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H. Res. 125
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
April 25, 2007.
Whereas the term ‘‘human shields’’ refers to the use of civil-
ians, prisoners of war, or other noncombatants whose 
mere presence is designed to protect combatants and ob-
jects from attack; 
Whereas the use of human shields violates international hu-
manitarian law (also referred to as the Law of War or 
Law of Armed Conflict); 
Whereas throughout the summer of 2006 conflict with the 
State of Israel, Hezbollah forces utilized human shields 
to protect themselves from counterattacks by Israeli 
forces; 
Whereas the majority of civilian casualties of that conflict 
might have been avoided and civilian lives saved had 
Hezbollah not employed this tactic; 
Whereas the news media made constant mention of civilian 
casualties but rarely pointed to the culpability, under 
international law, of Hezbollah for their endangerment of 
such civilians; 
Whereas United States and international leaders attempted 
to call the use of human shields to the world’s attention; 
Whereas on August 11, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice stated, ‘‘Hezbollah and its sponsors have brought
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‘‘(A) The epidemiological features of cancer, in-
cluding assessments of the carcinogenic effect of ge-
netic and environmental factors, and of disparities in
health, inherent or common among populations of
various ethnic origins.
‘‘(B) The prevention and early detection of can-
cer.
‘‘(C) Basic, translational, and clinical investiga-
tion matters relating to the matters described in sub-
paragraphs (A) and (B).
‘‘(2) The research studies under paragraph (1) shall
include complementary research on oncologic nursing.
‘‘(c) COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH.—The Director of the
United States Military Cancer Institute shall carry out the
research studies under subsection (b) in collaboration with
other cancer research organizations and entities selected by
the Institute for purposes of the research studies.
‘‘(d) ANNUAL REPORT.—(1) Promptly after the end of
each fiscal year, the Director of the United States Military
Cancer Institute shall submit to the President of the Univer-
sity a report on the results of the research studies carried
out under subsection (b).
‘‘(2) Not later than 60 days after receiving the annual
report under paragraph (1), the President of the University
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shall transmit such report to the Secretary of Defense and
to Congress.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at
the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the
end the following new item:
‘‘2117. United States Military Cancer Institute.’’.
SEC. 925. AUTHORITY FOR UNITED STATES AIR FORCE IN-
STITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY TO RECEIVE FAC-
ULTY RESEARCH GRANTS FOR CERTAIN PUR-
POSES.
Section 9314 of title 10, United States Code, is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(d) ACCEPTANCE OF RESEARCH GRANTS.—(1) The
Secretary of the Air Force may authorize the Commandant
of the United States Air Force Institute of Technology to
accept qualifying research grants. Any such grant may only
be accepted if the work under the grant is to be carried
out by a professor or instructor of the Institute for a sci-
entific, literary, or educational purpose.
‘‘(2) For purposes of this subsection, a qualifying re-
search grant is a grant that is awarded on a competitive
basis by an entity referred to in paragraph (3) for a re-
search project with a scientific, literary, or educational pur-
pose.
‘‘(3) An entity referred to in this paragraph is a cor-
poration, fund, foundation, educational institution, or
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(c) AUTHORIZED AMOUNTS.—Amounts authorized to 
be appropriated by titles II and III of this Act are avail-
able for contributions for the common-funded budgets of 
NATO as follows: 
(1) Of the amount provided in section 201(1), 
$1,031,000 for the Civil Budget. 
(2) Of the amount provided in section 301(1), 
$362,159,000 for the Military Budget. 
(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: 
(1) COMMON-FUNDED
BUDGETS
OF
NATO.— 
The term ‘‘common-funded budgets of NATO’’ 
means the Military Budget, the Security Investment 
Program, and the Civil Budget of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization (and any successor or addi-
tional account or program of NATO). 
(2) FISCAL YEAR 1998 BASELINE LIMITATION.— 
The term ‘‘fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation’’ 
means the maximum annual amount of Department 
of Defense contributions for common-funded budgets 
of NATO that is set forth as the annual limitation 
in section 3(2)(C)(ii) of the resolution of the Senate 
giving the advice and consent of the Senate to the 
ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic 
Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Poland, Hun-
gary, and the Czech Republic (as defined in section
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ily of a member, including any person specifi-
cally designated by a member to receive travel 
benefits for a particular purpose. 
