H. R. 2378—6
BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO AND FIREARMS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, including purchase of not to exceed 650 vehicles for
police-type use for replacement only and hire of passenger motor
vehicles; hire of aircraft; services of expert witnesses at such rates
as may be determined by the Director; for payment of per diem
and/or subsistence allowances to employees where an assignment
to the National Response Team during the investigation of a bomb-
ing or arson incident requires an employee to work 16 hours or
more per day or to remain overnight at his or her post of duty;
not to exceed $12,500 for official reception and representation
expenses; for training of State and local law enforcement agencies
with or without reimbursement, including training in connection
with the training and acquisition of canines for explosives and
fire accelerants detection; and provision of laboratory assistance
to State and local agencies, with or without reimbursement;
$478,934,000, of which $1,250,000 may be used for the Youth Crime
Gun Interdiction Initiative; of which not to exceed $1,000,000 shall
be available for the payment of attorneys’ fees as provided by
18 U.S.C. 924(d)(2); and of which $1,000,000 shall be available
for the equipping of any vessel, vehicle, equipment, or aircraft
available for official use by a State or local law enforcement agency
if the conveyance will be used in drug-related joint law enforcement
operations with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and
for the payment of overtime salaries, travel, fuel, training, equip-
ment, and other similar costs of State and local law enforcement
officers that are incurred in joint operations with the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Provided, That no funds made avail-
able by this or any other Act may be used to transfer the functions,
missions, or activities of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire-
arms to other agencies or Departments in the fiscal year ending
on September 30, 1998: Provided further, That no funds appro-
priated herein shall be available for salaries or administrative
expenses in connection with consolidating or centralizing, within
the Department of the Treasury, the records, or any portion thereof,
of acquisition and disposition of firearms maintained by Federal
firearms licensees: Provided further, That no funds appropriated
herein shall be used to pay administrative expenses or the
compensation of any officer or employee of the United States to
implement an amendment or amendments to 27 CFR 178.118 or
to change the definition of ‘‘Curios or relics’’ in 27 CFR 178.11
or remove any item from ATF Publication 5300.11 as it existed
on January 1, 1994: Provided further, That none of the funds
appropriated herein shall be available to investigate or act upon
applications for relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 18
U.S.C. 925(c): Provided further, That such funds shall be available
to investigate and act upon applications filed by corporations for
relief from Federal firearms disabilities under 18 U.S.C. 925(c):
Provided further, That no funds in this Act may be used to provide
ballistics imaging equipment to any State or local authority who
has obtained similar equipment through a Federal grant or subsidy
unless the State or local authority agrees to return that equipment
or to repay that grant or subsidy to the Federal Government:
Provided further, That no funds under this Act may be used to
H. R. 2378—7
electronically retrieve information gathered pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
923(g)(4) by name or any personal identification code.
LABORATORY FACILITIES
For necessary expenses for construction of a new facility or
facilities to house the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
National Laboratory Center and the Fire Investigation Research
and Development Center, not to exceed 185,000 occupiable square
feet, $55,022,000 to remain available until expended: Provided,
That these funds shall not be available until a prospectus for
the Laboratory Facilities is reviewed and resolutions of authoriza-
tion are approved by the House Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure and the Senate Committee on Environment and Pub-
lic Works.
UNITED STATES CUSTOMS SERVICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the United States Customs Service,
including purchase and lease of up to 1,050 motor vehicles of
which 985 are for replacement only and of which 1,030 are for
police-type use and commercial operations; hire of motor vehicles;
contracting with individuals for personal services abroad; not to
exceed $30,000 for official reception and representation expenses;
and awards of compensation to informers, as authorized by any
Act enforced by the United States Customs Service; $1,522,165,000,
of which such sums as become available in the Customs User
Fee Account, except sums subject to section 13031(f)(3) of the
Consolidated Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1985, as amended (19
U.S.C. 58c(f)(3)), shall be derived from that Account; of the total,
not to exceed $150,000 shall be available for payment for rental
space in connection with preclearance operations, and not to exceed
$4,000,000 shall be available until expended for research, not to
exceed $5,000,000 shall be available until expended for conducting
special operations pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2081, and up to $6,000,000
shall be available until expended for the procurement of automation
infrastructure items, including hardware, software, and installation:
Provided, That uniforms may be purchased without regard to the
general purchase price limitation for the current fiscal year: Pro-
vided further, That $1,250,000 shall be available to fund the Global
Trade and Research Program at the Montana World Trade Center:
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the fiscal year aggregate overtime limitation prescribed in sub-
section 5(c)(1) of the Act of February 13, 1911 (19 U.S.C. 261
and 267) shall be $30,000.
OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE AND PROCUREMENT, AIR AND MARINE
INTERDICTION PROGRAMS
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the
operation and maintenance of marine vessels, aircraft, and other
related equipment of the Air and Marine Programs, including oper-
ational training and mission-related travel, and rental payments
for facilities occupied by the air or marine interdiction and demand
reduction programs, the operations of which include: the interdiction
of narcotics and other goods; the provision of support to Customs
H. R. 2378—8
and other Federal, State, and local agencies in the enforcement
or administration of laws enforced by the Customs Service; and,
at the discretion of the Commissioner of Customs, the provision
of assistance to Federal, State, and local agencies in other law
enforcement and emergency humanitarian efforts; $92,758,000,
which shall remain available until expended: Provided, That no
aircraft or other related equipment, with the exception of aircraft
which is one of a kind and has been identified as excess to Customs
requirements and aircraft which has been damaged beyond repair,
shall be transferred to any other Federal agency, department, or
office outside of the Department of the Treasury, during fiscal
year 1998 without the prior approval of the Committees on Appro-
priations.
CUSTOMS SERVICES AT SMALL AIRPORTS
(TO BE DERIVED FROM FEES COLLECTED)
Beginning in fiscal year 1998 and thereafter, such sums as
may be necessary for expenses for the provision of Customs services
at certain small airports or other facilities when authorized by
law and designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, including
expenditures for the salary and expenses of individuals employed
to provide such services, to be derived from fees collected by the
Secretary pursuant to section 236 of Public Law 98–573 for each
of these airports or other facilities when authorized by law and
designated by the Secretary, and to remain available until
expended.
HARBOR MAINTENANCE FEE COLLECTION
For administrative expenses related to the collection of the
Harbor Maintenance Fee, pursuant to Public Law 103–182,
$3,000,000, to be derived from the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund
and to be transferred to and merged with the Customs ‘‘Salaries
and Expenses’’ account for such purposes.
BUREAU OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
ADMINISTERING THE PUBLIC DEBT
For necessary expenses connected with any public-debt issues
of the United States, $173,826,000, of which not to exceed $2,500
shall be available for official reception and representation expenses,
and of which $2,000,000 shall remain available until September
30, 2000 for information systems modernization initiatives: Pro-
vided, That the sum appropriated herein from the General Fund
for fiscal year 1998 shall be reduced by not more than $4,400,000
as definitive security issue fees and Treasury Direct Investor
Account Maintenance fees are collected, so as to result in a final
fiscal year 1998 appropriation from the General Fund estimated
at $169,426,000, and in addition, $20,000, to be derived from the
Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund to reimburse the Bureau for adminis-
trative and personnel expenses for financial management of the
Fund, as authorized by section 102 of Public Law 101–380: Provided
further, That notwithstanding any other provisions of law, effective
upon enactment, the Bureau of the Public Debt shall be fully
and directly reimbursed by the funds described in Public Law
H. R. 2378—9
101–136, title I, section 104, 103 Stat. 789 for costs and services
performed by the Bureau in the administration of such funds.
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE
PROCESSING, ASSISTANCE, AND MANAGEMENT
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service, not
otherwise provided for; including processing tax returns; revenue
accounting; providing tax law and account assistance to taxpayers
by telephone and correspondence; matching information returns
and tax returns; management services; rent and utilities; and
inspection; including purchase (not to exceed 150 for replacement
only for police-type use) and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31
U.S.C. 1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at
such rates as may be determined by the Commissioner;
$2,925,874,000, of which up to $3,700,000 shall be for the Tax
Counseling for the Elderly Program, and of which not to exceed
$25,000 shall be for official reception and representation expenses.
TAX LAW ENFORCEMENT
(INCLUDING RESCISSION)
For necessary expenses of the Internal Revenue Service for
determining and establishing tax liabilities; tax and enforcement
litigation; technical rulings; examining employee plans and exempt
organizations; investigation and enforcement activities; securing
unfiled tax returns; collecting unpaid accounts; statistics of income
and compliance research; the purchase (for police-type use, not
to exceed 850), and hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C.
1343(b)); and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such
rates as may be determined by the Commissioner, $3,142,822,000:
Provided, That of the funds appropriated under this heading in
Public Law 104–208, $26,000,000 is rescinded and in Public Law
104–52, $6,000,000 is rescinded.
EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT COMPLIANCE INITIATIVE
For funding essential earned income tax credit compliance and
error reduction initiatives pursuant to section 5702 of the Balanced
Budget Act of 1997 (Public Law 105–33), $138,000,000, of which
not to exceed $10,000,000 may be used to reimburse the Social
Security Administration for the costs of implementing section 1090
of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
For necessary expenses for data processing and telecommuni-
cations support for Internal Revenue Service activities, including
developmental information systems and operational information
systems; the hire of passenger motor vehicles (31 U.S.C. 1343(b));
and services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, at such rates as
may be determined by the Commissioner, $1,272,487,000, which
shall be available until September 30, 1999: Provided, That under
the heading ‘‘Information Systems’’ in Public Law 104–208 (110
Stat. 3009), the following is deleted: ‘‘of which no less than
$130,075,000 shall be available for Tax Systems Modernization
(TSM) development and deployment’’: Provided further, That the