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able under this heading shall be made available for a com-
prehensive research initiative on plant genomes for eco-
nomically significant crops.
MAJOR RESEARCH EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES
CONSTRUCTION
For necessary expenses for the acquisition, construc-
tion, commissioning, and upgrading of major research
equipment, facilities, and other such capital assets pursuant
to the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amend-
ed, including authorized travel, $59,280,000, to remain
available until expended.
EDUCATION AND HUMAN RESOURCES
For necessary expenses in carrying out science and en-
gineering education and human resources programs and ac-
tivities pursuant to the National Science Foundation Act
of 1950, as amended (42 U.S.C. 1861–1875), including
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, authorized travel,
and rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia,
$932,730,000, to remain available until September 30,
2004: Provided, That to the extent that the amount of this
appropriation is less than the total amount authorized to
be appropriated for included program activities, all
amounts, including floors and ceilings, specified in the au-
thorizing Act for those program activities or their subactivi-
ties shall be reduced proportionally.
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For salaries and expenses necessary in carrying out
the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, as amended
(42 U.S.C. 1861–1875); services authorized by 5 U.S.C.
3109; hire of passenger motor vehicles; not to exceed $9,000
for official reception and representation expenses; uniforms
or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–
5902; rental of conference rooms in the District of Colum-
bia; and reimbursement of the General Services Adminis-
tration for security guard services; $182,160,000: Provided,
That contracts may be entered into under ‘‘Salaries and
expenses’’ in fiscal year 2003 for maintenance and oper-
ation of facilities, and for other services, to be provided dur-
ing the next fiscal year.
OFFICE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE BOARD
For necessary expenses (including payment of salaries,
authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, the rent-
al of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, and the
employment of experts and consultants under section 3109
of title 5, United States Code) involved in carrying out sec-
tion 4 of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 (42
U.S.C. 1863) and Public Law 86–209 (42 U.S.C. 1880 et
seq.), $3,500,000: Provided, That not more than $9,000
shall be available for official reception and representation
expenses.
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OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral as authorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $9,660,000, to remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2004.
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
PAYMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT
CORPORATION
For payment to the Neighborhood Reinvestment Cor-
poration for use in neighborhood reinvestment activities, as
authorized by the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
Act (42 U.S.C. 8101–8107), $110,000,000, of which
$5,000,000 shall be for a homeownership program that is
used in conjunction with section 8 assistance under the
United States Housing Act of 1937, as amended; and of
which $5,000,000 shall be for a multi-family rental housing
program.
SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Selective Service System,
including expenses of attendance at meetings and of train-
ing for uniformed personnel assigned to the Selective Serv-
ice System, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 4101–4118 for civil-
ian employees; purchase of uniforms, or allowances therefor,
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; hire of passenger
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motor vehicles; services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and
not to exceed $750 for official reception and representation
expenses; $26,480,000: Provided, That during the current
fiscal year, the President may exempt this appropriation
from the provisions of 31 U.S.C. 1341, whenever the Presi-
dent deems such action to be necessary in the interest of
national defense: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated by this Act may be expended for or in connec-
tion with the induction of any person into the Armed Forces
of the United States.
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. Where appropriations in titles I, II, and
III of this Act are expendable for travel expenses and no
specific limitation has been placed thereon, the expenditures
for such travel expenses may not exceed the amounts set
forth therefor in the budget estimates submitted for the ap-
propriations: Provided, That this provision does not apply
to accounts that do not contain an object classification for
travel: Provided further, That this section shall not apply
to travel performed by uncompensated officials of local
boards and appeal boards of the Selective Service System;
to travel performed directly in connection with care and
treatment of medical beneficiaries of the Department of Vet-
erans Affairs; to travel performed in connection with major
disasters or emergencies declared or determined by the
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President under the provisions of the Robert T. Stafford
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act; to travel
performed by the Offices of Inspector General in connection
with audits and investigations; or to payments to inter-
agency motor pools where separately set forth in the budget
schedules: Provided further, That if appropriations in titles
I, II, and III exceed the amounts set forth in budget esti-
mates initially submitted for such appropriations, the ex-
penditures for travel may correspondingly exceed the
amounts therefor set forth in the estimates only to the extent
such an increase is approved by the Committees on Appro-
priations.
SEC. 402. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 403. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by, or
is part of, a voucher or abstract which describes
the payee or payees and the items or services for
which such expenditure is being made; or
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(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to
such certification, and without such a voucher or
abstract, is specifically authorized by law; and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by
the General Accounting Office or is specifically ex-
empt by law from such audit.
SEC. 404. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency may be obligated or expended
for: (1) the transportation of any officer or employee of such
department or agency between the domicile and the place
of employment of the officer or employee, with the exception
of an officer or employee authorized such transportation
under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or 5 U.S.C. 7905 or (2) to provide
a cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any officer
or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 405. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipi-
ents that do not share in the cost of conducting research
resulting from proposals not specifically solicited by the
Government: Provided, That the extent of cost sharing by
the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest of the
grantee or contractor and the Government in the research.
