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Question: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Breast and Cervical Cancer 
Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2006''.

SEC. 2. NATIONAL BREAST AND CERVICAL CANCER EARLY DETECTION PROGRAM.

    Title XV of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300k et seq.) 
is amended--
            (1) in section 1501(d)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``2000'' and 
                inserting ``2020''; and
                    (B) by striking ``by the year 2000'' and inserting 
                ``by the year 2020'';
            (2) in section 1503, by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Waiver of Services Requirement on Division of Funds.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Secretary shall establish a 
        demonstration project under which the Secretary, acting through 
        the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 
        may waive the requirements of paragraphs (1) and (4) of 
        subsection (a) for not more than 5 States, if--
                    ``(A)(i) the State involved will use the waiver to 
                leverage private funds to supplement each of the 
                services or activities described in paragraphs (1) and 
                (2) of section 1501(a); or
                    ``(ii) the application of such requirement would 
                result in a barrier to the enrollment of qualifying 
                women;
                    ``(B) the State involved provides assurances that 
                the State will, on an annual basis, demonstrate to the 
                Secretary the manner in which the State will use such 
                waiver to maintain or expand the level of screening and 
                follow-up services provided immediately prior to the 
                waiver, and provide documentation of compliance with 
                such maintenance or expansion requirement;
                    ``(C) the State involved submits to the Secretary a 
                plan for maintaining the level of activities carried 
                out under the waiver after the expiration of the 
                waiver;
                    ``(D) the Secretary finds that granting such a 
                waiver to a State will not reduce the number of women 
                in the State that receive each of the services or 
                activities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of 
                section 1501(a), including making available screening 
                procedures for both breast and cervical cancers; and
                    ``(E) the Secretary finds that granting such a 
                waiver to a State will not adversely affect the quality 
                of each of the services or activities described in 
                paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1501(a).
            ``(2) Duration of waiver.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In granting waivers under 
                paragraph (1), the Secretary--
                            ``(i) shall grant such waivers for a period 
                        of 2 years; and
                            ``(ii) upon request of a State, may extend 
                        a waiver for an additional 2-year period in 
                        accordance with subparagraph (B).
                    ``(B) Additional period.--The Secretary, upon the 
                request of a State that has received a waiver under 
                paragraph (1), shall, at the end of the 2-year waiver 
                period described in subparagraph (A), review 
                performance under the waiver and may extend the waiver 
                for an additional 2-year period if the Secretary 
                determines that--
                            ``(i)(I) without an extension of the 
                        waiver, there will be a barrier to the 
                        enrollment of qualifying women; or
                            ``(II) the State requesting such extended 
                        waiver will use the waiver to leverage private 
                        funds to supplement the services or activities 
                        described in paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 
                        1501(a);
                            ``(ii) the waiver has not, and will not, 
                        reduce the number of women in the State that 
                        receive the services or activities described in 
                        paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1501(a);
                            ``(iii) the waiver has not, and will not, 
                        result in lower quality in the State of the 
                        services or activities described in paragraphs 
                        (1) and (2) of section 1501(a); and
                            ``(iv) the State has maintained the average 
                        annual level of State fiscal expenditures for 
                        the services and activities described in 
                        paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 1501(a) for 
                        the 2 years for which the waiver was granted at 
                        a level that is not less than the level of the 
                        State fiscal expenditures for such services and 
                        activities for the year preceding the first 
                        year for which the waiver is granted.
            ``(3) Reporting requirements.--The Secretary shall include 
        as part of the evaluations and reports required under section 
        1508, the following:
                    ``(A) A description of the total amount of dollars 
                leveraged annually from private entities in States 
                receiving a waiver under paragraph (1) and how these 
                amounts were used.
                    ``(B) With respect to States receiving a waiver 
                under paragraph (1), a description of the percentage of 
                the grant that is expended on providing each of the 
                services or activities described in--
                            ``(i) paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 
                        1501(a); and
                            ``(ii) paragraphs (3) through (6) of 
                        section 1501(a).
                    ``(C) A description of the number of States 
                receiving waivers under paragraph (1) annually.
                    ``(D) With respect to States receiving a waiver 
                under paragraph (1), a description of--
                            ``(i) the number of women receiving 
                        services under paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of 
                        section 1501(a) in programs before and after 
                        the granting of such waiver; and
                            ``(ii) the average annual level of State 
                        fiscal expenditures for the services and 
                        activities described in paragraphs (1) and (2) 
                        of section 1501(a) for the year preceding the 
                        first year for which the waiver was granted.
            ``(4) Limitation.--Amounts to which a waiver applies under 
        this subsection shall not be used to increase the number of 
        salaried employees.
            ``(5) Definitions.--In this subsection:
                    ``(A) Indian tribe.--The term `Indian tribe' has 
                the meaning given the term in section 4 of the Indian 
                Health Care Improvement Act (25 U.S.C. 1603).
                    ``(B) Tribal organization.--The term `tribal 
                organization' has the meaning given the term in section 
                4 of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.
                    ``(C) State.--The term `State' means each of the 
                several States of the United States, the District of 
                Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American 
                Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
                Islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
                Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of Palau, 
                an Indian tribe, and a tribal organization.'';
            (3) in section 1508--
                    (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``evaluations of 
                the extent to which'' and all that follows through the 
                period and inserting: ``evaluations of--
            ``(1) the extent to which States carrying out such programs 
        are in compliance with section 1501(a)(2) and with section 
        1504(c); and
            ``(2) the extent to which each State receiving a grant 
        under this title is in compliance with section 1502, including 
        identification of--
                    ``(A) the amount of the non-Federal contributions 
                by the State for the preceding fiscal year, 
                disaggregated according to the source of the 
                contributions; and
                    ``(B) the proportion of such amount of non-Federal 
                contributions relative to the amount of Federal funds 
                provided through the grant to the State for the 
                preceding fiscal year.''; and
                    (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``not later than 
                1 year after the date on which amounts are first 
                appropriated pursuant to section 1509(a), and annually 
                thereafter'' and inserting ``not later than 1 year 
                after the date of the enactment of the National Breast 
                and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program 
                Reauthorization of 2006, and annually thereafter''; and
            (4) in section 1510(a)--
                    (A) by striking ``and'' after ``$150,000,000 for 
                fiscal year 1994,''; and
                    (B) by inserting ``, $225,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2007, $245,000,000 for fiscal year 2008, $250,000,000 
                for fiscal year 2009, $255,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2010, and $275,000,000 for fiscal year 2011'' before 
                the period at the end.

