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in compliance with reprogramming guidelines under sec-
tion 405 of this Act. 
SEC. 407. No funds in this Act may be used to sup-
port any Federal, State, or local projects that seek to use 
the power of eminent domain, unless eminent domain is 
employed only for a public use: Provided, That for pur-
poses of this section, public use shall not be construed to 
include economic development that primarily benefits pri-
vate entities: Provided further, That any use of funds for 
mass transit, railroad, airport, seaport or highway projects 
as well as utility projects which benefit or serve the gen-
eral public (including energy-related, communication-re-
lated, water-related and wastewater-related infrastruc-
ture), other structures designated for use by the general 
public or which have other common-carrier or public-util-
ity functions that serve the general public and are subject 
to regulation and oversight by the government, and 
projects for the removal of an immediate threat to public 
health and safety or brownsfield as defined in the Small 
Business Liability Relief and Brownsfield Revitalization 
Act (Public Law 107–118) shall be considered a public 
use for purposes of eminent domain. 
SEC. 408. All Federal agencies and departments that 
are funded under this Act shall issue a report to the House 
and Senate Committees on Appropriations on all sole-
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source contracts by no later than July 30, 2015. Such re-
port shall include the contractor, the amount of the con-
tract and the rationale for using a sole-source contract. 
SEC. 409. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or in-
strumentality of the United States Government, except 
pursuant to a transfer made by, or transfer authority pro-
vided in, this Act or any other appropriations Act. 
SEC. 410. No part of any appropriation contained in 
this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person 
filling a position, other than a temporary position, for-
merly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed 
Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily com-
pleted his or her period of active military or naval service, 
and has within 90 days after his or her release from such 
service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge 
for a period of not more than 1 year, made application 
for restoration to his or her former position and has been 
certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still 
qualified to perform the duties of his or her former posi-
tion and has not been restored thereto. 
SEC. 411. No funds appropriated pursuant to this 
Act may be expended by an entity unless the entity agrees 
that in expending the assistance the entity will comply 
with sections 2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933
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(41 U.S.C. 10a–10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy Amer-
ican Act’’). 
SEC. 412. No funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act shall be made available to any 
person or entity that has been convicted of violating the 
Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a–10c). 
SEC. 413. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used for first-class airline accommodations in 
contravention of sections 301–10.122 and 301–10.123 of 
title 41, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 414. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to any cor-
poration that was convicted of a felony criminal violation 
under any Federal law within the preceding 24 months, 
where the awarding agency is aware of the conviction, un-
less the agency has considered suspension or debarment 
of the corporation and made a determination that this fur-
ther action is not necessary to protect the interests of the 
Government. 
SEC. 415. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
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poration with any unpaid Federal tax liability that has 
been assessed, for which all judicial and administrative 
remedies have been exhausted or have lapsed, and that 
is not being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agree-
ment with the authority responsible for collecting the tax 
liability, where the awarding agency is aware of the unpaid 
tax liability, unless the agency has considered suspension 
or debarment of the corporation and made a determination 
that this further action is not necessary to protect the in-
terests of the Government. 
SPENDING REDUCTION ACCOUNT 
SEC. 416. The amount by which the applicable alloca-
tion of new budget authority made by the Committee on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives under sec-
tion 302(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 ex-
ceeds the amount of proposed new budget authority is $0. 
SEC. 417. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to require the relocation, or to carry out 
any required relocation, of any asset management posi-
tions of the Office of Multifamily Housing of the Depart-
ment of Housing and Urban Development in existence as 
of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 418. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of the 5th or 14th 
Amendment to the Constitution or title VI of the Civil 
Rights Act of 1964.
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SEC. 419. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to approve a new foreign air carrier per-
mit under sections 41301 through 41305 of title 49, 
United States Code, or exemption application under sec-
tion 40109 of that title of an air carrier already holding 
an air operators certificate issued by a country that is 
party to the U.S.–E.U.–Iceland–Norway Air Transport 
Agreement where such approval would contravene United 
States law or Article 17 bis of the U.S.–E.U.–Iceland– 
Norway Air Transport Agreement. 
SEC. 420. None of the funds made available by this 
Act under the heading ‘‘Federal Transit Administration— 
Transit Formula Grants’’ may be used in contravention 
of section 5309 of title 49, United States Code. 
SEC. 421. None of the funds made available under 
title II of this Act may be used to repay any loan made, 
guaranteed, or insured by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development. 
