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GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses of the Office of Superintendent of Documents
necessary to provide for the cataloging and indexing of Government
publications and their distribution to the public, Members of Con-
gress, other Government agencies, and designated depository and
international exchange libraries as authorized by law, $32,207,000:
Provided, That the objectives of chapter 41 of title 44, United
States Code, as enacted by the Government Printing Office Elec-
tronic Information Access Enhancement Act of 1993, shall be carried
out through cost savings: Provided further, That travel expenses,
including travel expenses of the Depository Library Council to the
Public Printer, shall not exceed $130,000: Provided further, That
funds, not to exceed $2,000,000, from current year appropriations
are authorized for producing and disseminating Congressional
Serial Sets and other related Congressional/non-Congressional
publications for 1993 and 1994 to depository and other designated
libraries.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE REVOLVING FUND
The Government Printing Office is hereby authorized to make
such expenditures, within the limits of funds available and in
accord with the law, and to make such contracts and commitments
without regard to fiscal year limitations as provided by section
104 of the Government Corporation Control Act as may be necessary
in carrying out the programs and purposes set forth in the budget
for the current fiscal year for the ‘‘Government Printing Office
revolving fund’’: Provided, That not to exceed $2,500 may be
expended on the certification of the Public Printer in connection
with official representation and reception expenses: Provided fur-
ther, That the revolving fund shall be available for the hire or
purchase of passenger motor vehicles, not to exceed a fleet of
twelve: Provided further, That expenditures in connection with
travel expenses of the advisory councils to the Public Printer shall
be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of title 44, United
States Code: Provided further, That the revolving fund shall be
available for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates
for individuals not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the
rate for level V of the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5316): Provided
further, That the revolving fund and the funds provided under
the paragraph entitled ‘‘OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS,
SALARIES AND EXPENSES’’ together may not be available for the
full-time equivalent employment of more than 4,293 workyears:
Provided further, That the revolving fund shall be available for
expenses not to exceed $500,000 for the development of plans and
design of a multi-purpose facility: Provided further, That activities
financed through the revolving fund may provide information in
any format: Provided further, That the revolving fund shall not
be used to administer any flexible or compressed work schedule
which applies to any manager or supervisor in a position the grade
or level of which is equal to or higher than GS–15: Provided further,
That expenses for attendance at meetings shall not exceed $75,000.
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SEC. 207. Section 207(a) of the Legislative Appropriations Act,
1993 (Public Law 102–392) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2)(A) by inserting after ‘‘as certified by
the Public Printer,’’ the following: ‘‘if the work is included
in a class of work which’’; and
(2) by amending paragraph (3) to read as follows:
‘‘(3) As used in this section, the term ‘printing’ includes
the processes of composition, platemaking, presswork, duplicat-
ing, silk screen processes, binding, microform, and the end
items of such processes.’’.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office,
including not to exceed $7,000 to be expended on the certification
of the Comptroller General of the United States in connection
with official representation and reception expenses; services as
authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109 but at rates for individuals not to
exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the rate for level IV of
the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. 5315); hire of one passenger
motor vehicle; advance payments in foreign countries in accordance
with 31 U.S.C. 3324; benefits comparable to those payable under
sections 901(5), 901(6) and 901(8) of the Foreign Service Act of
1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081(5), 4081(6) and 4081(8)); and under regula-
tions prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States,
rental of living quarters in foreign countries and travel benefits
comparable with those which are now or hereafter may be granted
single employees of the Agency for International Development,
including single Foreign Service personnel assigned to AID projects,
by the Administrator of the Agency for International Development—
or his designee—under the authority of section 636(b) of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2396(b)); $443,360,000: Provided,
That not more than $1,000,000 of reimbursements received incident
to the operation of the General Accounting Office Building shall
be available for use in fiscal year 1995: Provided further, That
notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 9105 hereafter amounts reimbursed to
the Comptroller General pursuant to that section shall be deposited
to the appropriation of the General Accounting Office then available
and remain available until expended, and not more than $6,000,000
of such funds shall be available for use in fiscal year 1995: Provided
further, That this appropriation and appropriations for administra-
tive expenses of any other department or agency which is a member
of the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP)
shall be available to finance an appropriate share of JFMIP costs
as determined by the JFMIP, including the salary of the Executive
Director and secretarial support: Provided further, That this appro-
priation and appropriations for administrative expenses of any other
department or agency which is a member of the National Intergov-
ernmental Audit Forum or a Regional Intergovernmental Audit
Forum shall be available to finance an appropriate share of Forum
costs as determined by the Forum, including necessary travel
expenses of non-Federal participants. Payments hereunder to either
the Forum or the JFMIP may be credited as reimbursements to
any appropriation from which costs involved are initially financed:
Provided further, That to the extent that funds are otherwise avail-
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able for obligation, agreements or contracts for the removal of
asbestos, and renovation of the building and building systems
(including the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system,
electrical system and other major building systems) of the General
Accounting Office Building may be made for periods not exceeding
five years: Provided further, That this appropriation and appropria-
tions for administrative expenses of any other department or agency
which is a member of the American Consortium on International
Public Administration (ACIPA) shall be available to finance an
appropriate share of ACIPA costs as determined by the ACIPA,
including any expenses attributable to membership of ACIPA in
the International Institute of Administrative Sciences.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall
be used for the maintenance or care of private vehicles, except
for emergency assistance and cleaning as may be provided under
regulations relating to parking facilities for the House of Represent-
atives issued by the Committee on House Administration and for
the Senate issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. 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. 303. Whenever any office or position not specifically estab-
lished by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated for herein
or whenever the rate of compensation or designation of any position
appropriated for herein is different from that specifically established
for such position by such Act, the rate of compensation and the
designation of the position, or either, appropriated for or provided
herein, shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Provided,
That the provisions herein for the various items of official expenses
of Members, officers, and committees of the Senate and House
of Representatives, and clerk hire for Senators and Members of
the House of Representatives shall be the permanent law with
respect thereto.