‘‘(4) The term ‘dependent’, with respect to a 
member of the uniformed services, has the meaning 
given that term in section 401(a) of this title. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS RELATING TO TRAVEL AND TRANS-
PORTATION ALLOWANCES.—In this subchapter and sub-
chapter II: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘official travel’ means the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(A) Military duty or official business per-
formed by an authorized traveler away from a 
duty assignment location or other authorized lo-
cation. 
‘‘(B) Travel performed by an authorized 
traveler ordered to relocate from a permanent 
duty station to another permanent duty station. 
‘‘(C) Travel performed by an authorized 
traveler ordered to the first permanent duty sta-
tion, or separated or retired from uniformed 
service. 
‘‘(D) Local travel in or around the tem-
porary duty or permanent duty station.
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similar entity that is organized and operated primarily for
scientific, literary, or educational purposes.
‘‘(4) The Secretary shall establish an account for the
administration of funds received as qualifying research
grants under this subsection. Funds in the account with re-
spect to a grant shall be used in accordance with the terms
and condition of the grant and subject to applicable provi-
sions of the regulations prescribed under paragraph (6).
‘‘(5) Subject to such limitations as may be provided
in appropriations Acts, appropriations available for the
United States Air Force Institute of Technology may be
used to pay expenses incurred by the Institute in applying
for, and otherwise pursuing, the award of qualifying re-
search grants.
‘‘(6) The Secretary of the Air Force shall prescribe reg-
ulations for purposes of the administration of this sub-
section.’’.
TITLE X—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subtitle A—Financial Matters
SEC. 1001. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.
(a) AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER AUTHORIZATIONS.—
(1) AUTHORITY.—Upon determination by the
Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary in
the national interest, the Secretary may transfer
amounts of authorizations made available to the De-
H. Res. 373
In the House of Representatives, U.S.,
March 17, 1998.
Whereas Sir Ketumile Masire has been involved in politics in
his country since he co-founded the Bechuanaland Demo-
cratic Party (later the Botswana Democratic Party) with
Seretse Khama in 1962;
Whereas Sir Ketumile Masire was elected to Botswana’s first
Parliament in 1965, later became Vice President under
President Seretse Khama, and succeeded President
Khama as President upon his death in 1980;
Whereas under President Masire’s administration Botswana
has maintained a successful multiparty constitutional de-
mocracy with regular free and fair elections;
Whereas President Masire plans to retire from the presidency
on March 31, 1998;
Whereas the Government of Botswana has worked construc-
tively with the Organization of African Unity, the South-
ern African Development Community, and other organi-
zations to promote democracy in Africa;
Whereas Botswana is a long standing friend of the United
States and was selected as the site of a major Voice of
America radio relay station because of its stability; and
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SEC. 1006. INCREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 2005 TRANSFER AU-
THORITY.
Section 1001(a)(2) of the Ronald W. Reagan National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public
Law 108–375; 118 Stat. 2034) is amended by striking
‘‘$3,500,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$6,185,000,000’’.
SEC. 1007. MONTHLY DISBURSEMENT TO STATES OF STATE
INCOME TAX VOLUNTARILY WITHHELD FROM
RETIRED OR RETAINER PAY.
Section 1045(a) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘quarter’’ the first place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘month’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘during the month following that
calendar quarter’’ and inserting ‘‘during the following
calendar month’’.
SEC. 
1008. 
AUTHORIZATION 
OF 
EMERGENCY 
SUPPLE-
MENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE.
(a) FIRST EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL TO MEET
NEEDS ARISING FROM HURRICANE KATRINA.—Amounts
authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense
for fiscal year 2005 in the Ronald W. Reagan National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law
108–375) are hereby adjusted, with respect to any such au-
thorized amount, by the amount by which appropriations
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pursuant to such authorized amount are increased by a
supplemental appropriation, or by a transfer of funds, pur-
suant to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act
to Meet Immediate Needs Arising From the Consequences
of Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (Public Law 109–61).
