H. J. Res. 52 
One Hundred Tenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the fourth day of January, two thousand and seven 
Joint Resolution 
Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 2008, and for other purposes. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fol-
lowing sums are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of applicable cor-
porate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, for the several depart-
ments, agencies, corporations, and other organizational units of 
Government for fiscal year 2008, and for other purposes, namely: 
SEC. 101. Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate for 
operations as provided in the applicable appropriations Acts for 
fiscal year 2007 and under the authority and conditions provided 
in such Acts, for continuing projects or activities (including the 
costs of direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise 
specifically provided for in this joint resolution, that were conducted 
in fiscal year 2007, and for which appropriations, funds, or other 
authority were made available in the following appropriations Acts: 
(1) The Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 
(division A of Public Law 109–289). 
(2) The Department of Homeland Security Appropriations 
Act, 2007 (Public Law 109–295). 
(3) The Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 (divi-
sion B of Public Law 109–289, as amended by Public Law 
110–5). 
SEC. 102. (a) No appropriation or funds made available or 
authority granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of 
Defense shall be used for: (1) the new production of items not 
funded for production in fiscal year 2007 or prior years; (2) the 
increase in production rates above those sustained with fiscal year 
2007 funds; or (3) the initiation, resumption, or continuation of 
any project, activity, operation, or organization (defined as any 
project, subproject, activity, budget activity, program element, and 
subprogram within a program element, and for any investment 
items defined as a P–1 line item in a budget activity within an 
appropriation account and an R–1 line item that includes a program 
element and subprogram element within an appropriation account) 
for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were not avail-
able during fiscal year 2007. 
(b) No appropriation or funds made available or authority 
granted pursuant to section 101 for the Department of Defense 
shall be used to initiate multi-year procurements utilizing advance 
procurement funding for economic order quantity procurement 
unless specifically appropriated later.
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(c) Notwithstanding this section, the Secretary of Defense may, 
following notification of the congressional defense committees, ini-
tiate projects or activities required to be undertaken for force protec-
tion purposes using funds available from the Iraq Freedom Fund. 
SEC. 103. Appropriations made by section 101 shall be available 
to the extent and in the manner that would be provided by the 
pertinent appropriations Act. 
SEC. 104. Except as otherwise provided in section 102, no 
appropriation or funds made available or authority granted pursu-
ant to section 101 shall be used to initiate or resume any project 
or activity for which appropriations, funds, or other authority were 
not available during fiscal year 2007. 
SEC. 105. Appropriations made and authority granted pursuant 
to this joint resolution shall cover all obligations or expenditures 
incurred for any project or activity during the period for which 
funds or authority for such project or activity are available under 
this joint resolution. 
SEC. 106. Unless otherwise provided for in this joint resolution 
or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008, appro-
priations and funds made available and authority granted pursuant 
to this joint resolution shall be available until whichever of the 
following first occurs: (1) the enactment into law of an appropriation 
for any project or activity provided for in this joint resolution; 
(2) the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act 
for fiscal year 2008 without any provision for such project or activity; 
or (3) November 16, 2007. 
SEC. 107. Expenditures made pursuant to this joint resolution 
shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, fund, or authoriza-
tion whenever a bill in which such applicable appropriation, fund, 
or authorization is contained is enacted into law. 
SEC. 108. Appropriations made and funds made available by 
or authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution may be used 
without regard to the time limitations for submission and approval 
of apportionments set forth in section 1513 of title 31, United 
States Code, but nothing in this joint resolution may be construed 
to waive any other provision of law governing the apportionment 
of funds. 
SEC. 109. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint 
resolution, except section 106, for those programs that would other-
wise have high initial rates of operation or complete distribution 
of appropriations at the beginning of fiscal year 2008 because of 
distributions of funding to States, foreign countries, grantees, or 
others, such high initial rates of operation or complete distribution 
shall not be made, and no grants shall be awarded for such pro-
grams funded by this joint resolution that would impinge on final 
funding prerogatives. 
SEC. 110. This joint resolution shall be implemented so that 
only the most limited funding action of that permitted in the joint 
resolution shall be taken in order to provide for continuation of 
projects and activities. 
SEC. 111. (a) For entitlements and other mandatory payments 
whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for 
fiscal year 2007, and for activities under the Food Stamp Act 
of 1977, activities shall be continued at the rate to maintain pro-
gram levels under current law, under the authority and conditions 
provided in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal year 2007, 
to be continued through the date specified in section 106(3).