forestry programs to enhance net biological sequestration 
of greenhouse gases and achieve other benefits. 
(h) REPORTING.— 
(1) REPORTS
BY
AGENCIES.—Not later than 
December 31 each fiscal year, each agency shall sub-
mit to the Administrator and make publicly available 
on the agency’s website a report on the agency’s im-
plementation of its plan required by subsection (d) 
for the preceding fiscal year, including the inventory 
of greenhouse gas emissions of the agency during 
such fiscal year. 
(2) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Ad-
ministrator shall review each report submitted under 
paragraph (1) for technical validity and compile 
such reports in an annual report on the Federal 
Government’s progress toward carbon neutrality. 
The Administrator shall submit such annual report 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Re-
form of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and 
make such annual report publicly available on the 
Environmental Protection Agency’s website. 
(3) ELECTRONIC
SUBMISSION.—In complying 
with any requirement of this subtitle for submission 
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
Departments of Transportation, and Housing and Urban 
Development, and related agencies for the fiscal year end-
ing September 30, 2010, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the Office of the Secretary, 
$102,556,000 (reduced by $250,000), of which not to ex-
ceed $2,631,000, shall be available for the immediate Of-
fice of the Secretary; not to exceed $986,000, shall be 
available for the immediate Office of the Deputy Sec-
retary; not to exceed $20,359,000, shall be available for 
the Office of the General Counsel; not to exceed 
$11,100,000, shall be available for the Office of the Under 
Secretary of Transportation for Policy; not to exceed 
$10,559,000, shall be available for the Office of the Assist-
ant Secretary for Budget and Programs; not to exceed 
$2,440,000, shall be available for the Office of the Assist-
ant Secretary for Governmental Affairs; not to exceed 
$25,520,000, shall be available for the Office of the Assist-
ant 
Secretary 
for 
Administration; 
not 
to 
exceed 
$2,055,000, shall be available for the Office of Public Af-
physical characteristics and uses pursuant to any 
trade agreement entered into between the United 
States and the foreign country. 
(4) With each subsequent round of bilateral, re-
gional, and multilateral trade negotiations, tariffs 
have been significantly reduced or eliminated for 
many manufactured goods, leaving nontariff barriers 
as the most pervasive, significant, and challenging 
barriers to United States exports and market oppor-
tunities. 
(5) The United States market is widely recog-
nized as one of the most open markets in the world: 
average United States tariff rates are very low and 
the United States has limited, if any, nontariff bar-
riers. 
(6) Consequently, the leverage the United 
States has to obtain removal of nontariff barriers of 
foreign countries is often tariffs on imports from 
foreign countries into the United States. 
(7) Under the current negotiating process, ne-
gotiations to reduce or eliminate tariff barriers and 
nontariff barriers are separate and self-contained, 
meaning that tradeoffs are tariff-for-tariff and non-
tariff-for-nontariff. As a result, a tariff can be re-
duced or eliminated without securing elimination of 
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the operations of the Federal Government, including 
through— 
(1) the provision of recognition awards; and 
(2) the maximum feasible retention of financial 
savings in the annual budgets of Federal agencies 
for use in reinvesting in future green building initia-
tives. 
SEC. 147. FEDERAL PROCUREMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 2 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Director of the Office 
of Federal Procurement Policy, in consultation with the 
Director and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisi-
tion, Technology, and Logistics, shall promulgate revisions 
of the applicable acquisition regulations, to take effect as 
of the date of promulgation of the revisions— 
(1) to direct any Federal procurement execu-
tives involved in the acquisition, construction, or 
major renovation (including contracting for the con-
struction or major renovation) of any facility— 
(A) to employ integrated design principles; 
(B) to improve site selection for environ-
mental and community benefits; 
(C) to optimize building and systems en-
ergy performance; 
(D) to protect and conserve water; 
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of inventories, plans, or reports, an agency shall use 
electronic reporting in lieu of paper copy reports. 
