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expenditure of such funds: Provided further, That these re-
quests shall be made in compliance with reprogramming 
guidelines. 
SEC. 712. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Executive Office of the President 
to request from the Federal Bureau of Investigation any of-
ficial background investigation report on any individual, 
except when— 
(1) such individual has given his or her express 
written consent for such request not more than 6 
months prior to the date of such request and during 
the same presidential administration; or 
(2) such request is required due to extraordinary 
circumstances involving national security. 
SEC. 713. The cost accounting standards promulgated 
under section 26 of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy 
Act (Public Law 93–400; 41 U.S.C. 422) shall not apply 
with respect to a contract under the Federal Employees 
Health Benefits Program established under chapter 89 of 
title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 714. For the purpose of resolving litigation and 
implementing any settlement agreements regarding the non-
foreign area cost-of-living allowance program, the Office of 
Personnel Management may accept and utilize (without re-
gard to any restriction on unanticipated travel expenses
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imposed in an Appropriations Act) funds made available 
to the Office pursuant to court approval. 
SEC. 715. In order to promote Government access to 
commercial information technology, the restriction on pur-
chasing nondomestic articles, materials, and supplies set 
forth in the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.), shall 
not apply to the acquisition by the Federal Government of 
information technology (as defined in section 11101 of title 
40, United States Code), that is a commercial item (as de-
fined in section 4(12) of the Office of Federal Procurement 
Policy Act (41 U.S.C. 403(12)). 
SEC. 716. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
hereafter, neither the Board of Governors of the Federal Re-
serve System nor the Secretary of the Treasury may deter-
mine, by rule, regulation, order, or otherwise, for the pur-
poses of section 4(K) of the Bank Holding Company Act 
of 1956, or section 5136A of the Revised Statutes of the 
United States, that real estate brokerage activity or real es-
tate management activity (which for purposes of this para-
graph shall be defined to mean ‘‘real estate brokerage’’ and 
‘‘property management’’ respectively, as those terms were 
understood by the Federal Reserve Board prior to March 
11, 2000) is an activity. For purposes of this paragraph, 
‘‘real estate brokerage activity’’ shall mean ‘‘real estate bro-
kerage’’, and ‘‘real estate management activity’’ shall mean
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‘‘property management’’ as those terms were understood by 
the Federal Reserve Board prior to March 11, 2000. 
SEC. 717. All Federal agencies and departments that 
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all sole 
source contracts by no later than July 31, 2007. Such report 
shall include the contractor, the amount of the contract and 
the rationale for using a sole source contract. 
SEC. 718. No funds in this Act may be used to support 
any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use the 
power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is em-
ployed only for a public use: Provided, That for purposes 
of this section, public use shall not be construed to include 
economic development that primarily benefits private enti-
ties: Provided further, That any use of funds for mass tran-
sit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects as well 
as utility projects which benefit or serve the general public 
(including energy-related, communication-related, water-re-
lated and wastewater-related infrastructure), other struc-
tures designated for use by the general public or which have 
other common-carrier or public-utility functions that serve 
the general public and are subject to regulation and over-
sight by the government, and projects for the removal of an 
immediate threat to public health and safety or brownsfield 
as defined in the Small Business Liability Relief and
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Brownsfield Revitalization Act (Public Law 107–118) shall 
be considered a public use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 719. Section 522 of division H of the Consoli-
dated Appropriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–447; 118 
Stat. 3268; 5 U.S.C. 552a note) is amended by striking sub-
section (d) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(d) INSPECTOR GENERAL REVIEW.—The Inspector 
General of each agency shall periodically conduct a review 
of the agency’s implementation of this section and shall re-
port the results of its review to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, 
the House Committee on Government Reform, and the Sen-
ate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 
Affairs. The report required by this review may be incor-
porated into a related report to Congress otherwise required 
by law including, but not limited to, 44 U.S.C. § 3545, the 
Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002. 
The Inspector General may contract with an independent, 
third party organization to conduct the review.’’. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS GOVERNMENT-WIDE 
DEPARTMENTS, AGENCIES, AND CORPORATIONS 
SEC. 801. Funds appropriated in this or any other Act 
may be used to pay travel to the United States for the im-
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mediate family of employees serving abroad in cases of 
death or life threatening illness of said employee. 
SEC. 802. No department, agency, or instrumentality 
of the United States receiving appropriated funds under 
this or any other Act for fiscal year 2007 shall obligate or 
expend any such funds, unless such department, agency, or 
instrumentality has in place, and will continue to admin-
ister in good faith, a written policy designed to ensure that 
all of its workplaces are free from the illegal use, possession, 
or distribution of controlled substances (as defined in the 
Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802)) by the officers 
and employees of such department, agency, or instrumen-
tality. 
SEC. 803. Unless otherwise specifically provided, the 
maximum amount allowable during the current fiscal year 
in accordance with section 16 of the Act of August 2, 1946 
(60 Stat. 810), for the purchase of any passenger motor ve-
hicle (exclusive of buses, ambulances, law enforcement, and 
undercover surveillance vehicles), is hereby fixed at $8,100 
except station wagons for which the maximum shall be 
$9,100: Provided, That these limits may be exceeded by not 
to exceed $3,700 for police-type vehicles, and by not to ex-
ceed $4,000 for special heavy-duty vehicles: Provided fur-
ther, That the limits set forth in this section may not be 
exceeded by more than 5 percent for electric or hybrid vehi-