Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007

Bill: 109-hr-5631
Sponsor: Rep. Young, C. W. Bill [R-FL-10]
Introduced: 2006-06-16 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Air force
Alternative energy sources
Ammunition
Appellate courts
Appropriations
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Bomber aircraft
Bombs
Brain
Buy American
Central Intelligence Agency
Chemical warfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Continental shelf
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Defense burdensharing
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Disaster relief
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
East Asia
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy
Ethnic relations
Explosives
Federal budgets
Federal office buildings
Fire prevention
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Forest fires
Former Soviet states
Gas in submerged lands
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Head injuries
Health
Heroin
Hospital care
Human rights
Inspectors general
Intelligence officers
International Affairs
International military forces
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Jordan
Labor and Employment
Law
Logistics
Machinery
Maintenance and repair
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marines
Merchant marine
Middle East and North Africa
Military agreements
Military aircraft
Military airlift
Military and naval supplies
Military assistance
Military bases
Military civic action
Military communications
Military helicopters
Military medicine
Military operations
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Military research
Military sealift
Military training
Military transportation
Military vehicles
National Guard
National forests
Navy
North Korea
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear weapons
Off-budget expenditures
Ohio
Oil and gas leases
Oil and gas royalties
Opium
Ordnance
Oxygen
Pakistan
Peacekeeping forces
Petroleum
Petroleum in submerged lands
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Recruiting and enlistment
Regionalism (International organization)
Rescission of appropriated funds
Research and development
Revolving funds
Rockets (Ordnance)
Science, Technology, Communications
Shipbuilding
South Asia
Submarine oil well drilling
Sudan
Supplemental appropriations
Tanks (Combat vehicles)
Terrorism
Torpedoes
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Virginia
War casualties
Warships

Summary:
action_date: 2006-06-16
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - Appropriates funds for FY2007 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance, including for the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid, and former Soviet Union threat reduction; (3) procurement, including for shipbuilding and conversion, and purchases under the Defense Production Act of 1950; (4) research, development, test and evaluation; (5) defense working capital funds, the National Defense Sealift Fund, and the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund; (6) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (7) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (8) the Office of the Inspector General; (9) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (10) the Intelligence Community Management Account.
 
Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds.
 
Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
Reduces by specified amounts the total amount appropriated by this Act to: (1) reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in military departments; (2) limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services; (3) limit excessive growth in personnel travel and transportation costs; and (4) reflect savings from revised economic assumptions and favorable foreign currency fluctuations.
 
Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, for DOD for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance; (3) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (4) procurement; and (5) defense working capital funds.
 
Authorizes the use of DOD funds for specified activities in Iraq and Afghanistan, including supporting military and security forces, combating terrorism, and providing humanitarian and reconstruction assistance.

action_date: 2006-06-16
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - 
Title I: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (3) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (3) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (2) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

Title VIII: General Provisions 
- Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for: (1) the C-17 Globemaster; (2) MH-60R helicopters and mission equipment; and (3) the V-22 Osprey.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY2007, the management by end strengths of Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8021) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8023) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2007 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2007 funds. Reduces, by $25 million, the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8027) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2007.
 
(Sec. 8030) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8035) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
 
(Sec. 8039) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8044) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8049) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8056) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.
 
(Sec. 8057) Prohibits the use of this Act's funds to approve or license the sale of the F/A-22 advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.
 
(Sec. 8058) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8059) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8064) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8065) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies to the defense committees that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8067) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
 
(Sec. 8068) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8069) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8074) Reduces by: (1) $71.1 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $22 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8077) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.
 
(Sec. 8078) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8079) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8082) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry.
 
(Sec. 8083) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than seven Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
 
(Sec. 8084) Appropriates funds to DOD for five specified grants by the Secretary.
 
(Sec. 8085) Requires the FY2008 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8086) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8087) Earmarks funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8089) Prohibits the availability of funds from this Act for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
 
(Sec. 8090) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.
 
(Sec. 8092) Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act for: (1) O&M by $45 million, to limit excessive growth in the travel and transportation of persons; (2) titles II through VI by specified amounts, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions; and (3) titles I through VII by specified amounts, to reflect savings from favorable foreign currency fluctuations.
 
(Sec. 8094) Authorizes the Secretary to present promotional materials, including a U.S. flag and other recognition items, to any member who participates in and returns from Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom, in conjunction with any week-long national observation and day of national celebration.
 
(Sec. 8097) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees detailing efforts by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) to address dyslexia in students at DODEA schools.
 
(Sec. 8098) Makes DOD appropriations available for the purchase of heavy and light armored vehicles for force protection purposes, notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the purchase of passenger vehicles.
 

Title IX: Additional Appropriations 
- Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, to DOD for: (1) military personnel; (2) O&M; (3) the Iraqi Freedom Fund; (4) procurement; and (5) Defense Working Capital Funds.
 
(Sec. 9003) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer between appropriations up to $2.5 billion of the funds made available to DOD in this title. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 9006) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified O&M funds appropriated in this title to: (1) train, equip, and provide related assistance to military or security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to enhance their capability to combat terrorism, and to support U.S. military operations there; and (2) fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 9008) Allows O&M funds appropriated in this title to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9010) Applies to funds appropriated in this title the reporting requirements of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 relating to military operations of U.S. Armed Forces and reconstruction activities of DOD in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9011) Designates amounts provided in chapter 1 of title V of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006, as emergency requirements for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9012) Prohibits funds from this Act from being used to enter into a basing rights agreement between the United States and Iraq.

action_date: 2006-06-20
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - 
Title I: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (3) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (3) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (2) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

Title VIII: General Provisions 
- Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for: (1) the C-17 Globemaster; (2) MH-60R helicopters and mission equipment; and (3) the V-22 Osprey.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY2007, the management by end strengths of Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8021) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8023) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2007 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2007 funds. Reduces, by $25 million, the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8027) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2007.
 
(Sec. 8030) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8035) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
 
(Sec. 8039) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8044) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8049) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8056) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.
 
(Sec. 8057) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8058) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8063) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8064) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies to the defense committees that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8066) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
 
(Sec. 8067) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8068) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8074) Reduces by: (1) $71.1 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $22 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8076) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.
 
(Sec. 8077) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8078) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8081) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry.
 
(Sec. 8082) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than seven Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
 
(Sec. 8083) Appropriates funds to DOD for five specified grants by the Secretary.
 