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used, directly or through grants, to pay or to provide
reimbursement for payment of the salary of a consultant
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(whether retained by the Federal Government or a grantee)
at more than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level
IV of the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized
by law.
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate,
non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudica-
tory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section
7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et
seq.).
SEC. 408. Except as otherwise provided under existing
law, or under an existing Executive Order issued pursuant
to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of any ap-
propriation under this Act for contracts for any consulting
service shall be limited to contracts which are: (1) a matter
of public record and available for public inspection; and
(2) thereafter included in a publicly available list of all con-
tracts entered into within 24 months prior to the date on
which the list is made available to the public and of all
contracts on which performance has not been completed by
such date. The list required by the preceding sentence shall
be updated quarterly and shall include a narrative descrip-
tion of the work to be performed under each such contract.
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SEC. 409. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for a contract for services unless such
executive agency: (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning: (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared; and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to such
contract.
SEC. 410. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of real
property if the estimated annual rental is more than
$300,000 unless the Secretary submits a report which the
Committees on Appropriations of the Congress approve
within 30 days following the date on which the report is
received.
SEC. 411. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to
the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products
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purchased with funds made available in this Act should be
American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 412. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 413. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2003 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity, when
it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which
the funds are made available that the program, project, or
activity is not in compliance with any Federal law relating
to risk assessment, the protection of private property rights,
or unfunded mandates.
SEC. 415. Except in the case of entities that are funded
solely with Federal funds or any natural persons that are
funded under this Act, none of the funds in this Act shall
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be used for the planning or execution of any program to
pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate, non-Federal
parties to lobby or litigate in respect to adjudicatory pro-
ceedings funded in this Act. A chief executive officer of any
entity receiving funds under this Act shall certify that none
of these funds have been used to engage in the lobbying of
the Federal Government or in litigation against the United
States unless authorized under existing law.
SEC. 416. No part of any funds appropriated in this
Act shall be used by an agency of the executive branch, other
than for normal and recognized executive-legislative rela-
tionships, for publicity or propaganda purposes, and for
the preparation, distribution or use of any kit, pamphlet,
booklet, publication, radio, television or film presentation
designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the
Congress, except in presentation to the Congress itself.
SEC. 417. All Departments and agencies funded under
this Act are encouraged, within the limits of the existing
statutory authorities and funding, to expand their use of
‘‘E-Commerce’’ technologies and procedures in the conduct
of their business practices and public service activities.
SEC. 418. Appropriations and funds available for the
administrative expenses of the Department of Housing and
Urban Development and the Selective Service System shall
be available in the current fiscal year for purchase of uni-
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forms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 5 U.S.C.
5901–5902; hire of passenger motor vehicles; and services
as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 419. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding 42 U.S.C. 5196c, amounts
provided in Public Law 107–117 and subsequent appro-
priations Acts for the construction of emergency operations
centers (or similar facilities) shall only require a 25 percent
match non-Federal share.
SEC. 421. Subsection (b) of section 33 of the Federal
Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2229)
is amended by adding at the end the following new para-
graph (12):
‘‘(12) ELIGIBLE GRANTEE ON BEHALF OF ALAS-
KA NATIVE VILLAGES.—The Alaska Village Initiatives,
a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of
Alaska, shall be considered an eligible grantee for pur-
poses of receiving assistance under this section on be-
half of Alaska Native villages.’’.
SEC. 422. The Director of the Department of Home-
land Security is authorized to acquire fee title to up to
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178.5 acres of undeveloped property on the North and West
sides of Virginia Routes 601 and 605 in Clarke County and
Loudoun County, Virginia, adjacent to a Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency facility in Clarke County and
Loudoun County, Virginia.
SEC. 423. From amounts previously appropriated
under the heading ‘‘Emergency Response Fund’’ in Public
Law 107–038, $90,000,000 shall be made available, until
expended, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency
to administer baseline and follow-up screening and clinical
examinations and long-term health monitoring and anal-
ysis for emergency services personnel and rescue and recov-
ery personnel, of which not less that $25,000,000 shall be
made available for such services for current and retired fire-
fighters.
SEC. 424. Section 214 of the Housing and Community
Development Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 1436a) is amended
by—
(1) in subsection (a)(6), by striking ‘‘or’’ at the
end;
(2) by renumbering paragraph (7) as paragraph
(8) in subsection (a);
(3) by adding after paragraph (6) in subsection
(a), the following new paragraph:
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nology, shall operate extramural research, develop-
ment, demonstration, testing, and evaluation pro-
grams so as to—
‘‘(A) ensure that colleges, universities, pri-
vate research institutes, and companies (and
consortia thereof) from as many areas of the
United States as practicable participate;
‘‘(B) ensure that the research funded is of
high quality, as determined through merit review
processes developed under section 302(14); and
‘‘(C) distribute funds through grants, coop-
erative agreements, and contracts.
‘‘(2) UNIVERSITY-BASED
CENTERS
FOR
HOME-
LAND SECURITY.—
‘‘(A) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary, acting
through the Under Secretary for Science and
Technology, shall designate a university-based
center or several university-based centers for
homeland security. The purpose of the center or
these centers shall be to establish a coordinated,
university-based system to enhance the Nation’s
homeland security.
