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Hall of Science to develop, expand, and display science-related
educational materials, $420,000 shall be awarded to the Niagara
County Historical Society, Lockport, New York, to create a state-
of-the-art interpretive museum, $50,000 shall be awarded to the
Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington,
for the Star Nations Program, $210,000 shall be awarded to the
O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia, for displays and
digitization, $150,000 shall be awarded to the Piper’s Opera House
Programs, Inc., Virginia City, Nevada, for exhibit design and
development, educational programming, and technology moderniza-
tion, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Pittsburgh Children’s
Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to expand arts and after-school
programs for at-risk children, $50,000 shall be awarded to the
Placer County Library, Auburn, California, to enhance library collec-
tion through the purchase of library materials, $977,000 shall be
awarded to the Plano Community Library District, Plano, Illinois,
for expenses related to the library, $725,000 shall be awarded
to the Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to
develop educational programs focusing on hands-on learning experi-
ences, $100,000 shall be awarded to the Plumas County Library,
Quincy, California, for library materials, $25,000 shall be awarded
to the Putnam County Commissioners, Winfield, West Virginia,
for technology for the public library system in Putnam County,
$200,000 shall be awarded to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio, for the Rockin’ the Schools education
program, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Saint Tikhon’s Theological
Seminary, South Canaan, Pennsylvania, for care and preservation
of Russian artifacts, $250,000 shall be awarded to the San
Bernardino County, San Bernardino, California, for the San
Bernardino County Museum, $100,000 shall be awarded to the
Serra Cooperative Library System, San Diego, California, to provide
Live Homework Help Project to help students with expert tutors
for real-time online instructions, $100,000 shall be awarded to
the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Los Angeles Museum for Tolerance,
Los Angeles, California, for the Tools for Tolerance for Educators
program to provide teacher training in diversity, tolerance and
cooperation, $25,000 shall be awarded to the Southern New Hamp-
shire Services, Inc., Manchester, New Hampshire, for exhibit
acquisition for SEE Science Center, $400,000 shall be awarded
to the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, $100,000 shall
be awarded to the Standing Bear Museum and Learning Center,
Ponca City, Oklahoma, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the State
Historical Society of Iowa in Des Moines, Iowa, for the development
of exhibits for the World Food Prize, $200,000 shall be awarded
to the Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio, for educational
programming and exhibits, $1,000,000 shall be awarded to the
Tennessee State University African American History Museum,
Nashville, Tennessee, to enhance the library facilities which will
include new exhibits, expanded archives, and research programs,
$24,000 shall be awarded to The Arts Guild of Old Forge, Old
Forge, New York, for the new exhibits spaces and educational
programs, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Tifton-Tift County Public
Library, Tifton, Georgia, $60,000 shall be awarded to the Tillamook
County Library, Tillamook, Oregon, for design and development
of exhibits and educational programs, $100,000 shall be awarded
to the Town of Greece, Rochester, New York, for the Greece Public
Library Security program, $50,000 shall be awarded to the Tuskegee
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Multicultural Center, Tuskegee, Alabama, to provide for technology
enhancements and installation of exhibits, $400,000 shall be
awarded to the University of Idaho for digital archiving and
preservation of historically significant American music and facili-
tating its access to students and scholars nationwide, $500,000
shall be awarded to the Vietnam Archives Center at Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas, for technology infrastructure, $250,000
shall be awarded to the Virginia Historical Society, Richmond,
Virginia, to assist with educational programmatic development and
for cataloging and archiving of business history records, $100,000
shall be awarded to the Virginia Living Museum for the expansion
of its educational programs in its capital campaign project, $100,000
shall be awarded to the Westminster College Library, New
Willmington, Pennsylvania, for technology upgrades and computers
and community programming, $600,000 shall be awarded to the
WWII Victory Memorial Museum, Auburn, Indiana, for interpretive
dioramas, education, research library and visual documentary, and
$100,000 shall be awarded to the Zimmer Children’s Museum,
Los Angeles, California, to expand the youTHink education pro-
gram.
MEDICARE PAYMENT ADVISORY COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary to carry out section 1805 of the Social
Security Act, $9,300,000, to be transferred to this appropriation
from the Federal Hospital Insurance and the Federal Supple-
mentary Medical Insurance Trust Funds.
NATIONAL COMMISSION ON LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses for the National Commission on
Libraries and Information Science, established by the Act of July
20, 1970 (Public Law 91–345, as amended), $1,000,000.
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, as
amended, $3,039,000.
NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the National Labor Relations Board
to carry out the functions vested in it by the Labor-Management
Relations Act, 1947, as amended (29 U.S.C. 141–167), and other
laws, $244,073,000: Provided, That no part of this appropriation
shall be available to organize or assist in organizing agricultural
laborers or used in connection with investigations, hearings, direc-
tives, or orders concerning bargaining units composed of agricultural
laborers as referred to in section 2(3) of the Act of July 5, 1935
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(29 U.S.C. 152), and as amended by the Labor-Management Rela-
tions Act, 1947, as amended, and as defined in section 3(f) of
the Act of June 25, 1938 (29 U.S.C. 203), 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 thereby is used for farming purposes.
NATIONAL MEDIATION BOARD
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Rail-
way Labor Act, as amended (45 U.S.C. 151–188), including emer-
gency boards appointed by the President, $11,421,000.
OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REVIEW COMMISSION
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For expenses necessary for the Occupational Safety and Health
Review Commission (29 U.S.C. 661), $9,863,000.
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
DUAL BENEFITS PAYMENTS ACCOUNT
For payment to the Dual Benefits Payments Account, author-
ized under section 15(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974,
$119,000,000, which shall include amounts becoming available in
fiscal year 2004 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
received exceeds $119,000,000: 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 Treasury for
the payment of benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act for
interest earned on unnegotiated checks, $150,000, to remain avail-
able through September 30, 2005, 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, $101,300,000, to be derived in such
amounts as determined by the Board from the railroad retirement
accounts and from moneys credited to the railroad unemployment
insurance administration fund.
LIMITATION ON THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
For expenses necessary for the Office of Inspector General
for audit, investigatory and review activities, as authorized by the
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Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended, not more than
$6,600,000, 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, commu-
nications facilities or services, maintenance services, or administra-
tive 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.
SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
PAYMENTS TO SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS
For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
and the Federal Disability Insurance trust funds, as provided under
sections 201(m), 228(g), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act,
$21,658,000.
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM
For carrying out titles XI and XVI of the Social Security 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 Secu-
rity Act, $26,229,300,000, 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 Social 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 
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fiscal 
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2005,
$12,590,000,000, to remain available until expended.
LIMITATION ON ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
For necessary expenses, including the hire of two passenger
motor vehicles, and not to exceed $15,000 for official reception
and representation expenses, not more than $8,241,800,000 may
be expended, as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Secu-
rity Act, from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein:
Provided, That not less than $1,800,000 shall be for the Social
Security Advisory Board: Provided further, That unobligated
balances of funds provided under this paragraph at the end of
fiscal year 2004 not needed for fiscal year 2004 shall remain avail-
able until expended to invest in the Social Security Administration
information technology and telecommunications hardware and soft-
ware infrastructure, including related equipment and non-payroll
administrative expenses associated solely with this information
technology and telecommunications infrastructure: Provided further,
That reimbursement to the trust funds under this heading for
expenditures for official time for employees of the Social Security