SEC. 304. The expenditure of any appropriation under this
Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursu-
ant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where
such expenditures are a matter of public record and available
for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under exist-
ing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to exist-
ing law.
SEC. 305. The last sentence of section 307(a) of the Legislative
Branch Appropriations Act, 1994 (2 U.S.C. 60–1 note) is repealed.
SEC. 306. Annual and sick leave balances of employees trans-
ferred from the Office of the Director of Non-legislative and Finan-
cial Services, House Postal Operations, to the Architect of the
Capitol, as of October 31, 1993, shall be credited to the leave
accounts of such personnel, subject to the provisions of section
6304 of title 5, United States Code, upon their transfer to the
appropriation for House office buildings.
SEC. 307. (a) CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT SYSTEM.—The first
sentence of section 8335(d) of title 5, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘55’’ and inserting ‘‘57’’.
(b) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES’ RETIREMENT SYSTEM.—(1) Section
8425 of title 5, United States Code, is amended—
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(A) in the first sentence of subsection (b) by striking ‘‘mem-
ber of the Capitol Police or’’ and ‘‘member or’’;
(B) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
(C) by inserting after subsection (b) the following:
‘‘(c) A member of the Capitol Police who is otherwise eligible
for immediate retirement under section 8412(d) shall be separated
from the service on the last day of the month in which such
member becomes 57 years of age or completes 20 years of service
if then over that age. The Capitol Police Board, when in its judgment
the public interest so requires, may exempt such a member from
automatic separation under this subsection until that member
becomes 60 years of age. The Board shall notify the member in
writing of the date of separation at least 60 days before that
date. Action to separate the member is not effective, without the
consent of the member, until the last day of the month in which
the 60-day notice expires.’’.
(2) Section 8415(d) of title 5, United States Code, is amended
by striking ‘‘(a) or (b)’’ and inserting ‘‘(a), (b), or (c)’’.
SEC. 308. (a) PURCHASE OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT AND
PRODUCTS.—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) NOTICE
TO GRANTEES
AND CONTRACTORS.—In providing
financial assistance to, or entering into any contract with, any
entity using funds made available 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. 309. Section 316 of Public Law 101–302 is amended in
the first sentence of subsection (a) by striking ‘‘1994’’ and inserting
‘‘1995’’.
SEC. 310. Upon enactment of this Act, $2,015,000 is made
available under the headings ‘‘Architect of the Capitol, Capitol
Buildings and Grounds, Capitol Buildings’’ to remain available until
expended for all necessary expenses relating to the purchase and
installation of x-ray machines and magnetometers: Provided, That
the cost limitation for security installations, which are approved
by the Capitol Police Board, authorized by House Concurrent Reso-
lution 550, Ninety-second Congress, agreed to September 19, 1972,
is hereby further increased by $2,015,000: Provided further, That
the amount made available shall be derived by transfer from the
funds appropriated to the Clerk of the House in the Fiscal Year
1986 Urgent Supplemental Appropriations Act, Public Law 99–
349, and subsequently transferred to the Architect of the Capitol
pursuant to the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1989, Public
Law 100–458, for Capitol Complex Security Enhancement.
SEC. 311. The following amounts appropriated under the follow-
ing headings shall be withheld from obligation and shall only
become available to the extent necessary to cover the costs of
increases in pay and allowances authorized pursuant to the enact-
ment of H.R. 4539, of the 103d Congress, or pursuant to the pay
order of the President or other administrative action pursuant
to law:
CAPITOL POLICE BOARD
CAPITOL POLICE
SALARIES .............................................................................................
$167,000
OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
SALARIES AND EXPENSES ..........................................................................
39,000