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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2688
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal authorities relating 
to H1–B visas for temporary workers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 9, 2003
Mr. TANCREDO introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on the Judiciary 
A BILL 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal 
authorities relating to H1–B visas for temporary workers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. REPEAL OF AUTHORITIES RELATING TO H1–B 
VISAS FOR TEMPORARY WORKERS. 
(a) REPEAL OF H1–B PROVISIONS.—The Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.) is amend-
ed by striking section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), section 212(n), 
section 214(c)(9), section 214(c)(10), and section 286(s). 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Section 214(c)(5)(A) of the Immigration 
and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C 1184(c)(5)(A)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) or’’. 
(2) Section 214(g)(1) (8 U.S.C. 1184(g)(1)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘1992)—’’ and all that follows 
through ‘‘(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘1992)’’.
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1994 (16 U.S.C. 5301–5306), and the Great Ape Conserva-
tion Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 6301), $6,000,000, to remain
available until expended.
STATE AND TRIBAL WILDLIFE GRANTS
For wildlife conservation grants to States and to the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the United States
Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, American
Samoa, and federally recognized Indian tribes under the
provisions of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 and the
Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, for the development
and implementation of programs for the benefit of wildlife
and their habitat, including species that are not hunted or
fished, $75,000,000 to be derived from the Land and Water
Conservation Fund, and to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That of the amount provided herein,
$5,000,000 is for a competitive grant program for Indian
tribes not subject to the remaining provisions of this appro-
priation: Provided further, That the Secretary shall, after
deducting said $5,000,000 and administrative expenses, ap-
portion the amount provided herein in the following man-
ner: (A) to the District of Columbia and to the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico, each a sum equal to not more than
one-half of 1 percent thereof; and (B) to Guam, American
Samoa, the United States Virgin Islands, and the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, each a sum equal
‘‘(1) to assess how Native American language 
survival school students are performing in compari-
son with other students; and 
‘‘(2) to identify instructional methods that are 
working and instructional methods that are not 
working. 
‘‘(f) ENDOWMENTS AND FACILITIES.—A demonstra-
tion program established under this section may—
‘‘(1) establish endowments to further the activi-
ties of the demonstration program relating to the 
study and preservation of Native American lan-
guages; and 
‘‘(2) use funds to provide for the rental, lease, 
purchase, construction, maintenance, and repair of 
facilities. 
‘‘SEC. 111. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
this title such sums as are necessary for each of fiscal 
years 2004 through 2009.’’.
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(A) IN GENERAL.—If the initial period for 
any import relief provided under this section is 
less than 3 years, the President, after receiving 
an affirmative determination from the Commis-
sion under subparagraph (B), may extend the 
effective period of any import relief provided 
under this section, subject to the limitation 
under paragraph (1), if the President deter-
mines that—
(i) the import relief continues to be 
necessary to remedy or prevent serious in-
jury and to facilitate adjustment; and 
(ii) there is evidence that the industry 
is making a positive adjustment to import 
competition. 
(B) ACTION BY COMMISSION.—(i) Upon a 
petition on behalf of the industry concerned, 
filed with the Commission not earlier than the 
date which is 9 months, and not later than the 
date which is 6 months, before the date on 
which any action taken under subsection (a) is 
to terminate, the Commission shall conduct an 
investigation to determine whether action under 
this section continues to be necessary to remedy 
or prevent serious injury and whether there is
from the States, engravers of the United States 
Mint, and members of the general public. 
‘‘(D) STANDARDS.—Because it is impor-
tant that the Nation’s coinage and currency 
bear dignified designs of which the citizens of 
the United States can be proud, the Secretary 
shall not select any frivolous or inappropriate 
design for any $1 Federal reserve note subject 
to this subsection. 
‘‘(E) PROHIBITION
ON
CERTAIN
REP-
RESENTATIONS.—No head and shoulders por-
trait or bust of any person, living or dead, and 
no portrait of a living person may be included 
in the design of a State capitol or statehouse on 
any $1 Federal reserve note under this sub-
section. 