(Sec. 8084) Requires the FY2008 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8085) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8086) Earmarks funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8088) Prohibits the availability of funds from this Act for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
 
(Sec. 8089) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.
 
(Sec. 8091) Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act for: (1) O&M by $45 million, to limit excessive growth in the travel and transportation of persons; (2) titles II through VII by specified amounts, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions; and (3) titles I through VII by specified amounts, to reflect savings from favorable foreign currency fluctuations.
 
(Sec. 8093) Authorizes the Secretary to present promotional materials, including a U.S. flag and other recognition items, to any member who participates in and returns from Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom, in conjunction with any week-long national observation and day of national celebration.
 
(Sec. 8096) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees detailing efforts by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) to address dyslexia in students at DODEA schools.
 
(Sec. 8097) Makes DOD appropriations available for the purchase of heavy and light armored vehicles for force protection purposes, notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the purchase of passenger vehicles.
 

Title IX: Additional Appropriations 
- Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, to DOD for: (1) military personnel; (2) O&M; (3) the Iraqi Freedom Fund; (4) procurement; and (5) Defense Working Capital Funds.
 
(Sec. 9003) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer between appropriations up to $2.5 billion of the funds made available to DOD in this title. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 9006) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified O&M funds appropriated in this title to: (1) train, equip, and provide related assistance to military or security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to enhance their capability to combat terrorism, and to support U.S. military operations there; and (2) fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 9008) Allows O&M funds appropriated in this title to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9010) Applies to funds appropriated in this title the reporting requirements of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2006 relating to military operations of U.S. Armed Forces and reconstruction activities of DOD in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9011) Designates amounts provided in chapter 1 of title V of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006, as emergency requirements for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9012) Prohibits funds from this Act from being used to enter into a basing rights agreement between the United States and Iraq.
 

Title X: Additional General Provisions
 - (Sec. 10002) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act: (1) in contravention of specified laws or regulations promulgated to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; or (2) to enter into or carry out a contract for the performance of any base operation support service at Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital pursuant to a specified public-private competition.

action_date: 2006-07-25
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - 
Title I: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, Air Force, defense-wide, and at formerly used defense sites; (3) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (4) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (3) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Health Program; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

Title VIII: General Provisions 
- Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for: (1) the C-17 Globemaster; (2) the F-22A; (3) MH-60R helicopters and mission equipment; and (4) the V-22 Osprey.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY2007, the management by end strengths of Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8011) Prohibits funds from this or any other Act from being used to initiate a new installation overseas without 30-day advance notification to the appropriations committees.
 
(Sec. 8024) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8026) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2007 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2007 funds. Reduces, by $53.2 million, the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8030) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2007.
 
(Sec. 8033) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8038) Makes specified DOD O&M funds available only for the mitigation of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities.
 
(Sec. 8039) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
 
(Sec. 8043) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8049) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8054) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8061) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.
 
(Sec. 8062) Prohibits the use of this Act's funds to approve or license the sale of the F-22A advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.
 
(Sec. 8063) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8064) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8069) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8070) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies to the defense committees that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8072) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
 
(Sec. 8073) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8074) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8079) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental and medical equipment to Indian Health Service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
 
(Sec. 8080) Reduces by: (1) $92 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $71 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8082) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.
 
(Sec. 8083) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8084) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8088) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than seven Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
 
(Sec. 8090) Requires the FY2008 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8091) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8092) Earmarks funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8094) Prohibits the availability of funds from this Act for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
 
(Sec. 8096) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.
 
(Sec. 8098) Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act for: (1) O&M by $85 million, to limit excessive growth in the travel and transportation of persons; and (2) titles II through VI by specified amounts, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions.
 
(Sec. 8099) Appropriates funds for assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled.
 
(Sec. 8105) Makes specified Navy O&M funds available for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program to enable the Pacific Command to execute Theater Security Cooperation activities such as humanitarian assistance and payment of costs of training and exercising with foreign security forces.
 
(Sec. 8106) Authorizes the Secretary to present promotional materials, including a U.S. flag and other recognition items, to any member who participates in and returns from Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom, in conjunction with any week-long national observation and day of national celebration.
 
(Sec. 8108) Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being obligated or expended for retiring or dismantling any of the 93 Air Force B-52H bomber aircraft in service as of June 1, 2006, until 30 days after the Secretary of the Air Force reports to the defense committees on the bomber force structure meeting specified requirements, including modernization.
 

Title IX: Additional Appropriations 
- 
Chapter 1: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, to DOD for military personnel.
 

Chapter 2: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates additional funds, for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, for (1) O&M; (2) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (3) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (4) the Iraq Security Forces Fund; and (5) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund.
 

Chapter 3: Procurement 
- Appropriates additional funds for procurement.
 

Chapter 4: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates additional funds for RDT&E.
 

Chapter 5: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates additional funds for Defense Working Capital Funds.
 

Chapter 6: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates additional funds, for the Intelligence Community Management Account. 
 
(Sec. 9003) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer between appropriations up to $2.5 billion of the funds made available to DOD in this title. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 9006) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified O&M funds appropriated in this title to fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 9007) Makes DOD appropriations available for the purchase of up to 20 heavy and light armored vehicles for force protection purposes, notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the purchase of passenger vehicles.
 
(Sec. 9008) Allows O&M funds appropriated in this title to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9010) Directs the Secretary to submit quarterly to Congress through the end of FY2007 a comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures for progress toward military and political stability in Iraq, including a timetable for achieving such goals.

action_date: 2006-09-07
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - 
Title I: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, Air Force, defense-wide, and at formerly used defense sites; (3) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (4) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (3) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Health Program; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

Title VIII: General Provisions 
- Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for: (1) the C-17 Globemaster; (2) the F-22A; (3) MH-60R helicopters and mission equipment; and (4) the V-22 Osprey.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY2007, the management by end strengths of Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8011) Prohibits funds from this or any other Act from being used to initiate a new installation overseas without 30-day advance notification to the appropriations committees.
 
(Sec. 8024) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8026) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2007 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2007 funds. Reduces, by $53.2 million, the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8030) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2007.
 
(Sec. 8033) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8038) Makes specified DOD O&M funds available only for the mitigation of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities.
 
(Sec. 8039) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
 
(Sec. 8043) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8049) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8054) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8061) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.
 
