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The Administrator of General Services or his des-
ignee is authorized to transfer funds received into the Fed-
eral Buildings Fund pursuant to section 11 of GSA—Gen-
eral Provisions, Public Law 102–141, October 28, 1991,
105 Stat. 856, 40 U.S.C., sec. 490(f) (7) and (8), or sec.
490g, prior to the effective date of this legislation, to other
Federal agencies for use by those agencies for the pur-
poses set forth in those statutes. Such funds shall be avail-
able until expended and shall be in addition to any
amounts appropriated for such purposes.
SEC. 609. Funds made available by this or any other
Act for administrative expenses in the current fiscal year
of the corporations and agencies subject to chapter 91 of
title 31, United States Code, shall be available, in addition
to objects for which such funds are otherwise available,
for rent in the District of Columbia; services in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 3109; and the objects specified under this
head, all the provisions of which shall be applicable to the
expenditure of such funds unless otherwise specified in the
Act by which they are made available: Provided, That in
the event any functions budgeted as administrative ex-
penses are subsequently transferred to or paid from other
funds, the limitations on administrative expenses shall be
correspondingly reduced.
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SEC. 610. No part of any appropriation for the cur-
rent fiscal year contained in this or any other Act shall
be paid to any person for the filling of any position for
which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has
voted not to approve the nomination of said person.
SEC. 611. Any department or agency to which the
Administrator of General Services has delegated the au-
thority to operate, maintain or repair any building or facil-
ity pursuant to section 205(d) of the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended, shall
retain that portion of the GSA rental payment available
for operation, maintenance or repair of the building or fa-
cility, as determined by the Administrator, and expend
such funds directly for the operation, maintenance or re-
pair of the building or facility. Any funds retained under
this section shall remain available until expended for such
purposes.
SEC. 612. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Act of
July 15, 1952 (66 Stat. 662), foreign credits (including
currencies) owed to or owned by the United States may
be used by Federal agencies for any purpose for which
appropriations are made for the current fiscal year (in-
cluding the carrying out of Acts requiring or authorizing
the use of such credits), only when reimbursement therefor
is made to the Treasury from applicable appropriations
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of the agency concerned: Provided, That such credits re-
ceived as exchanged allowances or proceeds of sales of per-
sonal property may be used in whole or part payment for
acquisition of similar items, to the extent and in the man-
ner authorized by law, without reimbursement to the
Treasury.
SEC. 613. No part of any appropriation contained in
this or any other Act shall be available for interagency
financing of boards, commissions, councils, committees, or
similar groups (whether or not they are interagency enti-
ties) which do not have a prior and specific statutory ap-
proval to receive financial support from more than one
agency or instrumentality.
SEC. 614. Funds made available by this or any other
Act to the ‘‘Postal Service Fund’’ (39 U.S.C. 2003) shall
be available for employment of guards for all buildings and
areas owned or occupied by the Postal Service and under
the charge and control of the Postal Service, and such
guards shall have, with respect to such property, the pow-
ers of special policemen provided by the first section of
the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40
U.S.C. 318), and, as to property owned or occupied by
the Postal Service, the Postmaster General may take the
same actions as the Administrator of General Services
may take under the provisions of sections 2 and 3 of the
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Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281; 40 U.S.C.
318a, 318b), attaching thereto penal consequences under
the authority and within the limits provided in section 4
of the Act of June 1, 1948, as amended (62 Stat. 281;
40 U.S.C. 318c).
SEC. 615. None of the funds made available pursuant
to the provisions of this Act shall be used to implement,
administer, or enforce any regulation which has been dis-
approved pursuant to a resolution of disapproval duly
adopted in accordance with the applicable law of the
United States.
SEC. 616. No part of any appropriation contained in,
or funds made available by, this or any other Act, shall
be available for any agency to pay to the Administrator
of the General Services Administration a higher rate per
square foot for rental of space and services (established
pursuant to section 210(j) of the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended) than
the rate per square foot established for the space and serv-
ices by the General Services Administration for the fiscal
year for which appropriations were granted.
SEC. 617. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision
of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section,
no part of any of the funds appropriated for the fiscal
year ending on September 30, 1995, by this or any other
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Act, may be used to pay any prevailing rate employee de-
scribed in section 5342(a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States
Code—
(1) during the period from the date of expira-
tion of the limitation imposed by section 615 of the
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government
Appropriations Act, 1994, until the normal effective
date of the applicable wage survey adjustment that
is to take effect in fiscal year 1995, in an amount
that exceeds the rate payable for the applicable
grade and step of the applicable wage schedule in
accordance with such section 615; and
(2) during the period consisting of the remain-
der of fiscal year 1995, in an amount that exceeds,
as a result of a wage survey adjustment, the rate
payable under paragraph (1) by more than the sum
of—
(A) the percentage adjustment taking ef-
fect in fiscal year 1995 under section 5303 of
title 5, United States Code, in the rates of pay
under the General Schedule; and
(B) the difference between the overall aver-
age percentage of the locality-based comparabil-
ity payments taking effect in fiscal year 1995
under section 5304 of such title (whether by
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adjustment or otherwise), and the overall aver-
age percentage of such payments which was ef-
fective in fiscal year 1994 under such section.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no
prevailing rate employee described in subparagraph (B) or
(C) of section 5342(a)(2) of title 5, United States Code,
and no employee covered by section 5348 of such title,
may be paid during the periods for which subsection (a)
is in effect at a rate that exceeds the rates that would
be payable under subsection (a) were subsection (a) appli-
cable to such employee.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the rates payable
to an employee who is covered by this section and who
is paid from a schedule not in existence on September 30,
1994, shall be determined under regulations prescribed by
the Office of Personnel Management.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rates
of premium pay for employees subject to this section may
not be changed from the rates in effect on September 30,
1994, except to the extent determined by the Office of
Personnel Management to be consistent with the purpose
of this section.
(e) This section shall apply with respect to pay for
service performed after September 30, 1994.