            Passed the House of Representatives December 9 (legislative 
      day, December 8), 2006.

            Attest:

                                                 KAREN L. HAAS,

                                                                 Clerk.

Answer: National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Reauthorization Act of 2006 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to change from 2000 to 2020 the target year for achieving the objectives established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services for reductions in the rate of mortality from breast and cervical cancer in the United States for the committee coordinating Public Health Service activities.

Directs the Secretary to establish a demonstration project which allows the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to waive requirements for awarding breast and cervical cancer grants that require 60% of grant funds to be spent on screening and referrals for medical treatments and no more than 40% to be spent on other activities for not more than five states, if: (1) the state involved will use the waiver to leverage private funds to supplement screening and referral services or the application of such requirements would result in a barrier to the enrollment of women; (2) the state involved provides assurance that the state will annually demonstrate how it will use the waiver to maintain or expand the level of screening and follow-up services provided; (3) the state involved submits to the Secretary a plan for maintaining the level of activities carried out under the waiver after the expiration of the waiver; (4) the Secretary finds that granting such a waiver to a state will not reduce the number of women in the state who receive such services, including screening for both breast and cervical cancers; and (5) the Secretary finds that granting such a waiver to a state will not adversely affect the quality of such services. Requires the Secretary to grant such waivers for a period of two years. Allows the Secretary to extend a waiver, upon request of a state, for additional two-year periods if the Secretary reviews performance under the waiver and finds that the waiver requirements are and have been met.

