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prior and specific statutory approval to receive financial
support from more than one agency or instrumentality.
SEC. 611. Funds made available by this or any other
Act to the Postal Service Fund (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall be
available for employment of guards for all buildings and
areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service and under
the charge and control of the Postal Service, and such
guards shall have, with respect to such property, the powers
of special policemen provided by the first section of the Act
of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318),
and, as to property owned or occupied by the Postal Service,
the Postmaster General may take the same actions as the
Administrator of General Services may take under the pro-
visions of sections 2 and 3 of the Act of June 1, 1948, as
amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318a and 318b), attach-
ing thereto penal consequences under the authority and
within the limits provided in section 4 of the Act of June
1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C. 318c).
SEC. 612. None of the funds made available pursuant
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement,
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the United
States.
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SEC. 613. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, no
part of any of the funds appropriated for fiscal year 2002,
by this or any other Act, may be used to pay any prevailing
rate employee described in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5,
United States Code—
(1) during the period from the date of expiration
of the limitation imposed by section 613 of the Treas-
ury and General Government Appropriations Act,
2001, until the normal effective date of the applicable
wage survey adjustment that is to take effect in fiscal
year 2002, in an amount that exceeds the rate pay-
able for the applicable grade and step of the applica-
ble wage schedule in accordance with such section
613; and
(2) during the period consisting of the remainder
of fiscal year 2002, in an amount that exceeds, as a
result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate payable
under paragraph (1) by more than the sum of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking effect
in fiscal year 2002 under section 5303 of title 5,
United States Code, in the rates of pay under the
General Schedule; and
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
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parability payments taking effect in fiscal year
2002 under section 5304 of such title (whether by
adjustment or otherwise), and the overall average
percentage of such payments which was effective
in fiscal year 2001 under such section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code, and
no employee covered by section 5348 of such title, may be
paid during the periods for which subsection (a) is in effect
at a rate that exceeds the rates that would be payable under
subsection (a) were subsection (a) applicable to such em-
ployee.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable
to an employee who is covered by this section and who is
paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30,
2001, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by
the Office of Personnel Management.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30,
2001, except to the extent determined by the Office of Per-
sonnel Management to be consistent with the purpose of this
section.
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(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for
service performed after September 30, 2001.
(f) For the purpose of administering any provision of
law (including any rule or regulation that provides pre-
mium pay, retirement, life insurance, or any other em-
ployee benefit) that requires any deduction or contribution,
or that imposes any requirement or limitation on the basis
of a rate of salary or basic pay, the rate of salary or basic
pay payable after the application of this section shall be
treated as the rate of salary or basic pay.
(g) Nothing in this section shall be considered to per-
mit or require the payment to any employee covered by this
section at a rate in excess of the rate that would be payable
were this section not in effect.
(h) The Office of Personnel Management may provide
for exceptions to the limitations imposed by this section if
the Office determines that such exceptions are necessary to
ensure the recruitment or retention of qualified employees.
SEC. 614. During the period in which the head of any
department or agency, or any other officer or civilian em-
ployee of the Government appointed by the President of the
United States, holds office, no funds may be obligated or
expended in excess of $5,000 to furnish or redecorate the
office of such department head, agency head, officer, or em-
ployee, or to purchase furniture or make improvements for
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any such office, unless advance notice of such furnishing
or redecoration is expressly approved by the Committees on
Appropriations. For the purposes of this section, the word
‘‘office’’ shall include the entire suite of offices assigned to
the individual, as well as any other space used primarily
by the individual or the use of which is directly controlled
by the individual.
SEC. 615. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
no executive branch agency shall purchase, construct, and/
or lease any additional facilities, except within or contig-
uous to existing locations, to be used for the purpose of con-
ducting Federal law enforcement training without the ad-
vance approval of the Committees on Appropriations, ex-
cept that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center is
authorized to obtain the temporary use of additional facili-
ties by lease, contract, or other agreement for training
which cannot be accommodated in existing Center facilities.
SEC. 616. Notwithstanding section 1346 of title 31,
United States Code, or section 610 of this Act, funds made
available for fiscal year 2002 by this or any other Act shall
be available for the interagency funding of national security
and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives
which benefit multiple Federal departments, agencies, or en-
tities, as provided by Executive Order No. 12472 (April 3,
1984).
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SEC. 617. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this
or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality for the
salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a position
of a confidential or policy-determining character excepted
from the competitive service pursuant to section 3302 of
title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the
Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Fed-
eral department, agency, or other instrumentality employ-
ing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position
was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the
employee to the White House.
(b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to
Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed
to or from—
(1) the Central Intelligence Agency;
(2) the National Security Agency;
(3) the Defense Intelligence Agency;
(4) the offices within the Department of Defense
for the collection of specialized national foreign intel-
ligence through reconnaissance programs;
(5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of
the Department of State;
(6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army,
Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bu-