(b) SECOND EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL TO MEET
NEEDS ARISING FROM HURRICANE KATRINA.—Amounts
authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense
for fiscal year 2005 in the Ronald W. Reagan National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 are hereby ad-
justed, with respect to any such authorized amount, by the
amount by which appropriations pursuant to such author-
ized amount are increased by a supplemental appropria-
tion, or by a transfer of funds, pursuant to the Second
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act to Meet Im-
mediate Needs Arising From the Consequences of Hurricane
Katrina, 2005 (Public Law 109–62).
(c) SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR AVIAN FLU
PREPAREDNESS.—Amounts authorized to be appropriated
to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2006 in this
Act are hereby adjusted, with respect to any such authorized
amount, by the amount by which appropriations pursuant
to such authorized amount are increased by a supplemental
appropriation, or by a transfer of funds, arising from the
proposal of the Administration relating to avian flu pre-
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paredness that was submitted to Congress on November 1,
2006.
(d) AMOUNTS REALLOCATED
FOR HURRICANE-RE-
LATED DISASTER RELIEF.—Amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated to the Department of Defense for fiscal year
2006 in this Act are hereby adjusted, with respect to any
such authorized amount, by the amount by which appro-
priations pursuant to such authorized amount are in-
creased by a reallocation of funds from the Disaster Relief
Fund (DRF) of the Federal Emergency Management Agen-
cy arising from the proposal of the Director of the Office
of Management and Budget on the reallocation of amounts
for hurricane-related disaster relief that was submitted to
the President on October 28, 2005, and transmitted to the
Speaker of the House of Representatives on that date.
(e) AMOUNTS FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE FOR
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS IN PAKISTAN.—There is authorized
to be appropriated as emergency supplemental appropria-
tions for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2006,
$40,000,000 for the use of the Department of Defense for
overseas, humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid for the pur-
pose of providing humanitarian assistance to the victims
of the earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan on Oc-
tober 8, 2005.
(f) REPORTS ON USE OF CERTAIN FUNDS.—
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(1) REPORT ON USE OF EMERGENCY SUPPLE-
MENTAL FUNDS.—Not later than six months after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of De-
fense shall submit to the congressional defense com-
mittees a report on the obligation and expenditure, as
of that date, of any funds appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Defense for fiscal year 2005 pursuant to the
Acts referred to in subsections (a) and (b) as author-
ized by such subsections. The report shall set forth—
(A) the amounts so obligated and expended;
and
(B) the purposes for which such amounts
were so obligated and expended.
(2) REPORT
ON
EXPENDITURE
OF
REIMBURS-
ABLE FUNDS.—The Secretary shall include in the re-
port required by paragraph (1) a statement of any
expenditure by the Department of Defense of funds
that were reimbursable by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency, or any other department or
agency of the Federal Government, from funds appro-
priated in an Act referred to in subsection (a) or (b)
to such department or agency.
(3) REPORT
ON
USE
OF
CERTAIN
OTHER
FUNDS.—Not later than May 15, 2006, and quarterly
thereafter through November 15, 2006, the Secretary
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shall submit to the congressional defense committees a
report on the obligation and expenditure, during the
previous fiscal year quarter, of any funds appro-
priated to the Department of Defense as specified in
subsection (c) and any funds reallocated to the De-
partment as specified in subsection (d). Each report
shall, for the fiscal year quarter covered by such re-
port, set forth—
(A) the amounts so obligated and expended;
and
(B) the purposes for which such amounts
were so obligated and expended.
(g) REPORT ON ASSISTANCE FOR EARTHQUAKE VIC-
TIMS IN PAKISTAN.—Not later than 30 days after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the congressional defense committees a report de-
scribing Department of Defense efforts to provide relief to
victims of the earthquake that devastated northern Pakistan
on October 8, 2005, and assessing the need for further recon-
struction and relief assistance.
Subtitle B—Naval Vessels and
Shipyards
SEC. 1021. TRANSFER OF BATTLESHIPS.
(a) TRANSFER OF BATTLESHIP WISCONSIN.—The Sec-
retary of the Navy is authorized—
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (2) of
section 897(a) is amended by striking ‘‘21’’ in the heading
of such paragraph and in subparagraph (A) and inserting
‘‘28’’.
