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Calendar No. 266
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2799
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
JULY 24 (legislative day, JULY 21), 2003
Received 
AUGUST 1 (legislative day, JULY 21), 2003
Read the first time 
SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
Read the second time and placed on the calendar 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce, 
Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies 
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for 
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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That the following sums are appropriated, out of any 
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for other pur-
poses, namely: 
TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary for the administration of the 
Department of Justice, $106,664,000, of which not to ex-
ceed $3,317,000 is for the Facilities Program 2000, to 
remain available until expended: Provided, That not to ex-
ceed 43 permanent positions and 44 full-time equivalent 
workyears and $10,172,000 shall be expended for the De-
partment Leadership Program exclusive of augmentation 
that occurred in these offices in fiscal year 2003: Provided 
further, That not to exceed 31 permanent positions, 33 
full-time equivalent workyears and $3,464,000 shall be ex-
pended for the Office of Legislative Affairs: Provided fur-
ther, That not to exceed 15 permanent positions, 20 full-
time equivalent workyears and $1,875,000 shall be ex-
pended for the Office of Public Affairs: Provided further, 
That the latter two aforementioned offices may utilize 
non-reimbursable details of career employees within the 
caps described in the preceding two provisos: Provided fur-
ther, That the Attorney General is authorized to transfer,
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under such terms and conditions as the Attorney General 
shall specify, forfeited real or personal property of limited 
or marginal value, as such value is determined by guide-
lines established by the Attorney General, to a State or 
local government agency, or its designated contractor or 
transferee, for use to support drug abuse treatment, drug 
and crime prevention and education, housing, job skills, 
and other community-based public health and safety pro-
grams: Provided further, That any transfer under the pre-
ceding proviso shall not create or confer any private right 
of action in any person against the United States, and 
shall be treated as a reprogramming under section 605 
of this Act. 
IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS INTEGRATION 
For necessary expenses for the nationwide deploy-
ment of a Joint Automated Booking System and for the 
planning, development, and deployment of an integrated 
fingerprint identification system, including automated ca-
pability to transmit fingerprint and image data, 
$20,677,000. 
LEGAL ACTIVITIES OFFICE AUTOMATION 
For necessary expenses related to the design, develop-
ment, engineering, acquisition, and implementation of of-
fice automation systems for the organizations funded 
under the headings ‘‘Salaries and Expenses, General 
Legal Activities’’, and ‘‘General Administration, Salaries
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and Expenses’’, and the United States Attorneys, the 
United States Marshals Service, the Antitrust Division, 
the United States Trustee Program, the Executive Office 
for Immigration Review, the Community Relations Serv-
ice, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Office of Justice Pro-
grams, $30,136,000: Provided, That, of the funds made 
available under this heading, $22,000,000 shall not be-
come available for obligation until September 15, 2004, 
and shall remain available until September 30, 2005. 
NARROWBAND COMMUNICATIONS 
For the costs of conversion to narrowband commu-
nications, including the cost for operation and mainte-
nance 
of 
Land 
Mobile 
Radio 
legacy 
systems, 
$103,171,000, to remain available until September 30, 
2005: Provided, That the Attorney General shall transfer 
to the ‘‘Narrowband Communications’’ account all funds 
made available to the Department of Justice for the pur-
chase of portable and mobile radios: Provided further, 
That any transfer made under the preceding proviso shall 
be subject to section 605 of this Act. 
COUNTERTERRORISM FUND 
For necessary expenses, as determined by the Attor-
ney General, $1,000,000, to remain available until ex-
pended, to reimburse any Department of Justice organiza-
tion for: (1) the costs incurred in reestablishing the oper-
ational capability of an office or facility which has been
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damaged or destroyed as a result of any domestic or inter-
national terrorist incident; and (2) the costs of providing 
support to counter, investigate or prosecute domestic or 
international terrorism, including payment of rewards in 
connection with these activities: Provided, That any Fed-
eral agency may be reimbursed for the costs of detaining 
in foreign countries individuals accused of acts of ter-
rorism that violate the laws of the United States: Provided 
further, That funds provided under this paragraph shall 
be available only after the Attorney General notifies the 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Represent-
atives and the Senate in accordance with section 605 of 
this Act. 
