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formation dissemination activities: Provided further, That 
the funds provided for title II of the HEA shall be allocated 
notwithstanding section 210 of such Act: Provided further, 
That $100,668,000 of the funds for part B of title VII of 
the Higher Education Act of 1965 shall be available for the 
projects and in the amounts specified in the explanatory 
statement described in section 4 (in the matter preceding 
division A of this consolidated Act). 
HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
For 
partial 
support 
of 
Howard 
University, 
$237,392,000, of which not less than $3,526,000 shall be for 
a matching endowment grant pursuant to the Howard Uni-
versity Endowment Act (Public Law 98–480) and shall re-
main available until expended. 
COLLEGE HOUSING AND ACADEMIC FACILITIES LOANS 
PROGRAM 
For Federal administrative expenses to carry out ac-
tivities related to existing facility loans pursuant to section 
121 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, $481,000. 
HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAPITAL 
FINANCING PROGRAM ACCOUNT 
For administrative expenses to carry out the Histori-
cally Black College and University Capital Financing Pro-
gram entered into pursuant to part D of title III of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, $188,000.
838 
INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION SCIENCES 
For carrying out activities authorized by the Edu-
cation Sciences Reform Act of 2002, the National Assess-
ment of Educational Progress Authorization Act, section 
208 of the Educational Technical Assistance Act of 2002, 
and section 664 of the Individuals with Disabilities Edu-
cation Act, $555,815,000, of which $293,155,000 shall be 
available until September 30, 2009: Provided, That of the 
amount available to carry out section 208 of the Edu-
cational Technical Assistance Act, up to $5,000,000 may 
be used for State data coordinators and for awards to enti-
ties, including entities other than States, to improve data 
coordination. 
DEPARTMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out, to the extent not otherwise provided, 
the Department of Education Organization Act, including 
rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia and 
hire of three passenger motor vehicles, $418,587,000, of 
which $2,100,000, to remain available until expended, shall 
be for building alterations and related expenses for the move 
of Department staff to the Mary E. Switzer building in 
Washington, DC.
839 
OFFICE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS 
For expenses necessary for the Office for Civil Rights, 
as authorized by section 203 of the Department of Edu-
cation Organization Act, $91,205,000. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of the Inspector 
General, as authorized by section 212 of the Department 
of Education Organization Act, $51,753,000. 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 301. No funds appropriated in this Act may be 
used for the transportation of students or teachers (or for 
the purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order 
to overcome racial imbalance in any school or school system, 
or for the transportation of students or teachers (or for the 
purchase of equipment for such transportation) in order to 
carry out a plan of racial desegregation of any school or 
school system. 
SEC. 302. None of the funds contained in this Act shall 
be used to require, directly or indirectly, the transportation 
of any student to a school other than the school which is 
nearest the student’s home, except for a student requiring 
special education, to the school offering such special edu-
cation, in order to comply with title VI of the Civil Rights 
Act of 1964. For the purpose of this section an indirect re-
quirement of transportation of students includes the trans-
portation of students to carry out a plan involving the reor-
840 
ganization of the grade structure of schools, the pairing of 
schools, or the clustering of schools, or any combination of 
grade restructuring, pairing or clustering. The prohibition 
described in this section does not include the establishment 
of magnet schools. 
SEC. 303. No funds appropriated in this Act may be 
used to prevent the implementation of programs of vol-
untary prayer and meditation in the public schools. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 304. 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 
Department of Education in this Act may be transferred 
between appropriations, but no such appropriation shall be 
increased by more than 3 percent by any such transfer: Pro-
vided, That the transfer authority granted by this section 
shall be available only to meet emergency needs and shall 
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 Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate are 
notified at least 15 days in advance of any transfer. 
SEC. 305. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to promulgate, implement, or enforce any 
revision to the regulations in effect under section 496 of the
841 
Higher Education Act of 1965 on June 1, 2007, until legis-
lation specifically requiring such revision is enacted. 