SEC. 422. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with any offeror 
or any of its principals if the offeror certifies, as required 
by the Federal Acquisition Regulation, that the offeror or 
any of its principals— 
(1) within a three-year period preceding this 
offer has been convicted of or had a civil judgment
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rendered against it for: commission of fraud or a 
criminal offense in connection with obtaining, at-
tempting to obtain, or performing a public (Federal, 
State, or local) contract or subcontract; violation of 
Federal or State antitrust statutes relating to the 
submission of offers; or commission of embezzle-
ment, theft, forgery, bribery, falsification or destruc-
tion of records, making false statements, tax eva-
sion, violating Federal criminal tax laws, or receiving 
stolen property; 
(2) are presently indicted for, or otherwise 
criminally or civilly charged by a governmental enti-
ty with, commission of any of the offenses enumer-
ated in paragraph (1); or 
(3) within a three-year period preceding this 
offer, has been notified of any delinquent Federal 
taxes in an amount that exceeds $3,000 for which 
the liability remains unsatisfied. 
SEC. 423. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to develop or implement any rule to mod-
ify the criteria relating to citizenship that are applied in 
determining whether a person is eligible to be an operator 
(including a ship manager or agent) of a vessel in the Na-
tional Defense Reserve Fleet.
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SEC. 424. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to administer the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration’s National Roadside Survey. 
SEC. 425. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to develop, issue, or implement regula-
tions that increase levels of minimum financial responsi-
bility for transporting passengers or property as in effect 
on January 1, 2014, under regulations issued pursuant 
to sections 31138 and 31139 of title 49, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 426. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce the 
proposed rule entitled ‘‘Affirmatively Furthering Fair 
Housing’’, published by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development in the Federal Register on July 19, 
2013 (78 Fed. Reg. 43710; Docket No. FR–5173–P–01). 
SEC. 427. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to acquire a camera for the purpose of 
collecting or storing vehicle license plate numbers. 
SEC. 428. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for the Housing Trust Fund established 
under section 1338 of the Federal Housing Enterprises 
Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 (12 U.S.C. 
4568).
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SEC. 429. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract with any person 
whose disclosures of a proceeding with a disposition listed 
in section 2313(c)(1) of title 41, United States Code, in 
the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Informa-
tion System include the term ‘‘Fair Labor Standards 
Act.’’. 
SEC. 430. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to terminate the status of a unit of gen-
eral local government as a metropolitan city (as defined 
in section 102 of the Housing and Community Develop-
ment Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. 5302)) with respect to 
grants under section 106 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5306). 
SEC. 431. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to make incentive payments pursuant 
to 48 CFR 16.4 to contractors for contracts that are be-
hind schedule under the terms of the contract as pre-
scribed by 48 CFR 52.211 or over the contract amount 
indicated in Standard Form 33, box 20. 
SEC. 432. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to promulgate, implement, or enforce any 
regulations that would mandate Global Positioning System 
(GPS) tracking or event data recorders in light-duty non-
commercial passenger motor vehicles.
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SEC. 433. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to provide mortgage insurance under title 
II of the National Housing Act (12 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 
for any mortgage on a 1- to 4-family dwelling to be used 
as the principal residence of a mortgagor who provides 
only an individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN) 
for identification. 
SEC. 434. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into any contract with an incor-
porated entity if such entity’s sealed bid or competitive 
proposal shows that such entity is incorporated or char-
tered in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands, and such enti-
ty’s sealed bid or competitive proposal shows that such 
entity was previously incorporated in the United States. 
SEC. 435. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used in contravention of section 24305(c)(4) 
of title 49, United States Code. 
SEC. 436. None of the funds made available by this 
Act shall be used to support Amtrak’s route with the high-
est loss, measured by contributions/(Loss) per Rider, as 
based on the National Railroad Passenger Corporation 
Fiscal Years 2013–2017 Five Year Plan from May 2013. 
SEC. 437. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used by the Secretary or the Federal Transit 
Administration to implement, administer, or enforce sec-
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tion 18.36(c)(2) of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, 
for construction hiring purposes. 
SEC. 438. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to lease or purchase new light duty vehi-
cles for any executive fleet, or for an agency’s fleet inven-
tory, except in accordance with Presidential Memo-
randum—Federal Fleet Performance, dated May 24, 
2011. 
SEC. 439. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used for high-speed rail in the State of Cali-
fornia or for the California High-Speed Rail Authority. 
SEC. 440. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to implement, administer, or enforce 
paragraph (c)(3) of section 982.503, Code of Federal Reg-
ulations. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transportation, Hous-
ing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appro-
priations Act, 2015’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 10, 2014. 
Attest: 
Clerk.
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4745 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of 
Transportation, and Housing and Urban Devel-
opment, and related agencies for the fiscal year 
ending September 30, 2015, and for other pur-
poses.