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW AND APPEALS 
For expenses necessary for the administration of par-
don and clemency petitions and immigration-related activi-
ties, $193,530,000. 
DETENTION TRUSTEE 
For necessary expenses of the Federal Detention 
Trustee who shall exercise all power and functions author-
ized by law relating to the detention of Federal prisoners 
in non-Federal institutions or otherwise in the custody of 
the United States Marshals Service, $810,125,000, to re-
main available until expended: Provided, That the Trustee 
shall be responsible for managing the Justice Prisoner and 
Alien Transportation System and for overseeing housing
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related to such detention; the management of funds appro-
priated to the Department of Justice for the exercise of 
any detention functions; and the direction of the United 
States Marshals Service with respect to the exercise of de-
tention policy setting and operations for the Department: 
Provided further, That any unobligated balances available 
in prior years from the funds appropriated under the 
heading ‘‘Federal Prisoner Detention’’ shall be transferred 
to and merged with the appropriation under the heading 
‘‘Detention Trustee’’ and shall be available until expended: 
Provided further, That the Trustee, working in consulta-
tion with the Bureau of Prisons, shall submit a plan for 
collecting information related to evaluating the health and 
safety of Federal prisoners in non-Federal institutions no 
later than 180 days following the enactment of this Act. 
OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Inspector 
General in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector 
General Act of 1978, $56,245,000, including not to exceed 
$10,000 to meet unforeseen emergencies of a confidential 
character. 
UNITED STATES PAROLE COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses of the United States Parole 
Commission as authorized, $10,609,000.
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LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, GENERAL LEGAL ACTIVITIES 
For expenses necessary for the legal activities of the 
Department of Justice, not otherwise provided for, includ-
ing not to exceed $20,000 for expenses of collecting evi-
dence, to be expended under the direction of, and to be 
accounted for solely under the certificate of, the Attorney 
General; and rent of private or Government-owned space 
in the District of Columbia, $620,533,000, of which not 
to exceed $10,000,000 for litigation support contracts 
shall remain available until expended, and of which not 
less than $1,996,000 shall be available for necessary ad-
ministrative expenses in accordance with the Radiation 
Exposure Compensation Act: Provided, That of the total 
amount appropriated, not to exceed $1,000 shall be avail-
able to the United States National Central Bureau, 
INTERPOL, for official reception and representation ex-
penses: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, upon a determination by the Attorney 
General that emergent circumstances require additional 
funding for litigation activities of the Civil Division, the 
Attorney General may transfer such amounts to ‘‘Salaries 
and Expenses, General Legal Activities’’ from available 
appropriations for the current fiscal year for the Depart-
ment of Justice, as may be necessary to respond to such
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circumstances: Provided further, That any transfer pursu-
ant to the previous proviso shall be treated as a re-
programming under section 605 of this Act and shall not 
be available for obligation or expenditure except in compli-
ance with the procedures set forth in that section. 
In addition, for reimbursement of expenses of the De-
partment of Justice associated with processing cases 
under the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, 
not to exceed $4,028,000, to be appropriated from the 
Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, ANTITRUST DIVISION 
For expenses necessary for the enforcement of anti-
trust and kindred laws, $128,133,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, not to exceed $112,000,000 of offsetting 
collections derived from fees collected for premerger notifi-
cation filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Im-
provements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), regardless of 
the year of collection, shall be retained and used for nec-
essary expenses in this appropriation, and shall remain 
available until expended: Provided further, That the sum 
herein appropriated from the general fund shall be re-
duced as such offsetting collections are received during fis-
cal year 2004, so as to result in a final fiscal year 2004 
appropriation from the general fund estimated at not more
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than $16,133,000: Provided further, That, notwithstand-
ing section 1353 of title 31, United States Code, no em-
ployee of the Antitrust Division may accept, nor may the 
Antitrust Division accept, payment or reimbursement 
from a non-Federal entity for travel, subsistence, or re-
lated expenses for the purpose of enabling an employee 
to attend and participate in a convention, conference, or 
meeting when the entity offering payment or reimburse-
ment is a person or corporation subject to regulation by 
the Antitrust Division, or represents a person or corpora-
tion subject to regulation by the Antitrust Division, unless 
the person or corporation is an organization exempt from 
taxation pursuant to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES ATTORNEYS 
For necessary expenses of the Offices of the United 
States Attorneys, including inter-governmental and coop-
erative agreements, $1,526,253,000; of which not to ex-
ceed $2,500,000 shall be available until September 30, 
2005, for: (1) training personnel in debt collection; (2) lo-
cating debtors and their property; (3) paying the net costs 
of selling property; and (4) tracking debts owed to the 
United States Government: Provided, That of the total 
amount appropriated, not to exceed $8,000 shall be avail-
able for official reception and representation expenses: 
Provided further, That not to exceed $10,000,000 of those
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funds available for automated litigation support contracts 
shall remain available until expended: Provided further, 
That, in addition to reimbursable full-time equivalent 
workyears available to the Offices of the United States At-
torneys, not to exceed 10,113 positions and 10,298 full-
time equivalent workyears shall be supported from the 
funds appropriated in this Act for the United States At-
torneys. 
