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the 
training 
and 
employment 
of 
people 
with 
disabilities, 
$26,679,000. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for Departmental Management, 
including the hire of three sedans, and including the management 
or operation, through contracts, grants or other arrangements of 
Departmental activities conducted by or through the Bureau of 
International Labor Affairs, including bilateral and multilateral 
technical assistance and other international labor activities, 
$313,871,000, of which $86,074,000 is for the Bureau of Inter-
national Labor Affairs (including $6,500,000 to implement model 
programs to address worker rights issues through technical assist-
ance in countries with which the United States has trade preference 
programs), and of which $21,286,000 is for the acquisition of Depart-
mental information technology, architecture, infrastructure, equip-
ment, software and related needs, which will be allocated by the 
Department’s Chief Information Officer in accordance with the 
Department’s capital investment management process to assure 
a sound investment strategy; together with not to exceed $327,000, 
which may be expended from the Employment Security Administra-
tion Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
OFFICE OF JOB CORPS 
To carry out subtitle C of title I of the Workforce Investment 
Act of 1998, including Federal administrative expenses, the pur-
chase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, the construction, alter-
ation and repairs of buildings and other facilities, and the purchase 
of real property for training centers as authorized by the Workforce 
Investment Act; $1,683,938,000, plus reimbursements, as follows: 
(1) $1,540,276,000 for Job Corps Operations, of which 
$949,276,000 shall be available for obligation for the period 
July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010 and of which $591,000,000 
shall be available for obligation for the period October 1, 2009 
through June 30, 2010; 
(2) $115,000,000 for construction, rehabilitation and 
acquisition of Job Corps Centers, of which $15,000,000 shall 
be available for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 
2012 and $100,000,000 shall be available for the period October 
1, 2009 through June 30, 2012; and 
(3) $28,662,000 for necessary expenses of the Office of 
Job Corps shall be available for obligation for the period October 
1, 2008 through September 30, 2009: 
Provided, That the Office of Job Corps shall have contracting 
authority: Provided further, That no funds from any other appro-
priation shall be used to provide meal services at or for Job Corps 
centers. 
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $205,468,000 may be derived from the Employ-
ment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund to carry out the provisions of 38 U.S.C. 4100–4113, 4211– 
4215, and 4321–4327, and Public Law 103–353, and which shall
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be available for obligation by the States through December 31, 
2009, of which $1,949,000 is for the National Veterans’ Employment 
and Training Services Institute. To carry out the Homeless Veterans 
Reintegration Programs under section 5(a)(1) of the Homeless Vet-
erans Comprehensive Assistance Act of 2001 and the Veterans 
Workforce Investment Programs under section 168 of the Workforce 
Investment Act, $33,971,000, of which $7,641,000 shall be available 
for obligation for the period July 1, 2009 through June 30, 2010. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For salaries and expenses of the Office of Inspector General 
in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act of 
1978, $76,326,000, together with not to exceed $5,815,000, which 
may be expended from the Employment Security Administration 
Account in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in this Act for the 
Job Corps shall be used to pay the salary of an individual, either 
as direct costs or any proration as an indirect cost, at a rate 
in excess of Executive Level I. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 102. Not to exceed 1 percent of any discretionary funds 
(pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control 
Act of 1985) which are appropriated for the current fiscal year 
for the Department of Labor in this Act may be transferred between 
a program, project, or activity, but no such program, project, or 
activity shall be increased by more than 3 percent by any such 
transfer: Provided, That the transfer authority granted by this 
section shall be available only to meet emergency needs and shall 
not be used to create any new program or to fund any project 
or activity for which no funds are provided in this Act: Provided 
further, That the Committees on Appropriations of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate are notified at least 15 days in 
advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 103. In accordance with Executive Order No. 13126, none 
of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available pursuant 
to this Act shall be obligated or expended for the procurement 
of goods mined, produced, manufactured, or harvested or services 
rendered, whole or in part, by forced or indentured child labor 
in industries and host countries already identified by the United 
States Department of Labor prior to enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 104. After September 30, 2008, the Secretary of Labor 
shall issue a monthly transit subsidy of not less than the full 
amount (of not less than $115) that each of its employees of the 
National Capital Region is eligible to receive. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds appropriated in this title for 
grants under section 171 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 
may be obligated prior to the preparation and submission of a 
report by the Secretary of Labor to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate detailing 
the planned uses of such funds.