‘‘(5) APPLICATION IN EVENT OF THE ADMIS-
SION
OF
ADDITIONAL
STATES.—If any additional 
State is admitted into the Union before the end of 
the 10-year period referred to in paragraph (1), the 
Secretary of the Treasury may print, and the Board 
issue, $1 Federal reserve notes, in accordance with 
this subsection, with a design which is emblematic of 
the capitol or statehouse of such State during any 
1 year of such 10-year period, in addition to the $1
Federal reserve notes issued during such year in ac-
cordance with paragraph (3)(A). 
‘‘(6) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this sub-
section, the following definitions shall apply: 
‘‘(A) BOARD.—The term ‘Board’ means 
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System. 
‘‘(B) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ 
means the Secretary of the Treasury.’’. 
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(5) The excessive sales charges of the contractual 
plan makes it susceptible to abusive and misleading 
sales practices. 
(6) Certain life insurance products being offered 
to our service members are being improperly mar-
keted as investment products. These products provide 
very low death benefits for very high premiums that 
are front-loaded in the first few years, making them 
completely inappropriate for most military personnel. 
(7) Regulation of these securities and life insur-
ance products and their sale on military bases has 
been clearly inadequate and requires Congressional 
legislation to address. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON FUTURE SALES OF PERIODIC PAY-
MENT PLANS. 
(a) AMENDMENT.—Section 27 of the Investment Com-
pany Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-27) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(j) TERMINATION OF SALES.—
‘‘(1) TERMINATION.—Effective 30 days after the 
date of enactment of the Military Personnel Financial 
Services Protection Act, it shall be unlawful, subject 
to subsection (i)—
stitute for the base rate an ad valorem rate that the Presi-
dent determines to be equivalent to the base rate.
SEC. 202. RULES OF ORIGIN.
(a) ORIGINATING GOODS.—For purposes of this Act
and for purposes of implementing the tariff treatment pro-
vided for under the Agreement, except as otherwise pro-
vided in this section, a good is an originating good if—
(1) the good is wholly obtained or produced en-
tirely in the territory of Singapore, the United
States, or both;
(2) each nonoriginating material used in the
production of the good—
(A) undergoes an applicable change in tar-
iff classification set out in Annex 3A of the
Agreement as a result of production occurring
entirely in the territory of Singapore, the
United States, or both; or
(B) if no change in tariff classification is
required, the good otherwise satisfies the appli-
cable requirements of such Annex; or
(3) the good itself, as imported, is listed in
Annex 3B of the Agreement and is imported into the
territory of the United States from the territory of
Singapore.
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submit to the Secretary for approval a management plan for
the Heritage Area.
(2) CONSIDERATION
OF
OTHER
PLANS
AND
ACTIONS.—In
developing the management plan, the management entity
shall—
(A) for the purpose of presenting a unified preservation
and interpretation plan, take into consideration Federal,
State, and local plans; and
(B) provide for the participation of residents, public
agencies, and private organizations in the Heritage Area.
(3) CONTENTS.—The management plan shall—
(A) present comprehensive recommendations and
strategies for the conservation, funding, management, and
development of the Heritage Area;
(B) identify existing and potential sources of Federal
and non-Federal funding for the conservation, manage-
ment, and development of the Heritage Area; and
(C) include—
(i) an inventory of the cultural, historical, natural,
and recreational resources of the Heritage Area,
including a list of property that—
(I) relates to the purposes of the Heritage
Area; and
(II) should be conserved, restored, managed,
developed, or maintained because of the signifi-
cance of the property;
(ii) a program of strategies and actions for the
implementation of the management plan that identifies
the roles of agencies and organizations that are
involved in the implementation of the management
plan;
(iii) an interpretive and educational plan for the
Heritage Area;
(iv) a recommendation of policies for resource
management and protection that develop intergovern-
mental cooperative agreements to manage and protect
the cultural, historical, natural, and recreational
resources of the Heritage Area; and
(v) an analysis of ways in which Federal, State,
and local programs may best be coordinated to promote
the purposes of this section.
