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ment National Mortgage Association, Federal Home Loan
Mortgage Corporation, Federal Financing Bank, Federal
Reserve banks or any member thereof, Federal Home Loan
banks, and any insured bank within the meaning of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Act, as amended
(12 U.S.C. 1811–1831).
SEC. 404. No part of any appropriation contained in
this Act shall remain available for obligation beyond the
current fiscal year unless expressly so provided herein.
SEC. 405. No funds appropriated by this Act may be
expended—
(1) pursuant to a certification of an officer or
employee of the United States unless—
(A) such certification is accompanied by, or
is part of, a voucher or abstract which describes
the payee or payees and the items or services for
which such expenditure is being made; or
(B) the expenditure of funds pursuant to
such certification, and without such a voucher or
abstract, is specifically authorized by law; and
(2) unless such expenditure is subject to audit by
the General Accounting Office or is specifically ex-
empt by law from such audit.
SEC. 406. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency may be expended for the trans-
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portation of any officer or employee of such department or
agency between their domicile and their place of employ-
ment, with the exception of any officer or employee author-
ized such transportation under 31 U.S.C. 1344 or 5 U.S.C.
7905.
SEC. 407. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be used for payment, through grants or contracts, to recipi-
ents that do not share in the cost of conducting research
resulting from proposals not specifically solicited by the
Government: Provided, That the extent of cost sharing by
the recipient shall reflect the mutuality of interest of the
grantee or contractor and the Government in the research.
SEC. 408. None of the funds in this Act may be used,
directly or through grants, to pay or to provide reimburse-
ment for payment of the salary of a consultant (whether
retained by the Federal Government or a grantee) at more
than the daily equivalent of the rate paid for level IV of
the Executive Schedule, unless specifically authorized by
law.
SEC. 409. None of the funds provided in this Act shall
be used to pay the expenses of, or otherwise compensate,
non-Federal parties intervening in regulatory or adjudica-
tory proceedings. Nothing herein affects the authority of the
Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuant to section
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7 of the Consumer Product Safety Act (15 U.S.C. 2056 et
seq.).
SEC. 410. Except as otherwise provided under existing
law, or under an existing Executive Order issued pursuant
to an existing law, the obligation or expenditure of any ap-
propriation under this Act for contracts for any consulting
service shall be limited to contracts which are: (1) a matter
of public record and available for public inspection; and
(2) thereafter included in a publicly available list of all con-
tracts entered into within twenty-four months prior to the
date on which the list is made available to the public and
of all contracts on which performance has not been com-
pleted by such date. The list required by the preceding sen-
tence shall be updated quarterly and shall include a nar-
rative description of the work to be performed under each
such contract.
SEC. 411. Except as otherwise provided by law, no
part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be
obligated or expended by any executive agency, as referred
to in the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act (41
U.S.C. 401 et seq.), for a contract for services unless such
executive agency: (1) has awarded and entered into such
contract in full compliance with such Act and the regula-
tions promulgated thereunder; and (2) requires any report
prepared pursuant to such contract, including plans, eval-
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uations, studies, analyses and manuals, and any report
prepared by the agency which is substantially derived from
or substantially includes any report prepared pursuant to
such contract, to contain information concerning: (A) the
contract pursuant to which the report was prepared; and
(B) the contractor who prepared the report pursuant to such
contract.
SEC. 412. Except as otherwise provided in section 406,
none of the funds provided in this Act to any department
or agency shall be obligated or expended to provide a per-
sonal cook, chauffeur, or other personal servants to any offi-
cer or employee of such department or agency.
SEC. 413. None of the funds provided in this Act to
any department or agency shall be obligated or expended
to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C.
2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of
less than 22 miles per gallon.
SEC. 414. None of the funds appropriated in title I
of this Act shall be used to enter into any new lease of real
property if the estimated annual rental is more than
$300,000 unless the Secretary submits, in writing, a report
to the Committees on Appropriations of the Congress and
a period of 30 days has expired following the date on which
the report is received by the Committees on Appropriations.