(Sec. 8062) Prohibits the use of this Act's funds to approve or license the sale of the F-22A advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.
 
(Sec. 8063) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8064) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8069) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8070) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies to the defense committees that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8072) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
 
(Sec. 8073) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8074) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8079) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental and medical equipment to Indian Health Service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
 
(Sec. 8080) Reduces by: (1) $92 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $71 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8082) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.
 
(Sec. 8083) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8084) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8088) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than seven Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
 
(Sec. 8090) Requires the FY2008 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8091) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8092) Earmarks funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8094) Prohibits the availability of funds from this Act for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
 
(Sec. 8096) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.
 
(Sec. 8098) Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act for: (1) O&M by $85 million, to limit excessive growth in the travel and transportation of persons; and (2) titles II through VI by specified amounts, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions.
 
(Sec. 8099) Appropriates funds for assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled.
 
(Sec. 8105) Makes specified Navy O&M funds available for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program to enable the Pacific Command to execute Theater Security Cooperation activities such as humanitarian assistance and payment of costs of training and exercising with foreign security forces.
 
(Sec. 8106) Authorizes the Secretary to present promotional materials, including a U.S. flag and other recognition items, to any member who participates in and returns from Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom, in conjunction with any week-long national observation and day of national celebration.
 
(Sec. 8108) Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being obligated or expended for retiring or dismantling any of the 93 Air Force B-52H bomber aircraft in service as of June 1, 2006, until 30 days after the Secretary of the Air Force reports to the defense committees on the bomber force structure meeting specified requirements, including modernization.
 
(Sec. 8109) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding the DOD Depleted Uranium Sensing and Treatment for Removal program.
 
(Sec. 8110) Earmarks funds for: (1) a virtual interactive combat environment for the New Jersey National Guard; (2) a Navy man overboard identification system; (3) interoperable mobile wireless communications capability for the U.S. Northern Command; (4) the advanced airship flying laboratory; (5) testing of the parafoil joint precision air drop system; (6) specified integration of internal weapons bays of B-52 aircraft; and (7) equipment reset requirements resulting from continuing combat operations.
 
(Sec. 8117) Provides the authorized period for the modification of national defense contracts following notification from the Army Contract Adjustment Board to the defense committees.
 
(Sec. 8119) Requires an interim and final report from the Secretary to the defense committees on the management of the DOD biometrics program.
 
(Sec. 8120) Earmarks funds for: (1) the joint advertising, market research, and studies program; (2) a traveling exhibit for the U.S. Army Center of Military History; (3) environmental management and compliance information; (4) commercialization and industrialization of adaptive optics; (5) a sonar system for unmanned underwater vehicles; (6) the procurement of radiation-hardened microelectronics; (7) the transportable transponder landing system; (8) individual first aid kits; (9) the advanced tank armament system; (10) the development of a lightweight all-terrain vehicle; and (11) a pilot program on troops to nurse teachers.
 
(Sec. 8123) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning medical countermeasures for treating forward-deployed personnel against lethal effects of acute radiation syndrome.
 
(Sec. 8132) Limits the aggregate amount available for FY2007 DOD expenses relating to conferences.
 
(Sec. 8133) Directs that each report required by this Act to be submitted by DOD to the appropriations committees also be posted on the DOD public Internet website within 48 hours after the report is submitted.
 
(Sec. 8134) Requires the Secretary, with regard to payments made with funds provided by this Act, to submit to specified congressional committees a report describing risk assessments performed by DOD on payments made for travel, including an estimate of improper payments.
 
(Sec. 8135) Earmarks funds for: (1) the wireless maritime inspection system; (2) a simulation for unmanned aerial vehicles; (3) caliber recoil mitigation technologies; and (4) the automated communications system for warfighters, intelligence community, linguists, and analysts.
 
(Sec. 8139) Prohibits the use of funds to enter into an agreement with the government of Iraq that would subject U.S. military personnel to the jurisdiction of Iraq criminal courts or punishment under Iraq law.
 
(Sec. 8140) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress, as well as posting on the DOD public Internet website, on each earmark of funds made by this Act.
 
(Sec. 8141) Earmarks funds for: (1) a program element for blast protection research; (2) an Army support hospital; (3) refinements in the use of class IV unmanned aerial vehicles and associated ground stations; (4) combat vehicle and automotive technology; and (5) advanced procurement of nuclear propulsion equipment.
 
(Sec. 8144) Prohibits the use of funds to : (1) establish any military installation or base for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq; or (2) exercise U.S. control over any oil resource of Iraq.
 
(Sec. 8148) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the defense committees a cost-benefit analysis of proposed realignments or closures of research and development or test and evaluation installations, activities, facilities, laboratories, units, functions, or capabilities of the Air Force.
 
(Sec. 8149) Earmarks funds for DOD's Office of Economic Adjustment to conduct a traffic study on improvements to the transportation infrastructure around Fort Belvoir, Virginia, to accommodate an increased workforce resulting from decisions implemented under the 2005 round of defense base closures and realignments. Requires a study report from the Secretary to the defense committees.
 
(Sec. 8150) Earmarks funds for: (1) completion of a final phase of a classified defense activity; (2) an Army project for developing a field-portable oxygen generator device for wounded soldiers; (3) systems to address Navy unmanned underwater vehicle requirements; (4) thermoplastic composite body armor research; (5) the renovation and repair of barracks at Camp Perry, Ohio; (6) weapons and munitions advanced technology; (7) mental health and readjustment assistance to members of the National Guard and reserves, and their families, upon their return from deployment; (8) physical and data security improvements at Navy recruiting stations; and (9) the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.
 
(Sec. 8153) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to place limitations on royalty relief granted under any lease for the production of oil or natural gas on federal lands. Reaffirms such Secretary's authority to vary the suspension of royalties under any lease subject to provisions of the Outer Continental Shelf Deep Water Royalty Relief Act.
 
(Sec. 8160) Increases by $700 million the amounts appropriated for DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, to be used to: (1) eliminate the production and trade of opium and heroin; and (2) prevent terrorists from using the proceeds of such trade for terrorist activities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
 
(Sec. 8161) Earmarks funds for: (1) infrastructure for the Afghanistan military legal system; (2) a training simulator for the Montana Army National Guard; (3) testing of the joint improvised explosive device neutralizer III; (4) development of a field-deployable hydrogen fueling station; (5) bioterrorism protection research; and (6) the heavy fuel diesel engine.
 