(4) EFFECT OF FAILURE TO SUBMIT.—If a management plan
is not submitted to the Secretary by the date described in
paragraph (1), the Secretary shall not provide any additional
funding under this section until a management plan is sub-
mitted to the Secretary.
(5) APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF MANAGEMENT PLAN.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after receiving
the management plan submitted under paragraph (1), the
Secretary shall approve or disapprove the management
plan.
(B) CRITERIA.—In determining whether to approve the
management plan, the Secretary shall consider whether
the management plan—
(i) has strong local support from landowners, busi-
ness interests, nonprofit organizations, and govern-
ments in the Heritage Area; and
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essary vegetation, and covering costs of the De-
partment of Agriculture described in subsection
(c)(1).’’; and
(D) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘sub-
sections (b) and’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection’’;
(5) in subsection (g)—
(A) by striking ‘‘charges and fees under
subsections (b) and’’ and inserting ‘‘fees under
subsection’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘subsections (b) and’’ the
second place it appears and inserting ‘‘sub-
section’’; and
(6) in subsection (h), by striking paragraph (1)
and inserting the following new paragraph (1):
‘‘(1) COLLECTION OF FEES.—The Secretary of
Agriculture may collect fees under the authority of
subsection (c) until September 30, 2009.’’.
SEC. 335. None of the funds in this Act can be used
to initiate any new competitive sourcing studies.
SEC. 336. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be used for the implementation of a competitive
sourcing study at the Midwest Archaeological Center in
Lincoln, Nebraska, or the Southeast Archaeological Cen-
ter in Florida.
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SEC. 337. None of the funds made available by this
Act may be used to implement amendments to Bureau of
Land Management regulations on Recordable Disclaimers
of Interest in Land (subpart 1864 of part 1860 of title
43, Code of Federal Regulations) as adopted on January
6, 2003, with regard to any lands within a designated Na-
tional Monument, Wilderness Study Area, National Park
System unit, National Wildlife Refuge System unit, or
lands within the National Wilderness Preservation Sys-
tem.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of the In-
terior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004’’.
Passed the House of Representatives July 17, 2003.
Attest:
Clerk.
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lization of fishery and wildlife resources, and the acquisi-
tion of lands and interests therein; $52,718,000, to remain 
available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for acquisition of land or waters, or interest 
therein, in accordance with statutory authority applicable 
to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 
$23,058,000, to be derived from the Land and Water Con-
servation Fund, and to remain available until expended: 
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated for specific 
land acquisition projects can be used to pay for any ad-
ministrative overhead, planning or other management 
costs. 
LANDOWNER INCENTIVE PROGRAM 
For expenses necessary to carry out the Land and 
Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 460l–4 through 11), including administrative ex-
penses, and for private conservation efforts to be carried 
out on private lands, $40,000,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended: Provided, That the amount provided 
herein is for a Landowner Incentive Program established
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servation Act of 1965, as amended (16 U.S.C. 460l–6a(i)); 
and $3,000,000 shall be available in fiscal year 2004 sub-
ject to a match by at least an equal amount by the Na-
tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation for cost-shared 
projects supporting conservation of Bureau lands; and 
such funds shall be advanced to the Foundation as a lump 
sum grant without regard to when expenses are incurred; 
in addition, $32,696,000 is for Mining Law Administra-
tion program operations, including the cost of admin-
istering the mining claim fee program; to remain available 
until expended, to be reduced by amounts collected by the 
Bureau and credited to this appropriation from annual 
mining claim fees so as to result in a final appropriation 
estimated 
at 
not 
more 
than 
$834,088,000, 
and 
$2,000,000, to remain available until expended, from com-
munication site rental fees established by the Bureau for 
the cost of administering communication site activities: 
Provided, That appropriations herein made shall not be 
available for the destruction of healthy, unadopted, wild 
horses and burros in the care of the Bureau or its contrac-
tors. 
WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT 
For necessary expenses for fire preparedness, sup-
pression operations, fire science and research, emergency 
rehabilitation, hazardous fuels reduction, and rural fire as-
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sistance by the Department of the Interior, $698,725,000, 
to remain available until expended, of which not to exceed 
$12,374,000 shall be for the renovation or construction 
of fire facilities: Provided, That such funds are also avail-
able for repayment of advances to other appropriation ac-
counts from which funds were previously transferred for 
such purposes: Provided further, That persons hired pur-
suant to 43 U.S.C. 1469 may be furnished subsistence and 
lodging without cost from funds available from this appro-
priation: Provided further, That notwithstanding 42 
U.S.C. 1856d, sums received by a bureau or office of the 
Department of the Interior for fire protection rendered 
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1856 et seq., protection of United 
States property, may be credited to the appropriation from 
which funds were expended to provide that protection, and 
are available without fiscal year limitation: Provided fur-
ther, That using the amounts designated under this title 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior may enter into 
procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements, 
for hazardous fuels reduction activities, and for training 
and monitoring associated with such hazardous fuels re-
duction activities, on Federal land, or on adjacent non-
Federal land for activities that benefit resources on Fed-
eral land: Provided further, That the costs of implementing 
any cooperative agreement between the Federal Govern-
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ment and any non-Federal entity may be shared, as mutu-
ally agreed on by the affected parties: Provided further, 
That in entering into such grants or cooperative agree-
ments, the Secretary may consider the enhancement of 
local and small business employment opportunities for 
rural communities, and that in entering into procurement 
contracts under this heading on a best value basis, the 
Secretary may take into account the ability of an entity 
to enhance local and small business employment opportu-
nities in rural communities, and that the Secretary may 
award procurement contracts, grants, or cooperative 
agreements under this heading to entities that include 
local non-profit entities, Youth Conservation Corps or re-
lated partnerships, or small or disadvantaged businesses: 
Provided further, That funds appropriated under this head 
may be used to reimburse the United States Fish and 
Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service 
for the costs of carrying out their responsibilities under 
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.) to consult and conference, as required by section 7 
of such Act in connection with wildland fire management 
activities: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-
rior may use wildland fire appropriations to enter into 
non-competitive sole source leases of real property with 
local governments, at or below fair market value, to con-
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struct capitalized improvements for fire facilities on such 
leased properties, including but not limited to fire guard 
stations, retardant stations, and other initial attack and 
fire support facilities, and to make advance payments for 
any such lease or for construction activity associated with 
the lease: Provided further, That the Secretary of the Inte-
rior and the Secretary of Agriculture may authorize the 
transfer of funds appropriated for wildland fire manage-
ment, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $12,000,000, 
between the Departments when such transfers would fa-
cilitate and expedite jointly funded wildland fire manage-
ment programs and projects: Provided further, That funds 
provided for wildfire suppression shall be available for sup-
port of Federal emergency response actions. 
CENTRAL HAZARDOUS MATERIALS FUND 
For necessary expenses of the Department of the In-
terior and any of its component offices and bureaus for 
the remedial action, including associated activities, of haz-
ardous waste substances, pollutants, or contaminants pur-
suant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, 
Compensation, and Liability Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 
9601 et seq.), $9,978,000, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3302, 
sums recovered from or paid by a party in advance of or 
as reimbursement for remedial action or response activi-
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ties conducted by the Department pursuant to section 107 
or 113(f) of such Act, shall be credited to this account, 
to be available until expended without further appropria-
tion: Provided further, That such sums recovered from or 
paid by any party are not limited to monetary payments 
and may include stocks, bonds or other personal or real 
property, which may be retained, liquidated, or otherwise 
disposed of by the Secretary and which shall be credited 
to this account. 
CONSTRUCTION 
For construction of buildings, recreation facilities, 
roads, trails, and appurtenant facilities, $10,976,000, to 
remain available until expended. 