Requires the Secretary to include as part of the evaluations of the activities carried out pursuant to breast and cervical cancer grants: (1) the total amount of dollars leveraged annually from private entities in states receiving a waiver and how these amounts were used; (2) for states receiving a waiver, the percentages of the grant expended on screening and referral services and on other services or activities; (3) the number of states receiving waivers annually; (4) the number of women receiving screening and referral services in programs before and after the granting of a waiver; (5) the average annual level of state fiscal expenditures for such services for the year preceding the grant of the waiver; and (6) the amount of non-federal contributions by the state according to source and the proportion of non-federal funds to federal funds. Prohibits the use of amounts to which a waiver applies to increase the number of salaried employees.

Authorizes appropriations for breast and cervical cancer grants from FY2007-FY2011.


Question: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``National Park Centennial Act of 
2004''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds:
            (1) The National Park Service was established to conserve 
        the national parks, their scenery, natural and historic 
        objects, and wildlife for the enjoyment, in such manner and by 
        such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of 
        future generations.
            (2) The central purpose of the establishment of our 
        national parks is being challenged by chronic funding 
        shortfalls, which have created annual shortfalls in operational 
        funding that exceed $600,000,000, and have amassed a 
        maintenance backlog estimated by the General Accounting Office 
        at between $4,080,000,000 and $6,800,000,000.
            (3) Without providing the Park Service the resources 
        necessary to operate and maintain our national parks, future 
        generations will receive diminished visitor services, will 
        experience a continually weakening system that is less and less 
        able to fulfill its mission, and will inherit a national park 
        system than has been left to them in worse condition that it 
        was left to their ancestors.
            (4) The annual appropriations process has proved incapable 
        of fully addressing the debilitating funding shortfalls of the 
        national parks, making it necessary to supplement what the 
        appropriations process is able to accomplish.
            (5) It is necessary to ensure that fiscal resources devoted 
        to the national parks are spent wisely and effectively, making 
        strong congressional oversight over annual appropriations 
        extremely important.
            (6) Congress can enhance the resources available for 
        national park operations and ensure adequate oversight over 
        Park Service spending by removing from the appropriations 
        process a series of funding responsibilities that are outside 
        the core operating budgets for the national parks.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to eliminate the annual 
operating deficit and the maintenance backlog in the national parks by 
the centennial anniversary of the National Park System by enabling 
Congress to focus on overseeing and fully funding the core operations 
of the national parks in the annual appropriations process.

                        TITLE I--CENTENNIAL FUND

SEC. 101. CENTENNIAL FUND FOR PRESERVING AMERICA'S NATIONAL PARKS.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of the 
United States a fund which shall be known as the ``National Park 
Centennial Fund'', hereinafter in this Act referred to as the 
``Centennial Fund''. In each fiscal year beginning in fiscal year 2005, 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall deposit in the Centennial Fund 
amounts set forth in subsection (b) sufficient to fund the programs 
identified in titles II, III, and IV.
    (b) Appropriations.--There are hereby appropriated to the 
Centennial Fund in each fiscal year, the following amounts:
            (1) Amounts equivalent to the amounts designated in the 
        fiscal year concerned under section 6097 of the Internal 
        Revenue Code of 1986.
            (2) Any additional amounts necessary to make the total 
        amounts deposited to the Centennial Fund each fiscal year equal 
        to the total amount listed in section 103.

SEC. 102. DESIGNATION OF OVERPAYMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE BENEFIT 
              OF UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM.

    (a) In General.--Subchapter A of chapter 61 of the Internal Revenue 
Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new part:

   ``PART IX--DESIGNATION OF OVERPAYMENTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE 
              BENEFIT OF UNITS OF THE NATIONAL PARK SYSTEM

``Sec. 6097. Designation.

``SEC. 6097. DESIGNATION.

    ``(a) In General.--In the case of an individual, with respect to 
each taxpayer's return for the taxable year of the tax imposed by 
chapter 1, such taxpayer may designate that--
            ``(1) a specified portion (but not less than $1) of any 
        overpayment of tax for such taxable year, and
            ``(2) any cash contribution which the taxpayer includes 
        with such return, shall be used for the benefit of units of the 
        National Park System.
    ``(b) Manner and Time of Designation.--A designation under 
subsection (a) may be made with respect to any taxable year only at the 
time of filing the return of the tax imposed by chapter 1 for such 
taxable year. Such designation shall be made in such manner as the 
Secretary prescribes by regulations except that such designation shall 
be made either on the first page of the return or on the page bearing 
the taxpayer's signature.
    ``(c) Overpayments Treated as Refunded.--For purposes of this 
title, any portion of any overpayment of tax designated under 
subsection (a) shall be treated as being refunded to the taxpayer as of 
the last date prescribed for filing the return of tax imposed by 
chapter 1 (determined without regard to extensions) or, if later, the 
date the return is filed.''.
    (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of parts for subchapter A of 
chapter 61 of such Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
following new item:

   ``Part IX. Designation of overpayments and contributions for the 
            benefit of units of the National Park System''.