(Sec. 8166) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to reimburse members of the 172nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team for expenses incurred by such member (or his or her family member) when the expenses are not otherwise reimbursable by law, as long as such expenses are a direct consequence of reasonable preparation for, or execution of, military orders. 
 

Title IX: Additional Appropriations 
- 
Chapter 1: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, to DOD for military personnel.
 

Chapter 2: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates additional funds, for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism, for (1) O&M; (2) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (3) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (4) the Iraq Security Forces Fund; and (5) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund.
 

Chapter 3: Procurement 
- Appropriates additional funds for procurement.
 

Chapter 4: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates additional funds for RDT&E.
 

Chapter 5: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates additional funds for Defense Working Capital Funds.
 

Chapter 6: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates additional funds for: (1) the Intelligence Community Management Account; and (2) the conduct of emergency wildfire suppression activities by the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture.
 
(Sec. 9003) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer between appropriations up to $2.5 billion of the funds made available to DOD in this title. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 9006) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified O&M funds appropriated in this title to fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 9007) Makes DOD appropriations available for the purchase of up to 20 heavy and light armored vehicles for force protection purposes, notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the purchase of passenger vehicles.
 
(Sec. 9008) Allows O&M funds appropriated in this title to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9010) Directs the Secretary to submit quarterly to Congress through the end of FY2007 a comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures for progress toward military and political stability in Iraq, including a timetable for achieving such goals.
 
(Sec. 9012) Appropriates additional funds to the Army and Marine Corps for equipment reset requirements resulting from continuing combat operations. Designates such funds as appropriations for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9013) Earmarks funds for: (1) a pilot program on the reintegration of members of the Army National Guard into civilian life after deployment; (2) the procurement of hemostatic agents for field use by military personnel; and (3) National Guard and reserve equipment.
 
(Sec. 9016) Requires a report from the Secretary to specified congressional committees on DOD procedures and guidelines to protect U.S. military and civilian personnel should sectarian violence further increase in Iraq.
 
(Sec. 9017) Appropriates additional DOD O&M funds, to be used to: (1) assist in the training, support, and equipping of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS); (2) facilitate the airlifting of AMIS forces into the Darfur region as quickly as possible; and (3) assist and expand the logistics capability of AMIS. Designates such funds as appropriations for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9018) Appropriates additional Air Force procurement funds, to be used for procurement of Predators for special operations forces. Designates such funds as appropriations for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism.

action_date: 2006-09-25
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - 
Division A: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 
- 
Title I: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (3) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (3) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (2) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

Title VIII: General Provisions 
- Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for: (1) the C-17 Globemaster; (2) the F-22A; (3) MH-60R helicopters and mission equipment; and (4) the V-22 Osprey.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY2007, the management by end strengths of Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8021) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8023) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2007 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2007 funds. Reduces, by $53.2 million, the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8027) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2007.
 
(Sec. 8030) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8035) Makes specified DOD O&M funds available only for the mitigation of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities.
 
(Sec. 8036) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
 
(Sec. 8040) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8050) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8057) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.
 
(Sec. 8058) Prohibits the use of this Act's funds to approve or license the sale of the F-22A advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.
 
(Sec. 8059) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8060) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8065) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8066) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies to the defense committees that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8068) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
 
(Sec. 8069) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8070) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8076) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental and medical equipment to Indian Health Service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
 
(Sec. 8077) Reduces by: (1) $158.1 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $71 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8079) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.
 
(Sec. 8080) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8081) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8085) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry.
 
(Sec. 8086) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Future Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than seven Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
 
(Sec. 8088) Appropriates funds to DOD for five specified grants by the Secretary.
 
(Sec. 8089) Requires the FY2008 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8090) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8091) Earmarks funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8093) Prohibits the availability of funds from this Act for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
 
(Sec. 8094) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.
 
(Sec. 8097) Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act for: (1) O&M by $85 million, to limit excessive growth in the travel and transportation of persons; and (2) titles II through VI by specified amounts, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions.
 
(Sec. 8098) Appropriates funds for assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled.
 
(Sec. 8104) Authorizes the Secretary to present promotional materials, including a U.S. flag and other recognition items, to any member who participates in and returns from Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom, in conjunction with any week-long national observation and day of national celebration.
 
(Sec. 8105) Makes specified Navy O&M funds available for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program to enable the Pacific Command to execute Theater Security Cooperation activities such as humanitarian assistance and payment of costs of training and exercising with foreign security forces.
 
(Sec. 8107) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees detailing efforts by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) to address dyslexia in students at DODEA schools.
 
(Sec. 8108) Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being obligated or expended for retiring or dismantling any of the 93 Air Force B-52H bomber aircraft in service as of June 1, 2006, until 30 days after the Secretary of the Air Force reports to the defense committees on the bomber force structure meeting specified requirements, including modernization.
 
(Sec. 8109) Provides the authorized period for the modification of national defense contracts following notification from the Army Contract Adjustment Board to the defense committees.
 
(Sec. 8110) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the defense committees a cost-benefit analysis of proposed realignments or closures of research and development or test and evaluation installations, activities, facilities, laboratories, units, functions, or capabilities of the Air Force.
 
(Sec. 8111) Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended to implement any provision of the National Security Personnel System that deviates from any provision or regulation relating to federal labor-management relations, adverse actions, or employee appeals. States that such prohibition shall cease to apply to the extent that the decision of the court in 
AFGE v. Rumsfield 
is reversed on appeal.
 

Title IX: Additional Appropriations
- Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, to DOD for: (1) military personnel; (2) O&M; (3) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (4) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (5) the Iraq Security Forces Fund; (6) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (7) procurement; (8) RDT&E; (9) DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; and (10) the Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

 
(Sec. 9003) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer between appropriations up to $3 billion of the funds made available to DOD in this title. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 9006) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified O&M funds appropriated in this title to fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 9007) Makes DOD appropriations available for the purchase of up to 20 heavy and light armored vehicles for force protection purposes, notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the purchase of passenger vehicles.
 
(Sec. 9008) Allows O&M funds appropriated in this title to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9010) Directs the Secretary to submit quarterly to Congress through the end of FY2007 a comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures for progress toward military and political stability in Iraq, including a timetable for achieving such goals.
 