LAND ACQUISITION 
For expenses necessary to carry out sections 205, 
206, and 318(d) of Public Law 94–579, including admin-
istrative expenses and acquisition of lands or waters, or 
interests therein, $14,000,000, to be derived from the 
Land and Water Conservation Fund, and to remain avail-
able until expended. 
OREGON AND CALIFORNIA GRANT LANDS 
For expenses necessary for management, protection, 
and development of resources and for construction, oper-
ation, and maintenance of access roads, reforestation, and 
other improvements on the revested Oregon and California
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Railroad grant lands, on other Federal lands in the Or-
egon and California land-grant counties of Oregon, and 
on adjacent rights-of-way; and acquisition of lands or in-
terests therein, including existing connecting roads on or 
adjacent to such grant lands; $106,672,000 to remain 
available until expended: Provided, That 25 percent of the 
aggregate of all receipts during the current fiscal year 
from the revested Oregon and California Railroad grant 
lands is hereby made a charge against the Oregon and 
California land-grant fund and shall be transferred to the 
General Fund in the Treasury in accordance with the sec-
ond paragraph of subsection (b) of title II of the Act of 
August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 876). 
FOREST ECOSYSTEMS HEALTH AND RECOVERY FUND 
(REVOLVING FUND, SPECIAL ACCOUNT) 
In addition to the purposes authorized in Public Law 
102–381, funds made available in the Forest Ecosystem 
Health and Recovery Fund can be used for the purpose 
of planning, preparing, implementing and monitoring sal-
vage timber sales and forest ecosystem health and recovery 
activities, such as release from competing vegetation and 
density control treatments. The Federal share of receipts 
(defined as the portion of salvage timber receipts not paid 
to the counties under 43 U.S.C. 1181f and 43 U.S.C. 
1181f–1 et seq., and Public Law 106–393) derived from
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treatments funded by this account shall be deposited into 
the Forest Ecosystem Health and Recovery Fund. 
RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For rehabilitation, protection, and acquisition of 
lands and interests therein, and improvement of Federal 
rangelands pursuant to section 401 of the Federal Land 
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), 
notwithstanding any other Act, sums equal to 50 percent 
of all moneys received during the prior fiscal year under 
sections 3 and 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 
315 et seq.) and the amount designated for range improve-
ments from grazing fees and mineral leasing receipts from 
Bankhead-Jones lands transferred to the Department of 
the Interior pursuant to law, but not less than 
$10,000,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That not to exceed $600,000 shall be available for 
administrative expenses. 
SERVICE CHARGES, DEPOSITS, AND FORFEITURES 
For administrative expenses and other costs related 
to processing application documents and other authoriza-
tions for use and disposal of public lands and resources, 
for costs of providing copies of official public land docu-
ments, for monitoring construction, operation, and termi-
nation of facilities in conjunction with use authorizations, 
and for rehabilitation of damaged property, such amounts
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as may be collected under Public Law 94–579, as amend-
ed, and Public Law 93–153, to remain available until ex-
pended: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision to 
the contrary of section 305(a) of Public Law 94–579 (43 
U.S.C. 1735(a)), any moneys that have been or will be 
received pursuant to that section, whether as a result of 
forfeiture, compromise, or settlement, if not appropriate 
for refund pursuant to section 305(c) of that Act (43 
U.S.C. 1735(c)), shall be available and may be expended 
under the authority of this Act by the Secretary to im-
prove, protect, or rehabilitate any public lands adminis-
tered through the Bureau of Land Management which 
have been damaged by the action of a resource developer, 
purchaser, permittee, or any unauthorized person, without 
regard to whether all moneys collected from each such ac-
tion are used on the exact lands damaged which led to 
the action: Provided further, That any such moneys that 
are in excess of amounts needed to repair damage to the 
exact land for which funds were collected may be used to 
repair other damaged public lands. 
MISCELLANEOUS TRUST FUNDS 
In addition to amounts authorized to be expended 
under existing laws, there is hereby appropriated such 
amounts as may be contributed under section 307 of the 
Act of October 21, 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1701), and such