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ment in facilities not under the jurisdiction of the depart-
ment; and furnishing recreational facilities, supplies, and
equipment; funeral, burial, and other expenses incidental
thereto for beneficiaries receiving care in the department;
administrative expenses in support of planning, design,
project management, real property acquisition and disposi-
tion, construction and renovation of any facility under the
jurisdiction or for the use of the department; oversight,
engineering and architectural activities not charged to
project cost; repairing, altering, improving or providing fa-
cilities in the several hospitals and homes under the juris-
diction of the department, not otherwise provided for, ei-
ther by contract or by the hire of temporary employees
and purchase of materials; uniforms or allowances there-
for, as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 5901–5902; aid to State
homes as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 1741; administrative
and legal expenses of the department for collecting and
recovering amounts owed the department as authorized
under 38 U.S.C. chapter 17, and the Federal Medical
Care Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. 2651 et seq. and such sums
as necessary to fund cost comparison studies as referred
to in 38 U.S.C. 8110(a)(5): $20,281,587,000, plus reim-
bursements: Provided, That of the funds made available
under this heading, not more than $3,000,000,000 may
be used for the operation and maintenance of facilities:
Provided further, That of the funds made available under
this heading, $927,000,000 is for the equipment and land
and structures object classifications only, which amount
shall not become available for obligation until August 1,
2001, and shall remain available until September 30,
2002: Provided further, That of the funds made available
under this heading, not to exceed $900,000,000 shall be
available until September 30, 2002: Provided further, That
of the funds made available under this heading, not to ex-
ceed $28,134,000 may be transferred to and merged with
the appropriation for ‘‘General operating expenses’’: Pro-
vided further, That the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall
conduct by contract a program of recovery audits for the
fee basis and other medical services contracts with respect
to payments for hospital care; and, notwithstanding 31
U.S.C. 3302(b), amounts collected, by setoff or otherwise,
as the result of such audits shall be available, without fis-
cal year limitation, for the purposes for which funds are
appropriated under this heading and the purposes of pay-
ing a contractor a percentage of the amount collected as
a result of an audit carried out by the contractor: Provided
further, That all amounts so collected under the preceding
proviso with respect to a designated health care region (as
that term is defined in 38 U.S.C. 1729A(d)(2)) shall be
allocated, net of payments to the contractor, to that re-
gion.
In addition, in conformance with Public Law 105–
33 establishing the Department of Veterans Affairs Med-
ical Care Collections Fund, such sums as may be deposited
to such Fund pursuant to 38 U.S.C. 1729A may be trans-
ferred to this account, to remain available until expended
for the purposes of this account.
None of the foregoing funds may be transferred to
the Department of Justice for the purposes of supporting
tobacco litigation.
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of
medical and prosthetic research and development as au-
thorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 73, to remain available until
September 30, 2002, $321,000,000 (increased by
$5,000,000) (increased by $25,000,000), plus reimburse-
ments.
MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS
OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary expenses in the administration of the
medical, hospital, nursing home, domiciliary, construction,
supply, and research activities, as authorized by law; ad-
ministrative expenses in support of capital policy activi-
ties, $62,000,000 plus reimbursements: Provided, That
technical and consulting services offered by the Facilities
Management Field Service, including project management
and real property administration (including leases, site ac-
quisition and disposal activities directly supporting
projects), shall be provided to Department of Veterans Af-
fairs components only on a reimbursable basis, and such
amounts will remain available until September 30, 2001.
DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES
For necessary operating expenses of the Department
of Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including
uniforms or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for
official reception and representation expenses; hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General
Services Administration for security guard services, and
the Department of Defense for the cost of overseas em-
ployee mail, $1,006,000,000 (increased by $4,000,000 for
transfers authorized by law; decreased by $4,000,000 from
general administrative expenses): Provided, That of the
funds made available under this heading, not to exceed
$50,050,000 shall be available until September 30, 2002:
Provided further, That funds under this heading shall be
available to administer the Service Members Occupational
Conversion and Training Act.
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of the National Cemetery Administration, not oth-
erwise provided for, including uniforms or allowances
therefor; cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; pur-
chase of two passenger motor vehicles for use in cemeterial
operations; and hire of passenger motor vehicles,
$106,889,000: Provided, That travel expenses shall not ex-
ceed $1,125,000: Provided further, That of the amount
made available under this heading, not to exceed $125,000
may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation
for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector
General in carrying out the Inspector General Act of 1978,
as amended, $46,464,000: Provided, That of the amount
made available under this heading, not to exceed $28,000
may be transferred to and merged with the appropriation
for ‘‘General operating expenses’’.
CONSTRUCTION, MAJOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, and 8122 of title 38,
United States Code, including planning, architectural and
engineering services, maintenance or guarantee period
services costs associated with equipment guarantees pro-
vided under the project, services of claims analysts, offsite
utility and storm drainage system construction costs, and
site acquisition, where the estimated cost of a project is
$4,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were
made available in a previous major project appropriation,
$62,140,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That except for advance planning of projects (in-
cluding market-based assessments of health care needs
which may or may not lead to capital investments) funded
through the advance planning fund and the design of
projects funded through the design fund, none of these
funds shall be used for any project which has not been
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this ap-
propriation for fiscal year 2001, for each approved project,
shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction
documents contract by September 30, 2001; and (2) by
the awarding of a construction contract by September 30,
2002: Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly
report in writing to the Committees on Appropriations any
approved major construction project in which obligations
are not incurred within the time limitations established
above: Provided further, That no funds from any other ac-
count except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be obli-
gated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving
a project which was approved in the budget process and
funded in this account until 1 year after substantial com-
pletion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of
Veterans Affairs of the project or any part thereof with
respect to that part only.
CONSTRUCTION, MINOR PROJECTS
For constructing, altering, extending, and improving
any of the facilities under the jurisdiction or for the use
of the Department of Veterans Affairs, including plan-
ning, architectural and engineering services, maintenance
or guarantee period services costs associated with equip-
ment guarantees provided under the project, services of
claims analysts, offsite utility and storm drainage system
construction costs, and site acquisition, or for any of the
purposes set forth in sections 316, 2404, 2406, 8102,
8103, 8106, 8108, 8109, 8110, 8122, and 8162 of title
38, United States Code, where the estimated cost of a
project is less than $4,000,000, $100,000,000, to remain
available until expended, along with unobligated balances
of previous ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’ appropriations
which are hereby made available for any project where the
estimated cost is less than $4,000,000: Provided, That
funds in this account shall be available for: (1) repairs
to any of the nonmedical facilities under the jurisdiction
or for the use of the department which are necessary be-
cause of loss or damage caused by any natural disaster
or catastrophe; and (2) temporary measures necessary to
prevent or to minimize further loss by such causes.
PARKING REVOLVING FUND
For the parking revolving fund as authorized by 38
U.S.C. 8109, income from fees collected, to remain avail-
able until expended, which shall be available for all author-
ized expenses.
GRANTS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF STATE EXTENDED CARE
FACILITIES
For grants to assist States to acquire or construct
State nursing home and domiciliary facilities and to re-
model, modify or alter existing hospital, nursing home and
domiciliary facilities in State homes, for furnishing care
to veterans as authorized by 38 U.S.C. 8131–8137,
$60,000,000 (increased by $30,000,000), to remain avail-
able until expended.
GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS
CEMETERIES
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding,
or improving State veterans cemeteries as authorized by
38 U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’,
and ‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be trans-
ferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations.
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries
and expenses shall be available for services authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations
for ‘‘Construction, major projects’’, ‘‘Construction, minor
projects’’, and the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’) shall be
available for the purchase of any site for or toward the
construction of any new hospital or home.
SEC. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hos-
pitalization or examination of any persons (except bene-
ficiaries entitled under the laws bestowing such benefits
to veterans, and persons receiving such treatment under
5 U.S.C. 7901–7904 or 42 U.S.C. 5141–5204), unless re-
imbursement of cost is made to the ‘‘Medical care’’ ac-
count at such rates as may be fixed by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs.
SEC. 105. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for ‘‘Com-
pensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’, and
‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ shall be available
for payment of prior year accrued obligations required to
be recorded by law against the corresponding prior year
accounts within the last quarter of fiscal year 2000.
SEC. 106. Appropriations accounts available to the
Department of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 shall
be available to pay prior year obligations of corresponding
prior year appropriations accounts resulting from title X
of the Competitive Equality Banking Act, Public Law
100–86, except that if such obligations are from trust
fund accounts they shall be payable from ‘‘Compensation
and pensions’’.
SEC. 107. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, during fiscal year 2001, the Secretary of Veterans
Affairs shall, from the National Service Life Insurance
Fund (38 U.S.C. 1920), the Veterans’ Special Life Insur-
ance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1923), and the United States Gov-
ernment Life Insurance Fund (38 U.S.C. 1955), reim-
burse the ‘‘General operating expenses’’ account for the
cost of administration of the insurance programs financed
through those accounts: Provided, That reimbursement
shall be made only from the surplus earnings accumulated
in an insurance program in fiscal year 2001, that are
available for dividends in that program after claims have
been paid and actuarially determined reserves have been
set aside: Provided further, That if the cost of administra-
tion of an insurance program exceeds the amount of sur-
plus earnings accumulated in that program, reimburse-
ment shall be made only to the extent of such surplus
earnings: Provided further, That the Secretary shall deter-
mine the cost of administration for fiscal year 2001, which
is properly allocable to the provision of each insurance pro-
gram and to the provision of any total disability income
insurance included in such insurance program.
SEC. 108. (a) Notwithstanding sections 1710B(e)(2)
and 1729B(b) of title 38 United States Code, and any
other provision of law, any amount received or collected
by the Department of Veterans Affairs during fiscal year
2001 under any of the following provisions of law shall
be deposited in the Department of Veterans Affairs Med-
(d) APPROPRIATE
ACTION
DESCRIBED.—Appro-
priate action referred to in subsection (c) includes— 
(1) publication of the name and address of the 
person that is the subject of the verification; 
(2) denial of preferential tariff treatment under 
the Agreement to— 
(A) any textile or apparel good exported or 
produced by the person that is the subject of a 
verification referred to in subsection (a)(1) re-
garding compliance described in subsection 
(a)(2)(A); or 
(B) a textile or apparel good for which a 
claim has been made that is the subject of a 
verification referred to in subsection (a)(1) re-
garding 
a 
claim 
described 
in 
subsection 
(a)(2)(B); and 
(3) denial of entry into the United States of—
(A) any textile or apparel good exported or 
produced by the person that is the subject of a 
verification referred to in subsection (a)(1) re-
garding compliance described in subsection 
(a)(2)(A); or 
(B) a textile or apparel good for which a 
claim has been made that is the subject of a 
verification referred to in subsection (a)(1) re-
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GRANTS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATE VETERANS
CEMETERIES
For grants to aid States in establishing, expanding,
or improving State veterans cemeteries as authorized by
38 U.S.C. 2408, $25,000,000, to remain available until
expended.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 101. Any appropriation for fiscal year 2001 for
‘‘Compensation and pensions’’, ‘‘Readjustment benefits’’,
and ‘‘Veterans insurance and indemnities’’ may be trans-
ferred to any other of the mentioned appropriations.
SEC. 102. Appropriations available to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2001 for salaries
and expenses shall be available for services authorized by
5 U.S.C. 3109.
SEC. 103. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs (except the appropriations
for ‘‘Construction, major projects’’, ‘‘Construction, minor
projects’’, and the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’) shall be
available for the purchase of any site for or toward the
construction of any new hospital or home.
SEC. 104. No appropriations in this Act for the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs shall be available for hos-
pitalization or examination of any persons (except bene-
$4,000,000 or more or where funds for a project were
made available in a previous major project appropriation,
$62,140,000, to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That except for advance planning of projects (in-
cluding market-based assessments of health care needs
which may or may not lead to capital investments) funded
through the advance planning fund and the design of
projects funded through the design fund, none of these
funds shall be used for any project which has not been
considered and approved by the Congress in the budgetary
process: Provided further, That funds provided in this ap-
propriation for fiscal year 2001, for each approved project,
shall be obligated: (1) by the awarding of a construction
documents contract by September 30, 2001; and (2) by
the awarding of a construction contract by September 30,
2002: Provided further, That the Secretary shall promptly
report in writing to the Committees on Appropriations any
approved major construction project in which obligations
are not incurred within the time limitations established
above: Provided further, That no funds from any other ac-
count except the ‘‘Parking revolving fund’’, may be obli-
gated for constructing, altering, extending, or improving
a project which was approved in the budget process and
funded in this account until 1 year after substantial com-
pletion and beneficial occupancy by the Department of
H. R. 4635
One Hundred Sixth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand
An Act
Making appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and
Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions,
corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, and
for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. (a) The provisions of the following bills of the
106th Congress are hereby enacted into law:
(1) H.R. 5482, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
(2) H.R. 5483, as introduced on October 18, 2000.
(b) In publishing this Act in slip form and in the United
States Statutes at Large pursuant to section 112 of title 1, United
States Code, the Archivist of the United States shall include after
the date of approval at the end appendixes setting forth the texts
of the bills referred to in subsection (a) of this section.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.
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be transferred to and merged with the appropriation for
‘‘General operating expenses’’.
NATIVE AMERICAN VETERAN HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM
ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For administrative expenses to carry out the direct
loan program authorized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, sub-
chapter V, as amended, $532,000, which may be trans-
ferred to and merged with the appropriation for ‘‘General
operating expenses’’.
GUARANTEED TRANSITIONAL HOUSING LOANS FOR
HOMELESS VETERANS PROGRAM ACCOUNT
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
Not to exceed $750,000 of the amounts appropriated
by this Act for ‘‘General operating expenses’’ and ‘‘Med-
ical care’’ may be expended for the administrative ex-
penses to carry out the guaranteed loan program author-
ized by 38 U.S.C. chapter 37, subchapter VI.
VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
MEDICAL CARE
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For necessary expenses for the maintenance and op-
eration of hospitals, nursing homes, and domiciliary facili-
ties; for furnishing, as authorized by law, inpatient and
outpatient care and treatment to beneficiaries of the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs, including care and treat-
HR 4635 RS
$20,000,000 shall be for loans to nonprofit and govern-
mental entities in connection with the sale of single-family
real properties owned by the Secretary and formerly in-
sured under such Act.
In addition, for administrative expenses necessary to
carry out the guaranteed and direct loan programs,
$211,455,000, of which $193,134,000, shall be trans-
ferred to the appropriation for ‘‘Salaries and expenses’’;
and of which $18,321,000 shall be transferred to the ap-
propriation for ‘‘Office of Inspector General’’. In addition,
for administrative contract expenses necessary to carry
out
the
guaranteed
and
direct
loan
programs,
$144,000,000, of which $33,500,000 shall be transferred
to the Working Capital Fund for the development and
maintenance of information technology systems: Provided,
That to the extent guaranteed loan commitments exceed
$8,426,000,000 on or before April 1, 2001, an additional
$19,800,000 for administrative contract expenses shall be
available for each $1,000,000 in additional guaranteed
loan commitments over $8,426,000,000 (including a pro
rata amount for any increment below $1,000,000), but in
no case shall funds made available by this proviso exceed
$14,400,000.
SEC. 3. COLLECTION AND USE OF DNA IDENTIFICATION IN-
FORMATION FROM CERTAIN FEDERAL OF-
FENDERS.
(a) COLLECTION OF DNA SAMPLES.—
(1) FROM INDIVIDUALS IN CUSTODY.—The Di-
rector of the Bureau of Prisons shall collect a DNA
sample from each individual in the custody of the
Bureau of Prisons who is, or has been, convicted of
a qualifying Federal offense (as determined under
subsection (d)) or a qualifying military offense, as
determined under section 1565 of title 10, United
States Code.
(2) FROM INDIVIDUALS ON RELEASE, PAROLE,
OR
PROBATION.—The probation office responsible
for the supervision under Federal law of an indi-
vidual on probation, parole, or supervised release
shall collect a DNA sample from each such indi-
vidual who is, or has been, convicted of a qualifying
Federal offense (as determined under subsection (d))
or a qualifying military offense, as determined under
section 1565 of title 10, United States Code.
(3) INDIVIDUALS
ALREADY
IN
CODIS.—For
each individual described in paragraph (1) or (2), if
the Combined DNA Index System (in this section
referred to as ‘‘CODIS’’) of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation contains a DNA analysis with respect
to that individual, or if a DNA sample has been col-
lected from that individual under section 1565 of
title 10, United States Code, the Director of the Bu-
reau of Prisons or the probation office responsible
(as applicable) may (but need not) collect a DNA
sample from that individual.
(4) COLLECTION PROCEDURES.—(A) The Di-
rector of the Bureau of Prisons or the probation of-
fice responsible (as applicable) may use or authorize
the use of such means as are reasonably necessary
to detain, restrain, and collect a DNA sample from
an individual who refuses to cooperate in the collec-
tion of the sample.
(B) The Director of the Bureau of Prisons or
the probation office, as appropriate, may enter into
agreements with units of State or local government
or with private entities to provide for the collection
of the samples described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(5) CRIMINAL PENALTY.—An individual from
whom the collection of a DNA sample is authorized
under this subsection who fails to cooperate in the
collection of that sample shall be—
(A) guilty of a class A misdemeanor; and
(B) punished in accordance with title 18,
United States Code.