‘‘(B) CRITERIA
FOR
DESIGNATION.—Cri-
teria for the designation of colleges or univer-
sities as a center for homeland security, shall in-
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clude, but are not limited to, demonstrated ex-
pertise in—
‘‘(i) The training of first responders.
‘‘(ii) Responding to incidents involving
weapons of mass destruction and biological
warfare.
‘‘(iii) Emergency and diagnostic med-
ical services.
‘‘(iv) Chemical, biological, radiological,
and nuclear countermeasures or detection.
‘‘(v) Animal and plant health and
diagnostics.
‘‘(vi) Food safety.
‘‘(vii) Water and wastewater oper-
ations.
‘‘(viii) Port and waterway security.
‘‘(ix) Multi-modal transportation.
‘‘(x) Information security and infor-
mation engineering.
‘‘(xi) Engineering.
‘‘(xii) Educational outreach and tech-
nical assistance.
‘‘(xiii) Border transportation and secu-
rity.
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‘‘(xiv) The public policy implications
and public dissemination of homeland secu-
rity related research and development.
‘‘(C) DISCRETION OF SECRETARY.—To the
extent that exercising such discretion is in the
interest of Homeland Security, and with respect
to the designation of any given university-based
center for homeland security, the Secretary may
except certain criteria as specified in section
308(b)(2)(B) and consider additional criteria be-
yond those specified in section 308(b)(2)(B).
Upon designation of a university-based center
for homeland security, the Secretary shall that
day publish in the Federal Register the criteria
that were excepted or added in the selection proc-
ess and the justification for the set of criteria
that were used for that designation.
‘‘(D) REPORT
TO
CONGRESS.—The Sec-
retary shall report annually, from the date of en-
actment, to Congress concerning the implementa-
tion of this section. That report shall indicate
which center or centers have been designated and
how the designation or designations enhance
homeland security, as well as report any deci-
sions to revoke or modify such designations.
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‘‘(E) 
AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIA-
TIONS.—There are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this
paragraph.
‘‘(c) INTRAMURAL PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) CONSULTATION.—In carrying out the duties
under section 302, the Secretary, acting through the
Under Secretary for Science and Technology, may
draw upon the expertise of any laboratory of the Fed-
eral Government, whether operated by a contractor or
the Government.’’; and
(2) in subsection 835(d) by striking all after the
word ‘‘security’’ and inserting in lieu thereof a pe-
riod.
SEC. 102. NON-PREJUDICIAL REPEAL OF SECTIONS
1714 THROUGH 1717 OF THE HOMELAND SECURITY ACT
OF 2002. (a) REPEAL.—In accordance with subsection (c),
sections 1714 through 1717 of the Homeland Security Act
of 2002 (Public Law 107–296) are repealed.
(b) APPLICATION OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
ACT.—The Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 201 et
seq.) shall be applied and administered as if the sections
repealed by subsection (a) had never been enacted.
(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—No inference shall be
drawn from the enactment of sections 1714 through 1717
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of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–
296), or from this repeal, regarding the law prior to enact-
ment of sections 1714 through 1717 of the Homeland Secu-
rity Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–296). Further, no infer-
ence shall be drawn that subsection (a) or (b) effects any
change in that prior law, or that Leroy v. Secretary of
Health and Human Services, Office of Special Master, No.
02–392V (October 11, 2002), was incorrectly decided.
(d) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that—
(1) the Nation’s ability to produce and develop
new and effective vaccines faces significant challenges,
and important steps are needed to revitalize our im-
munization efforts in order to ensure an adequate
supply of vaccines and to encourage the development
of new vaccines;
(2) these steps include ensuring that patients
who have suffered vaccine-related injuries have the op-
portunity to seek fair and timely redress, and that
vaccine manufacturers, manufacturers of components
or ingredients of vaccines, and physicians and other
administrators of vaccines have adequate protections;
(3) prompt action is particularly critical given
that vaccines are a front line of defense against com-
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mon childhood and adult diseases, as well as against
current and future biological threats; and
(4) not later than 6 months after the date of en-
actment of this Act, the Committee on Health, Edu-
cation, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate should re-
port a bill addressing the issues described in para-
graphs (1) through (3).
SEC. 103. GENERAL.—The Homeland Security Act of
2002 (Public Law 107–296) is amended—
(1) in subsection 232(f), by striking the period at
the end of the sentence and inserting: ‘‘: Provided,
That any such transfer or provision of funding shall
be carried out in accordance with section 605 of Pub-
lic Law 107–77.’’;
(2) in subsection 234(b), by striking the period
at the end of the sentence and inserting: ‘‘: Provided,
That any such transfer shall be carried out in accord-
ance with section 605 of Public Law 107–77.’’;
(3) in subsection 873(b)—
(A) by inserting ‘‘Except as authorized by
section 2601 of title 10, United States Code, and
by section 93 of title 14, United States Code,’’
before the word ‘‘Gifts’’ in the second place it ap-
pears; and