SEC. 306. (a) MAINTENANCE OF INTEGRITY AND ETH-
ICAL VALUES WITHIN DEPARTMENT
OF EDUCATION.— 
Within 60 days after the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Education shall implement procedures— 
(1) to assess whether a covered individual or en-
tity has a potential financial interest in, or impaired 
objectivity towards, a product or service purchased 
with, or guaranteed or insured by, funds adminis-
tered by the Department of Education or a contracted 
entity of the Department; and 
(2) to disclose the existence of any such potential 
financial interest or impaired objectivity. 
(b) REVIEW BY INSPECTOR GENERAL.— 
(1) Within 60 days after the implementation of 
the procedures described in subsection (a), the Inspec-
tor General of the Department of Education shall re-
port to the Committees on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives and the Senate on the ade-
quacy of such procedures. 
(2) Within 1 year, the Inspector General shall 
conduct at least 1 review to ensure that such proce-
dures are properly implemented and are effective to 
uncover and disclose the existence of potential finan-
842 
cial interests or impaired objectivity described in sub-
section (a). 
(3) The Inspector General shall report to such 
Committees any recommendations for modifications 
to such procedures that the Inspector General deter-
mines are necessary to uncover and disclose the exist-
ence of such potential financial interests or impaired 
objectivity. 
(c) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the 
term ‘‘covered individual or entity’’ means— 
(1) an officer or professional employee of the De-
partment of Education; 
(2) a contractor or subcontractor of the Depart-
ment, or an individual hired by the contracted entity; 
(3) a member of a peer review panel of the De-
partment; or 
(4) a consultant or advisor to the Department. 
SEC. 307. (a) Notwithstanding section 8013(9)(B) of 
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 
North Chicago Community Unit School District 187, North 
Shore District 112, and Township High School District 113 
in Lake County, Illinois, and Glenview Public School Dis-
trict 34 and Glenbrook High School District 225 in Cook 
County, Illinois, shall be considered local educational agen-
843 
cies as such term is used in and for purposes of title VIII 
of such Act for fiscal years 2008 and 2009. 
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, feder-
ally connected children (as determined under section 
8003(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act 
of 1965) who are in attendance in the North Shore District 
112, Township High School District 113, Glenview Public 
School District 34, and Glenbrook High School District 225 
described in subsection (a), shall be considered to be in at-
tendance in the North Chicago Community Unit School 
District 187 described in subsection (a) for purposes of com-
puting the amount that the North Chicago Community 
Unit School District 187 is eligible to receive under sub-
section (b) or (d) of such section for fiscal years 2008 and 
2009 if— 
(1) such school districts have entered into an 
agreement for such students to be so considered and 
for the equitable apportionment among all such school 
districts of any amount received by the North Chicago 
Community Unit School District 187 under such sec-
tion; and 
(2) any amount apportioned among all such 
school districts pursuant to paragraph (1) is used by 
such school districts only for the direct provision of 
educational services.
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SEC. 308. Prior to January 1, 2008, the Secretary of 
Education may not terminate any voluntary flexible agree-
ment under section 428A of the Higher Education Act of 
1965 that existed on October 1, 2007. With respect to an 
entity with which the Secretary of Education had a vol-
untary flexible agreement under section 428A of the Higher 
Education Act of 1965 on October 1, 2007 that is not cost 
neutral, if the Secretary terminates such agreement on or 
after January 1, 2008, the Secretary of Education shall, 
not later than March 31, 2008, negotiate to enter, and enter, 
into a new voluntary flexible agreement with such entity 
so that the agreement is cost neutral, unless such entity does 
not want to enter into such agreement. 
SEC. 309. Notwithstanding section 102(a)(4)(A) of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, the Secretary of Education 
shall not take into account a bankruptcy petition filed in 
the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern Dis-
trict of New York on February 21, 2001, in determining 
whether a nonprofit educational institution that is a sub-
sidiary of an entity that filed such petition meets the defini-
tion of an ‘‘institution of higher education’’ under section 
102 of that Act. 
(RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 310. Of the unobligated balances available under 
the Federal Direct Student Loan Program Administration 
authorized by section 458 of the Higher Education Act and
845 
the Higher Education Reconciliation Act of 2005, 
$25,000,000 are rescinded. 