UNITED STATES TRUSTEE SYSTEM FUND 
For necessary expenses of the United States Trustee 
Program, as authorized, $166,157,000, to remain avail-
able until expended and to be derived from the United 
States Trustee System Fund: Provided, That, notwith-
standing any other provision of law, deposits to the Fund 
shall be available in such amounts as may be necessary 
to pay refunds due depositors: Provided further, That, not-
withstanding any other provision of law, $166,157,000 of 
offsetting collections pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 589a(b) shall 
be retained and used for necessary expenses in this appro-
priation and remain available until expended: Provided 
further, That the sum herein appropriated from the Fund 
shall be reduced as such offsetting collections are received 
during fiscal year 2004, so as to result in a final fiscal 
year 2004 appropriation from the Fund estimated at $0.
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SALARIES AND EXPENSES, FOREIGN CLAIMS 
SETTLEMENT COMMISSION 
For expenses necessary to carry out the activities of 
the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, including 
services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109, $1,205,000. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES MARSHALS 
SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the United States Mar-
shals Service, $678,672,000; of which $17,403,000 shall 
be available for 106 supervisory deputy marshal positions 
for courthouse security; of which not to exceed $6,000 
shall be available for official reception and representation 
expenses; of which not to exceed $4,000,000 shall be avail-
able for development, implementation, maintenance and 
support, and training for an automated prisoner informa-
tion system and shall remain available until expended; of 
which $2,000,000 shall be available for the costs of court-
house security equipment, including furnishings, reloca-
tions, and telephone systems and cabling, and shall remain 
available until expended; and of which not to exceed 
$1,371,000 is for constructing United States Marshals 
Service prisoner-holding space in United States Court-
houses and Federal buildings: Provided, That, in addition 
to reimbursable full-time equivalent workyears available to 
the United States Marshals Service, not to exceed 4,240 
positions and 4,074 full-time equivalent workyears shall
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be supported from the funds appropriated in this Act for 
the United States Marshals Service. 
FEES AND EXPENSES OF WITNESSES 
For expenses, mileage, compensation, and per diems 
of witnesses, for expenses of contracts for the procurement 
and supervision of expert witnesses, for private counsel ex-
penses, and for per diems in lieu of subsistence, as author-
ized by law, including advances, $156,145,000, to remain 
available until expended; of which not to exceed 
$8,000,000 may be made available for planning, construc-
tion, renovations, maintenance, remodeling, and repair of 
buildings, and the purchase of equipment incident thereto, 
for protected witness safesites; of which not to exceed 
$1,000,000 may be made available for the purchase and 
maintenance of armored vehicles for transportation of pro-
tected witnesses; and of which not to exceed $5,000,000 
may be made available for the purchase, installation, and 
maintenance of secure telecommunications equipment and 
a secure automated information network to store and re-
trieve the identities and locations of protected witnesses. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES, COMMUNITY RELATIONS 
SERVICE 
For necessary expenses of the Community Relations 
Service, $9,526,000 and, in addition, up to $1,000,000 of 
funds made available to the Department of Justice in this 
Act may be transferred by the Attorney General to this