    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2004.

SEC. 103. PROGRAM ALLOCATION.

    The following amounts shall be deposited in the Centennial Fund 
from amounts designated under section 102 (and from the General Fund of 
the Treasury to the extent the amounts so designated are less than the 
total amounts specified in this section for the fiscal year concerned). 
Such amounts shall, without further appropriation, be available to the 
Secretary of the Interior until expended:
            (1) Fiscal year 2005: $100,000,000.
            (2) Fiscal year 2006: $125,000,000.
            (3) Fiscal year 2007: $150,000,000.
            (4) Fiscal year 2008: $175,000,000.
            (5) Such sums as may be necessary through fiscal year 2016.

SEC. 104. DISTRIBUTION OF FUND.

    There are hereby created within the Centennial Fund 3 accounts, 
designated for the following purposes:
            (1) National Park Backlog Elimination Fund (60 percent).
            (2) Natural Resource Challenge Fund (20 percent).
            (3) Cultural Resource Challenge Fund (20 percent).

SEC. 105. PATRIOTS FOR PARKS PROMOTION.

    There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of 
the Interior such sums as necessary for a public awareness campaign 
about the existence of the National Park Centennial Fund created in 
section 101 and the ability of taxpayers to contribute to it through 
the tax checkoff created in section 6097 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986.

      TITLE II--ELIMINATING THE NATIONAL PARK MAINTENANCE BACKLOG

SEC. 201. BACKLOG ELIMINATION.

    (a) In General.--Sixty percent of the funds deposited into the 
Centennial Fund shall be used to eliminate the backlog of unmet needs 
in the National Parks, as identified in the Facility Condition Index 
(hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ``FCI'') of the National 
Park Service.
    (b) Priorities.--(1) The Secretary of the Interior shall prepare, 
as part of the annual budget proposal, a priority list for projects to 
be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made available from the 
fund, without further appropriation, effective October 15 of each 
calendar year, for the projects identified on the priority list, unless 
prior to such date, legislation is enacted establishing a different 
priority list.
    (2) In preparing the list of projects to be funded under this 
section, the Secretary of the Interior shall give priority to projects 
that--
            (A) are identified in the park unit's general management 
        plan;
            (B) are listed in the FCI;
            (C) are identified by the Secretary of the Interior as 
        necessary to prevent immediate damage to the park unit's 
        natural, cultural, or historic resources, with priority given 
        to projects with the most significant benefit to conservation 
        of resources or visitor education; and
            (D) are identified as necessary to promote public health 
        and safety.
    (c) Overhead.--National Parks undertaking projects under this 
section may allocate up to 8 percent of the funds for such projects for 
oversight of such projects and other associated overhead 
responsibilities.

                 TITLE III--PROTECTING NATURAL WONDERS

SEC. 301. NATURAL RESOURCE CHALLENGE.

    (a) Natural Resource Protection.--Twenty percent of the funds 
deposited into the Centennial Fund shall be used to protect natural 
resources within the parks.
    (b) Project Description.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare, as part of the annual budget proposal, a description of 
projects to be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made 
available from the Centennial Fund, without further appropriation, 
effective October 15 of each calendar year for activities that include 
each of the following:
            (1) Natural resource inventories.
            (2) Monitoring efforts including air and water quality 
        monitoring.
            (3) Protection of native and endangered species and their 
        habitats.
            (4) Control of nonnative species.
            (5) Resource planning.
            (6) Increase collaboration with scientists.
            (7) Authorized environmental restoration projects.
            (8) Use of parks for learning.
            (9) Establishment of partnerships with nonpark entities for 
        the purpose of leveraging Federal funds allocated to natural 
        resource protection.

                TITLE IV--PROTECTING NATIONAL TREASURES

SEC. 401. CULTURAL RESOURCE CHALLENGE.

    (a) Cultural Resources.--Twenty percent of the funds deposited into 
the Centennial Fund shall be used to protect cultural resources within 
the national parks.
    (b) Project Description.--The Secretary of the Interior shall 
prepare, as part of the annual budget proposal, a description of 
projects to be funded under this section. Moneys shall be made 
available from the fund, without further appropriation, effective 
October 15 of each calendar year for activities that include each of 
the following:
            (1) Cultural or historic resources not listed on the FCI.
            (2) Documenting and preserving archaeological sites.
            (3) Preserving collections and archives.
            (4) Ethnographic activities.
            (5) Evaluating and protecting cultural landscapes.
            (6) Establishment of partnerships with non-park entities 
        for the purpose of leveraging Federal funds allocated to 
        cultural resource protection.

                TITLE V--MEETING ANNUAL OPERATING NEEDS

SEC. 501. PROGRESS ON ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS.

    (a) GAO Report.--The General Accounting Office annually shall 
submit to the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on Government 
Reform, and Committee on Resources of the United States House of 
Representatives and to the Committee on Appropriations, Committee on 
Government Affairs, and Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the United States Senate a report that describes each of the following:
            (1) The progress of Congress in eliminating the annual 
        operating fund deficit in the National Park System, defined as 
        in excess of $600,000,000 based on a fiscal year 2002 estimate 
        of then-complete national park business plans, and projection 
        of when such deficit will be eliminated, based on funding 
        levels and trends.
            (2) A comparison of business plan estimates of national 
        park needs versus actual funds appropriated to such parks.
            (3) Any differences in the Park Service's business plan 
        methodology for the estimate in paragraph (2) of this 
        subsection compared to that used in fiscal year 2003.
            (4) Management improvement measures undertaken by 
        individual park units and by the National Park Service as a 
        whole, including actual realized savings and actual impact on 
        visitor services and resource protection.
            (5) Adjustments in, and the total number of, full-time 
        equivalent and actual positions dedicated to resource 
        protection, visitor services, interpretation, and other 
        employment categories.
            (6) Any adjustments made in service to the public, 
        including but not limited to adjustments to visitor center 
        hours and the number or quality of ranger-led tours.
            (7) Any changes in the Park Service's level of effort due 
        to partnership or other leveraged activities.
            (8) Any new requirements and assessments placed on the 
        parks for unbudgeted expenses, including, but not limited to, 
        homeland security, natural disasters, and employee cost-of-
        living adjustments.
            (9) An assessment of the accuracy and completeness of the 
        Facility Condition Index described in Title I of this Act, 
        including adjustments made to such Index on an annual basis.
    (b) Business Plan Implementation Pilot (Demonstration) Program.--In 
consultation with the Director of the National Park Service, at least 
60 percent of the amounts provided under Titles II, III, and IV shall 
be distributed to national parks that have completed comprehensive 
business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the National Park 
Service.
    (c) Education and the National Parks.--The Secretary of Education 
is hereby authorized to provide grants to elementary and secondary 
schools to enter into cooperative agreements with the National Park 
Service for the purpose of distance learning and onsite education 
programs for the following purposes:
            (1) Connecting students to the history of our Nation 
        through the national parks.
            (2) Using the parks to facilitate scientific instruction.
    (d) Intent of Congress to Supplement Annual Appropriations for 
National Park Service.--Amounts made available by this Act are intended 
by the Congress to supplement, and not detract from, annual 
appropriations for the National Park Service.

Answer: National Park Centennial Act of 2004 - Establishes the National Park Centennial Fund (Fund) in the Treasury.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate overpayments and contributions for the benefit of the National Park System. Allocates such amounts to the Fund (along with necessary amounts from the General Fund to the extent that such amounts are inadequate in any fiscal year) for expenditure by the Secretary of the Interior.

Creates within the Fund the National Park Backlog Elimination Fund, the Natural Resource Challenge Fund, and the Cultural Resource Challenge Fund.