SEC. 311. The Secretary of Education shall— 
(1) deem each local educational agency that re-
ceived a fiscal year 2007 basic support payment for 
heavily impacted local educational agencies under 
section 8003(b)(2) of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703(b)(2)) as eli-
gible to receive a fiscal year 2008 basic support pay-
ment for heavily impacted local educational agencies 
under such section; and 
(2) make a payment to such local educational 
agency under such section for fiscal year 2008. 
This title may be cited as the ‘‘Department of Edu-
cation Appropriations Act, 2008’’. 
TITLE IV 
RELATED AGENCIES 
COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE 
BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary of the Committee for Purchase 
From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled estab-
lished by Public Law 92–28, $4,994,000.
846 
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE 
OPERATING EXPENSES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses for the Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service to carry out the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (‘‘1973 Act’’) and the Na-
tional and Community Service Act of 1990 (‘‘1990 Act’’), 
$796,662,000, of which $313,054,000 is to carry out the 
1973 Act and $483,608,000 is to carry out the 1990 Act: 
Provided, That $24,205,000 of the amount provided under 
this heading shall remain available until September 30, 
2009 to carry out subtitle E of the 1990 Act: Provided fur-
ther, That up to 1 percent of program grant funds may 
be used to defray the costs of conducting grant application 
reviews, including the use of outside peer reviewers and elec-
tronic management of the grants cycle: Provided further, 
That none of the funds made available under this heading 
for activities authorized by section 122 and part E of title 
II of the 1973 Act shall be used to provide stipends or other 
monetary incentives to program participants or volunteer 
leaders whose incomes exceed the income guidelines in sub-
sections 211(e) and 213(b) of the 1973 Act: Provided fur-
ther, That notwithstanding subtitle H of title I of the 1990 
Act, none of the funds provided for quality and innovation 
activities shall be used to support salaries and related ex-
penses (including travel) attributable to Corporation for
847 
National and Community Service employees: Provided fur-
ther, That, for fiscal year 2008 and thereafter, in addition 
to amounts otherwise provided to the National Service 
Trust under this heading, at no later than the end of the 
fifth fiscal year after the fiscal year for which funds are 
appropriated or otherwise made available, unobligated bal-
ances of appropriations available for grants under the Na-
tional Service Trust Program under subtitle C of title I of 
the 1990 Act during such fiscal year may be transferred 
to the National Service Trust after notice is transmitted 
to Congress, if such funds are initially obligated before the 
expiration of their period of availability as provided in this 
Act: Provided further, That of the amounts provided under 
this heading: (1) not less than $124,718,000, to remain 
available until expended, to be transferred to the National 
Service Trust for educational awards authorized under sub-
title D of title I of the 1990 Act: Provided further, That 
in addition to these funds, the Corporation may transfer 
funds from the amount provided for AmeriCorps grants 
under the National Service Trust Program, to the National 
Service Trust authorized under subtitle D of title I of the 
1990 Act, upon determination that such transfer is nec-
essary to support the activities of national service partici-
pants and after notice is transmitted to the Congress; (2) 
not more than $55,000,000 of funding provided for grants
848 
under the National Service Trust program authorized under 
subtitle C of title I of the 1990 Act may be used to admin-
ister, reimburse, or support any national service program 
authorized under section 129(d)(2) of such Act; (3) 
$12,000,000 shall be to provide assistance to State commis-
sions on national and community service, under section 
126(a) of the 1990 Act and notwithstanding section 
501(a)(4) of the 1990 Act; and (4) not less than $5,000,000 
shall be for the acquisition, renovation, equipping and 
startup costs for a campus located in Vinton, Iowa and a 
campus in Vicksburg, Mississippi to carry out subtitle E 
of title I of the 1990 Act. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of administration as provided 
under section 501(a)(4) of the National and Community 
Service Act of 1990 and under section 504(a) of the Domes-
tic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, including payment of sal-
aries, authorized travel, hire of passenger motor vehicles, 
the rental of conference rooms in the District of Columbia, 
the employment of experts and consultants authorized under 
5 U.S.C. 3109, and not to exceed $2,500 for official recep-
tion and representation expenses, $68,964,000. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978, 
$5,932,000.