(Sec. 9011) Designates amounts provided in chapter 1 of title V of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006, as emergency requirements for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9012) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) establish any military installation or base for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq; or (2) exercise U.S. control over any oil resource of Iraq.
 
(Sec. 9013) Designates each amount appropriated or otherwise made available in this title as an emergency requirement for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9014) Earmarks specified DOD O&M funds for transfer by the Secretary to the Department of State to support peacekeeping activities in Sudan. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees at least five days prior to any such transfer.
 
(Sec. 9015) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) in contravention of specified laws or regulations promulgated to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (2) to provide award fees to any defense contractor for performance that does not meet contract requirements; or (3) to enter into an agreement with the government of Iraq that would subject U.S. military personnel to the jurisdiction of Iraq criminal courts or punishment under Iraq law.
 
(Sec. 9018) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to reimburse a member for expenses incurred by a member or family member that are not otherwise reimbursable under law, provided that the expenses have been incurred as a direct consequence of reasonable preparation for, or execution of, military orders. Allows such reimbursement only when: (1) other authorities are insufficient to remedy a determined hardship; and (2) reimbursement is in the best interest of the member and the United States.
 

Title X: Fiscal Year 2006 Wildland Fire Emergency Appropriations 
- Appropriates funds to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service for wildland fire management, including wildland fire suppression. Designates such funds as appropriations for sudden, urgent, and unforeseen needs consistent with the definition of emergency spending under the congressional budget resolutions.
 

Division B: Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007
 - Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2007.
 
(Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2006 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority would be made available in: (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007; (2) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House of Representatives) or the Energy and Water Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); (3) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); (4) the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007; (5) the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007; (6) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007; (7) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2007; (8) the Military Construction, Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); (9) the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); and (10) the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate), and the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate). 
 
Continues any project or activity under such Acts at the current rate for operations or the rate permitted by the House and Senate actions, whichever is lower, and under the authority and conditions provided in applicable appropriations Acts for FY2006, whenever the amount that would be made available or the authority that would be granted for such project or activity as passed by the House as of October 1, 2006, is the same as the amount or authority that would be available or granted under the same or other pertinent Act as passed by the Senate as of such date.
 
Discontinues any project or activity if no amount or authority is made available or granted for it by the House and Senate actions.
 
Requires continuation of a project or activity at the current FY2006 rate, or at the lower of the two rates as permitted by the action of the two Chambers, if both Chambers permit different rates. Requires continuation of a project or activity, also, at the current FY2006 rate, or if lower at the rate permitted by action of the one Chamber, if only one Chamber has passed the pertinent appropriations Act.
 
 Requires continuation at the current FY2006 rate of any project or activity funded for FY2006 but not included in the pertinent appropriations Act for FY2007 of the House as of October 1, 2006, if only the House has passed that Act for FY2007. Requires the same continuation at the current FY2006 rate for any project or activity whose pertinent appropriations Act for FY2007 has not been passed by either Chamber as of October 1, 2006.
 

 
(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this division until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this division; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act by both Chambers without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) November 17, 2006.
 
(Sec. 114) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 certain activities for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for FY2006, and for activities under the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Declares that, notwithstanding such date, funds shall be available and obligations for mandatory payments due on or about November 1 and December 1, 2006.
 
(Sec. 115) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to enter into or renew contracts for one year, under conditions of the Housing Act of 1949, to provide assistance payments to owners of rental, congregate, or cooperative housing for persons and families of low income in multifamily housing projects.
 
(Sec. 116) Requires the Secretary to continue, through the date specified in Sec. 106, the Water and Waste Systems Direct Loan Program under the authority and conditions (including the borrower's interest rate and fees as of September 1, 2006) provided by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
 
 
(Sec. 117) Extends through the date specified in Sec. 106 specified federal law relating to the Appalachian regional development.
 
(Sec. 118) Continues the authority of the Export-Import Bank of the United States through the date specified in Sec. 106 to: (1) take prompt measures to promote the expansion of the Bank's financial commitments in sub-Saharan Africa under the Bank's loan, guarantee, and insurance programs; (2) deny application for assistance based on fraud or corruption by a party involved in the transaction; and (3) provide financing for the export on nonlethal defense articles or services the primary end use of which will be for civilian purposes.
 
(Sec. 119) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the authorization of appropriations for the President to cancel all amounts owed to the United States or federal agencies by any country eligible for debt reduction under specified law.
 
(Sec. 120) Deems to have been provided in an applicable appropriations Act for FY2006, in addition to the amounts provided by Sec. 101 of this division, amounts obligated in FY2006 from funding provided in the Higher Education Act (as reduced by the amount of account maintenance fees obligated to guaranty agencies for such fiscal year pursuant to that Act).
 
(Sec. 121) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants for outreach, rehabilitative services, vocational counseling and training, and transitional housing assistance for homeless veterans.
 
(Sec. 122) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the temporary limited authority of the Secretary of Defense to use operation and maintenance funds for construction projects outside the United States.
 
(Sec. 123) Continues the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out major construction projects in connection with the Capital Asset Realignment Initiative through the earlier of: (1) the date specified in Sec. 106; or (2) the date of enactment into law of an authorization Act relating to major medical facilities projects of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
 
(Sec. 124) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the patent and trademark fees established for FY2005-FY2006, including the fees prescribed under the Trademark Act of 1946 for electronic and paper applications for trademark registration.
 
(Sec. 125) Authorizes the obligation of funds appropriated by Sec. 101 of this division for International Space Station Cargo Crew Services/International Partner Purchases within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the account and budget structure set forth in specified Acts.
 
(Sec. 126) Authorizes amounts made available by Sec. 101 of this division for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs, consistent with enacted appropriations for FY2006. Prohibits the use of such authority, however, until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses.
 
(Sec. 127) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities as provided under title V of H.R. 5576 (109th Congress), as passed by the House, at a specified rate set forth in the Fiscal Year 2007 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District on June 5, 2006.
 
Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the authority of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with respect to personnel and the preparation of fiscal impact statements during a control period.
 
 Continues through such date also the exemption from the District of Columbia's Procurement Practices Act of the entire process used by the CFO to acquire all kinds of goods, works, and services by contractual means.
 