SEC. 6103. PILOT PROJECT FOR PURCHASE OF OFFSETS 
AND CERTIFICATES. 
(a) GAO STUDY.—No later than April 1, 2008, the 
Comptroller General of the United States shall issue the 
report requested by the Congress on May 17, 2007, re-
garding markets for greenhouse gas emissions offsets. 
(b) PILOT PROJECT.—Executive agencies and legisla-
tive branch offices may purchase qualified greenhouse gas 
offsets and qualified renewable energy certificates in any 
open market transaction that complies with all applicable 
procurement rules and regulations. 
(c) QUALIFIED GREENHOUSE GAS OFFSETS.—For 
purposes of this section, the term ‘‘qualified greenhouse 
gas offset’’ means a real, additional, verifiable, enforce-
able, and permanent domestic— 
(1) reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; or 
(2) sequestration of greenhouse gases. 
(d) QUALIFIED
RENEWABLE
ENERGY
CERTIFI-
CATES.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘qualified 
renewable energy certificate’’ means a certificate rep-
resenting a specific amount of energy generated by a re-
newable energy project that is real, additional, and 
verifiable. 
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infrastructure, assets, or personnel to provide delivery of 
fuel to its operations shall apply activity based cost ac-
counting principles to estimate the fully burdened cost of 
fuel. 
(b) USE OF COST ESTIMATE.—Each agency shall use 
the fully burdened cost of fuel, as estimated under sub-
section (a), in conducting analyses and making decisions 
regarding its activities that create a demand for energy. 
Such analyses and decisions shall include— 
(1) the use of models, simulations, wargames, 
and other analytical tools to determine the types of 
energy consuming equipment that an agency needs 
to conduct its missions; 
(2) life-cycle cost benefit analyses and other 
trade-off analyses for determining the cost effective-
ness of measures that improve the energy efficiency 
of an agency’s equipment and systems; 
(3) analyses and decisions conducted or made 
by others for the agency; and 
(4) procurement and acquisition source selec-
tion criteria, requests for proposals, and best value 
determinations. 
(c) REVISION OF ANALYTICAL TOOLS.—If a Federal 
agency employs models, simulations, wargames, or other 
analytical tools that require substantial upgrades to enable 
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(7) The obligation to obtain an individual’s in-
formed consent or authorization before using or dis-
closing an individual’s personal health information 
pursuant to chapter 1 of subtitle C. 
(8) The obligation to establish and update risk 
management 
processes 
to 
protect 
against 
vulnerabilities to the privacy and security of individ-
ual’s personal health information pursuant to sec-
tions 112 and 114. 
(9) The obligation to establish and maintain a 
record of each disclosure of an individual’s personal 
health information pursuant to section 116. 
(10) The obligation to provide individuals with 
concise, comprehensive, and explicit information if 
seeking to use or disclose their personal health infor-
mation for marketing purposes and receive a sepa-
rate authorization from an individual before using or 
disclosing the information for that purpose pursuant 
to section 123. 
Subtitle A—Access to and Accuracy 
of Personal Health Information 
SEC. 
101. 
INSPECTION 
AND 
COPYING 
OF 
PERSONAL 
HEALTH INFORMATION. 
(a) RIGHT OF INDIVIDUAL.— 
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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3305 
AN ACT 
To designate the Federal building and United States court-
house located at 224 South Boulder Avenue in Tulsa, 
Oklahoma, as the ‘‘H. Dale Cook Federal Building and 
United States Courthouse’’. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3561 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants 
to community health coalitions to assist in the development of integrated 
health care delivery, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 18, 2007 
Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas (for himself, Mr. WAMP, Mr. SMITH of Wash-
ington, and Mr. BACA) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
to make grants to community health coalitions to assist 
in the development of integrated health care delivery, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Community Coalitions 
for Access and Quality Improvement Act of 2007’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE. 
The purpose of this Act is to provide assistance to 
community health coalitions as described in section 3(b) 
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