849 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 401. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to national 
service education awards shall mean any loan determined 
by an institution of higher education to be necessary to 
cover a student’s cost of attendance at such institution and 
made, insured, or guaranteed directly to a student by a 
State agency, in addition to other meanings under section 
148(b)(7) of the National and Community Service Act. 
SEC. 402. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
funds made available under section 129(d)(5)(B) of the Na-
tional and Community Service Act of 1990 to assist entities 
in placing applicants who are individuals with disabilities 
may be provided to any entity that receives a grant under 
section 121 of the Act. 
SEC. 403. The Corporation for National and Commu-
nity Service shall make any significant changes to program 
requirements, service delivery or policy only through public 
notice and comment rulemaking. For fiscal year 2008, dur-
ing any grant selection process, an officer or employee of 
the Corporation shall not knowingly disclose any covered 
grant selection information regarding such selection, di-
rectly or indirectly, to any person other than an officer or 
employee of the Corporation that is authorized by the Cor-
poration to receive such information.
850 
SEC. 404. Professional Corps programs described in 
section 122(a)(8) of the National and Community Service 
Act of 1990 may apply to the Corporation for a waiver 
of application of section 140(c)(2). 
SEC. 405. Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, 
United States Code, the Corporation may solicit and accept 
the services of organizations and individuals (other than 
participants) to assist the Corporation in carrying out the 
duties of the Corporation under the national service laws: 
Provided, That an individual who provides services under 
this section shall be subject to the same protections and lim-
itations as volunteers under section 196(a) of the National 
and Community Service Act of 1990. 
SEC. 406. Organizations operating projects under the 
AmeriCorps Education Awards Program shall do so with-
out regard to the requirements of sections 121(d) and (e), 
131(e), 132, and 140(a), (d), and (e) of the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990. 
SEC. 407. AmeriCorps programs receiving grants 
under the National Service Trust program shall meet an 
overall minimum share requirement of 24 percent for the 
first three years that they receive AmeriCorps funding, and 
thereafter shall meet the overall minimum share require-
ment as provided in section 2521.60 of title 45, Code of 
Federal Regulations, without regard to the operating costs
851 
match requirement in section 121(e) or the member support 
Federal share limitations in section 140 of the National and 
Community Service Act of 1990, and subject to partial 
waiver consistent with section 2521.70 of title 45, Code of 
Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 408. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
formula-based grants to States and territories under section 
129(a)(1)–(2) of the 1990 Act to operate AmeriCorps pro-
grams may be made if the application describes proposed 
positions into which participants will be placed, the pro-
posed minimum qualifications of such participants, and an 
assurance that the State will select national service pro-
grams for subgrants on a competitive basis, and an assur-
ance that the aforementioned information will be provided 
for each subgrant awarded prior to the execution of such 
subgrants. 
CORPORATION FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING 
For payment to the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting, as authorized by the Communications Act of 1934, 
an amount which shall be available within limitations spec-
ified by that Act, for the fiscal year 2010, $420,000,000: 
Provided, That no funds made available to the Corporation 
for Public Broadcasting by this Act shall be used to pay 
for receptions, parties, or similar forms of entertainment 
for Government officials or employees: Provided further,
852 
That none of the funds contained in this paragraph shall 
be available or used to aid or support any program or activ-
ity from which any person is excluded, or is denied benefits, 
or is discriminated against, on the basis of race, color, na-
tional origin, religion, or sex: Provided further, That no 
funds made available to the Corporation for Public Broad-
casting by this Act shall be used to apply any political test 
or qualification in selecting, appointing, promoting, or tak-
ing any other personnel action with respect to officers, 
agents, and employees of the Corporation: Provided further, 
That for fiscal year 2008, in addition to the amounts pro-
vided above, $29,700,000 shall be for costs related to digital 
program production, development, and distribution, associ-
ated with the transition of public broadcasting to digital 
broadcasting, to be awarded as determined by the Corpora-
tion in consultation with public radio and television licens-
ees or permittees, or their designated representatives: Pro-
vided further, That for fiscal year 2008, in addition to the 
amounts provided above, $26,750,000 is available pursuant 
to section 396(k)(10) of the Communications Act of 1934 
for replacement and upgrade of the public radio inter-
connection system: Provided further, That none of the funds 
made available to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
by this Act, the Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 
2007 (Public Law 110–5), or the Departments of Labor,
853 
Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–149), 
shall be used to support the Television Future Fund or any 
similar purpose. 
FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mediation and 
Conciliation Service to carry out the functions vested in 
it by the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, including 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; for expenses necessary for 
the Labor-Management Cooperation Act of 1978; and for 
expenses necessary for the Service to carry out the functions 
vested in it by the Civil Service Reform Act, Public Law 
95–454, $43,800,000: Provided, That notwithstanding 31 
U.S.C. 3302, fees charged, up to full-cost recovery, for spe-
cial training activities and other conflict resolution services 
and technical assistance, including those provided to foreign 
governments and international organizations, and for arbi-
tration services shall be credited to and merged with this 
account, and shall remain available until expended: Pro-
vided further, That fees for arbitration services shall be 
available only for education, training, and professional de-
velopment of the agency workforce: Provided further, That 
the Director of the Service is authorized to accept and use 
on behalf of the United States gifts of services and real, per-
854 
sonal, or other property in the aid of any projects or func-
tions within the Director’s jurisdiction. 
FEDERAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Federal Mine Safety 
and Health Review Commission, $8,096,000. 
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES 
OFFICE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES: GRANTS AND 
ADMINISTRATION 
For carrying out the Museum and Library Services 
Act of 1996 and the National Museum of African American 
History and Culture Act, $268,193,000, of which 
$18,610,000 shall be available for library, museum and re-
lated projects and in the amounts specified in the explana-
tory statement described in section 4 (in the matter pre-
ceding division A of this consolidated Act): Provided, That 
funds may be made available for support through inter- 
agency agreement or grant to commemorative Federal com-
missions that support museum and library activities, in 
partnership with libraries and museums that are eligible 
for funding under programs carried out by the Institute of 
Museum and Library Services.
855 
MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the 
Social Security Act, $10,748,000, to be transferred to this 
appropriation from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the 
Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds. 
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION 
SCIENCE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For close out activities of the National Commission on 
Libraries and Information Science, established by the Act 
of July 20, 1970 (Public Law 91–345, as amended), 
$400,000. 
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Council on 
Disability as authorized by title IV of the Rehabilitation 
Act of 1973, $3,113,000. 
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Rela-
tions Board to carry out the functions vested in it by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and other laws, 
$256,238,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation 
shall be available to organize or assist in organizing agri-
856 
cultural laborers or used in connection with investigations, 
hearings, directives, or orders concerning bargaining units 
composed of agricultural laborers as referred to in section 
2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935, and as amended by the 
Labor-Management Relations Act, 1947, and as defined in 
section 3(f) of the Act of June 25, 1938, and including in 
said definition employees engaged in the maintenance and 
operation of ditches, canals, reservoirs, and waterways 
when maintained or operated on a mutual, nonprofit basis 
and at least 95 percent of the water stored or supplied there-
by is used for farming purposes. 
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of 
the Railway Labor Act, including emergency boards ap-
pointed by the President, $12,911,000. 
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW 
COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety 
and Health Review Commission, $10,696,000. 
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD 
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT 
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, 
authorized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement
857 
Act of 1974, $79,000,000, which shall include amounts be-
coming available in fiscal year 2008 pursuant to section 
224(c)(1)(B) of Public Law 98–76; and in addition, an 
amount, not to exceed 2 percent of the amount provided 
herein, shall be available proportional to the amount by 
which the product of recipients and the average benefit re-
ceived exceeds the amount available for payment of vested 
dual benefits: Provided, That the total amount provided 
herein shall be credited in 12 approximately equal amounts 
on the first day of each month in the fiscal year. 
FEDERAL PAYMENTS TO THE RAILROAD RETIREMENT 
ACCOUNTS 
For payment to the accounts established in the Treas-
ury for the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retire-
ment Act for interest earned on unnegotiated checks, 
$150,000, to remain available through September 30, 2009, 
which shall be the maximum amount available for payment 
pursuant to section 417 of Public Law 98–76. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses for the Railroad Retirement 
Board for administration of the Railroad Retirement Act 
and 
the 
Railroad 
Unemployment 
Insurance 
Act, 
$103,694,000, to be derived in such amounts as determined 
by the Board from the railroad retirement accounts and 
from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment insur-
ance administration fund.