(Sec. 128) Continues the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness through the earlier of: (1) the date specified in Sec. 106; or (2) the date of the enactment into law of an authorization Act relating to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
 
(Sec. 129) Allows funds appropriated by Sec. 101 of this division for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be obligated in the account and budget structure set forth in title II of H.R. 5576 (109th Congress), as passed by the House.
 
 (Sec. 130) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 activities authorized by title V, the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997, of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.
 
(Sec. 131) Amends the National Housing Act to increase from 250,000 to 275,000 the aggregate number of insured home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners.
 
(Sec. 132) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies designated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Government Management Reform Act of 1994.

action_date: 2006-09-29
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(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on September 25, 2006. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 - 
Division A: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2007 
- 
Title I: Military Personnel 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guard. Appropriates funds for: (1) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (2) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (3) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for procurement by the Armed Forces of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY2007 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the Armed Forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the Defense Working Capital Funds; (2) programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund; and (3) the Pentagon Reservation Maintenance Revolving Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (2) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (3) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies 
- Appropriates funds for the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; and (2) Intelligence Community Management Account.
 

Title VIII: General Provisions 
- Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of authorized funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for a multiyear procurement contract for: (1) the C-17 Globemaster; (2) the F-22A; (3) MH-60R helicopters and mission equipment; and (4) the V-22 Osprey.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY2007, the management by end strengths of Department of Defense (DOD) civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8021) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military compensation, construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8023) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2007 funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY2007 funds. Reduces, by $53.2 million, the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8024) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8027) Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY2007.
 
(Sec. 8030) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield Program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8035) Makes specified DOD O&M funds available only for the mitigation of environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities.
 
(Sec. 8036) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program and Army agencies established to eliminate, mitigate, or counter the effects of improvised explosive devices; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; and (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level.
 
(Sec. 8040) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for drug interdiction or counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8050) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations (UN) peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8057) Makes DOD funds available to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment to: (1) American Samoa; and (2) the Indian Health Service in conjunction with a civil-military project.
 
(Sec. 8058) Prohibits the use of this Act's funds to approve or license the sale of the F-22A advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.
 
(Sec. 8059) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8060) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8065) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8066) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies to the defense committees that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8068) Authorizes members of the National Guard performing full-time duty to support ground-based elements of the National Ballistic Missile Defense System.
 
(Sec. 8069) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8070) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain, youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8076) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental and medical equipment to Indian Health Service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
 
(Sec. 8077) Reduces by: (1) $158.1 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act, to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $71 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8079) Earmarks specified RDT&E funds for producing Arrow missile components in the United States and Arrow missile components and missiles in Israel to meet Israel's defense requirements.
 
(Sec. 8080) Makes Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8081) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8085) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry.
 
(Sec. 8086) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Future Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in FY2010; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than seven Stryker Brigade Combat Teams.
 
(Sec. 8088) Appropriates funds to DOD for five specified grants by the Secretary.
 
(Sec. 8089) Requires the FY2008 budget to include separate budget justification documents for costs of U.S. Armed Forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel, O&M, and procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8090) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8091) Earmarks funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8093) Prohibits the availability of funds from this Act for integration of foreign intelligence information unless such information has been lawfully collected and processed during the conduct of authorized foreign intelligence activities.
 
(Sec. 8094) Requires Ready Reserve members who are called or ordered to active duty in time of national emergency to be notified of their expected mobilization period at the time they are called or ordered. Allows the Secretary to waive such requirement in order to respond to a national security emergency or meet dire operational requirements.
 
(Sec. 8097) Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act for: (1) O&M by $85 million, to limit excessive growth in the travel and transportation of persons; and (2) titles II through VI by specified amounts, to reflect savings from revised economic assumptions.
 
(Sec. 8098) Appropriates funds for assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled.
 
(Sec. 8104) Authorizes the Secretary to present promotional materials, including a U.S. flag and other recognition items, to any member who participates in and returns from Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom, in conjunction with any week-long national observation and day of national celebration.
 
(Sec. 8105) Makes specified Navy O&M funds available for the Asia Pacific Regional Initiative Program to enable the Pacific Command to execute Theater Security Cooperation activities such as humanitarian assistance and payment of costs of training and exercising with foreign security forces.
 
(Sec. 8107) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees detailing efforts by the Department of Defense Education Activity (DODEA) to address dyslexia in students at DODEA schools.
 
(Sec. 8108) Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being obligated or expended for retiring or dismantling any of the 93 Air Force B-52H bomber aircraft in service as of June 1, 2006, until 30 days after the Secretary of the Air Force reports to the defense committees on the bomber force structure meeting specified requirements, including modernization.
 
(Sec. 8109) Provides the authorized period for the modification of national defense contracts following notification from the Army Contract Adjustment Board to the defense committees.
 
(Sec. 8110) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to the defense committees a cost-benefit analysis of proposed realignments or closures of research and development or test and evaluation installations, activities, facilities, laboratories, units, functions, or capabilities of the Air Force.
 
(Sec. 8111) Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended to implement any provision of the National Security Personnel System that deviates from any provision or regulation relating to federal labor-management relations, adverse actions, or employee appeals. States that such prohibition shall cease to apply to the extent that the decision of the court in 
AFGE v. Rumsfield 
is reversed on appeal.
 

Title IX: Additional Appropriations
- Appropriates additional funds, to be designated for contingency operations directly related to the global war on terrorism, to DOD for: (1) military personnel; (2) O&M; (3) the Iraq Freedom Fund; (4) the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund; (5) the Iraq Security Forces Fund; (6) the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Fund; (7) procurement; (8) RDT&E; (9) DOD drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; and (10) the Intelligence Community Management Account.
 
(Sec. 9003) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer between appropriations up to $3 billion of the funds made available to DOD in this title. Requires congressional notification of each transfer.
 
(Sec. 9006) Authorizes the Secretary to use specified O&M funds appropriated in this title to fund the Commander's Emergency Response Program (urgent humanitarian relief and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan).
 
(Sec. 9007) Makes DOD appropriations available for the purchase of up to 20 heavy and light armored vehicles for force protection purposes, notwithstanding price or other limitations applicable to the purchase of passenger vehicles.
 
(Sec. 9008) Allows O&M funds appropriated in this title to be used to provide supplies, services, transportation, and other logistical support to coalition forces supporting military and stability operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
(Sec. 9010) Directs the Secretary to submit quarterly to Congress through the end of FY2007 a comprehensive set of performance indicators and measures for progress toward military and political stability in Iraq, including a timetable for achieving such goals.
 