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after
December 31, 1994.
SEC. 813. HEALTH SECURITY PREMIUM.
(a) GENERAL RULE.—Subchapter A of chapter 1 (re-
lating to determination of tax liability) is amended by add-
ing at the end thereof the following new part:
‘‘PART VIII—HEALTH SECURITY PREMIUM
‘‘Sec. 59B. Imposition of premium.
‘‘SEC. 59B. IMPOSITION OF PREMIUM.
‘‘(a) GENERAL RULE.—In the case of an individual—
‘‘(1) the amount of the tax imposed under sec-
tion 1 for such taxable year shall be increased by 7.5
percent of the tax imposed under section 1 for such
taxable year (determined without regard to this
paragraph and section 59C), and
‘‘(2) the amount of the tentative minimum tax
determined under section 55 for such taxable year
shall be increased by 7.5 percent of the amount of
the tentative minimum tax for such taxable year (de-
I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1548
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for collegiate housing 
and infrastructure grants. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 12, 2005
Mr. RYAN of Wisconsin (for himself and Mr. CARDIN) 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 provide 
for collegiate housing and infrastructure grants.
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 ‘‘Collegiate Housing and 
Infrastructure Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS PERMITTED TO 
MAKE COLLEGIATE HOUSING AND INFRA-
STRUCTURE GRANTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 501 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 (relating to exemption from tax on cor-
porations, certain trusts, etc.) is amended by redesig-
nating subsection (q) as subsection (r) and by inserting 
after subsection (p) the following new subsection: 
‘‘(q) TREATMENT OF ORGANIZATIONS MAKING COL-
LEGIATE HOUSING AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENT 
GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of subsection 
(c)(3) and sections 170(c)(2)(B), 2055(a)(2), and 
2522(a)(2), an organization shall not fail to be 
treated as organized and operated exclusively for 
charitable or educational purposes solely because 
such organization makes collegiate housing and in-
frastructure grants to an organization described in 
subsection (c)(7), so long as, at the time of the 
grant, substantially all of the active members of the 
recipient organization are full-time students at the 
college or university with which such recipient orga-
nization is associated. 
‘‘(2) 
HOUSING
AND
INFRASTRUCTURE 
GRANTS.—For purposes of paragraph (1), collegiate 
housing and infrastructure grants are grants to pro-
vide, improve, operate, or maintain collegiate hous-
ing that may involve more than incidental social, 
recreational, or private purposes, so long as such 
grants are for purposes that would be permissible
for a dormitory of the college or university referred 
to in paragraph (1). A grant shall not be treated as 
a collegiate housing and infrastructure grant for 
purposes of paragraph (1) to the extent that such 
grant is used to provide physical fitness equipment. 
‘‘(3) GRANTS
TO
CERTAIN
ORGANIZATIONS 
HOLDING TITLE TO PROPERTY, ETC.—For purposes 
of this subsection, a collegiate housing and infra-
structure grant to an organization described in sub-
section (c)(2) or (c)(7) holding title to property ex-
clusively for the benefit of an organization described 
in subsection (c)(7) shall be considered a grant to 
the organization described in subsection (c)(7) for 
whose benefit such property is held.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 
this section shall apply to grants made in taxable years 
ending after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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‘‘(B) inside the United States, but within
not more than 25 miles of the geographic bound-
ary of the United States, with respect to surface
traffic first detected outside the geographic
boundary of the United States.
‘‘(b) PURPOSES OF AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—The
purposes of activities authorized by subsection (a) are as
follows:
‘‘(1) To detect and monitor suspicious air, sea,
and surface traffic.
‘‘(2) To communicate information on such traffic
to appropriate Federal law enforcement officials,
State law enforcement officials, and local law enforce-
ment officials.
‘‘(c) FUNDS.—Amounts available to the Department of
Defense for counterdrug activities shall be available for ac-
tivities authorized by subsection (a).
‘‘(d) LIMITATIONS.—Any limitations and restrictions
under this chapter with respect to the use of personnel,
equipment, and facilities under this chapter shall apply to
the exercise of the authority in subsection (a).