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SEC. 415. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that, to
the greatest extent practicable, all equipment and products
purchased with funds made available in this Act should be
American-made.
(b) In providing financial assistance to, or entering
into any contract with, any entity using funds made avail-
able in this Act, the head of each Federal agency, to the
greatest extent practicable, shall provide to such entity a
notice describing the statement made in subsection (a) by
the Congress.
SEC. 416. None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be used to implement any cap on reimbursements to
grantees for indirect costs, except as published in Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–21.
SEC. 417. Such sums as may be necessary for fiscal
year 2000 pay raises for programs funded by this Act shall
be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for any program, project, or activity, when
it is made known to the Federal entity or official to which
the funds are made available that the program, project, or
activity is not in compliance with any Federal law relating
to risk assessment, the protection of private property rights,
or unfunded mandates.
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SEC. 419. Corporations and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development which are subject
to the Government Corporation Control Act, as amended,
are hereby authorized to make such expenditures, within the
limits of funds and borrowing authority available to each
such corporation or agency and in accord with law, and
to make such contracts and commitments without regard
to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the
Act as may be necessary in carrying out the programs set
forth in the budget for 2000 for such corporation or agency
except as hereinafter provided: Provided, That collections
of these corporations and agencies may be used for new loan
or mortgage purchase commitments only to the extent ex-
pressly provided for in this Act (unless such loans are in
support of other forms of assistance provided for in this or
prior appropriations Acts), except that this proviso shall
not apply to the mortgage insurance or guaranty operations
of these corporations, or where loans or mortgage purchases
are necessary to protect the financial interest of the United
States Government.
SEC. 420. Notwithstanding section 320(g) of the Fed-
eral Water Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. 1330(g)), funds
made available pursuant to authorization under such sec-
tion for fiscal year 2000 may be used for implementing
comprehensive conservation and management plans.
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SEC. 421. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the term ‘‘qualified student loan’’ with respect to national
service education awards shall mean any loan made di-
rectly to a student by the Alaska Commission on Postsec-
ondary Education, in addition to other meanings under
section 148(b)(7) of the National and Community Service
Act.
SEC. 422. Notwithstanding any other law, funds made
available by this or any other Act or previous Acts for the
United States/Mexico Foundation for Science may be used
for the endowment of such Foundation: Provided, That
funds from the U.S. Government shall be matched in equal
amounts with funds from Mexico: Provided further, That
the accounts of such Foundation shall be subject to U.S.
Government administrative and audit requirements con-
cerning grants and requirements concerning cost principles
for nonprofit organizations.
SEC. 423. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used to carry out Executive Order No. 13083.
SEC. 424. Unless otherwise provided for in this Act,
no part of any appropriation for the Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development shall be available for any ac-
tivity in excess of amounts set forth in the budget estimates
submitted for the appropriations.
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SEC. 425. None of the funds made available in this
Act may be used for purposes of lobbying or litigating
against, including any related activity or cost, any Federal
entity or official. Any funds received under this Act shall
be maintained in an account separate from any funds used
for litigating or lobbying. Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, none of the funds made available in this Act
(or any subsequent Act that makes available appropriations
for programs funded under this Act) shall be made available
for a period of five years to any entity or person that vio-
lates the requirements of the preceding two sentences.
SEC. 426. None of the funds provided in this Act may
be obligated after February 15, 2000, unless each depart-
ment, agency, corporation, and commission that receives
funds herein provides detailed justifications to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations for all salary and expense activities
for fiscal years 2001 through 2005, including personnel
compensation and benefits, consulting costs, professional
services or technical service contracts regardless of the dollar
amount, contracting out costs, travel and other standard
object classifications for all headquarters offices, regional of-
fices, or field installations and laboratories, including the
number of full-time equivalents per office, and the personnel
compensation, benefits and travel costs for each Secretary,
Assistance Secretary or Administrator.