Authorizes appropriations for a public awareness campaign about the Fund and the ability of taxpayers to make tax-related contributions.

Requires a specified percentage of Fund deposits to be used: (1) for the elimination of the backlog of unmet needs in the national parks as identified in the Facility Condition Index of the National Park Service (NPS); (2) to protect natural resources within the parks; and (3) to protect cultural resources within the parks. Requires a majority of such percentages to be distributed to those national parks that have completed comprehensive business plans under the Business Plan Initiative of the NPS.

Directs the Government Accountability Office annually to submit a report on the National Park System to specified congressional committees.

Authorizes the Secretary of Education to provide grants to elementary and secondary schools for cooperative agreements with the NPS providing distance learning and onsite education programs.


Question: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Gulf War Veterans' Iraqi Claims 
Protection Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. ADJUDICATION OF CLAIMS.

    (a) Claims Against Iraq.--The United States Commission is 
authorized to receive and determine the validity and amounts of any 
claims by nationals of the United States against the Government of 
Iraq. Such claims must be submitted to the United States Commission 
within the period specified by such Commission by notice published in 
the Federal Register. The United States Commission shall certify to 
each claimant the amount determined by the Commission to be payable on 
the claim under this Act.
    (b) Decision Rules.--In deciding claims under subsection (a), the 
United States Commission shall apply, in the following order--
            (1) applicable substantive law, including international 
        law; and
            (2) applicable principles of justice and equity.
    (c) Priority Claims.--Before deciding any other claim against the 
Government of Iraq, the United States Commission shall, to the extent 
practical, decide all pending non-commercial claims of active, retired, 
or reserve members of the United States Armed Forces, retired former 
members of the United States Armed Forces, and other individuals 
arising out of Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait or out of the 
1987 attack on the USS Stark.
    (d) Applicability of International Claims Settlement Act.--To the 
extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, the 
provisions of title I (other than section 2(c)) and title VII of the 
International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 (22 U.S.C. 1621-1627 and 
1645-1645o) shall apply with respect to claims under this Act.

SEC. 3. CLAIMS FUNDS.

    (a) Iraq Claims Fund.--The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized 
to establish in the Treasury of the United States a fund (hereafter in 
this Act referred to as the ``Iraq Claims Fund'') for payment of claims 
certified under section 2(a). The Secretary of the Treasury shall cover 
into the Iraq Claims Fund such amounts as are allocated to such fund 
pursuant to subsection (b).
    (b) Allocation of Proceeds From Iraqi Asset Liquidation.--
            (1) In general.--The President shall allocate funds 
        resulting from the liquidation of assets pursuant to section 4 
        in the manner the President determines appropriate between the 
        Iraq Claims Fund and such other accounts as are appropriate for 
        the payment of claims of the United States Government against 
        Iraq, subject to the limitation in paragraph (2).
            (2) Limitation.--The amount allocated pursuant to this 
        subsection for payment of claims of the United States 
        Government against Iraq may not exceed the amount which bears 
        the same relation to the amount allocated to the Iraq Claims 
        Fund pursuant to this subsection as the sum of all certified 
        claims of the United States Government against Iraq bears to 
        the sum of all claims certified under section 2(a). As used in 
        this paragraph, the term ``certified claims of the United 
        States Government against Iraq'' means those claims of the 
        United States Government against Iraq which are determined by 
        the Secretary of State to be outside the jurisdiction of the 
        United Nations Commission and which are determined to be valid, 
        and whose amount has been certified, under such procedures as 
        the President may establish.

SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO VEST IRAQI ASSETS.

    The President is authorized to vest and liquidate as much of the 
assets of the Government of Iraq in the United States that have been 
blocked pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) as may be necessary to satisfy claims under 
section 2(a), claims of the United States Government against Iraq which 
are determined by the Secretary of State to be outside the jurisdiction 
of the United Nations Commission, and administrative expenses under 
section 5.

SEC. 5. REIMBURSEMENT FOR ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.

    (a) Deduction.--In order to reimburse the United States Government 
for its expenses in administering this Act, the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall deduct 1.5 percent of any amount covered into the Iraq 
Claims Fund to satisfy claims under this Act.
    (b) Deductions Treated as Miscellaneous Receipts.--Amounts deducted 
pursuant to subsection (a) shall be deposited in the Treasury of the 
United States as miscellaneous receipts.

