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BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 
including advances or reimbursements to State, Federal, and local 
agencies and their employees for services rendered, $476,861,000, 
together with not to exceed $77,067,000, which may be expended 
from the Employment Security Administration Account in the 
Unemployment Trust Fund, of which $5,000,000 may be used to 
fund the mass layoff statistics program under section 15 of the 
Wagner-Peyser Act: Provided, That the Current Employment 
Survey shall maintain the content of the survey issued prior to 
June 2005 with respect to the collection of data for the women 
worker series. 
OFFICE OF DISABILITY EMPLOYMENT POLICY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Disability Employment 
Policy to provide leadership, develop policy and initiatives, and 
award grants furthering the objective of eliminating barriers to 
the 
training 
and 
employment 
of 
people 
with 
disabilities, 
$27,712,000. 
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, 
$296,756,000, of which $82,516,000 is for the Bureau of Inter-
national Labor Affairs (including $5,000,000 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 $20,000,000 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 $308,000, 
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; $1,626,855,000, plus reimbursements, as follows: 
(1) $1,485,357,000 for Job Corps Operations, of which 
$894,357,000 is available for obligation for the period July
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1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 and of which $591,000,000 
is available for obligation for the period October 1, 2008 through 
June 30, 2009. 
(2) $112,920,000 for construction, rehabilitation and 
acquisition of Job Corps Centers, of which $12,920,000 is avail-
able for the period July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2011 and 
$100,000,000 is available for the period October 1, 2008 through 
June 30, 2011. 
(3) $28,578,000 for necessary expenses of the Office of 
Job Corps is available for obligation for the period October 
1, 2007 through September 30, 2008: 
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: Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
in this Act shall be used to reduce Job Corps total student training 
slots below the current level of 44,491 in program year 2008. 
VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
Not to exceed $200,631,000 may be derived from the Employ-
ment Security Administration Account in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund to carry out the provisions of sections 4100–4113, 4211– 
4215, and 4321–4327 of title 38, United States Code, and Public 
Law 103–353, and which shall be available for obligation by the 
States through December 31, 2008, of which $1,984,000 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 Veterans Comprehensive Assistance 
Act of 2001 and the Veterans Workforce Investment Programs 
under section 168 of the Workforce Investment Act, $31,522,000, 
of which $7,482,000 shall be available for obligation for the period 
July 1, 2008, through June 30, 2009. 
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, $70,072,000, together with not to exceed $5,641,000, 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
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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, 2007, the Secretary of Labor 
shall issue a monthly transit subsidy of not less than the full 
amount (of not less than $110) 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. 
SEC. 106. There is authorized to be appropriated such sums 
as may be necessary to the Denali Commission through the Depart-
ment of Labor to conduct job training of the local workforce where 
Denali Commission projects will be constructed. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds made available to the Department 
of Labor for grants under section 414(c) of the American Competi-
tiveness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 may be used 
for any purpose other than training in the occupations and indus-
tries for which employers are using H–1B visas to hire foreign 
workers, and the related activities necessary to support such 
training: Provided, That the preceding limitation shall not apply 
to multi-year grants awarded prior to June 30, 2007. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds available in this Act or available 
to the Secretary of Labor from other sources for Community-Based 
Job Training grants and grants authorized under section 414(c) 
of the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act 
of 1998 shall be obligated for a grant awarded on a non-competitive 
basis. 
SEC. 109. The Secretary of Labor shall take no action to amend, 
through regulatory or administration action, the definition estab-
lished in 20 CFR 667.220 for functions and activities under title 
I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, or to modify, through 
regulatory or administrative action, the procedure for redesignation 
of local areas as specified in subtitle B of title I of that Act (including 
applying the standards specified in section 116(a)(3)(B) of that 
Act, but notwithstanding the time limits specified in section 
116(a)(3)(B) of that Act), until such time as legislation reauthorizing 
the Act is enacted. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall permit 
or require the Secretary of Labor to withdraw approval for such 
redesignation from a State that received the approval not later 
than October 12, 2005, or to revise action taken or modify the 
redesignation procedure being used by the Secretary in order to 
complete such redesignation for a State that initiated the process 
of such redesignation by submitting any request for such redesigna-
tion not later than October 26, 2005.
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SEC. 110. None of the funds made available in this or any 
other Act shall be available to finalize or implement any proposed 
regulation under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Wagner- 
Peyser Act of 1933, or the Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform 
Act of 2002 until such time as legislation reauthorizing the 
Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and the Trade Adjustment Assist-
ance Reform Act of 2002 is enacted. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds available in this Act may be 
used to carry out a public-private competition or direct conversion 
under Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 or any 
successor administrative regulation, directive or policy until 60 
days after the Government Accountability Office provides a report 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate on the use of competitive sourcing at the 
Department of Labor. 
SEC. 112. (a) Not later than June 20, 2008, the Secretary 
of Labor shall propose regulations pursuant to section 303(y) of 
the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, consistent with 
the recommendations of the Technical Study Panel established 
pursuant to section 11 of the Mine Improvement and New Emer-
gency Response (MINER) Act (Public Law 109–236), to require 
that in any coal mine, regardless of the date on which it was 
opened, belt haulage entries not be used to ventilate active working 
places without prior approval from the Assistant Secretary. Further, 
a mine ventilation plan incorporating the use of air coursed through 
belt haulage entries to ventilate active working places shall not 
be approved until the Assistant Secretary has reviewed the elements 
of the plan related to the use of belt air and determined that 
the plan at all times affords at least the same measure of protection 
where belt haulage entries are not used to ventilate working places. 
The Secretary shall finalize the regulations not later than December 
31, 2008. 
(b) Not later than June 15, 2008, the Secretary of Labor shall 
propose regulations pursuant to section 315 of the Federal Coal 
Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, consistent with the rec-
ommendations of the National Institute for Occupational Safety 
and Health pursuant to section 13 of the MINER Act (Public Law 
109–236), requiring rescue chambers, or facilities that afford at 
least the same measure of protection, in underground coal mines. 
The Secretary shall finalize the regulations not later than December 
31, 2008. 
SEC. 113. None of the funds appropriated in this Act under 
the heading ‘‘Employment and Training Administration’’ shall be 
used by a recipient or subrecipient of such funds to pay the salary 
and bonuses of an individual, either as direct costs or indirect 
costs, at a rate in excess of Executive Level II. This limitation 
shall not apply to vendors providing goods and services as defined 
in OMB Circular A–133. Where States are recipients of such funds, 
States may establish a lower limit for salaries and bonuses of 
those receiving salaries and bonuses from subrecipients of such 
funds, taking into account factors including the relative cost-of- 
living in the State, the compensation levels for comparable State 
or local government employees, and the size of the organizations 
that administer Federal programs involved including Employment 
and Training Administration programs. 
SEC. 114. (a) In this section: