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for the implementation of this section or for the protection of the
interests of the Federal Government.
(b) TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF AGREEMENT.—The terms and
conditions described in this subsection are as follows:
(1) Upon receipt of the amounts provided under the grant
made under subsection (a), the National Trust shall deposit
the amounts in a permanently restricted account in its endow-
ment and shall administer, invest, and manage such grant
funds in the same manner as other National Trust endowment
funds.
(2) The National Trust shall make distributions to the
Association from the amounts deposited in the endowment
pursuant to paragraph (1), in accordance with its regularly
established spending rate, for the care and maintenance of
the Cemetery (other than the cost of personnel), except that
the National Trust may only make such distributions incremen-
tally and proportionately upon receipt by the National Trust
of contributions from the Association which incrementally
match the amounts provided under the grant made under sub-
section (a) and which are to be added to the permanently
restricted account described in paragraph (1).
(3) The Association shall use such distributions from the
endowment and the match for the care and maintenance of
Congressional Cemetery, except that the Association may not
use such distributions for nonroutine restoration or capital
projects.
(4) The Association, or any successor thereto, shall main-
tain adequate records and accounts of all financial transactions
and operations carried out with such distributions, and such
records shall be available at all times for audit and investiga-
tion by the Architect of the Capitol and the Comptroller Gen-
eral.
(c) NO TITLE IN UNITED STATES.—Nothing in this section shall
be construed to vest title to the Congressional Cemetery in the
United States.
SEC. 210. For fiscal year 1999, the amount available for
expenditure by the Architect of the Capitol from the fund estab-
lished under section 4 of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize
acquisition of certain real property for the Library of Congress,
and for other purposes’’, approved December 15, 1997 (Public Law
105–144; 111 Stat. 2688), may not exceed $2,500,000.
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, $29,264,000:
Provided, That travel expenses, including travel expenses of the
Depository Library Council to the Public Printer, shall not exceed
$150,000: Provided further, That amounts of not more than
$2,000,000 from current year appropriations are authorized for
producing and disseminating Congressional serial sets and other
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related publications for 1997 and 1998 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
9104 of title 31, United States Code, 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 revolv-
ing fund: Provided, That not more than $2,500 may be expended
on the certification of the Public Printer in connection with official
representation and reception expenses: Provided further, That the
revolving fund shall be available for the hire or purchase of not
more than twelve passenger motor vehicles: 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 temporary or intermit-
tent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code,
but at rates for individuals not more than the daily equivalent
of the annual rate of basic pay for level V of the Executive Schedule
under section 5316 of such title: Provided further, That the revolving
fund and the funds provided under the heading ‘‘OFFICE OF SUPER-
INTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, SALARIES AND EXPENSES’’ together may
not be available for the full-time equivalent employment of more
than 3,383 workyears: 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.
GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
SALARIES AND EXPENSES
For necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office,
including not more than $7,000 to be expended on the certification
of the Comptroller General of the United States in connection
with official representation and reception expenses; temporary or
intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, United States
Code, but at rates for individuals not more than the daily equivalent
of the annual rate of basic pay for level IV of the Executive Schedule
under section 5315 of such title; 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 regulations prescribed
by the Comptroller General of the United States, rental of living
quarters in foreign countries, $354,268,000: Provided, That notwith-
standing 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 $2,000,000
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of such funds shall be available for use in fiscal year 1999: 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 either
Forum’s costs as determined by the respective Forum, including
necessary travel expenses of non-Federal participants. Payments
hereunder to either Forum or the JFMIP may be credited as
reimbursements to any appropriation from which costs involved
are initially financed: Provided further, That this appropriation
and appropriations for administrative expenses of any other depart-
ment 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.
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISION
SEC. 211. The unexpended balance appropriated in Public Law
104–208 to the Secretary of Health and Human Services for carrying
out section 301(l) of Public Law 104–191 is transferred to the
‘‘Salaries and Expenses’’ appropriation of Public Law 105–55 for
necessary expenses of the General Accounting Office, to remain
available until September 30, 1998.
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 Oversight and for the
Senate issued by the Committee on Rules and Administration.
SEC. 302. No part of the funds appropriated in this Act shall
remain available for obligation beyond fiscal year 1999 unless
expressly so provided in this Act.
SEC. 303. Whenever in this Act any office or position not specifi-
cally established by the Legislative Pay Act of 1929 is appropriated
for or the rate of compensation or designation of any office or
position appropriated for is different from that specifically estab-
lished by such Act, the rate of compensation and the designation
in this Act shall be the permanent law with respect thereto: Pro-
vided, That the provisions in this Act 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
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for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under
existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant
to existing law.
SEC. 305. (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 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.
(c) If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a
‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any inscription with the same
meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States
that is not made in the United States, such person shall be ineligible
to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds provided
pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and
ineligibility procedures described in section 9.400 through 9.409
of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
SEC. 306. Such sums as may be necessary are appropriated
to the account described in subsection (a) of section 415 of Public
Law 104–1 to pay awards and settlements as authorized under
such subsection.
SEC. 307. Amounts available for administrative expenses of
any legislative branch entity which participates in the Legislative
Branch Financial Managers Council (LBFMC) established by char-
ter on March 26, 1996, shall be available to finance an appropriate
share of LBFMC costs as determined by the LBFMC, except that
the total LBFMC costs to be shared among all participating legisla-
tive branch entities (in such allocations among the entities as
the entities may determine) may not exceed $1,500.
SEC. 308. (a) SEVERANCE
PAY
FOR
EMPLOYEES
OF
THE
ARCHITECT
OF
THE CAPITOL.—Section 5595(a) of title 5, United
States Code, as amended by section 310 of the Legislative Branch
Appropriations Act, 1998, is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)(F), by striking ‘‘, but only with respect
to the United States Senate Restaurants’’; and
(2) in paragraph (2), in clause (viii) in the matter following
subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘of the United States Senate
Restaurants’’.
(b) EARLY RETIREMENT
FOR EMPLOYEES
OF
THE ARCHITECT
OF THE CAPITOL.—Section 310(b)(1) of the Legislative Branch Appro-
priations Act, 1998 (40 U.S.C. 174j–1(b)(1)) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by striking
‘‘of the United States Senate Restaurants’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘1999;’’ and inserting
‘‘1999 (or, in the case of an individual who is not an employee
of the United States Senate Restaurants, on or after the date
of the enactment of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act,
1999 and before October 1, 2001);’’.
(c) 
VOLUNTARY
SEPARATION
INCENTIVE
PAYMENTS
FOR
EMPLOYEES OF THE ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL.—Section 310(c)
of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1998 (40 U.S.C. 174j–
1(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘of the United States
Senate Restaurants’’; and