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SEC. 427. LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES NOT RE-
SPONSIBLE FOR CLEAN-UP OF METHAMPHETAMINE LAB-
ORATORIES. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
no state or local law enforcement agency shall be responsible
under any Federal law for any costs associated with the
clean-up or remediation of any premises used for the manu-
facture or production of methamphetamine.
SEC. 428. No funds in this Act shall be made available
for any activity or the publication or distribution of lit-
erature that is designed to promote public support or oppo-
sition to any legislative proposal on which congressional ac-
tion is not complete.
SEC. 429. Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
the amount made available under the Departments of Vet-
erans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and
Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1991 (Public
Law 101–507) for a special purpose grant under section
107 of the Housing and Community Development Act of
1974 to the County of Hawaii for the purpose of an envi-
ronmental impact statement for the development of a water
resource system in Kohala, Hawaii, that is unobligated on
the date of enactment of this Act, may be used to fund water
system improvements, including exploratory wells, well
drillings, pipeline replacements, water system planning
and design, and booster pump and reservoir development.
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SEC. 430. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available for the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration by this Act may be obligated or expended for
purposes of transferring any research aircraft from Glenn
Research Center, Ohio, to another field center of the Admin-
istration.
SEC. 431. GAO STUDY ON FEDERAL HOME LOAN
BANK CAPITAL. (a) STUDY.—The Comptroller General of
the United States shall conduct a study of—
(1) possible revisions to the capital structure of
the Federal Home Loan Bank System, including the
need for—
(A) more permanent capital;
(B) a statutory leverage ratio; and
(C) a risk-based capital structure; and
(2) what impact such revisions might have on
the operations of the Federal Home Loan Bank Sys-
tem, including the obligation of the Federal Home
Loan Bank System under section 21B(f)(2)(C) of the
Federal Home Loan Bank Act.
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller Gen-
eral of the United States shall submit a report to the Con-
gress on the results of the study conducted under subsection
(a).
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SEC. 432. SENSE OF THE SENATE REGARDING AERO-
NAUTICS RESEARCH. (a) FINDINGS.—The Senate finds the
following:
(1) Every aircraft worldwide uses and benefits
from NASA technology.
(2) Aeronautical research has fostered the estab-
lishment of a safe, affordable air transportation sys-
tem that is second to none.
(3) Fundamental research in aeronautics is not
being supported anywhere in the country outside of
NASA.
(4) The Department of Transportation predicts
that air traffic will triple over the next 20 years, ex-
acerbating current noise and safety problems at al-
ready overcrowded airports. New aeronautics ad-
vancements need to be developed if costs are to be con-
tained and the safety and quality of our air infra-
structure is to be improved.
(5) Our military would not dominate the skies
without robust investments in aeronautics research
and development.
(6) Technology transferred from NASA aero-
nautics research to the commercial sector has created
billions of dollars in economic growth.
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(7) The American aeronautics industry is the
top contributor to the United States balance of trade,
with a net contribution of more than $41,000,000,000
in 1998.
(8) Less than 10 years ago, American airplane
producers controlled over 70 percent of the global
market for commercial aviation.
(9) America’s dominance in the world’s civil
aviation market is being challenged by foreign compa-
nies like Airbus, which now has approximately 50
percent of the world’s civil aviation market, and is
aiming to capture 70 percent.
(10) The rise of foreign competition in the global
civil aviation market has coincided with decreases in
NASA’s aeronautics research budget and a cor-
responding increase in European investment.
(11) NASA’s aeronautics laboratories have the
research facilities, including wind tunnels, and tech-
nical expertise to conduct the cutting-edge scientific
inquiry needed to advance state-of-the-art military
and civil aircraft.
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—It is the sense of the Sen-
ate that the United States should increase its commitment
to aeronautics research funding.