SEC. 6. PAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--The United States Commission shall certify to the 
Secretary of the Treasury each award made pursuant to section 2. The 
Secretary of the Treasury shall make payment, out of the Iraq Claims 
Fund, in the following order of priority to the extent funds are 
available in such fund:
            (1) Payment of $10,000 or the principal amount of the 
        award, whichever is less.
            (2) For each claim that has priority under section 2(c), 
        payment of an additional $90,000 toward the unpaid balance of 
        the principal amount of the award.
            (3) Payments from time to time in ratable proportions on 
        account of the unpaid balance of the principal amounts of all 
        awards according to the proportions which the unpaid balance of 
        such awards bear to the total amount in the Iraq Claims Fund 
        that is available for distribution at the time such payments 
        are made.
            (4) After payment has been made of the principal amounts of 
        all such awards, pro rata payments on account of accrued 
        interest on such awards as bear interest.
    (b) Unsatisfied Claims.--Payment of any award made pursuant to this 
Act shall not extinguish any unsatisfied claim, or be construed to have 
divested any claimant, or the United States on his or her behalf, of 
any rights against the Government of Iraq with respect to any 
unsatisfied claim.

SEC. 7. AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER RECORDS.

    The head of any Executive agency may transfer or otherwise make 
available to the United States Commission such records and documents 
relating to claims authorized to be determined under this Act as may be 
required by the United States Commission in carrying out its functions 
under this Act.

SEC. 8. STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS; DISPOSITION OF UNUSED FUNDS.

    (a) Statute of Limitations.--Any demand or claim for payment on 
account of an award that is certified under this Act shall be barred on 
and after the date that is one year after the date of publication of 
the notice required by subsection (b).
    (b) Publication of Notice.--
            (1) In general.--At the end of the 9-year period specified 
        in paragraph (2), the Secretary of the Treasury shall publish a 
        notice in the Federal Register detailing the statute of 
        limitations provided for in subsection (a) and identifying the 
        claim numbers of, and the names of the claimants holding, 
        unpaid certified claims.
            (2) Publication date.--The notice required by paragraph (1) 
        shall be published 9 years after the last date on which the 
        Secretary of the Treasury covers into the Iraq Claims Fund 
        amounts allocated to that fund pursuant to section 3(b).
    (c) Disposition of Unused Funds.--
            (1) Disposition.--At the end of the 2-year period beginning 
        on the publication date of the notice required by subsection 
        (b), the Secretary of the Treasury shall dispose of all unused 
        funds described in paragraph (2) by depositing in the Treasury 
        of the United States as miscellaneous receipts any such funds 
        that are not used for payments of certified claims under this 
        Act.
            (2) Unused funds.--The unused funds referred to in 
        paragraph (1) are any remaining balance in the Iraq Claims 
        Fund.

SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.

    As used in this Act:
            (1) Executive agency.--The term ``Executive agency'' has 
        the meaning given that term by section 105 of title 5, United 
        States Code.
            (2) Government of iraq.--The term ``Government of Iraq'' 
        includes agencies, instrumentalities, and entities controlled 
        by that government (including public sector enterprises).
            (3) United nations commission.--The term ``United Nations 
        Commission'' means the United Nations Compensation Commission 
        established pursuant to United Nations Security Council 
        Resolution 687 (1991).
            (4) United states commission.--The term ``United States 
        Commission'' means the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of 
        the United States.

Answer:
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury an Iraq Claims Fund for the payment of such claims. Authorizes the President, subject to specified limitations, to vest and liquidate Iraqi Government assets in the United States that have been blocked pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and allocate the proceeds to the Fund to satisfy claims against the Government of Iraq by U.S. nationals, as well as claims of the U.S. Government that are outside the jurisdiction of the United Nations Compensation Commission. Provides for the reimbursement to the U.S. Government of expenses incurred in administering this Act. Establishes an order of priority for payment of claims.
Directs the U.S. Commission to certify to the Secretary each award made under this Act. Sets forth a ten-year statute of limitations on any demand or claim for the payment of such an award.