(Sec. 9011) Designates amounts provided in chapter 1 of title V of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Hurricane Recovery, 2006, as emergency requirements for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9012) Prohibits the use of funds to: (1) establish any military installation or base for the permanent stationing of U.S. Armed Forces in Iraq; or (2) exercise U.S. control over any oil resource of Iraq.
 
(Sec. 9013) Designates each amount appropriated or otherwise made available in this title as an emergency requirement for contingency operations related to the global war on terrorism.
 
(Sec. 9014) Earmarks specified DOD O&M funds for transfer by the Secretary to the Department of State to support peacekeeping activities in Sudan. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees at least five days prior to any such transfer.
 
(Sec. 9015) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) in contravention of specified laws or regulations promulgated to implement the United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; (2) to provide award fees to any defense contractor for performance that does not meet contract requirements; or (3) to enter into an agreement with the government of Iraq that would subject U.S. military personnel to the jurisdiction of Iraq criminal courts or punishment under Iraq law.
 
(Sec. 9018) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to reimburse a member for expenses incurred by a member or family member that are not otherwise reimbursable under law, provided that the expenses have been incurred as a direct consequence of reasonable preparation for, or execution of, military orders. Allows such reimbursement only when: (1) other authorities are insufficient to remedy a determined hardship; and (2) reimbursement is in the best interest of the member and the United States.
 

Title X: Fiscal Year 2006 Wildland Fire Emergency Appropriations 
- Appropriates funds to the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service for wildland fire management, including wildland fire suppression. Designates such funds as appropriations for sudden, urgent, and unforeseen needs consistent with the definition of emergency spending under the congressional budget resolutions
.

 

Division B: Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007
 - Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2007 - Makes continuing appropriations for FY2007.
 
(Sec. 101) Appropriates amounts for continuing operations, projects, or activities which were conducted in FY2006 and for which appropriations, funds, or other authority would be made available in: (1) the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007; (2) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House of Representatives) or the Energy and Water Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); (3) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); (4) the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2007; (5) the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007; (6) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007; (7) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2007; (8) the Military Construction, Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); (9) the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate); and (10) the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the House) or the Transportation, Treasury, Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate), and the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2007 (in the Senate). 
 
Continues any project or activity under such Acts at the current rate for operations or the rate permitted by the House and Senate actions, whichever is lower, and under the authority and conditions provided in applicable appropriations Acts for FY2006, whenever the amount that would be made available or the authority that would be granted for such project or activity as passed by the House as of October 1, 2006, is the same as the amount or authority that would be available or granted under the same or other pertinent Act as passed by the Senate as of such date.
 
Discontinues any project or activity if no amount or authority is made available or granted for it by the House and Senate actions.
 
Requires continuation of a project or activity at the current FY2006 rate, or at the lower of the two rates as permitted by the action of the two Chambers, if both Chambers permit different rates. Requires continuation of a project or activity, also, at the current FY2006 rate, or if lower at the rate permitted by action of the one Chamber, if only one Chamber has passed the pertinent appropriations Act.
 
 Requires continuation at the current FY2006 rate of any project or activity funded for FY2006 but not included in the pertinent appropriations Act for FY2007 of the House as of October 1, 2006, if only the House has passed that Act for FY2007. Requires the same continuation at the current FY2006 rate for any project or activity whose pertinent appropriations Act for FY2007 has not been passed by either Chamber as of October 1, 2006.
 

 
(Sec. 106) Provides funding under this division until the earliest of: (1) enactment of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this division; (2) enactment of the applicable appropriations Act by both Chambers without any provision for such project or activity; or (3) November 17, 2006.
 
(Sec. 114) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 certain activities for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in appropriations Acts for FY2006, and for activities under the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Declares that, notwithstanding such date, funds shall be available and obligations for mandatory payments due on or about November 1 and December 1, 2006.
 
(Sec. 115) Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to enter into or renew contracts for one year, under conditions of the Housing Act of 1949, to provide assistance payments to owners of rental, congregate, or cooperative housing for persons and families of low income in multifamily housing projects.
 
(Sec. 116) Requires the Secretary to continue, through the date specified in Sec. 106, the Water and Waste Systems Direct Loan Program under the authority and conditions (including the borrower's interest rate and fees as of September 1, 2006) provided by the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006.
 
 
(Sec. 117) Extends through the date specified in Sec. 106 specified federal law relating to the Appalachian regional development.
 
(Sec. 118) Continues the authority of the Export-Import Bank of the United States through the date specified in Sec. 106 to: (1) take prompt measures to promote the expansion of the Bank's financial commitments in sub-Saharan Africa under the Bank's loan, guarantee, and insurance programs; (2) deny application for assistance based on fraud or corruption by a party involved in the transaction; and (3) provide financing for the export on nonlethal defense articles or services the primary end use of which will be for civilian purposes.
 
(Sec. 119) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the authorization of appropriations for the President to cancel all amounts owed to the United States or federal agencies by any country eligible for debt reduction under specified law.
 
(Sec. 120) Deems to have been provided in an applicable appropriations Act for FY2006, in addition to the amounts provided by Sec. 101 of this division, amounts obligated in FY2006 from funding provided in the Higher Education Act (as reduced by the amount of account maintenance fees obligated to guaranty agencies for such fiscal year pursuant to that Act).
 
(Sec. 121) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make grants for outreach, rehabilitative services, vocational counseling and training, and transitional housing assistance for homeless veterans.
 
(Sec. 122) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the temporary limited authority of the Secretary of Defense to use operation and maintenance funds for construction projects outside the United States.
 
(Sec. 123) Continues the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out major construction projects in connection with the Capital Asset Realignment Initiative through the earlier of: (1) the date specified in Sec. 106; or (2) the date of enactment into law of an authorization Act relating to major medical facilities projects of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
 
(Sec. 124) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the patent and trademark fees established for FY2005-FY2006, including the fees prescribed under the Trademark Act of 1946 for electronic and paper applications for trademark registration.
 
(Sec. 125) Authorizes the obligation of funds appropriated by Sec. 101 of this division for International Space Station Cargo Crew Services/International Partner Purchases within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the account and budget structure set forth in specified Acts.
 