‘‘(e) ANNUAL REPORTS ON USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL
VEHICLES.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to
the congressional defense committees each year a report on
the operation of unmanned aerial vehicles along the United
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States border under this section during the preceding year.
Each report shall include, for the year covered by such re-
port, the following:
‘‘(A) A description of the aerial reconnaissance
missions carried out along the United States border
by unmanned aerial vehicles under this section, in-
cluding the total number of sorties and flight hours.
‘‘(B) A statement of the costs of such missions.
‘‘(C) A statement of the number of times data
collected by the Department of Defense from such mis-
sions was communicated to other authorities of the
Federal Government or to State or local authorities.
‘‘(2) A report is not required under this subsection for
a year if no operations of unmanned aerial vehicles along
the United States border occurred under this section during
such year.
‘‘(3) Each report under this subsection shall be sub-
mitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified
annex.
‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘suspicious air, sea, and surface
traffic’ means any air, sea, or surface traffic that is
suspected of illegal activities, including involvement
in activities that would constitute a violation of any
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provision of law set forth in or described under sec-
tion 374(b)(4)(A) of this title.
‘‘(2) The term ‘State law enforcement officials’
includes authorized members of the National Guard
operating under authority of title 32.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at
the beginning of chapter 18 of such title is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new item:
‘‘383. Use of unmanned aerial vehicles for United States border reconnaissance.’’.
SEC. 1032. USE OF COUNTERDRUG FUNDS FOR CERTAIN
COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATIONS.
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUNDS.—In conjunction with
counterdrug activities authorized by law, the Secretary of
Defense may use funds authorized to be appropriated to the
Department 
of 
Defense 
for 
drug 
interdiction 
and
counterdrug activities in fiscal years 2006 and 2007 for the
detection, monitoring, and interdiction of terrorists, ter-
rorism-related activities, and other related transnational
threats along the borders and within the territorial waters
of the United States.
(b) CONSTRUCTION WITH OTHER AUTHORITY.—The
authority provided by subsection (a) is in addition to the
authority provided in section 124 of title 10, United States
Code.
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(1) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), (e), and 
(f) as subsections (d), (e), (f), and (g), respectively; 
and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following 
new subsection (c): 
‘‘(c) COST-OF-LIVING ADJUSTMENT IN ENROLLMENT 
FEE.—(1) Whenever after September 30, 2012, the Sec-
retary of Defense increases the retired pay of members and 
former members of the armed forces pursuant to section 
1401a of this title, the Secretary shall increase the amount 
of the fee payable for enrollment in TRICARE Prime by 
an amount equal to the percentage of such fee payable on 
the day before the date of the increase of such fee that is 
equal to the percentage increase in such retired pay. In de-
termining the amount of the increase in such retired pay 
for purposes of this subsection, the Secretary shall use the 
amount computed pursuant to section 1401a(b)(2) of this 
title. The increase in such fee shall be effective as of January 
1 following the date of the increase in such retired pay. 
‘‘(2) The Secretary shall publish in the Federal Reg-
ister the amount of the fee payable for enrollment in 
TRICARE Prime whenever increased pursuant to this sub-
section.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—
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ating and capital costs of equipment and facilities 
being used to provide the public transportation serv-
ice, or in the case of subsection (f) of such section 
5311, intercity bus service, that the recipient incurs 
as a result of the expansion of such service. 
(c) FEDERAL SHARE.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Federal share of the costs for which 
a grant is made under this section shall be 100 percent. 
(d) PERIOD OF AVAILABILITY.—Funds appropriated 
under this section shall remain available for a period of 
2 fiscal years. 
SEC. 8202. INCREASED FEDERAL SHARE FOR CLEAN AIR 
ACT COMPLIANCE. 
Notwithstanding section 5323(i)(1) of title 49, 
United States Code, a grant for a project to be assisted 
under chapter 53 of such title during fiscal years 2008 
and 2009 that involves acquiring clean fuel or alternative 
fuel vehicle-related equipment or facilities for the purposes 
of complying with or maintaining compliance with the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.) shall be for 100 
percent of the net project cost of the equipment or facility 
attributable to compliance with that Act.