858 
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral for audit, investigatory and review activities, as au-
thorized by the Inspector General Act of 1978, not more 
than $7,173,000, to be derived from the railroad retirement 
accounts and railroad unemployment insurance account: 
Provided, That none of the funds made available in any 
other paragraph of this Act may be transferred to the Office; 
used to carry out any such transfer; used to provide any 
office space, equipment, office supplies, communications fa-
cilities or services, maintenance services, or administrative 
services for the Office; used to pay any salary, benefit, or 
award for any personnel of the Office; used to pay any other 
operating expense of the Office; or used to reimburse the 
Office for any service provided, or expense incurred, by the 
Office: Provided further, That funds made available under 
the heading in this Act, or subsequent Departments of 
Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Acts, may be used for any 
audit, investigation, or review of the Medicare Program. 
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS 
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance 
Trust Fund, as provided under sections 201(m), 217(g),
859 
228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, 
$28,140,000. 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM 
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Secu-
rity Act, section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 
of Public Law 93–66, as amended, and section 405 of Public 
Law 95–216, including payment to the Social Security 
trust funds for administrative expenses incurred pursuant 
to 
section 
201(g)(1) 
of 
the 
Social 
Security 
Act, 
$27,000,191,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That any portion of the funds provided to a State 
in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State 
during that year shall be returned to the Treasury. 
For making, after June 15 of the current fiscal year, 
benefit payments to individuals under title XVI of the So-
cial Security Act, for unanticipated costs incurred for the 
current fiscal year, such sums as may be necessary. 
For making benefit payments under title XVI of the 
Social Security Act for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, 
$14,800,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two pas-
senger motor vehicles, and not to exceed $15,000 for official 
reception and representation expenses, not more than 
$9,781,842,000 may be expended, as authorized by section 
201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all
860 
of the trust funds referred to therein: Provided, That not 
less than $2,000,000 shall be for the Social Security Advi-
sory Board: Provided further, That unobligated balances of 
funds provided under this paragraph at the end of fiscal 
year 2008 not needed for fiscal year 2008 shall remain 
available until expended to invest in the Social Security 
Administration information technology and telecommuni-
cations hardware and software infrastructure, including re-
lated equipment and non-payroll administrative expenses 
associated solely with this information technology and tele-
communications infrastructure: Provided further, That re-
imbursement to the trust funds under this heading for ex-
penditures for official time for employees of the Social Secu-
rity Administration pursuant to section 7131 of title 5, 
United States Code, and for facilities or support services 
for labor organizations pursuant to policies, regulations, or 
procedures referred to in section 7135(b) of such title shall 
be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, with interest, 
from amounts in the general fund not otherwise appro-
priated, as soon as possible after such expenditures are 
made. 
In addition, $135,000,000 to be derived from adminis-
tration fees in excess of $5.00 per supplementary payment 
collected pursuant to section 1616(d) of the Social Security 
Act or section 212(b)(3) of Public Law 93–66, which shall
861 
remain available until expended. To the extent that the 
amounts collected pursuant to such sections in fiscal year 
2008 exceed $135,000,000, the amounts shall be available 
in fiscal year 2009 only to the extent provided in advance 
in appropriations Acts. 
In addition, up to $1,000,000 to be derived from fees 
collected pursuant to section 303(c) of the Social Security 
Protection Act (Public Law 108–203), which shall remain 
available until expended. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General 
Act of 1978, $26,451,000, together with not to exceed 
$67,098,000, to be transferred and expended as authorized 
by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act from the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund. 
In addition, an amount not to exceed 3 percent of the 
total provided in this appropriation may be transferred 
from the ‘‘Limitation on Administrative Expenses’’, Social 
Security Administration, to be merged with this account, 
to be available for the time and purposes for which this 
account is available: Provided, That notice of such transfers 
shall be transmitted promptly to the Committees on Appro-
priations of the House of Representatives and the Senate.