(Sec. 126) Authorizes amounts made available by Sec. 101 of this division for civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each department and agency to be apportioned up to the rate for operations necessary to avoid furloughs, consistent with enacted appropriations for FY2006. Prohibits the use of such authority, however, until after the department or agency has taken all necessary actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related administrative expenses.
 
(Sec. 127) Authorizes the District of Columbia to expend local funds for certain programs and activities as provided under title V of H.R. 5576 (109th Congress), as passed by the House, at a specified rate set forth in the Fiscal Year 2007 Proposed Budget and Financial Plan submitted to Congress by the District on June 5, 2006.
 
Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the authority of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) with respect to personnel and the preparation of fiscal impact statements during a control period.
 
 Continues through such date also the exemption from the District of Columbia's Procurement Practices Act of the entire process used by the CFO to acquire all kinds of goods, works, and services by contractual means.
 
(Sec. 128) Continues the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness through the earlier of: (1) the date specified in Sec. 106; or (2) the date of the enactment into law of an authorization Act relating to the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act.
 
(Sec. 129) Allows funds appropriated by Sec. 101 of this division for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to be obligated in the account and budget structure set forth in title II of H.R. 5576 (109th Congress), as passed by the House.
 
 (Sec. 130) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 activities authorized by title V, the Multifamily Assisted Housing Reform and Affordability Act of 1997, of the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1998.
 
(Sec. 131) Amends the National Housing Act to increase from 250,000 to 275,000 the aggregate number of insured home equity conversion mortgages for elderly homeowners.
 
(Sec. 132) Continues through the date specified in Sec. 106 the franchise fund pilot programs in six executive agencies designated by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under the Government Management Reform Act of 1994.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Became Public Law No: 109-289.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Became Public Law No: 109-289.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 100 - 0. Record Vote Number: 261.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 100 - 0. Record Vote Number: 261.
action_date: 2006-09-29
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S10499-10501)
action_date: 2006-09-28
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S10433-10442)
action_date: 2006-09-27
text: Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 394 - 22 (Roll no. 486).
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 394 - 22 (Roll no. 486).
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: The House proceeded to consider the conference report H.Rept. 109-676 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - The Chair put the question on adoption of the conference report and pursuant to the rule, announced that the Yeas and Nays were ordered. Subsequently, the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the conference report until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: The previous question was ordered without objection. (consideration: CR H7433)
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 5631.
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Mr. Young (FL) brought up conference report H. Rept. 109-676 for consideration under the provisions of H. Res. 1037. (consideration: CR H7425-7433, H7467-7468)
action_date: 2006-09-26
text: Rule H. Res. 1037 passed House.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 1037 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of the conference report to H.R. 5631. All points of order against the conference report and against its consideration are waived. The conference report shall be considered as read.
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Conference report H. Rept. 109-676 filed. (text of conference report: CR H6996-7309)
action_date: 2006-09-25
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 109-676 filed.(text of conference report: CR H6996-7309)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: on motion to close portions of the conference Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 411 - 12 (Roll no. 466). (consideration: CR H6879)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Mr. Young (FL) moved to close portions of the conference (consideration: CR H6879)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Young (FL), Hobson, Bonilla, Frelinghuysen, Tiahrt, Wicker, Kingston, Granger, LaHood, Lewis (CA), Murtha, Dicks, Sabo, Visclosky, Moran (VA), Kaptur, and Obey.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to by voice vote. (consideration: CR H6879)
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Mr. Young (FL) moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2006-09-21
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2006-09-08
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Stevens; Cochran; Specter; Domenici; Bond; McConnell; Shelby; Gregg; Hutchison; Burns; Inouye; Byrd; Leahy; Harkin; Dorgan; Durbin; Reid; Feinstein; Mikulski.
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 98 - 0. Record Vote Number: 239. (text as passed Senate: CR S9260-9278)
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 98 - 0. Record Vote Number: 239.(text as passed Senate: CR S9260-9278)
action_date: 2006-09-07
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9075-9098)
action_date: 2006-09-06
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S8992-8998, S8998-9035, S9066-9068)
action_date: 2006-09-05
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S8909-8912, S8922-8932, S8948-8950)
action_date: 2006-08-03
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S8674-8677, S8678-8690, S8691, S8698-8723)
action_date: 2006-08-02
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S8561-8578, S8578-8579, S8581-8601)
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: The committee substitute agreed to by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2006-08-01
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S8513-8527, S8528-8529; text of measure as reported in Senate: CR S8513-8527)
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 532.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Stevens with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-292.
action_date: 2006-07-25
text: Committee on Appropriations. Reported by Senator Stevens with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 109-292.
action_date: 2006-07-20
text: Committee on Appropriations. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2006-07-18
text: Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Approved for full committee consideration with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2006-06-21
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 5631.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 407 - 19 (Roll no. 305).
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 407 - 19 (Roll no. 305).
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The House adopted the amendments en gross as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule. (consideration: CR H4312)
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 5631.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Norton amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hinchey amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hinchey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Hinchey amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Hinchey amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hinchey demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Hinchey amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Inslee amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Filner amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Stearns amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of specified amendments which were debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Flake amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Flake demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postpoinned further proceedings until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Schiff amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Schiff demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Schiff amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Flake amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Markey amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Chocola amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Chocola demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Chocola amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Engel amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Castle amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the King (IA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. King (IA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the King (IA) amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Granger amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Jackson-Lee amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Murtha amendment under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 5631.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Dave Camp to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: House resolved itself into the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union pursuant to H. Res. 877 and Rule XVIII.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5631 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Considered under the provisions of rule H. Res. 877. (consideration: CR H4246-4313; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H4254, H4255; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H4255-4256; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H4256-4258; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H4258, H4259; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H4259; text of Title VI as reported in House: CR H4259; text of Title VII as reported in House: CR H4259; text of Title VIII as reported in House: CR H4259-4264, H4265-4268; text of Title IX as reported in House: CR H4268-4270, H4270)
action_date: 2006-06-20
text: Rule H. Res. 877 passed House.
action_date: 2006-06-19
text: Rules Committee Resolution H. Res. 877 Reported to House. Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 5631 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be read by paragraph. Bill is open to amendments.
action_date: 2006-06-16
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 281.
action_date: 2006-06-16
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-504, by Mr. Young (FL).
action_date: 2006-06-16
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 109-504, by Mr. Young (FL).
action_date: 2006-06-16
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 109-289