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such sums as may be necessary to ‘‘Veterans Health Administration,
Medical Care’’ to provide health care services as authorized by
38 U.S.C. 1710(e)(1)(D) subject to a determination by the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs that such additional funds are necessary: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary shall notify the Committees on
Appropriations at least 15 days prior to the transfer or allocation
of any funds provided under this paragraph.
DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FUND
The referenced statement of managers under the heading
‘‘Community development fund’’ in title II of Public Law 108–
7 under grant No. 26 under the Neighborhoods Initiative program
is amended by striking ‘‘Glendale, Montana’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘Glendive, Montana’’.
The referenced statement of managers under the heading
‘‘Community development fund’’ in title II of Public Law 106–
377 is amended by striking ‘‘$200,000 for Light of Life Ministries
in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for infrastructure improvements
at the Serenity Village homeless programs’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘$200,000 for Light of Life Ministries in Allegheny County,
Pennsylvania, for renovation and infrastructure improvements for
a homeless service center on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh’’.
The referenced statement of managers under the heading
‘‘Community development fund’’ in title II of Public Law 108–
7 under grant No. 201 under the Economic Development Initiatives
program is amended by striking ‘‘the Clearwater Economic Develop-
ment Association in Clearwater, Idaho’’ and inserting in lieu thereof
‘‘the State of Idaho’’.
The referenced statement of managers under the heading
‘‘Community development fund’’ in title II of Public Law 108–
7 under grant No. 873 under the Economic Development Initiatives
program is amended by striking ‘‘Grant County Commission in
West Virginia’’ and inserting in lieu thereof ‘‘Grant County Library
Commission in Grant County, West Virginia’’.
INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAMS OPERATING EXPENSES
To liquidate obligations previously incurred by the Corporation
for National and Community Service (‘‘Corporation’’), up to
$64,000,000 is provided to the National Service Trust: Provided,
That the Corporation may use these funds only to liquidate the
deficiency that it has already incurred and that these funds are
not available for obligation, or to liquidate obligations, for any
other purpose whatsoever: Provided further, That the Corporation
may not use these funds unless and until it reports these overobliga-
tions to the Congress and the President in accordance with the
requirements of the Antideficiency Act and the guidance of the
Office of Management and Budget in OMB Circular A–11 (2002):
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Provided further, That the second proviso under the heading ‘‘Cor-
poration for National and Community Service’’ in Public Law 108–
7 is deemed to be amended by inserting after ‘‘section 501(a)(4)’’
the following: ‘‘with not less than $2,500,000 for the Office of
the Chief Financial Officer to enact financial reform in the Corpora-
tion, without regard to the provisions of section 501(a)(4)(B) of
the Act’’.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
STATE AND TRIBAL ASSISTANCE GRANTS
The referenced statement of the managers under this heading
in Public Law 106–74 is deemed to be amended in reference to
item number 135, as amended, by striking everything after ‘‘135.’’
and inserting, ‘‘$437,000 for the Huntington Sanitary Board of
Huntington, West Virginia for the construction of wastewater treat-
ment facilities in the Fourpole Watershed; and $513,000 for the
Region I Planning and Development Council in Princeton, West
Virginia for water and wastewater infrastructure improvements’’:
Provided, That the referenced statement of the managers under
this heading in Public Law 107–73 is deemed to be amended by
striking everything after ‘‘District’’ in reference to item number
222 and inserting ‘‘for water infrastructure improvements’’: Pro-
vided further, That the referenced statement of the managers under
this heading in Public Law 108–7 is deemed to be amended by
striking everything after the word ‘‘Agency’’ in reference to item
number 72 and inserting ‘‘for the Mojave Desert Arsenic Demonstra-
tion Project’’.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
Within 30 days of enactment of this Act, the Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency shall adjust each ‘‘max-
imum annual fee payable’’ pursuant to 7 U.S.C. 136a–1(i)(5)(D)
and (E) in a manner such that maintenance fee collections made
to reach the level authorized in division K of Public Law 108–
7 shall be established in the same proportion as those maintenance
fee collections authorized in Public Law 107–73.
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
RESEARCH AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
The first sentence under this heading in Public Law 108–
7 is amended by striking ‘‘$320,000,000’’ and inserting in lieu
thereof ‘‘$330,000,000’’.
TITLE III—COLUMBIA ORBITER MEMORIAL ACT
SEC. 301. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Columbia Orbiter Memorial
Act’’.
SEC. 302. CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORIAL TO CREW OF COLUMBIA
ORBITER AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.
(a) CONSTRUCTION REQUIRED.—The Secretary of the Army shall,
in consultation with the Administrator of the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, construct at an appropriate place in
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Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, a memorial marker honoring
the seven members of the crew of the Columbia Orbiter who died
on February 1, 2003, over the State of Texas during the landing
of space shuttle mission STS–107.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Of the amount appropriated or
otherwise made available by title II of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 107–248) under the heading
‘‘OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY’’, $500,000 shall be available
for the construction of the memorial marker required by subsection
(a).
SEC. 303. DONATIONS FOR MEMORIAL FOR CREW OF COLUMBIA
ORBITER.
(a) AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT DONATIONS.—The Administrator of
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration may accept
gifts and donations of services, money, and property (including
personal, tangible, or intangible property) for the purpose of an
appropriate memorial or monument to the seven members of the
crew of the Columbia Orbiter who died on February 1, 2003, over
the State of Texas during the landing of space shuttle mission
STS–107, whether such memorial or monument is constructed by
the Administrator or is the memorial marker required by section
302.
(b) TRANSFER.—(1) The Administrator may transfer to the Sec-
retary of the Army any services, money, or property accepted by
the Administrator under subsection (a) for the purpose of the
construction of the memorial marker required by section 302.
(2) Any moneys transferred to the Secretary under paragraph
(1) shall be merged with amounts in the account referred to in
subsection (b) of section 302, and shall be available for the purpose
referred to in that subsection.
(c) EXPIRATION OF AUTHORITY.—The authority of the Adminis-
trator to accept gifts and donations under subsection (a) shall
expire 5 years after the date of the enactment of this Act.
TITLE IV—AVIATION-RELATED ASSISTANCE
DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
TRANSPORTATION SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
For expenses and revenue forgone related to aviation security,
$2,395,750,000, to remain available until September 30, 2003: Pro-
vided, That the first $100,000,000 of such amounts shall be avail-
able, notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, until expended
to compensate air carriers for the direct costs associated with the
strengthening of flight deck doors and locks on aircraft required
by section 104(a)(1)(B) of the Aviation and Transportation Security
Act: Provided further, That the remaining $2,295,750,000 of such
amounts shall be remitted to United States flag air carriers in
the proportional share each such carrier has paid or collected as
of the date of enactment of this Act in passenger security and
air carrier security fees to the Transportation Security Administra-
tion: Provided further, That payments made under the preceding
proviso may be used by an air carrier for such purposes as the
carrier determines appropriate: Provided further, That payments
made under this heading shall be distributed as a lump sum pay-
ment and made not later than 30 days after the date of enactment
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of this Act: Provided further, That the Transportation Security
Administration, not later than 30 days after the last disbursement
of funds made pursuant to the second proviso under this heading,
shall certify that such funds were allocated by air carriers for
security related expenses or revenue forgone as a result of meeting
Federal security mandates and shall transmit such certification
to the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, the House of Represent-
atives Committee on Appropriations, and the House Committee
on Transportation and Infrastructure: Provided further, That the
Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security of the
Department of Homeland Security shall not impose the fees author-
ized by section 44940(a) of title 49, United States Code, during
the period beginning June 1, 2003, and ending September 30,
2003: Provided further, That: (1) Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary of Homeland Security may not provide
assistance to an air carrier pursuant to the second proviso under
this heading unless that air carrier executes a contract with the
Secretary under which the air carrier agrees that—
(A) the air carrier will not provide total cash compensation
during the 12-month period beginning April 1, 2003, to an
executive officer in an amount equal to more than the annual
salary paid to that officer with respect to the air carrier’s
fiscal year 2002; and
(B) if the air carrier violates the agreement under subpara-
graph (A), the air carrier will pay to the Secretary of the
Treasury, within 60 days after the date on which the violation
occurs, an amount, determined by the Secretary of Homeland
Security, equal to the total amount of assistance received by
the air carrier pursuant to the second proviso under this
heading.
(2) For the purpose of applying paragraph (1) of this proviso
to an executive officer—
(A) who was employed by an air carrier for less than
12 months during the air carrier’s fiscal year 2002, or whose
employment began after the last day of the last fiscal year
of such air carrier ending before the date of enactment of
this Act—
(i) the salary paid to that executive officer in that
air carrier’s fiscal year 2002, or in the next fiscal year
of that air carrier (if such next fiscal year began before
the date of enactment of this Act), respectively, shall be
determined as an annual rate of pay;
(ii) that annual rate of pay shall be treated as if
it were the annual salary paid to that executive officer
during the air carrier’s fiscal year 2002; and
(iii) that executive officer shall be deemed to have
been employed during that fiscal year; and
(B) whose employment begins after the date of enactment
of this Act—
(i) the annual salary at which that executive officer
is first employed by an air carrier may not exceed the
maximum salary paid to any executive officer by that air
carrier during that air carrier’s fiscal year 2002 with the
same or similar responsibilities;